The moment Zhu Yao spoke, everyone raised their heads and looked towards the top of the Voice Recording Stone. In an instant, their expressions changed.
A corner of a green cloth could be faintly seen, hidden in the clouds, swaying with the wind. Upon closer inspection, it was the corner of a flag. Strangely, there was no sign of anyone around it. However, there was a bit of green gas around the flag from time to time.
"Sect Master Gu, hurry up and rewind the Sound Recording Stone. Let's see how this flag appeared." Everyone could tell that the flag wasn't simple and reminded Sect Master Gu to rewind and replay it.
Sect Leader Gu immediately activated his Spiritual Qi. The Sound Recording Stone could only save the video for three days at most. Now that three days had passed, even if he rewound the video, he could only go back to the time when the disciples were in chaos and killing each other. The flag seemed to have appeared out of thin air and floated there.
"Look around!" Someone shouted. Everyone looked over suspiciously, only to see streaks of white light entering the flag. That white light had actually flown out from the body of a disciple from the Shell Gate Sect.
"Could this be … the Soul Summoning Banner?!"
Everyone gasped in unison, their faces filled with disbelief.
"This is impossible!" A Nascent Soul Realm old man was the first to stand up and refute, "The Soul Beckoning Flag can only attract ghosts. The disciples of the Essence Gate Sect are all living people. How could the Soul Summoning Banner attract the souls of living people? "
"However, that white light is indeed a portion of those disciples' souls." That person walked in front of the Sound Recording Stone and pointed at the disciples who were fighting crazily and said, "Look at these disciples, all of them are so crazy and have no rationality at all. If they were under the influence of the Mind Manipulation Technique, who would be able to control so many hearts at the same time? It was obvious that his main soul had been taken away by someone. That was why things were like this. This isn't a Soul Summoning Banner at all, but a Soul Assimilating Banner that specializes in absorbing people's main souls. "
"Ridiculous!" There were still people who were unwilling to believe it. "I've never heard of a Soul Assimilating Pennant. How could there be such a cultivation technique and magic tool in this world that could control a person's soul at will? If there really is such a cultivation technique, then wouldn't the people of the world be absorbed by him? "
"Umm …" Zhu Yao raised her claws. "I'm not sure if there are mystic artifacts that can control souls, but I have seen mystic arts that can control souls before!"
Everyone was taken aback. They looked towards Zhu Yao one after another.
She had no choice but to tell him the truth about the few Nascent Soul puppets that attacked Ness Cesary Sect. Qu Ying and the few Ness Cesary Sect disciples present had all witnessed the incident that day. Hence, when Zhu Yao said this, they finally came to a realization. He understood that it was also a soul control technique.
For a moment, everyone was silent. Especially the Sect Leaders of the various sects, their expressions were even more unsightly. There was actually such a terrifying evil cultivator in the world. If he could easily control the souls of living people, would the righteous sects have any chance of winning?
"This person must be found as soon as possible. Otherwise, there will be endless troubles in the future. "The sect that was in favor of peace immediately changed its mind.
"But … if that person comes back and uses this technique again …" There were still people who were worried.
"This person has taken out the Soul Assimilating Flag, but he doesn't dare to show himself. He must be afraid. If we don't take this opportunity to find them, I'm afraid that when they grow stronger, we will be even more helpless. "
"Yes, we must find it quickly."
For a moment, everyone was in danger. The situation where they had been arguing endlessly before was now unprecedentedly united. The leaders of the major sects had already begun discussing how to find the mastermind. Even the few Sovereigns had begun to pay close attention.
Zhu Yao however took a step back, and chuckled towards Sovereign Wu Fu at the side. "I wonder if Sovereign has any brilliant ideas?"
Earlier, Wu Fu was filled with dissatisfaction when he saw her, so he did not pretend to be polite anymore. With a cold snort, he said. "I don't deserve such praise. Junior-martial sister Zhu is so smart. It seems like I will have to rely on junior-martial sister for the matter of hunting down the evil cultivator."
"Of course! It's only right! " Zhu Yao shamelessly admitted to it. She had an expression that said 'you're absolutely right, I'm indeed that incredible'.
Wu Fu's face instantly turned green from anger.
"Junior-martial sister Zhu, senior-martial brother Wu Fu was just angry for a moment. Please don't be calculative with him." Sovereign Wu Hua behind her took a step forward, and acted as the peacemaker.
"Hoho … How can that be? I have always been a great person who doesn't calculative with lowly people!" Zhu Yao intentionally emphasized on the word 'lowly', and as expected, Wu Fu's expression darkened even further. "Look, I have already told Sovereign about the incantation to activate that bell earlier. I'm such a kind-hearted person, so why would I be angry with him? Right, Hua Lin? "
She intentionally poked Old Man Hua at the side.
As a professional actor, Hua Lin immediately nodded his head, and said in a righteous manner. "That's right, that's right. Daoist Yu is a very good person."
"…" Wu Hua's expression stiffened, as he let out a few dry laughs. "Then … Then that's good … Hoho."
