The campfire in the cave crackled loudly, sparks spitting onto the moss on the cave walls and raising a wisp of scorched scent. Ye Fan's fingertips hovered three inches above the Array Core, cold sweat sliding down the back of his neck into his collar—the wrist that Chu Hongzhuang had grabbed just moments ago still retained the warmth of her fingertips, but right now, all his focus was locked onto that golden chain.
"Living Soul Chain." He softly repeated the three characters, memories of his past life surging like a tide. That was the most bizarre forbidden art of Southern Xinjiang, using the living souls of living people to forge chains, with every single Gu inscription soaked in seventy percent resentment and thirty percent vitality. No wonder there had been the sound of a woman crying in the black fog just now; it turned out this array was not simply a Five Elements trapping array at all, but rather used living souls as a lure, locking the generation and restriction of the Five Elements together with the life and death of Gu insects into a dead end.
Chu Hongzhuang's Golden Silkworm crawled along his wrist to his fingertips, its translucent insect body reflecting the golden light and casting tiny shadows on the back of his hand. "This lock was drawn using the cocoon silk of the Three-tailed Golden Silkworm Gu." She tilted her head, staring at the Gu inscriptions on the chain as the silver bells in her hair jingled softly. "My dad said that to break the Living Soul Chain,…
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