The palm-sized lotus was inconspicuous in the huge black water whirlpool, but it caused the black water tide that tore through the sky and earth and caused turmoil to tremble.

The black lotus stayed in the black water. As the light flickered, the petals opened one by one, revealing the shadow of an old man, only three inches tall. As his eyes opened and closed, lightning-like waves swept out.

The secondary soul that was running away suddenly felt the secondary soul in his body suddenly start to stir.

The method used by the secondary soul to control the spirit puppet is very different from the normal human spiritual sea. In order to allow the secondary soul to control it with ease, the soul power of the secondary soul is spread throughout every corner of the spirit puppet.

If we talk about the sea of ​​divine consciousness, the entire secondary soul body is the sea of ​​divine consciousness. If we say that there is no sea of ​​divine consciousness, it can also be regarded as nothing.

But at this moment, the moment this divine attack exploded, strange and troublesome energy rolled into every part of the secondary soul's body.

The secondary soul felt a little numb throughout its body, and its running movements slowed down by two steps.

However, a green light then lit up on the secondary soul's body, and mysterious runes emerged from the green light, suppressing the numbness on the body, and then turned into a stream of light and disappeared among the mountains and valleys.

…

At this moment, the shadow on the suspended lotus became slightly more solid, and a rotating head appeared on the hunchback of the old figure.

"It seems that this person doesn't know about the Black Water Thousand Curses, otherwise he would not have used a countermeasure."

The head on the back is open.

"The ancestors of the Shan tribe have all died, but that doesn't mean they didn't leave behind any legacy. We still need to observe this person more."

"The petals fell in the secret realm. This person was most likely responsible."

The head on his shoulder turned half a circle strangely and looked towards the back.

"He is just a soul-catching slave. As long as there is enough blood food and resentful souls, he can be cultivated at will in the Zhaoling Qianshi Tower. In comparison, we still need to find out the origin of this person."

“If a person who cultivates merit were to control the fire of karma, it would be both a calamity and a fire of hope for us.”

The head on the hunchback smiled and nodded, saying, "It's just a soul catcher, just one more."

"It's not that easy to control the fire of karma. Didn't the old ancestor of the God of Transformation burn himself to death?"

His shoulders and head turned half a circle again, looking in the direction where the secondary soul left.

"The Tiannan Immortal Cultivation World is ultimately a marginal place. Those who fail to become gods are ultimately just dogs in the eyes of the ancestors. They can be manipulated and discarded at will, just like a petal that has been crushed to death."

"If I can get the help of the karmic fire, I might be able to eliminate this karmic power and start anew..."

For a moment, both heads were silent.

If it weren't for bad luck, who would want to become a monster that is neither human nor ghost, and be haunted by all kinds of resentment?

There are rumors among them that the ancestors of the Shan Department who had transformed into gods in the past had received the karmic fire and were ready to burn away the remaining karma in their bodies, transforming them into bodies without karma and obstacles, and ascend to heaven through merit.

Unfortunately, things were not done well. When the karmic fire burned the karma, the fire started but could not be extinguished.

Coincidentally, after the ancestor of the Shanbu God was burned by the fire of karma and passed away, other news came out.

It is said that the ancestors of the Shanbu tribe have ascended to heaven by doing good deeds, and the path has been opened. There is even a ladder descending from the nine heavens, colorful light descending from the sky, and golden lotus emerging from the ground.

The final failure was due to the fact that the ancestors of the evil department secretly added some ingredients to the ancestors of the good department.

Karma fire is a divine fire that has the power to burn away karma. The ancestors of the evil tribe are surrounded by evil thoughts, so it is too easy to throw some karma at them.

This rumor does have some truth to it.

In short, not only was the path to ascension for the ancestor of the Shanbu tribe blocked, but his soul was also burned to oblivion.

There are also rumors that another reason why the good ancestors were burned to death by the fire of karma is because their six senses were impure. They pretended to have great merits, but in fact they were even darker than the evil ancestors.

The fire of karma is boundless and nothing can escape its reach, so the ancestor of the Shanbu sect was cremated.

In short, ever since the ancestor of the Qiutiandaoshan Department was burned to death by the karmic fire, the path to ascending to heaven through merit that was previously popular in the world of immortal cultivation was suddenly cut off.

There are still some monks who take the path of ascending to heaven through merit, but they are no longer widespread.

Nowadays, there are large and small places of resentment and curse in the fringe areas of the great cultivation world, and these places of resentment are where the soul catchers are active.

The Tiannan Immortal Cultivation World is one of the four extreme places in the Immortal Cultivation World. To the east, west and north, there are huge places of resentment and miasma like the Wilderness.

Therefore, the Soul Catchers in these four poles have the strongest power.

But even the strongest one is of no use, because the restrictions in their souls are controlled by the ancestor of Huashen. With just a thought, the ancestor can annihilate them into nothingness.

For the hunchbacked monks, purifying the body with karma fire is the only way they can think of to escape from control.

…

Among the mountains and fields.

The secondary soul turned into a stream of light and shuttled through the miasma. Green light flickered on his body and constantly colliding with strands of black silk threads.

