C17

"There's hope. As long as we return half of their soul to them, they'll be back to normal."

Bai Mu was overjoyed when he heard this. Although these people did indeed look like controlled zombies, since there was hope for survival, the children that he rescued earlier wouldn't end up as helpless orphans.

"Bai Mu, it's too early for you to celebrate. It'll be difficult to retrieve the souls of these people!" Mo Xin sighed and continued, "Because all of these souls have been used to make this formation. If I'm not wrong, this formation not only can suck in the wandering souls, it can also imprison other souls until they are refined and used by him."

"Damn it!" Bai Mu looked at the approaching crowd. Upon hearing Mo Xin's words, Bai Mu wanted to go crazy. What was the best course of action to take out the remaining souls of these people?

Mo Xin looked at the faint movement of the array above his head. The spirits that had lost their consciousness were imprisoned within the array, unconsciously repeatedly slamming outwards. He was hesitating whether he should tell Bai Mu that the souls were within the array.

If he were to tell Bai Mu about this, given Bai Mu's personality, he would definitely charge into the spell formation. If that were to happen, not only would he be unable to leave, Bai Mu might even …

Mo Xin shook his head. If even Bai Mu couldn't get out, then Xiao Qian would not be able to be saved.

"Brother Bai Mu, why don't you leave? It's fine if you go to the mountain or bring those children down with you. Don't worry about me." Mo Xin said to Bai Mu, who was still waiting in anticipation.

"Mo Xin, what did you say?" I'll leave you alone. "Even if I leave you behind, I still won't be able to leave this village."

"Because from the start, this village has been completely tricked. Those who enter it can only be caught, otherwise, they won't be able to get out!"

Bai Mu's words immediately extinguished Mo Xin's thoughts. Gritting his teeth tightly, he raised his head to look at the soul fragments bumping into him. Mo Xin had already made up his mind.

"Brother Bai Mu, if those items are here, try and knock them out. I'll think of a way to extract their souls."

"Mo Xin, can you find those souls?" Bai Mu turned around and looked at Mo Xin doubtfully.

"Yes, those souls are also imprisoned here. However, those souls only have half a soul, so they can't resist the controller. I'm a ghost, so I can resist the corrosion of this formation."

"Alright, I'll be troubling you then. I will settle this as soon as possible." Bai Mu naturally knew that Mo Xin was powerless against this spell formation. Otherwise, he wouldn't have told him to leave earlier.

Looking at the group of walking dead, Bai Mu estimated that there were at least forty of them.

Looking at the swaying and unstable figures of the elderly, Bai Mu had already thought of a hundred ways to put them down. To his surprise, the walking corpses stopped five meters away from him.

What kind of tempo was this?

Bai Mu took a few steps forward. The controlled elderly men were completely unmoved by Bai Mu's actions. They held their kitchen knives in their hands as they continuously waved them around, making "ge ge ge" sounds with their mouths. No matter how noisy they were, they couldn't get through.

It was as if there was a transparent barrier separating them.

Mo Xin also noticed this change. He raised his head and looked at the soul above his head. Mo Xin suddenly understood.

"Brother Bai Mu, come in."

"Come in?" Bai Mu pointed at himself. Just now, Mo Xin had told him not to come in, but now he was asking him to.

"Brother Bai Mu, please come in. I have already thought of a solution." Mo Xin shouted again.

"Mo Xin, are you sure you're not under the control of the spell formation?" Bai Mu knew that these people wouldn't be able to make it here, so he wasn't in a hurry. He stared at Mo Xin with doubt in his eyes.

"Of course not. As long as I don't resist, this formation will not devour me that easily." Mo Xin glanced at Bai Mu before continuing, "Brother Bai Mu, once you come in, you'll know the method I want to use."

Bai Mu stared at Mo Xin for a few seconds. Only when Mo Xin felt slightly embarrassed from the stare did he raise his foot and walk towards him.

"What's that?" Before he could see anything from the outside, the moment he walked into the formation, Bai Mu saw a strange dome of light flickering. Within the dome of light, some white masses of air were floating around.

Those are the souls of the people outside. It is possible that those people came here with the aura of those children, but who would have known that their main bodies would come to the place where their souls are imprisoned. Their souls are connected to their main bodies, which is why the controlled half of their souls want to escape from the formation.

Bai Mu came to a realization. "You mean that those people can't come in, that someone did it on purpose?" If we release these souls from this place, the person behind us will definitely come out to stop us. "

"That's right, that's right. If I'm not wrong, this formation shouldn't have been successfully created yet." Brother Bai Mu, why don't you try taking a walk outside and see if you can get out? "

Bai Mu nodded, lifted his foot, and attempted to walk out.

Sure enough, he really did walk out!

