In the end, Yaobao saw that Jiang Ying returned safe and sound, and he was finally relieved.

If they can't find anyone and have no way, Yaobao and Pi Pihua have quietly tried to sense the green plants inside, but they have failed like Jiang Ying, and they can only give up.

Jiang Ying also tried her best, and the rest was up to her fate, she had to continue to be busy with her own affairs.

Xiao Li had no news on the fifteenth, and she didn't know if the other party was going well, so she took Fanchen over early the next morning.

After a search, she really hadn't been out yet, and she ran over every now and then to test it on the grounds that she wanted to discuss it with Xiao Li because she had some thoughts about Fan Chen.

Half a month has passed back and forth like this, and she has seen that it has been too long, and it shouldn't be like this with the help of Yaobao Huadan, she can't sit still, and is about to go to Heyumen to find a way to let Xiao Li forcibly get out.

Unexpectedly, when he went out, he heard the news from the stone vines who stayed in the Heyu Gate that Xiao Li was out of the customs.

Later, when he heard that Xiao Li wanted to see the master, Jiang Ying didn't bother first, and waited in Nian Yufeng.

Not more than halfway through, she received the news again, Xiao Li was rushing to the Gu Poison Gate.

So Jiang Ying asked the stone vines to also come back with the shadow stone, and gave her all the way what they saw in the vicinity after Xiao Li came out of the customs.

Half an hour passed, Jiang Ying was in front of the house while taking care of the spirit insects, while talking to the stone vines.

Suddenly, Nian Yufeng's natural magic circle was touched, and she knew that someone was coming.

Just as he was about to get up and wait for someone, he almost bumped into a white shadow head-on.

"Senior sister, junior sister!"

Jiang Ying hurriedly stopped and retreated to open the distance, and then looked at it again: Isn't it Xiao Li??

"Are you out of the customs? Why are you in a hurry?" she saw that he was sweating profusely and recklessly, not only was she puzzled, but she was worried that there was an accident when she saw the master?

After Xiao Li eased his breath, he looked back behind him, and then looked at Nian Yufeng.

"Is there anyone nearby?"

Jiang Ying felt that he was acting strangely: "It's just me." ”

Xiao Li immediately pulled her into her room and closed all the doors and windows.

Jiang Ying: "......"

Seeing that after he closed the doors and windows, he set up a heavy noise array, and returned to her like a thief and took out a black thing.

"Look at this!"

He nervously handed it to her.

It is a lingering stone.

Inside turned out to be the scene of his retreat.

Jiang Ying asked him, "What does this mean?"

Xiao Li adjusted the picture of the photo stone, and finally came to a certain night.

Xiao Li was still engrossed in his cultivation, but suddenly two white balls of light appeared from under his retreat room, swirling around him.

But the ball of light didn't make any excessive moves, just revolved around Xiao Li's body. After a few moments, they fell back to the ground and vanished.

Xiao Li waited for Jiang Ying to finish reading this picture, and then took back the photo stone: "See? I was worried that someone would take the opportunity to plot against me, so I put the photo stone in the retreat room, but I didn't think that I really left such a paragraph." ”

Jiang Ying looked at those balls of light and was a little puzzled: "What is that?"

Xiao Li shook his head: "I don't know." I think it's kind of like a soul fire. ”

"Soul fire?"

"Hmm. In fact, it is a soul, because the texture is like a flame, fluctuating, so it is called soul fire. ”

Jiang Ying suddenly thought of something, she didn't say it for a while, and then asked, "If it's soul fire, why can they appear in your retreat room?" If I'm not mistaken, there is protection around your retreat room. ”

"Definitely. I don't know, or is it that the formation only restricts the living, but not the necromancy?"

"Then why did they not attack you either?" Even if you come to investigate the truth, don't search for souls, don't ask questions, don't ask anything, then what are you doing here? Just to take a look?

"Did you ever have any abnormalities in your body when you were in retreat?" Jiang Ying asked again.

Xiao Li shook his head: "The journey was smooth and there was no hindrance." By the way, I'm refining qi at the seventh level!"

He was originally eighty percent qualified, and his cultivation speed was very fast, and with a high-level first-grade Nine Transformation Zengyuan Pill, his advancement was naturally extremely fast.

Jiang Ying was not very interested in his cultivation, nodded and returned to Fang Cai's question: "Your head of the Heyu Sect heard that you can advance, and sent someone to wait for you in front of your retreat room, do you know?"

Xiao Li nodded and said, "I have met with the head of the sect when I left the customs, but he has never mentioned the matter of soul fire, and I have inquired verbally, and I have not seen him know about it."