The silk thread was like a slender python, trying to strangle his body.

However, the secondary soul did not stop.

As for who attacked him, he had already made a judgment.

When he was in the secret realm before, he was a cultivator of merit and virtue that everyone feared, but after he came out, he was targeted by evil thoughts.

It seems that merits and virtues are not 100% guaranteed. If you meet someone who is not afraid of anything and doesn't care about bad luck at all, and just wants to kill you, then there is nothing you can do.

After sitting cross-legged, he began to mobilize the power of merit to eliminate the black threads of resentment.

This thing is like a poisonous snake. It bites three-quarters of the way into the flesh and wants to run around in the body, as if it is trying to outline the rune pattern.

"Curse, or spiritual ban?"

Although Shen Lian himself was thousands of miles away, he had control over every aspect of the secondary soul. He sensed that the black threads were not running around in the secondary soul's body, but were spreading in a regular pattern.

The power of merit has many mysteries. When it is used to transcend resentment, it can calm the riot of resentment, and it can block and dissolve resentment.

But at this moment, these strands of black silk threads actually seem to be able to compete with the power of merit.

You must know that the power of merit is the embodiment of the order of heaven and earth. Being able to slightly counter the power of merit is not something that can be achieved just by saying so.

"The Qitian Dao has been passed down for so long, it really is quite capable."

Fortunately, although the black silk thread energy is strange, its volume is not strong, and it is squeezed out of the secondary soul body little by little by the power of merit.

Then, after the thunder and fire burned for three days, it turned into black smoke and dissipated between heaven and earth.

The secondary soul immediately left behind a few image stones and then left.

…

Thousands of miles away.

In the belly of a mountain, the deputy soul waved his hand and the sword light flashed, cutting out a cave covering several acres.

After arranging the formation and protection, he began to get busy.

The harvest from this secret realm was pretty good.

A total of four fourth-level corpses were salvaged, two of which were thunder-scaled martens and one was a pheasant-crowned bird.

The other two are from a female cultivator who possesses the Five Elements Brilliant Pearls, and one is from the sea clan.

In addition, there are three fourth-level cathode spiritual objects.

Unfortunately, the anode spiritual object that I have been looking forward to is still not there.

In the secret realm, the secondary soul did not have time to check, so the secondary soul began to check one by one.

The female corpse among the four is the strongest, and should be stronger than the three-eyed demon corpse obtained before.

Even though he had fallen for a long time, his body still glowed with a translucent luster, especially in the area of ​​his dantian, where there was still a pool of five elements spiritual power that had not yet dried up.

On the five elements spiritual power in the Dantian, a Nascent Soul as thin as a cicada's wing curled up into a ball, emitting a strong aura of death.

The skeleton of this female cultivator is slightly different from that of humans. Some of her ribs are shaped like bird wings, and there are faint traces of phoenix patterns on them.

In addition, this female corpse is not a pure-blooded human. It seems to contain a trace of phoenix blood, which can be sensed between the flesh and blood in her body.

Even after being covered up for a long time, a trace of heat still remains in the flesh and blood.

During the inspection, a flash appeared between the secondary soul's eyebrows, and a tiny man about an inch in size jumped out, crawled into the skirt of the female corpse in front of him, and began to inspect further.

He carefully checked every inch of the body several times, and even released two phoenix claws at the female corpse to prevent any resentment from remaining in the corpse.

Half an hour later.

The divine consciousness was withdrawn from the female corpse, and colorful spiritual light lit up in the abdomen of the female corpse. The curled up Nascent Soul was slowly taken out.

“Buzz!”

When the thin Nascent Soul was spread out, it looked like a vivid painting, with an indelible sadness on her pretty face.

"The natal spirit puppet I created with the Wanling Immortal Puppet Technique uses a pure energy body. I wonder if I can have a second natal spirit puppet."

Shen Lian increasingly felt that this female corpse that cultivated the five elements was a good embryo for a ritual puppet, even better than the three-eyed demon corpse.

Preparing another clone was not just a fantasy on his part.

Rather, after the spirit puppet clone had accumulated merit, he encountered the soul catcher, the Cangqing tribe, and the fat man Qian Dai in succession. The different attitudes they showed made him feel more sense of crisis.

The power of merit is an energy that is bestowed upon rules and order after transcending resentment and pacifying the world.

Since you have embarked on the path of merit, it would be better not to take any more actions in the future. It is okay to kill the soul-capturing cultivators who are full of resentment, but you must never kill them indiscriminately.

But fighting and killing are unavoidable, just like when he was practicing Qi and building his foundation, he avoided dangers and ran away, but some killing disasters still came to him.

A monk who is cultivating merit cannot kill a villain to gain +1 merit, but accidentally kill a relatively good monk to gain -1 merit.

When the order of heaven and earth is at play.

What if a person who is cultivating merit kills people indiscriminately for no reason, the karma he accumulates will be even greater?

Although this is what Shen Lian is currently guessing, he still feels that he should be cautious.

From now on, the deputy soul puppet will only do the work of Guangweizheng, and will not let the order of heaven and earth catch him.

(End of this chapter)