Boarding Life

However, he wasn’t going to rush it.

Seeing the other party flee into the cabin, Qin Qi also went into a room inside the cabin to rest.

Soon, the ship continued sailing.

Qin Qi briefly sorted through the spoils he had taken from Zhu Donglai.

"What’s this? I just saw that Zhu Donglai summon this Soul Devouring thing from here," Qin Qi asked.

The mysterious woman said, "This is a Spirit Pet Bag. Same as a Storage Pouch, there’s an independent space inside. But it’s different from a Storage Pouch!"

"The space inside this Spirit Pet Bag has been specially refined and is suitable for Spirit Pets to live in!"

Hearing this, Qin Qi suddenly understood. He first looked at the Soul Devouring creature, then took another look at the Spirit Pet Bag.

The Soul Devouring creature still looked dull and wooden; even with Qin Qi staring at it, it had no reaction at all, only its pair of silly big eyes rolling around.

The mysterious woman drawled lazily, "Don’t bother staring. If the restriction isn’t undone, this Soul Devouring thing is just a creature without any intelligence, no different from a block of wood!"

Qin Qi stroked his chin. "You just said you have a way to undo the restriction on this Soul Devouring thing."

The mysterious woman sneered with disdain. "Of course. The Ghost King Sect restriction on this Soul Devouring creature is, to put it simply, a restriction that manipulates souls, locking its soul in place!"

"Because of that, this Soul Devouring thing lost its ability to think and completely became a puppet of the Ghost King Sect!"

Qin Qi said in surprise, "Its soul has been locked up. How do you undo that?"

The mysterious woman spoke unhurriedly, "If you think of this restriction as a rope tightly binding the other party’s soul, then to undo it you have to use Divine Thought and slowly unfasten each knot of that rope, one by one!"

"But while it sounds simple, doing it is unimaginably difficult. No matter what living being it is, its soul is extremely fragile!"

"And using Divine Thought to undo such a complex restriction must be done with extreme caution. Once you fail, not only will this Soul Devouring creature die, but the person who released their Divine Thought to try and undo it will suffer backlash as well!"

"So the controller must have an extremely vast Sea of Consciousness and an incredibly precise control over their Divine Thought!"

Qin Qi asked, "Can you handle it? Don’t end up suffering backlash yourself before the restriction on this Soul Devouring thing is undone!"

The mysterious woman smiled sweetly. "Relax. Even back when I still had a physical body, a restriction of this difficulty wasn’t a problem for me, let alone now when I’ve separated from my body—my precision in controlling Divine Thought is far beyond what it used to be!"

As she spoke, the mysterious woman stopped wasting time.

She suddenly released a strand of Divine Thought, which quietly slipped into the Soul Devouring Bear’s body.

Qin Qi sensed this and didn’t dare disturb her. He held his breath and waited silently.

As for the Soul Devouring creature, it had no awareness at all in the face of the mysterious woman’s invading Divine Thought, still like a dumb wooden post, motionless.

Just like that, a full half hour passed.

Qin Qi clearly noticed that the energy fluctuations of the mysterious woman inside his body had faintly weakened.

This made Qin Qi a bit worried. "You okay?"

The mysterious woman took a light breath. "Almost there. Manipulating Divine Thought like this is quite a drain on me. But if it lets you get such a Spirit Pet, then so be it; the expenditure is worth it!"

Qin Qi felt quietly moved in his heart.

This was also why he had always stood on the same side as her.

The two of them no longer distinguished between you and me.

Their interests were the same, their path the same!

Finally, after another ten minutes or so.

The mysterious woman’s energy fluctuations within Qin Qi’s body diminished even further.

She finally spoke, "Almost done. But undoing the restriction inside this Soul Devouring Bear truly cost me a lot of energy!"

"Right now, I’ll have to go into slumber for a day."

"Oh right, get to Feiliu City as soon as possible. You’ve taken the Ghost King Sect’s Soul Devouring Bear; those people likely won’t let this go so easily!"

After she finished speaking, when Qin Qi tried to answer her again, she no longer showed any response.

Right at that moment, it was as if the Soul Devouring Bear’s brain had suddenly been turned on.

Its originally silly eyes suddenly brimmed with intelligence.

It looked around, then fixed its gaze on Qin Qi, baring its teeth and letting out a fierce roar. Its ferocious appearance was a stark contrast to its previous stupid look.

Before Qin Qi could react, the Soul Devouring Bear lunged at him with its jaws wide open.

"Hey?"

Qin Qi twisted his neck. "I pulled you out of the fire out of kindness, and you repay kindness with ingratitude!"

Without another word, he manipulated Celestial Spirit True Qi and directly wrapped the Soul Devouring Bear in it.

Although the Soul Devouring Bear was vicious, when it actually started fighting it didn’t seem all that impressive. Once swept into Qin Qi’s Celestial Spirit True Qi, it immediately couldn’t move.

"Right!"

Qin Qi quickly thought of something. "She mentioned earlier that this Soul Devouring Bear is best at attacking people’s souls. No, I have to restrain this little bastard properly!"

After all, that embarrassing situation of having his soul attacked earlier was something he absolutely didn’t want to experience a second time.

With that in mind, he didn’t say another word and directly increased the pressure of his Celestial Spirit True Qi.

Large amounts of True Qi turned into threads that tightened around the little bear’s neck.

In just a short while, the Soul Devouring Bear’s eyes rolled back and it passed out.

Then Qin Qi tried stuffing the Soul Devouring Bear into the Spirit Pet Bag.

Who would have thought that the moment the Soul Devouring Bear entered the Spirit Pet Bag, it completely sank into it and vanished from sight.

"Hey, this Spirit Pet Bag is actually pretty handy!" Qin Qi marveled inwardly.

...

What Qin Qi didn’t know was that,

at the same time, deep within the Ghost King Sect in a mountain range in the entire Southwest Region,

a dozen or so cultivators who looked like guards were standing watch at the depths of a dark and damp cavern.

There, a young woman in a black robe sat cross-legged.

The woman had a head of jet-black hair that reached past her waist.

Her eyes were tightly closed, as if she were in secluded cultivation.

If anyone were here, they would definitely recognize her identity—this was none other than the famed Sect Master of the Ghost King Sect, Yue Xueling.

Yet though she was the Sect Master of the Ghost King Sect, her beauty had an air of purity; her entire demeanor was like that of a young married woman who had just experienced the world.

You couldn’t see even a hint that she was actually the head of such an Evil Cultivator Sect!

Right then, she suddenly opened her eyes.

"Soul Devouring!!"

Her voice was sharp and filled with anger. "Who? Who is so bold as to dare touch my Soul Devouring!"

Hearing her voice, the dozen guards outside quickly rushed in. "S–Sect Master. What... what’s wrong?"

Yue Xueling’s gaze was icy, her tone frosty. "Someone has broken the restriction inside the Soul Devouring Body!"

Hearing this, everyone looked at each other in shock.

"H-how is that possible?!"

A few guards exchanged glances. "The Ghost King Sect’s restrictions—if someone doesn’t possess the Ghost King Sect’s secret technique, how could they possibly break them!"