Xueling half - squinted her eyes. Remembering Buyan's teachings, she managed to hold back the eye - roll that was already half - done.
Jizhongming, seeing this, rushed towards Hong Chaoyang like a madman.
When Hong Chaoyang was in great anxiety, she saw Jizhongming in black, with a ferocious face, diving towards her in an extremely imposing manner.
At this moment, Hong Chaoyang's first thought was actually this.
Xueling was right. He really did look like a crow spirit.
Seeing Hong Chaoyang standing there in a daze, Xueling rushed towards her while shouting at the top of her voice, "Take out the Mysterious Dust Pearl I gave you!!"
The snow - white cassock fluttered in the air, tracing a beautiful arc, but revealing the owner's anxious mood.
Just as Jizhongming's demonic energy ball was about to hit Hong Chaoyang, she took out the Mysterious Dust Pearl from her storage bag and injected a stream of spiritual power into it.
Suddenly, the Mysterious Dust Pearl emitted an extremely bright light. At the same time, a deep voice came from the pearl. The voice recited the Great Compassion Mantra with great emotion, as if singing the most beautiful song in the world.
The Soul - Locking Banner trembled violently. All the vengeful spirits that were attacking the disciples were pulled back by the banner. No matter how unwilling they were, they had to return to the banner.
The faces of the vengeful spirits were already hideous. When they were being pulled back, their resentment reached its peak. Their faces became even uglier and more abstract, full of hatred.
The disciples only felt a chill rising from the soles of their feet. The familiar despair came back again.
Fortunately, after the vengeful spirits returned to the Soul - Locking Banner, all these unpleasant feelings disappeared.
Some of the timid disciples collapsed to the ground, looking at the Soul - Locking Banner with lingering fear. "It's finally over," one of them said.
Jizhongming's eyes were blood - shot. "Bitch!! What have you done!!"
After the vengeful spirits were sucked in, the Soul - Locking Banner trembled a few more times, and the souls of Shen Qing and the others were ejected from it.
They quickly returned to their bodies in the form of soul bodies. As soon as Shen Qing opened her eyes, she didn't care about anything else and rushed towards Jizhongming with her sword, Wu Wang, in hand.
Hong Chaoyang had just started to smile, but when she saw Shen Qing raising her sword and charging at Jizhongming with a murderous look on her face, her smile froze.
Scary... so scary...
Jizhongming had already been injured by Xueling, and the effect of the pill had worn off. So he was unable to fight back against Shen Qing's attacks.
But his attention was always on Lin Yibai. Seeing that Lin Yibai was not ejected from the Soul - Locking Banner, he suddenly felt panicked.
"Shen Qing, you bitch! What did you do to Xiaobai? Why didn't Xiaobai come out of the Soul - Locking Banner!!"
Jizhongming was worried that Shen Qing had attacked Xiaobai's soul when he was away. If the soul was gone, Xiaobai would be completely hopeless.
But Shen Qing just showed a smile and raised her eyebrows. "You want to know? Then go in and accompany her!"
Jizhongming was in a panic and attacked Shen Qing without any strategy. It wasn't that he was driven mad by anger, but that the side effects of the pill were showing. He couldn't even control his own body well.
"I'm going to kill you! I'm going to kill you!!"
Shen Qing frowned and shouted, "Li Xian!!"
As soon as the words left her mouth, a figure flashed past Shen Qing extremely quickly. Three talismans instantly appeared on Jizhongming's forehead.
"Break!"
Li Xian made hand seals, and with the help of the talismans, directly ejected Jizhongming's soul from his physical body.
Jizhongming was seriously injured and his emotions were extremely volatile, which made his soul body unstable. This was the best time to eject his soul.
Seeing Jizhongming's soul body floating in the air, looking dazed, Shen Qing landed directly in front of Hong Chaoyang.
Seeing Hong Chaoyang in a mess, Shen Qing knew that Hong Chaoyang must have tried very hard just now.
She winked at Hong Chaoyang and whispered, "Chaoyang, you've worked hard."
After saying that, she flashed in front of the Soul - Locking Banner. Without any hesitation, she reached out and grabbed the banner directly.
The Soul - Locking Banner reacted strongly to the touch of a stranger. Shen Qing's palm was instantly burned by the demonic energy, and the wound showed a tendency to spread.
Shen Qing knew that it wouldn't be easy to make the Soul - Locking Banner recognize her as its master, but she still gritted her teeth and had no intention of letting go.
Master Honghua was so panicked when he saw Shen Qing trying to force the Soul - Locking Banner to recognize her as its master that his pupils dilated. He roared angrily, "This is simply nonsense!!"
But Master Honghua wasn't really angry. He was just worried.
The area eroded by the demonic energy was difficult to heal. Moreover, one would be affected by the demonic energy and develop extreme thoughts. If one was not careful, one might even become a demonic cultivator. It was simply not worth it.
Thinking like this, Master Honghua couldn't sit still.
Just as he was about to stop Shen Qing, his vision blurred, and a transparent soul body appeared in front of him.
Master Honghua instinctively became on guard, but when he saw the face of the soul body, he was directly stunned.
"Ling... Ling Zhou?"
Master Honghua thought he was seeing things. After blinking his eyes, he found that he could see even less clearly. Tears blurred his eyes, and he was at a loss.
Ling Zhou looked at Master Honghua's graying hair with heartache, full of guilt. "Uncle, it's me. I'm back."
Master Honghua couldn't believe it, but he couldn't hold back his emotions anymore. He covered his eyes and let out a sob.
Tears dripped on the ground. At this moment, the once - majestic sect master was crying like a child.
Ling Zhou wanted to touch Master Honghua when he saw his hunched back, but unfortunately, he was just a soul body and couldn't touch anything.
The other elders looked at each other in disbelief. "You're really Ling Zhou? You're not dead! How did you end up like this!"
Ling Zhou had a complicated expression on his face. "It's a long story."
Master Hongdie clenched her fists even tighter and asked on Yaoyue's behalf, "Why didn't you come back all these years? Do you know that Yaoyue has been waiting for you for a long time!"
Ling Zhou turned to look at Master Hongdie. Thinking of Yaoyue that he saw in Shen Qing's mind, his guilt deepened. "Hongdie, thank you for staying by her side for these thousand years. If it weren't for you, she might have been searching for me everywhere."
Master Hongdie's nose twitched, and her eyes became warm. She was happy that her friend's waiting had finally paid off, but also felt sorry for the time her friend had wasted.
But she still deliberately put on a straight face and said, "You men are all the same. There's not a single good one."
She took out an image - recording stone and wanted to record Ling Zhou's figure to send to Yaoyue, who was thousands of miles away, busy for the sect alliance. Unfortunately, the image - recording stone couldn't record the soul body, so Master Hongdie had to give up.
Master Honghua bit his tongue and quickly adjusted his emotions.
He wiped away his tears with his wide sleeves. At this moment, except for his slightly red eyes, he had returned to his usual self.
"We'll talk about your matter later. Let uncle go and stop that girl first. Since you're a soul body, I'll ask the elders to get a soul - gathering device for you so that your soul body won't be damaged..."
Master Honghua rambled on a lot, and his voice was trembling.
But Ling Zhou could only interrupt him helplessly and said, "Uncle, Shen Qing is doing this for me. If you trust me and my disciple, just let Shen Qing give it a try, okay?"
Master Honghua frowned deeply and was surprised. "Did Shen Qing really become your disciple?"