Chapter 335

Bái Sōnglán was making the final choice.

She closed her eyes, then opened them, and her gaze was already full of resolve.

The hand holding the silver needle stopped trembling, and the white thorn that had pierced the skin miraculously turned into water.

At the moment she gritted her teeth and drove the silver needle in, the pads of two fingers pressed hard against the 'slave' mark on my cheek.

My sister's dull face showed no expression, but her lips kept moving, unconsciously chanting some ancient witchcraft curse.

I recognized it—it was the Soul-Binding Spell.

She intended to trap my soul with that ancient witchcraft curse!

As the Soul-Binding Spell took effect, a powerful force surged into my soul; I heard only a gasp, and the silver needles sealing my seven orifices flew out one by one.

My soul was seized by that powerful force.

My sister thrust her sword finger upward, and my soul jolted, causing my body to bounce sharply on the jade bed.

This process was like the scene in a medical drama where a doctor administers defibrillation to a patient whose heart has stopped.

When her sword finger pressed again against my right cheek, I suddenly formed a seal and struck her chest with a palm.

The enemy took advantage of Bái Sōnglán's opportunity to sever my remnant soul and spirit, swooped in, and regarded this as an excellent chance to fuse my soul.

Likewise, for me, how could it not be the same?

My twin sister, from the time she was still an egg, had been under the control of the Right Guardian.

After hatching, it also revealed her innate deficiency of lacking spiritual awareness.

This is the fundamental reason why Feng Xianqiu has kept my true sister hidden while producing a Feng Lishu.

Now my twin sister has completely become a puppet in his hands.

A puppet is after all just a puppet; no matter how strong Feng Xianqiu's abilities, he cannot make a puppet obey his every whim.

This is my advantage.

I slammed my palm hard against my sister's chest; from beneath my palm countless tendrils sprouted, slipping through the gaps in her clothing, climbing incessantly and spreading over her entire body.

I was right not to have guessed wrong—Feng Xianqiu, in order to establish this special connection between my sister's soul and mine, used ancient witchcraft to create an environment resembling the Feng Clan and resembling the Nether Realm.

And in such an environment I could successfully summon the Cangwu Nether Seal, unleashing its power to the fullest.

The tangled, luxuriant tendrils wrapped my sister's soul into a kind of 'egg'.

Inside that 'egg' she struggled incessantly, emitting howls like a wild beast.

The airflow around me suddenly surged violently, shaking my already incomplete soul into extreme instability.

Feng Xianqiu apparently noticed something amiss here; he is trying to summon back my sister's soul.

If he cannot summon it back, he will resort to mutual destruction.

He can activate the Companion Spell to control me.

If I cannot fuse my sister's half-soul in the shortest time, under the Companion Spell's control I will gradually lose the focus needed to activate the Cangwu Nether Seal, thus missing this opportunity!

I can feel a force constantly pulling me toward my physical body, while Bái Sōnglán and the others are exerting their utmost to save me.

Meanwhile, my soul is drawn to my sister's soul, continually moving toward her.

I endure the excruciating pain of my body and soul being pulled and torn, manipulating the Cangwu Nether Seal to draw my sister's soul toward me.

Impossible.

My soul grows ever more unstable, utterly unable to resist that pull.

What's worse, I suddenly noticed the whole space darkening, as if a force were gradually condensing within it… oh no, it's Feng Xianqiu!

Back then, every time I encountered Feng Lishu, whenever I gained the upper hand, a pair of huge black wings would appear and, at the critical moment, carry Feng Lishu away.

And now, Feng Xianqiu can still use this method to rescue my sister's soul!

Staring at that 'egg' before me and the ever‑gathering black vapor, I finally made a decision—since I cannot smoothly fuse her, I will proactively fuse with her!

I am betting, betting that Feng Xianqiu cannot personally enter this space, break the seal of the Cangwu Nether Seal, and take us both away.

Thinking thus, I gave up resistance, emptied my soul, and allowed the tendrils of the Cangwu Nether Seal to envelop my soul as well, wrapping it inside the 'egg'.

What I did not expect was that, just as those tendrils climbed onto my soul, Liu Junyan's voice suddenly slipped in.

I heard him say: "Shulan, withdraw all the silver needles and let Xiao Jiu fight on her own."

His tone was calm and forceful, as if through the secret chamber, lying on the jade bed my physical body, one could see everything happening to me in this illusory space.

But I know he cannot see it.

This is a unique soul resonance produced after our repeated mutual tuning.

He understands me.

As Liu Junyan's words fell, I only felt my whole body suddenly grow light.

The silver needles remaining on my body were pulled out one by one in quick succession.

At the very moment my soul completely detached from my body and floated up, the tendrils of the Cangwu Nether Seal had already fully enveloped me.

My sister and I were wrapped together in layer upon layer of tendrils.

Those tendrils kept tightening, tightening again and again.

The entire space inside the 'egg' was continually being squeezed.

During this process I could still feel the 'slave' mark on my right cheek heating up, and later it began to bleed and fester.

At first, my soul was pulled and tugged by the Companion Spell's force, squeezing into my sister's soul.

But soon the Companion Spell began to backlash.

My sister's soul began to become restless and unsettled.

I then knew my opportunity had arrived!

I went with the Companion Spell's backlash and proactively fused with my sister's soul.

The pain of the fusion process was no less than that of having one's soul torn apart.

My sister groaned in pain, and I clenched my teeth.

Just as the two remnant souls were about to merge, I suddenly heard a long sigh.

That was my sister's long sigh.

I looked at her right away and saw that, in her brows and eyes—almost exactly like mine—there was finally spirit, no longer the previous dullness.

It must be that our remnant souls were about to fully merge, awakening her spiritual awareness, right?

She looked at me, her eyes holding a smile.

I heard her soft, gentle voice brush past my ear: "Thank you."

In the next moment, the two remnant souls fully merged in the final wave of the Birth Curse's backlash; the tremendous repulsive force burst open the wrapping of the 'egg', yet before me lay only darkness.

A pair of huge black wings swooped down to envelop me...

Almost simultaneously, I heard Liu Junyan's voice commanding: "Shulan, insert the needle, quick!"

Just as the black wings were about to envelop me, my soul was yanked away by an invisible force.

Right after, I felt a sore, distended sensation at the crown of my head.

Then came the soreness in my left and right temples, left and right ear bases, philtrum, and lower jawbone.