On the other side, Lin Xiao, whose house-digging work was nearing completion, suddenly heard Liao Pantu inside the Soul-Nourishing Pendant frantically transmitting a voice message to him:
"Lin Xiao, Lin Xiao! Quick, quick, quick! Go find my soul body! Stop digging these leftover scraps! Hurry up and go, this way!"
As he spoke, a translucent hand reached out from Lin Xiao's chest, twisting to point toward his rear right.
"Oh, okay." Seeing him so desperate, Lin Xiao didn't waste any words. He immediately stopped his work and sped off in the direction indicated.
While rushing, he transmitted a message back to ask:
"What's wrong? Didn't you say there was no rush before? Why are you suddenly acting like your pants are on fire?"
"Argh! I told you not to rush before because my soul body has my nemesis's seal on it. If you undid the seal too early and my nemesis sensed it, what if he came to block the exit of this secret realm?"
"Then why the rush now?"
Liao Pantu explained:
"Just now, a little girl discovered the location of that part of my soul body. However, my soul body is hidden inside an ice coffin, and I sealed it tightly so she couldn't open it. She hasn't found me yet, but she just ran off to get help!"
Hearing this, Lin Xiao was a bit confused.
"So what if she found it? They wouldn't do anything to you for no reason, right?"
Liao Pantu grew anxious and yelled:
"What do you mean 'wouldn't do anything for no reason'! Think about it, there's no way out of this ice cave right now. If the fifteen days are up and these trapped cultivators haven't found a way out, and I'm the only soul body existing here, don't you think they'll assume I'm the key to leaving? They definitely won't believe that I don't know the way out either!
When the time comes, I will inevitably face the hostility of everyone! There are at least dozens, if not over a hundred, cultivators trapped here! But that part of my soul body only has the strength of the mid-Foundation Establishment realm. How could I possibly be a match for so many people!"
Hearing this explanation, Lin Xiao suddenly understood. Thinking about it, if they really couldn't find a way out, it was highly likely everyone would assume Senior Liao was the breakthrough point.
At this thought, his speed involuntarily increased by another notch, advancing at full speed toward the direction of Senior Liao's soul body.
When they hurried to the entrance of the underground cave, Yuan Zhiyun, who had gone out to find people, was still nowhere to be seen.
Not daring to delay, Lin Xiao immediately descended into the cave. In the spacious, torch-lit cavern, he saw the lid of the ice coffin in the center wide open. A soul body identical to Senior Liao in the Soul-Nourishing Pendant, only with a much higher soul density, was sitting upright inside, eyes tightly closed, waiting for their arrival.
Seeing this, Lin Xiao looked around. He couldn't see where the so-called seal was, so he had to ask:
"Senior, where is the seal? Do I break the seal first, or do you merge first?"
The Soul-Nourishing Pendant drifted out from his chest. Liao Pantu emerged from it and said to Lin Xiao:
"The seal is inside my soul body. It locks me firmly to this place, fixing me in this wretched spot where I can only barely move within a radius of a dozen feet.
Where is that Unsealing Talisman you made a few days ago? Take it out quickly. Use it later when I merge my souls. During the fusion, a very powerful soul force field will erupt for a split second. With me exerting force from the inside and your Unsealing Talisman exerting force from the outside, the combined effect should be able to break it. Remember, the eruption of the soul force field during fusion only lasts an instant, so you must be fast! If you miss the eruption, even a high-level Unsealing Talisman might not be able to break this seal!"
Regarding Lin Xiao's Unsealing Talisman, they had discussed this matter a few days ago in an inn in Yuanling City.
At that time, Lin Xiao suddenly had an idea. He wondered if using the system's item synthesizer along with spirit stones could directly synthesize higher-level items.
He then asked Liao Pantu if he had any unsealing talismans, arrays, or similar items.
Liao Pantu had Lin Xiao go out, and then pulled out an Unsealing Talisman from his own soul body and gave it to him.
On the outside, this Unsealing Talisman looked like a very ordinary talisman. It had nothing special about it and didn't seem powerful at all.
According to Liao Pantu, this kind of Unsealing Talisman was not a high-level one, and it was impossible for it to break a Nascent Soul stage seal.
Therefore, Lin Xiao took this Unsealing Talisman and fifty spirit stones, and used the item synthesizer to create an Unsealing Talisman that shimmered with specks of golden light.
When Liao Pantu saw Lin Xiao suddenly pull out a sparkling golden Unsealing Talisman, he couldn't quite believe it.
It wasn't that he couldn't believe a high-level Unsealing Talisman could appear, but rather he couldn't believe Lin Xiao had so easily turned an ordinary Unsealing Talisman into a high-level one!
And it only cost fifty spirit stones!
One must know that many high-level talismans with special functions were hard to come by in the outside world, even for thousands or tens of thousands of spirit stones!
There were plenty of people willing to pay, but someone actually had to be selling them!
Because of this, Liao Pantu felt increasingly certain that choosing the Lingxian Sect was an incredibly correct decision.
In the past, he hadn't thought these functional items were very important. So, although he would spend spirit stones to buy them if he came across them, he wouldn't specifically seek them out.
Moreover, he only liked alchemy and had little interest in anything else.
Thus, he didn't have many of these things on him.
Most importantly, inside these two soul bodies were only relatively low-level items. The good stuff was basically all in his main soul body.
Returning to the matter at hand.
Hearing Liao Pantu's words, Lin Xiao hurriedly took out an Unsealing Talisman from his private inventory.
Liao Pantu pointed to the glabella between the eyebrows of his soul body in the ice coffin, signaling Lin Xiao to use the Unsealing Talisman there in a moment. After that, he nodded at him, then left the Soul-Nourishing Pendant and floated toward that part of his soul body in the ice coffin.
Losing the soul body, the Soul-Nourishing Pendant fell to the ground with a smack, but neither of them had the time to care about it.
Holding the Unsealing Talisman, Lin Xiao stared intently at Liao Pantu. The moment he saw his Qi Condensation stage soul body touch and merge with his Foundation Establishment stage soul body, Lin Xiao immediately infused the Unsealing Talisman with spiritual energy and slapped it onto his glabella!
In the next instant, an invisible yet distinctly palpable ripple of a soul force field swept through the entire cavern.
His mind went blank for a second, and then it felt as if his entire soul had been washed clean.
Immediately after, he felt as if a momentary darkness enveloped his surroundings. Then, he saw that something seemed to have been shaken out from Senior Liao's soul body in the ice coffin. In the blink of an eye, it shattered into pieces and dissipated into the dark void with a whoosh.
The next moment, Lin Xiao broke out of that momentary darkness. His surroundings returned to normal, as if nothing had just happened.
Meanwhile, Liao Pantu in the ice coffin was looking at him with a satisfied smile on his face.
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