Chapter 267 - 224
Chapter 267 of "Spiritual Energy Rejuvenation: I Began Cultivating By Farming" begins with: âThisâŚâAll of them then realized the sophistication of the Illusion Technique, which made it impossible... See the full story!
âThisâŚâ
All of them then realized the sophistication of the Illusion Technique, which made it impossible to see the true scenery before their eyes.
Yun Duoduo smiled at the surprised expressions of the group; this was exactly the effect she had intended.
If the Yun Clan didnât have its own unique characteristics, how could it have achieved such splendid success?
Having stood unshaken for ten thousand years, they relied on their own Illusion Technique.
Yun Duoduo led them into the streets, where, observing closely, they saw that these streets were the same as other bustling ones, with shops selling various goods.
âYun Duoduo, youâve made your family estate so mysterious.
Do you actually expect guests to come here to shop?
Isnât this keeping people away?
Arenât these streets just swatting at flies?â
Yuan Baozhu saw that there were people on the street, but it wasnât as bustling as other parts of the Imperial City, without dense crowds.
âYou think weâre so incompetent?
Our familyâs streets not only have shops open to outsiders, but we also invite guests here.
There are many more powerful beings in the Cultivation World, and they have the ability to see through the Illusion Techniques we use.â
Yun Duoduo rolled her eyes at Yuan Baozhuâs words again.
âOh, so what youâre saying is that your Illusion Techniques arenât all-powerful, haha.â
Dugu Yanâer said with a sarcastic laugh.
Yun Duoduo brought Jiang Tang and some others into the largest residential area of the bustling streets, where the buildings were antique, made of green bricks and large tiles, and the roofs were even carved with auspicious dragons and phoenixes.
If one didnât know that this was the Yun Familyâs place, they might mistake it for a landlordâs house.
At the entrance to this mansion was a stone Lion.
Jiang Tang looked at the Lionâs eyes, which seemed to have a gleam.
Others also noticed the Lionâs gleaming eyes.
âJiang Tang, donât look into the Lionâs eyes; it will attack you.â It was a bit late when Yun Duoduo spoke these words.
Jiang Tang only felt a momentary daze; in just a second, he regained his senses but noticed a confusion in his mind, a sense of being attacked, a desire to capture his soul.
The Avatar in his Sea of Consciousness countered the external attack with a defensive Spell and even absorbed the Spell that was thrown at him.
Jiang Tangâs mind cleared once more, and he immediately swung his hand, casting a glow toward the stone Lion.
âWuu wuu wuuâ
Jiang Tang, though more powerful, had still been momentarily dazed by the Lionâs attack.
The others seemed to have entered a foggy forest, walking alone in this place, and even heard crying sounds, lost in the Illusion Realm.
Yun Duoduo, seeing everyoneâs state, knew they must have looked into the Lionâs eyes; she was most worried about Jiang Tang.
Finding that Jiang Tang seemed unharmed, she felt a bit of admiration for his ability to resist such a strong attack.
âYun Duoduo, theyâve all been caught by the Lionâs Illusion Technique; is there a way to rescue them from the phantom world?â
Jiang Tang noticed that besides Yun Duoduo, eight women and one man appeared to have entered different illusions, their mouths moving non-stop, their hands continuously gesturing, assuming various poses.
But they couldnât cast Spells, and their hand movements lacked Spiritual Energy.
âJiang Tang, I cannot undo the Lionâs Soul Capturing Spell; itâs an attack on the soul.
Over ten thousand years ago, these stone Lions had been discovered by our masters, who noticed that the Soul Capturing Spell was becoming increasingly fierce, even posing the danger of soul possession.â
âYun Duoduo, why didnât you say so earlier?
What should be done with them?â Jiang Tang was quite anxious; he didnât want these beauties to become the vessels for someone elseâs soul.
If the souls of Demonic Beasts were to possess them, then his beauties would become beasts.
Not to mention the men turning into women; that was even more unacceptable to him.
Jiang Tang felt that he could traverse as well, for in the Cultivation World, it was quite easy for a powerful soul to seize a lower-level character; all one needed was to find a suitable one, and everything was possible.
