Chapter 60
Before Cold Flame could answer Michelle’s question, her attention once again turned to Garric Sloan, as he put his hands underwater again, and pulled out a small and clearly old box. He opened it and took out a golden pendant. When Michelle saw it, she felt her skin crawl in disgust. "How many did he pull out until now?" she turned to glance at Cold Flame.
Cold Flame glanced at the golden pendant with his brows creased into a frown of disgust. "This is the sixth, and he had only gone around half of the lake until now. If they are scattered all around the lake, there should be twelve of them, so six more."
Hearing that, Michelle nodded a bit and turned her attention back to Garrick. He had already put away the pendant, so she couldn’t observe it anymore, but judging by his movements, she could see that the pendants were weighing him down. Before he had picked up the pendant, his walking was, though sluggish, but swifter than at the moment. After picking up the pendant, his back bent slightly, nearly unnoticeably, and his movements turned a bit more sluggish. "It"s like the pendant is sucking away his life," she commented.
When her words fell, Cold Flame’s frown deepened, and he remained coldly silent for a while before finally speaking up: "I know what the pendants are for..."
"What for?" Michelle asked as she tilted her head a bit.
Cold Flame remained silent for a moment before answering. "For trapping souls. If I’m not wrong, the golden pendants are Soul Seeking Pendants which can suck out the souls of cultivators and turn them into mindless puppets. When the pendant has a drop of blood of a non-cultivator or a weak cultivator who hasn’t even reached the Spirit rank dropped on it, a bond will form between the pendant and the person, and the bodies of cultivators whose souls have been sucked into the pendant will turn into mindless servants of the person."
With a deep frown, Michelle remained silent as she fixed her gaze on Garric. She had many more questions she wanted to ask about sacrifices and the pendants, but at the moment, her mind was dangerously calm, with all unnecessary thought suppressed. All she could think about was to speed up her plans of getting rid of the Sloan Viscounty, but if they were involved with the lower realm, she had to be careful, as she didn’t want to implicate anyone, and she definitely didn’t want anyone to find out that the Archduke was down in the Land of Exile.
"Flamie... What should I know about Soul Seeking Pendants and sacrifices to be able to get rid of the Sloan family?" she asked after a while as she watched Garric put his hands into the swallow part of the artificial take again and took out another small box with a golden pendant. Cold Flame looked at Michelle and saw the dangerous calmness. He sighed a bit and started explaining to her about the Soul Seeking Pendants.
Soul Seeking Pendants were able to store up to a thousand souls, and keep them trapped forever. In higher realms, they were considered evil and disgusting, as they sucked away the soul of anyone who touched them, and the only ones who were unaffected by them were people above the God Rank, or beneath the Spirit rank, which were only babies born sick or trashes with no cultivation. The only chance for someone’s soul to not get sucked into the pendant was if the pendant was already filled to brim with souls.