Xue Huan brought in the servant who had been knocked unconscious by her chop outside, tied him up together with Wei Hongguang, and stuffed a piece of rag into their mouths, so that even if they woke up, they would be unable to move or speak.

Then, she summoned the mimic Sandshrew from the space and handed it to Xiaojiu, "This is my pet. It's very powerful and will protect you."

He gave her some more food, touched her head, and then left.

With a sweep of her spiritual sense, she found the yard with a big locust tree. She rushed over and probed downward with her spiritual sense to find the specific location of the secret room.

The entrance was in the rockery cave next to the locust tree, and Xue Huan slipped in.

A complicated and strange formation was drawn in the center of the secret room. The patterns that made up the formation were embedded in the ground like small ditches. At this moment, blood was flowing in those ditches like strange blood snakes.

There was a little girl lying in the formation. She was completely naked, with cuts on her fingers, eyebrows, and soles of her feet. The blood in the formation was flowing out of her body!

When the blood gathered at the center, it evaporated into a blood mist, swirling upwards like a blood snake.

A palm-sized puppet was suspended in the air, swallowing the blood mist!

The scene before her eyes looked evil no matter how she looked at it. Xue Huan rushed over, cast the fireball spell, and condensed a fireball as big as a football in her hand, and smashed it hard at the puppet.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the fireball entered the range of the formation, a blood-red wall rose up at the edge of the formation and blocked the fireball.

"Hehehe..." A creepy laugh came out of the puppet's mouth and echoed in the empty secret room.

The laughter sounded like nails scratching on glass, which made Xue Huan feel pierced and uncomfortable.

"Laugh, laugh, laugh, what the hell are you laughing at!" Xue Huan cursed back angrily and cast a swamp spell, intending to trap the formation in the swamp, but it didn't work.

"Hehehe...don't waste your energy. This Blood Soul Formation is not something you, a mere Qi Refining Stage cultivator, can break. Hahahaha, once I've drained all the blood and energy from this little girl, that'll be the time for me to escape!"

Seeing the girl's body becoming shriveled in the formation, Xue Huan was unable to break the damn blood soul formation. She rushed forward in a hurry, thinking that she would be stopped by the formation, but she actually rushed in easily.

She picked up the girl, quickly fed her a drop of spiritual spring water, and applied ointment on her wound.

The girl's life force was no longer fading, but her condition was still very bad. Fortunately, her life was saved.

"Innate spiritual body! Haha, it seems that God is helping me. There is a road to heaven but you don't take it, and there is no door to hell but you just barge in. I was just worried about not being able to find a body with good qualifications, and you just delivered it to my door!"

Before he finished speaking, a black and bloody soul floated out from the puppet, suddenly rushed into Xue Huan's eyebrows, and invaded her sea of ​​consciousness.

However, a moment later, the soul that claimed to be an old Taoist priest let out a sharp scream, trying to escape from Xue Huan's sea of ​​consciousness. Unfortunately, it was not so easy to get out once he got in!

Xue Huan will not give him a chance to escape. This beast must be destroyed once and for all!

After a while, Xue Huan opened her eyes and exhaled.

The old Taoist wanted to take over her body, but unfortunately her soul was much stronger than her cultivation. Firstly, because she had lived two lives as a human, her soul was more condensed than that of ordinary people. Secondly, during this period of time, she would "cut fruit" in the space of the soul refining stone every night. As she cut, her soul became more and more stable.

The old Taoist's soul was only at the foundation-building stage. He looked at her with the eyes of an ordinary Qi-refining stage cultivator, thinking that it would be easy to devour her soul, but in the end, she killed him in return.

This is the result of underestimating your opponent.

Xue Huan was secretly alert in her heart. She should never underestimate her opponent at any time. Otherwise, who knows what cards they have hidden? She also had to take this as a warning.

Although she despised the other party's soul, the only way to fight between souls was to devour him. It was either you die or I live. She didn't want to be devoured and possessed by the other party, so she had no choice but to devour him.

After devouring the old Taoist's soul, a large wave of information came like a mudslide, and Xue Huan's soul was greatly shocked. Even the remaining soul of the old Taoist wanted to fight back before dying and take the initiative.

Unfortunately, Xue Huan had had this experience before, and more than once. When the Five Elements Pearl transmitted a large wave of the Five Elements True Person's memories, she was also uneasy.

But in the end, she suppressed the part of the memory belonging to the Five Elements Immortal, and only accepted it as a simple piece of information.

Although the Five Elements Immortal was her previous life, she always remembered that she was Xue Huan from the modern era. Her personality was also formed under the influence of modern education, so this part of her was the real her.

The rest, whether it was the life of the Five Elements Immortal or the life of "Xue Huan", were just a memory. They could only be a branch of her memory, but not the main body.

This time, the old Taoist wanted to occupy a dominant position, but it was obviously a wrong idea.

Xue Huan's soul was like a tentacle, disassembling and absorbing the old Taoist's memories one by one. Finally, the old Taoist's soul let out an unwilling scream and disappeared completely. All the useful information in his memory was used by Xue Huan for her own use, and as for the disgusting dregs, she discarded them all.

After absorbing the memories, she also became clear about the old Taoist's identity and origins.

The old Taoist lived more than a thousand years ago. At that time, the spiritual energy between heaven and earth was not as thin as it is now. Cultivating immortals was very popular and Taoism was also very prosperous.

But the old Taoist has ordinary qualifications and cannot join a large sect, so he can only live in the secular world.

The emperor in power at that time was obsessed with cultivating immortals. He longed for immortality and wanted to refine elixirs to prolong life. He also issued an edict to attract monks to respond to the call with generous rewards.

Over a thousand years ago, while spiritual energy was more concentrated than it is today, it was only the difference between a basin of water and a bucket of water. Despite the widespread pursuit of immortality and numerous legends about various gods and immortals, the number of cultivators who could truly embark on the path of cultivation and achieve success was still very small.

At that time, the highest level of cultivation was only the Golden Core Stage.

But for ordinary people, the Golden Core Stage is already an immortal. Even for low-level cultivators, the Golden Core Stage is out of reach.

In such an environment, the longevity elixir that requires various precious spiritual medicines to be refined is nothing more than a flower in the mirror and the moon in the water.

Even the monks standing on the top of the pyramid cannot get the elixir of life, let alone the emperors in the secular world.

But there are still many monks who responded to the call and went to the palace, and the old Taoist was one of them.

Why? It was just the pretext of refining elixirs for the emperor, taking advantage of the opportunity to plunder cultivation resources.