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

"Great Witch?"

Chang Yu received a phone call late at night, his voice heavy with sleep: "Wasn't the last great shaman expelled from the country? Why are you asking this?"

"Dead? He was related to the Nine Revolutions Spirit Sacrifice Array? What is the Nine Revolutions Spirit Sacrifice Array...?"

Su Chen clearly felt Chang Yu's voice suddenly rise: "Nine Revolutions Spirit Sacrifice Array?"

"You know about this formation too?"

"It seems the exorcism team doesn't share all their information with me."

"It's not in this database; I found out by overhearing my seniors chatting." Chang Yu's sleepiness had dissipated.

"I heard that many years ago, whether it was a hundred or several hundred years ago, I don't know, but anyway, there was a very... exceptionally talented Xuan Master who developed mental problems due to a tragic experience."

Su Chen: "Dissociative identity disorder?"

"Yes, that's how we modern people would say it, but the elders said that his soul had mutated. It's said that his soul was covered with heads, and the faces on each head were very clear and terrifying."

"This caused him to become very mentally unstable, and he eventually went insane. It was only through the intervention of a senior figure that he regained his senses, but it is said that the attack was only temporarily suppressed."

"That mystic master later spent his time searching for a way to resolve the mutation of the soul, so he traveled all over the country. Although heaven rewards those who persevere, unfortunately..."

Su Chen: "He didn't succeed."

“Hmm,” Chang Yu sighed, “It is said that this Nine-Turn Spirit Sacrifice Array was used.”

"At the time, we didn't know what else had happened. When the formation was activated, many senior Xuan masters entered the formation to stop it, but none of them survived. That Xuan master also failed to come out."

"That formation lasted for decades before it broke due to a lack of energy to maintain it, and all those predecessors turned into bones."

Chang Yu sighed, "When I heard it, I even asked the seniors how to set up the Nine Revolutions Spirit Sacrifice Array, but they all kept it a secret."

"After some persuasion, a senior finally relented and said that the Nine Revolutions Spirit Sacrifice Array was set up with the help of someone else. That person was probably only known to that Xuan Master, and once he died, no one knew about it."

Su Chen frowned: "Didn't they say the formation couldn't be broken? Didn't the seniors figure anything out?"

"Then it's unclear, but if they really did discover something, they wouldn't tell us juniors."

"The Nine Revolutions Spirit Sacrifice Array killed over a hundred Xuan Masters back then. Even if the Exorcism Team didn't record it, it became a taboo. Now... I thought no one was researching it anymore, but I didn't expect..."

"If the person that mystic master invited was from the witch clan and was a great witch, then it is indeed possible."

While channeling some merit into the little black snake, Su Chen asked, "What do you mean?"

"The Wu tribe lives deep in the mountains of the southwest, and has rarely had contact with orthodox Xuanmen sects, so we know very little about them. But I remember my senior uncle once mentioned that the Wu tribe is most skilled at communicating with gods, and the gods will recognize the person they communicate with. If that person dies, in order to maintain the channel of communication, they will choose..."

Su Chen narrowed his eyes: "Looking for a reincarnation?"

"Yes, that's a saying."

"If that person were still alive today, they would definitely understand the spirit best, what a pity..."

"After that, it seemed like they went through something, and the entire tribe was wiped out. The survivors, although they were revered as great shamans, were far less capable than that one."

"That's why we had no objection when the Great Shaman was expelled from the country; he couldn't cause too much damage."

Chang Yu finally remembered, "No, I seem to have forgotten to ask you what you saw. Why are you suddenly asking about the Great Shaman and the Nine-Turn Spirit Sacrifice Array? Did you encounter them? Or did you hear about them from someone?"

"No way..." Chang Yu asked cautiously, "Your soul has started to mutate, just like that Xuan Master, right?"

There was a row of black lines on Su Chen's forehead.

"Master Qingwei asked me to come and help him, so I entered this Nine Revolutions Spirit Sacrifice Array."

Su Chen was still somewhat upset when the matter was brought up.

Chang Yu asked, "Then how did you get out? Is this Nine Revolutions Spirit Sacrifice Array really that dangerous?"

Su Chen briefly recounted the events.

Chang Yu scoffed: "This Master Qingwei's acting skills are truly first-rate. So he had anticipated this and made preparations beforehand, and was just pretending to be surprised at the beginning, right?"

"You were indeed framed by him, but have you studied this Nine Revolutions Spirit Sacrifice Array? Can it be replicated?"

"How about we try it sometime?"

Su Chen pressed his temples: "We'll discuss this later. There's also the matter of the Great Shaman. I think you should still consult with the seniors about this."

After hearing his words, Chang Yu had already put away his teasing: "It can make a black dragon faint and trigger an eruption of magma on the seabed a hundred miles away. This ritual is indeed magical. I will tell them about it."

"Is your body and soul still unaffected?" Chang Yu asked worriedly.

Su Chen shook his head: "We haven't found anything yet."

"Huh, that's good."

"Let me tell you, you're my pillar of strength right now, so you absolutely mustn't get into any trouble."

Su Chen was too lazy to listen to Chang Yu's rambling and hung up the phone.

Turning my head to look again, I saw that the little black snake had opened its eyes, but it was still limp.

"Master Su~"

"Are you alright?" Su Chen asked. "What exactly happened on that island? How did you get like this all of a sudden? How long will it take for you to recover?"

Xi Meng twisted her snake body and struggled to lift her snake head, but soon collapsed back onto the sofa, listless and weak.

"I don't know what happened... that person just dripped blood into the torch, and that's how I ended up."

"This is the worst luck imaginable. I should have known better than to get involved. It has nothing to do with that formation... By the way, Master Su, you... broke the formation and saved that turtle, right?"

Mentioning this, Su Chen coughed twice: "The formation wasn't broken."

"...Huh? Is there a formation in this world that you can't break?" Xi Meng was skeptical.

Su Chen: "Master Qingwei managed to get the person behind the scenes to change the formation, which is how we found the flaw."

"And what about the turtle?"

Su Chen felt inexplicably guilty.

"The meat was divided between me and Daoist Qingwei."

Xi Meng's snake head stood erect in disbelief: "What?!"

Su Chen cleared his throat again: "It's needed to break the formation."

Xi Meng's snake head slumped down again.

"Understood!"

"It was definitely Qingwei who struck first with ruthless force."

"Not surprising. He's always ruthless in achieving his goals. It's just killing a turtle, nothing out of the ordinary..."

"Is he okay?"

Before Su Chen could answer, Xi Meng said, "Forget it, I didn't ask. A scourge lives on for a thousand years, it would be strange if he got into trouble."

"What a pity about that turtle..."

Su Chen waited until she calmed down before asking, "Senior Song said that he and Little Salamander went to the island's edge to eat barnacles and that's when they encountered those people, is that true?"

Mentioning barnacles, Xi Meng finally perked up: "The barnacles over there are indeed quite big. I dug up some. Is there a chef here? We can steam them later and call Cai Guobang and the others over to eat."

As they spoke, the coffee table was soon covered with barnacles.

Su Chen held his forehead.

"It's late at night!"

"So what if it's late at night? Master Su, you're not that old, why are you so old-fashioned? Is it a crime to have a late-night snack?"

As she spoke, Xi Meng noticed her body growing larger and larger. She paused for a moment, then burst out laughing with delight.

Seeing that she had transformed into human form, Su Chen grabbed her shoulder and said, "Let's talk about Senior Song."

Xi Meng raised an eyebrow: "What's there to say about that coward?"

"coward?"