It turned out that when Tang Chengyong followed Pang Lin for the first time and went to Shuihua Villa, he saw Pang Lin's wife who he had only seen from photos and memory fragments before. At that time, it had been five years since Li Jingguang expelled the evil spirit of his wife for Pang Lin.

It was raining lightly that afternoon, and Tang Chengyong, who was closely following Pang Lin, noticed something unusual because of a red "figure" on the lake in the distance, so he slowed down and hid in a hidden distance to observe.

Also after the end of the retreat in the seventh lunar month, Li Jingguang, who couldn't wait to come to Shuihua Villa, was sitting on a boat on the shore of the artificial lake. Around him, there are about a dozen undead who behave strangely, including about a dozen men and women, all of whom have the same "bright red clothes" appearance, very similar to the ancient ghosts in horror movies.

Pang Lin and Li Jingguang, as well as several masters in the calligraphy circle and two people from the local taxation bureau, talked and laughed on the boat. In the evening, when the rain had passed, and in the afterglow of the sunset, those wooden and stiff undead had always been motionless, surrounding Li Jingguang's side.

This is the most terrifying and impressive scene for Tang Chengyong since he was born to his death, except for Pang Lin's human skin.

At that time, he knew very well that except for himself and Li Jingguang, perhaps the other living people present could not see those red-clothed souls standing around with their heads bowed, not afraid of the scorching sun, looking at the ground in front of them with dull eyes, as if they had lost their sense of autonomy, like Li Jingguang's servants and slaves.

From this, Tang Chengyong realized that from Pang Lin's memory and his phone call with Li Jingguang, the two "exorcisms" back then were nothing more than Li Jingguang's unknown evil magic techniques to turn the souls of Pang Lin's wife and the later senior sister into his followers.

Therefore, every time Pang Lin and Li Jingguang met later, Tang Chengyong was extra vigilant, he was afraid that he would end up like his senior sister. His hatred for Pang Lin continued unabated, and he and his interest groups did not even spare the souls of the dead! Pang Lin did not know the truth about Li Jingguang's "Taoism," and Tang Chengyong still counted this account on Pang Lin's head.

Hearing this, Wu Xiaowu suddenly realized: "Oh! Then I understand, including my senior sister and senior, who are entangled by their children, it is very likely that Li Jingguang wants to obtain the soul of that child, but it must be through some way that we don't know, and it may have to have some kind of relationship with the person concerned in order to achieve the goal!"

"Your guess is right, as far as I know, Li Jinguang wants to enslave those dead souls, that is, the soul of resentment you said, he must hold a ceremony to open the altar, I don't dare to go to the mountain with him, there is not much specific information, I have only seen some fragments from Pang Lin's memory, it seems that what he does, Pang Lin also does, it seems to be similar to hypnosis, or mind control, and then in an indescribable way, control the undead related to the parties!"

"And then, after so many years, you have never succeeded, and you have not been able to control Pang Lin's mind once?"

Tang Chengyong smiled bitterly twice, looking at the familiar environment around him, "He is like a devil, his heart is too strong, and I have never succeeded." After that, I was stuck here. ”

"Huh, what do you mean?" Wu Xiaowu didn't see that there were traps similar to those made with Xuan Ruler.

"That was after I basically figured out the bottom of Pang Lin, almost the third year after my death. In the end, people's hearts are unpredictable, and I am not cautious enough. ”

It was the same holiday, and Tang Chengyong, as usual, was watching Pang Lin's house. During that time, Tang Chengyong was very distressed, and he didn't know how to let other living people know about Pang Lin's evil deeds.

One night, Li Jingguang came to visit without warning, Pang Lin was not surprised, presumably when he went to Shuihua Villa a few days ago, he had already made an appointment with Li Jingguang. The first head-on close contact made Li Jingguang and Tang Chengyong frightened.

Tang Chengyong judged from Li Jingguang's eyes that the other party would definitely be able to see him. Li Jingguang quickly adjusted, pretending to turn a blind eye, while Tang Chengyong saw that the dozen or so red-clothed undead almost filled the living room of Pang Lin's house. He was afraid that Li Jingguang would use some evil magic and turn himself into that kind of "soul slave", so he was always ready to escape.

Pang Lin and Li Jingguang, on the other hand, chatted casually about trivial matters in their circle of interests. When Pang Lin went to the bathroom, Li Jingguang stared at Tang Chengyong, secretly made a few gestures, and silently recited something in his mouth. At the same time, Tang Chengyong's spirit began to thin out, until the five energies of the spirit body itself were revealed.

