Chapter 287 The Caller (1)
The lingering echo of the soul's fluctuations gradually dissipated in the sound of flowing water. Luo Xuanyi opened her eyes from Hua Fu's soul-searching memory and nodded with satisfaction.
Everything Hua Fu experienced within the formation remained uneraseable; her entire experience was perfectly recorded within her soul, becoming Luo Xuanyi's invaluable firsthand information. Coupled with the deaths of Zhou Kui and Lu Yanyan within the formation, Luo Xuanyi finally mastered the Inter-Life Soul-Falling Formation from both within and without.
The essence of killing the enemy in the Soul-Falling Formation in the Interstellar World is to shake the mind and homogenize thoughts. This is manifested in two ways: Zhou Kui's suicide and Lu Yanyan's compliance with the rules of the story and integration into the formation.
Luo Xuanyi originally thought that the vacillation in her mind and thoughts would gradually disappear after she escaped from the formation. According to Wei Ruli, the founder of the Shangguanzhe Dao, this should be the case.
But it is not known whether Wei Ruli's judgment was wrong, or Luo Xuanyi's practice of this method slightly changed the nature of the formation, but Hua Fu's memories and psychology after breaking the formation and escaping did not disappear.
Hua Fu's mindset remained unchanged as her soul returned. She continued to call Luo Xuanyi a demonic cultivator and threatened to escape at any moment. Interestingly, before her soul returned, the aura of the destroyed Soul-Falling Formation first took over Hua Fu's empty body, forming a false spirit resembling a spirit.
The fake soul had no memories or personality, and resembled an empty bowl formed by spiritual energy. Therefore, when Hua Fu's soul returned to its place, she did not notice the fake soul's existence, mistaking it for spiritual energy, and swallowed it in one gulp out of need to replenish her spiritual energy.
After Hua Fu expelled the forcibly implanted memories of the Third Valley, these memories, along with their emotions, fell into the empty bowl formed by the false soul. The memories and emotions that filled the bowl were then injected into the false soul, which then captured Hua Fu's personality from the memories. The false soul then began to take root in Hua Fu's soul, slowly nurturing another "Hua Fu."
This "Hua Fu" was too weak, at most a shadow cast by Hua Fu's true soul, but she was still considered Hua Fu. Therefore, this "Hua Fu", born from the memories of the Third Valley and considering Luo Xuanyi as her sister, developed a sense of trust in Luo Xuanyi, and Hua Fu herself was disturbed by her thoughts.
If we had observed it for a while longer, perhaps we would have made other discoveries, but unfortunately Hua Fu died too quickly.
The unexpected fake soul brought Luo Xuanyi a new way to use the Soul-Falling Formation in the Interworld.
Luo Xuanyi had been thinking that while the Soul-Falling Formation seemed to be able to manipulate the enemy at will, its effectiveness was too dependent on their fragile psychology. If it encountered a cultivator with unwavering faith and an unbreakable mentality, it could only delay them for a while at best.
The chaos caused by breaking the formation was only enough to escape, but escape meant that there was a living person who knew that Luo Xuanyi was practicing the way of the observer, and the living person would pass on more information.
Luo Xuanyi was able to act recklessly in Xuanchengzhou largely because of the information gap with the six major alliance cultivators - no one knew her real name, her identity as a strange cultivator, and her cultivation method.
However, this advantage couldn't last forever; Luo Xuanyi couldn't always silence the opponent. At this point, the Soul-Falling Formation could be used for other purposes besides killing the enemy. For example, it could force stories about Luo Xuanyi into the opponent's mind, creating a voice within their soul that would be favorable to Luo Xuanyi.
Even a moment of distraction during a battle can determine victory or defeat.
Luo Xuanyi opened her palm, letting the fragments of Hua Fu's soul disappear with the wind. Suddenly, a golden light fell into her palm, followed by another one, which were two sound transmission notes.
There were only two people who could contact Luo Xuanyi at the moment, and she had warned them not to contact her unless necessary. Did something happen?
Luo Xuanyi immediately opened the first sound transmission note, which came from Ding Jing Zhenren. As soon as she saw the beginning, Luo Xuanyi couldn't help but raise an eyebrow.
"Your real name isn't Shen Ranming?"
Luo Xuanyi continued reading, finally understanding what had happened. It seemed the melody of her name had been revealed to the six major alliances, who had updated all cultivators with information and files about her through the Fuwen Tower. This was why Master Dingjing had sent a sound transmission note to alert her.
However, Ding Jing Zhenren's tone was as if she hadn't realized that Shen Ranming wasn't her real name, or perhaps she thought she was on equal footing with Luo Xuanyi, questioning her with such confidence. Luo Xuanyi hadn't expected that Ding Jing Zhenren would think she was so stupid.
No, it is also possible that after he benefited from the things that Luo Xuanyi was pushing behind the scenes, his mentality changed and he became a little arrogant.
Luo Xuanyi simply ignored the complaint in the text written by Master Ding Jing, and then read the sound transmission note sent by Fei Han.
Fei Han didn't mention Luo Xuanyi's real name. Instead, he directly passed the updated Fuwenta files and notifications to Luo Xuanyi. After seeing them with her own eyes, she breathed a sigh of relief.
Luo Xuanyi had imagined the worst-case scenario, which was that her real name and her identity as a strange cultivator would be completely exposed, but this file still regarded her as a demonic cultivator, and only the tones of two characters of her real name were revealed, with the word "controversial" marked on the side.
As for the assessment of her strength being in the early stages of the Void Refinement Stage, it was considered accurate. However, Luo Xuanyi couldn't actually sense her own power level. The boundaries of each realm were very vague. She wasn't sure if this was the nature of a cunning cultivator or if there was another reason.
The archives indicate Luo Xuanyi's last known location is somewhere in the Zhongqu Mountains, a specific location Fu Wenta has been unable to capture. Both Ding Jing Zhenren and Fei Han's reports indicate Fu Wenta hasn't issued a mission to subjugate Luo Xuanyi, apparently due to the ongoing conflict in Baicheng and their lack of attention.
In addition to the content of Fei Han's sound transmission note, there was also an observation report on Master Ding Jing ordered by Luo Xuanyi.
"He did indeed approach me according to your idea, but after I agreed, it was Bai Zhen from the Fenhua Society who contacted me afterwards. Bai Zhen is a heavy drinker and has become my sworn brother.
He is currently actively promoting the investigation of the Blackwood Sect, advocating that no Blackwood sect cultivators be allowed to take action until a thorough investigation is completed. This has created grievances with the Blackwood sect cultivators, and has only intensified his ties with the Fenhua Society, led by Bai Zhen. I wonder if this is your judgment."
That's not the case. Luo Xuanyi had previously wanted Ding Jing Zhenren to be synonymous with "righteousness." He was supposed to be impartial. Justice with a bias is not justice, at least not to some.
Fei Han probably added this last sentence because he saw that Ding Jingzhenren had ambitions.
But Luo Xuanyi knew that Ding Jing Zhenren was now nothing more than a paper ball, deflated at the slightest provocation. Without Luo Xuanyi maintaining his vitality, his deathly aura wouldn't be even a tenth as effective. If he were to truly face the enemy, it would be a real bummer.
Since Master Ding Jing had taken the initiative to smear himself with mud, Luo Xuanyi had no choice but to reluctantly prepare the quagmire for him. Luo Xuanyi approved Fei Han's next request and extinguished both sound transmission talismans.
However, do the six major alliances really have no intention of responding to what Luo Xuanyi did?
A trace of doubt arose in Luo Xuanyi's heart.
At this moment, someone smiled behind Luo Xuanyi. (End of this chapter)
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