Possession vessels were neither particularly rare nor particularly common.
One might come across a suitable candidate in ordinary times, but when the need became urgent, finding someone who met every requirement at short notice proved fraught with difficulties.
Thus, Liu Longtong had lingered among his clan for more than half a year without finding a suitable body.
Until recently, when he finally lost patience.
With considerable difficulty, he traded his insights into several closely guarded secret arts to a junior named Liu Sanbian in exchange for the name Liu Jingtang.
Only after privately promising numerous further benefits did he manage to send two juniors to find Liu Jingtang for him.
But to his surprise, those two juniors never returned either, and no word came from them.
Left with no other choice, he followed the faint traces of their lingering auras all the way to Harbin.
Then he encountered Cui Jiuyang...
After learning the whole story, Cui Jiuyang gave a faint, amused smile and said to Liu Longtong, who lay prostrate on the ground, "Liu Longtong, Liu Longtong, just look at you..."
"Your lifespan was running out, and that was enough to make you commit such utterly unconscionable acts?"
"Fortunately, fate brought you together with the two generations of our Cui Family, allowing us to persuade you to mend your ways. Otherwise, wouldn't you have gone farther and farther down this evil path until your divine soul was utterly destroyed?"
Liu Longtong kept his head buried and said nothing.
His divine soul was now under another's control. Cui Jiuyang needed only a thought to scatter his soul, so naturally, he dared not utter a word in retort.
Besides, he knew perfectly well that the secret art he had intended to perform truly violated the natural order. Even death would have been