I didn't say nonsense, climbed into the stairs and followed it to the fifth floor. In a few seconds, I arrived at the secret door at the end of the stairs. This was a black iron door. I gently pushed the door handle, and with a long "creak", the door opened, and a soft yellow light overflowed from the door frame.

On the other side of the door is a small bedroom with a small area. Whether it is the table or the bed chair inside, there is a thin layer of moisture. On the small bed opposite the door, there is a white-haired old man sitting cross-legged.

When we stood at the door, he was looking at us with his eyes open, but he was just watching silently, without saying anything, and without any other actions.

Could it be that the old man in front of him is dead?

While I was thinking this in my heart, I walked up to the old man and reached out to try his breath. He was still breathing, and his breath was slow and long.

But even when I put my fingers in front of his nose, he still looked ahead without moving for a moment.

Liang Houzai came to the old man and observed it carefully for a while, then he seemed very confused.

At this moment, Xian'er walked up to me and whispered to me: "You Dao, open your eyes to the sky to see around you."

Although I didn't know what Xian'er wanted to do, I still opened my eyes and immediately found that there were still a few remnants of souls floating in this small room, and the shapes of these remnants of souls were very similar to the old man sitting cross-legged on the bed.

No wonder he couldn't move anymore. It turned out that someone had forcibly stripped of part of his soul.

I asked Xian'er: "Can these remnants return to his body?"

Xian'er sighed: "You should look for Luo Fei for this kind of thing, she is practicing ghost skills."

Speaking of which, I almost forgot that Luo Fei was originally from the Ghost Sect.

I looked at Luo Fei and found that Luo Fei had already begun to attract the remnant souls to return to the old man's body. She first took out a gold weapon with a bit of leaves from her pocket, and added a little bit of thought to it, and then placed the "golden leaf" on the old man's head.

This "golden leaf" seems to be very attractive to the remnant souls. Soon, the remnant souls in the room began to slowly gather towards the old man.

Luo Fei said to me: "My cultivation is limited now, and I can only let these remnants return to his body for the time being, but I cannot ensure that these remnants can reunite his three souls and seven spirits."

I smiled at Luo Fei: "Leave this kind of thing to me."

Until all the remnants of souls returned to the old man's body, I immediately took out a soul sealing talisman from my pocket and stuck it to the old man's back.

The soul sealing talisman is actually its most primitive purpose is to seal a person's three souls and seven spirits so that the soul will not disperse. However, after generational improvements by the lineage of keeping the righteous, these current effects such as suppressing the Yin and warding off evil spirits have been achieved.

But no matter what, the soul sealing talisman is the soul sealing talisman. The word "soul sealing" is its real purpose.

As long as the residual soul does not leak out, it will merge with the main soul in a very short time. However, after the soul reaches a complete fusion state, the old man may have some short-term adverse reactions.

I stood beside the old man and waited for about a minute. The old man suddenly let out a "hoosh", breathed a long and long breath, and then coughed violently.

I said that when the soul is completely integrated, he will have some adverse reactions.

The cough lasted for at least three or four minutes before the old man recovered. I tore off the soul sealing talisman on his back, and he vomited a long breath of turbid air, moved his joints slightly, and got out of bed.

I originally thought that after the old man recovered, he would ask who we were. Even if he didn't ask that, he would at least say a few words, but he didn't say a word. After getting out of bed, he walked straight towards the stairs connecting the iron gate.

No one knows how long he has been in this place, but after getting out of bed, his movements were extremely clean and neat, and there was no sense of stiffness as I imagined.

It was not until he walked up the stairs that I came to my senses and chased after them in three steps.

The old man probably heard the footsteps behind him and turned around and looked at me, but still said nothing. He just nodded at me and then continued to walk his way.

He left the secret passage, returned to the living room, and walked straight to Cao Hongbin, who was tied up.

When Cao Hongbin saw the old man standing in front of him, his face turned as if dead.

The old man stared at Cao Hongbin and slowly uttered a few words: "The gate of hell is wide open, is the yin and yang inverted?"

His voice was not loud, but for some reason, when these people came into my ears, they had a shocking power comparable to Hong Zhong Dalu, as if even my soul was trembling.

Cao Hongbin looked at the old man almost with a begging for mercy, but his current state could not be said.

The old man was silent for a moment and asked him again: "This is what Zhao Dekai said, a career that has lasted for thousands of years? Is this the reason why he borrowed the horns from me?"

Cow horns?

At this moment, I finally knew the identity of the old man in front of me. He is the leader of the sect in Baiwu Mountain, the current hidden elder, and also the real horn-holder of Baiwu Mountain.

Seeing that Cao Hongbin could not speak, the old man breathed a sigh of relief and said to me in a very polite tone: "Help him loosen his ties."

I used the green steel sword to pick out Cao Hongbin's wrist, ankle, and several rope knots on his shoulders. The rope immediately collapsed, and Cao Hongbin's body finally stretched out.

