Chapter 218: It's a trap!

Du Lian died.

She died at age three.

Du Lian lived again.

Someone, through those thread-like, root-like patterns, stitched together Du Lian's soul, letting Du Lian "live" again.

Du Lian's this sentence "Originally, I was already dead" not only sentenced herself to death, but also sentenced me to death.

Because the two liquefied ribs at the lowest part of my chest were also stitched together in the same way.

This... perhaps this is the true reason I can be reborn.

"Go!"

"Hurry up and go!"

Du Lian suddenly shouted in my mind, she desperately opened and closed her lips, her hands slapped the fish tank wall.

"It's a trap!"

"They're coming! They're here!"

Pa... pa... pa...

Suddenly, the sound of applause came from behind me.

Even though I am only a soul body, I instantly felt as if all the blood in my body had frozen.

Without turning back, I knew the comer was Feng Lisu.

What a huge scheme this is.

At this moment, I even dare not think how many years Feng Lisu has prepared this scheme for me.

"Li Nu, do you like the gift I prepared for you?"

Feng Lisu's voice sounded behind me; I did not turn back, I am not sure what restriction I will receive after making eye contact with her.

"Actually, I never thought to activate this formation array so early." Feng Lisu continued, "You are too disobedient, desperately resisting, forcing me to have no way out, only able to activate this line; how is it, are you still satisfied?"

Seeing my no reaction, Feng Lisu gave a cold laugh.

Then she said: "Li Nu, you have been here for a while, haven't you? Didn't you ever lower your head and look at yourself?"

Look at myself?

I know I am currently a soul body.

But what Feng Lisu said is obviously not that.

I lowered my head to look at my soul body; upon looking, I was completely stunned.

Like everyone else, my soul body is nearly transparent.

But the difference is, I for the first time clearly saw my two liquefied ribs.

Those two ribs... are exactly the same as the liquid in the bathtub.

They... are flowing.

Inside the flowing viscous liquid are spread thread-like, root-like things.

Looking more closely, those root-like things spread outward from those two liquefied ribs, almost covering my entire soul body.

I... my soul body seems to be stitched together by those root-like things.

Just as I imagined earlier, the principle of Du Lian coming back to life.

Exactly the same.

"See clearly, Li Nu?" Feng Lisu said proudly, "Twenty years ago, you were unexpectedly born in Tafengcun, which truly frightened me.

I can't understand it—clearly you were pressed to death, why could you still be reborn?

From that time I began researching you, researching everything about you, but it wasn't enough, far from enough!

So I found a child whose life pattern was eighty to ninety percent similar to yours; we shattered her soul, collected it, then got her corpse, and poured her shattered soul together with that liquid into her corpse.

Result, do you know what happened?

She came back to life!"

Saying this, Feng Lisu became completely frenzied: "Those roots in the liquid actually stitched her soul, letting her come back to life, Li Nu, you say how wonderful that is!"

The next moment, she suddenly teleported to my front, blocking my view.

A foul smell rushed into my nostrils, making me almost want to vomit.

This time seeing her again, Feng Lisu's body is more rotten than before in the Peach Blossom Spring.

I can even see blackened skeletal remains beneath the rotting flesh on her right cheek.

I furrowed my brow and subconsciously stepped back two steps.

This movement of mine, however, angered Feng Lisu.

She followed me forward two steps, her rotting cheek almost pressing against my soul body, she roared: "How? Do you despise me like this?

Li Nu, you are my slave! On what grounds do you despise me?

Everything you have is mine!

Your skin, your man, everything you have!"

As she spoke, she raised her hand to touch my cheek; I quickly retreated to dodge.

A piece of rotting flesh fell off at the moment she raised her hand.

Feng Lisu stared at the fallen piece of rotting flesh and went mad!

She suddenly slapped the fish tank behind her with a palm.

The palm wind howled past, I furrowed my brow.

Feng Lisu's internal strength cultivation... seems to have weakened compared to before.

But this palm still shattered the fish tank.

The liquid in the fish tank instantly rushed out.

Du Lian's body fell heavily to the ground.

At the moment Du Lian's body hit the ground, she neither shouted nor struggled.

She merely stared blankly upward, devoid of life.

The next moment, something inside her body… shattered.

It was her soul.

Split apart, her soul and spirit scattered.

Du Lian's corpse turned into a pool of pus, eventually leaving not even bones.

Feng Lishu laughed maniacally, pointing at the pus on the ground and saying to me: "Li Nu, do you see? Disobedient, this is your fate."

She lifted her foot and walked toward me again: "Be good, surrender yourself to me; you are my slave, everything you have rightfully belongs to me!"

As she spoke, she lunged at me.

I retreated while observing Feng Lishu.

She could have, as before, started forming seals upon meeting, using maxims to control me and do as she pleased.

But she didn't.

Thus it is clear that the backlash of the Birth Curse severely weakened her; she no longer has the ability to control me.

Therefore she urgently needs a replacement for me.

What should I do now?

I have a strong feeling that if I can kill her today in this underground palace, she will vanish completely from my life.

I don't know what backlash I will face afterward, but I know I must seize this opportunity.

I shouted loudly: "Feng Wu, come forth!"

At the same time I extended my right hand in a grasping motion.

But there was no response.

The long bow did not appear, nor did the copper coin Liu Junyan gave me.

Feng Lishu sneered.

I reached to touch my neck, then lowered my gaze to the base of my left middle finger.

My jade pendant was gone, and even the water ripple pattern at the base of my finger had disappeared.

They… could not follow my Soul Body over.

What I don't understand is that Feng Wu is clearly my natal artifact; why, as a Soul Body, can I not summon it?

"Are you waiting for your natal artifact?" Feng Lishu said, "Do you think I set this trap without considering its existence?"

Thus, the formation array of this underground palace blocks Feng Wu from outside.

Feng Wu is merely isolated by the formation array, unable to receive my summons.

At this moment I felt what it means to be at a dead end.

"I told you, stop struggling in your dying moments; it's useless."

Feng Lishu suddenly stepped back a few paces, waved her hand, and extinguished an oil lamp on the platform.

At the instant the oil lamp went out, I clearly felt that the formation array in the underground palace had changed.

The surrounding candles flickered, but once they steadied, the lit flames actually formed a Taiji Bagua formation.

And I and Feng Lishu each stood within the Yin-Yang Fish formation eye…