Chapter 39: Harvesting Lei Hong's soul was indeed injured, but not...
Lei Hong's soul was indeed injured, but it was not to the point where only a remnant of his soul remained.
There are two ways to take over another person's body. One is to destroy or drive out the original soul and then occupy the body yourself.
There is another way, which is to devour the other person's soul.
The former will cause a mismatch between the soul and the body, leading to delays in cultivation and difficulties in breakthroughs.
The latter can be perfectly integrated, but it is easy to be bitten back. When you devour someone else's soul, the other party can of course bite back.
However, compared to the old monster Qimo, Lei Hong's soul is relatively weak. In addition, he was trapped in the assessment illusion before and was caught off guard, so he was seriously injured by Qimo.
This resulted in the inability to resist, and they could only be swallowed up step by step. Their counterattacks seemed weak and powerless, and they could only watch their souls become more and more broken.
But at this moment, Xu Hui destroyed part of Qimo's consciousness, causing him to be seriously injured.
Lei Hong took the opportunity to use the soul puppet!
This was what he got in the Quining Cave. When he was fighting against the puppets, he found that one of the puppets was particularly agile. When fighting with him, it was like a real person, not a puppet.
At first, he just marveled at the pinnacle of puppetry of Master Quinin, who could even create such a puppet.
But he didn't think much about it. After killing the puppet, he continued to fight the next batch.
However, to his surprise, there was a similar one in the next batch.
There will be more in the next batch!
The puppets came in waves, and each time there was a different, more human puppet.
This piqued his interest. After killing the puppet, he did not let the puppet body disappear as he did before. Instead, he shattered it and found a palm-sized puppet figure inside.
This little puppet is made very delicately, the carving is lifelike, and even its skin feels the same as that of a human. If you were not sure that it is a puppet, you would think it is a small doll the size of a palm.
Lei Hong couldn't help but touched the cute little face. Suddenly, the puppet opened its scarlet eyes, looking extremely charming.
Before he could react, the puppet bit his finger with its sharp teeth and sucked the blood from his fingertips.
Lei Hong tried to shake it off, but couldn't get it free. Just as he was about to smash it to pieces with a palm, the puppet turned into a stream of light and rushed into his sea of consciousness.
Later Lei Hong understood that this was a soul puppet.
The so-called soul puppet, like the substitute puppet, can take the place of the master in suffering injuries, except that one is physical and the other is spiritual.
After Lei Hong was awakened by the pain, he immediately realized that something was wrong, but it was too late. Qimo's soul was stronger than his and was staring at him intently, so he couldn't use the soul puppet even if he wanted to.
In this way, he was devoured bit by bit. If this continued, his soul would surely be torn apart.
Fortunately, Mu Yuan and Xu Hui destroyed the sculpture in time and killed the soul inside, causing Qi Mo to be injured and his consciousness to be confused for a moment.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, he decisively used the soul puppet. From then on, every bite Lei Hong took was a puppet.
That's why he appeared stiff and unnatural after he 'took over' Lei Hong's body. This was because Lei Hong's soul was still there, just hiding, so he naturally couldn't control the body smoothly.
Qimo also noticed this problem and searched his sea of consciousness but couldn't find him, so he had to find a way to lure Lei Hong out.
Unfortunately, Lei Hong was not fooled. Lei Xiao and the other two saw through his purpose and teamed up to knock him out.
Lei Hong, who was recuperating in the sea of consciousness, noticed it, floated out decisively, and swallowed Qi Mo's soul mouthful by mouthful.
During this time, he almost woke up from the pain several times. Wei Mubai played the piano over and over again, which made him fall into a deep sleep and unable to extricate himself.
Lei Hong quickened his pace and soon swallowed it all. Of course, it was impossible to digest it all, but there was no danger. He would grind it slowly from then on. Sooner or later, Qimo's soul would be completely transformed into his nourishment.
