【Chapter 165】Talisman inheritance
【Chapter 165】Talisman inheritance
Although the grandfather and grandson were confused, they were relieved that they didn't have to waste time trying to break the formation. The most important thing right now is to find Ye Xian, so the two did not try to find out what was going on.
It took Ye Yuncheng and his companions about a month to reach the end of the cave ruins. Ye Yishen and Ye Chenyuan used blood to lead the way, and they arrived in just half a day.
The drop of blood looking for relatives did not stop outside the stone room where Ye Yuncheng solved the formation, but stopped in front of the stone wall in the aisle.
Guessing that Ye Xian was inside the stone wall, Ye Yishen and Ye Chenyuan simultaneously released their spiritual sense to check. Two invisible spiritual consciousnesses were like sharp swords, piercing straight into the seemingly ordinary stone wall.
However, the moment their consciousness touched the stone wall, a powerful force instantly backfired, blasting their consciousness out like a huge wave.
Ye Yishen felt as if he was hit hard by an invisible force. He took several steps back before he could barely keep his balance.
Because Ye Chenyuan had a high level of spiritual awareness, although he also felt the abnormal reaction of the stone wall, he withdrew his spiritual awareness in time to avoid further impact.
At the moment when the two people's spiritual consciousness touched the stone wall, runes suddenly appeared on the stone wall, flashing a faint but dazzling light. Although the light at this moment was fleeting, Ye Chenyuan captured it clearly.
Seeing that Ye Yisheng was fine, Ye Chenyuan turned his gaze to the stone wall in front of him: "This stone wall has runes carved on it that block spiritual consciousness. Let's look around to see if there are any mechanisms or formations to get in."
"good."
Ye Yishen walked to the stone wall, and he and Ye Chenyuan, one going to the left and the other to the right, searched carefully along the stone wall.
They touched the stone walls with their hands, trying to sense any subtle movements of the mechanisms. However, despite their best efforts, they still found nothing after searching for a long time on this seemingly ordinary stone wall.
Just when the two were about to give up, Ye Yisheng suddenly noticed some subtle color changes on the stone wall in front of him. This change is so subtle that you can't see it at all unless you look closely.
Ye Yishen carefully stretched out his hand and gently pressed on the place on the stone wall where the color had just changed.
As his fingers pressed, the stone wall seemed to be triggered by some force and a strong suction force came from it. The next moment, the spiritual energy in his body was uncontrollably sucked away by the stone wall through his hands.
In just a moment, one third of the spiritual energy in his dantian was sucked away.
It happened so fast that he had no time to react. Fortunately, the stone wall only sucked for a moment and then stopped.
Ye Chenyuan, who was standing next to him, felt the fluctuation of spiritual energy and turned to look at Ye Yisheng. He saw Ye Yishen staring at the stone wall in front of him and thought that Ye Yishen was trying to find out what was different on the stone wall.
So he didn't care and looked away.
Just at this moment, the stone wall began to move slowly.
A slight "click" sound was heard.
Ye Yishen immediately took a few steps back to prevent any hidden arrows from being shot out. At the same time, he called out, "Grandfather."
Ye Chenyuan took a few steps to Ye Yishen and looked at the stone wall with caution and hope.
As the stone wall slowly moved away, a narrow and deep passage gradually appeared.
The drop of blood looking for relatives flew into the passage with a "whoosh".
Seeing this, the grandfather and grandson did not follow in immediately.
Ye Chenyuan took out a low-grade spirit stone from his space ring and threw it into the passage. The spirit stone rolled on the ground a few times but did not trigger any mechanism or trap.
"Yisheng, follow me." Ye Chenyuan instructed and took the lead to walk towards the passage.
Ye Yisheng followed closely behind.
When passing by the low-grade spirit stone, Ye Chenyuan did not forget to take it in his hand.
After walking twenty meters forward, the grandfather and grandson walked another ten meters to the right, and a stone door blocked their way forward.
There is a protruding stone next to the stone gate, which is very conspicuous.
Based on previous experience, there is a 1 in 2 chance that this raised stone is the mechanism for opening the stone door; and there is a 1 in 2 chance that pressing it will trigger an unknown trap.
After thinking about it, Ye Chenyuan called Ye Yisheng to step back a few steps, and he launched an attack towards the stone gate.
"Boom~" As soon as the attack touched the stone gate, a rune appeared on it. The rune flashed for a moment and then disappeared into the stone gate again.
After the rune flashed, the attack launched by Ye Chenyuan seemed to hit a layer of barrier and bounced back at him.
He waved his hand and a defensive shield appeared in front of him.
The attack was blocked by the defensive shield.
Ye Yisheng thought of the scene of opening the passage before and suggested: "Grandfather, why don't you try to input spiritual energy into the stone gate?"
