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Chapter 487 Questioning
Soon, the fox came in, followed by only Musun.
"Brother Mu, where's Eleven?"

Musun did not speak, but the fox responded,

"Eleven said she found some good stuff outside and asked us to go out and take a look..."

Pu Yanlan and Mu Xun looked at each other, and Hongyi and Tong Ling stepped forward, holding the dwarf on the left and right, and went out of the door. When they reached the backyard, Gu Shiyi waved at them from afar beside the fish pond.
"Come and have a look!"

The two of them looked over and saw that a corner of the fish pond had been split open by Gu Shiyi's knife. The water and fish in the pond had all flowed away, revealing several skeletons in the mud below. Some of these skeletons had turned into white bones, while others still had flesh and blood on them. One was even intact, with its eyes closed and its skin as pale as death. It looked like it had just died. Gu Shiyi looked at the dwarf thrown on the ground and shouted,
"Little cripple, what did you do to bury so many dead bodies in your yard?"

The dwarf lowered his head and said nothing. Gu Shiyi laughed strangely and rubbed his two fingers together.
"It's okay if you don't want to tell me. I'm just asking casually anyway. If you don't want to tell me, just burn it with them!"

After saying that, he flicked his finger, and a demonic fire rushed to the dwarf, and soon wrapped his whole body in flames. The dwarf thought that Gu Shiyi was threatening him, and wanted to scare him so that he could ask some secrets, but he didn't expect that Gu Shiyi didn't follow the routine at all, and really did what he said, without asking any more questions. This demonic fire was not like an ordinary fire, and without the owner's signal, it would not stop until he was burned to ashes.
"what……"

The demonic fire burned the body, and the pain was no less than that of ordinary fire. Although it was only a shallow layer, it penetrated deep into the bone marrow, and even the three souls and seven spirits were trembling.

"what……"

The dwarf rolled on the ground in agony, but after a few breaths, he could no longer bear it and begged for mercy loudly.
"Please spare my life, sirs. I will tell you everything... I will tell you everything..."

Gu Shiyi hummed,

"Who cares to listen to you? Anyway, we have the magic circle. Who cares whether you live or die?"

The dwarf cried out,
"My Lords, do you want to know... know... why this formation has been preserved until now, and why these... these people died here..."

"In no mood!"

Gu Shiyi rolled his eyes.
"I don't care what they do, as long as they work!"

At this time, the evil fire had burned all the hair on the dwarf's body, and his skin was cracked, revealing the bright red flesh and blood inside. If it continued to burn like this, all the bones and tendons would be burned. After that, even if Gu Shiyi stopped, the dwarf would not be able to survive!
"My lord! Your lord, there are other secrets in using this magic circle. My lord... my lord... please spare my life!"

The last three words were so heartbreaking and miserable that they made one's scalp numb. Gu Shiyi raised his eyebrows and said,
"Forget it, let me hear what you have to say first!"

With a flick of his fingers, the evil fire extinguished itself, and the dwarf collapsed to the ground, his chest heaving violently, gasping for breath. With every breath he took, blood spurted out from the burst wounds on his body. Soon he turned from a little black man into a little red man, looking very scary!
Pu Yanlan was finally soft-hearted and asked Hongyi to feed the dwarf a pill. After the pill entered his mouth, the dwarf's pain was relieved. After a while, he was able to turn over and sit on the ground, saying in a trembling voice,
"My three lords, I didn't mean to offend you, it's just... just..."

Gu Shiyi chuckled and said,

"Stop trying to clear yourself up..."

After saying that, he squatted in front of him and looked at him.

"Are you the owner of the house?"

The dwarf nodded.

"My surname is Bai. This house has been passed down from generation to generation in the Bai family. It has been in my hands for twenty-six generations..."

Gu Shiyi looked him up and down, and suddenly rubbed his two fingers together.
"Look at you. You're not being honest in your first sentence. Do you still want to return the barbecue?"

As he spoke, Gu Shiyi poked a finger into the gaping flesh.
"what……"

The dwarf's body trembled, and a fierce light flashed in his red eyes. He wanted to pounce on Gu Shiyi and bite him, but in this situation, he could only lower his head to hide the hatred in his eyes and replied,

"I am telling the truth..."

"Tell the truth..."

Gu Shi said,
"I walked around the house earlier and went into the ancestral hall in the back hall. There were many full-length portraits of the Bai family's ancestors hanging on the wall, but there was no such a cripple as you, less than three feet tall. Look at yourself, with a big head and a small body, and short limbs. How do you look like a member of this family..."

The dwarf replied,

"That was... something went wrong when I was practicing martial arts in my early years. It wasn't originally like this..." "Oh... is that so?"

Gu Shiyi looked him up and down and asked,

"Then tell me who are the people in this pool?"

The dwarf replied,

"They are all people who covet my Bai family's magic formation..."

