"You still dare act so arrogant!"
Heavenly Mandate Baby planted a foot on Gui Yu. "Are you going to talk or not?"
"Kill me if you can. We Ghost Path Cultivators aren't cowards!"
Gui Yu sneered.
"I'll kill you!"
Heavenly Mandate Baby was about to stomp down in fury, but the Daughter of Heavenly Mandate stopped him.
"Does anyone here know how to search souls?" she asked.
The experts of the Reverse Fate Immortal Palace looked at one another. As far as they knew, no one in the palace had mastered such a technique.
"If it's soul-searching you need, there's only that woman from the Human Immortal Clan," Master Ku Hai said.
"Who?" Lu Ren asked.
"Lu Lanxin."
"My aunt?" Lu Ren was startled.
Just then, a beautiful woman in a white dress flew out from among the experts of the Eight Great Immortal Clans. "Let me try!"
She was Lu Ren's aunt, Lu Lanxin!
The crowd parted.
Lu Lanxin came before Gui Yu and touched a slender, jade-like finger to the center of his brow.
At once!
"Ah!"
Gui Yu let out another heart-rending scream.
But Lu Lanxin's expression grew grave. She stopped the soul search.
"Aunt, did you find anything?" Lu Ren asked.
Lu Lanxin shook her head. "All I saw was darkness. An empty void!"
Gui Yu sneered. "We Ghost Path Cultivators aren't bound by karma, and we're skilled at concealment. Our memories are sealed. Your soul-searching methods won't reach them!"
"I may not be able to search his memories, but I can make him tell us himself!"
Lu Lanxin flicked a finger, sending a phantom black thread into Gui Yu's brow.
More threads followed, until ten of them were tugging back and forth through Gui Yu's sea of consciousness.
"Aaaaaah!"
Gui Yu's face twisted in agony,