HBWnovel Chapter 497.2
Chapter 497.2
Side Story 1 Part 2Samadhis’s True Flame (2)
Just two moments ago.
The diviners from the Harmonious Immortal Pavilion who had gathered for a shift change were dumbfounded as they looked at the charred corpses.
What on earth had happened?
To find out, the senior brother tried to summon the souls from the corpses of his fellow disciples.
The senior brother’s expression was grim as he formed hand seals after attaching talismans.
Then, from one of the blackened corpses, a soul slowly emerged.
The diviners recognized the soul that appeared in its living form.
[It’s Senior Brother Gi-yun.]
[Senior Brother Gi-yun… How did this happen… Kugh.]
[Be quiet. The senior brother is still performing the divination technique.]
As the diviners, who had been clamoring at the appearance of their dead colleague, fell silent, the senior brother approached Gi-yun’s soul and asked:
[There isn’t much time to hold onto Gi-yun’s soul. What exactly happened?]
But then,
-Hueeeee
‘!?’
The senior brother frowned.
This was because Gi-yun’s soul that had appeared was unable to speak properly, with a blank expression.
He looked as if he had lost his sense of self.
‘What is this?’
The senior brother couldn’t understand it.
Even if the dead couldn’t become vengeful spirits, they would inevitably retain strong attachments from their life.
But Gi-yun’s appearance showed not just a lack of attachment, but a complete absence of consciousness.
[Gi-yun!]
-Hueeeeeee.
[Gi-yun, pull yourself together. You need to tell us something so we can…]
-Hueeeeeee.
-Swish!
Eventually, Gi-yun’s soul dissipated and vanished.
The senior brother was utterly baffled by this inexplicable and strange phenomenon.
Despite his long years of training as a diviner and encountering many souls, this was the first time he had experienced something like this.
If even a small trace of attachment from life remained, it would have said something, but it felt completely empty, like a newborn child.
At that moment, someone came running towards him.
It was Yeo Surin.
[Senior Brother.]
[How did the wooden talisman tracking technique go?]
To this question, Yeo Surin shook her head and replied.
[It’s not working. The Wooden Talisman Tracking Technique, the Harmonious Immortal Spirit Trace Technique… None of the five tracking techniques I know are working. It seems…]
[They’ve completely erased all traces of their techniques.]
[It seems that way. This level of skill would be impossible without someone at least as powerful as our Master.]
Their master was Scarlet-Tailed Old Immortal, the Pavilion Master of the Harmonious Immortal Pavilion, one of the Six Divine Diviners known as the pinnacle of diviners.
Without a Divine Diviner-level practitioner with that kind of power, it would be impossible to erase the traces of techniques so cleanly.
Yeo Surin looked around with devastated eyes and spoke.
[Who could have done this? Could it be that Three-Eyes is still alive?]
[That’s impossible… Didn’t we all see it back then?]
Everyone had witnessed that being’s annihilation.
Moreover, they had remained at the scene to
“I apologize, customers. Today we—”
Thud
At that moment, a heavy pouch fell in front of him.
Wondering what this could be, he picked it up and found it filled with silver coins, easily numbering in the hundreds.
Seeing this, the middle-aged man unconsciously swallowed hard.
This amount was enough to rent out the entire place for about a week.
As he was momentarily at a loss for words due to the excessive amount of money, the young man who had given it to him spoke.
“My wife says she likes the smoked salt-grilled duck, so bring out more…”
At these words, the stunningly beautiful woman sitting next to him, gently caressing her slightly protruding belly, interjected.
“It’s not me, but our little one in my belly who wants to eat it.”
“Ah, right. It’s our little one who wants it. Did you hear? Bring more salt-grilled duck.”
“W-well…”
The middle-aged man was at a loss for words at this exchange.
He had been shocked into silence by the large sum of money, but they had already accepted a reservation fee from the Zhongnan Sect Taoists.
Although they were Taoists, they were essentially martial artists, and it was unpredictable what might happen if their mood was soured.
Just then,
Snap!
The young man snapped his fingers at him. Then,
“You want smoked salt-grilled duck? But didn’t you say the Zhongnan Sect Taoists are coming soon? Is it okay to leave those customers there?”
‘!?’
Suddenly, the head chef from the kitchen appeared in front of him.
As he was wondering what was going on, he realized he was standing in front of the kitchen.
It was enough to make ghosts wail in confusion.
As the middle-aged man, flustered by this situation, hurriedly tried to run back to the couple,
-Rumble!
At that moment, a group of Taoists wearing gray robes entered through the entrance.
The middle-aged man’s expression hardened when he saw this.
‘We’re doomed.’
The situation he had been worried about had come to pass.
As he was struggling with how to explain this, he saw the Zhongnan Sect Taoists discover the dining couple and frown.