Chapter 2: The Remnants of the Soul

It was in the dim depths of the earth, and the light was very weak, except for a distant sea of molten mud that gave the place a glimmer of fiery red light. Through the faint light, you can see the demonic qi rising to the sky, and the person who emitted these demonic qi is a young man wearing a shabby black robe with a sloppy face but a trace of bewitchment.

Not far from the boy's side, there seemed to be a strange strange formation, the formation was piled up by stones into two layers, the lower layer of the formation was a large circle, and the upper layer was a small circle. I saw that on the small circle on the upper layer, there were three words written on the dragon flying and phoenix dance, which were heaven, earth, and life, and on the big circle on the lower layer, there were seven words, which were joy, anger, sorrow, ju, greed, desire, and love.

Looking closely, it seems that these two layers are full of a lot of vicissitudes in a total of ten characters, giving people the feeling that this strange array has existed for a long time.

And on the surface, it is certain that this strange array has a long history and has not been disturbed for a long time. Because in the ten word pits on the array, a thick layer of ash has accumulated. If it weren't for the fact that these ten words were portrayed too deeply. I'm afraid I can't see them anymore.

But now, the footsteps of the two people who sounded broke the silence.

The two figures slowly walked towards the strange array, and from their heavy steps, it seemed that they could feel their emotions, whether nervous, excited, or dignified.

Finally, after what seemed to be a long period of time, they finally came to the front of the Qi Array, and at this time, a young voice sounded from the two of them, "Senior Yuqing, do you want to start now?"

"Hmph, naturally I'll finish it early and go back early!" Then an old man's voice also sounded, but this voice was mixed with a hint of unhappiness.

"Okay, senior, here are the fifty top-grade spirit stones that Lord Shura has collected over the years, do you see enough?" As he spoke, the figure raised his right hand, only to see that he was wearing a ring on his right index finger. The ring is golden, but it is more quaint and looks very old.

At this moment, the ring on his right index finger suddenly flashed, and a dazzling five-colored stone appeared out of thin air and was grabbed by him. As the five-colored stone came out, the scenery around the figures also lit up, and the light shone on the faces of the two figures, revealing their appearances. It is true that they are carrying out a mysterious plan of the Jade Qingdao Daoist and the Blood Eagle of the Demon Palace. At this time, they seemed to be quite excited, but their faces were extremely calm.

"Well, it should be enough!" Yuqing Daoist replied lightly, but he immediately changed his eyes to some playfulness and said sarcastically: "It's just that your Demon Hall is too useless, and you have only collected fifty top-grade spirit stones in so many years?"

However, Blood Eagle also seemed to expect that he would take the opportunity to be sarcastic, and immediately replied: "Hehe, this naturally can't be compared with your palace, now that we are trapped in the Heavenly Silence Continent by the Zuntian Alliance, we spend more energy on self-preservation, how can we have so much time for your palace to collect spirit stones!"

One sentence made the Yuqing Daoist who still had a great sense of superiority just now blush, and he brushed down his long sleeves, "Hmph, we also said this, the Zuntian Alliance used the formation to drag us down, and we also lack skills." Could it be that your palace is still concerned about this matter?"

"Don't dare, the Flying Hall Lord is kind to us, even if we don't look at your face, we have to see the Face of the Flying Hall Lord!" replied Blood Eagle without humility or arrogance.

And the Yuqing Daoist also looked at the Blood Eagle again at this time, stared at it for a while, and finally let out a long sigh, "Alas, it seems that the Demon Hall is right to send you to negotiate. Forget it, let's not talk about Ah Fei's matter, since you brought the Divine Spirit Stone, then take it out! I'll put him in the array!"

"Okay, this is the Demon Scorpion Space Ring given to the juniors by Lord Shura, and it contains the fifty top-grade spirit stones in this plan, please take a look at the seniors!" With that, the Blood Eagle took off the quaint ring on the index finger of his right hand, and included the top-grade spirit stone in his hand into the ring, and then threw it to the Yuqing Daoist.

After the Yuqing Daoist took the space ring, he immediately released his divine sense to investigate, and found that it was really as the Blood Eagle said, what was lying quietly inside was fifty pieces of top-grade divine spirit stones that exuded dazzling light. He couldn't help but nod in satisfaction.

"Well, it's fifty pieces, that's right, so that we can awaken this soul ancient array, but you only brought fifty top-grade spirit stones, and we came out with a hundred, so we have to occupy two souls out of the three souls, I don't know if you have any opinions?"

"Senior, this arrangement is reasonable, we naturally have no objections, besides, we are now in the Heavenly Silence Continent, where the wandering souls are easy to be purified, so we also went through many difficulties and dangers before we were lucky enough to catch a remnant soul. ”

"A remnant soul, what kind of remnant soul are yours?" Hearing Blood Eagle say that they had only caught one remnant soul, Yuqing couldn't help but look nervous, and his tone couldn't help but be a little higher.

