A faint blue light appeared in her pupils as she turned to a corner, which was the shadow behind the stone pillars in the cave.
"Come out, I've seen you." The girl's clear voice broke the silence underground, but the environment remained unchanged.
Still not moving? The girl looked at the ghostly figure hiding in the shadow, stretched out her empty left hand, and several faint blue light spots appeared at her fingertips. As she waved her hand, these light spots outlined a translucent grid formed by silk threads.
The blue grid flew forward, suddenly grabbed, wrapped up the ghost, and then lifted it out.
Seeing that it was being caught, the ghost struggled violently, but was unable to break through the girl's net. After being exhausted, it curled up into a ball and stopped moving, as if waiting to die.
"Well, actually I don't want to kill you. I just want to know where the disciples of Zhaoye Palace here have gone." Loran Hill looked at the ghost, explained patiently, and conveyed his meaning.
After a while, the ghost's sphere gradually loosened its cracks and slowly looked at the girl. After looking for a long time, it finally began to respond.
"You...are you a disciple sent by the main sect?" The ghost's emotions were unstable, and there seemed to be lingering fear and trembling.
"Main faction? Are you referring to the headquarters of Zhaoye Palace? Then I am not from it. I am from Zhuori Xiangyu." After thinking for a while, the girl took out a gardenia yellow token from her waist.
Looking at the token, the soul finally reacted.
"I can actually see disciples from Xiangyu headquarters." There was shock and surprise in his voice.
"Please quickly report to the Zhaoye Palace headquarters... No, I'd rather report to the Xiangyu Sect headquarters. Uncle He Ling, no, Master He Ling has betrayed the Zhaoye Palace. He wants to break the old seal and enter the broken cave of the Yama Palace, searching for the evil magic that can grant him eternal life."
This soul seemed very excited, and its soul flame suddenly became more intense.
"Tell me slowly, don't be impatient. What exactly happened here?" Loran Hill was a little confused.
"There's no time to explain. Use your ghost-searching technique to look into my memory." The ghost transformed into a blurry figure in the air.
"But this kind of secret technique will cause great damage to the soul..." And this damage may be irreversible, the girl said slowly in her heart.
In fact, during the Mercury Dynasty, many necromancers used this to search for enemy intelligence, but the images were often extremely fragmented and it took a lot of time to piece them together and understand them, which was not very efficient. If the enemy was determined, they would not even leave their souls behind to avoid being insulted by the necromancers.
"I know, but I will cooperate with you. This way I will suffer less damage, and I will also be able to see the scene at the critical moment." The ghost swayed in the air.
"Okay." Loran Hill was not worried that it would cheat. Firstly, he was strong enough, and secondly, as one of the four originals, there was probably no soul that was more resilient than theirs.
Several faint blue light spots drew several trajectories in the air, then gathered at the fingertips and pressed on this soul body. Some information and images began to be transmitted.
Four years ago, at Zhaoye Palace.
The Xiantai Pavilion wasn't empty; instead, nearly a thousand disciples gathered. They were all dressed in purple and white robes, wearing jade pendants and holding swords. They stood in the largest building in the valley. At this moment, these disciples were clearly divided into two groups.
"Junior Brother He Ling, why are you doing this today?" The leader had white eyebrows and was holding a purple jade sword in his hand, looking at the person in front of him.
The man called He Ling was holding a feather fan in his hand. The roots of the feathers were like white jade, the middle was black, and the tail was light purple. It seemed to be an extraordinary creation.
"Today I just want to give Senior Brother Yu Jian some advice, that's all." He had a smile on his face, looking very warm and gentle.
"Hehe, do you need so many people present to give advice? Or have you already stood with He Ling?" Senior Brother Yu Jian slowly glanced at the other people present. It was obvious that there were more disciples around He Ling than on his side.
Looking at this vigilant Senior Brother Yu Jian, He Ling Zhenren showed helplessness, then slowly sighed and said: "Senior Brother Yu Jian must not understand."
Master He Ling looked up at the rooftops where lanterns were hung.
"The so-called helplessness of being less talented..."
"Since you and I joined the sect, Senior Brother Yu Jian has been a dazzling figure in the sect, favored by the teachers and doted on by the senior sisters. But I could only watch from afar in the corner, and then practice silently, hoping to catch up with you."
"But talent is like this: even with the same effort, or even a hundred times more than yours, I can only watch you gradually reach a higher level while I'm still stuck in the same place."
"Brother Yu Jian, you must have never experienced that kind of pain and despair." His words gradually became heavy, and the surroundings slowly fell into silence.
"So... do you want me to pity you?" Yu Jian's expression was unmoved. He had never experienced so many bad things, so naturally he couldn't empathize with them.
"No, no, there's no need to pity me, senior brother." He Ling shook his head.
"If Senior Brother felt sorry for me for this, I would feel insulted. So, on this point, I still don't hate Senior Brother Yu Jian."
"But I want you to know that not everyone has such a good life as you. There are many people in this world who suffer from miserable fates. Let's not talk about those far away. Take the Youchi clan in Yanluo Mountain for example. Sometimes I feel that I am much luckier than them."
"So, you can't understand the humiliation and pain of those struggling at the bottom."
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