"Dark shadow?"
Chi Jiujiu muttered to herself as she casually threw one of the gifts from the contract-making ceremony - the "Soul-Protecting Jade Pendant" - back into the conch house.
The criminal investigators have not yet recovered from the scene that has just overturned their cognition.
They stood beside the tree in amazement.
"Hu...Fu..."
The cold wind made the criminal investigators shiver, and their minds also recovered.
"Ms. Gong, was the shadow just now...really the soul of the deceased?" one of them asked.
If they saw this thing late at night, they would probably be scared to death.
"That's right." Chi Jiujiu said calmly.
After the phantom that looked like the deceased disappeared.
The criminal investigation captain looked at one of his colleagues and asked, "Have you recorded everything on video?"
"Captain, I recorded it...but when I play it back, I can only see the surrounding scenery. The soul of the deceased does not appear."
Shen Mojin spoke in a low voice.
"Ordinary objects cannot record soul images. Now we can confirm that the murderer is not an ordinary human."
But...a ghost from another world.
Then, Shen Mojin stretched out his hand and waved his sleeves towards several large trees, and the gloomy wind stopped instantly.
Chi Jiujiu, "Ajin, these trees are a little strange.
"The Yin energy just now came from the formation, right? Is it because the soul was trapped in the spirit-binding formation that it wasn't devoured?"
She didn't know much about the formation, but she was good at guessing and reasoning.
When she had spent money to buy a formation for Shen Mojin, she had the impression that there was a formation called the Soul Binding Formation, which could imprison a person's soul.
Shen Mojin said, "It's not a soul-binding formation, but a soul-nourishing formation. It's just that the ghosts are nurturing the souls of ordinary people in the formation and are not in a hurry to devour them. This is a bit strange."
Chi Jiujiu asked doubtfully, "Wait until they're fattened up before eating them?"
Shen Mojin smiled faintly and shook his head, "It's difficult for ordinary people's souls to be raised to the level of being eaten by ghosts, and they don't have that much patience."
Chi Jiujiu asked, “Since we are nourishing the soul, why do we need to destroy it?
The chilling wind that makes the souls of the deceased vanish...isn't that a contradiction?"
Shen Mojin glanced at the spot where the corpse lay. After a moment, he said with certainty, "When this deceased was killed by a ghost, a strange person passed by here.
After the stranger caught the ghost, he set up a soul-raising formation, threw the deceased's soul into the formation, and left.
He pointed to a large tree root five meters away from where the body lay.
He gestured to Chi Jiujiu and the investigators to look over there.
Shen Mojin said, "There's black energy lingering in the hollows of the tree roots. This is the curse left by ghosts, and it's also the source of the dissipation of the souls of the deceased.
The stranger who was just passing by seemed to be in a hurry and didn't notice it."
Chi Jiujiu sighed, "That gloomy wind didn't come from the formation, it turned out to be a ghostly curse...
So, who is the strange person who raised the soul?
If we find this person, we will get more clues.”
Shen Mojin and Chi Jiujiu were talking as if no one was around, and the criminal investigation personnel were recording their conversation with a recorder.
Chi Jiujiu asked, "So, the soul summoned just now caused the deceased's soul to dissipate?"
Shen Mojin said calmly, "The curse has seeped into the formation. If it is not summoned out, the souls of the deceased will dissipate faster."
Since that strange man wanted to save the soul, why didn't he take the soul away?
It's not that my cultivation is not enough, that's not right——
It is impossible to capture ghosts with low cultivation level, but if the cultivation level is high, why would you allow the curse to stay here and harm the soul?
Is it really so rushed that there is not even a second left?
Did he leave the formation here, waiting until he was done before returning to take the soul away? Otherwise, why would he expend divine energy to set up the soul-nourishing formation?
Just when Shen Mojin's thoughts were in a tangled mess.
A figure that the couple was not expecting appeared on the side of the road.
"Mom, Dad." Suddenly, Chi Jiujiu heard a cold and indifferent voice coming from the edge of the road.
Everyone turned their heads to look at the newcomer.
Chi Jiujiu turned around and saw Shen Yan, who was thin and about the same height as Shen Mojin. He had been standing on the side of the road without her knowing.
Shen Yan's face was disguised, and it was not obvious whether his face was rosy or not.
"Yanbao, why are you here? Why don't you rest at home?" Chi Jiujiu's tone was full of concern.
When I went out to apply for my ID card two days ago, my eldest son was still weak.
"Xiao Yan, what are you doing...?" Shen Mojin also asked in confusion.
Criminal investigation personnel:!!! After seeing the copy of the father and son, Ms. Gong unexpectedly became a mother. Is she a stepmother?
The criminal investigation personnel quickly came to their senses and shifted their focus to the case.
Chen Yan smiled and said to Chi Jiujiu and the others, "I also saw the morning news, so I wanted to come over to Huaxi Road to see what was going on."
His phoenix eyes swept across the ground where the corpses lay and the depression at the roots of the big tree.
The soul-nourishing formation disappeared?
Once the soul dissipates, the soul-nourishing formation will also dissipate.
Unable to detect the presence of souls around him, Shen Yan frowned and asked Shen Mojin via telepathy:
"Dad, when you came here, did you see the spirits of the deceased?"
Shen Mojin said simply, "I encountered a curse, and it dissipated."
Shen Yan's expression suddenly became stern, "Mom, I'm going back, you guys are busy."
Having said that, Shen Yan left the scene very quickly.
He found a hidden corner, took out the jade ring and activated the black pattern...
A green light flashed by, and Shen Yan had already left Nancheng.
"Wuwang, the trouble you've caused is more than just this one cause and effect."
"You'd better clean up this mess quickly."
"I can only help you deal with the wandering souls in this world."
Thousands of kilometers away from Nancheng, in Kyoto, a scene similar to that in Nancheng is taking place on the suburban highway of Rouqing District.
However, the police officers here who assisted in the investigation did not include Chi Jiujiu and the other one.
Shen Yan explored it with his spiritual sense.
The soul-nurturing formation is still there, and so are the innocent souls inside.
His frown relaxed slightly, "Fortunately, the innocent souls here haven't dissipated, otherwise the underworld would have another piece of karma."
Shen Yan narrowed his eyes and instantly disappeared in front of the formation beside the road.
Then he took out a green bead and collected the fragile soul in the array into it.
"This kind of soul cannot be placed in the underworld to be reincarnated, it can only be raised first." Shen Yan sighed in his heart, he could not place the soul in the underworld.
Otherwise, it will only breed evil spirits and monsters.
The underworld is in chaos.
Wuwang hurriedly told him last night that the two Yama Kings were seriously injured, and Wuwang was currently traveling to various realms to capture the escaped evil spirits and monsters.
After absorbing the soul, Shen Yan put away the beads.
Unnoticed by the police, he continued on to the next crime scene reported in the news.
"Did you feel a cool breeze just now?"
City B is 3,000 kilometers away from Beijing.
Shen Yan followed the same method and collected the innocent souls in the soul-raising array into the beads.
It takes half an hour.
Chen Yan had finally managed to properly place the souls of the deceased in the beads according to the news.
Of course, this does not include the souls that dissipated in Nancheng.
Shen Yan's eyes were dark, "There are far more ghosts wandering the world than these. I'll be busy for a while."
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