Chapter 297: Cutting off the connection
Hong Guang couldn't help but look at the rows of figures covered with white cloth in the square again, and felt a chill on his back.
He quickly nodded in agreement, wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and left.
The only people left in the square were Yun Qingqing, Xiao Changheng, Nan Zheng, and the palace guards brought from the imperial capital.
She asked Nan Zheng to lead the palace guards to guard the surroundings tightly, and took out a thick stack of yellow talismans from the space.
The talisman paper she used was extremely thin. In order to stop the living souls from offering sacrifices to the heavenly thunder, she used all the talismans she could use. There were hundreds of them in this thick stack.
Yun Qingqing closed her eyes and concentrated, and the talisman papers in her hand suddenly moved without wind, flying into the air one by one, hovering for a moment before turning into ashes and dissipating.
The temperature around the square became lower and lower as more and more talisman papers dissipated, and the light around seemed to gradually dim.
When Yun Qingqing had no more talisman paper in her hand, she opened her eyes and saw hundreds of souls wandering around in a daze, but they were restricted by the formation she had set up in advance and could not go too far.
Her brows furrowed slightly. These were all living souls, no longer under Qingfengzi's guidance. They should have automatically found and returned to their bodies.
But now that the real body is right in front of him, these living souls just wander around aimlessly, with no signs of returning.
She pondered for a moment, summoned the Dawn in her hand, took a few steps forward, raised her hand and lifted the white cloth covering the monks.
She swung her sword a few times and cut open the sleeves of the monks, revealing the strange bird totem on each of their left arms.
There was a clear light in Yun Qingqing's eyes, and her heart was clear.
Sure enough, it was because of this totem that the soul was summoned in response to a certain command, but did not receive the order to return, so it could not return to its body.
Yun Qingqing's eyes were cold and fierce. He held the sword with both hands and poured all the spiritual power in his Qi Sea into it. Then he let go and made a hand gesture, shouting sternly:
"Dawn, go!"
The Dawn Sword made a buzzing sound, flew straight to the center of the square and stopped, then suddenly swung in a circle around!
The entire space seemed to be filled with a wave of water spreading out from Dawn, yet it seemed no different from before.
But Yun Qingqing saw clearly that in an instant, hundreds of souls wandering around the square suddenly stopped, and then they instantly had a target and floated towards a clear direction.
The connection between the strange totem and the living soul has been severed!
In less than a cup of tea, every soul returned to its own body and the temperature in the square returned to normal.
The monks took a deep breath, opened their eyes, sat up, and looked around blankly.
As more and more monks woke up, a commotion began to build in the square.
"here it is……"
"That's not right. Why am I still in the temple?"
"How did I return to my body? Why didn't the Lord Divine Master take me away?"
"Why are you also... Has the Lord Divine Master changed his mind? I wonder when the next opportunity will be..."
Dawn returned to Yun Qingqing's hands. She staggered and fell forward, only to lean on the sword to support herself and avoid falling.
Xiao Changheng's eyes tightened, and he rushed forward to support her. Just as he was about to speak, he was interrupted by a sharp scream.
"No!!! Impossible, how could this happen!!!"
The scream attracted the attention of many monks. Yun Qingqing held Xiao Changheng's arm and looked up.
I saw a short, fat, bearded monk with a confused look on his face. He looked at his left arm and said in surprise:
"The Lord God's mark is gone! How could this happen? Has the Lord God abandoned me?"
When he shouted, the other monks subconsciously checked their left arms and immediately found that their own brands had also disappeared without a trace. The scene suddenly became chaotic!
Some people knelt on the ground and kowtowed to the sky, not even noticing that their foreheads were bleeding.
"Lord God! I am your most loyal believer. Please look at me and don't abandon me!"
Someone collapsed on the ground in a daze, with a dull look in his eyes and not saying a word.
Some people were crying and howling like crazy.
Some monks noticed that some people had not woken up, so they ran over to check their arms and found that the branding was still there, so they beat their chests and stamped their feet...
In the chaos, many monks wanted to rush out, but they were all stopped by Nan Zheng and the palace guards.
Yun Qingqing watched all this quietly, her eyes becoming increasingly cold.
A big hand gently wrapped around her shoulders, and a low voice sounded in her ears:
"You've worked hard. Go back and rest first. I'll take care of the rest."
Yun Qingqing turned her head and saw Xiao Changheng looking at her with hidden worry.
She closed her eyes and took a deep breath, then supported herself with the help of Dawn and stood up straight. She said in a deep voice:
"These people must not be dispersed among the people. Send your people to strictly monitor them. Notify me immediately of any movement."
"You can try to persuade them, but don't easily believe anything they say."
After Yun Qingqing finished her instructions, she looked up at him:
"That's all I have to say. The rest is up to you."
"Yeah." Xiao Changheng nodded and said softly, "I'll take you back first."
"No need." Yun Qingqing took a step back, avoiding his hand, and looked at him seriously and said, "I'll feel at ease if you stay here to hold the fort. I can go back to the inn by myself."
"..." Xiao Changheng paused, stared at her carefully for a moment, and said softly, "But you don't look well, and Zhiluo is not here. I'm worried."
Yun Qingqing slowly tightened her grip on the hilt of the sword, suddenly gave him a faint smile, and stretched out her hand to summon a talisman.
"I told you I don't need you to send me off. I left a formation at the inn."
After saying that, she took two steps back and placed the talisman under her feet. She bit her fingertip and flicked a tiny drop of blood onto the array talisman.
A tiny teleportation array suddenly lit up on the ground, and Yun Qingqing's figure disappeared on the spot.
Xiao Changheng watched the faint light flash across the ground and then disappear. After a slight start, his brows furrowed tightly.
These days, she learned a lot about cultivation from Zhiluo, and she also learned a lot from her on a daily basis.
Yun Qingqing's teleportation array has always only required the input of spiritual power, but when she drew talismans with blood, they were all of great importance and required the consumption of too much spiritual power, which was the result of her lack of timely use of spiritual power.
But just now she was willing to sacrifice her blood... just to activate a formation talisman?
"Your Highness, the people are under control." Nan Zheng's report brought him back to his senses.
Xiao Changheng withdrew his gaze and closed his eyes.
"Tell Hong Guang to come see me."
"Also, dispatch the secret guards to return to the inn quickly to protect the princess. No mistakes can be made!"
…
Inn.
A faint light flashed on the ground, and Yun Qingqing returned to her room with a hint of bright red at the corner of her lips.
Dawn is a divine sword that can cut through everything in the world, but with her current level of cultivation, it is still very difficult to control Dawn and sever the connection.
Especially since the strange bird totem was evil in nature, it still caused her some backlash.
Yun Qingqing pressed the tip of her tongue against her upper palate, steadied her body, walked to the door, and drew a small formation on the door with the blood from her fingertips.
After doing this, she forced herself to walk to the bed, fell headfirst onto the bed and fell asleep.
This time, she seemed to have had a very long dream.
Until the formation on the door started to move.
Yun Qingqing's consciousness returned vaguely, but she was too tired to wake up.
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