Devouring a soul in the Nascent Soul stage not only expanded his spiritual awareness several times, but also gave him hundreds of years of experience and memory.
These completely made up for the shortcoming of not growing up in a family of cultivators, and he could be said to have gained a lot.
Seeing him open his eyes, Lei Xiao asked with concern, "Are you okay? Are you feeling unwell?"
Lei Hong pursed his lips and thanked him sincerely.
"I'm glad you're okay. Do you know what happened to Chimo? How did he end up in the sculpture of Venerable Quinine?" Lei Xiao heaved a sigh of relief when he saw that it was the real Lei Hong.
Lei Hong nodded. "From what I remember, three hundred years ago, Qi Mo was seduced by a female evil cultivator. He killed his wife and children, and then secretly used his blood relatives to practice evil skills. After being discovered, his wife's family demanded that he be killed. His father's and mother's families also gave up on him and planned to execute him. He was rescued by the female evil cultivator, who decided to go all out and wiped out all three clans to practice. After his plan failed, he was surrounded and attacked by many aristocratic families."
"Both were seriously injured. The Kuining Cave was originally built by the Venerable Kuining to look after the younger generation and earn merit. The sculpture was the place where the merit was gathered. The merit earned would be continuously passed on to the Venerables in the upper realms. However, this was discovered by a female evil cultivator at some point, and she used this place as a refuge."
"She set up a formation on the sculpture. Once she died, it would activate and teleport her soul here, where it would occupy the sculpture and use the merit within to cultivate. Qi Mo discovered this secret in advance and switched her teleportation jade slips. In the end, the evil female cultivator died completely, but he survived. His soul, protected by the merit, has remained safe until now."
"But he didn't want to be a ghost cultivator. He always wanted to take over another body. However, he was trapped in the sculpture for the past two hundred years and couldn't move. After absorbing enough merit, few Qi Refining cultivators were teleported here. He was not satisfied with the qualifications of several people who came, so he killed them directly. That is until we came."
"So that's how it is," Lei Xiao breathed a sigh of relief. It was good that it wasn't Venerable Quinine's conspiracy.
In the illusion, he obtained the complete inheritance of puppetry from Venerable Quinine. If the Venerable is not a good person, then the Lei family will be involved in the cause and effect with him, which is not a good thing.
Fortunately, it was only Qimo who stole the merits, and it had nothing to do with the Venerable.
Xu Hui listened attentively for such a long time, and finally heard the key point, "You said that Venerable Quinin set up this sculpture to collect merits, but I broke it. Does that mean that I owe the Venerable a karma?"
This gave her a headache. She also obtained all the puppetry skills of the Venerable. She learned other people's things and also damaged other people's opportunities. How should she repay this karma?
"It's okay," Wei Mubai put away the guqin, slowly stood up, walked to the sculpture, and carefully examined it. "I have learned the formation method for collecting merit inside. I can create a new statue for you, Your Majesty."
"Really?" Xu Hui's eyes lit up. This was great. In this way, not only would she not owe the Venerable anything, but if she collected enough merits, the Venerable would be grateful to her instead.
After all, it was she who personally drove away part of Qimo's soul, preventing him from continuing to monopolize the merits, and then helped the Venerable to erect the statue again. This cause and effect was more than enough to repay the mistake of teaching puppetry.
"Venerable Kuining is worthy of being the puppet master. His attainments in battle formations are breathtaking. He can even research a formation for collecting merits," Lei Xiao exclaimed.
Wei Mubai nodded, "Our agreement can be exchanged for this formation."
"What?" Lei Xiao and Mu Yuan were both shocked. They didn't expect him to be so generous.
Wei Mubai did not hide it, "Of course I have learned other formations, but I think this is the most beneficial to the family, and you will definitely be satisfied."
"Of course!" they said in unison.
Regardless of what useful formations Wei Mubai obtained in the illusion assessment, this one item alone is precious enough.
