"If anyone here has an otherworldly eyes talent or a magic treasure that can see through concealment, that would work too."
Gu Ningyun frowned slightly. "A few arts should melt away any threads around that female cultivator, even if we can't see them. It's not as though we have to see them to cut them..."
The Buddha Child shook his head gently. "These aren't ordinary threads. They're a magic treasure called Soul-Tether Threads."
The instant Yun Huanling heard the name "Soul-Tether Threads," he froze for a moment.
"The legendary magic treasure that can connect directly to a person's three souls and seven spirits?"
The Buddha Child nodded. "Precisely. There are ten Soul-Tether Threads in total, three connected to the three souls and seven to the seven spirits. To release someone, you must sever the soul connections first, then those attached to the seven spirits..."
"What if someone makes a mistake and cuts a thread connected to a spirit first?"
"Then the connections already severed will be reattached within that person's body, and the Soul-Tether Threads will also absorb a portion of her soul and spirits.
"After three mistakes, the person attached to the Soul-Tether Threads will have their soul scattered and their spirits destroyed."
Yun Chao was horrified. "How is that a magic treasure? It's an instrument of evil!"
The Buddha Child smiled faintly. "That depends entirely on how one uses it."
In the world of Buddhist cultivators, nothing was inherently good or evil. In his eyes, the Soul-Tether Threads could be used to do evil or to do good. It all depended on whom they were used upon.
Gu Ningyun cast a thoughtful glance at the female cultivator floating above the stone tablet. "Apart from A Jiu, none of us has otherworldly eyes. It seems we really do have