After breaking the formation, it was already dark.
Zhao Yaqing left with the "Ten Thousand Ghosts Demanding Life Banner". She was a cultivator and had no interest in the soldiers who died here. Li Shiwen led the 30 or so surviving soldiers of Northern Chu to clean up the battlefield, collect the bodies of the dead, and bring the living ones into the city for treatment.
He came to Qin Ran's side and saw that Li Shiyin had fallen asleep in Qin Ran's arms. He asked in a low voice: "How is Shiyin? Is her injury serious?"
"I got hurt a little..." Qin Ran replied, "but it's not a big problem."
Li Shiwen felt relieved and asked again, "What about you?"
"Give me a hand." Qin Ran said.
"Um?"
"Legs weak."
Li Shiwen didn't know why Qin Ran's legs were so weak, but she still reached out and helped him up.
"How about, give Shiyin to me?" Although he was also injured in many places, most of them were external injuries, and his body was strong enough to hold on.
Qin Ran didn't even think about it and shook his head to refuse. He didn't even want the beautiful girl who was so soft and fragrant in his arms, even if he was given the emperor, he wouldn't care. Not to mention that he was just afraid of heights and his legs were weak, what if he was seriously injured and only had half a breath left?
"Let's go over there and take a look." He motioned to Li Shiwen, and together they went to the place where the black-robed man died... When Zhao Yaqing left, she only took away the "Ten Thousand Souls Banner" and did not care about the black-robed man's body at all.
Before, Qin Ran never looted the loot after killing someone, but that was to prevent his whereabouts and identity from being revealed. Now that everyone knows that he killed the man in black robe, there is no need to hide it.
How can you not lick the bag?
The man in black robe was cut into two pieces vertically, with each half lying in two places, looking extremely miserable.
Li Shiwen was used to seeing tragic situations. He squatted down, ready to reach out to move the body of the man in black robe, at least to put it back together as a whole and give him a complete body.
But before his hand touched the black-robed man, Qin Ran stopped him and said, "You'd better not touch him."
Li Shiwen stopped in time, turned around to look at Qin Ran, and asked, "What's wrong?"
"This guy is good at soul magic. At present, only his physical body has died. We don't know whether his soul is dead or not." Qin Ran replied, "Also, he seems to be good at using poison. He may have a poison that will kill anyone who touches it."
Li Shiwen immediately stood up, took several steps back, and came to Qin Ran's side, away from the black-robed man's body.
He tilted his head to look at Qin Ran and asked, "Also?"
Qin Ran did not answer this question. He flashed and summoned a transparent water clone.
Shui Shui moved forward and reached out to move the black-robed man's body. As expected, as soon as his hand touched the black-robed man's body, it immediately turned black. The black color spread from his hand to his entire body in an instant.
Qin Ran glanced at Li Shiwen and found that Li Shiwen had turned pale with fear... This guy didn't want to die now, but was afraid of death.
The water clone put the body of the black-robed man together, then reached out and touched his body carefully up and down, but found nothing. It then took off the black-robed man's Qiankun bag, reached in and saw only some pills, medicinal herbs and spirit stones inside, nothing else.
Especially the soul-related skills that Qin Ran cares about.
The black running man bowed to him that day and killed his clone directly... He directly killed the soul living in the water clone. He was very interested in this strange and powerful soul-related technique.
But unfortunately, the man in black robe did not have these things.
Qin Ran looked at the black-robed man's body from a distance, his mind racing:
What is the relationship between this black-robed man and Xuan Qin? And Xuan Qin... the cause and effect of his own clone who disappeared inexplicably in Xuan Qin is still unknown, and Xuan Qin is still full of weirdness. It seems that there are more cultivators in the Xuan Qin court than just the cultivators of Yuntianmen...
What exactly is Xuan Qin going to do?
As the original body was thinking, the water clone, which had turned pitch black, went over again and lifted the black cloak covering the face of the man in black robe, revealing a face covered with pus-filled sores and rotten to the point that its original color was no longer visible.
If a child sees this face, he would ask someone to call back the ghost; if an adult sees this face, he would not be able to eat for three days.
“No wonder it’s covered so tightly.” Qin Ran thought to himself.
However, generally speaking, there is spiritual energy from heaven and earth flowing in the bodies of cultivators. It's not that every cultivator has an incredibly high appearance, but at least, the skin and texture of most cultivators are impeccable and very clean.
“I’m afraid this has something to do with his martial arts…” Qin Ran felt a little complicated.
He felt sorry for not being able to find the technique, and also felt sorry for the high price of the technique.
At this moment, a groove suddenly opened on the body that had been split in half and the face that had already rotted away, revealing a pair of strange black pupils...
The pair of pupils stared straight at the water clone in front of them. A force that came out of nowhere fixed the water clone in place. Then, an illusory shadow floated out from the pupils and went straight into the water clone's body.
“Huh…” With the poison he had experienced before, Li Shiwen was not as frightened by the possession this time. However, he looked at Qin Ran and asked, “How come this guy knows so much about this?”
"Sure enough, there is a backup plan..." Qin Ran smiled faintly, "To guard against you!"
