There's a big problem with dreams in this world.

"clang!"

The sword of Altaïr, imbued with spiritual power, struck the body of the vengeful spirit without being stopped by the hard exoskeleton armor.

"So hard." Feeling the vibration in her palm, Lu Qing couldn't help but say. She quickly took two steps back and found that the part of her body she had just slashed at only had a small scratch.

"You said it had low resistance to spiritual energy?" Lu Qing looked at the scratches on the exoskeleton armor and felt a bit of a toothache.

The vengeful spirit didn't care what Lu Qing was thinking. After Lu Qing dodged its attack, it turned around and started slashing at Lu Qing repeatedly.

Fighting with armor and fighting without armor are completely different. Although Lu Qing is wearing the purple-quality trench coat [Silver-Gray Evening Breeze], she doesn't want to get slashed and see how it feels.

Compared to her caution, the Soul of Resentment didn't need to consider so much; all he needed to do was keep wielding his sword to suppress Lu Qing.

Because she didn't have legs floating in the air, her movement wasn't affected by the terrain. At the same time, she wore a hard exoskeleton armor, so she didn't need to worry about physical defense. Although her swordsmanship was mediocre even with the help of her past experience, she still managed to suppress Lu Qing for a short time.

If it were an ordinary enemy, Lu Qing would rely on her skills and stamina to slowly wear down the enemy's strength before launching a fatal blow. However, creatures like the Soul of Resentment are different from humans in terms of stamina, and Lu Qing was not confident that she could wear them down. Therefore, she had to think of some other methods.

"Physical attacks and attacks imbued with spiritual power are generally ineffective. Can a mental attack ignore the armor on the Soul of Hatred?" Lu Qing thought to herself, and with a forceful thrust of her Altaïr sword, she deflected the short sword from the Soul of Hatred's hand.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, she thrust her sword into the neck of the Soul of Hatred, only to have it blocked by the heavy armor.

"Let's give it a try," Lu Qing thought to herself.

[Mental shock]

【Dragon's Roar】

The two skills were skillfully combined, and Lu Qing parted her red lips slightly, letting out a deafening roar from her small mouth.

The resentful soul, which was moving, suddenly stopped after hearing Lu Qing's roar. A violent mental shock reverberated within his spirit, and even the armor on his body gradually crumbled.

In a daze, Lu Qing seemed to hear the resentful spirit speak a sentence in a hoarse voice.

"So...he...was...deaf..."

"Go, you evil wolf!" Lu Qing didn't hear what the resentful soul was saying. Taking advantage of the moment when the other party was unable to move, he let the wolf spirit that was ready rush out and bite the other party's head in one bite.

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Chapter 504: Subjugation

"........"

Although Lu Qing had long guessed that the wolf spirit, which specifically hunts and kills people, could cause great damage to spirits, she still did not expect that the wolf spirit would actually bite off the head of the resentful soul in one bite.

However, just as she was about to say something, a huge phantom of an earthworm suddenly appeared behind the Soul of Resentment.

A strong sense of crisis arose in Lu Qing's heart. Without hesitation, Lu Qing opened her lips and used the skill she had just used.

【Dragon's Roar】

"Roar!"

A deafening roar rang out again, but this time, the Soul of Hatred did not react at all. The enormous phantom of the earthworm swallowed the human body of the Soul of Hatred whole. The next moment, a large amount of black mist spread out, and a huge and ferocious earthworm-shaped Soul of Hatred emerged from the mist.

"Roar!!"

The vengeful spirit, resembling an earthworm, roared and burrowed into the ground. No, it left no trace on the ground; it vanished from Lu Qing's sight as if it had entered another dimension.

An unprecedented sense of crisis arose behind Lu Qing, and her subconscious told her that she could not dodge this attack!

The Eternal Hunter Twins cards are now fully activated, allowing you to use the skill [Sheep Spirit's Breath]!

The Lamb Spirit blesses the ground beneath its feet for 4 seconds, creating an area where no creature can die. Creatures within this area will not suffer further damage and will be immune to all healing effects once they are near death!

