Ye Bufan squinted at this person named Tao Ming, sensing something unusual about his aura.
"What's wrong?" Ye Qingyi saw Ye Bufan staring at Tao Ming and glanced over, but found nothing out of the ordinary.
"Have you heard of soul possession?" Ye Bufan asked.
Ye Qingyi nodded. "Isn't Sakura Island most famous for its puppet art?"
"No, puppet art is different from soul possession. Puppet art is controlled by the person who thực hànhs it. Although they have consciousness and can barely control their bodies, all bodily functions disappear, leaving them as walking corpses. But soul possession is different. If a very powerful冥修, or ghost cultivator, can devour the soul of another at their weakest moment and occupy their body."
"So, in this way, the possessor would completely take over the body, and others wouldn't even be able to tell?" Ye Qingyi took a deep breath. "But isn't this soul possession technique long lost?"
Ye Bufan smiled. "I'm just guessing. After all, when I was in Jinhe, I encountered a ghost cultivator from Sakura Island who was inhabiting a martial artist's body."
"Baka!" Under everyone's gaze, Tao Ming spoke in Sakura Island dialect, uttering several sentences that no one understood.
"Tao Ming! Are you crazy?" The people from the Tao family were also shocked. No one expected Tao Ming to speak Sakura Island dialect so fluently.
"Tao Ming, why do you know Sakura Island's language?" Tao Liangce looked at Tao Ming. "You've been in the Tao family since you were young, you've never been to Sakura Island. Moreover, I've heard my father say that you've never left Jiuzhou, so how..."
"It seems your guess is correct." Ye Qingyi turned to Ye Bufan and smiled.
Tao Ming spoke a string of words in fluent Sakura Island dialect to everyone.
"Alright, it's just soul possession, isn't it? You really think you're so powerful?" Ye Bufan walked up to Tao Ming and said.
Tao Ming was surprised that someone at the scene knew about soul possession. He turned to Ye Bufan and sneered, "Ye Bufan, you certainly know a lot, but don't get cocky. Your death is not far off."
"Soul possession?" Bai Zizhen had clearly heard of it before. "But isn't this technique long lost? How could people from Sakura Island know soul possession?"
"Earlier, when I was in Jinhe, I encountered ghost cultivators from Sakura Island whom they had stationed in Jiuzhou. The other party was inhabiting a martial artist who participated in the Martial Arts Tournament, and I saw through it," Ye Bufan explained. "It was also at that time that the other party revealed they had a secret plan in the northern part of Jiuzhou."
"The Yamata no Orochi incident?" Bai Zizhen quickly reacted.
Ye Bufan nodded and continued, "They had a spiritual artifact and could also control the Banyan Tree spirit."
"Baga! You killed Nobih!" Tao Ming roared at Ye Bufan upon hearing this. "If my guess is correct, you must have obtained the inheritance of some ghost cultivator, right?"
In fact, while listening from the side earlier, Ye Bufan's spiritual power had entered his spatial jade pendant, and he had conducted some research on the Vajra Pestle he obtained from that Yin-Yang Master ghost cultivator during the Martial Arts Tournament.
Ye Bufan discovered that there were some characters carved in small seal script on the Vajra Pestle, which actually read "Yin Corpse Sect."
He recalled Lin Xiaoyao saying that the common script in the myriad worlds was mostly small seal script, and this Yin Corpse Sect, which was most adept at controlling fleshly bodies with spiritual power, would not be strange to know soul possession techniques. But the problem was that the Yin Corpse Sect should have originated from Lin Xiaoyao's world, not Blue Star. Why would something from the Yin Corpse Sect appear here?
Ye Bufan also thought of another cultivation method, inheritance, but did ancient Blue Star also have a Yin Corpse Sect?
Regarding the history of sects on Blue Star, it involved the cultivation history of ancient times. Currently, it seemed only Ye Qingyi had a good understanding of this area.
Ye Bufan thought that after resolving the current situation, he would go and inquire about the cultivation history of Blue Star.
The current situation was clear: the people of Sakura Island intended to infiltrate Jiuzhou silently.
Bai Zizhen's true qi was instantly injected into Chu Tai's body, and Shangguan Chengtian also injected his true qi into Tao Ming's Sacred Body.
Chu Tai resisted fiercely, but facing Bai Zizhen, who was at the Core Formation stage, he couldn't hold on for long.
Before restraining them, Bai Zizhen had already cast a spell to prevent them from biting their tongues to commit suicide and had also removed the poison from the back molars of their teeth.
Therefore, both Chu Tai and Tao Ming had extremely grim expressions, their faces covered in cold sweat.
"Speak, what exactly is your conspiracy? How many people have been infiltrated into Jiuzhou so far?" Bai Zizhen asked.
Even though Chu Tai was in unbearable pain, he didn't cry out, enduring it all. Tao Ming, however, was screaming incessantly, his voice chilling to the bone.
"Chu Tai, how can you face the Old Sect Master like this?" an elder from the Tianyuan Sect stepped forward. "Since childhood, the Old Sect Master treated you like his own child, raising you into adulthood. Whatever you wanted, the Old Sect Master gave it to you. Even the Old Sect Master's son had a falling out with him because of you."
"He owed me that," Chu Tai said grimly. "If he didn't feel guilty about me, why would he treat me so well? It was all to compensate me."
"Hiss! This is truly a wolf that cannot be tamed," Song Mingqin took a deep breath, feeling an urge to go up and punch Chu Tai for his words.
"As the old saying goes, Heaven has compassion for all living things. Why didn't you think that your parents committed heinous crimes?" an elder from the Tianyuan Sect sighed, as if wanting to know the story behind it.
"Do you think I'll believe what you say?" Chu Tai looked back at the elder from the Tianyuan Sect. "Every single one of you from the Tianyuan Sect puts on a show. None of the sects in Jiuzhou are good."
The elder from the Tianyuan Sect was about to say something more but was stopped by a glance from Bai Zizhen.
"This is originally your sect's internal affair, but now is not the time to discuss it. Moreover, you can never wake someone who is pretending to be asleep; they will always believe what they want to believe," Bai Zizhen said.
"Swish—"
Bai Zizhen flicked his sleeve, and Chu Tai immediately fell unconscious, collapsing on the floor.
All eyes in the entire venue turned to Tao Ming...