Li Yan acted as though he had seen nothing. His arm stretched back bit by bit, and after roughly three breaths, an extremely blurry phantom was pulled from Fa Nan's body.
That phantom also had a snake's head and human body, very similar to Fa Nan, but its face was exceptionally indistinct, with only a vague outline visible.
At that point, Li Yan stopped moving. The five fingers of his other hand quickly formed seals as well, and a strange rune took shape in an instant.
The rune then circled the phantom continuously, preventing it from drifting too far from the body. This was one of Fa Nan's souls.
After Li Yan extracted it, Fa Nan's body still retained its "vitality"—or, more precisely, its sinister ghostly aura.
Li Yan was also sensing the condition of that soul, observing whether it would still dissipate after being wrapped in his soul technique.
After watching for a moment, Li Yan finally let out a breath of relief. Under the cover of his soul technique, that soul showed no signs of dissipating for the moment, while Fa Nan's aura remained as well.
Soul power surged from his outstretched finger again. The red spike straightened once more and entered Fa Nan's crown...
Several dozen breaths later, eight phantoms appeared not far from Fa Nan's crown. They were precisely Fa Nan's three souls and five spirits, each surrounded by a strange rune and unable to drift away.
By then, Fa Nan was already spitting streams of bubbling white foam. Although his aura was incomparably weak, it still existed.
After taking a glance, Li Yan was quite satisfied. Back when he had not truly known how to use soul techniques, he had forcibly used the Guiyi Water-Parting Spike to drive out Yu Banjiang's three souls and seven