Chapter 268 - The Main Culprit (1/2)

Translator: Atlas Studios  Editor: Atlas Studios

Zhu Ming slowly got to his feet in a daze. Suddenly, he recalled something and looked anxiously into the array. “Mother Feng… Mother…” The figure in the array was gone and so was the grievous energy.

“Well…” He ran into the array, panicked. “What exactly happened? How did Mother Feng suddenly disappear? Where did she go?”

Yi Qing frowned and stepped forward to scan the array. “This array isn’t broken. I don’t think she broke the array to escape.”

“Then where did she go?” Zhu Ming asked anxiously. He conjured a few spells to locate Mother Feng’s aura, but dropped his hands down in defeat after awhile. “I can’t detect her aura and there’s no sign of any other array in here.”

“Could it be that she disappeared into thin air?” Bai Ze asked.

“No.” Yi Qing shook his head. “I didn’t feel any sorcery earlier.”

All of them fell silent. The array wasn’t broken and there was no sign of any other array in there. How did she disappear?

Zhu Ming looked crestfallen and listless. He fell to the floor in a heap. “Where could she have gone?”

“Are the different parts of a soul connected?” Shen Ying suddenly asked.

All of them turned to stare at her. After awhile, they realised. “The Soul-Recalling Technique!”

“Mother Feng lost her primary soul…” Zhu Ming muttered. “You’re saying somebody used her primary soul to recall the other parts of her soul? But…” He pondered for awhile, then his expression fell. “I used the array to trap her earlier. What kind of Soul-Recalling Technique can recall all the different parts of one’s soul using just the primary soul?”

“There is one!” Shen Ying nodded. “Haven’t you all seen it before?”

Zhu Ming paused. A moment later, he seemed to have realised something. That was when his eyes widened. together with Lonemoon, he shouted, “That array in the mystic realm!”

That array had used just Shortie’s remnant soul to drag her entire being from the immortal realm into the divine realm.

“She’s in her own territory!”

Zhu Ming quickly turned around and ran toward the east. Lonemoon exchanged glances with the rest. One by one, they mounted their swords and flew out.

“Mas…” Yi Qing was used to pulling Shen Ying onto his own sword. He reached out his arm halfway and for some reason, stiffened. The mixed feelings were back.

Shen Ying, on the other hand, did not seem to notice. She jumped behind Chef and said, “Go.”

“Yes, Mas…” Strangely, he could no longer say that word. He looked at Shen Ying with a tortured expression. Seeing that she did not seem to realise, he focused on chasing after Zhu Ming.

Bai Ze looked at the two of them and felt his heart drop. He looked absolutely pained.

Zhu Ming flew at top speed. Lonemoon frowned and glanced at the Zhu Ming in front of him now, who was filled with panic and no longer had the calm, gentlemanly demeanour he once did. In a low voice, Lonemoon said, “Fellow Daoist Zhu, don’t you think you should explain your relationship with Mother Feng to us all over again?”

He said that Mother Feng was his junior sister before, and it did not seem like they were that close. But from the looks of it, that did not seem like the truth.

The colour drained from Zhu Ming’s face as he shot Lonemoon a guilty look. He closed his eyes and heaved a long sigh. “I didn’t mean to hide it from you. It’s just that Mother Feng is too obsessed. I was afraid that she might do something silly, so I didn’t talk too much about the past. She isn’t my junior sister. In fact, she’s my senior sister.”

Zhu Ming’s expression became unreadable. “When she was alive, we were in the same sect and we grew up together. Later, she ascended to immortality earlier than I did. By the time I ascended, she was already pushed to her death by a couple of evildoers. I became a ghost immortal because of her. As ghost immortals, the price of training ourselves is losing our souls. The stronger we are, the weaker our souls get. Mother Feng got her revenge after she became a ghost immortal, but the hatred in her heart deepens as the days go by. That’s why her training got more and more extreme. I was worried that if this carried on, she would lose her soul completely. I wanted to persuade her to forget about the past and enter Samsara, but she would not listen.”

Zhu Ming clenched his fists and his expression turned pained. “Later, she lost her primary soul by accident and forgot the past. I hoped that I would be able to persuade her to reincarnate and find her primary soul back in time. That would be better than completely losing her soul. I never thought that the hatred in her heart would continue to intensify. Now, even without her primary soul, she can remember what happened.”