by Feng Yise
"Brother Jun rest assured, as long as Junior Apprentice Brother is rescued, I reckon that his Pei Family won't dare to do anything to you either! Even though Xu Yan isn't a holy son, his status is also not too far off," Ying Tianya voiced out too.
Pei Wenqiang snorted coldly and said, "Then you also have to save Xu Yan before talking!"
Pei Wenqiang did not refute Ying Tianya's words. Looks like even if this Xu Yan's strength was inferior to the Seven Holy Sons, the difference was probably not huge either.
A great battle ended without a conclusion just like this. Nobody could do anything to anyone. Everyone could only carry on forth and explore.
"What kind of damn place is this? Why does it feel like this place is filled with a sinister qi everywhere?" Luo Fang could not refrain from cursing.
Not just Luo Fang, the others had this feeling too.
Crossing the river, waves of cold air invaded everyone's body. Though it could not do anything to them, it kept making people have an uncomfortable feeling.
Ye Yuan naturally felt it too. But he did not have much sensation. The Origin Magnetism Spirit Wood was impervious to a hundred evils. Regardless of whether it was the cold air or sinister qi, it all could not approach his body.
"You guys, look! There's a large hall ahead!"
Everyone was currently walking when a great hall came into everyone's view. It was just that this great hall was similarly overflowing with dense sinister qi, making people uncomfortable.
There was a massive plaza in front of the great hall. There were many sculptures in the plaza.
Those sculptures were all figures of beautiful women. Each one of them was graceful and charming, being strikingly vivid and lifelike.
Some of them were hugging Chinese lutes, some were playing the zither, some were dancing gracefully, rather like a palace orc.h.e.s.tra.
When everyone walked near, they discovered that these beautiful women were all incomparably stunning, and actually made people have a feeling of unable to keep it under control.
"Heh heh, it's a shame that these beauties are all sculptures. If they were real people, then us brothers will be able to get some satisfaction! Everyone says that dying while relishing a woman, they can be merry being a ghost too! No idea who made these sculptures, their luck with beauties aren't shallow!"
When these martial artists saw these beautiful women sculptures, each and every one of them were all incomparably intoxicated.
Indeed, these sculptures were too lifelike, just like a real person. The expression on their faces were also all very natural. Furthermore, their seductiveness emerged in endless streams, causing a lethal attraction towards men.
These women like born naturally in order to enthrall men.
Right then, beautiful music suddenly sounded in the plaza.
The music rang in everyone's ears like it was being played, bewitching their minds and spirits; incomparably intoxicating.
And right at this time, those beautiful women in the plaza actually came to life one by one, and they started performing in front of everybody with extremely spellbinding forms.
"Hahaha, come here, give this Lord a kiss!"
"Girlie, come, sit on this Lord's lap!"
...
How could the martial artists traveling together still endure it? Each and every one of them all pounced towards those beautiful women.
For a moment, the entire plaza was incredibly disorderly.
Even those Heaven Enlightenment Realm martial artists were all inebriated in it too, unable to extricate themselves, including Pei Wenqiang and Ying Tianya.
The one slightly better was Jun Tianyu.
The expression on his face was seemingly painful, showing an appearance of struggling. But his eyes already gradually became hollow.
"Brother Jun, focus your mind and be unmoved!"
All of a sudden, this voice was like a bolt out of the blue, dragging Jun Tianyu back to reality.
He abruptly startled awake. Looking around, he discovered that the rest were all hugging those sculptured beauties.
Some were kissing the faces of the beauties frenziedly, others were groping wildly on the bodies of the beauties, showing all sorts of ugly behaviors.
Jun Tianyu lamented to himself in shame. If not for Ye Yuan's tolling bell-like divine sense transmission just now, he would probably also be like the rest now, right?
If it were really like that, his swordheart would surely become somewhat regretful, and he would be unable to pry into the Great Dao anymore in this lifetime.
