Chapter 441

"I felt a whisper!"

The priest shouted to Xia De.

"I felt it too."

And this time it was stronger. The source of the element traces was still the corpse, not the dagger, and this phenomenon was already enough to explain some problems.

"Priest, we can't hurt it anymore; this will only make it stronger."

"Of course, I understand. Is there a way to temporarily control it? Just a few seconds!"

"Of course, Priest, lure it under the tree!"

Xia De responded, so the priest attracted the corpse and began to run forward.

"Chain of Great Sins!"

Amidst the clattering sound, the pitch-black chain stretched out from Xia De's sleeve. While Priest Priest Ao Gu Si turned his head and showed a suspicious expression, the chain climbed up the trunk, wrapped around the thickest branch twice, and fell down, forming a circle on the ground and tying a knot.

The corpse waving the dagger followed the priest to under the tree. The priest's feet stepped into the circle in the chain on the ground, and nothing happened. And when the corpse stepped into the trap formed by the chain, as Xia De pulled hard, the corpse was directly hung upside down.

"Watch me."

The priest immediately turned and greeted it, pushed away the dagger that the upside-down corpse continued to wave, and then reached out and pressed on the corpse's brow:

"Heh!"

The old man shouted in a low voice. As the life ring behind him rotated rapidly, in the gushing steam mist, the holy white light illuminated all directions. At that moment, the light even made Xia De feel that he had touched the purest power in this world.

But very strangely, when using this power, the spirit rune behind Priest Priest Ao Gu Si didn't light up with spiritual light.

Those holy white lights gradually gathered at the priest's fingertips. Xia De, who narrowed his eyes, even saw several white feather phantoms shaking and falling behind the priest during this process.

This was not a real thing, but a strange phenomenon that only an Outsider sensitive to souls could see.

The white light gathered at the priest's fingertips was finally pressed on the corpse's brow. There was no abnormal phenomenon like the corpse exploding; it shivered twice and then stopped moving completely.

The panting priest took a step back. If he hadn't been supported by Xia De, he might have sat directly on the ground.

Xia De felt that the priest's back was soaked.

"After all, I'm not a young man anymore."

The old man panted, shivered in the night wind, and it took a long while before he let go of Xia De's arm and stood up straight.

The corpse was still hung upside down under the tree by Xia De, and the black dagger had fallen from its hand and was stuck in the ground.

"Meow~"

The cat on his shoulder was curious about this scene, but very consciously didn't leave Xia De's shoulder.

"How to deal with it now? Should I send this corpse directly to the church?"

Xia De asked.

"No, it's too far from the church. If this thing runs away out of control in the city, we are all sinners."

The priest said.

"But what exactly does this count as? Why is there a whisper element on the corpse? Is it a relic that controlled the corpse?"

"No, no, I think the relic is in front of us. Detective, I have read some terrifying materials and know what kind of actions crazy Ring Warlocks will have. I sincerely hope my guess is wrong, but we still have to ask the soul."

Xia De nodded and looked up and down at the corpse:

"This corpse shouldn't be the farm woman's deceased husband, the original owner of the grave, Muhier Nemu, right?"

He said suspiciously. Although it was wrong to judge people by their appearance, this corpse, whose clothes had been burned away, didn't look like an ordinary farmer who lived here all year round no matter how you looked at it. His skin was not rough, and there were no calluses left by long-term heavy labor on his palms. Instead, there were calluses left by long-term clerical work holding a pen.

Not to mention, although the corpse's appearance was not as handsome as Xia De's current appearance, it didn't look like a middle-aged man who would stay in a small village outside the city with peace of mind no matter how you looked at it.

"This should be the scholar who helped the farm woman arrange the funeral. He buried himself in the ground, so the soul of Mr. Muhier Nemu, who was not buried, would entrust a dream to his wife to complain."

The priest also agreed with Xia De's view:

"I suspect this is a very ancient ritual, using the method of resurrection after death to gain power. Evil, very evil, and there are ritual contents I don't understand."

Hearing Priest Priest Ao Gu Si say this, Xia De went to check the coffin, and sure enough, he found traces of the ritual base array and ancient characters on the inside of the coffin.

Judging from the fact that he had a headache just by looking at it, those characters were extremely ancient, but for Xia De, interpreting them was not a difficult task. Just, individual runes could be identified, but Xia De couldn't say clearly what purpose the ritual was intended to achieve.

"Do you want to channel his soul? I happen to have the ability of channeling, and the integrity of this corpse also meets the requirements."

Xia De was eager to try.

"No, no, I'll do it. Your sorcery can only communicate with soul fragments; I can summon a complete soul. Detective, put it down first and let it lie flat on the grass."

The priest said, and the 【Soul】 spirit rune on the life ring behind him flickered with spiritual light.

After Xia De placed the corpse steadily, the priest took out a wooden tube from his pocket and sprinkled the black powder inside in a circle along the edge of the corpse. He let Xia De hold the cat and retreat, and instructed that he must absolutely not let the cat jump over the corpse's head. Then, he placed the horse lamp, which was still quite bright, in front of the corpse's head and chanted the incantation.

