Seeing that there was nothing unusual in the stone chamber, Shen Luo cautiously walked inside and came to the table.
He stared at the young fox in the bottle. Seeing its listless, exhausted expression, he could not help but worry. Souls were inherently insubstantial; after being separated from their bodies for too long, they would gradually weaken until they dissipated between heaven and earth.
After Jade-Faced Princess's soul and spirit had left her body, they had also been manipulated through sorcery. She must have expended even more vital energy. If she could not return to her body soon, she truly risked dissipating.
Shen Luo hesitated no longer. He immediately extinguished the Seven-Treasure Exquisite Lantern in his hand, grabbed the Glazed Jade Bottle, and tucked it directly into his sleeve.
"Fellow Daoist, do you not know that taking something without asking is considered theft?" A cold voice suddenly came from the entrance to the stone chamber.
"When did she arrive?" Shen Luo was startled. With the power of his Divine Sense, he had actually failed to notice when she approached.
"Oh? Forcibly detaining someone else's soul is surely worse than theft, is it not?" Shen Luo came back to his senses and replied with a cold sneer.
Only then did his gaze sweep over the figure standing at the doorway. It was a woman with a graceful, alluring figure, clad in golden fish-scale armor that wrapped around nearly her entire body, outlining two captivating curves. Only a stretch of her snow-white, slender neck and her jade-like hands were exposed.
Her cheeks were rather gaunt, and she wore a black metal mask shaped like a vicious ghost, with protruding fangs. Paired with her perfect figure, she truly had something of the air of a rakshasa maiden.
After a brief probe, Shen Luo