"Mm!" He Pingsheng nodded with a smile. "Qingmei!"
"Don't get excited yet. Settle yourself first!"
"I'll let you out to merge with your duplicate in a moment!"
"Let me check your duplicate's condition first!"
He Pingsheng walked up to the duplicate and pressed two fingers against her wrist. A faint strand of divine sense slipped into Zhou Qingmei's duplicate's body.
Soon, the condition inside her body lay before He Pingsheng.
The duplicate was perfect.
After two incense sticks' worth of time, Zhou Qingmei's soul said, "Young master, I'm ready!"
"Good!" He Pingsheng first took out a supreme-grade [Tenfold Fusion Pill] and placed it in the mouth of Zhou Qingmei's duplicate. Then he said, "All right... Qingmei, come out now and merge with your duplicate!"
"I'll help you!"
"All right!"
Zhou Qingmei's soul nodded, then stepped out of the Soul-Nurturing Banner.
Her body drifted toward the duplicate like mist.
But just as her soul came within ten feet of the duplicate, a gust of wind suddenly blew out of the void.
The hall instantly grew dim.
The wind had no effect on He Pingsheng and the others, but when it struck Zhou Qingmei's soul, it blew her straight away.
Amid the gloom, a black-and-white vortex opened.
Zhou Qingmei's soul drifted toward it.
"This is bad!" He Pingsheng shouted. Magic power surged out of his body, and he turned his own soul into chains, forcibly holding Zhou Qingmei's soul back to keep her from entering the vortex.
He Pingsheng did not know what the vortex was, but a moment's thought told him it had to be connected to the Underworld.
"I'll help you!"
The Great Order Wisdom King came over to help too!
Su Zhenzhen asked, "Husband... what's happening?"
Before He Pingsheng could speak, Zhou Qingmei's soul answered, "This is the power