[After the blessing ends, creatures within the area will receive a certain amount of healing.]

A massive shadow emerged from behind Lu Qing, and the next moment, a vengeful spirit resembling an earthworm appeared behind her and swallowed her whole!

One second, two seconds, three seconds...

After swallowing Lu Qing, the resentful soul resembling an earthworm stood motionless in place. Its body continuously disintegrated, turning into specks of black light that drifted into the air, until its body was completely broken. Under the effect of the sheep spirit's life-giving energy, the disintegration stopped.

After the fourth second, the healing effect of the Sheep Spirit's Breath of Life subsided, and the earthworm-like resentful spirit's body recovered slightly before disintegrating at an even faster pace.

After the body of the resentful spirit completely disintegrated, Lu Qing appeared at the place where the other party had disappeared, her expression showing lingering fear, her heart pounding wildly.

Fortunately, she reacted quickly enough, otherwise she would have been dead. After being swallowed by the resentful spirit, a highly corrosive mist was constantly eroding her body. If she hadn't activated the Sheep Spirit Life Breathing, she would probably have been completely corroded in just three seconds.

Well, her body could only hold out for one second; the two seconds were thanks to the Silver-Gray Evening Breeze's [Spider Silk Cocoon] skill.

That said, is this the resentful soul that the Pope spoke of, the one he suppressed?

Lu Qing felt extremely angry. It was one thing to fight with the resentful spirit in human form before, but why didn't the Pope help her in the situation just now?

In the end, what exactly is this so-called trial? Oh, and what about Knight Myron as well?

Lu Qing thought of Knight Myron following behind her and felt equally angry. Although she wouldn't actually die in reality even if she died in the white dream, what about the trust between people?

You are my guardian knight, how could you not come to my aid when I faced a life-or-death crisis?

As Lu Qing was thinking this, a jet-black sphere gradually floated up from where the resentful spirit had dissipated. This sphere looked just like the previous resentful spirit, exhibiting the characteristics of dense fog, and it kept writhing.

Upon seeing the sphere, Lu Qing quickly snapped out of her daze and remembered what she should do after eliminating the vengeful spirit.

As mentioned before, a psychic's combat ability is very weak when they don't have a spirit they can control, and to subdue a vengeful spirit, they need to defeat it themselves.

After defeating the Soul of Hatred, a core will remain, and the appearance of this core is related to the Soul of Hatred that formed it. If left unattended, the Soul of Hatred will revive after a period of time.

To completely eliminate the Soul of Hatred, you must defeat it and then destroy its core.

What Lu Qing wanted to do was not to completely eliminate the opponent, but to use a ritual to introduce the core power into the wooden mask she had previously carved.

Remember, it's just about introducing power, not taking the soul from the core!

Manipulating human souls and preventing them from ever finding peace is not something a psychic would do, nor would the doctrines of the Hongli Sam sect allow such a thing.

According to the Hongli Sam religion, after the death of a person who worships the sacred tree, their soul will not drift aimlessly on the earth, but will be guided by the sacred tree and return to its embrace. This gives a general idea of ​​the Hongli Sam religion's doctrines.

As for vengeful spirits...

The Hongli Sam religion accepts any soul other than the human soul, but only cares about humans and not animals.

Lost in thought, Lu Qing placed the wooden mask of Charles that she had carved earlier below the core. Then, she quickly used her dagger to outline a weakened spirit realm passage ritual array on the ground and evenly spread spirit realm dust into the array.

After all this was done, Lu Qing carefully checked the integrity of the magic array. Once she confirmed that there were no problems, she injected spiritual power into the array.

“Buzz.......”

A sense of unreality enveloped Lu Qing, because her weakened spirit realm portal array had been activated, blurring the barrier between the real world and the spirit realm.

In layman's terms, it meant that the path to the spirit world had been opened, but not completely; it was only half open. This is why Lu Qing felt that the objects around her had become illusory.

She then sat cross-legged on the ground and entered a meditative state, using her mental energy to touch the core floating in mid-air.

Only in the spirit world or semi-spirit world can a person's spiritual power resonate with the soul at the core of a resentful spirit. Lu Qing recalled the knowledge she had learned over the past few months.