"Ye Yuan, why are you …"
Jun Tianyu was very curious too. Ye Yuan's cultivation realm was the lowest here, but only he alone was not affected.
He examined himself that his will was firm and it was very hard to suffer this kind of temptation. But earlier, even he nearly got trapped inside too.
Ye Yuan said smilingly, "These beauties aren't sculptures at all, but they were refined and formed from living people! Their bewitching arts attainments must be exceedingly high when they were still alive. Therefore, they are still able to cause immense beguilement against martial artists after death. I felt something amiss right after coming to this plaza, so I entered Heart Like Monolith Realm straightaway. Therefore, I wasn't affected."
If it were under normal conditions, Ye Yuan would also succ.u.mb by accident. But as long as he heightened vigilance, for these sort of bewitching arts to want to beguile him, it could not be done at all.
The so-called heart like monolith, unmovable by the eight winds, heart realm boundary itself was the nemesis of these bewitching arts. He was naturally not affected.
It was just that Ye Yuan's words made Jun Tianyu jump in fright.
He exclaimed, "What did you say?! They … They are all refined from living people? This … How is this possible?"
Chapter 749 - Revolting Behaviors
Jun Tianyu looked at those sculptures, shock written all over his face.
If not for Ye Yuan saying so, he would not think in this direction at all.
But now, the more he looked, the more he felt that what Ye Yuan said was true!
These sculptures were seriously too lifelike, vivid until it was exactly the same as a real person!
The expressions of these beauties were remarkably lifelike as to be indistinguishable from the original. It was very hard for Jun Tianyu to imagine what kind of craftsman was able to sculpt such vivid sculptures.
There was only one possibility: these were all living people!
"But these statues' bodies are all ice-cold, very similar to stone," Jun Tianyu still said somewhat disbelievingly.
Ye Yuan heaved a sigh and said, "I've researched ancient alchemy skills. In the ancient era, there's a kind of drug called Petrifying Powder. After people drink it, their entire bodies will become stiff like stone, and their expressions would also remain at that instant petrified at forever. I think that these beauties were probably drugged with Petrifying Powder, that's why they became like so, right?"
"This … Then what's going on with them?" Jun Tianyu pointed at the rest and said.
"These women were definitely playing a musical piece before death. After they petrified, their living souls were confined in their bodies by someone, forever unable to break out. They died harboring resentment, so when there are living people drawing close to them, they will exercise all of their abilities before death to beguile the living people. When they lose themselves inside completely, their divine souls will leave the body, forever unable to return back into their bodies." Ye Yuan said.
Jun Tianyu was stricken with fear. These women's bewitching arts were exceedingly formidable. They, these Heaven Enlightenment Realm martial artists, could not withstand it at all.
If not for Ye Yuan's warning, he probably could not endure for long either.
And according to what Ye Yuan said, wouldn't the others be in grave danger?
"Then … what should we do now? Save … or not to save?" Jun Tianyu said h
esitantly.
Ye Yuan said, "This ancient grotto is very sinister. Who knows how many dangers are at the back. Our greatest foe right now isn't them, but the perils here! Leaving them to die freely might not be a good thing for us."
An existence able to refine such bizarre sculptures was probably not that easy to get along with.
Inside this grotto was riddled with dangers. If it was Ye Yuan and Jun Tianyu two people, it was very hard to continue.
If really encountered anything, having a bit more people would have more hopes of surviving instead.
"Then … how to save?"
To talk about killing enemies and fighting, Jun Tianyu was very adept. But encountering this kind of thing, he could only have a blank look.
Ye Yuan slowly shut his eyes, muttering incantations in the air. A wave of majestic soul force spread out.
Jun Tianyu's eyes turned intent, looking at Ye Yuan oddly.
He did not expect that Ye Yuan's soul force was actually so horrifyingly powerful!
"Shatter!"
Ye Yuan suddenly gave a light cry. The voice was not loud, but the penetrative force was immensely powerful!
The prajna sounds still reverberating in the plaza was actually sent scattering immediately by this cry of Ye Yuan's!