This trick made Tang Chengyong panic, and he also tried to use his consciousness and the Xuanxian outside the window to sense, quickly regained his spiritual appearance, and then hid in the wall where the calligraphy work was hung. He noticed that when Pang Lin saw his spirit body, there was a slight surprise and panic in his eyes.

“…… In this way, maybe your spirit energy is more special and will make him afraid?" Wu Xiaowu speculated.

Tang Chengyong shook his head, "I don't know, since the eldest brother by the lake last time instructed me to consolidate the spiritual appearance you said, my feelings about the world outside the dead place have not been so painful, I guess he may have discovered this." ”

Wu Xiaowu pondered, "He actually has the ability to disarm your spiritual form, Uncle Tang has never taught me this method, unless the spirit itself is willing to be revealed, or I use the boundary weapon to make a soul slice, otherwise even I can't directly understand the spiritual energy composition of a spirit body." ”

"You've said 'boundary weapon' several times, but what the hell is that?"

Wu Xiaowu took out the keychain and opened the boundary weapon disguised as a Swiss Army knife, "That's it, the rules of time and the moment of space, can divide an independent space, small on the outside and large on the inside, if you are inside, it should be similar to being in the place of death." But the slices must be collected when the living are asleep or the dead are drowsy, Brother Yong, I want to see your psionic energy, is that okay?"

"Okay. Tang Chengyong closed his eyes and stared, sensing the surrounding Xuanlin, revealing his spiritual body true form—almost ninety percent of his five spiritual abilities were pure black, and the four spiritual energies of green, yellow, red, and white in the outer four circles were very thin, "See?"

"It's okay, Brother Yong, it turns out that you are a black soul, according to the information I understand, the pain of losing your ideals and beliefs can stimulate and consolidate the spiritual energy of the black, I think Li Jingguang should be afraid of this!"

Tang Chengyong regained his spiritual appearance, "Afraid of me, my spiritual ability?"

Wu Xiaowu nodded, "Yes, the black spiritual energy is mainly used by the Recycling and Collection Agency, and the soul envoys there sometimes release a lot of black souls to capture the souls of more other creatures, because the black spiritual energy represents devouring, since Li Jingguang controls those dead souls, and there is no soul envoy of the five major spiritual agencies to interfere, it means that he has special methods and certain permissions, and it is very likely that your spiritual energy characteristics will cause him some kind of damage, threat, or something we don't know yet." ”

"Is it possible that he was afraid that I would devour his soul slave?"

"It's possible, but I'm not sure yet, it's okay, you go on, what happened next?"

After the first "contest" that night, until Li Jingguang said goodbye, Tang Chengyong hid inside the wall and listened to their conversation. At the same time, he saw the spirits of Pang Lin's wife and the senior sister standing like the walking dead, in the ranks of the red-clad undead—their feet off the ground.

When Li Jingguang left, Tang Chengyong paid special attention to every message and phone call from Pang Lin, but did not get more valuable information. At that time, he deduced that maybe his spiritual appearance had been solidified, and Li Jingguang had no way to deal with him, because of the containment of equal strength, so Li Jingguang did not interfere further.

Three days later, one night, Pang Lin watched the time and left the residence at 10:40. Tang Chengyong hurriedly followed, and was actually led by him all the way to the water room on the third floor of the dormitory building!

Pang Lin stood in front of the drain faucet, facing himself in the mirror, with a solemn and sad expression.

"I know you're here for me right now. Pang Lin's cold words shocked Tang Chengyong.

"Can you see me?" He asked, but Pang Lin did not answer, as if the other party only knew, but could not see and communicate.

Pang Lin sighed and said, "You kid, you were excellent in all aspects before your death, but you were too stubborn and insisted on misinterpreting my good intentions. In any case, ending my life is an irresponsible, stupid decision! It doesn't solve any problem at all! Do you think I'm doing it for others to see? No! I'm sad too, it's just that I'm not good at expressing it. ”

Tang Chengyong didn't know what he meant by suddenly acting this play, and his heart was full of resentment, and he hated to strangle him with his own hands immediately.

At that time, he didn't notice that at that moment, on Pang Lin's watch, there were still dozens of seconds left before it was about to go to eleven o'clock. "You have failed your family, you have failed the hopes of your parents, and you have failed me, a mentor like a father!" Pang Lin said, the flesh on the right side of his face twitching very unnaturally, squeezing out a strange smile, "But now? What can you do?

Listening to Pang Lin's sneer, Tang Chengyong roared angrily: "Pang Lin! Are you human?!

