ninety thousand miles

Chapter 478 Inviting people
Then she asked, “What is this?”

"What?" Li Chuan asked, then looked in the direction pointed by Yao Shuang's black shovel. A ball of hazy light was lying on the shattered ground.

"This is what the demon spirit asked me to repair." Li Chuan said.

"Let me go first?" Wen Guying asked.

Li Chuan said: "Okay, you should be careful too, there might be some trap inside."

Wen Gu should say: "Don't worry."

Then he took out a black bag with gold patterns, and after opening the bag, the ball of light slowly floated up until it fell into the bag. Wen Guying sealed the bag, put it into his sleeve, and said, "Okay, now I'll trouble Senior Sister Yao."

"Okay." Yao Shuang retracted the black shovel, turned around, and raised his right hand upwards. In just a few breaths, the courtyard that was originally in ruins returned to its previous appearance.

Li Chuan stepped on the ground and said in admiration: "Amazing! How did it change back?"

Yao Shuang said: "It's just a trick."

"Okay, let's go." Wen Guying said.

……

Having lived in Qingtan County for these days, Li Chuan was already familiar with the area. He found a noodle stall and sat down, ordering three bowls of noodles. After eating half of it, his body warmed up and his hands stopped shaking. He asked, "Can Xuanmen find the other clones of the demon spirit, as well as the original body?"

Wen Guying answered him, and he said, "I'm 70% sure."

Then he explained in detail: "Before, we only guessed that the demon spirit had appeared. We have no idea what her current state is or what methods she has. Even what kind of existence the demon spirit is, no one in the Xuanmen knows it now."

"But, after this fight, things are different." Wen Guying said.

"Why is it different?" Li Chuan asked.

"It's true that the demon spirit came into the world, and I left a trace of her breath. Later, Xuanmen will use various means to investigate and track her down based on this breath until she is completely killed." Wen Guying explained to Li Chuan in more detail, "Before, it was just speculation, there was no evidence, and we didn't know how to find her. So... even if a bunch of people were dispatched, this elder came out of seclusion, that ancestor came out of seclusion, and then they had nothing to do, so they just sat there and stared at each other?"

Li Chuan thought about the scene and found it quite funny.

Yao Shuang asked Wen Guying: "Are you going back to the Four Gods Palace today?"

Wen Guying nodded and said, "It is time to go back and tell the three masters about what happened today in detail."

"I'm not going." said Yao Shuang.

"You must go," Wen Guying said in an unquestionable tone. He said, "I can't handle the questioning of Master Chu by myself. You still have to go back once."

"Then should I go too?" Li Chuan asked.

"It's up to you." Wen Guying said.

That means he can go or not, so Li Chuan said: "I want to rest for two days... If I stay here, will the evil spirit still come to me?"

He was quite worried.

Wen Guying said, "No, I have just sent a signal to the Four Gods Palace. At least one elder is on his way."

Li Chuan felt relieved and said, "Then I'll just rest here for a few days. By the way, didn't you say you were going to Dao County to look for Qiu Hu? Did you go there later?"

"I went." Wen Guying replied, "I came back two days ago and left Brother Tang there to handle the rest of the matters."

"Is Qiu Hu still alive?" Li Chuan asked. "He's still alive, but he's living a life worse than death. After he accepted Yang Shan's commission and helped Yang Shan lure away the spy, he probably realized something was wrong, so he immediately fled, escaped from Sanghu County, and ran all the way to Dao County before stopping. But... but he didn't realize that he had been parasitized by the Soul Devourer at that time."

"Ah?" Li Chuan was surprised. He asked, "How many people in Dao County have been infected by the Soul Devourer?"

"About seven or eight people. He lives in seclusion in Dao County and doesn't come into contact with many people. Tang Su is handling this matter. Now that the Monster Hunting Division has entered Yashan County, he and Mr. Zou have a tacit cooperation and will definitely be able to handle this matter well." Wen Guying said.

"That's good." Li Chuan said.

"But Qiu Hu doesn't know anything anymore." Wen Guying said.

"Have the soul-devouring spirit in his body been dealt with?" Li Chuan asked.

"I've dealt with it. Tang Su has the antidote on him." Wen Guying replied, "After I turned back, I met up with Senior Sister Yao and waited nearby. Qiu Hu's incident made me realize that the evil spirit might come after you."

"Will the evil spirit spread soul-eating weapons everywhere?" Li Chuan became worried again.

"Probably not." Wen Guying said.

"Why?" Li Chuan asked.

"Xuanmen already knows about the White Walkers and the Soul Eaters. This method is useless against most cultivators." Wen Guying replied.

"Is that so..." Li Chuan finished the remaining two chopsticks of noodles.

After leaving the noodle stall, they walked back slowly.

Li Chuan and the others asked, "Did you hear the conversation between me and the demon spirit?"

"No, we can only vaguely sense your condition." Wen Guying asked: "What did you say?"

Li Chuan said: "At that time, I subconsciously wanted to hold her back and think of a way to kill her or keep her alive."

"Your two moves are indeed quite interesting." Wen Guying commented: "Did you learn this from Mingheng's notes?"

"Yes, luckily I memorized a few pages these days." Li Chuan felt a little lucky, so he told Wen Yao and the others what the demon spirit had told him about the half-demon woman and the Frost Leaf Sect.

Then he said, "The ball of light on the ground just now is what she wanted me to make up. Oh, right," Li Chuan recalled, "Her voice was very strange at that time. The tone and rhythm were very similar to that voice. She wanted to bring me into that rhythm. Fortunately, I was prepared and she didn't succeed."

After praising himself, he said, "And that voice, I don't think it's that voice, although it's very similar, but... now that I think about it, it should be imitated by the demon spirit."

"Do you still remember that rhythm and tune?" Wen Guying asked.

"I can recall part of it. Let me think about how to let you hear that tone. Oh, the Heavenly Sound Pot," Li Chuan thought of a solution and said, "I will go back and study it. When you come back from the Four Gods Palace, I should be able to figure it out."

"Then I'll wait and listen." Wen Guying said.

"So I think what the evil spirit said may not be entirely true." Li Chuan changed the subject.

"Indeed, I will mention this matter to Sect Leader Wang and strengthen the defenses of the Ghost Sound Cave." Wen Guying said.

At this time they walked back to their residence.

Wen Guying said, "We won't go in. Senior Sister Yao has already set up two barriers here. One is to prevent demons and ghosts, and the other is...if there is an abnormal fluctuation in the spiritual energy here, it will be closed."

"Thank you, Senior Sister Yao." Li Chuan said.

(End of this chapter)