Celestial Taoist

Chapter 18 Soul Refining Servant

"What a waste of time? The whole team formation thing was a setup by you?!" Li Mofan's voice tightened, his eyes filled with disbelief and anger.

"Yeah~" Li Ruihan covered her mouth and chuckled, her tone coquettish, her teasing undisguised. "For you, I didn't hesitate to be insincere and pretend to be close to that kid Wang Shi, and even gave myself a Taoist name, hehehe~ You really think I'm a level 0 newbie?"

Li Mofan suppressed the turmoil in his heart and questioned in a deep voice, "How dare you act like this? Aren't you afraid of the punishment of the Heavenly Laws? You killed your teammate without authorization; once you return, you will surely suffer the backlash of the Heavenly Laws!"

"Hehehe~ It seems you're still too naive." Li Ruihan laughed even more arrogantly, her tone full of sarcasm. "You don't know, do you? The Heavenly Punishment World wasn't called this before; it was originally the Heavenly Law World. Once you leave the Taoist's territory, even if I refine you into a soul servant, the laws of the Heavenly Law World won't affect me in the slightest."

Soul Servant!

These two words exploded in Li Mofan's mind like a thunderbolt, and his blood seemed to freeze instantly. Soul servant is an exclusive ability of mages. Once someone is refined into a soul servant, not only will their physical body become a puppet, but their will and soul will also be completely controlled, leaving them with no hope of ever rising again. It is more painful than death, and it is simply worse than being alive.

The shock and anger he felt just moments before were instantly swallowed by despair. Li Mofan's face turned ashen, his personal computer malfunctioned, and he was unable to abandon the mission and escape. The woman in front of him was unfathomably powerful, and he had no power to resist. Was he really destined to become a soul servant today?

Seeing Li Mofan's appearance, Li Ruihan knew she had achieved her goal. His defenses had crumbled, and his will had collapsed. This was the perfect moment for him to serve as material for a soul servant. She slowly stepped forward, her steps light.

"Tsk tsk, that's more like it." Li Ruihan stopped and looked down at Li Mofan, who was slumped on the ground. She gently stroked his forehead with her fingertips and said with a hint of amusement, "A Taoist with maxed-out spirituality. Once you join my Hanli's ranks, I'll have to train you properly, hehe."

As soon as she finished speaking, a faint white light appeared at Han Li's fingertips, and a powerful suction force emanated from them. Li Mofan froze, feeling a sharp pain in his head, as if something was being forcibly pulled out of his body. He watched as wisps of light slowly rose from his forehead.

"Huh?! This is!" Li Mofan didn't expect that what the woman pulled out of his body was actually the stream of light that the mysterious old man he met in his senior year of high school had exploded into.

Han Li quickly raised her hand and grasped the wisps of light in her palm, the white light at her fingertips growing even stronger.

"Spiritual roots with maxed-out spiritual power all grow in unique ways."

A semi-transparent phantom of her primordial spirit slowly floated out from her body—the phantom looked exactly like her, but with an added touch of allure in its eyes and brows. The primordial spirit slightly opened its mouth, gently drawing the strands of golden light into its body.

The moment the light entered her body, Han Li's primordial spirit trembled violently, and the white light around her surged instantly. The golden spiritual root light flowed slowly within her primordial spirit, being enveloped, pulled, and ground layer by layer by the power of her primordial spirit. This was not ordinary refining, but a sophisticated technique for crafting a Daoist soul servant. Using one's own primordial spirit as a model, the spiritual root of another was completely reshaped, imprinted with the imprint of one's own primordial spirit. This method not only ensured the complete loyalty of the crafted soul servant but also preserved its original talents to the greatest extent possible.

A sudden change occurred—Han Li's primordial spirit phantom trembled violently, and the white light around her abruptly dimmed.

Her face turned deathly pale instantly, her previous calm and playful expression vanishing completely, replaced by barely concealed panic. A flash of golden light, and the wisp of golden spiritual root flew out fiercely.

Immediately afterward, the white light surrounding her completely extinguished, and her illusory primordial spirit vanished instantly. Before Li Mofan could react, Han Li was enveloped by an invisible force, and her figure gradually dissipated, clearly returning to the Heavenly Punishment World.

Those few strands of golden light floated in the air for a moment before returning to Li Mofan's body.

Li Mofan shuddered, instinctively raising his hand to press his forehead. The intense pain from before hadn't completely subsided, but he was enveloped by a warm force that spread from his forehead to his limbs, dispelling the stiffness and pain throughout his body. He stood frozen in place, his gaze fixed on the direction where Han Li had vanished. His pupils hadn't yet recovered from the despair he had felt earlier, his eyes filled with stunned disbelief, and even his breathing unconsciously slowed down.

He slowly clenched his fist, feeling a strange change in his spiritual root after being played with by Han Li. He subconsciously tried to activate his personal terminal, and a pale blue interface appeared in his mind.

He slowly pushed himself up from the ground, his legs still a little weak, but the despair he had felt before was gone. He raised his hand to his forehead, his fingertips able to feel the faint warmth of the golden light. His gaze swept over the empty altar, and after a moment of silence, he slowly brought up his control panel, the bewilderment in his eyes completely gone.

Rating: 2

Talent: Taoist

Spirituality: Max level

Identity: New Recruit (Heavenly Path Legion)

Qi and blood: 120

Spiritual power: 74

Attack: 72

Defense: 81

Agility: 67

Taoist Arts: 1

Not only did I not feel controlled, nor was I taken into the rumored Soul Servant Space, but my spirituality was also replenished, and all my attributes were improved to varying degrees.

Is this woman here to do charity work? Wait a minute! Why does she have Taoist magic?

Focusing my consciousness on the number 1 in the Taoist arts list, a list of Taoist arts immediately appeared in my mind.

[Unknown Technique]

He didn't dwell on it too much, after all, something is better than nothing.

However, the fact that his spiritual root was that golden light still bothered him somewhat, since he had personally witnessed the old man transform into that golden light.

When the mind is focused inward, unlike what is directly seen, the spiritual root felt is an intangible and intangible thing.

Feeling it, Li Mofan exclaimed, "Wait, what is this?" He sensed a solid, illusory figure with a somewhat familiar appearance. He tried to sense it more closely.

It was that mage named Han Li from before. Could it be that I have already been turned into a soul servant?

It didn't seem so. He sensed that this phantom was continuously emanating omnipotent energy. In terms of quality, it should be a level higher than Su Qingyao's, and in terms of flow, it was about the thickness of an arm, not much different from the flow of Su Qingyao's energy that time.

He thought of his own control panel. Could this be his new Taoist technique?