"Greetings, Emperor." Everyone bowed and paid homage to the Eastern Ghost Emperor, Cai Yulei. Cai Yulei smiled, glanced at Fang Jian once more, and then said, "No need to bow."

"Thank you, Emperor."

After everyone calmed down, Cai Yulei asked, "Why are you here, fellow Taoists?"

Fang Jian pointed at Guo Shi who was standing beside him and said, "We have come to see the Emperor this time because we encountered a strange incident. Fellow Daoist Guo, please tell us about it."

Guo Shi was intimidated by the power of the Eastern Ghost Emperor and did not dare to look up. He was slightly shocked when he heard the words, then he mustered up his courage and began to slowly tell the story of the thirty Jinyiwei who had lost their souls.

After hearing this, Cai Yulei couldn't help but say in surprise, "Oh? There's such a strange thing?"

What surprised him was not that the thirty Jinyiwei had lost their souls, but that even Fang Jian could not find where the souls of those Jinyiwei had gone.

Fang Jian's abilities were universally acknowledged within the Heavenly Court to be no less than those of True Lord Erlang, so Cai Yulei teased Fang Jian, "I never thought there could be anything in this world that could stump you, Daoist Fellow Fang."

Fang Jian: “”

Seeing Fang Jian speechless, Cai Yulei immediately stroked his beard and smiled, then said, "Well, if that's the case, then let me help you find it."

After saying that, Cai Yulei just waved his right hand, a golden light flashed, and the Eastern Ghost Book immediately appeared in Cai Yulei's hand.

Cai Yulei said, "This is the Eastern Ghost Book. As long as you are within the Dongsheng Divine Land, no matter what kind of magic or spell you use, as long as the soul is still there, it will be exposed."

Then Cai Yulei opened the Eastern Ghost Book and started investigating without asking the names of the thirty Jinyiwei.

The only sound in the hall was the rustling of pages turning. After an unknown amount of time, Cai Yulei's expression suddenly grew serious. "Found it."

Fang Jian looked at Cai Yulei's serious face and thought he hadn't found it, but he said he had found it. Could it be that

Fang Jian asked, "Emperor, do you know who is the one hiding the soul and capturing the spirit?"

Cai Yulei didn't answer. Instead, he put away the Eastern Ghost Book, then summoned a divine talisman and sent it to Fang Jian, saying, "Take this talisman to the Earth God Temple in Dengyun Town and burn it with true fire. Then you will know everything."

"May I ask the Ghost Emperor," Guo Shi asked hurriedly, "where are their souls hidden?"

The Eastern Ghost Emperor raised his hand and pointed at the talisman in Fang Jian's hand and said, "It's all here."

After saying this, the Eastern Ghost Emperor turned to Fang Jian and said, "Fellow Daoist Dafang, there is something fishy behind this matter. It depends on you to figure it out."

Hearing this, Fang Jian realized that someone was behind this, so he nodded and said, "I understand."

Afterwards, Fang Jian and his party bid farewell to the Eastern Ghost Emperor, left Taozhi Mountain, and returned to the Land God Temple in Dengyun Town, Jinzhou.

When Jiang Piao, the land god, saw Fang Jian and his group return, he immediately stepped forward and asked, "How's it going? Did the City God find out?"

Black Boy said, "The City God didn't find out, but the Eastern Ghost Emperor did."

"He actually found the Eastern Ghost Emperor?!" Jiang Piao was immediately surprised.

At this time, Fang Jian had already taken out the magic talisman and lit it with real fire in front of everyone. With a "boom" sound, the magic talisman instantly burned out.

But the talismans above the burnt-out divine palace flashed with brilliant golden light. With a "whoosh" sound, the golden light expanded and directly enveloped the entire land temple.

Then everyone noticed that the area around the land temple, which was shrouded in golden light, suddenly became pitch black. Jiang Piao asked in astonishment, "Why is it so dark?"

"It's not dark." Fang Jian said, "This is the method of going against the light and tracing the current."

"The method of tracing the current against the light?" Guo Shi asked blankly.

Hei Haier looked at Guo Shi and explained, "Simply put, it's a spell that goes back in time and space, and can recreate the history of a certain time."

"So that's how it is." Guo Shi suddenly realized.

"Someone is coming." The land god Jiang Piao suddenly shouted while staring at the front of the land temple.

Everyone turned their heads and saw an old, hunched figure approaching from afar, holding a lantern and slowly coming to the front of the land temple.

When Guo Shi saw the man's appearance clearly, he exclaimed, "Muramaru of Duozi Village."

"But he is a mortal." Black Boy said doubtfully.

Fang Jian said: "Let's see what he is going to do first."

Everyone was watching and saw that the village head of Duozi Village came to the land temple. He did not light incense or burn paper, but hung the lantern aside and took out a stack of thin and small paper packages from his arms.

He held the stack of paper bags and looked around. Seeing that there was no one around, he walked to the front of the land god, covered the eyes of the land god statue, then lifted up the land god statue and placed the stack of small paper bags under the land god statue.

After arranging the small paper bags, Muramasa put the statue of the land god back to its original place and used the statue to suppress all the small paper bags underneath.

Then Muramasa picked up the lantern and left as if no one was around. As Muramasa left, the power of the talisman was exhausted, the golden light dissipated, and everyone was freed from the method of going against the light and tracing the current.

Guo Shi and Hei Hai were completely confused. They only knew that the village chief of Duozi Village seemed to have placed something under the statue of the land god.

But when they looked up at Fang Jian and the land god Jiang Piao, they saw that their expressions were extremely serious.

"Master," said Hei Hai, "it seems as if something has been buried under the statue of the land god in that Duozi Village."

Fang Jian sighed and said, "Those things are souls."

"What?!" Guo Shi and Hei Haier were shocked, while Fang Jian continued, "Those little paper bags contain the souls of the thirty Jinyiwei flags. The villagers of Duozi Village have wrapped their souls in paper and pressed them under the statue of the land god. That's why we know their souls are still in the world of the living, but we can't find them. This is why."

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