Divine Harem: My Sect of Heavenly Beauties

As he listened to Nancy's explanation, Shen Yu began to form his own hypothesis. Looking at the young woman sleeping in coffin, he thought.

'That being was too powerful so it probably saw through the Emperor's plans. However, it was probably too late so it used a scapegoat to get away from the seal. Doing so wasn't easy and it suffered heavily.'

[That's what I think. The Reaper Soul Sealing Rune Formation is vicious even to it's users, so how can it be any less brutal towards the victim of it? It must have injured that being heavily, leaving it unable to function properly.]

'It isn't a machine, girl.'

[Yeah, yeah. So what I was saying was that this woman was the scapegoat. But it isn't that easy to fool the Reaper Soul Sealing Rune Formation, so that being used some Hideous methods.]

Shen Yu furrowed his brows. The Reaper Soul Sealing Rune Formation was indeed very tough to avoid as it targeted the soul, so once marked by it, it was nigh impossible to get away from it.

Even if that being wanted to avoid the Rune Formation, it was impossible. It needed to face it.

'What did it do?'

[Heh, it actually split it's Soul. Can you believe it? Haha, yeah, it was that mad.]

Shen Yu felt a chill hearing that. Severing soul wasn't an easy task to begin with and to actually dare to do it was just on whole another level.

If one severed their soul, they not only exposed their soul to destruction, but also complete extinction. Not only would this weaken them a lot, potentially leaving them mentally vegetable whole life, it also made them unable to go through reincarnation.

Meaning, if they somehow died, they would forever cease to exist. There were some ways through which one could avoid all of this but all of them required a very high Cultivation level.

Shen Yu doubted that the being was that powerful, as it wouldn't have been afraid of the seal in the first place if it was that powerful.

So, it was actually quite daring for it actually split it's Soul. But he could understand why it did this, as the sealing would have resulted in a eternal imprisonment which wasn't any better than actually severing Soul.

[Yeah, that's why it did. Since the Rune Formation targeted it's soul, the being identified the part of its soul which was marked, and severed it. Then, it put the markes soul in this woman's Soul.]

'Wait! The hell? It actually merged two souls?'

[More like took over. It used the former soul to make itself stable and then suppressed it. So, basically it existed in two different places.]

Shen Yu was really surprised by the being's actions.

[The woman was actually a normal Cultivator, probably very weak. If I had to take a guess, Core Formation Realm. Although it is powerful in Qing Empire, you know it's nothing much in bigger world. She was a nobody it picked up and made her it's vessel.]

Shen Yu's gaze soften as he looked at the woman in pity. The people of that time really had a harsh life.

[Because of the being's influence, the woman became a sort of Spiritual Creature.]

'Wnat do you mean?'

[Exactly what I said. The woman was a human, yes, but her body mutated after being overtaken by that being. She became a Spiritual Creature while still remaining a human.]

Eyes widened, Shen Yu looked at the woman. Things began to connect as he finally understood something.

'The Skinwalker!!'

[Yup, she is the Skinwalker, capable to having many vessels. It's probably an ability she got because of mutation. Because, you know how every Spiritual Creature has something with them.]

Shen Yu closed his eyes, as he asked.

'You said that the being had suppressed her soul, then does that mean it was using her body and ability to do all those atrocities?'

[Most likely yes. Her soul has worn down after all these years. The only reason it's even there is because the being is keeping it there. It provides her soul enough energy to survive.]

Shen Yu clenched his fist, as he asked.

'She is no better than those souls, huh.'

[Even worse I'll say. Atleast those souls lost their sanity long ago to the corruption so even they were tormented for all these years, they didn't actually know it..well, they know but didn't? I don't know how to explain this ]

'Its fine!'

Shen Yu sighed and leaned forward, as he touched the woman's face. His eyes held true sympathy and pity, as he couldn't understand how a normal human must have endured fifty thousand years with that being.

That being didn't allow her to go insane so she had to watch everything, knowing she couldn't do anything. Every single second of every day of the fifty thousand years, she was suffering under the harrowing being.

Not just that, but she also witnessed how the being actually used her powers to commit horrible things.

He couldn't understand it all.

'Is it still in her?'

[Nope! It was sneaky and actually used the Chaos Magic of Corruption to escape from here. I don't know how it acquired something like that but it's the reason even I didn't detect when it slipped away.]

Shen Yu was surprised, as it was the first time someone actually managed to render Nancy useless.

[Hey, it was only because we weren't paying attention. Well, atleast I wasn't since I was busy assimilating with the Mist of Nothing.]

'I am not calling you weak...'

[No! I don't care now. How dare that fucker use Chaos Magic of Corruption. Heh, Master, I want to tell you something. Well, I can't go in details but know this that the Chaos Magic of Corruption is actually something used by your Mother's enemies.]

Shen Yu finally understood the reason that being was able to fool even Nancy. If it was something like True Null, then it was obvious why even Nancy was helpless against it.

[Don't worry though. The Magic it used was very weak. It probably found some leftover Chaos Magic of Corruption and fused with it. That must have also been the reason it actually attacked this world.]

Shen Yu could hear the pride and confidence in Nancy's voice as she continued.

[If it was true deal, I might have been afraid but this? Heh, let's see who is more powerful, bitch.]

Somehow, he had a feeling that Nancy was really pissed.