At the same time, Ye Yuan's voice also transmitted into everyone's sea of consciousness.
This shout was undoubtedly enlightening the benighted to them, dragging them back to reality directly.
"Pooh pooh pooh! What am I doing? Disgusting as hell!"
"My God, what the hell was I doing just now?"
"Gah, I don't want to live anymore! Humiliating to death!"
The bunch of martial artists all flushed with shame, discovering that they were doing shameful actions.
Some sculptures' faces were slobbered with saliva everywhere from kisses by the martial artists, looking disgusting as hell.
Ye Yuan shook his head and said with a sigh, "These guys have really heavy tastes. If let them carry on developing, who knows what else they will be doing at the back."
Jun Tianyu chortled with laughter and said, "Human nature, human nature! Hahaha!"
Although he very much wanted to endure, Jun Tianyu still could not hold back in the end and let out a burst of roaring laughter.
When the others heard his laughter, each and every one of them wished they could find a hole in the ground to tunnel into.
If these sculptures were really beautiful women, then forget it. But each and every one of them actually did this sort of things to statues. Seriously disgraced all the way back to their grandmother's house.
Ying Tianya came in front of Ye Yuan with his old face scarlet-red and asked, "That … Master Ye, were you the one who saved us?"
"That's right. If not for Ye Yuan, you all would be dead. Even your divine souls would probably never reincarnate for all of eternity! Previously, some people still wanted to kill Ye Yuan. What irony!" Jun Tianyu suddenly put away the laughter and said with a cold snort.
Pei Wenqiang was embracing two statues earlier, his hand already reaching inside the dresses of the statues, doing all kinds of indecent actions. The appearance was unspeakably wretched.
And Jun Tianyu's words were clearly said for him to hear.
"Heh, high-sounding words! This grotto is extremely bizarre. He's afraid that when we die, he can't exit by himself, right? Don't try that with this Pei; I won't thank him!"
Pei Wenqiang was not dumb. He figured out Ye Yuan's intentions very quickly.
"No matter what, Ye Yuan saving you is a fact." Jun Tianyu said with a frown.
Seeing Pei Wenqiang's manner, Jun Tianyu was rather regretted rescuing him.
But Ye Yuan said coolly, "Brother Jun, no need to say too much."
Ye Yuan did not hope that Pei Wenqiang would be grateful for anything either. Arguing about him with this had no meaning whatsoever.
"Everyone all back away!" Ye Yuan suddenly said.
The other martial artists exchanged glances, but they ultimately still listened and backed away.
Even the Pei Wenqiang and He Shuming who were the most opposed with Ye Yuan both retreated to one side sensibly.
Although he was completely ungrateful towards Ye Yuan verbally, in the depths of the bottom of Pei Wenqiang's heart, he still had some gratitude towards Ye Yuan's live-saving action.
Even if there was only that tiny hint, it was ultimately still there.
Regardless of what objective it stemmed from, Ye Yuan saved his life after all.
So this time, he did not sing a different tune with Ye Yuan for the first time ever.
Moreover, he was also very curious just what Ye Yuan was trying to do.
It was only to see Ye Yuan arrive before a beauty and suddenly extend his finger, tapping on the glabella on that woman.
A faint wisp of soul force invaded into the sculpture flowing along his finger. Immediately after, a scene which astonished everyone happened.
That sculpture actually emitted a faint light halo.
Under everyone's dumbfounded gaze, that sculpture suddenly shattered into dust!
And a faint phantom appeared in front of Ye Yuan, exactly identical with that statue before.
Very clearly, this was that statue's divine soul.
When that divine soul saw Ye Yuan, she actually gave him a deep bow.
Except, that divine soul phantom was seemingly as if an illusion, practically almost dissipating already. This divine soul was imprisoned for countless years and was already weak to the extreme. She was completely unable to open her mouth to speak anymore.
Ye Yuan just nodded his head and walked in front of another sculpture and did the same thing. That statue disintegrated to dust very quickly too, only leaving behind a faint phantom.
