Your Sincerity
The method of soul searching can indeed examine a cultivator's memories without reservation, and it is also a good way for the Cultivation World to check whether others have been possessed.
However, because soul-searching would damage the mind of the person being searched, this method had already been banned by many sects by Sang Ying's time.
But now, it doesn't cause any problems at all.
The fact that the Moonless Household Head knew the Soul Search Technique was something he spread himself years ago, firstly to promote his reputation, and secondly to make the Yin Mountain Sect more wary of him.
But he never imagined that the Technique Method he had learned would now be used on his own people.
For a moment, not only the other people in charge, but even the head of the family himself looked extremely grim.
"What's wrong? Is there a problem? These people don't look like ordinary cultivators. Even their corpse puppets were crafted using many precious treasures. Ordinary people probably don't have that kind of resources."
"Besides, they said they just wanted to teach us a lesson, but I remember clearly that as soon as these corpse puppets entered the room, they bared their claws and attacked our beds. They clearly intended to kill us."
At this point, Sang Ying paused for a moment. "These people not only want to take our lives and affect the relationship between the cultivators of the Hidden Nether Realm and the cultivators of other small worlds, but they also lied in front of the acting city lord. The person behind this is probably plotting something big. The acting city lord should quickly perform a soul search on them and find the real culprit."
Now, not only Gu Wangchuan was laughing, but even Jiang Zhuoxue wanted to laugh.
They had never seen Sang Ying act like this before; she really did it convincingly.
But what Sang Ying said made perfect sense, and the crowd outside couldn't help but chime in with their own words.
They've brought so many ferocious corpse puppets on a night raid; no one would believe they didn't intend to kill!
The Moonless Household Head, his eyelids drooping and his eyes somewhat sinister, said, "Young Fellow Daoist Sang, are you deliberately pushing these people to their doom?"
"It's not that I want to force them, but that they want my life. If I show mercy to such wicked people, wouldn't that be encouraging this Evil Qi in Moonless City?" Sang Ying appropriately showed a puzzled expression, which made the Moonless Household Head and the others unable to say anything more.
After a moment's hesitation, in front of so many people, the Moonless Household Head could no longer refuse.
He stood up. "Since Fellow Daoist Sang insists on this, then I have no choice but to comply and take action."
He spoke the last three words with a heavy tone, as if he had been forced by Sang Ying to do such an unkind thing.
Sang Ying was too lazy to listen to his meaningful words, and just urged him to hurry up and do it.
He should have agreed, but the Moonless Household Head was moving very slowly.
Just as he finally raised his hand and placed his five fingers on the head of the first corpse controller, and made his move while everyone held their breath, someone forced their way into the city lord's mansion.
"Master, spare them! It's all my fault! Please, Master, let them go!"
A middle-aged male cultivator, a stranger, staggered through the crowd, his face pale, and blocked the way in front of the Moonless Household Head.
He kowtowed deeply to the Moonless Household Head, then sighed and said, "It was all my fault for being bewitched. Because those three were disrespectful to the eldest young master, I brought these people here to teach them a lesson. But I didn't expect them to be so incompetent and fall into their hands."
"It's all my fault. I'm willing to apologize to the three of you. However, my subordinates were only acting under my orders. I hope you three fellow Daoists will not search their souls and allow them to die with their minds intact."
After the middle-aged male cultivator finished speaking, he was about to sever his own meridians to apologize to Sang Ying and the others. He was extremely fast, and even the Moonless Household Head, who was closest to him, couldn't stop him. Instead, it was Sang Ying, who was some distance away, who stopped him.
"Why rush to your death? This matter isn't settled yet. Whether you've done anything wrong or not, we'll have to wait until the acting city lord has searched your soul before we can say anything," Sang Ying said.
The middle-aged cultivator's eyes widened, and the corpse controllers also looked disappointed.
They thought the matter would end with the death of the middle-aged cultivator, but unexpectedly, the female cultivator stopped them!
The Moonless Household Head frowned, cursing his useless son in his heart once again.
"They've already admitted the truth, why bother with all this?" someone from the Moonless Household Head couldn't help but say.
At the same time, the corpse controllers seemed to have received some kind of reminder from the middle-aged cultivator, and they all unanimously shifted all the blame onto the middle-aged male cultivator. This was their only chance to escape the soul search.
Hearing the voices inside, some of the cultivators outside no longer had the same kindness they had shown towards Sang Ying at first; some even felt that this outsider female cultivator was too sharp-tongued.
She's already confessed, and they're offering her death as an apology, yet she's still so relentless.
Several people immediately said, "Moonless City, this little female cultivator is probably just here to cause trouble. Don't pay any attention to her. Who knows if she deliberately provoked this situation to frame you?"
Upon hearing this, the Moonless Household Head sighed deeply, "I don't know where our family has offended these three young fellow cultivators, but as the city lord, I must act impartially no matter what."
Upon hearing this, the men outside shouted even louder.
In an instant, the whispers in the crowd were either that Sang Ying petty or that she had deliberately tricked people. The argument of the Yin Mountain Sect disciple was drowned out by these voices, and not a single word of it escaped.
Sang Ying didn't need to turn around to know that this must be a plant from the Moonless Household who had somehow infiltrated the crowd.
However, since the Yin Mountain Sect has used this technique, there's no reason why the Moonless Household can't use it as well.
Unfortunately, the tactics of manipulating people's hearts were completely ineffective against Sang Ying.
"So, Lord City Lord, may we begin the soul search? You just said in front of everyone that you would handle this impartially. Only by finding out the truth can we handle this impartially, right?" Sang Ying urged again.
The Moonless Household Head's face finally darkened completely. He stared intently at Sang Ying, his tone devoid of emotion. "Do you really have to do this?"
Sang Ying raised an eyebrow, clearly indicating she was about to break off all pretense of civility. "That depends on your sincerity, Acting City Lord."
The Moonless Household Head's eyes flickered; only now did he finally understand why this female cultivator had come here today.
She didn't care about the truth at all; she just wanted to extract benefits from the Moonless Household!
"I see. Why beat around the bush, young friend? Just come to our Moonless Household and say it directly." Wuyue suppressed his anger. He finally understood why his son was so angry after seeing this person and sent people to deal with her that very night.
This female cultivator is truly repulsive!
Sang Ying shook her head. Simply asking for benefits wasn't enough. Before things got out of hand, they gave her things as hush money. Now that things have blown up, this is compensation.
Wuyue Hao disturbed her cultivation over a few words and even tried to kill them; how could she let him off so easily?
Sang Ying blinked, already looking forward to the competition between the two families in a few days.
A note from the author:
That's all for today, thank you everyone!