Several days later, by the shore of Tai Lake, Liu Yufang performed an all-night ritual to capture a demon.
He summoned the Yuwei Immortal, repeatedly saying "Han Yu sent me," and used spells to reveal its true form, destroying its physical body and removing two souls and four spirits (a demon's soul components are incomplete but can be replenished slowly through cultivation).
At the moment when the Yuwei Immortal was left with just one soul and one spirit, on the brink of its complete dissolution, the elders of the Daio Sect arrived…
The elders apprehended Liu Yufang on the spot, who tried to argue that he was "exorcising a demon," but they didn't fall for his excuses.
However, since Liu Yufang had not committed any serious crime but merely attempted to, the elders simply expelled him from their sect on the spot and revoked his spiritual cultivation.
