The moonlight was bright, and nine Taoist priests from the Lantern and Candles of the Jingshan Lanterns were busy in the air, carefully placing suspended magic weapons, mainly oil lamps and candles, and there were also several other types of magic weapons, especially the five cloth banners and five jade axes that attracted the most attention.

Sun Yulu had the lowest realm among the Taoist priests and had the least things. He saw Mu Xingqiu's doubts and explained: "The method of soul-retaining will sometimes attract some bad intentions. There are five banners warnings in the sky and in all directions. Five axes cut the turbidity, and only pure souls are released below. We have set a range of about five miles, with fifteen souls inside. If there is no accident, one of them must be Qin Lingshuang."

"What do I need to do?" Mu Xingqiu seized his mind and no longer cared about the actions of the Taoist priests in Jingshan.

"Sit firmly and don't move, hold your sword tightly, and don't let go under any circumstances. Many people will feel panic when they experience soul restraint for the first time. You have to overcome it because we don't have a second chance. Once the soul restraint fails, the soul will be destroyed and lose all its value."

"Okay." Mu Xingqiu held the hilt of the sword with his right hand and held the sword body with his left hand, and asked again, "Why not expand the scope? Didn't this sword hold a lot of souls?"

Sun Yulu was stunned for a moment and immediately smiled: "There is no need for this. All we need is Qin Lingshuang's soul. This is the battlefield. It is inevitable to detain a few more. There is no need to detain a large-scale soul-damaging weapon. After all, your Frost Soul Sword is not a special soul-damaging magic weapon. It is unpredictable how much it can be installed. You don't want an accident in the middle, right?"

"I don't want to." Mu Xingqiu shook his head and stopped sticking to his opinion. "I just need to hold the hilt of the sword tightly. Don't you need to think about it, cast spells?"

"Don't think about it, let alone cast spells." The old woman with the highest status spoke. The new Luanjingshan Taoist priest did not introduce her name or identity. Mu Xingqiu guessed that she was the Xingluo Taoist priest. Maybe she was the first or the great soul-retaining master of the Light Candle Department. She had an irritable face, as if she was a grandmother with a lot of children and grandchildren. She was used to being the master of the family and had a sense of majesty. "The method of soul-retaining is a spell unique to the Light Candle Department. It is not integrated with the spells of other subjects. Casting spells without authorization will not be beneficial to you."

Sun Yulu knew Mu Xingqiu’s idea better, so she added, “It’s not good for collecting Qin Lingshuang’s soul.”

"clear."

The magic array has been arranged almost. Fifty-five different magic weapons are placed in the air, and there are candles with high and low heights everywhere. These candles are very special, without halos, and the low light emitted is like a dull white dot on black paper and cannot illuminate the night sky. In fact, the talisman masters who maintain the prohibited spells on the ground cannot see any light at all.

Nine Taoist priests from the Luanjing Mountain went to their seats, and two old women sat on the air above Mu Xingqiu's head and under him several feet. Another seven people surrounded Mu Xingqiu, with a distance of varying distances. The farthest one happened to be five miles away, and Sun Yulu sat opposite him. The nearest distance was only ten feet away. "I am the archivist. Most of them will stay awake when counting. If you have any questions, please ask me. Don't act without permission."

"Okay." Mu Xingqiu simply replied that among the nine great Taoist dynasties, only Luanjingshan has set up the Lantern Candle School, which has its secret techniques. The other Taoist dynasties do not know much about this school's magic, and there is indeed no room for intervention.

When midnight arrived, the Taoist priests of Luanjingshan began to cast spells silently. Mu Xingqiu soon realized that they were connected with each other through the candles distributed in all directions, and outsiders could not see the specific process of casting spells.

Mu Xingqiu was bored and could do nothing except staring at Sun Yulu opposite him. "How long will it last?"

"It's hard to say." Sun Yulu did not participate in the casting of spells. She said it was an escort, but it was more like a monitor. "The souls have their own characteristics. Some are easy to restrain, and some are particularly difficult. If it's fast, two quarters of an hour, and if it's slow, it will take a whole day."

"Fangfang is willing to stay by my side." Mu Xingqiu said affirmatively.

"Don't take it too much. Souls are another form. Living in another world, it's hard to say whether they have independent ideas. Even if Qin Lingshuang's soul is unique, she can't know that the residence of Soul-Retaining is your magic sword this time."

Sun Yulu always emphasized the difference between soul and human beings. Mu Xingqiu could not refute it, but he really hoped that Fangfang would have a trace of remnant. He tried to find the feeling of warmth that had existed for the past seven days, but it was gone, and the surroundings were empty, and various magical instruments seemed to exist, and the flames of the candle did not release any heat.

Mu Xingqiu shivered for no reason. He was a Taoist priest and would not feel cold even if he sat naked in the snow. However, this chill suddenly came and he didn't even have time to resist.

"Don't worry about it, this is a normal reaction." Sun Yulu explained immediately, but did not say much about the reason. She protected the spell of the Candle Scientific Sword very closely.

"Yeah." Mu Xingqiu was prepared. When the cold came, his body did not tremble, but he still felt colder and the air seemed to become wet. This was not the bone-bone cold, but the coldness in the thick fog in the morning, which unknowingly soaked every pore in the whole body.

"Is it my illusion? The wind seems to be not normal."

"It's okay, you will still feel difficulty breathing later, so don't worry. We must first remove the air here as much as possible. This is a necessary step for soul-retaining. Breathing is slower and you can stand it."

