Chapter 525 - 523: The Soul-Hooking Path Appears Again

Chapter 525: Chapter 523: The Soul-Hooking Path Appears Again

That guy.

After repairing his Celestial Soul, he had now repaired his Earth Soul.

His Three Souls had returned.

But as for the remaining Six Spirits, Li Renren had no way to repair them.

Souls and spirits aren’t the same thing.

The knowledge involved is completely different.

Li Renren once again put aside what he was doing.

He began to ponder other matters again.

This Li Renren fellow had his own goals and a clear direction for his efforts.

Most importantly, his Talent was quite good.

’Being able to repair a soul on his own... not bad.’

Under normal circumstances, an Immortal Cultivator would likely need the aid of Elixirs and Arrays to have any chance of mending damage to their soul.

For him to be able to do it at the sixth step of his Dao Path was truly impressive.

Li Renren’s Cultivation speed was really fast.

But Su Qing was also nearing Perfection.

The days passed, one after another.

’It’s quite nice.’

"Matchmaker Wang, if you dare introduce another woman to me, I’ll curse your family to have no heirs."

Su Qing’s eyes widened upon seeing a familiar figure, and he spoke in an extremely nasty tone.

Matchmaker Wang was simply terrifying.

She had moved here recently.

Yet she had already introduced over a hundred young women to Su Qing in a row. He was starting to get scared.

He had already issued a harsh warning last time, but here she was again.

Matchmaker Wang was a little frightened. She shook her head. "No, no, I’m not here to introduce you to any young women this time."

"I’m looking for Divine Physician Li to take a look at my grandson."

"Oh~"

"Then go find him." That had given Su Qing a start.

Su Qing immediately sat back down in his wicker chair.

’To think Matchmaker Wang actually has a grandson now.’

’I don’t remember her having one last year.’

Su Qing lay back in his wicker chair.

But then he heard a certain matchmaker ask cautiously, "Divine Physician Li, what’s going on? My poor grandson, why does he only have one ball!"

"???"

When Su Qing heard this question, he couldn’t help but feel a little puzzled.

’Don’t tell me her family line is actually going to end?’

Su Qing had only said it as a threat, and now, look what happened. The woman’s grandson actually had only one ball.

’Still, he should be able to have children.’

Li Renren had seen this kind of condition before.

"Matchmaker Wang, don’t worry. As long as your grandson doesn’t have any other major issues, he’ll still be able to have children in the future. If you’re still worried,"

"I can prescribe an Aphrodisiac formula for your grandson. Have him drink it once a month for at least a year. As long as he practices some self-control, he’ll be able to have children later on."

"That’s a relief. I was so afraid my one-balled grandson would be the end of our family line. That would be terrible."

...

Before Matchmaker Wang left, she cast a fearful glance at Su Qing.

She seemed to think Su Qing was some kind of witch doctor who had made her grandson’s ball disappear.

’If I knew she was thinking that, I really would make his other ball disappear!’

’What a petty mind. I’m far too magnanimous for that.’

’You’ve even come to the relief shelter next door for congee, and now you turn on me like this!’

But Su Qing didn’t know any of this.

Even if he had known, it probably wouldn’t have affected his mood.

Matchmaker Wang was one of the few people who could put Su Qing on such high alert.

Being too fond of playing matchmaker isn’t a good thing.

Because some fated connections might very well be ill-fated ones.

If you’re the one who orchestrates it, then you’ll also bear a share of the karma.

And look at that.

A small dose of retribution had arrived.

And this was considered getting off easy.

"If I had a choice, I’d still prefer to slack off in a high-tech world."

"In a place with undeveloped productivity, so many inventions for lazy people don’t even exist," Su Qing sighed.

「The next day.」

Over on Su Qing’s side,

a strange customer arrived.

Well, not strange, exactly.

It was just that he seemed... as if his soul had been hooked away.

"Doctor Li, please take a look and see what’s wrong."

Li Renren examined the patient, his brow furrowing.

’This is tricky. The entire soul is missing.’

’There’s nothing but an empty shell left.’ ℯⅇ𝙡.

Li Renren’s lips moved slightly as he glanced at Su Qing.

He was trying to get Su Qing to save the person.

Su Qing walked over and took the patient’s pulse.

"It’s no use. The pulse is normal."

