Free Web NovelIt took nearly an hour, but Lu Yibei successfully purchased the materials and items needed for Directional Soul Summoning from the customers at Moon Smearing, Wind Criticizing.
Just as she walked out of the bar's main door, preparing to meet Lin Nian at their agreed-upon location, she felt a pang in her heart and her eyes grew slightly warm.
Lu Yibei, "..."
Why do I have such an ominous feeling...
This is not a good sign!
Could it be that this Directional Soul Summoning hides some danger I don't know about?
Thinking this, Lu Yibei silently pulled out the fuxing copper coin, performed a divination, and then furrowed her brows.
Directional Soul Summoning has no danger? How strange, then what is it because of?
Could it be because of Zhang Huainan? That Old man couldn't have discovered that I lied to him, right?
It's not suitable to stay here for long. I'll try to get the fragments of Lingtai Pure Karma from Hua Sang later. If I can't, I'll just leave quickly.
Lu Yibei gripped the copper coin tightly, her gaze uncertain, feeling uneasy in her heart.
Although the fragments of Lingtai Pure Karma are important, how can they be more important than my life!
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Shizhou City, Yongjie Urban Living Waste Treatment Plant.
After parting ways with Lu Yibei, Lin Nian, worried about Grandpa's safety, went home, took the immobile Grandpa to a reliable person, and only then brought her Grandpa Three's body here.
There are many Psychic within Shizhou City. Even with disciples of Da Chunyang Palace maintaining order, conflicts are unavoidable among Psychic in private.
Where there is conflict, there is death.
Those Psychic who died unnatural deaths, their appearances either twisted and bizarre or terrifying and ferocious, making it quite troublesome to handle their bodies through normal funeral procedures. Therefore, their bodies are usually sent here.
Since the night became long, the staff at this living waste treatment plant have been streamlined to the absolute minimum. Besides a deaf Old man, there is only a mute boy and a girl with vision so poor she can barely see.
It seems that those working in this line of business must be Psychic with defects in their eyes, ears, or mouth.
This is probably because it's harder for information to leak out this way.
On average, four or five bodies of Psychic are sent here every week. As long as you pay the Old man, the boy, and the girl enough, they will provide a place and the necessary items for handling the body, allowing you to deal with it yourself.
Of course, for some bodies that the individuals involved find inconvenient to handle themselves, they can also do it on their behalf, and their methods are quite professional.
Even bodies that have become exceptionally hard and difficult to burn due to the influence of Spirit Marks can be easily handled by them. However, if you want their help, you have to pay extra!
There is no such thing as a completely airtight wall in this world, just as the deaf Old man is Lin Nian's informant.
Perhaps precisely because she had a long-term close relationship with the deaf Old man, when she brought her Grandpa Three here and explained her purpose, the Old man smiled kindly and personally helped her handle the body.
He meticulously peeled off the attire that had almost fused with the flesh, ensuring the integrity of both the body and the attire. Then, he built a pile of firewood, poured pine oil on it, and handed the torch to Lin Nian.
"Whoosh—!"
Lin Nian threw the torch into the firewood pile. The firelight dimmed slightly for a moment, then immediately blazed fiercely, engulfing the Old man holding the exquisite attire within the pile.
Seeing this, she turned around and gently wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes.
Just then, a girl wearing a black tracksuit set and with long chestnut hair slowly walked in from outside the garbage dump.
"Oh? Here? What are you roasting? It smells quite fragrant. However, if you could add some green onions and cumin, the taste would be even better!"
Hearing "Gu Qianqian's" words ring in her ears and seeing "Gu Qianqian" walk over from not far away, Lin Nian was stunned for a moment. She turned around just in time to see her "slurp" and swallow.
Seeing this, Lin Nian's face instantly turned pale. She quickly stepped forward, spreading her hands to block "Gu Qianqian's" path.
"No, you can't! That's my Grandpa Three!"
Lu Yibei, "???"
Who wants to eat your Grandpa Three?!
Is this ever going to end? You're stuck on this joke, aren't you?
Has any of you personally seen Gu Qianqian eat people?
Just as she was complaining internally, the mute boy trotted over and slipped a note into her hand.
The note read 【Respected Bloody Demoness, we can provide aged Psychic long-term here. If you are interested, we can discuss it.】.
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Lin Nian forcefully kept "Gu Qianqian" twenty meters away from the fire. Only after her Grandpa Three's body ➤ NоvеⅠight ➤ (Read more on our source) and attire were completely cremated together and placed into the urn did she finally relax, leading Lu Yibei to a corner of the waste treatment plant to begin the soul summoning.
She set up the incense altar she had just bought, inserted the Underworld Candles into the incense burner filled with Yin soil, and placed several small bowls for offerings.
The offerings were several pieces of fresh meat. When she returned to Moon Smearing, Wind Criticizing just now, she couldn't buy Five-Animal Stones, so Lu Yibei could only find meat from five types of livestock as a substitute.
After arranging the items on the incense altar, Lu Yibei blew the suona. After finishing one tune, she lit the offering incense and Underworld Candles, and offered a bowl of aged wine.
Why is she so skilled at this kind of thing? How many times has she done this before... Lin Nian watched from the side, unable to help but have this thought.
