After her senior sister was reborn, she actually became a powerful and arrogant protagonist?!

"I might know where Ye Shuang's soul went."

Upon hearing this, Gu Lin's eyes flashed with a sharp light, and he braced himself on the ground with both hands as he looked at Chu Luobai.

"really?"

Why would I lie?

After confirming with the gourd in his mind once more that the white Gu worm posed little threat, Chu Luobai took it out of the Sword Lake Blessed Land.

"His soul is trapped in this Gu worm, and there is more than just Ye Shuang's soul inside this Gu worm."

As she spoke, Chu Luobai handed the white Gu worm in her palm to Gu Lin.

Dense spiritual energy gathered within the white Gu worm, and countless divine souls stirred within it.

"Perhaps you can try it yourself."

Seeing that Gu Lin was somewhat timid, Chu Luobai simply placed the Gu worm in Gu Lin's hand.

Gu Lin looked at the Gu worm in his hand, then at Chu Luobai, and could no longer hide the surprise in his eyes.

"Fellow Daoist Chu, do you know that what this Gu worm contains could help you break through to the Great Ascension stage?"

"You're just giving it to me like this? Aren't you afraid I'll just run away?"

Chu Luobai turned her head and glanced at Gu Lin.

"Do you know?"

For some reason, Gu Lin didn't know what to say.

I originally just wanted to remind the sword cultivator in front of me not to trust others too much.

But now...

"However, even if you run away, I can still catch you. Besides, you may run away, but the Heavenly Evolution Sect can't."

Chu Luobai shrugged and said it casually.

“…”

That feeling of being trusted vanished in an instant.

"Indeed, who in the Qingzhou Realm dares to provoke a sword cultivator? Who dares to provoke your Qingyun Sword Sect?"

After saying this indignantly, Gu Lin refocused his attention on the Gu worm in front of him.

He had been so busy talking to Chu Luobai that he hadn't noticed.

Now that he had the Gu worm in his hand, he could feel a violent divine soul intent emanating from it.

Unlike those single divine souls, he could sense that the divine souls on this Gu worm were very mixed.

It's like fragments taken from countless souls and put together.

Within this divine soul, the largest fragment is being torn apart by the other divine souls.

The two forces have reached a strange balance through constant struggle.

"Assembling these countless fragments of divine souls together, those old fogies in the Immortal Alliance are still as disgusting as ever."

Gu Lin's face was gloomy, and his tone was particularly sarcastic.

"I suspect that the largest fragment of the soul belongs to Ye Shuang."

Seeing Gu Lin's expression, Chu Luobai calmly revealed her guess.

"Initially, what was inside the white Gu worm was not a fragment of Ye Shuang's soul, but rather his entire soul that was extracted into the Gu worm. Its current incomplete state was formed by the souls that continued to pour in later."

"The people of the Immortal Alliance are using humans to refine Gu poison."

Gu Lin fell into a long silence, recalling his brief encounter with Ye Shuang in the cave.

The once renowned cultivator has now become a walking corpse.

If his soul hadn't been forcibly extracted, he would find it hard to imagine what could turn a Mahayana cultivator into that state.

Chu Luobai's guess was actually quite similar to his own.

"Using humans to refine Gu poison, borrowing the cultivation of others to help oneself break through limitations..."

"Those old folks who have lived for over a hundred years and can't ascend to immortality are indeed capable of doing it."

Gu Lin sneered, steeled his resolve, and looked up at Chu Luobai.

“I have a method to find out the memories that remain in these souls.”

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Inside the Sword Lake Blessed Land.

Gu Lin looked around curiously, his eyes sparkling as he gazed at the clear lake in front of him.

"Fellow Daoist Chu, just how many more treasures do you have that I don't know about?"

"If my things are considered good, then Fellow Daoist Gu's things must be considered relics of immortals."

Chu Luobai looked at Gu Lin with a half-smile, knowing full well the good things Gu Lin was hiding.

"What good things could I possibly have? Fellow Daoist Chu is joking."

Gu Lin quickly changed the subject, refocusing his attention on the white Gu worm in front of him.

"please."

Chu Luobai dared not allow Gu Lin to conduct soul-searching outside.

If anything goes wrong, or if the Immortal Alliance discovers them, she and Gu Lin will be doomed. They need to find a safe place to proceed.

There is no safer place in the world than Sword Lake Paradise.

The spiritual energy within Gu Lin's body circulated, and his soul began to tremble.

The soul within the white Gu worm seemed to sense some kind of danger and began to struggle incessantly.

Chu Luobai stood quietly to the side and watched.

Before long, under Gu Lin's guidance, a white mist rose from the white Gu worm.

The mist gradually took shape, eventually condensing into a figure that looked remarkably like Ye Shuang.

However, this 'Ye Shuang' was badly damaged, with half of her shoulder and leg not fully formed.

"call..."

Gu Lin let out a long sigh and raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead.

"Not bad, it can barely take on a human shape."

"If you have any questions, just ask them."

Reshaping the soul is more troublesome than directly searching the soul. Chu Luobai understood that Gu Lin was trying to maintain Ye Shuang's dignity.

She stepped forward and asked the question she was most curious about.

"How did you die?"

"...I can't remember."

"Ye Shuang" answered slowly.

"His soul is incomplete; it seems that this part of his memory is missing."

A hint of disappointment flashed in Gu Lin's eyes.

"Tell me everything you remember."

After pondering for a moment, Chu Luobai decided to choose the simplest way to ask questions.

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On the other side, in the Autumn Kingdom.

Qiu Lin's face darkened, and he slammed the letter in his hand to the ground.

He had long suspected that such a large-scale parasitic infestation of demonic insects must have involved people within the Qiu Kingdom.

But he never expected that so many people would participate!

Throughout the entire Qiu Kingdom's court, every single person of note is connected to this matter!

"Why are you so angry?"

Xiao Lin, who was standing nearby, came over curiously.

In the past few days, while rebuilding the Autumn Kingdom, he accompanied Qiu Lin to meet many people.

Even when facing someone who couldn't even be considered a 'human being', Qiu Lin had never been this angry.

"These people first colluded with the families in the southern border to cut off the people's means of survival, and then, under the guise of distributing porridge, they fed the people porridge mixed with demonic insect larvae."

Do they really know what they're doing?!

The thought that the reason for the rampant spread of demonic insects in Qiu Kingdom was actually caused by Qiu Kingdom itself was quite surprising.

An unnamed rage burned fiercely in Qiu Lin's chest.

Xiao Lin listened and pursed his lips.

"How about I help you kill them all?"

“Cultivators should not kill mortals indiscriminately. Senior Brother Xiao, you don’t need to take this risk for me.”

Qiu Lin frowned. Although he also wanted those people to die, as a righteous cultivator, he could not do so.

"The affairs of Qiu Kingdom should be resolved by Qiu Kingdom itself; I will handle the garbage."

Suddenly, a clear female voice came from the doorway.

Qiu Lin raised her head, a hint of surprise flashing in her eyes.