Chapter 207: Someone Has to Pay the Price for the Cause and Effect

If Hu Yu'er has memories of her past life, ordinary evil spirits cannot steal her soul; in short, Hu Yu'er's level is relatively high.

If a higher level of evil were to appear, Su Zhenzhen would not be completely unaware.

If you eliminate all the impossible answers, the one that remains, however unbelievable, must be correct.

Therefore, someone remotely removed Hu Yu'er's soul.

“Go and interrogate all the people who have served your daughter. Ask them for every detail they know about your daughter.”

On one hand, Su Zhenzhen wanted to know who had a chance to get Hu Yu'er's hair and blood; on the other hand, she needed to get Hu Wen away from her next task.

Although Hu Wen didn't understand why he was being asked to interrogate the servants at this time, having a target would prevent him from rushing around like a headless fly.

Su Zhenzhen went out with Hu Wen because Madam Hu's crazy appearance was too frightening. What if she suddenly went berserk at her? Should she fight back or not?

At the fork in the road in the front hall, Su Zhenzhen parted ways with Hu Wen and went straight out of the prefectural governor's mansion.

The servants of the prefectural governor's mansion outside were still scattering wedding money, so it seemed that the news of the change in the wedding had not yet spread.

The officials from Yangcheng who fled in advance probably won't complain.

Now, as long as we can bring back Hu Yu'er's soul, today's events can be considered as if they never happened.

Upon returning to the villa, Su Zhenzhen's first action was to release Li Xuanji from the storage compartment.

Su Zhenzhen cut to the chase, "Could you remotely extract the soul of a living person?"

Li Xuanji wasn't particularly curious and calmly replied, "Yes, but I haven't practiced it before, and it's easy to shorten one's lifespan."

Su Zhenzhen continued, "Then do you know who can do it? And aren't they afraid of shortening their lifespan?"

Li Xuanji smiled, a smile so beautiful that it was easy to forget he was no longer alive.

“You know.”

"What do you mean?" Su Zhenzhen didn't quite understand. "What do I know?"

Li Xuanji pointed upwards, a bewildered smile on his face.

Su Zhenzhen's blood froze instantly; the boatman had done the same thing to her.

Li Xuanji wasn't unaware of this, she just couldn't say it.

The answers to all of this need to be discovered by oneself.

What have you been doing lately?

Li Xuanji's words left Su Zhenzhen completely confused. What had she gained?

Fortunately, Su Zhenzhen didn't have to think about it for long; she had recently gained a special ability.

You can bring anyone you want to see to you out of thin air.

This ability was as commonplace as eating and drinking; he recited the incantation almost unconsciously.

"Souls of all realms, heed my command! Souls from other lands, manifest immediately!"

The moment the words left her lips, a phantom appeared before Su Zhenzhen's eyes.

It was none other than Hu Yu'er's soul.

Hu Yu'er was fully conscious. Looking at the human and the soul in front of her, she immediately asked defensively, "Who are you? Where is this place? Let me go back!"

The cold sweat on Su Zhenzhen's back had not yet stopped. It seemed that her ability could bypass hair and blood, and extract the soul of a living person from their body with just her will.

I feel like I'm getting stronger without even realizing it.

Becoming stronger without even realizing it—isn't that just like Miss Luo Liu?

No, that's impossible.

A voice inside me is screaming desperately.

Su Zhenzhen is a soul summoner. Su Zhenzhen is a soul summoner.

Li Xuanji's rough voice rang out, "You don't look too well."

Su Zhenzhen then realized that her forehead was covered in cold sweat.

Even though the man before her was just a wisp of a ghost, he was still as gentle as a breeze and as bright as the moon. Especially his eyes, which shone like a galaxy. The light in his eyes was so bright that it seemed as if he had seen through all the illusions of the world.

Su Zhenzhen disliked the faint smile in Li Xuanji's eyes, as if he were an outsider who knew everything, occasionally offering a word or two of advice, and observing her future destiny from God's perspective.

Seeing that the human and the spirit were chatting, Hu Yu'er spoke again, "Hey! Can't you see me? Can't you hear me? Where is this? Hurry up and send me back."

A scene quickly flashed through Su Zhenzhen's mind.

A woman with a weak birth chart was possessed by an evil spirit. Just as the evil spirit was about to take her down with it, a spirit medium intervened and pulled the evil spirit away without harming the woman in the slightest.

The ability of a necromancer to extract a soul is used to save people.

However, there has never been a case where a soul leaves the body and is then put back into the body by a necromancer.

Because once a soul leaves its physical body, it either becomes chaos and is reincarnated through a ritual performed by a spirit medium, or it is completely annihilated.

In 906th-century terms, this function is currently one-way; no one has ever developed a two-way process before.

Now Su Zhenzhen needs to develop a reverse process, which is to put Hu Yu'er's soul back into her body.

Su Zhenzhen gradually understood why Hu Yu'er had this incident.

Li Xuanji could see through Su Zhenzhen's heart, so he gave her an approving look.

Su Zhenzhen laughed self-deprecatingly, "Such a big thing, aren't you afraid I'll mess it up?"

“No, only you can do this,” Li Xuanji said firmly. “And only you can do it well. As for the reason, I believe you are intelligent enough to have already guessed it.”

Has anyone you know ever had their soul leave their body?

Besides that, Su Zhenzhen couldn't think of any other reason.

But wasn't the legendary Imperial Preceptor of the Jiang Dynasty, Li Xuanji's master, a god-like being? Gods are omnipotent, so shouldn't she also be able to restore a soul to its body? Why would she need Su Zhenzhen?

"You should understand that what may not happen today may happen tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, and countless days to come."

This means that Su Zhenzhen should prepare early.

But Su Zhenzhen still couldn't understand.

"Why was there a method to extract the soul in the first place?"

"I'm sorry," Li Xuanji said apologetically, "I can't answer that question."

But the answer is right in front of us.

Initially, this method of extracting the soul was used by necromancers to exorcise evil spirits.

Later, people's hearts became corrupted, and evil spirits and heretics learned from this, directly targeting the living.

Spells themselves are neither right nor wrong; the spirit medium created these spells with good intentions. It was only when malicious people learned them that what was meant to save lives became a weapon to harm others.

But the cause and effect remain unchanged, and someone must always repay this debt.

Su Zhenzhen didn't say anything more and put Li Xuanji back into the storage compartment.

Seeing that no one was paying attention to her, Hu Yu'er thought that no one could hear her, and was therefore very disappointed.

Seeing Su Zhenzhen looking at her, the gazes of the human and the soul met in the air, and Hu Yu'er's eyes lit up.

"You can see me? Then can you hear me?"

Su Zhenzhen nodded. "I can take you to see your parents, but I can't let your soul return to your body right away. And before that, you have to answer one question for me."