"Is this the true scene inside the Ghost-Sealing Talisman?"
Xu Taiping stared in astonishment at the pitch-black space before him, which held nothing but an enormous stone cage.
Just now, Fairy Lingyue had merely traced a few strokes on his hand and recited a few incantations before his vision went dark and he appeared here.
"Yes." Fairy Lingyue nodded.
"You must be wondering why I never told you how to control the Ghost-Sealing Talisman this way?"
She asked Xu Taiping with a smile.
"It is a little strange." Xu Taiping nodded honestly.
"That's because, ultimately, I'm the one who cast this Ghost-Sealing Talisman," Fairy Lingyue explained.
Understanding dawned on Xu Taiping.
Then he turned his gaze toward the enormous stone prison.
Inside it, a tall, red-haired old man sat on a stone bed with his head lowered.
Beneath his feet were two masses of black shadow bearing terrified expressions.
Whenever the shadows tried to escape, he stomped down hard on them, making both masses howl.
"Those look like the divine souls of the demon cultivators I sealed in the Taixuan Sect Ruins."
Xu Taiping sounded somewhat surprised.
"Although the Blade Ghost is only the manifestation of a lingering obsession, his master's cultivation realm was who knows how much higher than those two demon cultivator small fry. It's perfectly normal for him to suppress them."
Fairy Lingyue was not particularly surprised.
"Why hasn't the Blade Ghost reacted to us talking here?"
Xu Taiping asked again.
"That stone prison blocks everything. If we don't want him to notice us, he won't."
Fairy Lingyue spoke with great confidence.
With that, she reached out and snapped her fingers.
At the snap, the Red-Haired Blade Ghost, who had still been hanging his head, abruptly raised it and whipped around to look toward Xu Taiping.
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