At this moment, a yellow-clothed Daoist Priest sitting cross-legged at the entrance of the village suddenly opened his eyes. "You guys actually found me!" His moustache quivered upward as he spoke.

When Mo Xin saw Bai Mu walking out with ease, a hint of a smile appeared on his face, although there was a hint of a strange smile on his pale face.

Bai Mu walked in and looked at Mo Xin. "But even if I could freely enter and exit the magical formation, I still wouldn't be able to release those souls, right?"

"If my Spiritual Energy had not been absorbed by this formation, I would have definitely been able to help you get those things out."

After hearing Mo Xin's words, Bai Mu was at a loss as to what to do. He could jump to the peak of the light, but he couldn't retrieve the souls. If he wanted to escape, he would need to rely on Mo Xin's Spiritual Energy.

"Mo Xin, what do ghosts usually use to recover spiritual energy?"

Mo Xin shook his head, "If we have family members, we can also recover our spiritual energy. Otherwise, losing it means losing it. We can only cultivate it anew through time. "

"Deus of kin!" Mo Xin suddenly thought of something. With a wave of his hand, three sandalwood that were intertwined with gold and silver appeared in Mo Xin's hand.

When Mo Xin took out his sandalwood, Bai Mu could feel that his mind had cleared up a lot.

"This is?" Bai Mu pointed at the sandalwood in Mo Xin's hand and asked.

"The golden silk sandalwood fragrance is a type of incense used to worship gods and buddhas, ghosts and monsters cannot be used privately without permission!"

Hearing Mo Xin's words, coupled with the feeling he got from the incense just now, Bai Mu knew that this incense was definitely not ordinary.

Mo Xin turned to Bai Mu and said, "Xiao Qian told me to give this to you."

"For me?" Bai Mu pointed at himself. Why was this Mo Xin getting more and more confused? Besides, he was a human and not a ghost, so he didn't need these things.

"This incense is very precious. If you meet any difficult ghosts in the future, you can burn it and offer it to them."

"En..." "You mean bribe?" Bai Mu couldn't help but feel embarrassed. So the saying that wealth could make a fool out of men was true.

"Take it first. It might be useful when the time comes." Mo Xin waved his hand again, and the three incense sticks flew into Bai Mu's hands.

To be honest, he had seen ordinary sandalwood. However, this sort of sandalwood with sandalwood quality was something that Bai Mu had never heard of before. If he were to take it out to auction, he might be able to buy it for an unexpected price.

However, why would Xiao Qian ask Mo Xin to pass such a precious incense to her?

As for Mo Xin, he looked at the three joss sticks in Bai Mu's hand with a complicated expression on his face. The mortals only knew that the sandalwood was used as a divine Buddha, but they didn't know that using this incense could also increase the cultivation of ghosts.

Xiao Qian voluntarily gave up on the three incense sticks and asked him to pass them on to Bai Mu when he came. Actually, Xiao Qian didn't intend for Bai Mu to pass through the Nine Nether Maze City. She had voluntarily given these three incense sticks to Bai Mu.

However, he couldn't see Xiao Qian being fooled so foolishly. Thus, when he came back, he didn't hand the incense over to Bai Mu. But now, this trial was over, and he was even scared of it at the beginning. Who knew that it would be useless?

However, after interacting with him for the past few days, he knew Bai Mu's character. Since he was able to rush through the Nine Nether Maze City for Xiao Qian and was able to do this for a stranger, he was qualified to have these three incense sticks.

He had given these incense sticks to Bai Mu just in case.

If he lost his soul here, he would have at least completed Xiao Qian's task.

"Mo Xin, since the offerings allow you to recover, then I'll just offer you this sandalwood." He said that when he picked up the three sandalwood sticks, he was about to light them up.

Seeing Bai Mu's reaction, Mo Xin quickly pulled Bai Mu back, "Brother Bai Mu, you mustn't. If the higher-ups find out about this sandalwood incense, then …"

"Mo Xin, what are you afraid of? If there's anything, I'll fight!" "Moreover, in this situation …" Bai Mu glanced at the people outside who were struggling to break through the barrier in front of them and said to Mo Xin, "If something were to happen to you, then it would be a problem for me to get out of the Nine Nether Maze City. You must know that Xiao Qian still needs our help!"

After hearing Bai Mu's words, Mo Xin was slightly moved. He nodded heavily and said, "Brother Bai Mu, three sandalwood sticks are too many. You only need to burn a small portion of it."

"Sure!" As Bai Mu said this, he put away the other two sandalwood incense. Then, he took out a lighter and lit up the sandalwood incense.

Once the golden silk sandalwood fragrance was ignited, Bai Mu felt the spiritual altar become clear. He lifted his head and discovered that Mo Xin's soul had actually become much thicker. Not only that, the soul on top of the light actually began to vaguely take on a human form.