The water clone was occupied by the soul of the man in black robe, but a force controlled him to sit down cross-legged immediately.
After a moment, the dark water-like body gradually solidified and turned into an ordinary-looking man.
Although he succeeded in taking over the body, he showed a horrified expression: "No... No... There is something wrong with this body! This is not a human body..."
“That’s right…” Qin Ran said.
A solid figure walked out from his brows, dressed in white as snow, and looked like him. It was his soul. The soul flashed forward and came to the black-robed man who was trapped in the body by the water clone. It opened its mouth and sucked, and the water clone and the black-robed man's soul were sucked into his stomach.
Another effect of "Nine-level Soul Devouring Demon Art" is devouring!
This technique has two major effects, one is to split the spirit, the other is to devour. Devouring to strengthen the original spirit, splitting the spirit to create infinite clones.
Qin Ran learned this technique, so naturally he could do both, but he had only shown the distraction side before, and never the devouring side.
This was his first time swallowing a soul.
The soul came back and went into the center of his eyebrows. Qin Ran let out a light breath and looked at Li Shiwen beside him.
Li Shiwen was already stunned. He didn't expect Qin Ran to eat the soul of the man in black robe right in front of him.
“You… this…”
He looked at Qin Ran, a young man with a gentle temperament and handsome appearance. In his arms was a stunningly beautiful girl... Is this something you should do with your current image and group?
"It's a daily routine in the cultivation world." Qin Ran replied.
Li Shiwen paused, but didn't say much in the end.
“Well, just throw him among the bodies of the Xuan Qin soldiers and burn them together…” Qin Ran said, “He is probably also a Xuan Qin person.”
Late at night, in a bedroom in the City Lord's Mansion, Li Shiyin was lying on the bed sleeping soundly.
There was a table in front of the bed with a lamp on it. Qin Ran sat in front of the table and took out a letter from his Qiankun bag.
This letter was sent by Zhao Yaqing during the day. However, he had just received the letter when he was attacked by the black-robed man's "Ten Thousand Ghosts" and had no chance to read it until now.
On the envelope, it was still written "Dearestly Qin Ran" and the sender was still Zhao Zheng.
He carefully checked the outside of the envelope and found nothing wrong... no poison, no fluctuations of magic power, no array patterns, no marks of spiritual consciousness, soul, or magic power. It was just an ordinary letter.
But, there is nothing wrong, except for the biggest thing that is wrong!
Zhao Zheng gave him a letter?
Are they familiar?!
Why write to him?
Thinking of Xuan Qin's inexplicable withdrawal, Qin Ran was even more confused...
He opened the envelope, took out the letter and opened it. The first sentence he saw was "Dear original author:".
“???” Qin Ran’s eyes widened, “What the hell is this thing!!!”
He reacted quickly, realized something, suppressed his complicated feelings, and continued reading:
"Dear entity:
When you see this letter, it means - I'm free!
At the same time, you also clearly know one fact - I have betrayed you. It is the feeling of "one thought of surrendering, the world will open up in an instant", you know?
In fact, I really don't want to do such an immoral thing, and I want to die in Modu, but he gave me too much.
Zhao Zheng has a great dream. This dream is so great that when I heard about it, I felt a huge throbbing. I felt that staying in Danfeng was an extremely despicable thing. I felt that I should jump out of Danfeng’s comfort zone and help him realize this dream. I felt that if you knew what this dream was, you would definitely support me in doing so.
After all, I am you.
Unfortunately, I can’t tell you what this dream is now.
However, we have also thought that after traveling to this world, it is better to do something and leave something for this world. It is not a good thing to be so cowardly all the time. If it is not easy for you to do this, then I will do it for you.
Xuan Qin's withdrawal is a deal between Zhao Zheng and me, so you don't have to have too many doubts. But don't think everything is fine. Because Xuan Qin must unify the Immortal Relics, but it can give preferential treatment to Bei Chu. Even if it is unified in the future, two political systems can be adopted. Do you understand what I mean?
Now, Beichu can form an alliance with Xuanqin, but in the end, it will definitely be incorporated into Xuanqin. This process does not have to be a war, it can be a peaceful evolution. Believe me, this must be a good thing for Beichu. Even the dream of immortality that Shiyin talked about can be realized through this; even the crisis of Daojianmen can be resolved in this process.
In short, you have to believe in me, which actually means believing in yourself.
This is how things are. No matter what we do, we have helped Bei Chu out of trouble.
The following are what you still need to do: First, I will send someone to bring you the formation diagram, design diagram, and geographical map. You need to persuade Beichu to build the corresponding formation base at the corresponding location on the map; second, you have to persuade Beichu to submit to Xuanqin.
I know you will definitely study the formation, and then use it to infer what we should do. But my suggestion is that it is unnecessary, because it is a thankless task.
Ok, that's all I have to say. We should meet again in the future.
I wish you and Shiyin happiness!
I am alone in helping you pursue your dream, woo woo woo...
——Written by Kieran’s fourth clone on January 2 at the Modu Palace.”
After reading the letter, Qin Ran stood up, went to the window, looked at the darkness outside, and smoked for the whole night (because there was really no cigarettes).
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