Translating those ancient languages into Delarion common language, the general meaning was "soul return."

In the cemetery where there was only a faint night wind, a violent gloomy wind suddenly blew. The strong wind whistled, and the sound even sounded a bit like a ghost wailing.

Mia stood on Xia De's shoulder, her body pressed against Xia De's side face, while Xia De carefully observed the priest's ritual.

He saw Priest Priest Ao Gu Si suddenly widen his eyes, bend down, and then slap the corpse on the face:

"Return!"

The old man's angry roar really made Xia De want to laugh.

But doing so was very effective, because Xia De really saw a miserable green phantom being slapped out of the corpse by the priest... He was very interested in this channeling sorcery.

The soul's appearance was exactly the same as the corpse lying flat on the ground. After he appeared, he was stunned for a moment, as if he hadn't reacted to the current situation, and then he recognized where the cemetery was in the night.

Looking around again, he saw his own corpse on the ground and saw Xia De and Priest Priest Ao Gu Si.

"You... are tired of living?"

His expression suddenly became fierce, and he didn't give Xia De and Priest Priest Ao Gu Si any chance to talk to him at all.

Behind the soul, the life ring of a 5th-ring warlock appeared. But Xia De and the priest were not panicked at all. Ring Ringed Ringed Shushi was not a purely soul profession; the unity of body and soul could control this occult power. Therefore, Xia De's body's face would gradually move towards the soul's appearance.

Even as a 5th-ring warlock, in the situation of discarding the body and appearing in a purely soul way, the power that could be exerted would inevitably be reduced. If the opponent were high-ring, Xia De and the priest would turn and run at this time, but with only 5th-ring, they could still deal with it.

The life ring behind the soul probably also appeared in the form of a phantom because of the operator's state. Several shadowy spirit runes flickered with miserable green light. As the cold wind blew, abnormal sounds came from under the surrounding land.

"Damn, this guy wants to desecrate the corpse and revive the undead!"

Priest Priest Ao Gu Si cursed in a tone that didn't fit his clergyman status, lifted his robe, and then slammed his right foot on the ground. The life ring also appeared behind the priest. He, who was proficient in 【Soul】 and 【Corpse】 powers, was trying his best to prevent the undead from reviving.

And Xia De of course didn't stay idle. He swung an arc of moonlight at the Ring Ringed Ringed Shushi's soul with his right hand. While the other party used the convenience of the spirit body to dodge, Xia De stepped out and appeared behind the other party.

But this sneak attack didn't succeed. The soul actually disappeared at the same time Xia De stabbed the sword in his hand. This was a special way of moving for a spirit body.

The soul appeared directly above the corpse.

"You guys are really fools!"

He laughed and was about to drill into his body, then saw Xia De rushing over holding the cat.

"You can't touch the soul, oh!"

Xia De threw Mia over, and the orange cat flew over the corpse's face. Although the soul hadn't entered the corpse yet, the corpse actually opened its eyes by itself.

It was transforming from a corpse sealed by Priest Priest Ao Gu Si into an undead creature.

"Do you think I have no way just because of this?"

The life ring behind the soul flickered with spiritual light again, appeasing the corpse that was trying to crawl up. Seeing that Priest Priest Ao Gu Si was still trying his best to prevent the corpses in the entire cemetery from rioting, Xia De grabbed the chain on his cuff and threw the chain forward.

"Hmm?"

His intention was to force the other party to leave the space above the corpse and then use the chain to imprison him. But unexpectedly, the soul turned and raised his hand to block, and the pitch-black rune chain composed of "Gluttony" and "Greed" actually pierced the spirit body's arm, and then easily pierced the entire soul from the front.

"What is this?"

The soul looked at Xia De in surprise, and Xia De was also surprised. He thought this chain had no attack power.

The chain not only pierced the soul, but dense black traces actually spread along the soul's wound to the entire spirit body.

This soul, channeled by Priest Priest Ao Gu Si, didn't even have time to curse Xia De, and the whole person changed color rapidly as if dyed with ink.

The life ring behind him deteriorated like rusted metal, and the dense spirit runes representing "Gluttony" and "Greed" squirmed like burrowing insects on the pitch-black spirit body and rusted life ring.

The soul raised his hand to point at Xia De, as if to curse him. But as soon as his hand was raised, the soul expanded as if out of control. The human-shaped spirit body squirmed and deformed, and the wisdom in his eyes gradually faded.

"He's going to lose control!"

The priest shouted. Xia De, who was surprised, came back to his senses and knew that he couldn't let it develop like this.

Holding the sword with both hands, Xia De took a step forward to the front of the other party, used force under his feet, and held the Moonlight Greatsword high:

"Praise the Moon!"

He shouted, the sword fell, and with the falling arc of the silver moon, the deformed spirit body was split open, and then turned into black ash and dissipated in front of Xia De bit by bit.

The chain fell onto the corpse with a clatter, and the ashes turned into by the soul carried a foul smell and disappeared bit by bit with the night wind. This was the first time Xia De saw a soul turn into powder in this way. This was the most terrifying scene so far tonight.