They had not been taken by someone, become lost, gone to the Underworld Office, or dissipated.
The result returned by the heavenly mechanism was clear-their whereabouts were unknown.
This was simply inconceivable.
How could there be a case of Souls of Unknown Whereabouts?
A person's souls could dissipate, which merely meant turning into a wisp of spiritual energy between heaven and earth.
They could also exist independently-Great-Grandfather had spoken of cultivators he had seen in the northwest who could create doubles. In truth, they attached their own souls to paper figures, making them no different from ordinary people.
They could also go to the Underworld Office on their own. Dream-Talk Notes recorded a condemned prisoner in the Ming dynasty who had been sentenced to execution after autumn. Utterly disheartened, he remained confined in prison, waiting to lose his head after autumn came.
Then one day, the prisoner dreamed that autumn had arrived, that he had stepped onto the execution ground, and that his head had been cut off with a single stroke.
It was only a dream, yet his souls actually left his body and went to the Underworld Office on their own.
The judge at the Underworld Office did not know whether to laugh or cry when he saw him. He told him, "It isn't your time to die yet. Go back." Only then did the man slowly wake in his cell.
The jailer told him that he had slept for seven days and seven nights, and that no amount of calling could wake him.
These were all things that could happen to souls.
The one thing souls could not do was end up with their whereabouts unknown.
Cui Jiuyang told Zhang Qi and Sister-in-Law Chang, "I need some time to investigate where Brother Chang's souls have gone. Until