Chapter 127: My senior sister brought the Thousand Soul Banner to save me!

White hair, to me, is no different from a curse.

But Feng Lishu, upon seeing my hair gradually turn white, became excited all over: "Yes, this is the state, Li Nu, do you still remember? Back then on Dark Paulownia Mountain, you looked like this, full of white hair, extremely weak, I almost succeeded; this time, you cannot escape!"

Her eyes flickered with a bewitching red light, and the feather mark between her brows was red enough to drip blood.

I only felt pain in my ribs, my back shoulder blades also hurt, and my eyes ached as if they were about to burn.

Feng Lishu struggled to bring me into the formation array, while I hovered in midair looking down, seeing a scene impossible to see from the shore.

Below the Nine Yin Spirit Gathering Formation, in the pitch-black river water, vast black qi gathered from all directions beneath the black coffin.

They swirled and condensed around the black coffin without cease, gradually forming a coiling dragon shape.

The coiling dragon came from the west, after circling many times beneath the black coffin, it shot straight toward the east, toward Dang Pu.

The coiling dragon had a body, but neither its tail nor its head could be seen.

This scene instantly reminded me of the sight appearing on the ground before the divine shrine in the west wing of Dang Pu.

Exactly the same.

What is going on?

Is it an omen?

Or is it realistic?

But no matter what, as this coiling dragon grew stronger, the danger to Dang Pu increased.

Can Liu Junyan and the Mysterious Cat really hold out?

So, what exactly is the truth of the Nine Yin Spirit Gathering Formation?

At first, everyone told me that this formation array might be to revive Chen Ping, to revive the netherworld troops.

Just now, Feng Lishu told me again that tonight someone wants to become a god.

In my view, this seems like a trapped beast fighting back!

It wants to harness the immense power of the Nine Yin Spirit Gathering Formation to shatter the nail driven into its vital point—Dang Pu.

But Feng Lishu wants to use this formation array to seize my body and simultaneously achieve Nirvana.

Nirvana……is the ultimate way for a phoenix to shed its mortal form and be reborn.

So, Feng Lishu's true form is a phoenix; what about me?

No matter what I once was, now I am merely a flesh body.

She even wants to take my flesh body.

In this situation, I no longer have any strength to draw a bow, and Feng Wu has long been absorbed into my body.

I can only strive to lift my right hand, wanting to break my middle finger, form a seal, and summon ripples with the help of this endless river water.

But before I could succeed, a clear and steady voice suddenly sounded from below: "Soul-Capturing Treasure Banner three feet three, Azure Dragon lifts three bends, Lotus Treasure Canopy above seated, Dragon and Tiger Sashes on both sides, shake three times to weigh three times, lonely souls and evil spirits, gather here, be collected!"

With the final fierce shout, the Yīnfēng surrounding us suddenly reversed direction, whistling straight down toward a certain point to the north below.

Everyone was stunned.

I narrowed my eyes toward the direction the sound came from, and the first thing I saw was a large black banner swaying rhythmically in midair.

Above the black banner is embroidered a scarlet lotus, the lotus inverted, below which is a ferocious skull, with six long tassels attached beneath, on each side fluttering two sashes, the left sash embroidered with a dragon, the right sash with a tiger.

On the reverse side, a blood-red character meaning 'to restrain' is embroidered.

Beneath the black banner is a young girl with a long braid, wearing a hundred-family garment.

The girl sang and jumped, the black banner lifted, held, and waved in her hand with ease.

I don't know why, even though far away, my vision at this moment is unusually clear.

My eyes remained fixed on the girl's empty eye sockets.

Her eyes had been gouged out!

She wielded the Thousand Soul Banner, coming to seize souls!

She……is my senior sister!

At that moment, my tears nearly burst forth.

Not fear, not grievance, but joy.

Senior sister, she is still alive.

She not only lives strongly, but has grown so well.

How could she suddenly appear here?

Immediately, I saw amid the circle of black-clad people around my senior sister, Tang Xun's figure constantly fighting.

It turned out that Tang Xun found my senior sister and brought her here.

But the problem is, as soon as my senior sister appeared, Master Liu, who had been watching from the sidelines, suddenly joined the battle.

He was clearly charging for the Thousand Soul Banner.

At this moment, the Nine Yin Spirit Gathering Formation and the Thousand Soul Banner are locked in a tug-of-war at their limits; the Thousand Soul Banner has absorbed too many surrounding souls, while the Nine Yin Spirit Gathering Formation has gathered far too few, beginning to become unstable.

Underground, that roar suddenly grew louder.

This time I saw clearly that each time the roar reached its peak, the black shadow beneath the black coffin would stir a large ripple that spread outward in all directions.

From this, it is clear enough that the roar comes from the black shadow, or rather from the black shadow's true form.

"Why?!" Feng Lishu also stared at the battle below for a while, she murmured, "Why do so many people unreservedly choose you? Li Nu, where exactly are you better than me?"

I am almost used to her baseless madness.

When Feng Lishu's fingers pressed down beneath my shoulder blade, on my nearly liquefied ribs, the piercing, heart-rending pain still made me break out in a cold sweat, my face deathly pale.

"You are nothing but my slave!" Feng Lishu tormented me, snarling fiercely in my ear, "From the moment you were born, this 'slave' character has been branded into your fate; in this life and the next, you cannot escape!"

"You vile slave, what right do you have to make a marriage pact with Brother Qiu?"

You, a lowly slave, by what right do you entice Yùlín gē's heart?

You lowly slave, what gives you the right to make Brother Yan, who should have ascended to become a dragon, go mad and destroy himself for you?

Raccoon slave, you deserve to die!

Give me your body, your spirit bone, your Feng Wu, your followers — they all should belong to me; I am your master! Everything of yours is mine!

Feng Li Shu's eyes grew redder and redder, the strength in her hand grew greater and greater, the blood-red Feather mark between her brows, as her emotions fluctuated, gradually turned black.

Liu Junyan told me before, this is the sign of my spirit bone unstably merging in her body; then, now is the best time for me to counterattack.

But also as she said, in my body, or rather in my destiny, I was early branded with some kind of mark by her, causing me to be easily controlled by her.

My mind raced, today her control over me — when did it start?

It seems to have started from when she suddenly made a hand seal and uttered the words 'Raccoon slave, kneel!'!

Is it a spirit-invoking word? Or a one-word seal?

No matter what it is, it ultimately came from her mouth.

After she made the hand seal, every word she said, to me, is control.

Only by making her completely shut up is my best means of self-rescue.

Thinking this, I clenched my teeth hard, blood oozing from between my lips and teeth; the pain let me seem to escape her control for a few seconds, I forcefully swung my fist, accurately striking Feng Li Shu's still twitching lips……