"Does this thing work?"
Qin Manjiang was deeply skeptical.
In the movies he had watched, they at least had to pace back and forth and keep chanting spells for it to work.
"Taoist master, did you forget to chant the spell?" Qin Manjiang asked.
"Spells are for fooling people. It's the sound of the bell that works." The Old Taoist put away the Three Pure Ones Bell and shook his head. "Unfortunately, according to ancient texts, if a Soul Return Ghost takes a living person's soul, the Three Pure Ones Bell can be used to call it back, but that isn't a solution either. We'll have to find another way to free Miss Qiao."
At that moment, Mei Sijun asked, "Taoist master, since Miss Qiao can't come back, can we go over there?"
The Old Taoist's eyes widened, and he shook his head repeatedly. "I do not know. Do you have a way, young friend?"
So there were things even this Old Taoist didn't know...
Qin Manjiang looked down at [Eye Realm], particularly the line, "Death here, life there; the person departs, the soul returns."
Mei Sijun, however, nodded and said, "I once heard a passage of Yellow Springs Opera that could also draw out souls and cross time and space. I wonder... could that passage of Yellow Springs Opera take us to where Miss Qiao's soul is?"
"Yellow Springs Opera?!" The Old Taoist was astonished. "An opera sung for the dead in a place of death. It should indeed be capable of connecting to a place of death. It's worth a try!"
Meanwhile...
Qiao Ziruo was stirred by a faint, elusive ringing, but she couldn't hear it clearly. In a daze, she walked toward the coffin again.
The coffin sitting in the courtyard seemed to draw her to