Shen Luo pondered briefly, then unleashed the Indigo Sea divine ability. Blue ice crystals instantly engulfed Ghost Vine Venerable, freezing his entire body once more. The mutation in his head immediately ceased.
"It seems Ghost Vine Venerable is not human, but a demon. His true form is a tree monster. Shen boy, you destroyed only his Divine Soul without damaging his body. What are you planning to do with his corpse?" Fire Spirit Child said.
"There are still six True Immortal cultivators on this island. If Ghost Vine Venerable were killed, they would surely notice that there are others on the island, which would greatly restrict my movements. Therefore, Ghost Vine Venerable cannot disappear yet." Shen Luo smiled as he reached his hand into the blue ice crystals and pressed it against Ghost Vine Venerable's head. A layer of dark black light appeared over his palm.
A dark black mist engulfed Ghost Vine Venerable's corpse, as though it could suck in even a person's Divine Soul.
Shen Luo began chanting an obscure incantation, and the black mist surrounding Ghost Vine Venerable's corpse grew increasingly dense and sinister.
Specks of dim light emerged in the surrounding void and quickly condensed into a fist-sized phantom of a Divine Soul. It was unmistakably Ghost Vine Venerable's own Divine Soul. Shen Luo had somehow summoned back the Divine Soul that had been shattered.
However, Ghost Vine Venerable's Divine Soul lacked the slightest trace of vitality and was filled with an aura of deathly stillness.
Shen Luo formed a hand seal, and a crystalline gleam of Divine Soul energy shot from between his brows into Ghost Vine Venerable's Divine Soul phantom. The deathly stillness within it rapidly faded, replaced by a vigorous vitality no different from that of an ordinary person's Divine Soul.
A trace