Yang Yitian then brought up the words he had been meaning to say earlier: "What are you plotting? Why did you run away as soon as you saw us?"
The spirit was somewhat skeptical of his words: "I had no ulterior motives. I just had a place I wanted to go, so I wanted to leave. I didn't notice you before I left, so I didn't run away as soon as I saw you."
The logic in the other person's words was clear, and they had obviously regained the ability to have a normal conversation.
Qi Zhiheng stepped forward and asked, "What's your name? Where are you planning to go?"
"Where I go is none of your business! Let me go!" The soul struggled again, clearly displeased with the two people who were binding it.
Qi Zhiheng was offended and was a little annoyed. If it weren't for the fact that the other party might be a fragment of Yang Yitian's soul, he would have already struck him with a palm and shattered his soul.
Qi Zhiheng sneered: "You're in our hands now. Believe me or not, with just a wave of my hand, I can make your soul vanish?"
The spirit clearly took the threat to heart and instinctively flinched.
Qi Zhiheng didn't dare to go too far. If Yang Yitian wanted to merge with the split soul, it could only be done with the other party's consent. If he left a bad impression on the other party and affected the progress of the fusion, it would be bad.
So he softened his tone and said, "Don't worry too much. We won't do anything to you. We're here because we have some things to take care of. We had no choice but to leave you here because you might be involved in this matter."
The other party clearly did not fully trust the person who had just threatened them, and their entire demeanor was extremely wary.
Qi Zhiheng touched his nose, somewhat regretting his rash behavior just now.
"What exactly do you want?" the spirit asked, frowning. He was clearly at a disadvantage now.
Yang Yitian stepped forward: "I came to find you. Haven't you noticed that I look very similar to you?"
The spirit was somewhat stunned, then nodded and said, "You do look similar to me. Could it be that you are my brother?"
Yang Yitian looked at the other person, then at himself, and said speechlessly, "How could you have such a thought? Don't you know how many brothers you have?"
The soul fell silent for a moment, and after a long while, it said, "Of course I understand." What it didn't understand was the other party's intention.
Qi Zhiheng was also considering how to communicate with the other party. If he directly proposed to merge with the other party, would it cause a backlash? After all, merging with Yang Yitian would mean that the other party would disappear.
"Let's all calm down and sit down to discuss this properly." Qi Zhiheng swept a stone flat and sat down with Yang Yitian.
The soul understood Yang Yitian and Qi Zhiheng's methods and knew that it was no match for them, so it calmed down.
Qi Zhiheng introduced himself: "I am Qi Zhiheng, and this is Yang Yitian. As you can see, we are both cultivators, or what you call immortals. We came to this city because my Daoist partner sensed something, so we came to investigate."
Upon hearing Qi Zhiheng introduce himself, the spirit also revealed his identity: "My surname is Yang, my given name is Mengqiu, and I originally lived in Yangjia Village outside the city."
Yang Mengqiu's father was originally a scholar, and he gave his children several rather elegant names.
Yang Mengqiu was also affected by the battle between the immortals. Because he was literate, he had a decent job at a bookstore in the city. The fireball that day hit the area of the bookstore where he worked, and he died in the incident.
Qi Zhiheng recalled Yang Mengqiu's hasty departure before she had fully regained her senses, and asked, "Why were you in such a hurry to leave just now?"
Yang Mengqiu hesitated for a moment before replying, "I have urgent business to attend to and need to leave..."
"What's the urgent matter? Tell us, maybe we can help." Yang Yitian did want to merge with her, but there seemed to be no shortcut. If he could merge with Yang Mengqiu, his soul power would be more stable, and he wouldn't need to go through so much trouble to find the spiritual herbs to refine the Fu Shen Pill.
Yang Mengqiu said in a daze, "I... I remember the day of the accident, my brother stopped me from leaving the house. I guessed he might be unwell, and I was absent-minded all day. I just wanted to go back and check on my brother as soon as possible. Who knew that he would lose his life in the end? My brother is mentally unstable, and I didn't want to worry about him. I was just in a hurry to go home to check on him, but I encountered your obstruction."
"Uh..." Yang Yitian was speechless for a moment, then asked, "Do you know how much time has passed since you died?"
Yang Mengqiu thought for a moment, uncertain: "It's been at least a month or so..." After being sucked into the house by the formation, he was still able to think at first, but he couldn't hold on for long before he became less clear-headed. He had at least maintained his clarity for a month.
Qi Zhiheng still wanted to shatter his illusions: "More than a year has passed since the day the fireball fell." The unspoken implication was that even if they went back now, those who were supposed to be in trouble would have already been in trouble. Mental instability is indeed a problem, and if there is only one person, it will be difficult to live a normal life.