Wu Fu's expression had already begun to darken.
"Haah, I'm a person who loves to help others. If I don't help someone for a day, my entire body will feel uncomfortable." Zhu Yao was still fanning the flames. "You guys should know that for someone with such a high cultivation level like me, I usually have nothing to do, and I don't have any hobbies either. I just love to refine little toys like tenth rank or ninth rank, and throw them everywhere to play. In the past, didn't I refine a huge golden flag for you as well? " She paused for a moment. As though she suddenly recalled something, she looked towards Wu Hua and said. "Oh right, Sovereign Wu Hua. I forgot to ask you. Back then, I gave you that golden flag, are you still carrying it? Haah, back then, I concealed my cultivation, so I didn't tell you that it was a seventh rank mystic artifact. I'm sorry about that. "
Wu Hua was startled for a moment. A moment later, something seemed to flash past his face, as he said with a smile. "Sovereign, you're being too courteous! To be able to receive a mystic artifact from you, I'm already very happy. "
"Actually, it's my fault for not studying much when I was young. The words on the flag were written crookedly by me, which affected the circulation of spiritual energy. Otherwise, it could have possibly become an eighth rank mystic artifact. Eh … Back then, what was the word I wrote? Sovereign Wu Hua, take it out and have a look. Do you want me to help you change it? "
"There's no need to trouble yourself." Wu Hua courteously said. "To tell you the truth, this humble one had accidentally lost that flag."
"Ah!?" Zhu Yao frowned. "How did you lose it? Where did you lose it?"
"This …"
"Was it in the Nightmare Forest?"
Wu Hua was startled, and the kind smile on his face instantly stiffened.
Zhu Yao's voice turned cold, as she continued. "I suddenly recalled. The word 'soul' was written on the golden flag, the soul of the Soul Beckoning Banner! "
When her words fell, his expression instantly changed. Hua Lin had already reacted in an instant. Using a hundred percent of his spiritual energy, he sent a palm strike over.
However, he dodged to the side and flew up with his flying sword. Hua Lin's palm struck empty air, and in an instant, a large crater was smashed open on the ground. Wu Hua who still had a kind expression earlier, instantly turned ruthless and savage, and summoned the spiritual sword he carried with him.
"What are you two doing?" Wu Fu at the side was instantly enraged. With a furious look, he stared at Zhu Yao and Hua Lin who had suddenly made a move. Just as he was about to stop them, he was stunned by Zhu Yao's fierce glare.
"Fool, can't you tell? He's refining a Soul Assimilating Banner. Annihilating the entire Shell Door Sect. Removing the culprit of Ness Cesary Sect? "
"What?" This time, not only Wu Fu. Even the crowd present looked at Wu Hua in the sky in disbelief.
Zhu Yao coldly snorted. "I have never gifted him a flag-shaped mystic artifact, but I have seen that golden Soul Beckoning Banner in the Nightmare Forest five years ago. If my guess is correct. The Soul Beckoning Banner should be the material used to refine Soul Assimilating Banners. "
The crowd instantly took in a deep breath.
"That's impossible!" Wu Fu still denied it with all his might. All of the Ness Cesary Sect disciples had expressions of disbelief. "He's a Demigod Sovereign of Ness Cesary Sect in the first place, so why is there a need to deal with his own sect?"
"What if he's not Wu Hua?" Zhu Yao said word by word.
The faces of everyone present turned even more shocked.
"You … What do you mean?" Wu Fu had a look of disbelief.
Zhu Yao solemnly said. "Possession."
Hence, everyone was dumbfounded. Possession … Possession of a Demigod Sovereign's body. How was that possible?
"Nonsense, he's a Demigod!" Wu Fu angrily reprimanded.
"He's someone who can refine a Soul Assimilating Banner as well." Zhu Yao reminded.
Everyone's faces instantly paled. That's right. Since he could even absorb the souls of living beings, it was not impossible for him to possess a Demigod Sovereign's body. Then who was that person in the sky?
"Hohohoho …" Wu Hua suddenly laughed eerily. Strangely, it was actually a female voice that came out. "I never expected that after planning for so many years, I would still be seen through. That's right, I'm not Wu Hua. That old bastard Wu Hua, we agreed to work together, yet, he went back on his words at the last moment and plotted against me. I had no choice but to eliminate this hidden danger. Using his own scheme to infiltrate Ness Cesary Sect … "He suddenly lowered his head to look at Zhu Yao." I believe that I have concealed myself very well in these five years. How did you see through me? "
"Why should I tell you?" Zhu Yao rolled her eyes at him. "We're already going to fight, so why do you villains have so much nonsense to say?"
Zhu Yao immediately sent a bolt of heavenly lightning over with a loud boom.
Actually, from the very beginning, she had suspected that the culprit behind this series of events might be amongst the various sects. Because from the very beginning, other than those few puppets, she had never seen the shadow of any other heretic practitioners. Furthermore, heretic practitioners usually came from different factions, and they did not have a unified gathering point. Wanting to gather them together to attack a deity sect was even harder than ascending to the heavens.