As soon as he recovered his ability to move, he climbed off the sofa, lowered his head and knelt in front of the old man, but he didn't dare to say a word.

It seems that although the contemporary sect in Baiwushan has no real power, after the new sect ascended the throne and the old sect became an hidden elder, it had huge power because of a cow horn. If the hidden elder in front of him was not in charge of the power of life and death, I guess Cao Hongbin, who is a young and powerful sect in the Cao family, would not be so afraid of him.

Looking back, it seems that it is precisely because all the sects of Baiwushan who have dynasties know that even if they were puppets of the Presbyterian Church when they were in power, one day they would still be able to get the greatest rights of Baiwushan, so they were willing to be at the mercy of the Presbyterian Church. But even the hidden elders with the highest rights cannot move their rights at will, which gives the Presbyterian Church enough space to survive.

This should be the so-called balance of rights.

Moreover, judging from what the old man said just now, although a small part of his soul left his body, he was just unable to move. His consciousness and senses should be normal. No wonder Cao Hongbin looked so cautious when he mentioned Zhao Dekai, he looked afraid that people would hear it.

The old man looked down at Cao Hongbin and asked again: "What is the origin of the leader Zhao Dekai said?"

Cao Hongbin is now like he is stuck in his throat by something. He doesn't say a word, just lowers his head and doesn't say anything.

I said to the old man beside me: "In recent years, a cult called the Burial Cult has emerged. The leader mentioned by Zhao Dekai is the top leader of the Burial Cult. However, this person's whereabouts are very hidden and no one has ever seen him. I guess Zhao Dekai has only heard of his name, but has never seen this person."

While I was talking, Cao Hongbin slowly raised his head and stared at me with an incredible look.

He probably just realized that the look I had shown in front of him before was actually deliberately pretending.

At this moment, the old man's eyes turned to Cao Hongbin again, and Cao Hongbin quickly lowered his head.

The old man stretched out his hand and put it on Cao Hongbin's shoulder. Cao Hongbin's body suddenly felt trembling, but when the old man asked him, "Is Zhao Dekai hooked up with the cult?", he still did not respond.

The old man became a little impatient, and the hand placed on Cao Hongbin's shoulder added a little force. Cao Hongbin's already lowered head and lay down even lower.

I don't know what the old man's actions mean, but Cao Hongbin obviously became more nervous than before.

The old man asked him again: "Did Zhao Dekai get into a cult?"

This time, Cao Hongbin responded: "Yes."

The old man's brows immediately turned into the word "chuan". He stared at Cao Hongbin coldly and asked, "You must have participated in Zhao Dekai's affairs, right?"

Cao Hongbin was silent for a moment, but finally responded: "Yes."

When he said this, I felt a raging flame suddenly ignited in the old man's eyes, and I wished I could burn Cao Hongbin in front of me to pieces on the spot.

I was afraid that the old man would really have the intention of killing, so I quickly said from the side: "We also want to use Cao Hongbin's power to dig out the power of Zhao Dekai buried in the Cao family."

I mean, Cao Hongbin is still useful now and cannot be killed no matter what.

The old man slowly turned his face to me: "You are from the righteous lineage, right?"

I hugged him and said, "I am Zuo Youdao, and Chai Zongyuan is my master."

The old man breathed a long sigh: "Fantian Seal, Qinggang Sword, when I saw you just now, I knew your identity. In fact, I have been wondering since the beginning, why did the people from Jihun Village appear on the territory of our Baiwu Mountain?"

People like them are all mature spirits. If I say I came to save him specifically, he would be able to see me immediately. If I tell you all the whole story, it would not only waste time, but also not guarantee that this hidden elder who had just been caught by us would stand on our side.

So the best choice now is to get rid of the topic. I bowed to the old man again and said, "It's a long story, but now is not a good time to chat. If you want to know the details, you should go to Yan Xiaotian or the old master after leaving the Cao family and ask about the situation."

The old man was stunned for a moment and suddenly smiled: "Old Master? Haha, after so many years, Chai Zongyuan still calls him that. Well, although I don't have a good impression of your Soul Village, I can still trust those who are in the right lineage."

Seeing that the old man was not hostile to me, I asked him: "Aren't you in seclusion in Baiwu Mountain? Why did you come to Cao's house?"

"You even know what happened to me in seclusion?" The old man looked at me with an incredible look and said, "Where did you hear this kind of news?"

I said, "I just visited Baiwu Mountain not long ago and met the old master."

The old man nodded: "He even told you this kind of thing. It seems that he trusts you very much."

After saying these words, the old man still did not intend to answer my question, but said to me: "I am also in seclusion here. In order to break through the bottleneck, I have removed part of my soul. I didn't expect that your soul sealing talisman would have put my efforts in vain for more than a month."

It turns out that his soul was stripped out by himself. What kind of bottleneck needs to be broken by stripping the soul?
Chapter completed!