Just now, Ye Lianchen had suddenly emerged from his concealment spell for only a brief instant, so the mountain fiend's Primordial Spirit had not noticed. But now the giant corpse's body had become a prison locking in the mountain fiend's Primordial Spirit; he could not possibly remain unaware.
The instant the Nine Palaces Soul-Locking Spirit-Sealing Talisman took shape, the mountain fiend's Primordial Spirit inside the giant corpse reacted sharply and immediately tried to rush out.
But at that moment, the crimson runes Ye Lianchen had written suddenly flashed with golden light and lightning. The mountain fiend's Primordial Spirit struck the golden net of lightning and was hurled backward.
Then the mountain fiend's Primordial Spirit charged again and again, but the runes blocked him every time.
This was a secret talisman that sealed off heaven's workings. Ye Lianchen did not know whether the mountain fiend's Primordial Spirit had employed any means, but he heard nothing, the mountain fiend's fleshly body showed no movement, and the Ape Corpse guarding outside did not come in.
At Soul-Losing Ravine, Tan Tianzong had used a secret Primordial Spirit method to send word to White Impermanence, leaving Ye Lianchen a turtle trapped in a jar. Ye Lianchen certainly would not let that happen again. While casting the Nine Palaces Soul-Locking Spirit-Sealing Talisman, he had also readied the Heaven-and-Earth Relocation Compass.
Expressionless, he simply watched in silence as the mountain fiend's Primordial Spirit charged again and again, and the nine talismanic characters on the giant corpse's head lit up each time. Now his gaze no longer resembled that of a gentle, easygoing Daoist, but a hunter watching his prey struggle in a cage.
This scene alone revealed two flaws in the mountain fiend's cultivation.
First, he cultivated corpse puppets with a refinement method that extinguished their spiritual