Chapter 1239: Exterminate Evil Thoroughly

"Eh?" Dong Rui was surprised, "What use do you have for this?" He Lingchuan smiled, touched the giant elephant corpse puppet with his shield, and the latter disappeared.

The Soul-Sucking Mirror had taken the initiative to ask for it.

Apart from the Emperor Flowing Pulp, it didn't ask its master for many things. Besides, it had made a great contribution today by inducing Commandant Shi and the other Pi Xia people into the mirror world, so He Lingchuan naturally had to reward it.

The Soul-Sucking Mirror in motion couldn't contain living creatures, but putting corpse puppets inside was no problem at all.

He Lingchuan also guessed what it wanted to do; the mirror itself already had a few little evil ghosts.

The elephant puppet, as big as a small mountain, disappeared into thin air, and Fu Liushan was stunned. What ordinary storage ring had such a large capacity?

Dong Rui knew that the mirror shield in He Lingchuan's hand was a bit tricky, so he didn't ask much, continuing: "By the way, we have to take a trip to the Screaming Forest."

We? Fu Liushan asked strangely: "You two are going too? What for?"

He was a Celestial Master; inspecting the forest left behind by evil ghosts was his duty. What business did these two have going to the Screaming Forest?

Dong Rui pointed to the corpse puppets all over the ground: "To investigate the source of these things."

Seeing the light in his eyes, Fu Liushan asked He Lingchuan in a low voice: "He's just fond of these?"

He wasn't stupid either. The ghost monkey that accompanied He Lingchuan in the great battle against Luo Shengjia at Jingshan a while ago seemed somewhat similar to these corpse puppets; they were all... how to put it, mutated demons? "Right, he's just fond of these." He Lingchuan told the truth, "His lifelong love."

Whenever it involved divine blood or divine bones, let alone Dong Rui, even He Lingchuan himself would have eyes shining. The Screaming Forest was worth a visit.

Besides, He Lingchuan had another layer of suspicion in his heart.

He suddenly asked Fu Liushan: "Has the Xuan Lu Ghost King's true self truly been eliminated?"

For ghost matters, asking a Celestial Master was best.

The Xuan Lu Ghost King could recognize the aura of Luo Shengjia on him, which was detrimental to his future plans; this disaster must not be left behind.

Fu Liushan was startled, thinking for a moment before saying: "The Pi Xia commandant who surrendered seems to be surnamed Shi? He said that when they were trapped in the mirror world, the Xuan Lu avatar suddenly disappeared halfway. Calculating the time, it might have been when you killed the Ghost King outside. However, Xuan Lu is cunning; this matter still needs to be confirmed."

The Soul-Sucking Mirror, which had returned to He Lingchuan, chimed in at this moment: "Right, right, Master, as soon as you killed Xuan Lu, the avatar in the mirror wailed once and was gone, leaving that Commandant surnamed Shi looking completely bewildered."

Having been with He Lingchuan for a long time, it also knew what "bewildered" meant.

He Lingchuan patted the mirror lightly.

The Soul-Sucking Mirror's mirror world had been closed for repairs after he messed it up two years ago. According to its own words, it was "debugging." It followed its master wholeheartedly, and He Lingchuan didn't treat it poorly; he didn't know how much Emperor Flowing Pulp he had fed it over the years. The mirror also led the development of the mirror world according to its own understanding of the world's laws.

In the past, He Lingchuan and a few Baoshu people could mess up the mirror world; now, even if he put hundreds of Pi Xia soldiers in, it would be perfectly fine.

Of course, it also used some methods, using maze tricks to separate the mirror world's wandering souls from the Pi Xia army, leaving only a "cave" for them to enter and exit, to minimize the impact of living people from the outside on the mirror world.

But regardless, this carrying capacity was vastly different from before, which was why it could make a great contribution this time—

The "disappeared" 700 Pi Xia soldiers greatly reduced the defensive pressure on the Boss Situ army and effectively reduced the army's casualties.

At the moment, He Lingchuan ordered someone to find a death-defying soldier.

These were Gaopu people who had been forced to join the Pi Xia army after their country fell, having no choice but to sign a self-sacrifice contract with the Ghost King. Once the Ghost King had a request, he could directly control their bodies to fight.

After He Lingchuan killed the Ghost King, they also regained control of their bodies for the first time and no longer fought for the Pi Xia people.

Fu Liushan asked him: "Do you feel anything unusual?"

The Gaopu person shook his head: "Except for being exhausted to death."

He had been controlled by the Ghost King and had been fighting at high intensity, his physical strength severely overdrawn. Now his eyes were bloodshot, and his eye sockets were sunken. If it weren't for the wrong place, he could have fallen asleep right there.

He Lingchuan had seen this situation before in Nangong Yan's Golden Feather Guards.

Fu Liushan took out a pill and gave it to him: "Swallow it, don't move, no burping."

The Gaopu person swallowed the pill as instructed and soon began to shiver, as if it were the dead of winter. This state only lasted a few breaths, after which he calmed down, suppressing the urge to burp.

The three soon saw three faint blue flames emerge from his shoulders and the top of his head.

Life fire, the fire of life hidden deep within the human spiritual stove, also known as the Life Lamp. They could reflect the owner's survival state.

He Lingchuan had first used this trick himself and with the Black Water City army when sailing in the Panlong Desert.

"Don't move!" Fu Liushan reminded the Gaopu person again, then leaned close to the life fire to observe carefully.

There was wind at night, but it couldn't blow these three ghostly flames at all.

"Hmm—" Fu Liushan stroked his chin, "Looks like there's no problem; his contract with the Ghost King has been lifted."

The Gaopu person was overjoyed upon hearing this: "Lifted? I, am I safe?"

"Yes, you are safe, as long as the Boss Situ family's army doesn't give you trouble."

They found another death-defying soldier to test, and it was the same.

Dong Rui was more cautious: "Can you tell if the contract was lifted passively or actively?"

"That's impossible to tell! Being able to see from the life fire whether the life-control contract is still there is already a secret method not passed on to others!" Fu Liushan said, "As soon as you killed the Ghost King, these corpse puppets and death-defying soldiers immediately broke free from control; the Pi Xia people also confessed that the Ghost King personally admitted that his true self had arrived."

"What he said to the Pi Xia people must be the truth?" Dong Rui spat: "Xuan Lu was treacherous when he was alive; could he be trustworthy after death?"

This made a lot of sense. Fu Liushan pondered for a long time: "Actually, there is another way to try."

"Then what are we waiting for? Let's go."

The three left the Boss Situ family's army and returned to Rolling Stone Valley, Stone Village.

Although the Pi Xia people hadn't sent troops to attack, the Xuan Lu Ghost King had sent three or four corpse puppets, along with hundreds of evil ghosts, to Stone Village to plunder the souls of the living.

He didn't want to let go of any living person related to He Lingchuan.

Fortunately, He Lingchuan had long felt his heartfelt malice and had Fu the Great Celestial Master make some arrangements here early on. Although he had anticipated the Ghost King's anticipation, he also had to defend against one hand; in case the Ghost King and the Pi Xia people attacked Rolling Stone Valley directly, the army hidden in Cotton Village would flank from the rear, creating a pincer attack with the 300 garrison troops.

So he had actually prepared several plans. Besides the village with well-laid arrays, the places where the civilians of Rolling Stone Valley could hide included reinforced mine shafts. Supplies and weapons were actually stockpiled inside, and they could even deal with smoke and fire.

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