Yang Yitian said, "Your elder brother should have other family members taking care of him, right?" He stood up as he spoke.
Qi Zhiheng also stood up and said to Yang Mengqiu, "I'll go to Yangjia Village first and we'll talk as we go."
Qi Zhiheng took out his flying artifact. To avoid causing panic among the city's residents, he attached a concealment talisman to it. It was not very effective against cultivators, but it was extremely easy to deceive mortals.
"Go into the Soul-Stabilizing Pearl first. It will allow your soul to slowly recover." Qi Zhiheng took out the Soul-Stabilizing Pearl. Yang Mengqiu had just regained her senses after being inside it, which also made her soul more solid. She didn't resist and went directly into the Soul-Stabilizing Pearl.
The two people and the ghost headed towards Yangjia Village.
They continued talking halfway through the journey.
Yang Mengqiu didn't actually have much affection for the so-called immortals, since she herself had died in the city because of the immortals' influence.
Qi Zhiheng could see his wariness and took the initiative to say, "The culprit who caused your deaths has been killed by us, which can be considered as giving you an explanation."
"You killed them?" Yang Mengqiu was quite interested in this.
Qi Zhiheng said, "It wasn't them, it was just one of them. That person is the culprit, and the fact that your souls were imprisoned together and fought was also his doing. He is a demonic cultivator, and we are Daoist cultivators. There are certain differences between us. At least we would not kill ordinary people, because killing ordinary people would be detrimental to our cultivation."
He explained these things to reduce the other party's wariness of them, so that they wouldn't be rejected when he tried to merge, thus preventing the fusion from being completed.
"I see. So why are you following me?" Yang Mengqiu wanted to know their purpose.
Qi Zhiheng didn't intend to hide anything and explained the reason: "As I mentioned before, my Daoist partner and I came here because we sensed something. Then we came and discovered the anomalies in this city. Following the formation, we found the house where souls were imprisoned. Because we activated the formation, we lured out the person behind it. Since it was the work of a demonic cultivator, we, as righteous cultivators, couldn't let it go unpunished, so we dealt with him. We got some information from him, but it had nothing to do with what my partner sensed. Since we determined that these bastards were unrelated to the senses, I recited the Rebirth Mantra and sent these innocent victims into the cycle of reincarnation. In the end, only you were left as a ghost."
"Then why didn't I reincarnate?" Yang Mengqiu looked at her semi-transparent hands, somewhat puzzled.
Qi Zhiheng knew the key point was coming and explained, "We were also very surprised. We have two guesses. The first one is simple: you may have died unjustly and wanted revenge. Or you may have a strong attachment to the human world and don't want to leave. The second one may be related to us."
Yang Mengqiu focused her attention on Qi Zhiheng: "Is it related to your emotions? I think you may have found the wrong soul. I have never been anything special since I was a child. I am just an ordinary person."
Qi Zhiheng: "You may be just an ordinary person, but your soul may be related to my Daoist partner. Haven't you noticed that you and my Daoist partner look seven or eight points alike?"
Indeed, if the two of them were walking together on the street, it would be hard for others not to believe they weren't brothers.
Yang Mengqiu looked at Yang Yitian and agreed with Qi Zhiheng's words: "They are indeed very similar."
Qi Zhiheng recounted the whole story, saying, "My Daoist partner has cultivated a technique that requires dividing one's soul into multiple parts and sending them to be reincarnated to repair the soul. After these souls die, they will be reunited. We have already recovered three souls, and we suspect that you are the fourth."
Yang Mengqiu opened her mouth, but didn't know what to say.
Qi Zhiheng continued, "I know you may not believe it, but you should know that we cultivators are quite capable. If my Daoist partner wanted to forcibly take you back, you would have no way to do so. However, since you are part of my Daoist partner's soul, we did not do so. If possible, we still hope that you can voluntarily return to my Daoist partner's soul."
Yang Mengqiu fell silent.
Seeing his silence, Qi Zhiheng didn't say anything more.
After a long while, Yang Mengqiu said, "I can't merge with him yet. I want to check on my elder brother's condition first."
If his elder brother cannot take care of him, he cannot abandon his elder brother to go and merge. Therefore, for now, he can only temporarily stabilize Qi Zhiheng and Yang Yitian.
Although Qi Zhiheng was unaware of the other party's thoughts, he still cared about Yang Yitian's soul's wish, so he asked, "Your eldest brother can't live on his own, so what about your parents and other brothers? Surely they can take care of them to some extent?"
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