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Chapter 100: Long time no see

     Cultivators distinguish primordial spirits based on the breath.

     Everyone's soul breath is different.

     The souls cultivated by the Demon Venerable through the same method as raising Gu* is naturally very different from a real person’s soul. That’s because it is an entity formed by the gathering of many remnant souls through continuous devouring, so the consciousness is in disarray. Usually only the consciousness of its time ceaselessly fighting inside the Gu Vessel would remain. Once in a while, he would come across those with particularly deep obsessions, and they can also have some other small emotions.

(Raising Gu bugs: put a lot of poisonous bugs in a pot and make them eat each other to raise a very poisonous one. Also often depicted in stories as bugs that could control others)

     The Demon Venerable is good at refining tools and controlling souls. He always likes to make some unusual things when he can, such as creating a weapon spirit for a magic weapon he has refined. There is a spirit in the Nightmare Tapir Phoenix Feather Frame, mainly made of the remnant soul of a fire phoenix, supplemented by the consciousness of other remnant souls. Now that thousands of years have passed, this spirit has not dissipated, but has completely formed, even having its own thoughts.

     Of course, he has refined so many tools, and bred so many remnant souls. But only the soul of Phoenix Feather Frame has taken shape in the end, while the others would usually disappear after a short time. But so what? As long as there are newly-dead people, he can just continue rearing souls, and inevitably, he will be able to raise another one again.

     The Demon Venerable has raised quite a few souls, but it is the first time for him to have two souls at once.

     He uses the small bell in his hand to take the two souls into it, and after shaking it twice, he makes his way towards his inner chamber.

     ...

     Inside the little bell, Su Tingyun can see the scene outside. She doesn’t know who this black-robed man is, but thinking of the Nightmare Tapir Phoenix Feather Frame back at Jinxiu City, before she went unconscious, Su Tingyun can only suspect that she has fallen into the hands of the Moon Worship Cult’s Demon Venerable.

     She curls up inside the bell, keeping a distance from the black shadow as much as possible, and very carefully surveys the surroundings.

     She is now in a very long corridor. The path is one zhang wide, and there is a line of people standing on both sides, men on the left and women on the right. Both men and women are dressed in black robes, young and good-looking. They are all similar in stature, and the expressions on their faces are also unusually uniform, extremely impassive, their eyes gloomy, and they seem very sinister. There are hundreds of practitioners in these two rows, and their cultivations should all be Golden Core stage or higher.

     The man in black doesn’t walk fast, and it takes about a quarter of an hour before she sees the end of the corridor.

     The path stops at a stone door, and the pattern carved on it is that of the Nightmare Tapir Phoenix Feather Frame. Seeing this design, Su Tingyun immediately confirms that she is indeed captured by the Demon Venerable, and that her primordial spirit is bound. Normally, her soul would weaken after leaving her body for a certain period of time, but for the moment, although she doesn’t feel good, she doesn’t feel weaker either. Is it because of this bell?

     The Demon Venerable presses his finger on the stone door, at the right eye of the Nightmare Tapir, and then moves his finger to the Phoenix Feather, stroking the long tail feather. A very thin red glow flashes, and the stone door opens with a rumbling. The Demon Venerable quickly walks into a bedroom.

     The room is not big. There’s a bed, a couch, a table and a chair. There is a weapon rack leaning against the wall, on which there is only a long blade that’s as tall as a person. On the wall hangs a silver curved bow. The curved bow is like the moon, glowing brightly.

     The Demon Venerable kicks off the weapon rack, taking out the long knife and then shaking the bell. Su Tingyun feels dizzy, she hugs the bell hammer tightly and does not let go. She initially thinks it’s all in vain, but discovers that since this bell is used to control souls, she can easily touch the objects inside it even though she’s just a soul. It is precisely because of this that she isn’t thrown out directly.

     The other black shadow has no such thoughts, and it naturally falls into the palm of the Demon Venerable. A ball of flames sprouts from his palm, then roasts the traces of a primordial spirit. Su Tingyun can see a wisp of green smoke, causing her consciousness to tremble with fright.

     The Demon Venerable intends to seal the black shadow in the long knife. After he seals the shadow, wouldn't it be her turn next?

     Su Tingyun is horrified, she doesn't know what to do.

     Can she hide?

     The room is very small, she could see its entirety with one look. She trembles nervously, but she forcefully calms herself and tries to find a way out. But just then, Su Tingyun discovers something strange with the stone bed.

     There’s nothing on it, so at first she didn't find anything unusual. Now, scanning it carefully, Su Tingyun can see something inside the stone bed, which looks like a person.

     The black shadow’s miserable howls enter her ears. It is not the cries of a single person, but the roar of countless men and women. Su Tingyun doesn’t dare to hesitate any longer. Her primordial spirit flies out from the bell, passes directly through the stone bed, and goes into the body inside it. After entering, Su Tingyun is surprised to find that there is no primordial spirit in this body.

     Inside, she discovers that the life force of this body hasn’t been cut off. This means that the soul of this person still exists, but is only in a state of where the soul has gone somewhere, just like Xiao Mei before. She can control this body.

     Or at least, she can hide in it?