Techniques and Dao

Chapter 161 Soul Devouring
Hua Sheng inwardly cried out in alarm! He suddenly realized that Xiao Qi's personality was completely different from Xiao Wu's!
What will Xiaoqi choose?

Bound and exhausted, Xiao Qi looked exhausted. Perhaps the fire spell Hua Sheng had just chanted had been transmitted to Xiao Qi's neck through the strange magic ropes, leaving a clump of her beautiful golden-brown hair singed.

Xiao Qi looked dazed, but when she saw Hua Sheng, a glimmer of light returned to her eyes, and she murmured, "Hua Sheng... are you... alright?"

"I'm fine!" Hua Sheng quickly replied, "How come you..."

Mieying struggled to breathe; the noose was quite tight. Blood began to seep from the wound on his shoulder again.

Seeing her so frail, Hua Sheng felt as if his heart was being torn apart. He carefully tried to move the chair toward the floating iron chain in mid-air.

The man in the white robe said, "When the exciting answer is revealed, I will take a life."

He walked up to Hua Sheng and said slowly, "Fortunately, this person is not you."

Hua Sheng glared at him angrily, staring intently at him.

The man in white robes seemed oblivious to Hua Sheng's desire to secretly retrieve the iron hoop chain. He took two steps back and said in a satisfied voice, "A Western girl, an Eastern girl. Who will be the sacrifice in this game?"

He then reached his right hand into his wide left sleeve, and when he pulled it out, a dark green wand appeared in his hand. The wand was not straight; it resembled a serpent winding forward. At the end of the wand was carved a lizard's head with glowing green eyes.

"The soul-removing rod!"

Jane cried out; she seemed to recognize the wand in the white-robed man's hand.

"Where did you get this?! This is definitely not from continental Europe!"

The man in white robes replied, "Since you recognize this, you should know that there will soon be a spectacular soul-devouring performance here."

Upon hearing this, Hanamori immediately understood that this was something capable of devouring souls. A sense of unease arose within him.

"The one who will be sacrificed is this girl named Shadow Extinction!"

Hua Sheng looked at Jian: "You... also chose Shadow Extinction?"

The man chuckled wickedly, “No, you are the one I’ve chosen.”

"Then Mieying didn't choose anyone else?" Hua Sheng could hardly believe it.

“She chose herself,” the man in the white robe said. “This girl chose herself!”

"Why! Why!" Hua Sheng shouted at Mie Ying, "Mie Ying! Why did you choose yourself!"

Mie Ying slightly raised his head, revealing a tired yet gentle smile.

"Because I absolutely cannot... let you lose your life, I absolutely cannot."

"But...why did you do that!"

The white-robed man slowly paced around Mieying: "Because once she pledges allegiance to herself, she takes on the greatest risk. Unless the rest of you all pledge allegiance to yourselves or all pledge allegiance to you, you might not die. She can't save you, but she can use her own life to increase your chances of survival."

As he spoke, the man brandished the soul-exorcising staff.

The man said, "So if she gives up her life, I'll take it."

Yi Luo Yu.

It lasts for 144 seconds.

Hua Sheng would never have imagined that just moments later, those 144 seconds would bring him the greatest astonishment he had ever experienced.

The man in white robes waved his soul-removing staff, pointing it at Mieying.

A grayish-white light immediately emanated from Mieying's body. The light swayed in the air like smoke and was then absorbed by the magic wand.

Her eyes, which had still retained a faint sparkle, immediately lost their vitality, and the pupils began to dilate.

Immediately afterward, Mieying floated in mid-air along with the chair, like a soulless rag doll. "No! No! No!" Hua Sheng roared at the white-robed man, "You bastard! Who are you?! Why did you kill people?!"

He had told himself that he could never lose Mieying, and that he had to protect this girl!

"Hurry up as a law!"

Hua Sheng, along with her chair, was thrown into the air and crashed desperately into the white-robed man in front of her!
The man swung his soul-removing staff, and a burst of black energy knocked Hua Sheng, whose hands were bound, to the ground.

Hua Sheng wanted to use magic to break free, but feared that the situation would worsen. So she conjured a steel sword from behind her hand and used sword control techniques to stab the white-robed man.

The man chanted a spell to deflect the sword, and at the same time, he waved his hand at the pile of iron nails left behind by the fallen wooden wall. The nails flew up and pierced Hua Sheng's left thigh with lightning speed, causing blood to gush out.

Ignoring his injuries, he leaped into the air again, using his body to crash into the enemy.

"Since you're so eager to die, you're next!"

The white-robed man used his right hand to block the incoming flower blossoms, while his left hand held the Soul-Exorcising Staff towards Mieying. He watched as Mieying Xiaoqi's eyes grew dimmer and dimmer.

But at that moment, Mieying, who was almost dying, suddenly raised her head and opened her mouth. She seemed to want to say something, but no sound came out.

In the next instant, Hanamori felt a splitting headache, and his ears began to ring loudly. Then he fell heavily to the ground from mid-air.

Accompanied by intense tinnitus, he immediately went blind. Everything went black!
Everything happened so suddenly that he had no idea what was going on.

He struggled to sit up, but failed several times. His body began to go numb, and he could no longer feel the pain in the fresh cut on his leg. This numbness spread throughout his body, even causing him to lose all sense of gravity.

Hanamori felt as if she had become blind and deaf, floating in the void. She had no idea what was happening around her. It was like her soul leaving her body after death.

Without a body, all that remains is consciousness.

A self-awareness that floats in the void and can only think.

Everything happened so suddenly, it was astonishing and terrifying.

Hua Sheng didn't know if his own soul had also been drawn away by the white-robed man. But he clearly remembered that everything that had happened began when Mie Ying suddenly raised his head and uttered those words.

Those are meaningless, inaudible words. They might not even be a sentence, but just a single word.

The only thing that confirmed Hanamori's belief that he was still alive was the persistent, intense headache.

After a period that felt like a decade, he finally began to see a glimmer of light.

The scene before Hanamori's eyes was as if it had been darkened, and he could only vaguely see some shadows.

To his even greater surprise, he discovered that he wasn't the only one.

The white-robed man was also covering his ears, and his eyes appeared to be blind. He was waving the exorcising staff wildly, shouting incoherently. Unfortunately, Hua Sheng could hear nothing but tinnitus.

When his vision had recovered to about 30%, Hua Sheng saw the iron cudgel fall to his feet. Wanting to retrieve the cudgel, Hua Sheng quickly chanted, "Hurry, hurry, as the law commands! The Ruyi Jingu Bang!"

To everyone's surprise, the iron hoop chain did not react at all. Upon closer inspection, the flame that had been burning in the center of the triangular iron hoop chain had disappeared! The "golden needle" that had been floating in the pendant's flame was also nowhere to be seen!
The golden hoop chain lay motionless on the ground, as dull as an unwanted, out-of-season decoration that had fallen into a corner of a warehouse.

It was as if the soul of the iron-clad golden hoop had also been taken away, and what lay on the ground was nothing more than a soulless "corpse" of the magical artifact, which could never be awakened again.

Hua Sheng realized that the situation was extremely critical at this moment.

He didn't have time to think much, and glanced at Jane out of the corner of his eye.

Jane, who was tied up, had the same expression as the man in the white robe, struggling in terror.

Why do all people lose their senses at the same time?

What on earth happened in this house?!
(End of this chapter)