You said you would tell fortunes, so you can catch ghosts and exterminate zombies easily?

Xi Meng was stunned for a moment, then quickly came to her senses and looked around at the sea.

One after another, strange fish, exuding a menacing aura, were swarming towards the formation from all directions.

Sensing danger, the big-headed fish fled into the distance again, its speed even greater than before.

From afar, all that could be heard was Senior Song's voice: "I'll be back~"

Xi Meng patted her forehead: "Hehe~"

Mu Xiao: "Originally, this matter had no direct connection to Senior Song's interests, but he was quite generous in offering three magical artifacts as a reward for issuing the mission."

Xi Meng scoffed, "We didn't know this was a mission before we came, and that we wouldn't be paid a single penny."

"I gave you a piece of Dushan jade."

"Wasn't that a gift you gave me?"

Wood Owl: "It's payment."

Xi Meng: "???!!! Sometimes I really want to pluck all the red hair off your head!"

"I'll focus all my efforts on dealing with them later, the rest is up to you." Mu Xiao didn't stand on ceremony with Xi Meng at all, and as soon as he finished speaking, he opened his mouth and spat out wooden plaques.

The wooden plaque had no patterns on it, and its size was similar to the wooden plaque that Little Tabby had given Su Chen before.

One by one, the wooden plaques flew in all directions. Xi Meng roughly counted them; there were about eighty of them.

"Old Monster Mu really went all out!" she scoffed, then quickly transformed into a black dragon and flew away into the distance.

At the same time, the wooden plaques began to slowly rotate, emitting a pale green light. Each plaque also sprouted green vines as thick as a finger, which quickly rushed towards the strange fish below.

Tender buds sprouted on the vines, grew rapidly, and turned into green leaves.

Most of the vines accurately wrapped around the monster, binding it tightly. Before the vines could wither and turn yellow from being devoured by the monster's malevolent energy, even more vines wrapped around it.

It seems that we can only restrain them, not completely eliminate them.

But that's enough!

Xi Meng glanced around and spotted a fish that had slipped through the net. She flew forward and swept her tail, creating a current that slapped the strange fish against the vines.

Get it!

Xi Meng took flight and continued searching for the second fish that had slipped through the net.

After finding six in total, Xi Meng circled around four or five times to make sure there were no more monsters before flying back to Mu Xiao's side.

Looking down again, she let out a soft "hmm".

What happened to those hundred or so ships in such a short time? How come they all have some degree of damage? Could the waves they whipped up from their tails have such destructive power? That can't be right.

If she couldn't figure it out, she simply stopped thinking about it, and Xi Meng's gaze quickly fell on Su Chen.

"Strange, it's been quite a while, why hasn't there been any movement?"

"Finding the key point of the formation, is it really that difficult?"

As Su Chen sat cross-legged on one of the ships turning around, he felt his soul being pulled violently. Although he used his merits to repair it, which reduced the pain by more than half, his clothes were still soaked with cold sweat.

Nine-Turn Sacrifice Spirit Array.

He originally thought it was only effective against a specific, single target, but now it seems that it works on all sentient beings in the formation. If a soul's strength is insufficient, it can be easily torn apart by the formation in just a few breaths.

Thinking of this, Su Chen quickly opened his eyes and looked at Daoist Qingwei.

One has accumulated more merit and can sustain it for a longer period of time, but what about Qingwei? Without special magical artifacts to protect his soul, he probably wouldn't be able to sustain it for long.

Subconsciously, Su Chen condensed a ball of merit in his hand. Just as he was about to ask a question, he froze and looked at Daoist Qingwei in disbelief.

At this moment, under the Heavenly Eye, his soul form was faintly visible.

Actually...

It has three heads!

The three heads are pulling in three directions, trying desperately to break free of the soul body.

The next moment, Master Qingwei made a hand seal, and his soul instantly disappeared, never to be seen again.

Su Chen observed for a while longer. Besides the hand seals, there was a collar-like magic artifact in front of Daoist Qingwei. He didn't know what it was for. He seemed to be struggling a lot, and his hand seals were very slow. His clothes were so wet that they could be wrung out.