In addition, I also talked to Brother Wan, and learned that you informed him about my advancement, and asked them to pay close attention to my progress, I guess you are trying to borrow them to stop some people with intentions, right? Thank you, you have helped me a great favor again. ”

Jiang Ying waved his hand: "You're welcome. Since none of the people guarding the periphery have discovered this soul fire, and the spirit plants I have left around have not noticed anything strange around them, then they either have means to hide their aura and traces, such as borrowing soil to hide people's eyes and ears, or people outside know each other, or even collude. ”

Xiao Li was taken aback: "You left spirit plants around?"

Jiang Ying said: "There are still lingering stones. But I didn't know that you were out of the level so fast that you haven't had time to retrieve them yet, and when Lingzhi brings back the Shadow Stone, I can see what happened at that time. ”

Xiao Li didn't expect her to keep such two hands, and couldn't help but sigh that her mind was really meticulous.

But under such heavy arrangement, the soul fire was able to sneak into his retreat room across the sea, and those two soul fires were really terrifying.

Xiao Li thought for a while, and suddenly said, "There is still a possibility." ”

"Huh?"

"Soul fires may not have the breath or power, so they can easily sneak into my retreat chamber from the ground without being detected by the formation. ”

Jiang Ying fell silent, thinking about his possibility.

Without breath and power, the desert stone vines that are spiritual plants will subconsciously ignore them, especially when they flow through the ground, and the stone vines who think that other monks will come do not even sense their presence.

"But souls are supposed to have their own soul energy, why don't they have breath?"

Even if it was the ghost in the sect's mission at that time, it was only by borrowing those corpses that had been processed by magic that it was possible to hide the soul qi on the body, so why didn't these soul fires have it?

However, removing this layer of doubt, she thinks that Xiao Lisuo's is indeed more reasonable.

"If you think that your head and the disciples you send are credible people, then your speculation sounds very reasonable. ”

Xiao Li frowned: "The head of the family is kind to me, I believe he won't do this, then the person he sent must not be a bad person." ”

"Definitely. If they have bad intentions, they can even use this to make harm to you invisibly, and then find an excuse to shirk responsibility, but they don't do it. ”

"And if they had colluded with outsiders, they could have let other monks in, and they could have killed me invisibly, but they didn't do that. ”

Jiang Ying was silent, and couldn't think of any obvious breakthrough point for a while.

Seeing her like this, Xiao Li suddenly couldn't bear to trouble her and let her use her brains, he diverted the topic: "Okay, okay, anyway, I'm breaking through now and getting out of the customs, which can be regarded as a happy event, let's not worry about these troubles first, okay?"

Jiang Ying raised his eyes and looked at him: "You can see it, don't be afraid that someone will sneak into your bedroom at night......"

"Haha, I'm out of the customs! I'm advanced! And the last competition, although it ended in a big mess, but you did stay in the top three, so my ranking is in the top three anyway, what a joyful result!"

"So what?"

"So my position is rushing. ”

"......" Jiang Ying raised his eyebrows: "You are ......"

"Not bad. Haha, after I got out of the customs, the head of the gate saw my cultivation, combined with my attainments in sword forging, and ordered me to move out on the spot, and now I am back in the private room where I used to live - the larger private room on the east side of the opposite side. ”

Jiang Ying said: "Living alone, it is easier to be poisoned. ”

"Next door is where our elder brother lives. ”

"How far away is next door?"

"It's next door, yes, the kind next door. ”

Jiang Ying was speechless and said, "Is that still called a solitary room?"

"Oh, why don't you have a trace of imagination, since it's not a chase shop, it can be regarded as a solitary room. And the head of the family was also worried that I would be secretly poisoned, so he arranged it, which was originally where the senior brother himself lived. ”

Jiang Ying thought for a while: "In that case, you can live there, remember to be vigilant." In addition, is it convenient for you to lend me your Shadow Stone? Regarding the soul fire within, I would like to verify it. ”

Xiao Li asked: "Do you want to find Yin Sanzhen and Sanqing Zhenren for verification?"

Jiang Ying nodded: "Yes." There is one other person. ”

"Who?"

"You don't have to ask, I'll come back to you if there's a result, and if I'm wrong, the two have nothing to do with it. ”

"Oh......" Xiao Li was confused, but it didn't prevent him from believing her: "Where are you going? Do you need to be accompanied? Are you safe alone?"

"Safe. As long as you're safe, I'm probably safe. ”

"......," Xiao Li pursed his lips, "Then I'll try my best to live for you." ”

"Hmm. Live well, if one day someone wants to force a move, think about the senior sister and me behind you, as well as the two great real people, and many people who are in a similar situation to you, you must remember to grit your teeth and resist the ......"