Hence, there was a high possibility that there was a mole. In the beginning, she suspected Wu Fu who had been targeting her the entire time. Until Wu Hua spoke up to help Wu Fu out of his predicament. Though the two of them belonged to Ness Cesary Sect, and were even martial brothers of the same sect, they had always been at odds with each other. Unless it was absolutely necessary, the two of them would never interact with each other. Even back then when she was at Skybond Peak, when the two of them came to supervise her cultivation, they had never appeared together. Earlier, Wu Hua actually spoke up for Wu Fu. This was a little too abnormal.
And what made her truly certain, was when her master suddenly said: This person's divine soul isn't stable.
What kind of person would have an unstable divine soul? Only those who lacked a soul, or those who had taken over someone else's body would have an unstable divine soul.
Adding the appearance of the Soul Assimilating Banner, she could not help but recall the scene of a body taking over when Toad mentioned the golden Soul Beckoning Banner back in the Primordial Spiritual Forest. She said that a male practitioner killed a female practitioner, and then, the female practitioner took over the male practitioner's body. In the beginning, she thought that both parties were Nascent Soul practitioners. Now that she thought about it, with a beastie's personality, if he saw something he liked, and had full confidence in it, why would he wait for the female practitioner to finish taking over the male practitioner's body before taking over the flag?
The reason why he quietly watched the entire scene before taking action was very likely because there was at least one of the opponents who was a Demigod Sovereign, and Toad did not have absolute confidence in winning. Hence, he waited for the opponent to be taken over, before taking over the golden flag he liked and leaving.
And that male practitioner should be Sovereign Wu Hua, while the female practitioner should be that heretic practitioner. Perhaps Wu Hua had wanted to cooperate with the heretic practitioner in the beginning, and that Soul Beckoning Banner might have been refined by him as well. However, he must have regretted it later on, which was why he killed the female practitioner. Yet, he never expected that he would be taken over instead.
Back then, she had merely casually used that Soul Beckoning Banner to test her. She never expected that she would actually take the bait, thinking that the Soul Beckoning Banner that Wu Hua brought over back then was refined by her!
Currently, the one in Wu Hua's body was the female practitioner who had taken over his body. And back then, when little tyrant and Ye Qingcang entered the heart demon field, the strand of divine sense they saw was a female practitioner as well!
She was the one who did all of this.
Under Zhu Yao's attack, only then did everyone regain their senses. One after another, they summoned their mystic artifacts and surrounded 'Wu Hua'.
'Wu Hua' dodged the heavenly lightning bolt, glanced at the people in the surroundings, and coldly laughed. "With just you lot, you think you can capture me? You're overestimating yourselves …"
Before he could even finish, with a plop, he fell from the sky, and laid flat on the ground.
Zhu Yao once again increased the pressure she was releasing from her body, and sighed. "I already told you that villains shouldn't speak so much nonsense, right?" Even though he was surrounded by people, he still did not forget to speak such ruthless words. Are you here to act in a movie?
Everyone: "…" What a savage Sovereign.
Zhu Yao immediately sent a series of lightning bolts towards him, and in an instant, a cloud of dust rose from the ground.
"Damn it!" 'Wu Hua' flew out from the heavy lightning zone. His hair was in a mess, and his clothes were torn as well. Gritting his teeth, he glared at Zhu Yao. This time, he did not waste any more words, as he immediately pulled out an item and threw it into the air.
In an instant, a green flag enveloped Zhu Yao's head.
"Soul Assimilating Banner!" Someone instantly recognized that this was the flag in the Sound Recording Stone. "Sovereign, be careful!"
"It's useless!" 'Wu Hua' smiled with a sinister expression. "No one can escape from my Soul Assimilating Art. So what if your cultivation level is higher than mine? Become my puppet!" He hurriedly formed a hand seal, and in an instant, that green flag emitted a ghastly green light that resembled will-o '-wisps, enveloping Zhu Yao.
"Daoist Yu!" Hua Lin's face paled.
"Hahahaha …" 'Wu Hua' laughed even more wantonly. His eyes were filled with excitement as he stared fixedly at Zhu Yao who was within the green light. She was about to become his Demigod puppet. Soon! Soon …
A moment later.
Nothing happened …
Zhu Yao stood firmly within the green light. Forget about her soul leaving her body, not even a single strand of her hair was missing.
"That's impossible!" 'Wu Hua' hurriedly formed another hand seal. However, no matter how he formed the hand seals, Zhu Yao was not affected in the slightest.
Hua Lin and his little companions were dumbfounded, as they looked at 'Wu Hua' doubtfully. You're here to joke, right? Where's the promised puppet?
"Daoist Yu? How … are you? "
"Mn, it's a little cold!" Sorry, she just found out that her soul was immune as well.
Everyone: "…"
With a wave of her hand, Zhu Yao summoned two bolts of lightning. One landed on the Soul Assimilating Banner, while the other struck towards' Wu Hua 'who was already beginning to seriously doubt his own character design.
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