The huge figure of the python flashed by in an instant.
Immediately afterwards, He Qing's face underwent an obvious change.
He began to look more and more like a snake, exuding a cold and gloomy aura all over his body. He grabbed the nearest ghosts, one in each hand, and stuffed them into his mouth.
With one gulp, he sucked them dry.
After absorbing the ghostly souls, He Qing's expression clearly froze.
His expression seemed to be saying, "Why do I not gain any energy after absorbing these ghostly souls?"
Nian Nian could tell at a glance that the current He Qing was no longer the real He Qing.
For those with the ability of "invoking celestial beings" (Chuma Xian), the way to fully invoke the celestial being is possession.
Normally, when helping people solve problems and only asking some simple questions, they only need to communicate with their own celestial beings mentally.
When the celestial being needs to possess them, it usually means a major event.
And for the celestial being to possess the disciple, it needs to occupy the vital orifices. At this time, the disciple of the celestial being needs to voluntarily give up control of their own vital orifices and relinquish the autonomy of their body.
This is also the most difficult part for those with the ability of "invoking celestial beings" during their practice.
If the coordination is not good, the occupation of the orifices can be extremely painful for the disciple.
Therefore, usually, when a celestial being approaches a disciple, it takes several years of adjustment before they can start invoking the celestial being.
If the disciple's cultivation is not up to par, they may resist the celestial being instinctively due to the body and soul's natural resistance, causing trauma to their own soul.
After all, the celestial beings are all spirits that have lived for hundreds of years.
How could a human soul and body possibly resist them?
"Eating them is useless. They will just revive again," Nian Nian quickly spoke up to remind. If this person with the ability of "invoking celestial beings" continued like this, it would be no different from not blocking the ghosts at all.
After all, the souls were not truly digested in his stomach.
In that case, the surrounding ghosts would not need to revive.
They would just crawl out of his stomach.
Just like now.
A pitch - black ghost slowly crawled out of He Qing's belly.
Then it lunged forward ferociously.
It seemed that the snake spirit had understood her words. This time, instead of hunting the ghosts in the previous way, it directly grabbed them and tore them into several pieces.
It attacked from both sides with great power and looked quite imposing.
On the other side, the man with the pure - yang constitution looked much more relaxed than He Qing.
He didn't need to do anything extra. He just needed to stand there, and when the ghosts got close to him, they would be incinerated like moths to a flame and disappear instantly.
From time to time, he exhaled a couple of breaths to release his yang energy, and the ghosts didn't dare to approach at all.
So most of the pressure fell on the snake spirit.
One was calm while the other was active. Together, they protected the path ahead.
Since Nian Nian was okay, she continued to report the directions to Shen Weixun.
Finally, they reached the eye of the formation.
Actually, the journey in between was not very long or particularly difficult.
All of them were capable people. When they were together, the ghosts simply had no way to deal with them.
Now the real problem was the eye of the formation.
"Damn it! Using a living person as the eye of the formation! Aren't you afraid that your son will be... "
The snake spirit possessing He Qing was probably from the north. It cursed in a fluent northern accent with great gusto.
That's right. The eye of the formation they found was a living person.
A living, human being.
A baby who had just been born, without any skin on its body.
This curse was truly hereditary. Even a baby could end up like this.
Nian Nian was stunned when she saw this baby, who was still in swaddling clothes and had been used as the eye of the formation.
At this moment, she was truly at a loss.
What was needed to break the formation?
It was to destroy the eye of the formation.
This meant that if they wanted to save their own lives, they had to kill this baby.
Few people would use a living person as the eye of the formation.
One reason was that a living person was extremely unstable. Before the formation was activated, moving even a little bit might destroy the overall structure of the formation.
The other reason was that it was too inhumane.
Even evil sorcerers were afraid of divine retribution.
They did things or practiced evil arts for their own purposes. Few of them became evil sorcerers just for the sake of killing or blindly pursuing it.
But the person who set up this formation had clearly lost all moral bottom - lines.
"What should we do now? This poor child... "
The strong man who knew the art of Lu Ban was also at a loss. He looked a bit rough and had a fiery temper, but that didn't mean he was heartless.
Seeing this baby in front of him, even though it was already beyond recognition, he just couldn't bring himself to do it.
None of the people present could do it.
But...
"What should we do? Damn it! I knew those bastards were capable of such things, but I never thought they could be so crazy. If I get out of here, I'll definitely twist their heads off and use them as balls! This must be a child from their own village. How could they do this?!"
Yes.
This must be a child born in this village.
When outsiders entered the ancestral hall and were cursed, they would just suffer themselves. They would never give birth to a child without skin.
Only those with the bloodline of this village would be like this.
Even a tiger wouldn't eat its own cubs.
For the sake of these pearls and treasures, they really resorted to any means.
"Otherwise... "
Nian Nian frowned. She had an idea in mind, but she knew that Third Senior Brother probably wouldn't agree.
"No way!"
Sure enough, before Nian Nian could even finish speaking, Shen Weixun interrupted her directly.
He knew what Nian Nian wanted to do.
She wanted to replace the eye of the formation with herself.
Nian Nian knew how to set up formations. After staying in this formation for so long, she had basically figured out the structure and operation mode of this formation.
Replacing the eye of the formation was not difficult for her.
The difficult part was that to replace the eye of the formation, they had to find something of the same attribute to replace it.
Since they used a living person, if they wanted to replace it, they also had to use a living person.
Nian Nian would never push someone else into the fire pit. So once she opened her mouth, she must be thinking about sacrificing herself again.
"Don't even think about it. I will never agree to such a thing. There must be another way. If all else fails... I'll end this child's life. His parents and relatives have already abandoned him. Putting him here is just to test our conscience. They must have thought about the possibility of losing this bet. So when they put this child here, they had already made up their minds to abandon him completely. Even if he lives in this world in the future, he will only suffer."
"I don't suggest being the bad guy, so Nian Nian, no matter what, you can't do that."