"Hey, hey, hey. Xiao Li always felt that she was in the crow's mouth. "Don't be blind, I'm afraid, senior brother. When are you leaving?"

Jiang Ying thought about it and said, "Not sure." You leave the Shadow Stone, and I'll have to ask the two real people what it is. ”

"Oh well. Xiao Li handed her the Shadow Stone.

Jiang Ying asked him to go back to the door first, but thinking that he was not safe alone, she asked him to wait, and waited until the desert stone vines that were originally left for him came back, and then she asked the stone vines to follow him back.

Xiao Li was very curious about these stone vines: he hadn't seen them since he had seen them once when he was first promoted to Dabi. However, he couldn't hear the words of these stone vines, only Jiang Ying could hear them, so even if they followed him all the way underground or on the flying boat, he couldn't feel any difference between them and other spirit plants.

And Jiang Ying spent three days checking the photo stone brought back by the stone vines, and when she saw that there was nothing unusual in the whole process, she put the photo stone and kept it.

With the balls of light, she was more curious about them than everything else, she simply cleaned herself up, and then "night dived" Yin Sanmen.

Yin Sanzhen had already learned that she was coming, so he asked Guo Xiaoxiao to wait outside the door early.

After Guo Xiaoxiao received the person, she immediately took her to the door and led her to Yin Sanzhenrao's study.

Jiang Ying showed her the photo stone there.

Yin Sanzhen saw that wisp of soul fire and affirmed Xiao Li's law: "It is indeed soul fire." ”

"What is a soul fire?"

"Usually it is the remnant soul of the deceased who has not been dispersed, or one of the three souls and seven souls, the human soul. The latter's soul body is larger than the former, and judging from the state of the soul fire in this lingering stone, it should be a remnant soul. ”

"Remnant Soul ......" Jiang Ying looked up and asked, "Does it have its own consciousness?"

"Yes. ”

"Why is it that no one around is aware of their presence?"

"If the remnant soul is too weak and lacks strength, it is easy to hide from the sea. ”

"Will this person be a monk in his lifetime?"

"If you are brave enough to go in and out of such a place, and you are so easy to move, if you are not a monk, you will also be a soul that has been wandering in this world for a long time. ”

Jiang Ying thought of another thing: "Then how can you tell if the soul fire is a remnant soul or a whole soul of the three souls, and what is the difference between them?"

Yin Sanzhen only wanted to find out the facts, so she was so concerned about this matter, so she didn't hide it: "See if the soul heart in the soul fire center is full." If you look at the two of the Lingering Stones, the soul heart is as light as the periphery, almost transparent, which proves that their soul power is very weak, and they must be remnant souls.

If the soul fire is a whole human soul, you can see that its soul heart is a real soul heart, not transparent, and at a glance it is more powerful than the soul heart of the remnant soul. ”

Jiang Ying thought carefully about Yin Sanzhen's words, and finally asked, "Then I wonder if these remnant souls appear around Senior Brother Xiao, do they intend to take away?"

"Take away?" Yin Sanzhen smiled: "It is impossible for a remnant soul to take away a living soul with a complete soul. Looking at the contents of the Shadow Stones, I tend to think that they are just here to investigate the situation. But who exactly let them come, and who they are, I don't know for a moment. ”

Jiang Ying's face sank, and his mind was no longer on Xiao Li and the two remnant souls.

"What does it mean that if they come across a dead corpse, they can take it away?"

Yin Sanzhen finally sensed her overly focused abnormal state: "Did you think of something?"

Jiang Ying didn't answer, and hurriedly asked: "If they can take away, does it mean that the corpses they take will inherit all their memories and will completely become the ones who take them?"

I wonder if the remnant soul will be able to recover all the strength of his life after he is regained, and will he be able to recover more strength after the soul is regained?"

Yin Sanzhen saw that she was asking urgently, and raised his hand to ask her to slow down.

After listening to her question, she thought for a moment and replied one by one: "If it is taken away, the 'inner core' of the corpse will indeed become the person who took it away.

As for the remnants of the souls, since the souls are already badly damaged, it is usually a huge challenge to regain control of the corpses, let alone regain their strength - they can only re-study with new bodies

But if the human soul is taken away - the human soul is one of the three souls of the earth and man, after the death of the human soul is divided into three ways, returning, and returning to the earth, the human soul will disappear with the complete dissipation of the human vitality.

However, if the human soul remains, it usually means that the person is only out of the body, or the human soul has been preserved by secret techniques to preserve the survival of life.

Once such a human soul is taken away—"

Yin Sanzhen paused, suddenly frowned, and thought of something.