Just as Wei Mubai said, no family can miss the formation for collecting merits.
If a family wants to settle down and grow stronger, strength is the first priority, but merit is also important.
The heavens will favor the families with good deeds more and they can give birth to more talented people. When they encounter crises, they are more likely to turn danger into safety.
The development of the ten major families to this day is supported by great merits, which are the foundation accumulated by generations of families.
Nowadays, there are more concrete ways to accumulate merit. Who can resist such temptation?
There is no formation more tempting than this.
Even if Wei Mubai gets something better, it is not as good as this one that suits the family!
Therefore, the two agreed without hesitation and did not covet the other formation contents in Wei Mubai's inheritance.
Of course, they weren't stingy. Lei Xiao said, "I've obtained all the puppet inheritances, but Miss Xu has some too. So, I won't be embarrassed. You saved the four of us today. In exchange, I'll give Miss Xu a medium-sized spirit stone mine. How about that?"
Wei Mubai doesn't need the inheritance from his side, and since Xu Hui saved their lives, he generously gave them spirit stone mines to offset the value of the merit collection formation. It all depends on whether Wei Mubai is willing to give this benefit to Xu Hui?
Wei Mubai had no objection and agreed to this exchange.
As for Mu Yuan, Lei Xiao gave him half of the puppetry method.
"Here I have the 'Yuan Shen Jue' for training spiritual consciousness. I can teach you the content before the Yuanying stage," Mu Yuan was also quite generous.
"No!" Zhong Lingyue screamed, "That's a god-level technique, why should we give it to them?"
It was clearly her who got the opportunity, but she hasn't learned it herself yet, yet she wants to give it to outsiders!
And there's that bitch Wan Moxiao. If she hadn't interfered, I wouldn't have ended up like this. Maybe Mu Yuan would even fall in love with her.
But now, not only did he fail to obtain the inheritance, but in the illusion, Mu Yuan fell in love with Zhong Xinyue.
In their previous life, they fell in love completely in this illusion.
Thinking of this, she wanted to kill Zhong Xinyue with her eyes, but she was seriously injured and could do nothing.
Mu Yuan turned around and saw her expression of unwilling jealousy. A complex expression flashed across his face, and then he regained his composure. "I know you were the one who dragged us into that illusion. I will teach you the Yuan Shen Jue. But I have an agreement with Young Master Lei and Second Young Master Wei that we will cooperate and share the benefits. I must teach them."
"But," Zhong Lingyue said anxiously, "that's for training the soul!"
In the entire world of cultivation, there is no such thing as a unique technique, but you will never find one that is still useful after ascension. How can such an important technique be given to outsiders?
Mu Yuan's face was calm, "We signed a contract and we must not violate it!"
What's more, the items exchanged between Wei Mubai and Lei Xiao were not bad either. They were of great benefit to the family.
Zhong Lingyue opened her mouth and wanted to say something, but when she met Mu Yuan's unquestionable gaze, she could only give up unwillingly, "By the way, where is my black bead?"
"What?" Mu Yuan was puzzled. "Is it the inheritance bead of the technique? Isn't it with you?"
"I didn't find it." Zhong Lingyue gritted her teeth and looked around at everyone, wanting to know who took it.
Xu Hui was caught by her and looked at her calmly. It was indeed not her who took it. She was contracted by Wei Mubai, so why should she feel guilty?
Although Wei Mubai knew what was going on, he looked unusually calm. In any case, Zhong Lingyue couldn't see anything unusual.
Mu Yuan thought about it and said to comfort her, "It must have been destroyed by me."
In the end, he simply destroyed the assessment illusion and blew himself up. In this case, it was normal for the beads to be destroyed.
After hearing his explanation, Zhong Lingyue's face darkened and her mood became even worse.
Thinking about all the planning she had done, Mu Yuan actually blew himself up for that woman Zhong Xinyue, so what was she?
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