After He Gongde's disaster, the series of incidents that followed, and the losses he had suffered at Luo Bin's hands,
Yuan Tianshu had become several times more cautious than before!
Especially after absorbing living souls in Paulownia Cave to replenish himself, his senses had temporarily grown sharper.
He had left himself a fallback.
He had taken a strand of Yuan Ying's life soul and wrapped it in his yin spirit.
Thus, the instant something happened to Yuan Ying, he knew.
There was no time to get there himself, so his yin spirit left his body and quickly reached the vicinity of Yuan Ying.
Puppets were everywhere on Sacred Way Mountain. He only needed to possess one to acquire a new body.
Then the fact that Gu Shanhong controlled Gu Yiren's body was laid bare before him, sending one shock after another through Yuan Tianshu's heart!
He had still been too confident-confident that the Shaman could maintain control of the body.
He had never expected "Gu Shanhong" to have another trick up her sleeve.
If Bai Wei, Qin Tianqing, and Luo Bin had not appeared, might he have fallen victim to her tender embrace?
The successive twists left Yuan Tianshu frightened in retrospect, yet relieved.
In the end, the one caught in "Gu Shanhong's" scheme had been Luo Bin!
He had not appeared immediately, but followed them.
He had also seen the Black-Gold Toad pin down the Chief Seat's deity, yet he had not gone to capture it.
Earlier, he had needed the Blood Peach Sword just to injure it.
He simply had no suitable ritual artifact for capturing a Great Ghost of that caliber.
Keeping it suppressed was an excellent solution!
He followed them all the way to Stone Bridge.
He listened to Gu Yiren and Luo Bin. The more