Tired of hearing Meng Xiao’s shrill screams, Gu Zhiqi directly formed hand seals and cast a small Formation into Meng Xiao’s soul body.
Once the Formation entered Meng Xiao’s soul body, the surrounding formations spontaneously ignited.
Meanwhile, Meng Xiao looked at her soon-to-disperse soul body with a face full of horror, "What... what did you do to me?"
Listening to Meng Xiao’s question, Gu Zhiqi looked up, glanced at Meng Xiao, and uncharacteristically explained, "You are a departed soul; everything in this world no longer concerns you. You should enter the Reincarnation Path now."
"No! I don’t want to! I don’t want to enter the Reincarnation Path!" Meng Xiao’s face was filled with terror as she frantically shook her head.
Gu Zhiqi paid her no more attention.
Watching her soul body becoming more and more transparent, Meng Xiao’s eyes filled with intense reluctance and resentment as she hysterically yelled at Gu Zhiqi, "Why? Why do you make me enter the Reincarnation Path? I don’t want to!"
She didn’t want to enter the Reincarnation Path.
She had worked so hard for so long to climb up to the position of a leading star, and had devoted so much effort to becoming a disciple under the Mystic Alliance Hierarch.
She had so much—why should she enter the Reincarnation Path?
She did not want to enter the Reincarnation Path!
Just as her soul body was about to dissipate, it suddenly began to consolidate again, emitting a faint malevolence. The wavering soul body lunged at Gu Zhiqi with claws bared.
Sensing the malevolence emanating from Meng Xiao, Gu Zhiqi turned her head and looked at Meng Xiao with a lackadaisical gaze.
Just as Meng Xiao’s hand, enshrouded in black mist, was about to touch Gu Zhiqi, it stopped two centimeters away from her.
Meng Xiao’s soul body was frozen mid-air, stuck in the posture of reaching out towards Gu Zhiqi.
"What... what have you done to me?" Panic colored Meng Xiao’s eyes as she looked at Gu Zhiqi.
"If you are unwilling to enter the Reincarnation Path, then let your soul return to the heavens and earth," Gu Zhiqi said with a faint smile on her lips, looking at Meng Xiao.
"You... you dare!" This time, Meng Xiao was truly panicked.
Just moments ago, she was only focused on resenting Gu Zhiqi for ruining her chances, forgetting that the person in front of her was far above her in cultivation level.
Gu Zhiqi didn’t speak anymore and started forming hand seals.
"No... don’t, you can’t do this." Meng Xiao watched Gu Zhiqi’s hand seal movements, growing even more panicked, and then an idea struck her. She blurted out, "If you kill me, aren’t you afraid of accruing karmic hindrance?"
"Your soul has already been tainted by malevolence; you are halfway to becoming an evil spirit."
Mysterious Sect Disciples indeed cannot kill the innocent recklessly, or else they would be entangled by karmic hindrance.
But if one eliminates evil for the sake of the world, there would be no karmic hindrance. Instead, one would be endowed with Merit Points.
Mystic practitioners not only cultivate Yuan Force to enhance their strength but must also undergo training and accumulate Merit.
The higher the Merit Points, the smoother one’s journey in cultivation will be.
Upon hearing this, Meng Xiao’s complexion turned deathly pale.
Glancing at her hand wrapped in black mist, panic filled her eyes.
"Please, don’t do this, I was wrong, I truly was, please... ah!"
Before Meng Xiao could finish her plea, Gu Zhiqi’s hand seal struck her soul body.
Accompanied by Meng Xiao’s screams, her soul body began to distort and struggle.
The soul body was writhing violently, about to dissipate completely.
Suddenly, the Purple Flower that Gu Zhiqi had left on the coffee table emitted a faint purple glow.
Following this, Meng Xiao’s soul body was sucked away by the Purple Flower with a "whoosh."
She had forgotten that this flower would automatically bind any soul within a hundred meters.
Her gaze fell upon the Purple Flower, and she silently stared at it for a few seconds.