"Senior, what we caught in the Heavenly Silence Continent is the soul of life, the soul of the main thought and wisdom!" Seeing Yuqing's nervous expression, the blood eagle, who seemed to have expected something, also faded into calm, and couldn't help but become nervous.

And after hearing the blood eagle say that they caught the soul of life, Yuqing's hanging heart let go again, and he sighed, he said: "Fortunately, what you caught is the soul of life, otherwise I am afraid that this time I will come in vain, and I am afraid it will be even more difficult to hide from the group of guys in the Zuntian Alliance again." ”

"What do you say? Could it be that you only brought two remnant souls, and they are the two souls of heaven and earth?" Seeing Yuqing's up-and-down expression, Blood Eagle couldn't help frowning and said his guess.

"Well, you guessed right, because the powerful remnants are really difficult to catch, and even more difficult is to imprison them in the jade slip. So we've only caught two powerful remnants. But fortunately, we are grasping the two souls of heaven and earth of the Lord's life, death and fate, so we will not have conflicts with you!" Yuqing said excitedly.

"Oh, if it weren't for the fact that we were disobeying the mandate of heaven and going against the sky, I would like to say that this seems to be like there is providence in the dark, but if we talk about it, it will be ridiculous!" said Blood Eagle with a hint of self-deprecation.

“...... There are many contradictions in a person's life, let alone us who are old and immortal!" Yuqing stroked his white beard like silver threads, and his words carried endless vicissitudes. And after listening to his words, the Blood Eagle was also silent, as if he was also thinking about something.

After a moment of silence, Yuqing seemed to have figured out something, and said solemnly: "Although Poor Dao also thinks that this matter is very dramatic, but, after all, we are against the heavens, the will of heaven, let's not talk about it anymore! Now, our top priority is to successfully complete the awakening action." Isn't it, Blood Eagle?"

"Well, senior, this is the purple jade slip that our Demon Gate uses to imprison the remnant soul. Inside is a powerful soul that we have captured and imprisoned. I'll leave it to you. As he spoke, Blood Eagle threw a purple jade slip to Yu Qing, and Yu Qing was not ambiguous, and after taking the jade slip, he took action.

First of all, Yuqing wiped the Demon Scorpion Ring that had already canceled the soul mark with his hand, took out the fifty top-grade spirit stones in the Demon Scorpion Ring one by one, and embedded these fifty top-grade spirit stones into the groove of the Soul Fusion Ancient Array one by one. Then he took out the hundred top-grade spirit stones in his ring in the same way, and also embedded them in the grooves of the Soul Fusion Ancient Array one by one.

When the last groove was filled by the best spirit stones, the originally dead soul ancient array suddenly shone brightly, although the ancient array was also very dazzling before, but that was only the result of more than a hundred divine spirit stones embedded in the ancient array to emit light. But as the last piece was embedded, the ancient array seemed to resonate with the Divine Spirit Stone, and it actually emitted an even more dazzling light, illuminating the thousands of kilometers below the ground as if it were day.

"Huh, it is worthy of being one of the ten great strange arrays of the ancients, and it has not been damaged after so many years of desolation! It can be regarded as exempting me from hidden worries!" Seeing that the ancient array and the divine spirit stone resonated, Yu Qingchang breathed a sigh of relief.

"Senior, although this Soul Fusion Ancient Array can still operate, there is a lot of ash on this array, I wonder if it will have an impact?"

"Don't worry, wait until I activate the ancient array with a secret method, it will naturally dissipate these accumulated ashes. With that, Yuqing sat down next to the ancient array. And he turned the dust in his hand upside down and drew strange characters on the ground. These strange characters seemed to be extremely draining, and by the time Yuqing finished the last stroke, he was exhausted.

Poof! After examining it for a long time, and seeing that there really wasn't anything wrong with the characters, Yuqing sprayed a mouthful of essence blood on the characters, and after squirting out the essence blood, he seemed to be even more tired, but he still settled down and started the spell.

The spell seemed to have some kind of connection with his essence blood, and as soon as he pronounced it, the essence blood that was still sunk in the characters seemed to come to life, and it actually increased at a rapid rate, and then dyed all the characters bright red at a very fast speed. When the last character was completely dyed red, an ancient and magical power burst out from between the characters, and the bright red blood shone on the Ancient Array of Souls.

As if a mechanism had been activated, the ancient array slowly turned, and the dazzling light slowly converged inward, and finally the ancient array returned to darkness. The inexplicable darkness made Blood Eagle nervous, "Is there something wrong?" Blood Eagle couldn't help but say to himself.

However, in the next moment, the ancient array once again emitted a dazzling light, illuminating the entire underground again. It's just that this time it was only the ten ancient characters on the ancient array that were shining, and each of them emitted a strange power, which seemed to be sucking something. And the ash that originally covered the entire ancient array. I don't know when I was gone.

