Chapter 79: Scourge (1/2)

“Place the incense in the formation and light it,” Feinie said, calming her breathing.

Qin Xianhuo’s eyes widened with undisguised shock when he looked at her. Just like the white-clad young woman, this black-robed girl had emerged out of nowhere. He refrained from making probing inquiries, but the formation in front of him caught his eye next. He was a grandmaster of formations, but couldn’t see through it. Even its runes were indecipherable.

“What are you staring at? Get moving!” Sensing the man’s stare, Feinie knitted her graceful brow.

“Ah, yes, yes!” Qin Xianhuo hastily placed his incense in the formation and set fire to it.

The incense was a spiritual item born from nature, and, when lit, it released an invisible and intangible aroma. Immortals could control the flow of the air, thanks to their arts, but this aroma was beyond their reach unless they used a special method.

Feinie’s formation, for example.

Hazy light erupted from the formation, fully dissolving the stick of incense and sending a strange fragrance wafting through the air. Feinie’s hands formed a seal that twisted the fragrance into a rope that drifted toward Dusk River Palace.

“Smells so good....” The river god hiding inside the palace yawned ferociously, entrancement rising on her face. “What smells so good?” In a daze, she slowly drifted out of the palace to follow the aroma.

“Something’s amiss!” A slight frown crossed Mo Yi’s brow when she saw the god’s figure. “Don’t go over there!”

“What’s wrong?” Lu Yun’s expectant look upon the approaching river god morphed to bafflement when he heard Mo Yi’s.

“Fall back!” Mo Yi spread out her arms and swept the group back with an enormous swell of strength. Even the three august immortals couldn’t offer any resistance before being summarily pushed to the back. That was when they finally realized the full extent of Mo Yi’s power.

Qi Shenghui’s face, in particular, was ashen. All those thoughts he’d had of killing her because of her beauty were simply crazy!

The zombie king also seemed to realize something was amiss. Flinching, she swiftly fell back, unwilling to be in close quarters with the river god.

“What on Earth is going on?” Lu Yun repeated upon Mo Yi’s failure to answer.

“I’m afraid you’ll have to rethink your plans to capture her.” The city lord’s face was a little grim. “She, as well as her life, seem to have become part of something else.

“What?” Lu Yun blinked. “What do you mean ‘she’s become part of something else’?”

“It’s that monster!” Qing Han realized as well. “Just now, inside the palace, I saw something eating away at her, but I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me. Just look at her, does she seem alive to you?”

Now that the river god was trapped in Feinie’s formation, everyone could see for themselves how her fishtail had been picked clean of flesh and blood. Dessicated, there was no trace of life coming from her upper body. At first glance, Lu Yun had mistaken her for a zombie.

“Something’s absorbed all of her vitality, leaving only this body as bait. Perhaps her thoughts are independent, but her life is no longer her own.”

“Diexi is an arcane immortal, yet she still cowers inside the abyss, too afraid to take half a step outside the tomb for the living,” Mo Yi whispered. “The river god is merely an empyrean immortal, so how can she survive here?”