The black snake paused, looked up at Su Lenghe, unsure where it had slipped up.
Su Lenghe's voice was cold: "Your cultivation speed is too slow, so you want to take a shortcut and came up with the idea of absorbing souls. Master Huaiji wants power, so the two of you hit it off and colluded."
Master Huaiji hid the black snake's resentment in black wood, and then gradually absorbed souls by fulfilling the wishes of those people.
Black Snake was stunned; what Su Lenghe said was true.
It suddenly darted towards the door, trying to escape.
Su Lenghe threw out a Heavenly Thunder Talisman.
The sky instantly darkened with clouds, and a bolt of lightning struck down.
A purple lightning bolt, as thick as a wrist, struck straight at the black snake.
Instantly, the black snake turned into a wisp of green smoke, leaving not even a trace, and completely disappeared from this world.
The dark sky instantly brightened.
When Xie Tianlin saw the lightning bolt as thick as a wrist, his eyes nearly popped out of their sockets in astonishment.
His momentary daze nearly caused him to be injured by the villagers.
The Heavenly Thunder Talisman is extremely precious and difficult to obtain under normal circumstances, as it is quite valuable.
Su Lenghe is not only exceptionally capable, but she must also be very wealthy.
Xie Tianlin found a rope from somewhere and tied more than a dozen villagers together.
Hearing Black Snake's words, Xie Tianlin initially felt a pang of sympathy, but he never expected it to be a scam. He himself hadn't even realized that he now harbored a faint sense of admiration for Su Lenghe.
However, he quickly suppressed this thought; his master was the object of his worship, and no one else could replace him.
Master Huaiji was so angry that his eyes almost popped out of their sockets, his glares so fierce he wanted to stab Su Lenghe into a sieve.
Su Lenghe glanced at her coldly: "Don't rush, it'll be your turn soon."
A truth-telling talisman was thrown at her, and Su Lenghe began to ask, "Why do you raise evil spirits?"
Master Huaiji: "Of course, it's for my own use."
"You've been controlled by it and are now working for it? The greater its power, the more souls it needs. How many people have you killed?"
"One hundred and fifty people."
The usually composed Xie Tianlin was enraged: "You treat human life like a game!"
Su Lenghe's eyes narrowed slightly: "So what exactly are you doing helping the Su family?"
Master Huaiji looked confused: "What Su family?"
"The Su family of Kyoto."
"That's my junior brother's territory, he's in charge of it, I don't know anything about it."
"However, I remember my senior brother saying that he helped several people change their destiny in Kyoto."
"Among them, there seems to be a Su family member who received his master's true teachings and learned a method that can increase one's luck."
"The more miserable the person whose fate is changed is, the better things will be for the person whose fate is changed."
"I don't know the specifics of how to do it; I'm not as good at it as my senior."
Seeing that he wasn't lying, Su Lenghe continued, "Where is the soul of your senior brother's disciple?"
She checked and found that the souls of the two young Taoist priests were still alive.
Master Huaiji glanced casually at the gourd at his waist: "I...I don't know, but I can take you to see my master."
She had seen those two young Taoist priests driving the Su family's car before, so she was an important witness.
The Taoist priest Huaiji's eyes lit up: "I'll take you to find him, but can you spare my life?"
He said all this in order to gain Su Lenghe's trust.
As long as he brings her to his master, he can escape his predicament, and Su Lenghe will not live long.
Su Lenghe: "Where?"
"Right in Kyoto... Ah!" Before he could finish speaking, Master Huaiji cried out and fell silent. Xie Tianlin immediately went forward to check, only to find that Master Huaiji's soul had been completely devoured, leaving not a trace behind.
Su Lenghe said in a cold tone: "His soul is under a restriction. Once it is touched, his soul will be burned, so it can't be found at all."
Qingfeng Temple doesn't even trust its own people; that's truly cold-blooded.
Su Lenghe's gaze fell on the gourd at Huaiji Zhenren's waist. She opened the gourd, and two souls appeared in the room. They were Taoists who were by Xu Tianshi's side.
Their souls were weak, their bodies were almost transparent, their eyes were cloudy, and they did not respond to the outside world.
Xie Tianlin: "In their current state, can they still manage to return to their bodies?"
Su Lenghe withdrew her soul and closed the gourd: "As long as I'm here, they definitely won't die."
These words were spoken with extreme confidence. Xie Tianlin looked doubtful. Even his master wouldn't dare to say such a thing. Was Su Lenghe really alright?
"Aww~" Xie Tianlin's attention was drawn to the villagers outside the house.
Although the villagers' bodies were bound with ropes, they still opened their mouths and tried to bite them.
At the very moment that Master Huaiji's soul self-destructed, they also hung their heads and remained silent.
Their souls have long been sucked away; they are now nothing more than empty shells. Once their master dies, they will completely revert to their original forms.
Xie Tianlin sighed softly, gathered some firewood, set a fire, and burned these people.
Dust to dust, ashes to ashes.
Just in case, Su Lenghe planned to inspect the entire village to see if any evil spirits had been left behind.
These houses have clearly been vacant for many years and are covered with a thick layer of dust.
One room caught Su Lenghe's eye; it was a corner room with a desk inside.
There was an open notebook on the desk with Bai Zixuan's name written on it.
This is a boy's secret love journal, filled with his longing for Bai Zixuan.
Later, the boy fell seriously ill and was on his deathbed. In his diary, he wrote that he wanted to see Bai Zixuan one more time.
This was his biggest regret, and the boy's handwriting never appeared again.
There was another line of writing at the end: "Mom will help you make it happen."
In order to persuade the boy's mother to willingly sacrifice her soul, Master Huaiji presented Bai Zixuan with an ornament tainted by evil spirits and resentment.
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