The answer to Jiang Yixi's question is undoubtedly yes.

It is a blessing to be able to escape with a remaining soul under the Nine Tribulations Heavenly Thunder. It is simply a pipe dream to want to escape unscathed.

Although Chu Lu faced this mess as soon as he was pulled back to this world, he still accepted the situation well. However, others obviously did not think so.

Sure enough, when hearing Jiang Yixi's question, Xie Jing, who was originally behind him, suddenly looked up.

Chu Lu didn't need to look back, he knew what his junior brother's expression was. Looking at Jiang Yixi's current expression, it was obvious that he brought this up on purpose.

Damage to the soul is like digging a hole in the soul, and power continuously leaks out of the hole.

If it is only a minor damage, and the speed of cultivation is greater than the speed of leakage, then it will naturally repair slowly. However, if the damage is serious, no matter how hard you cultivate, it will be of no avail and will only slow down the speed of destruction.

——After all, a separate soul is not the normal way for a cultivator to exist in the world.

When Jiang Yixi asked, he had already used the word "incomplete" to describe the soul, which shows that Chu Lu's current situation is even worse than the latter. And looking at the attitude of the person involved, it is obvious that he is responding negatively to his situation.

Although things that can stabilize the soul are rare in the world of cultivation, they do exist. The soul bead hanging on Lou Kongyu's neck is one of them.

Now standing in the house are two of the ten greatest Mahayana cultivators in the world, and with the support of two major sects in the world of cultivation, it is not difficult for them to find those things, but the prerequisite is that the parties involved are willing to cooperate.

Chu Lu sighed: "I am a fallen man, why should I spend so much time on this?"

Coming back to this world was an accident. If I were to repair myself and restore my soul, I would really have to stay in this world for thousands or even hundreds of years.

Xie Jing: "Senior Brother!"

He shouted like this, his thin lips pressed tightly into a straight line, but he didn't know how to persuade... He could never convince his senior brother, whether it was back then or now.

But this time…

He tightened his grip on the hilt of the sword and decided to give up talking. No matter what, he would bring his brother back to the sect first.

Before Xie Jing made his move, a short laugh came from the other side.

Jiang Yixi leaned back in his chair, looking completely relaxed. He took out a folding fan from somewhere and spun it beautifully on his wrist, then said slowly, "You really trust your two disciples..."

He opened his folding fan and covered the lower half of his face. The corners of his lips were covered, and his eyes that were exposed looked dark and deep, with a darker light flowing in them. "Then you guess, I'll tell them what happened today-"

The smile on his face deepened, and even his eyes, which never smiled, curved. "Will those two... start another war between Taoists and demons without caring about anything?"

Chu Lu: "..."

This guy was so successful in pretending to be a decent person that even Chu Lu almost forgot that his essence was "chaotic neutral". Should I say he really deserves to be the leader of the clan. He has been cultivating himself for so many years that even Chu Lu was almost fooled.

Chu Lu was not sure what Wei Yiqiu and Xiang Wanya would do, but the man in front of him would definitely act as if nothing had happened and add fuel to the fire on both sides, trying to get everyone to fight.

Jiang Yixi got the answer he wanted from Chu Lu's silence. He put away his folding fan and tapped it with his other hand. After revealing a smile on the lower half of his face, the dangerous aura on his body suddenly dissipated, and he looked gentle and kind.

Chu Lu: "..."

Although he had witnessed many similar "threats" over the years, this was the first time he had been persecuted.

If it were Ling Hua back then, he would have picked up his sword and attacked, but now... Chu Lu silently assessed Lou Kongyu's physical fitness and spiritual energy reserves, and unsurprisingly came to an obvious conclusion - he couldn't win.

...He seemed to understand why he was not persecuted back then.

Jiang Yixi's eyes curved, and he was obviously in a good mood. He smiled, "...I don't want this to happen either."

After all, he was taking a risk by doing this. When Hua's cultivation level recovered one day and he remembered this matter again, he would definitely be beaten up.

Chu Lu saw that his eyes were narrowed with laughter, and he couldn't see the word "don't want" at all.

——It seems like I have wanted to do this for a long time, but only now got the chance.

Chu Lu:......

Realizing that he couldn't continue to gloat over other people's misfortune, Jiang Yixi coughed and indicated that he wanted to get down to business.

He said: "Originally, I wanted Shuanghua to help me sense the location of the soul, but if I come in person, it should be more accurate..."

Chu Lu paused and frowned: "You mean the soul is divided?"

After he asked this question, the smile on Jiang Yixi's lips paused for a moment. Xie Jing behind him pursed his lips even tighter, with stiff muscle lines on his face. Even Qing Yongzi, who had been silent all this time, snorted coldly.

Qing Ye, who had just breathed a sigh of relief in the relaxed atmosphere and quietly retreated to the door, shuddered. He didn't know why the situation in the room became tense again.

He froze in place, glancing sideways at the door that was only a step away, with a ferocious expression.

——No matter what happens, at least let him get out first? ! !

No one noticed Qing Ye's silent howl. Noticing the sudden stagnant atmosphere in the room, Chu Lu also realized their misunderstanding.

The split souls are able to sense each other, especially Chu Lu, who is still aware and able to communicate with the main soul.