As soon as the words fell, I saw more than a dozen red-clothed undead come out of the mirror, they surrounded Tang Chengyong in a circle, and chanted some kind of chilling incantation in unison with a quick but stiff movement, like a marionette-like handprint.

At the same time, Tang Chengyong only felt that there were forces from all directions around him, forming an invisible shackle that trapped him in place.

Tang Chengyong immediately used the method taught by the big brother by the lake, quickly flipped into a puff of white smoke, and escaped back to the dead place from the gap between the two red-clothed undead.

When he was frightened, Li Jingguang, dressed in a Taoist robe, chased him outside the door of the lattice room, and Pang Lin followed.

Tang Chengyong realized that he should have been tricked, but fortunately, he had returned to the death center, and no one could threaten him.

"Brother Pang, after today, you can sit back and relax!" Li Jingguang's smug look, those red-clothed undead didn't know where to go, and they were not behind the two at this time.

"You've worked! Daochang Li has worked hard!" Pang Lin turned his head to look at the squatting pit in the toilet and sneered contemptuously.

Tang Chengyong didn't know what they had plotted, so he roared angrily: "Li Jingguang, what do you want to do?!"

"Little brother, the first time you appeared in Shuihua Villa, I noticed you, including every time later, you hid in the distance and peeped, in fact, I knew it. I am also a cultivator, and I am here to resolve the past grievances between the two of you!"

"You are also worthy! You are in cahoots with Pang Lin, a brute, what you did in Shuihua Villa, what you did to his wife and my senior sister, you also claim to be a cultivator?! It's ridiculous!

Li Jingguang's face was a little unnatural, obviously he didn't want others to know that he controlled the undead, but he knew that Pang Lin, who was present, couldn't hear a word Tang Chengyong said.

I know you have hatred, but this is also your destiny to have this calamity, I advise you to meditate on your own mistakes here, whether it is a human or a ghost, if you want to attain the Great Dao, you must seek inward rather than outward, in the future, I hope you can participate in life and death, enlightenment and liberation, and do not cause trouble in the ......world again."

"Shut up!" Tang Chengyong's anger made his spirit look the most terrifying, and he quickly flipped out of the dead place, no longer thinking about whether it was effective, and reached out to pinch the neck of this demon dao.

Who knew what Li Jingguang said silently, and under the rapid flown of his hands, Tang Chengyong's outstretched hand touched an invisible barrier with a strong sense of repulsion. Li Jingguang smiled evilly, snorted coldly from his nostrils, and walked out quickly with Pang Lin.

Tang Chengyong refused to give up, followed the two of them as fast as he could, and as soon as he arrived at the door of the water room, he was suddenly burned by a "hot wall" and fainted on the spot.

When he woke up again and restored his spiritual appearance, he finally figured out that the many meetings between Pang Lin and Li Jingguang some time ago should be to plot the plan to set a trap for him last night.

“…… I've been stuck here ever since, and at first I tried to find a breakthrough, but after a few months, I couldn't do anything. Li Jingguang made an invisible cage here, maybe this is called an enchantment, in short, I tested it a little bit according to the temperature, and found that this cage is very large, it should be an irregular geometry, including these spaces from the second floor to the fourth floor of the water room. ”

Wu Xiaowu was even more puzzled, if it was really with the help of Xuanxian to make a cage, then as a soul refiner, there was no reason for him not to see it. "Brother Yong, I have a way, look at this!" he took off the five-colored soul snail from his neck, "This is something that can collect the souls of the dead, if you don't worry, just come in here, I'll take you out and it's over!"

Tang Chengyong's eyes lit up, "Really?!"

"Hmm!" Wu Xiaowu nodded vigorously and explained to him in detail. After gaining Tang Chengyong's trust and recognition, Wu Xiaowu aimed the soul snail at the center of his head and read out the relevant password, and Tang Chengyong's dead soul was immediately like a puff of green smoke, and was collected into the five-colored soul snail.

According to Tang Chengyong, one of the boundaries of the cage was at the door of the water room, and Wu Xiaowu was secretly proud, thinking that after rescuing the senior, he would let the other party further recognize him.

Ever since he accepted the Soul Scepter, he had a preconceived idea that everything that had nothing to do with Uncle Tang was low-level, and that breaking the mysterious barrier of the Taoist should be vulnerable in front of an artifact like the five-colored soul snail.

Who knew that he had just stepped through the door of the water room, and saw Tang Chengyong's dead soul, forced out of the soul snail, and fell to the ground in the door of the water room......