Sun Yulu was right, the air became thinner and thinner, and Mu Xingqiu seemed to fly to a high altitude. Strangely, the feeling of humidity became more and more obvious. This was obviously abnormal, and Mu Xingqiu did not ask any more questions.

As time passes little by little, Sun Yulu occasionally participates in casting spells. At that time, she will close her eyes. When she opens her eyes, it means free time. "Note that the first soul has arrived."

A thin hotline suddenly penetrated into the Niwan Palace of Shangdantian from Mu Xingqiu's nostrils. In a cold and wet feeling, the hotline was extremely abrupt, like a sharp needle piercing the soaked paper. Mu Xingqiu's heart tightened and almost jumped up and flew straight into the sky. But he held it back and followed the hotline from Niwan Palace to Jiang Palace of Zhongdantian.

The hotline stopped for a while and gathered into a small ball. Instead, it did not go to the lower dantian, but slowly flowed into the Frost Soul Sword along the right arm.

The whole process was not long and it went smoothly. But Mu Xingqiu still felt creepy, as if a caterpillar had penetrated into his body. He was obviously disgusted, but he couldn't move for a moment.

"Is it Fangfang?"

"The method of soul-retaining can't tell the identity of the soul. I only know that there are fifteen souls within five miles, and after they are all bound into the Frost Soul Sword, there must be Qin Lingshuang among them."

Mu Xingqiu lowered his eyes and glanced at it. The curly lines on the sword's body flashed for a moment, and then dimmed.

"What a good sword." Sun Yulu praised again, "Most magic weapons tremble when they first restrain their souls, and sometimes they are even very intense. However, this sword can remain silent. It is very rare."

The souls entered the Frost Soul Sword one by one through Mu Xingqiu's body, with a distance of long and short. The two souls obviously meant to resist and moved extremely slowly in his body, but did not cause any damage.

Mu Xingqiu gradually got used to it. When the seventh soul entered the sword, he felt that the time was almost done, so he suddenly said to Sun Yulu opposite him: "Meng Yuanhou refused to escape from Pangshan."

"Hmm?" Sun Yulu didn't expect to hear Meng Yuanhou's name at this time, and she seemed very surprised. She quickly calmed down and said lightly: "Is that true, his thoughts are always very strange."

"It's strange, there are so many Taoist priests in Pangshan. Only he and Zuo Liuying found that the Demon Fire Mountain was too powerful and irresistible. Zuo Liuying was the first, and he had the Patriarch Tower in his hand. But Meng Yuanhou was only at the realm of Gu Xia, and was punished to think for a hundred years. He could not leave the cave for half a step. How did he notice the truth? He knew that it was irresistible. Why did he have to stay in the cave and not come out? The head of the Precepts Department clearly pardoned all those who thought about it."

Sun Yu showed his face and smiled gradually, "I almost forgot that you are a disciple of the Minxin Science Department. Is this your newly learned illusion? I am not your enemy, and we are not."

"You misunderstood. Do you sure you can feel it if I cast a spell, right?"

Mu Xingqiu is the young Taoist priest who breathes in the fifth level, Sun Yulu has a seventh level of feasting. The two have huge strength differences, and she has a more smile. "Why do you mention Meng Yuanhou? Just because I was very familiar with him? Because he once refused to make a relationship with me?"

"Meng Yuanhou has a great influence on me. It was him who led me to practice the art of defiance against heaven. I am very grateful to him, but I know very little about him. I can understand why nearly 400 Taoist priests in Pangshan stayed at the Ancestor Peak, but I just don't understand why Marquis Meng Yuanhou refused to get out of the cave."

The smile on Sun Yu's face gradually disappeared, and it took him a while to speak, "I guess he was scared."

"What are you afraid of?"

"It is wrong to be afraid of being possessed by demons, to be afraid of his own path of cultivation, to be afraid of being unable to withstand the temptation to escape from the ancestor peak, to be afraid of being unable to be liberated after making a relationship. He is a timid and cautious person at heart, but he insists on practicing the art of defiance of heaven. He wants me to say that he is a liar."

Sun Yulu's voice was very dull, as if she had just made an extremely objective evaluation, but when the word "liar" was spit out from her mouth, a sense of anger was still revealed.

Mu Xingqiu immediately seized the opportunity.

It's like a hunting, where a beast slowly approaches its prey, and there is only one chance, and it will be fleeting. If it fails to pounce, it will escape, and even turn around and take a corner.

Mu Xingqiu did not use all his strength. He had already captured some tricks and used the illusion of the mind to deal with mortals and demons. The stronger the magic power, the better. When dealing with Taoist priests, it only requires quickness.

He caught the illusion of Nianxin, which stretched out the invisible letter like a snake, entangled Sun Yulu's anger.

But this attack was really weak and powerless, and Sun Yulu's anger disappeared too quickly. Mu Xingqiu just seized the opportunity, but still had no time to break through the other party's loophole.

He felt that he was about to fail. Not only that, Sun Yulu could immediately find that he was secretly tampering with her magic power, and she could completely counterattack.

Mu Xingqiu strengthened his magic power and made his final efforts. He could not give up just like this. It was related to Fangfang's soul. He was worried that he would let the nine Taoist priests in Luanjingshan be restrained. These Taoist priests had strong magic power. If they only restrained more than a dozen souls, they would not be able to use such a large formation. Mu Xingqiu didn't need to have much knowledge of the candle magic spells, and could understand this truth.

He didn't want to fall into the chess game of the higher Taoists again.

He doesn't want to.

At this moment, the young demon appeared. It was neither a seven-day appointment nor a second update, but it appeared.
Chapter completed!