"Senior, it would be my honor to show you around Corpse Soul Ravine. However, your corpse qi is so overwhelmingly powerful that my body is as stiff as dead wood. I cannot move, let alone guide you. Senior, might you release me?" Wu Yue asked with a fawning expression.
"That was an oversight on my part," Song Wen replied with a smile, seemingly quite pleased with Wu Yue's attitude.
What he did next, however, chilled Wu Yue to the bone.
Spiritual light flickered around Song Wen's finger as he raised his hand and pointed lightly at Wu Yue.
In an instant, the corpse qi coiling around Wu Yue began to change.
It gradually writhed and grew more substantial, finally taking the shape of a slender black snake as thick as a thumb, seemingly possessing a physical body.
The snake raised its head, then abruptly darted into Wu Yue's mouth before his terrified eyes. It slithered through his meridians, finally entering his dantian and coiling around his Nascent Soul.
Wu Yue discovered that his sealed magical power was once again under his control, and his immobilized body could move freely. Yet his life and death now hung on a single thought from Song Wen.
"Lead the way," Song Wen said casually.
"Yes, Senior."
Wu Yue dared not resist. He immediately descended toward the depths of the ravine.
The two soon descended more than ten li and reached a platform jutting out from the cliff.
The platform was only a hundred zhang above the ravine floor.
The ravine was deep, and little light reached its floor. To provide illumination, red lanterns hung along the rock walls on either side, lighting the bottom while lending it an eerie atmosphere.
Wu Yue was not the only person living in Corpse Soul Ravine. A group