After a moment's thought, Su Chen finally spoke up: "Senior, is merit required?"

Master Qingwei paused for a moment, then said in a deep voice, "It's not necessary now. I can manage. Thank you."

"If you can't hold on any longer, please let me know."

Su Chen gave a reminder and turned his gaze to the spirit turtle in the middle.

After a moment's hesitation, he accurately flicked the ball of merit towards the spirit turtle.

The latter seemed to sense something. When the merit ball approached, the tortoise's head emerged and swallowed it precisely. In an instant, the azure light on the spirit tortoise intensified, and its body visibly grew larger.

Xi Meng sighed in regret.

"Master Su, aren't you being a bit too generous to this broken tortoise? So much merit! Wouldn't it be better to give it to me? Right, Red-feathered Bird?"

The owl tried its best to activate the wooden sign, but it was already too busy to respond.

Xi Meng was annoyed for a moment, but too lazy to pay attention to it. She flew around a few times, but found nothing unusual, so she hovered in one place and continued to observe Su Chen.

The pulling sensation in his soul body persisted, but Su Chen gradually adapted and relaxed.

Then the power transformed into a wall, spreading outwards little by little.

Upon contact with the malevolent entity at the center of the ship, Su Chen felt a tremendous tremor in his body and soul, and he quickly withdrew it.

wrong.

These malevolent entities can actually harm the soul, so they must be quite special.

Su Chen stood up and slowly walked to the center of the ship. The pitch-black evil aura completely enveloped the real objects. He flipped his hand and took out several peach wood swords imbued with divine lightning, and threw them at the evil aura.

Some of the dense malevolent energy was avoided, and some was also neutralized by the divine lightning, dissipating considerably. The uneven outline within was vaguely visible, and Su Chen narrowed his eyes.

It's actually a human skull?

No, judging from the size of the skull, it is clearly much larger than that of a human.

Su Chen quickly recalled the giant he had discovered earlier and estimated that its size seemed to be about the same.

What could have caused the skull to possess such a strong malevolent aura?

Or perhaps they specifically use giant skulls to cultivate malevolent energy?

No, that's not the most important thing.

Most importantly, is it these malevolent energies that have the ability to tear apart souls, or these skulls...?

These thoughts flashed through his mind one by one, but Su Chen quickly suppressed them.

Whatever the reason, let's try smashing one first?

He flipped his hand again, and hundreds of lightning-attracting talismans appeared in his hand.

Su Chen tossed the lightning-attracting talisman into the air. Although the pull on his soul affected his control, the talisman was still successfully guided to the designated location.

Rumble!

Xi Meng heard the familiar sound of thunder and a smile appeared on her lips.

There is nothing that heavenly lightning cannot overcome.

If one method doesn't work, try a hundred, or a thousand.

Master Su should have done this a long time ago; his previous cross-legged meditation was simply a waste of time.

Rumble!

The lightning bolt, crackling with blue electricity, struck Su Chen precisely.

The force pulling on the soul seems to have lessened?

Before Su Chen could think it through, bolts of lightning struck down one after another.

Three bolts of divine lightning coalesced and struck the skull with pinpoint accuracy.

Seeing that the malevolent energy on the skull had been almost completely cleared away, Su Chen didn't have time to be happy before he saw more malevolent energy gathering along the chains of malevolent energy and quickly wrapping the skull again.

Xi Meng was stunned.

"No, this isn't allowed?"

She glanced around; these hundred or so ships, each one required this many lightning-attracting talismans…

"To completely disperse this malevolent energy, at least tens of thousands of lightning-summoning talismans would be needed! My god!" Xi Meng gasped. "We can't afford to mess with this!"

Then she lightly patted her mouth.

"You brainless fool, you mustn't question Master Su again next time."

Su Chen was not surprised to see the skull enveloped in malevolent energy again.

but……

Seeing the faint green light flashing within the thick, dark aura, Su Chen's lips curled up slightly.