Xiao Lian was standing in the middle of the gray-clad people in the third row.
They wore bronze fox masks on their heads, and their robes were embroidered with half-withered lotus flowers, which were exactly the same as the fox-shaped birthmark pattern on Xiao Lian's wrist.
This is the "Soul Guide" of the fox clan, responsible for using bewitching smoke to guide prey into an illusion, where high-ranking fox demons then harvest their essence.
At this moment, her head was lowered, and the jade fragments on the silver hairpin gleamed faintly in the candlelight.
I suddenly remembered her whispers in the tunnel last night.
“My elder sisters are ‘Soul-Stealing Foxes,’ who specialize in absorbing souls to refine Yin Elixirs; there are also ‘Transformation Foxes,’ who can use bewitching incense to lure people into dreams and steal their bones and organs; and then there are ‘Soul-Guiding Maidens’ like me…”
At this moment, it seems that the Soul Guide is the lowest-ranking servant of the fox clan, using her human identity as bait to lure outsiders into a trap.
At the top of the altar, the fox demon leader raised a bronze wine vessel, its surface covered with densely engraved birth dates and times.
Suddenly, the bell at the tip of her tail burst forth with a blinding blue light, and thousands of blue and white porcelain bottles shattered simultaneously. The trapped spirits transformed into ghostly blue flames, surging towards the Thousand Soul Cauldron in the center of the blood pool.
"The soul-inducing lady obeys the order!"
Her shrill scream sent stone chips flying from the cave ceiling: "Drag out all those living souls you've collected!"
"The time has come!"
A piercing, high-pitched laugh came from the top of the altar.
A figure draped in a black feathered cloak slowly appeared, with bells strung together on its nine tails, each bell inlaid with a human eyeball.
As she traced her fingertips across the pool of blood, the water instantly boiled.
The floating finger bones emitted a sound like a baby crying: "Take the blood and souls of those three outsiders to sacrifice to my Thousand Soul Cauldron!"
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