Evil Spirit Consultant

Chapter 222: Luring the Soul
"It's the soul-guiding incense."

The bronze bell of Yongfu Temple shattered the rain curtain. In the meditation room filled with the scent of sandalwood, the abbot's robes were covered with dark gold patterns.

Uga Shoji sprinkled the specially made herbal powder mixed with spiritual energy on the brow of the unconscious Miyamoto Yugye: "He is now showing signs of 'disappearance' because of the soul-calling incense. Fortunately, we arrived in time and did not suffer further damage. He will be fine after resting for a day or two."

Yang Liu was looking through the information he provided. The men in the photos had sunken eyes, and looked like empty shells without spirit.
"Ten victims in one quarter, based on the population of the island... Is this actually quite common? I don't think I've heard of any relevant information. If it weren't for your information, I wouldn't have known about this."

"Because this kind of thing is not a good thing in the eyes of the parties involved, it is considered a family shame and generally will not be told to others casually." Uga Shoji shook his head with a wry smile.

"Hmm?" Yang Liu tilted her head in confusion, "How is this related to family scandal?"

Uga Shoji first cast a few Buddhist spells on Miyamoto Yugye to stabilize his current condition, and then explained to Yang Liu:
"We think this is an abnormal phenomenon because we can see the essence directly, but in the eyes of ordinary people, these 'disappearances' are actually a person who suddenly becomes uneasy. After a few days, they disappear from everyone's sight, but in less than a day or two, they will reappear in this state. Although their energy and spirit are depleted, they will return to normal after a while... What do you think happened?"

Yang Liu lowered his head and pondered, excluding the supernatural phenomena in his mind, and used psychology to make an objective analysis. Then his face became strange:

"Broken…heart?"

Uga Shoji couldn't help laughing. "Almost. However, because it developed so quickly, most people would think that the other party was the victim of an emotional scam. Even if they called the police, they would be powerless to do anything. After all, even the victim himself couldn't explain who had deceived him. Many people even thought that the victim went to the red-light district during the few days he was missing..."

Hearing this, Yang Liu couldn't help but burst out laughing, and then he realized his mistake.

The key reason why this incident caused such a big misunderstanding lies in the condition of the victim itself. Although the victim disappeared for a day or two, he did not suffer any irreparable harm. He just looked a little weak.

This will reduce people's assessment of the danger of this incident. Coupled with the victim's behavior before he disappeared, people who know about this incident will at most think that the victim was seduced by some vixen.

"So you haven't found the culprit yet?" Yang Liu asked.

Uga Shoji felt a little regretful: "People affected by the soul-guiding incense will not show obvious symptoms in the early stages, and the changes that occur during the attack are extremely rapid. When they come back, all the relevant clues on their bodies have disappeared. So there is really nothing we can do... but we can't say there are no clues at all."

"what?"

Uga Shoji picked up the tuft of hair from the plate containing the soul-calling incense sample next to him and said, "To make soul-calling incense, you need to provide something related to yourself. Do you know what this is?"

"Some kind of...animal hair?" Yang Liu stroked his chin and looked at it carefully.

After being treated with magic and medicinal herbs, the color of these hairs turned snow-white, and they were still quite soft, and the texture did not feel like human hair.

"It's fox hair." Uga Shoji revealed the truth.

Yang Liu's expression immediately became strange: "So these people really were seduced by a vixen?"

"It's most likely. Legend has it that fox demons will absorb men's essence to sustain themselves. Judging from the conditions of the demon's birth, the possibility of having this ability is not low. Although we can't draw a conclusion now, we should know tonight." Uga Shoji looked up at the sky, then lowered his head and continued to perform various spells on Miyamoto Yugye.

Yang Liu also walked to the window and looked at the somewhat gloomy weather.

The weather forecast said it would be sunny tonight, and there was a full moon tonight. According to various myths and legends, if fox demons really existed, they would be most active on full moon nights. Uga Shoji had not been able to catch those guys before because he did not have the right medium, and now the unlucky Miyamoto Yugye had just made up for this gap.

With the two working together, it shouldn't be a problem to catch the other party tonight.

"Foxes and temples, they really go well together." Yang Liu laughed, turned around and went back into the house to sit down.

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In a blink of an eye, it was late at night and the bright moonlight was shining in the temple courtyard.

Yang Liu and Uga Shoji carried the still unconscious Miyamoto Yugye to the back mountain behind Yongfu Temple and found an abandoned ancient well to set up an ambush.

It was mainly Uga Shoji who was doing the work. After all, Yang Liu was a complete Muggle in terms of spiritual power. The most he could do was help to carry Miyamoto Yugye down.

Uga Shoji was busy for a while, carving a simple barrier around the area that could monitor fluctuations in spiritual energy without scaring away any monsters that might arrive.

He instructed Yang Liu to throw the unfortunate Miyamoto Yugye onto the wet grass after the rain. Then, the two of them, each holding a lit incense stick, sneaked up the tree and hid.

After a while, the barrier vibrated slightly, and Uga Shoji immediately became alert. He gestured from a distance to Yang Liu to be more vigilant.

The moment the moon broke through the clouds, silver ripples appeared in the originally dried-up ancient well, and a thin mist rose for no reason in the mountain where it had just rained.

Under the moonlight, a woman in white emerged from the fog.

She was a woman wearing a white Zhenxiuhe dress. She had a beautiful face and skin as white as snow. She walked without making any sound, and the outline of fox ears was faintly visible among her black hair.

Yang Liu narrowed her eyes and silently observed the mysterious woman. There was a kind of beauty on her face that did not belong to this world, and every movement was full of elegance. If you just look at her like this, you might mistakenly think she was the eldest daughter of some family.

The most important thing is that when looking at this woman's face, Yang Liu always felt as if it was somewhat familiar.

"Not the real body."

After saying this softly, Yang Liu quietly walked out of her hiding place.

Uga Shoji did not stop him because he also found that the woman in white in front of him seemed to be just an illusion.

With Yang Liu's current physical fitness and control ability, he could move silently, and even with the help of enhanced vision, he could nimbly avoid the opponent's spiritual detection.

When they were within a dozen meters of each other, Yang Liu suddenly attacked. His body accelerated and turned into an afterimage, rushing forward and reaching out to grab the other person, but the moment his fingertips touched the figure, he easily penetrated it.

(End of this chapter)