Seeing this scene, she somewhat suspected that after "Gu Qianqian" had devoured Psychic and urban legend in the past, she would perform soul summoning on the victims to extract their secrets and squeeze out their last bit of value.
If that were the case, Gu Qianqian would truly be a great villain, having done all sorts of evil deeds!
Saying something to Lin Nian, Lu Yibei took out the metal lighter she had found on the strong man, came to the incense altar, raised her hands, closed her eyes, spread out her Spiritual Energy fluctuations to envelop the altar, and silently chanted the incantation.
"Youth receives thanks, the bright day is clear, spring energy bursts forth, all things rush.Ming Ling permeates, the soul cannot escape. Soul and spirit return! Not far away. Soul return! No east, no west, no south, no north..."
As the incantation was chanted, a thin layer of silver-gray mist gradually spread.
Lu Yibei's thread of consciousness, escaping into the void, began searching for the strong man's remnant soul.
And then...
Silence arrived without warning. Lu Yibei, seeing only darkness before her eyes, vaguely felt her Spiritual Energy being touched by some distant existence.
Having experienced Directional Soul Summoning multiple times, she immediately realized that this was a sign of finding the strong man's remnant soul and immediately whispered the strong man's name.
"Soul, return! Liang Jiuyuan!"
Liang Jiuyuan, this was the name Lu Yibei saw on the strong man's personal identification.
As her voice fell, just like the dozens of times before, she waited for Liang Jiuyuan's remnant soul to take the bait. But the next moment, something she didn't expect happened.
Suddenly, she felt a strong pulling sensation from the other end of the thread of consciousness.
If the previous Directional Soul Summoning were compared to fishing, then the feeling this time was like hooking a great white shark. If she didn't let go, the only outcome would be being dragged into the turbulent sea and torn apart by the shark's sharp teeth.
That doesn't make sense!
That guy just now clearly wasn't very strong!
Could it be that Liang Jiuyuan wasn't his name?
Thinking this, Lu Yibei was about to interrupt the Directional Soul Summoning ritual when her eyes began to burn intensely. Something was violently stimulating her nerves, signaling unprecedented danger.
Immediately after, a sentence of unclear meaning flashed past her ear.
"I have a magical item here that can help you solve many problems. If you like it, I can sell it to you at a low price. Want to take a look?"
I seem to have heard this sentence somewhere before?
Wait! Wasn't this what that shifty guy said to me when I was at Moon Smearing, Wind Criticizing earlier?
Could it be that Liang Jiuyuan's ring blade came from him? Lu Yibei thought.
The next moment, a loud roar sounded in her ears, interrupting her thoughts.
The sound was like the immense noise produced by countless old heavy machines operating. She didn't open her eyes, yet a scene, accompanied by the roar, appeared before her.
She saw a massive project built somewhere unknown. The surroundings were pitch black. Molten iron flowed, emitting orange-red light, circulating around a metal structure resembling the carcass of a giant beast. An astonishing number of assembly lines were constantly turning, and on rows of chilling hooks, countless people were hanging.
They all seemed to be alive, constantly struggling, crying out in despair, tragically like souls stripped naked, their ugly bodies nobody willing to give a second glance. They were sent into that massive metal structure along with the assembly line, their screams fading into the distance, finally covered by the roar of steel.
Lu Yibei watched the scene before her with uncertainty and surprise. Following the assembly line with her gaze, she looked into the depths of the metal structure and then saw the massive "infant".
It seemed to be the core maintaining the operation of the entire massive structure.
She called it an infant, but that was just the feeling that quietly arose in Lu Yibei's heart when she saw it. She felt it was some kind of being about to be born into the world. In reality, it was just a chaotic mass of colors so brilliant they were beyond description.
Those colors weren't simply glowing; they were wriggling like active gelatinous substances, constantly outlining the shapes of various objects.
That light emitted a strange aura, making one clearly feel that terrifying misfortune was being bred and was about to descend.
The "infant" lay quietly in a cradle cast from cold metal. Suddenly, as if sensing something, it opened its eyes and cast its gaze.
Immediately after, she heard the "infant's" laughter.
Clear laughter, hoarse sneering, wild cackling, mixed with joy and sorrow, like a heavy hammer drilling through her ears into her mind, heavily striking her soul.
Under the heavy blow, Lu Yibei's thread of consciousness instantly shattered.
The Directional Soul Summoning Spell was unexpectedly interrupted. The items on the incense altar were crushed by an invisible force, and with a roar, exploded into fragments flying in all directions.
A wave of weakness swept over her. Lu Yibei's body went limp, and she collapsed onto the ground.
"..."
What the hell was that? A Strange Tale? Did it imprison Liang Jiuyuan's soul?
No, it seemed to be... devouring souls?
Damn it, didn't the copper coin divination say there was no danger before? And it showed me something like this...
Lu Yibei thought, her head throbbing, gazing blankly at the wreckage scattered across the ground.
In the silence, she suddenly realized that she might have discovered something extraordinary, something quite troublesome that she couldn't possibly handle.
Perhaps I should tell the Black Emperor about this discovery?
Although she was very afraid of having too much contact with Zhang Huainan, she was even more afraid of the "infant" she saw just now descending and awakening...
It's like fighting magic with magic. Naturally, terrifying things need terrifying existences to deal with them.
