At the very moment the black dog opened its mouth, the soul threads between Xiao Hua's brows condensed into three great hands and entered the black dog's body. Yet, contrary to Xiao Hua's expectations, when the three hands withdrew a moment later, they had not brought out a single soul!
"Hmph..." Xiao Hua snorted coldly and opened his Eye of Delusion Breaking. A fist-thick silver beam spun as it descended into the black dog's mouth! Yet though the silver light whirled, not a single soul flew out. After the time it took to drink half a cup of tea, Xiao Hua had no choice but to close his Eye of Delusion Breaking.
Wu Daoist frowned. "Fellow Daoist, there must be souls within the Soul Falling Lamp. This poor Daoist has already seen them! Why has your method failed to achieve anything?"
Xiao Hua pondered for a moment before replying, "Not only can you see them, but my divine ability can sense them as well. Yet these souls seem formless and cannot be drawn out by me! It is as though the space within the Soul Falling Lamp does not lie upon Xiaoyu Continent..."
"Hehe, that must be it!" Wu Daoist said with a smile. "The space within the Soul Falling Lamp should be part of the Netherworld Blood Sea. Any soul sucked into the Soul Falling Lamp has actually already fallen into the Netherworld Blood Sea. It is only that these souls have not yet entered reincarnation; instead, they have become part of the Soul Falling Lamp, increasing its power!"
"Senior..." Jianji, who had been watching from afar all this while, could not help but turn pale at this. As an elder shaman of Houtu Village, how could he not know the terror of the Netherworld Blood Sea? He asked