âThe whole way here, they were always arguing with me, and I forgot all about it,â Yun Duoduo had the thought of schadenfreude, thinking that if these women were all seized by other souls, she could find an opportunity for her master to kill them, and then no one would compete with her for Jiang Tang.
âYun Duoduo, you need to tell us quickly how to save them.
Go ask for help from your family,â Jiang Tang urged, without the time to suspect whether Yun Duoduo deliberately withheld the information.
âJiang Tang, these two stone lions donât attack everyone who enters; over the past ten thousand years, incidents have only occurred a few times.â
âIs it because every time your family invites people inside, you tell them not to look at the stone lions, so they wonât fall into the illusion technique?â
âNo, those invited to the street would only be on the street side; very few people come specifically to visit our clan.
Those who lead them in always remind them to avoid looking into the eyes of the stone lions.
I mentioned it earlier too; itâs just that you all moved very quickly,â Yun Duoduo explained incessantly, actually just wanting Jiang Tang not to develop a dislike for her.
She had intentionally delayed mentioning it earlier because there was always someone among the women who would talk back to her when they entered.
She especially wanted these women to know her prowess and acknowledge that she, Yun Duoduo, was one of a kind.
âGoing on and on and you still havenât mentioned how to save them?
Forget it, shouldnât rely on you to find someone to save them; itâs better to rely on oneself.â
Jiang Tang began to realize that the women, once rosy-cheeked, now had faces either pale from fear in the illusion realm or from struggling against the invader during the possession.
Logically, with only two stone lions, there should only be two souls seeking to possess new bodies, yet ten people, including himself, were being attacked at once.
Thus, these two stone lions must have a story; there were definitely more than two souls suppressed within them.
Jiang Tang thought about using his avatar to utilize the soul attraction power to combat the stone lionsâ Soul Capturing Spell.
He hit upon a plan and immediately acted, his scattered gaze shooting golden beams from his spiritual sea into the eyes of the two stone lions.
Using the gold liquid cultivated from the Golden Crystal within his spiritual sea, he cast a barrage of golden spells into the eyes of the stone lions.
From the golden solids sent out by the avatarâs gaze, Jiang Tang could feel that within the eyes of the stone lions, there lived more than one soul; the golden light wrapped around each individual soul.
He then discovered that these souls were being manipulated by some intelligence, and by following the threads of control, he uncovered that the stone lions were being operated by the faint souls of two Supreme Immortals.
Jiang Tang used the golden liquid to probe for the memories of these two Supreme Immortals, yet only discovered traces of their past as Supreme Immortals, a sliver of soul memory left behind on the Mortal Realm after a great battle ten thousand years ago.
In fact, it was a single individualâs clothing over the stones of the two lions; over the past ten thousand years in this city, they had continually collected souls to sustain their fading existence, gradully growing stronger.
This Supreme Immortal had divided into two segments of soul memories, hoping to find two bodies to possess among these nine people.
From this fragment of memory, he could sense that the soul belonged to a woman.
Jiang Tang was puzzled; among this group of people, there were two men.
Could it be that this female remnant soul wanted to become a man?
It would not be easy to possess him, so he was ready to show the full extent of his strength.
Jiang Tang stood firm, his gaze fixed on the direction of the stone lions.
Yun Duoduo had previously thought Jiang Tang wouldnât pose a threat and wasnât worried at all.
Seeing Jiang Tang looking steadfastly at the stone lions, she became panicked.
âJiang Tang, I told you not to look into her eyes.
Why are you looking again?â she asked anxiously.
Yun Duoduoâs urgent voice seemed not to reach Jiang Tang for a response, growing somewhat frantic, she said to the guardians at the door, âQuick, go inside and ask the Family Head to come out.â
âYes, MissâŚâ one of the two guardians by the door went to find the Family Head, while the other still stood guard at the entrance.
Having grown up in the Yun Family, Yun Duoduo knew of the legend and had been a skeptic as a child.
After passing the main entrance many times without incident, especially for those from her family, she wondered if they were immune to the Soul Capturing Spell of the two stone lions because of their practice in illusion techniques.
Jiang Tang seemed not to hear Yun Duoduoâs voice; he was busy dealing with the souls inside the stone lions.
He thought about his Hell Palace and decided to use the golden rings of light to collect all the souls into the Hell Palace.