"This is very similar to the Soul-hooking Demon Fiend incident from a few years ago," Su Qing sighed.

Su Qing said to the family, "All those whose souls were taken back then ended up dying."

Inside the medical clinic, the sound of weeping was endless...

There was nothing Su Qing could do.

The Soul-Hooking Path hooks away a person’s souls and spirits. After they’re refined, they basically become the Cultivator’s own soul. There’s no trace of the original person’s soul left. Even if it could be separated, it would be useless.

It was just like when Su Qing had killed the Greed Realm; there was nothing to be done.

Once something has been refined, what can you do?

There was no time to mourn.

「A day later.」

Several more people whose souls had been hooked away arrived.

’This is truly powerful.’

This was the Capital City, Upper Immortal City.

Someone was actually harming people right here in the Capital City.

Even Li Renren was stunned.

Without a second thought, he prepared to leave the medical clinic.

Su Qing remained unmoved.

He was busy comforting the families of these people.

Everyone was well aware of what had happened a few years ago.

These family members simply couldn’t bring themselves to accept such a reality.

Su Qing’s medical clinic was now adorned with white silk streamers.

There was no helping it; many people had died recently.

Su Qing had to hang these things to console the families who brought their loved ones here.

Pronouncing someone dead inside a medical clinic was a bad omen.

But the Qingsu Medical Clinic’s reputation was not for show. If they said someone was dead, they were truly dead.

「Two days later.」

Li Renren returned.

A chilling aura lingered in his eyes.

He needed some quiet.

Last night, his own wife’s soul had nearly been hooked away, leaving Li Renren in a foul mood.

The perpetrator was too good at hiding.

Li Renren lacked the sensory abilities to locate them.

"You didn’t solve it?" Su Qing asked, puzzled.

"No. The Observatory couldn’t find them either."

"Then again, there haven’t been as many soul-hooking incidents lately."

"With you guys from the Observatory on the case, it seems to have quieted down."

Su Qing was as lazy as ever, but Li Renren’s mind was in turmoil.

He thought for a long time.

"For the time being, I don’t think I’ll be coming to the clinic."

"Mm." Su Qing just nodded in silent agreement.

Li Renren still chose to go home. He had to look after his wife. A wife who loved him so much couldn’t just be taken from him for no reason.

’It seems the Soul-Hooking Path Cultivators are quite strong.’

’Or is it that the Medical Dao Path isn’t very useful for tracking people and fighting?’

Su Qing didn’t really understand Dao Paths.

His own Cultivation was for all-around development; instead of specializing, he chose to incorporate powerful Dao Paths like Devouring and Star, all of which were formidable in their own right.

It was normal for Su Qing not to understand.

’I’ll give it some more time. If they don’t learn to restrain themselves, they can’t blame me for being merciless,’ Su Qing thought.

But he still had a question.

The Soul-Hooking Path was clearly an incredibly rare Dao Path.

How could two of them suddenly appear in the same place?

The probability was as absurd as flipping a coin and getting heads ten times in a row.

The books clearly stated...

...that under normal circumstances, the probability of a rare Dao Path emerging was minuscule.

If it weren’t for the enormous population of living beings in the Star Sea...

...it would be uncertain if such Dao Paths even existed at all.

Just like the Medical Dao Path.

Su Qing had never found any mention of it in the books.

Most beings in the Star Sea Center only ever encountered the Life Dao Path, so their hearts would naturally desire to awaken the Life Dao Path, not the Medical Dao Path.

’Could something be causing them to awaken these Dao Paths?’

Su Qing thought of Song Zhining’s Fantasy Stone back in the Spirit Realm.

He hadn’t stolen it then, and he didn’t regret not stealing it now.

Because to Su Qing, that kind of thing was quite primitive.

The Tier Thirteen Dao Artifact Su Qing had synthesized was far more substantial than the Fantasy Stone.

’A wondrous object that can awaken Dao Paths... if it’s a plant, that would be great. If not, I can still acquire it.’

Last time, when Su Qing killed that Soul-Hooking Path Cultivator, he hadn’t found anything unusual on him.

This time, it was different.

Su Qing felt that something was off.

It was impossible for so many Soul-Hooking Path Cultivators to appear all at once.

Upstairs on the second floor, Su Qing’s true body opened its eyes once more.

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