Chapter 555: The Soul-Seeking Technique

She held a slip of paper in her hand, on which were written the little girl's birth date and time, as well as her nickname, "Miaomiao."

After a glance at the birth date and time, Chen Yu turned his head and said, "Those born in the Year of the Pig, the Year of the Sheep, or in the fifth or seventh lunar months, please step aside."

There were originally several Yisheng watching in the room; once Chen Yu said this, everyone revealed expressions of curiosity.

Some Yisheng had their expressions change slightly; Chen Yu's actions were no different from those of a charlatan. They originally wanted to reprimand him, but thinking that Chen Yu had been personally invited by Wu Zhangjiang, they swallowed that breath; after all, the other party was no ordinary person.

Those who met the zodiac signs Chen Yu mentioned walked out, and the number of people in the room had already decreased by nearly half.

Chen Yu flipped his right hand and took out seven old-fashioned oil lamps, placing them in front of the bed in the shape of the Big Dipper.

Everyone present was stunned; although these seven lamps were not large, Chen Yu had nothing on his person, so where did he take these lamps from?

"Chen Yu, how did you hide so many lamps on your person?" Ye Qinglong could not help but ask.

"Watch more, ask less, speak less." Chen Yu glanced at him, then flipped his hand again, taking out several copper coins and placing them before the oil lamps.

After finishing all this, Chen Yu lit the oil lamps, then took a slight breath and produced a stack of Talismans.

Seeing the items on his person appearing endlessly, those who didn't know better would have thought he was carrying a bag on him.

But Chen Yu was only wearing a simple shirt and trousers; how he managed to fit so many things on his person was something everyone did not know.

Ye Qinglong was curious and opened his mouth several times, but remembering Chen Yu's warning, he held it back.

Chen Yu closed his eyes, and a scripture flashed through his mind; the inheritance he had obtained, the Profound Origin Sacred Clarity Scripture, was all-encompassing, and he had dabbled in all knowledge of Mystic Gate Daoist studies.

However, the Sacred Clarity Scripture specialized in the path of Medicine and cultivation, so Chen Yu had limited understanding of the Soul Searching Technique within the Mystic Gate.

It was just that, relying on the first level of the Profound Origin Sacred Clarity Scripture, retrieving the soul should not be a major problem. He exhaled in one breath, a sharp glint flashed in his eyes, and then he scattered the Talisman Paper in his hand into the air.

After scattering them, he formed a Dao Seal with both hands and let out a deep shout.

Whoosh—the dozens of Talismans drifting in mid-air suddenly seemed to be caught by a whirlwind, spinning rapidly in the air.

Everyone in the room had their mouths wide open; the move Chen Yu was performing was too much like the Magic in many movies. The Talismans spinning around the seven oil lamps in mid-air looked too eerie.

Suddenly, Chen Yu raised his right hand, and the fresh blood in the test tube in his hand was propelled into the air.

The fresh blood sprinkled onto these Talismans in mid-air; these rapidly spinning Talismans fell to the ground, lined up in a row, and then formed a profound symbol. This symbol pointed directly to the northwest.

Chen Yu walked up, reached out to measure the symbol, and after calculating silently in his heart for a moment, he looked up and said, "Northwest direction, twenty kilometers away."

"Chen Yu, what do you mean? The little girl's soul is twenty kilometers away in the northwest direction?" Ye Qingning asked.

"That's right, the information displayed on the Soul Locking Array is in that direction; we are going there right now." Chen Yu nodded.

"Is there a specific location?" Shi Mengrou asked.

"Give me a map of Ning City." Chen Yu said.

"Quick, a map." Someone hurriedly found a map.

Chen Yu reached out to measure on the map, then marked a circle in the northwest direction: "It is roughly at this position in the northwest, within a fifty-meter radius. Do not sound the police sirens, and do not take too many people or cars, so as not to alert the enemy."

"Understood." Shi Mengrou nodded; she now admired Chen Yu to the point of prostration. She took out her phone and barked, "Team One, assemble in plain clothes, emergency mission."

"Also, everyone get out; you cannot accidentally touch the lamps in the room. These are Soul Guiding Lamps; they are equivalent to lighting the way for Miaomiao's soul to return home. If the lamps go out, her soul will be unable to return to her body." Chen Yu said.

"Yes, yes, Master Chen, I leave Miaomiao to you." Wang Shu's attitude was now extremely respectful. Judging by the hand Chen Yu had just shown, he was a true expert. Hope surged in her heart that Chen Yu could make Miaomiao wake up.

A moment later, three cars rushed toward the northwest; the three cars carried a total of thirteen police officers.

"Does everyone understand the mission?" After explaining the mission, with everyone holding a photo of a little boy and a marked map, Shi Mengrou asked.

"Understood, Team Leader Shi." The uniform reply of all the police officers came through the walkie-talkies.

The cars roared all the way, driving onto the outer ring road; in less than twenty minutes, the three cars pulled to a stop.

Chen Yu got out of the car first. He held his right palm upward, and as a faint light flashed, to the dumbfounded expressions of all the police officers, it formed an arrow, pointing in one direction.

"This way." Chen Yu retracted his hand and walked forward first.

"Follow." Regarding the methods Chen Yu was displaying, Shi Mengrou was already accustomed to them. She gave a call, and everyone followed vigilantly.

This place was a village on the outskirts of the city awaiting demolition; some old, dilapidated houses stood there without any pattern, appearing chaotic and disorganized.

Suddenly, Chen Yu stopped abruptly and shouted in a deep voice, "Stop."

The dozen or so police officers behind him stopped in unison; everyone drew their handguns and looked ahead vigilantly.

"What is it?" Shi Mengrou scanned the surroundings, seeing no movement, and could not help but ask in surprise.

Chen Yu squatted down, brushed his right hand lightly over the ground, and his palm touched a red thread.

This red thread was extremely thin and could not be seen at all without looking closely. Chen Yu pulled the red thread toward the left side, and saw that the other end of the thread was tied to a hair-trigger mechanism, and on the mechanism sat a Brocade Pouch.

Chen Yu carefully took down the Brocade Pouch and opened it, seeing that it contained some brown powder.

"Corpse Powder, a descendant of the Corpse-Driving lineage, Liu Suiyue?" Chen Yu instantly understood the other party's background, and his expression suddenly sank.

"What do you mean?" Shi Mengrou was puzzled.

"The person who performed the Soul-Seeking this time is an old acquaintance of mine." Chen Yu raised the Brocade Pouch in his hand and said, "This is Corpse Powder, a highly toxic substance."

"How toxic is it?" A police officer asked.

Chen Yu picked up the Brocade Pouch and sprinkled it onto a nearby tree as thick as a bowl.

The Corpse Powder touched the tree, and with a hiss, a puff of white smoke rose up.

The small tree as thick as a bowl withered rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye; a moment later, the tree was devoid of all life.

Everyone gasped; this thing was actually so formidable.

"That old acquaintance of mine is quite sinister; she led the other end of the thread to the Brocade Pouch. If we stepped on it, we would trigger the Corpse Powder in the mechanism. If anyone touched even a bit of this stuff, everyone would die." Chen Yu put away the Corpse Powder and said.