In the bloody battle on Mount Jiuhua that day, the Heavenly Demon Immortal-Slaying Sword had killed many people, most of them members of the Emei Sect.
Of course, others from Wutai and Emei had died fighting each other with swords and spells.
Those whose physical bodies had been destroyed but whose divine souls remained intact either reincarnated or found suitable bodies to possess and return to life.
For those whose souls had scattered, both Wutai and Emei had attempted to summon them, doing everything they could to gather the remnants and take them back to stabilize and reconstitute their souls, allowing them to be reborn.
But both sides possessed many flying swords and magic treasures capable of destroying souls. The Heavenly Demon Immortal-Slaying Sword could not only cut souls to pieces but also draw their remnants into the blade and merge them into Chiyou's Dharma body.
Later, when the Heavenly Demon Immortal-Slaying Sword encountered the Xuanyuan Nine Swords, it had been forced to disgorge many of the soul remnants it had swallowed. When the Suiren Fire Drill finally broke it, even more had escaped.
By now, every soul remnant others could find and rescue had already been taken away. Those that remained were shattered beyond recognition, with barely a trace of vitality left, on the verge of dissolving completely between heaven and earth.
This time, Shi Feiyang exerted himself to the utmost in casting his spells, and he had a specific target.
On the ritual platform in his cave abode on Yellow Mountain, he engraved the name of Sun Nan, the Emei Sect's White Hero, on green jade. He placed the two sections of the broken sword before it and shone the Haotian Treasure Mirror down from above, squeezing the Demon Sword with all his strength to force out its