After a little thought, Ye Chenyuan did as he was told.
As soon as the spiritual energy he output touched the stone gate, it was absorbed by the stone gate.
A rune different from the previous one soon appeared on the stone gate. As the stone gate absorbed more spiritual energy, the light emitted by the rune became brighter.
After the rune's bright light became dazzling, Ye Chenyuan stopped outputting spiritual energy.
After the rune sank into the stone gate, the stone gate slowly rose upwards.
Seeing the stone door successfully opened, the grandfather and grandson were very glad that they did not press the protruding stone.
Following the drop of blood looking for relatives, the two people's eyes also followed the movement of the drop of blood.
Seeing the drop of blood stop in front of a stone door, the two of them hurried over. At the same time, the stone door behind them closed with a bang.
The grandfather and grandson tried all possible ways to open the stone door, but in the end none of them worked.
Afterwards, the grandfather and grandson discovered that the stone door they had come in through could not be opened. Not only that, the stone chamber they were in, whether it was the surrounding walls, the ground, or the ceiling, was engraved with anti-repellent symbols.
Even if Ye Chenyuan recovered his cultivation to the Spirit Transformation Stage, he could not demolish this stone chamber by force.
Now they were obviously trapped in this stone chamber.
Unable to leave for the time being, Ye Yishen and Ye Chenyuan finally had the time to look around the entire stone chamber.
The stone chamber covers an area of about 30 square meters, and the entire chamber is covered with dust densely and evenly. The interior space is spacious, with no other complicated furnishings except an old futon in the center.
On the wall opposite the futon hangs a portrait depicting the back of a white-haired man. The man in the painting stands with his hands behind his back, looking into the distance, his posture free and mysterious.
The grandfather and grandson looked at each other, Ye Yishen walked towards the futon, and Ye Chenyuan walked towards the portrait.
Ye Yishen gently picked up the futon and found that there were no hidden mechanisms or clues except the dust on the surface. Then, he penetrated his spiritual consciousness into the cushion, but found nothing again.
Ye Chenyuan first carefully examined every detail of the portrait, and then took the portrait down from the wall with great effort to examine it.
Unfortunately, he gained nothing in the end.
There are only these two objects in the stone chamber. If there is a clue to leaving this place, it must be among these two.
The grandfather and grandson looked at each other and saw the confusion in each other's eyes.
So the two of them took turns to check, Ye Yishen was responsible for checking the portrait, while Ye Chenyuan carefully checked the cushion.
However, after reconfirmation, neither Ye Yishen nor Ye Chenyuan could find any clues to escape from these two objects.
"This shouldn't be the remains of a Nascent Soul cultivator's cave. The cultivator who left this cave must have been at least in the Void Refining Stage. In addition to breaking it open violently, there is another way to leave this stone chamber. That is to become a talisman master and learn how to draw talismans in mid-air."
The grandfather and grandson could not draw talismans, so Ye Chenyuan's implication was that if he wanted to break into this stone chamber by force, his cultivation would have to at least reach the Nascent Soul stage.
Ye Yisheng thought of something, and his eyes lit up: "I have a stone sculpture of a monster in the fusion stage."
Ye Chenyuan pointed to the ground, then to the ceiling: "Besides being able to grow or shrink, are you sure your monster stone sculpture can maintain its size?"
Ye Yisheng said happily: "If it gets bigger, it can just break the stone chamber."
There was nothing wrong with what he said, and Ye Chenyuan could only remain silent.
Ye Yishen took out a stone sculpture of a demon beast in the fusion stage. With a thought, he controlled the stone sculpture of the monster to grow larger.
The stone sculpture of the monster only reached Ye Yishen's knees when the runes in the stone chamber suddenly lit up, followed by a powerful pressure pressing down on Ye Yishen.
The pressure came so suddenly that Ye Yishen spat out a mouthful of blood.
In a moment, the pressure disappeared without a trace, as if it had never appeared.
"Yisheng, what's wrong with you?" Ye Chenyuan asked worriedly.
"I'm fine." Ye Yisheng waved his hands, pinched his fingers to clean the bloodstains on the ground, and asked, "Grandfather, when the runes in the stone chamber lit up just now, did you feel the pressure?"
Ye Chenyuan, who didn’t feel the pressure at all, said: “…No.”
Ye Yisheng understood that it seemed that the pressure was only directed at him. He wanted to enlarge the stone sculpture of the monster, so the pressure appeared. It seems that the stone sculptures of monsters cannot be used here.
Ye Chenyuan reacted and guessed the reason why Ye Yisheng vomited blood, and took out a porcelain bottle: "Take a Baibao Pill."
