I Have a Date with a Thousand-year-old Female Corpse
Chapter 209 Refining the Soul_1

Chapter 209: Chapter 209 Refining the Soul_1

"I’m thinking, since they can control so many paper effigies, why would they disperse their forces? If they used the paper effigies as scouts to find a breakthrough point, they could still break out with a full-force effort and save some people."

Lu Tiejun nodded, "If I were in the upper echelons, I would do the same."

"That implies they have other goals in mind, or rather, they are trying to distract us."

"You mean to say, their attempt to break out is a feint?" Lu Tiejun asked.

"Yes," you nodded, "they must be making other plans."

"What other plans could they have? Once the armed police arrive, this won’t just be a game—it will be a confrontation with the regular army!"

You turned your head towards Xian Qianling and asked, "Captain Xian, what’s your take on the Soul Refining Sect?"

"They’re all madmen! Human life means nothing to them. To achieve their goals, they would sacrifice anything, even their own lives!"

"Indeed, those three onmyoji just demonstrated that point. So, I believe the Soul Refining Sect’s leadership must be underground. They must be refining something, and it has come to a critical moment, which is why they have to stay."

Lu Tiejun and Xian Qianling exchanged a glance. He hurriedly said to you, "Mu Yun, is there any way you can find the entrance?"

You shook your head and sighed, "I know where the entrance is, but they’ve sealed it shut. They have no intention of coming out right now."

"Captain, we should call for ground-to-air support, use a Tunneling Bomb!" suggested a special police officer nearby.

Lu Tiejun seemed hesitant, "The Tunneling Bomb is too powerful, and there’s a residential area nearby. Using it would be complicated to deal with afterward. You know how those old men above us like to play things low-key and are all crafty."

Xian Qianling thought for a moment and said, "Let’s use a tungsten armor-piercing bullet to open up the entrance they’ve sealed!"

"Hmm, that’s a good idea," Lu Tiejun immediately picked up a dedicated phone, dialed a number, and walked aside to make the call.

Meanwhile, you were not idle; you sat down cross-legged on the spot, consciousness sinking, and your vision separated out once again.

This time, you were very cautious.

In fact, the entrance to the basement was inside the rockery to your left, and by now, the passageway had been completely blocked by three stone walls.

You acted like an invisible person, easily passing through the stone walls, and what appeared before you was a corridor wide enough for three people to walk through. The corridor sloped downward, and after walking about ten meters, there were already about a dozen paper effigies lying in ambush.

This time, you caught the Soul Refining Sect off guard. Their equipment was indeed rudimentary compared to the special police, yet these onmyoji controlling the paper effigies did not show the slightest fear. On the contrary, they all had a ferocious look, ready to fight to the death.

Your vision continued to move past these effigies and further inside.

Following the corridor was a room of about fifty square meters. Sitting in the room were three middle-aged men; they had taken off their Taoist robes and donned traditional Yamato onmyoji garb, each holding a fan. As they moved their fans, haunting images of ghosts wailing and screaming flickered above them.

These three middle-aged men were not weak, yet they didn’t seem to notice your presence. You continued walking inward.

Another ten meters or so ahead, there was another room, much larger than the previous one.

Five people were sitting in meditation, one at each cardinal point, with a middle-aged man with a bizarre face sitting in the center, holding a vessel similar to a wine jar. From your angle, you noticed several strange Magic Seals floating and twinkling above the jar, each emitting a purple-black glow. Whenever the glow flickered, the door to an adjacent room opened, and another paper effigy walked out.

As the paper people emerged, they stood still; after a group of ten gathered, they would take the gun support elixir from a nearby weapons rack and charge down another corridor.

"No, no, I don’t want to go!"

At that point, you heard the shrill cries of a girl, and the sound was coming from the large jar the middle-aged man was holding!

"Hmph!"

The middle-aged man let out a cold snort, and immediately, the soul of a girl who appeared to be in her teens flew out of the jar.

"Please, I beg you, please let me go!"

No matter how much the girl pleaded, the middle-aged man closed his eyes, indifferent to her cries. As the purple-black seal flickered continuously, the girl’s soul trembled in intense pain. Then, her entire soul began to contort and curl up until it transformed into a purple-black stream of light and shot into the room. Soon after, another paper person walked out.

Witnessing this, you finally understood that this was how paper people were created, each representing a refined human soul!

Soul Refining Sect, Soul Refining Sect, it was indeed human souls they were refining!

Suppressing the rage in your heart, you continued forward, and after a corridor several meters long, a large door appeared before you.

Just as you were about to look through the door, a sudden, immensely powerful thought force surged from within. You felt a jolt in your heart, and your vision was forcefully repelled once again. Following the upheaval in your throat, a mouthful of fresh blood sprayed out!

"Mu Yun!"

Lu Tiejun, who happened to be passing by, saw this and cried out in alarm, hastily approaching you.

But before he could reach you, Xian Qianling had already rushed over swiftly, looking at you with concern, "What’s wrong with you? Were you hurt just now? Where is the injury? Was it a gunshot? How many wounds? Are they serious? Do you feel unwell anywhere else?"

Xian Qianling’s barrage of questions left you somewhat startled and at a loss for words, while she looked on with anxiousness.

"I... I’m fine."

You smiled and extended your hand to the approaching Lu Tiejun, who helped you up.

"Are you injured?"

"No," you shook your head slightly. "I’ve roughly figured out the situation below. We must act quickly, as quickly as possible. They are refining souls on a large scale, turning the soul of an ordinary person into a paper person every one or two minutes at night!"

"The tungsten armor-piercing bullets are already on their way, mounted on two Wuzhi-10 helicopters. They’ll be here in no more than ten minutes."

Lu Tiejun patted you on the shoulder lightly, "Take this moment to rest. I’m worried there are even more terrifying creatures to face below, and when that time comes, I might have to leave you behind."

"I will do my utmost!"

"Good! Once this battle is over, I’ll speak with the Chu Sect about this and commend you for your bravery!"

"That doesn’t matter. What we need to do is eradicate all these Yamato scum!"