Are all the love-brained villains my apprentices?

The stall owner took the woman away from the busy street, turned left and right and ended up in a quiet and deserted alley.

The stall owner looked around as he walked, making sure no one had spotted them.

Only then did he bring the woman to his own courtyard.

"Wait here for a moment. I'll go get it."

The stall owner said this and walked into the house.

The woman was left alone standing in the yard, holding the cat in her arms.

The woman glanced around the courtyard casually, bored.

His sight seemed to inadvertently fall on the tree planted in the yard.

The woman walked towards the tree.

She was completely unaware that a figure was slowly approaching her from behind.

"guest."

Just as the woman's hand was about to touch the leaves of the tree, the stall owner's voice suddenly sounded behind her.

The woman turned around and saw the stall owner holding several exquisitely crafted lanterns.

"Guest, these are all my most precious treasures. What do you think of them?"

The woman reached out to take it and examined it carefully.

"Thank you, how many spirit stones are these?"

"Don't worry, I don't need any spiritual stones, I just need something else from you."

The stall owner's tone suddenly turned cold, and a fierce look appeared in his eyes.

A formation rose up in the courtyard, trapping the woman in place.

After the stall owner finished speaking, he carefully observed the woman's expression.

Sure enough, he saw on the face of the woman in front of him the expression he wanted to see of his prey struggling before death.

The stall owner showed a smug look and admired the woman's expression for a while.

He then began to suck the soul of the woman in front of him.

When he tasted the woman's soul, a look of satisfaction appeared on the stall owner's face.

"There are actually such delicious souls in this world... er, wait..."

The stall owner hadn't finished speaking when he felt like something was blocking his throat.

He put his hands on his throat, as if trying to get something out of his throat.

The woman in front of him also lost her panic-stricken expression and looked calm.

Her fingers pried open the gap at the edge of the lantern, and several luminous pearls rolled out.

The woman raised her eyes and looked at the stall owner in front of her with interest.

The stall owner's eyes were full of disbelief.

"How could you?"

Before he could finish his words, he fell to the ground with a bang, completely dead.

[Host, he is dead]

After detecting that the stall owner's vital signs had completely disappeared, Quan'er spoke up to remind him.

"Ah."

The woman reached out and took off the veil from her face.

The person's face was revealed, and it was none other than Lin Wenyu.

Lin Wenyu raised her hand and waved, and the formation that originally imprisoned her was completely destroyed.

Quan'er also jumped nimbly from Lin Wenyu's arms, walked to the stall owner's body, and circled around him several times.

Lin Wenyu also followed Quan'er and walked to the stall owner's body.

Lin Wenyu squatted down, put the lantern in her hand aside, and examined the stall owner's body.

[Host, the formation that stores souls in his body has broken down. The souls stored in his body have begun to be returned one after another.]

After scanning the stall owner's body, Quan'er told Lin Wenyu the news.

"Ok, I know."

Lin Wenyu was not surprised by this.

Lin Wenyu had seen the method of sucking souls in ancient books.

In order to avoid triggering the law of causality and suffering backlash.

The person who drinks the soul must give the person who is being drank the soul an item equivalent to the soul he drank.

Therefore, when Lin Wenyu discovered the night pearls in these lanterns, she knew what the stall owner was planning.

But this actually suited Lin Wenyu's wishes.

To gather spirits, as the name suggests, is to temporarily store the absorbed souls in the body.

But there are limits to the amount of souls a spirit collector can collect.

Once the limit is exceeded, the spirit body will explode and die.

All spirits are very mindful of the limits of what they can endure.

But Lin Wenyu's initial disguise made the stall owner relax his vigilance.

Therefore, he had no defenses against Lin Wenyu.

Lin Wenyu also seized the flaw when he was relaxed and injected much more soul into him than he could bear in a short period of time.

The stall owner exploded and died.

Once the limit is exceeded, the formation that originally stores the soul in the person's body will also be destroyed.

And those souls that have been sucked away, now without restrictions, will return to their original owners.

Lin Wenyu turned the stall owner's body over.

He took out a jade pendant from his pocket.

Looking at the strange patterns on the jade pendant, Lin Wenyu frowned.

[Quaner, can you find information about this jade pendant? ]

Quan'er walked to Lin Wenyu and scanned the jade pendant.

[…Not found]

When seeing the feedback, a hint of doubt appeared in the originally emotionless electronic sound of Quan'er.

Logically speaking, the Space and Time Administration should be able to find anything that has been recorded.

But this...

Lin Wenyu showed disgust.

"What do you want."

【…】

Quaner: I can’t refute it…

Lin Wenyu sighed and carefully searched the stall owner's body again.

After confirming that there was nothing on him, he put his body and the jade pendant into his own space.

Then Lin Wenyu stood up and walked to the tree in the yard.

He raised his hand and pulled out the tree, revealing the formation hidden underneath the tree.

"really."

Lin Wenyu had just sensed the faint fluctuations of spiritual power under the tree.

The fluctuation was very subtle. If Lin Wenyu had not been proficient in formations, she might not have been able to detect it.

I think this should be the channel that this person uses to transport his soul.

Lin Wenyu did not follow the traces of the formation to find the mastermind behind it.

Instead, after studying the formation, he made some minor changes.

After doing all this, Lin Wenyu waved at the circle.

"Let's go back."

The circle jumped into Lin Wenyu's arms.

[Host, shouldn't we continue investigating? ]

Lin Wenyu stroked Quan'er's hair and started to explain in a good mood.

"Fishing is only fun if you catch big fish."

Lin Wenyu's eyes fell on the exquisite lanterns placed on the ground. She tilted her head and looked at the number of lanterns.

"Four... OK, that's just the right number."

Lin Wenyu put all the lanterns into the space.

After a flash, he left the place with a circle.