"Okay, the ancient array is completely activated, wait a minute, we only need to put the jade slip on the three words heaven, earth, and life, and the ancient array will absorb the remnant souls inside, and then we only need to escort here." When the three souls are completely fused, we can leave!"

"But listen to what the seniors say, but the seniors, the younger generations still don't understand anything. ”

"But it doesn't hurt to say it!"

"Why do we only collect three souls, isn't it important to have seven spirits?"

"Oh, don't you know that there are endless wild spirits in this Soul Fusion Ancient Array? As long as we can activate the Great Array and collect the three souls, the Great Array will complete the Seven Spirits by itself. ”

Stunned, Blood Eagle suddenly said: "Oh, that's what happened, but the younger generation is lonely and unheard!"

"The magic of the formation is only known to those who study the formation, and as a general, it's normal for you not to know!" Yuqing Daoist said as he put three pieces of jade slips on the slots of the words heaven, earth, and life on them, these three pieces of jade slips were the purple jade slips handed over by the blood eagle and the two blue jade slips that Yuqing himself carried. As soon as these three pieces of jade slips were put up, the words heaven, earth, and life darkened again, but a powerful suction force burst out from them, and the three pieces of jade slips were sucked and trembled violently, and even Yuqing, who was just about to evacuate, was also affected.

Because of the release of Yu Jian, Yuqing was not too far away from the ancient formation, and when he wanted to step again, he found that he could no longer move. A strong suction pulled him, no, it should be his soul to be exact, this suction force was extremely violent, he only felt that if he went further away from the direction of the big array, his soul would be separated from his body and brought into the ancient array, but if he didn't move, this suction force would still slowly suck away his soul, and for a while, he fell into a dilemma.

In this situation, even if Yuqing is usually calm, he can't help but panic a little. And the Blood Eagle, who was standing in place and waiting for Yuqing to return, also saw that something was wrong, and hurriedly asked Yuqing, "Senior, what happened?"

Looking at the Blood Eagle, which was some distance away from the ancient formation and safe and sound, Yuqing didn't tell the truth after all, but just said, "It's okay, as a person who studies the formation, Poor Dao is here to feel the power of this ancient strange array, and there will be few opportunities to feel it in the future." For the Blood Eagle, Yuqing still can't fully believe it after all, in his opinion, although he has to cooperate with the people of the Demon Hall now, he feels that the people who enter the Tao with demons always have a dark side in his heart, and he is afraid that if he tells the truth, the Blood Eagle will take this opportunity to fall into the ground, and then he will really die. Without telling the truth, he could at least bet that the ancient array would be able to merge his soul before it sucked his soul away, so that the suction power of the ancient array would slowly decrease, and he could withdraw from it.

Seeing that Yuqing's expression was extremely unnatural, Blood Eagle couldn't help but have deeper doubts in his heart, but Yuqing could be regarded as his predecessor after all, and his strength was stronger than him, since Yuqing didn't want to say it clearly, he naturally didn't dare to ask forcibly.

Time passed slowly like this, and the peaceful time period for the Blood Eagle was quite torturous for Yuqing. He was under that strong pull all the time, and whenever he felt that his soul was about to be pulled away, he would always subconsciously take a step or two forward. However, while doing so made him safe for the time being, it pushed him into an increasingly unfavorable situation.

As he moved forward, the suction force he received increased and the number of times he moved forward. Before he knew it, he was only one step away from the ancient array, and he was only one step away, and he would be completely sucked by the ancient array. It's just that Yuqing didn't realize this, and his attention was always on the purple jade slip. After staring at it for a long time, he was surprised to find that although Ziyu Jian was trembling violently, he had never seen any remnant soul sucked out of it.

"That life soul in the purple jade slip is so powerful? If this is a strong person at the same level as Ah Fei Kuai before his death, such a powerful remnant soul, the demon gate can actually catch it? Could it be that the strength of the demon gate has surpassed ours?" Seeing that the life soul in the purple jade slip has not come out for a long time, Yuqing couldn't help but have a trace of doubt in his heart, but immediately he denied his inference, he always believed that demon cultivation is the left way of the side door, and it is impossible to surpass the avenue of cultivating immortals. After denying his conjecture, he had another guess, "Could it be that there is no ...... in it at all?"

When Yuqing took another step without realizing it, and was about to say his guess, he suddenly found that his consciousness had become extremely blurred, this feeling he had only had a long time ago, that is, when he ascended, his soul broke away from the mortal body and recast the immortal body. It's just that this time the feeling was not as long as that time, just for a moment, his consciousness fell asleep forever. He also didn't know what was going on underground after his soul was separated from his body. However, he was sure that this awakening operation was a success after all, but the soul of the main mind was sucked out of his body.

This is the last thought of the Yuqing Daoist.