The pair of eyes lurking in the woods had not, in fact, just caught sight of Liu Chunting. She had been targeted the moment she began walking along the road toward the village entrance.
These eyes, which even a cultivator’s Soul Sense could not detect, did not belong to a human, but to an Evil Spirit—a creature whose very name sent tremors through the Cultivation World. In truth, the presence of this Evil Spirit near Longquan Mountain was tied to Lin Fei. The Evil Spirit that had attempted to seize Chen Shiyao’s body was but a sub-soul of this very entity.
Only when an Evil Spirit reaches an exceptionally high level can it divide its soul to possess other living beings. These sub-souls are created primarily as a failsafe for the main soul’s tribulation. When an Evil Spirit advances from the Blue Tier to the supreme Purple Tier, it must endure a Heavenly Tribulation, a process with an exceedingly high failure rate. Thus, to ensure its survival, an Evil Spirit will cast off a sub-soul to possess another creature before the tribulation begins. Since an Evil Spirit can only create one such sub-soul in its entire lifetime, these powerful entities are incredibly selective about their targets.
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