"Pooh……"

Gu Shiyi spat at him.
"Your magic array is just a teleportation array. If there were cultivators from some sects coming here, would they have allowed you to play tricks in this house for so many years? Most of the cultivators in this pond are scattered cultivators. They knew there was a magic array here and wanted to find out what it was like us. They borrowed it if they could. Who knew that you would trap them all in the illusion and kill them... Is that right or not?"

The dwarf lowered his head and said nothing. After a while, he replied,

"This is the magic circle of my Bai family. If you are willing to give it to me, then give it to me. If you are not willing to give it to me, then what if I am killed?"

"Not so good? But you didn't kill people because they broke into your house. You wanted their things, right? There are so many skeletons, nothing left except rotten clothes..."

Gu Shiyi narrowed his eyes and said,
"You used this formation to lure the monks here just to get their things, right?"

The dwarf lowered his head, and Gu Shiyi snorted.
"With your current level, you can actually create such a powerful illusion. I'm afraid... the matter here is not that simple, right?"

The dwarf moved his body but still didn't speak. But Musun spoke at this time.

"Eleven, this person's soul is a little strange..."

Pu Yanlan also nodded and said,
"This person's soul is not original. It looks like... it is possessed by someone else!"

The cycle of reincarnation has its own rules. A person's body and soul are matched in the mother's womb. As for why there is a book of life and death in the underworld, which records what kind of fetus and what fate one will have, it is all based on the three souls and seven spirits. When reincarnated, the soul enters the body of a compatible fetus, stabilizes in the womb, and gradually becomes compatible with the body in childhood. When the skylight above the head closes, the soul is completely matched. After that, the soul will not leave until the person has completed his life and the body is too old to be used. To take over another body is to pick one and put one's own soul into the body with the best match. However...how can this acquired soul that is forced in be compared with the innate standard one from the factory?
The soul that has taken over another's body is slightly incompatible with the flesh, which will affect the cultivation of Taoism. However, if one can really cultivate to the level of transformation of the spirit, the soul will be strong enough to suppress the flesh and will no longer affect the ascension. Ordinary cultivators cannot tell with the naked eye whether the person in front of them is a cultivator who has taken over another's body. However, cultivators who specialize in the way of ghosts will have this ability as long as they reach a certain level. This is the result of years of manipulating evil spirits, and others cannot learn it even if they want to. Mu Xun and Pu Yanlan both have this ability, especially when the dwarf was burned by the demon fire, his soul was in so much pain that it almost left his body, and the two of them could tell at a glance that something was wrong.

When the two of them said this, the dwarf with his head down trembled slightly. Seeing this, Gu Shiyi smiled.
"I understand. What do you mean by ancestral heritage of your family? You are not a member of the Bai family at all. You must have taken over the body of a Bai family member and occupied their magic formation, specifically to deceive foreign cultivators. So it seems..."

Gu Shiyi narrowed his eyes.
"...I'm afraid you're not just after their storage bags, right?"

Even if the dwarf didn't tell them, they could find out. After Pu Yanlan and Mu Xun took out the bones from the mud and examined them, Pu Yanlan said,
"Something must have gone wrong when he was taking over another body. The original body of the Bai family member who was taken over should not be like this. After he took over the body, the body became like a dwarf. I think this situation will get worse and worse in the future, so... he is thinking of finding another body to take over..."

"Correct!"

Musun looked at the holes on the tops of the bones.

"This is a sign that the soul has escaped again after forcing its way in..."

Gu Shiyi's eyes narrowed even further after hearing this, and he looked at the dwarf lying on the ground and said,
"Others can only possess a body once, but you can forcibly possess a body so many times. Your skills... I'm afraid there is something special about them, right?"

The dwarf still trembled and didn't speak, but Gu Shiyi lost his patience and sneered,
"Your technique is certainly special, but the three of us are not interested in it, and I am not interested in dealing with you anymore. If you have any secrets that can be exchanged for your life, tell me now... If you keep talking nonsense and talking nonsense to me, don't possess my body. Go down and drink a bowl of Meng Po soup and reincarnate again!"

After saying this, the dwarf rubbed his fingers together, suddenly raised his head, and trembled. Seeing that Gu Shiyi's demonic fire was about to come upon him again, he hurriedly said in a hoarse voice,
"Wait a minute... The ancestor of the Bai family was originally a high-level cultivator, but his descendants were incompetent and had no future. Until now, they have fallen into decline and become ordinary businessmen. But they have been able to guard this magic circle and maintain it until now?"

Gu Shiyi became interested when he heard this.

"Oh... tell me!"

The dwarf took a breath and then continued,
"The ancestor of the Bai family was a master of formations. He personally arranged the teleportation formation and placed several layers of formations to protect it. However, the Bai family has no successors. Over the years, the formation outside can no longer be maintained. Only the teleportation formation inside and the illusion formation hidden inside are left!"

"Oh... no wonder..."

Gu Shiyi suddenly realized,
“No wonder you, at your foundation-building stage, were able to trap us in an illusion. It seems you borrowed the power of this magic circle!”