Ye Yisheng spread out his hands and waited for Ye Chenyuan to pour the pill into his hands. After he swallowed it, he asked hopefully, "Grandfather, when can you break through to the Void Refining Stage?"
Ye Chenyuan put away the porcelain bottle: "I just broke through the Spiritual Transformation Stage not long ago. It is definitely not possible to break through three small realms and one big realm in a short period of time."
"Then how many years did it take you to break through from the early Nascent Soul stage to the Spirit Transformation stage?" Ye Yisheng asked.
Ye Chenyuan stretched out a finger.
Ye Yisheng guessed: "Ten years?"
Ye Chenyuan shook his head.
Ye Yisheng said with certainty: "Is it a hundred years?"
Ye Chenyuan nodded.
Taking a deep breath, Ye Yisheng asked again: "Grandfather, do you have any natural treasures that can improve your cultivation?"
"There are two things. If I refine them, my cultivation should be able to improve to a higher level." Ye Chenyuan told the truth.
Ye Yisheng immediately took out the painting that Daojun Haoyan had given him: "This painting of mine is a world of its own. The speed of time in the painting is much faster than in the outside world. One year in the outside world is equivalent to ten years in the painting."
"Grandfather, you will start practicing from now on." At the end, he added: "Practice in the painting."
Ye Chenyuan: Very good! His next period of time was clearly arranged by his grandson.
Ye Chenyuan: "Is the spiritual energy of the world in the painting rich?"
"There is a low-grade spiritual vein. If you want to absorb the spiritual energy between heaven and earth for cultivation, it may not be possible. I have spiritual stones here." As he said that, Ye Yisheng handed a space ring to Ye Chenyuan.
Ye Chenyuan did not take the space ring, but said: "I still have some spirit stones on me. When I use them up, I will ask you to borrow them."
"Alright!"
In order to let Ye Chenyuan practice with peace of mind, Ye Yisheng said: "Father has something to save his life, you don't have to worry about his safety."
Ye Chenyuan had actually guessed it a long time ago.
He did not forget that there was a powerful person behind Ye Yisheng. In addition, he saw that although Ye Yisheng was also worried about Ye Xian, there was not much worry in his eyes.
Ye Yishen unfolded the painting in his hand, which showed a farmyard. Just when he was about to send Ye Chenyuan into the world in the painting, something unexpected happened.
The painting in his hand suddenly broke free, as if it had life, and slowly floated up, flying towards the portrait hanging on the wall in the stone chamber.
His paintings stand opposite to the portraits on the wall, and there seems to be some mysterious connection between the two portraits.
Immediately afterwards, his painting emitted a dazzling white light, which shone on the portrait hanging on the wall.
It lasted for a long time before the white light gradually dissipated.
Ye Yishen and Ye Chenyuan were surprised to find that the white-haired man in the portrait on the wall disappeared along with the white light.
The two of them subconsciously looked at Ye Yisheng's painting.
What Ye Chenyuan saw was a landscape painting.
What Ye Yisheng saw was still a farmyard, but there was a white-haired man sitting in front of the stone table in the yard.
Ye Yisheng couldn't help but take a breath.
His paintings can even include people from another portrait!
But this is not the point. The point is that the person in the portrait appeared in the farmyard. Does it mean that the person in the portrait is alive?
As soon as this absurd thought came to his mind, his painting emitted white light again and he subconsciously closed his eyes. But when he opened his eyes again, he found himself in the world of the painting.
Seeing the white-haired man in person, Ye Yishen felt that except for the fact that he had no breath, he looked like a real person.
As if sensing his approach, the white-haired man raised his head and glanced at him. Before he could even see the white-haired man's appearance clearly, the white-haired man turned into a stream of light and rushed towards him.
Although he didn't feel any danger, he still wanted to get away. But as soon as this thought came to his mind, he found that he could not move.
He was fixed in place by the spirit in the painting.
He was about to break free from his restraints when the white-haired man rushed into his mind. He was forced to accept the memory of drawing talismans, and the white-haired man turned into stars and disappeared. At the same time, he had an extra space ring in his hand.
It turns out that the man in the portrait is a talisman master, and he is just a trace of divine thought in the portrait. Just to wait for the right person to inherit his talisman skills.
Neither Ye Yishen nor Ye Chenyuan is a talisman master, so naturally they are not his destined ones.
The spirit in the painting felt the inheritance and forcibly absorbed the divine thought in the portrait hanging in the stone chamber into the world in the painting. Once entering the world in the painting, that divine consciousness lost its autonomous consciousness.
The spirit in the painting’s idea is, since my master is not your destined one, then I will create conditions to make my master become your destined one.
Ye Yishen was not an ungrateful person. The spirit in the painting consumed its own spiritual power to allow him to inherit the talisman master's legacy. He looked up at the sky and said something.
"Thanks."
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