Chapter 297: Cutting off the connection
Hong Guang couldn't help but look at the rows of figures covered with white cloth in the square again, and felt a chill on his back.
He quickly responded, wiping the cold sweat from his forehead, and left.
The only people left in the square were Yun Qingqing, Xiao Changheng, Nan Zheng and the palace guards brought from the imperial capital.
She asked Nan Zheng to lead the palace guards to guard the surroundings tightly, and took out a thick stack of yellow talismans from the space.
The talisman paper she used was extremely thin. In order to stop the living souls from offering sacrifices to the thunder, she had used all the talismans she could. There were several hundred pieces in this thick stack.
Yun Qingqing closed her eyes and concentrated. The talisman papers in her hand suddenly moved without wind. One by one, they flew into the air, hovered for a moment, and then turned into ashes and dissipated.
The temperature around the square became lower and lower as more and more talisman papers dissipated, and the light around seemed to gradually dim.
When Yun Qingqing had no more talismans in her hands, she opened her eyes and saw hundreds of souls wandering around in a daze. However, they were restricted by the formation she had set up in advance and could not go too far.
Her brows slightly frowned. These were all living souls, no longer under the guidance of Qing Fengzi. They should have automatically found and returned to their bodies.
But now that the real body is right in front of them, these living souls are just wandering around aimlessly, with no signs of returning at all.
She pondered for a moment, summoned Dawn and held it in her hand. She took a few steps forward and raised her hand to lift the white cloth covering the monks.
She swung her sword a few times and cut open the sleeves of the monks, revealing the strange bird totems on each of their left arms.
There was a clear light in Yun Qingqing's eyes, and she understood everything in her heart.
Sure enough, it was because of this totem that the living soul was summoned in response to a certain command, but it did not receive the order to return, so it was unable to return to its body.
Yun Qingqing's eyes were cold and fierce. He held the sword with both hands and poured all the little spiritual power in his sea of qi into it. Then he let go and made a gesture, and shouted sternly:
"Dawn, go!"
The Dawn Sword made a buzzing sound, flew straight to the center of the square and then stopped, then suddenly swung in a circle in all directions!
The entire space seemed to have a wave spreading out from Dawn, yet it seemed no different from before.
But Yun Qingqing could see clearly that in that instant, hundreds of souls wandering around the square suddenly stopped, and then they instantly had a target and floated towards a clear direction.
The connection between the strange totem and the living soul has been severed!
In less than a cup of tea, every soul returned to its own body and the temperature in the square returned to normal.
The monks took a deep breath, opened their eyes, sat up, and looked around blankly.
As more and more monks woke up, a commotion began to build in the square.
"here it is……"
"That's not right, why am I still in the temple?"
"How did I return to my body? Why didn't Master Divine take me away?"
"Why are you... Has the Lord God changed his mind? I wonder when the next chance will be..."
Dawn returned to Yun Qingqing's hands. She staggered and fell forward, only to hold on to the ground with her sword to avoid falling.
Xiao Changheng's eyes tightened, and he rushed forward to support her. Just as he was about to speak, he was interrupted by a sharp scream.
"No!!! Impossible, how could this happen!!!"
The scream attracted the attention of many monks. Yun Qingqing held Xiao Changheng's arm and looked up.
I saw a short, fat, bearded monk with a confused look on his face. He looked at his left arm and said in surprise:
"The Lord God's mark is gone! How could this happen? Has the Lord God abandoned me?"
When he shouted, the other monks subconsciously checked their left arms and immediately found that their own brands had also disappeared without a trace. The scene suddenly became chaotic!
Some people knelt on the ground and kowtowed to the sky, not even noticing that their foreheads were bleeding.
"Lord God! I am your most loyal believer. Please look at me and don't abandon me!"
Someone collapsed on the ground in a daze, with a dull look in his eyes and not saying a word.
Some people were crying and howling like crazy.
Some monks found that some people had not woken up, so they ran over to check their arms and found that the brand was still there, so they beat their chests and stamped their feet...
In the chaos, many monks wanted to rush out, but they were stopped by Nan Zheng and the palace guards.
Yun Qingqing watched all this quietly, her eyes becoming increasingly colder.
A big hand gently wrapped around her shoulders, and a deep voice sounded in her ears:
"You've worked hard. Go back and have a rest. I'll take care of the rest."
Yun Qingqing turned her head and saw Xiao Changheng looking at her with hidden worry.
She closed her eyes and took a deep breath, supported herself with Dawn and stood up straight, and said in a deep voice:
"These people must not be scattered among the people. Send your people to strictly supervise them. Notify me immediately of any movement."
"You can try to persuade them, but don't easily believe anything they say."
After Yun Qingqing gave her instructions, she raised her eyes and looked directly at him:
"That's all I have to say. The rest is up to you."
"Yes." Xiao Changheng nodded and said gently, "I'll take you back first."
"No need." Yun Qingqing took a step back, avoiding his hand, and looked at him seriously and said, "I will feel at ease if you stay here to hold the fort. I will go back to the inn by myself."
"..." Xiao Changheng paused, stared at her carefully for a moment, and said softly, "But you don't look well, and Zhiluo is not here, so I feel uneasy."
Yun Qingqing slowly tightened her hand around the hilt of the sword, suddenly gave him a faint smile, and stretched out her hand to summon a talisman.
"I told you I don't need you to send me off. I left a formation at the inn."
After saying that, she took two steps back and placed the talisman under her feet. She bit her fingertips and let a tiny drop of blood fall onto the talisman.
A tiny teleportation array suddenly lit up on the ground, and Yun Qingqing's figure disappeared on the spot.
Xiao Changheng watched the faint light flash across the ground and then disappear. He was slightly startled and then his brows were tightly furrowed.
These days, she learned a lot about cultivation from Zhiluo, and she also learned a lot from her on a daily basis.
Yun Qingqing's teleportation array has always only required the input of spiritual power, but when she draws talismans with blood, it is always a matter of great importance and requires the consumption of too much spiritual power, which is why it happens when the power is not in time.
But just now she was willing to sacrifice her blood... just to activate a formation talisman?
"Your Highness, the people are under control." Nan Zheng's report brought him back to his senses.
Xiao Changheng withdrew his gaze and closed his eyes.
"Tell Hong Guang to come see me."
"Also, have the secret guards return to the inn as soon as possible to protect the princess. There must be no mistakes!"
…
Inn.
A faint light flashed on the ground, and Yun Qingqing returned to her room with a hint of bright red at the corner of her lips.
Dawn is a divine sword that can cut through everything in the world, but with her current level of cultivation, it is still very difficult to control Dawn and sever the connection.
Especially since the strange bird totem was evil in nature, it still caused her some backlash.
Yun Qingqing pressed the tip of her tongue against her upper palate, steadied her body, walked to the door, and drew a small formation on the door with the blood from her fingertips.
After doing this, she forced herself to walk to the bed, fell headfirst onto it and fell asleep.
This time, she seemed to have had a very long dream.
Until the formation on the door started to move.
Yun Qingqing regained consciousness, but she was too tired to wake up.
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