This was her first attempt at subduing a spirit. She was a little nervous at first, but once it started, she calmed down.

She carefully and diligently searched for the fluctuations within the core of the resentful soul, and then resonated her spiritual power with it.

"Have it!"

Lu Qing's lips curled slightly as she felt the throbbing from the core. She gradually directed her mental energy toward the core's fluctuations, then drew the power within into the wooden mask she had carved.

The soul in the core trembled slightly after sensing the appearance of the wooden mask, but it did not stop Lu Qing from drawing away the power in the core, because who would want to cause trouble for themselves?

The soul in the core is currently in a semi-conscious state. Although it has lost its rationality after transforming into a resentful soul, it still subconsciously relaxes its vigilance towards its former appearance. However, because the mask is not carved to look exactly like its former face, it does not wake up immediately.

"Crack..." After all the power in the core surged into the wooden mask, the core, which had been floating in the air, gradually transformed from a misty sphere into a solid object, and then turned into fragments that scattered on the ground. The soul inside also finally dissipated into the air as if it had been freed.

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Chapter 505: Charles's Memories

The ceremony ended, and the originally ordinary wooden mask, now imbued with the power of the resentful spirit, slowly floated in front of Lu Qing.

"Success!" Lu Qing finally breathed a sigh of relief as she looked at the drastically changed wooden mask. The original brown wooden body of the mask had now turned pitch black.

The structure of the mask remained unchanged, still bearing Charles's face, but a large amount of black mist had appeared on it, just like the mist that had been floating on the vengeful spirit before.

In addition, a hideous worm pattern, winding and coiling on the left side of the face, appeared on the mask at some point.

The next step was much simpler. Lu Qing only needed to use her [Spirit Communication] talent to form a contract with the mask in front of her, and she could summon a vengeful spirit that would completely obey her.

Thinking this, Lu Qing manipulated the spiritual energy within her body and slowly poured it into the mask.

........

The world before her eyes gradually darkened and blurred, and in a daze, Lu Qing found herself in a dilapidated house.

The building had simple wooden walls and a wooden roof, and a musty, decaying smell due to years of neglect.

"What is this?" Lu Qing looked around in confusion. She didn't remember the Pope mentioning anything like this. Just as she was wondering where she was, the door to the room was pushed open.

A disheveled man, reeking of alcohol, walked into the room. When he saw Lu Qing, his eyes narrowed slightly.

"What are you doing here?" the man said slowly, letting out a burp halfway through his sentence.

"Do you want to leave here, like those other little brats?"

"Report me for hoarding the orphanage's stipend? Don't be ridiculous. Without me, you would all be dead long ago. So what if I did hoard the stipend?"

"Not only are you ungrateful, but you even want to take revenge on me. You're a bunch of ungrateful wretches..."

.......

"Could this be Charles's memory?" Lu Qing thought to herself, looking at the drunken man in front of her.

She remembered Charles saying that he used to live in an orphanage, but was later sold by the orphanage owner to the Silent Church to be used as a test subject.

The scene before my eyes was indeed the same as Charles's description, but why was there no Charles's soul inside the mask? His soul should have dissipated the moment the core shattered.

Could it be that residual power can also contain information from the soul? This seems plausible, but why didn't the Pope tell her that when subduing the vengeful spirit, she could see the vengeful spirit's memories of its human form?

Suddenly, Lu Qing remembered something. Her [Spirit Communication] talent was actually different from the Pope's [Spirit Communication] talent, because her [Spirit Communication] talent was devoured by the [Nightmare] skill after it was awakened.

Although she didn't notice anything unusual while studying with the Pope these past few days, that doesn't mean there aren't differences between the two!

Perhaps that's why she was able to see Charles's memories within the power of the resentful spirit.

"Is that really the case?" Lu Qing muttered to herself. These were just her own speculations. Whether it was true or not, she would have to ask the Pope later to find out.

While she was thinking, the man's complaints and insults did not stop. He seemed to get angrier and angrier, and picked up a broom from the corner of the house and swung it at Lu Qing.