Driving the Wolf to Devour Souls, Flowing Light in an Instant

"Yin Xiao'e! You actually stood by and watched me die!"

Tang Yi's Living Soul still wailed, but then his thoughts shifted, taking on a righteous, awe-inspiring air—

"Since things have come to this, I accept my fate! But don't think you'll get the slightest gain from me. Even if I suffer every torment, I will never yield! One day..."

There was a noble spirit within those thoughts, but before their meaning could be fully conveyed, Qiu Yan interrupted him.

"I think you misunderstand," Qiu Yan said calmly. "Unlike demons, you clearly come from some sect and must possess a certain inheritance. Who knows what methods your sect may have? If I leave your true spiritual consciousness intact, some unforeseen complication may arise in the end. I do not dare take that risk."

"What do you mean?" Tang Yi's tone changed again. Not a trace of that noble spirit remained, replaced by panic and terror. "You want to destroy my true spirit? Since you know the Upper Spirit Sect's Dao arts are unfathomable and our methods inexhaustible, once you act, Karma will be formed and drawn to you. You will never escape..." In the end, he was still afraid. Though his words remained forceful, the undertones of compromise and pleading were unmistakable.

"Since I have already acted, this karmic entanglement has been established no matter what. Keeping your soul around would be useless. Looking at your present state, once the Upper Spirit Sect learns of this, I will still come to no good end. Since that is so, what is there left to fear? Besides, who said I would be the one acting?"

"You won't act? What do you mean by that?" Tang Yi was shocked and uncertain, but Qiu Yan did not answer him again. A speck of azure light shot from his Living Soul and pierced into Tang Yi's soul.

"Ah!" Tang Yi's soul let out a miserable cry. At the same time, the scroll wrapped in azure light and dragged behind them suddenly trembled.

Awoo!

Beside them, the wolf soul likewise restrained by Qiu Yan's Living Soul howled, then abruptly swelled.

Though this wolf soul had been forcibly pulled from its body by Qiu Yan, a large portion of it remained imprisoned within the scroll, rolled up inside the painting, with only a small part left outside.

But now, as the scroll shook and the wolf soul howled, the portion trapped within the painting struggled free. The entire wolf soul rapidly expanded, growing fivefold in the blink of an eye!

"Brat! You caused this general to lose his body! My Demon Core is beyond hope! I'll eat you!"

The wolf soul had originally been muddled and dazed under Qiu Yan's restraint, but after expanding, it unexpectedly regained a measure of clarity. It howled, then opened its spectral jaws wide and pounced at Qiu Yan's Living Soul!

But then azure light flashed, and Tang Yi's soul, along with the Blood Essence wrapped within it, suddenly appeared between the wolf soul and Qiu Yan's Living Soul.

"No!"

With a shrill cry, Tang Yi's soul was instantly swallowed by the wolf soul. The charging wolf soul then halted abruptly, twisted, swelled again, and began emitting bursts of strange sounds.

Suddenly!

Smack!

A crisp sound came from behind. The scroll abruptly unfurled, revealing the painting of a beautiful lady within, while the wolf soul that had been rolled inside finally broke free completely.

"So this thing truly was bound to Tang Yi's Living Soul! Now that it has separated, that means..."

Thinking of one possibility, Qiu Yan's heart stirred. Within his body, the Divine Power Stars that had begun accumulating anew through the Black Hole flickered, then surged out through his body, directly enveloping the twisting, changing wolf soul and the scroll.

"I must leave quickly. If I delay, they may very well trace the karmic connection!"

The moment the thought fell, the azure meteor wrapping the Living Soul suddenly accelerated. Before long, it became a blue point of light at the horizon, finally vanishing from sight.

At the same time, deep underground in Yuanning City, the giant wolf's body being dragged through the earth and sand by the East City Land God suddenly shuddered. Then its throat burst apart, and amid the spurting blood, a blurry human figure rolled out.

The man's clothes had already been corroded and melted away. The flesh across his body was mangled and bloody, and there was a ghastly hole in his skull.

Rippling waves flowed rapidly over his body's surface, finally detaching and gathering together into a gleaming talisman. The instant it took shape, the talisman tore through the soil and shot into the sky.

"Not good!"

Beside it, the East City Land God's expression changed abruptly.

A vast Cloud Sea, precipitous mountain peaks.

This was a world shrouded in clouds and mist. On all sides, cloud vapor drifted dreamily, and as far as the eye could see, there was nothing but boundless whiteness.

Amid the drifting clouds and swirling mist, one could occasionally glimpse a mountain peak or two.

Strangely, these peaks rose and fell, swaying from time to time, as though they were being held aloft by the clouds.

Almost every mountain peak was different from the others.

Suddenly!

Light flashed at the horizon, and a glowing talisman came flying over, plunging straight into a crimson mountain peak.

The peak itself was not red. What was red was the maple forest covering it, its maple leaves, while a babbling stream ran down the mountain.

A simple, ancient two-story pavilion stood deep within the maple forest, near the mountaintop.

The glowing talisman flew directly into that building.

The next moment...

Rumble!

It was as though thunder had erupted from level ground. The entire mountain peak shook.

"Who did this? Who did this? Who has such audacity, to lay hands on my grandson, Tang Lai!"

A heaven-shaking roar came from within the pavilion.

On the second floor of the pavilion, in a pitch-black room, a young man of around seventeen or eighteen stared at the talisman in his hand and roared.

He had originally possessed a refined, scholarly appearance, but his voice was extraordinarily ancient. He seemed utterly hysterical, radiating an air as though Mount Tai were about to collapse and rivers were about to run mad. The entire pavilion trembled faintly.

"Time flows like water, years vanish in an instant, reveal!"

Smack!

Tang Lai suddenly raised his hand and clenched it. The talisman shattered, transforming into two streams of light that circled before him. Their heads and tails joined, forming a ring. Ripples spread endlessly within it like those on water, but they soon settled into a clear mirror. Figures and scenes appeared in the mirror, unmistakably showing Tang Yi's body.

The lights and shadows shifted, displaying one by one all that Tang Yi had encountered over the past few days.

"Xi Yun entrusted my grandson to others for the sake of a thousand-year medicinal king! Those stewards from the outer sect are even more useless—they actually fell into someone's scheme! A Wolf Demon? A Wolf Demon! It dared swallow my grandson's blood alive. Even a hundred deaths could never absolve its crime! No, there is also a Living Soul causing trouble behind this. I do not know who it is, but once I capture that Wolf Demon, everything will become clear! Xi Yun, hmph, you will not escape responsibility either!"

But Tang Lai's expression soon changed again.

"The Wolf Demon's body has lost all signs of life as well?"

His face darkened further.

"Even that monster was used by someone, a borrowed knife used to kill! In that case, the true culprit must be that Living Soul! The Flowing Light Technique can only reflect what lies within one zhang of my grandson, and it cannot sense the Living Soul's true appearance. But once it acts, it will leave behind Karma. It will never roam free beyond reach! And that collaborating deity can only be an earth deity within Yuanning City. Do not think you can muddle through!"

A few breaths later, a streak of light shot into the sky from the pavilion, leaving the maple-covered mountain peak and plunging deep into the Cloud Sea.

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