That phantom similarly gave him a deep bow incomparably gratefully, looking delicate and pitiful.
Ye Yuan heaved a slight sigh and walked towards another sculpture.
Just like this, Ye Yuan walked over towards sculpture after sculpture, turning each statue into dust.
Chapter 750 - Soul Soothing Art
"This … What's going on here? Could it be that a woman's divine soul is imprisoned inside each statue?" Ying Tianya said in amazement.
"These are not statues at all but refined from living people!"
Jun Tianyu heaved a slight sigh and recounted the situation Ye Yuan discovered for everyone, making everyone feel a chill run down their spines.
This kind of means was seriously too cruel. Just what kind of person was the owner of this grotto, to actually be able to resort to such vicious means?
"No wonder these women's beguiling powers were so formidable. This sort of towering resentment, ordinary people probably can't withstand it, right?" Ying Tianya said in astonishment.
"Just what kind of measure did this brat use, to actually be able to resolve these women's grievances?" Pei Wenqiang said in shock.
Everyone was stricken with fear. Only now did they discover that Ye Yuan's methods were simply inconceivable.
For this sort of cruel means where the divine souls being imprisoned to the point they showed resentment billowing to the skies, there was only the path of annihilating them completely.
But Ye Yuan used an unknown method. Not only did he rescue these divine souls from the bodies, he even made each and every one of them incomparably peaceful.
"If my conjectures are right, what he used should be the divine soul mystic art, Soul Soothing Art! It's just that cultivating the Soul Soothing Art to this kind of boundary, it's simply inconceivable!" He Shuming suddenly said.
"Soul Soothing Art? How is that possible? Such inconceivable means was actually just such a low-level Soul Soothing Art?" Pei Wenqiang said in astonishment.
"Any kind of means, when trained to an exceedingly high realm, would also become inconceivable. It's just that very few people can do it. Ye Yuan's Soul Soothing Art has probably reached the boundary of returning to one's original simpl
icity already! He only attempted to undergo communication with these girls and make these girls put down the resentment in their hearts, and they can also break away already."
Among these people, the one who studied divine soul mystic arts the most was He Shuming. Therefore, he had the greatest right to speak as well.
The Soul Soothing Art was just a more coarse and shallow divine soul mystic art used to expiate dead souls. He Shuming knew this divine soul mystic art too. Moreover, his attainments were not low. Therefore, he could tell what Ye Yuan was doing.
The Soul Soothing Art which Ye Yuan used was very different from what normal people used. But that sort of familiar divine soul undulation could not be hidden from He Shuming.
It was just that what made He Shuming amazed was that Ye Yuan using this move was completely at his will, at the tip of his fingers!
Ye Yuan communicated with the divine souls of these girls, carrying a power veiled in mystery.
He Shuming only had one word to give to this power's appraisal: convinced!
No matter how great the grievances contained within the divine souls of these girls, they would all calm down under Ye Yuan's persuasion.
The moment the resentment disappeared, these shells could no longer constrain them either, so they vanished into thin air.
Very soon, Ye Yuan extricated all of the beauties. Several dozen faint phantoms appeared in the plaza.
A woman dressed in yellow suddenly fell out of the ranks and greeted Ye Yuan by folding her hands at the lower right side, communicating with Ye Yuan, "Sisters' divine souls are weak. Meixuan thanks young master on behalf of the sisters for your grace of revival!"
Ye Yuan exonerated everyone just now and knew that this woman in yellow was called Qin Meixuan; she was also the person whose divine soul was the strongest now.
Of course, this so-called strongest was also merely just being able to have divine soul communication with Ye Yuan. Only this Qin Meixuan's divine soul was slightly more powerful at present and barely had the ability to communicate with Ye Yuan.
Their divine souls were imprisoned for ten thousand years and were long feeble to the extent that it would vanish like a cloud at any time already. They did not have the strength to retaliate at all after breaking free from their own bodies.