Under the dual pressure of strength and status, Cui Shenyoo did not dare disobey. He immediately nodded repeatedly. "Understood! Understood!"
"Where did you and Hu Pengxiao send your soul fragments to?"
"To find Lang Xiao!"
"Did you secretly descend to the lower realm?"
"Yes... but it was only a single soul fragment."
Since they had already come knocking and even given him the chance to answer, Cui Shenyoo naturally had to seize it. He had no intention of concealing anything.
Upon hearing that it was that former demonic path patriarch, Zhuang Xuanji was somewhat surprised.
Her initial thoughts had matched Luo Qianchou's. She believed that any cultivator capable of bypassing the Heaven Sealing Great Formation to descend to the lower realm would have to be at least in the late Void Stepping Realm.
Yet after questioning him, she discovered that all three were merely at the mid stage.
Zhuang Xuanji's gaze shifted slightly. Linking this matter to the turmoil in the lower realm, she quickly deduced that some other disturbance had likely arisen below, allowing the three of them to slip through a crack in the wall.
"What state is the soul fragment in now? Can it still be recalled?"
"Reporting to Lord Commander, my soul fragment has now fused with that lower-realm body. Bound by its Dao laws, it truly cannot be recalled or self-destructed for the time being."
Cui Shenyoo wore a smile that made him seem deeply troubled, but as a Void Stepping cultivator, how could he not have known that the fusion of soul and body would lead to such a result?
He had done it deliberately, solely to prevent his soul fragment from being forcibly recalled after Zhuang Xuanji and the others discovered something amiss.
With a lower-realm body as collateral and integration into the