There could only be one reason why he didn't know about the existence of other souls, and he had never tried to sense it.

It is not easy for the soul to survive under the thunder, but the surviving owners never want to live.

Although this was revealed in the conversation just now, it is still difficult to accept the evidence so clearly.

Jiang Yixi and the others couldn't help but think, if they had come a little later, if there were no living puppets in the small secret realm, if they hadn't discovered that Shuanghua was wrong...

Then, will this soul that has finally survived... just disappear silently between heaven and earth? No one will even know of its existence.

The smile on Jiang Yixi's face gradually turned cold, and finally disappeared completely; Qing Yongzi snorted coldly, and simply slammed the door and walked out. The half door exceeded the maximum limit of the pivot rotation, and collapsed directly under the pressure. After falling to the ground, the mottled cracks caused by the spiritual power impact were revealed; Xie Jing's face did not have any obvious changes, but the tense muscles all over his body showed that the master was ready to forcibly take the person back to Taihua Sect at any time...

Qing Ye, who was a step too slow and didn’t have time to catch up with his father:…?

!!!

Dad, dear dad! If you go, at least take your son with you!!!

However, the atmosphere in the room became increasingly tense and stagnant. Qing Ye didn't even dare to move, let alone follow.

——Will he die here today? !

Chu Lu also had something to say: "..."

——No, it’s not what they think…

He tried to organize his words to explain this matter -

Although allowing the soul to slowly dissipate was indeed his original plan.

But! Not being able to sense the soul split is definitely not the reason!!

The Space Bureau protects the souls of its employees at the MAX level. After all, there are only a few employees, and each staff member is a valuable asset. Even if one is lost, it is a huge loss. Compared with the body that needs to be replaced in each world, the soul inside is the focus of protection. However, there are many small worlds that the staff have to go to, and there are also characters in the spiritual state. The Space Bureau cannot let the souls of its employees be exposed to the small world without protection - the risk is too high - so it has become a routine operation to put another layer of protective shell on the soul. For the staff, this is equivalent to the body in the state of soul.

So although Chu Lu's current soul belonging to Ling Hua is incomplete, his most core and essential soul is intact - the Space-Time Bureau will certainly not allow its employees to have souls split in the small world, that would be a high-risk situation that requires immediate interruption of the mission and recall to the headquarters - so although Chu Lu is aware that Ling Hua's soul is now in a damaged state, he does not feel it so deeply, let alone sense the location of the split soul.

But when he thought about it this way, it seemed that there was nothing he could explain, because he had no way to refute it.

——Whether he "did not try to sense the soul at all" or he just planned to "wait silently for the consciousness to slowly dissipate"...

Chu Lu: "..."

"No……"

He uttered a word with difficulty, trying to argue... no, explain -

"You may have made a mistake. If there really are other souls..." the system will remind him.

Chu Lu suddenly paused when he said this.

Wait, wait!

Speaking of systems...

After coming to this world, it was not the first time that Chu Lu felt something was strange. He finally realized something.

——What about his system? Such a big system.

At the same time, outside the thirteenth floor of the Demon Realm, in a palace that stood abruptly in the desolate chaos, the system that was cursing and fighting with the demon cultivator for the body even faintly uttered a cry.

—Mistakes, major mistakes.

It was a major mistake that was recorded as the "Space Bureau's Centennial Work Accident" and forced to be publicly punished by having the relevant data packets transmitted to all branch subsystems during the next update.

[The host was lost during the transmission of the small world]

This kind of thing...why does it happen to it?

When the system entered this world, it found that it was alone and occupied the host's body in this world.

And because it did not have permission to take over the body, it had no way of controlling this body and could only watch itself being trapped inside.

The first day of being trapped,

Actively try various methods to contact the host, trying to solve the problem before the Space-Time Bureau finds it;

the next day,

Continue to try to sense the host... Still failed,

Emergency enforcement regulations have been enabled, but due to the limitations of the world view, the technology-related skills are of limited use in the context of this world;

…

Day 57,

I have tried all the possible methods recorded in the database, but none of them worked.

Starting a second attempt...

…

…………

Day 264,

The personal search is declared a failure and the status is reported to the General Administration, awaiting the result;

Day 265,

Still waiting for the results of the General Administration's handling, he even began to imagine that his mistake was recorded in the next update package of the entire Spacetime Bureau's system. He was so embarrassed that the data flow was chaotic and the program was slightly disordered, and he began to repair himself;

…

Day 328,

Still no feedback from headquarters, I fell into panic,

He had been publicly executed as a teaching material, and was put in a digital prison after returning from this mission, and then expelled from the government, had his data erased, and had his program formatted;

…

…………

Day 691

Still without any feedback, I completely gave up on myself and decided...

...play a game to calm down;

Day 692

…the game is so fun!

…

Day 837,

The game is fun!

…

One thousand and six days,

Play, games, good!

…

…………

Until today, I have sensed that a soul is trying to force its way into my body.

It was miserable enough for it to be trapped in the shell originally prepared for the host, but someone actually wanted to compete with it for a spot? !

Ah! That’s not right!!!

The memory stick, most of which was occupied by the game, temporarily cleared some space, and the system finally calculated the current situation.

——Someone wants to steal its host's body!

This is definitely not possible!

Do you know who you are against?

Stupid humans. Haha.