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Chapter 4055: A Clever Scheme

This woman was indeed incredibly cunning and manipulative.

She knew that if the Qing Tian Sect disciples were captured, some would surely be subjected to soul-searching, revealing her identity and origins.

And with the Crown Prince's troops now completely surrounding the area outside, rushing out would only expose her.

So, the woman went all out, swallowing venomous insects and creatures, allowing these things to destroy her entire face.

This way, it would naturally be impossible for her identity to be easily recognized.

However, she hadn't anticipated that in this world, there existed powerful talisman masters who could communicate with the forces of heaven and earth, casually summoning a wisp of a person's soul after death.

Of course, this practice was highly ill-advised, as an ordinary person's soul would inevitably dissipate within seven days of death.

Forcibly extracting her soul body would undoubtedly subject it to torment akin to being fried and boiled in oil, followed by days of pain from its inability to disperse.

Such torment and suffering for the soul body were certainly beyond what a physical body could comprehend.

Qiao Mu would not easily resort to using such talismans.

However, this woman before her was a sworn enemy, so Qiao Mu couldn't care less whether she lived or died, or whether she experienced pain or tribulation.

The little Crown Princess raised a jade tablet with her fingertip, and with a flash of light, a luminous shadow drilled into the woman's blackened body.

In just a moment, a faint, ethereal figure, whose original appearance was unclear, floated up from the old woman's bruised body.

Initially, it was enveloped by a faint light shield, gazing around with a bewildered look.

Upon seeing Qiao Mu and the other two standing before it, the soul body involuntarily recoiled.

Qiao Mu looked at its faint, ethereal shadow with extreme coldness and asked in a deep voice, "Speak, who are you, and who is your master?"

As her words fell, a cluster of ice crystals suddenly appeared from her fingertips, instantly transforming into long ice needles.

Qiao Mu flicked her hand, and the needle tips, each aimed at the phantom soul body of the woman, emitted a faint silver glow.

Without waiting for the soul body to speak, she flicked her finger, and dozens of long needles shot out swiftly.

Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. The long needles passed through the soul body, directly pinning to the ground a dozen soft snakes that had crawled down the cellar wall.

"Petty tricks, dare to show off before this Crown Princess," Qiao Mu coldly swept her gaze over the woman's soul body, raising another jade tablet with her fingertip.

"Normal cultivators can't attack soul bodies, but that doesn't mean I have no way to deal with you," Qiao Mu said coldly.

"If you don't answer properly, I will keep your soul body bound, making you suffer the pain of ten thousand arrows piercing your heart and the disaster of thunder and lightning strikes for all eternity."

"Don't worry, as long as I want to, there'll be no big problem keeping your soul body preserved forever."

Mo Lian and Feng Chen clearly saw the woman's soul body tremble several times, as if shocked and struck.

She was, of course, afraid.

She felt immense dread at that dark future.

"Now, let's let you suffer a bit," Qiao Mu said with a cold face, raising her hand.

The talisman transformed into a power like ten thousand arrows piercing the heart, whooshing through the soul body's limbs and bones.

Crown Prince Mo and Immortal Venerable Peach Blossom truly hadn't expected a mere soul body to emit such a tearing scream.

The woman's already ethereal figure swayed slightly like a candle flame, and she painfully shriveled into a ball, clutching her head and falling to the ground, trembling.