Yan Qing tugged at Yue Qi's hand and gestured towards the stone platform. Yue Qi immediately understood; it seemed this stone platform was more than just a container for magical artifacts.
After a closer look, he was somewhat surprised; the stone platform for displaying magical artifacts seemed to be made a little too exquisitely.
The entire stone platform, from bottom to top, was carved with many intricate patterns using extremely fine carving tools. Yan Qing might not recognize many of the patterns, but Yue Qi, as a disciple of the Xuanmen sect, immediately recognized them as one of the Xuanmen's secret techniques.
The intricate patterns on it are not decorative designs, but rather esoteric texts. Due to their antiquity, he only had a partial understanding of many of these texts.
But even the part he could understand was enough to shock him.
The cryptic text on the stone platform turned out to be a cryptic incantation, and an extremely vicious curse at that.
He didn't know the specific name of the secret technique, but Yue Qi felt that some of its contents were similar to the legendary "Nine Deaths Soul Suppression Curse" that had long been lost, which made him start to doubt his own eyes.
"Nine Deaths Soul Suppression Curse"? How is that possible?
He remembered his master saying that among the many secret arts passed down from ancient times, some were destroyed by the entire Xuanmen sect because they were too cruel.
The "Nine Deaths Soul-Suppressing Curse" is one of them. It is said that this spell targets people who will experience the nine most cruel punishments in the world before they die, and they must survive.
Before the person had their last breath, nine special parts of their body were cut off and suppressed in nine different places. The victim's corpse had to be buried in an extremely yin and malevolent place so that they would suffer the most excruciating torment in the world for all eternity.
Generally speaking, even in cases of deep-seated hatred, almost no one would treat an enemy in this way. Ultimately, it's because it's simply too cruel.
Furthermore, the cycle of karma dictates that one should leave room for maneuver in all things; once one pushes things to the brink, one will inevitably suffer a backlash.
Yue Qi took Yan Qing's hand and hid in a corner of the hall, quietly telling her his guess.
Yan Qing suddenly felt that this world was somewhat surreal. The very existence of a world of strange and uncanny rules was terrifying enough, but now these mystical sects were also about to revive?
Moreover, this "Nine Deaths Soul-Suppressing Curse" was just too, too, too cruel. She was somewhat unable to accept it for a moment.
So she pointed at Monk Yuanhui with her eyes and asked in a low voice, "Could it be that this Monk Yuanhui has suffered a backlash?" No matter how hard Yuanhui tried to hide it, she could tell that something was wrong with him.
Yue Qi shook his head. "I don't think so. He's probably just trying to subdue that magical artifact. As for the stone platform, now that the artifact is no longer suppressing it, I don't know what will happen."
He had a bad feeling. The appearance of the "Nine Deaths Soul Suppression Curse" meant that there were at least nine identical places that should be suppressing a part of King Jinzhu Yelang's body.
Their eyes met, and then they both turned to look at the stone platform. There, starting from the very bottom, faint cracks were beginning to appear.
Yan Qing and Yue Qi, one using the magic artifact Heaven and Earth Dice and the other using the supernatural power of the Clear Eye, both saw it clearly.
This is a huge problem.
However, compared to their troubles, the real problem was in the front hall where everyone was facing the sea of fire.
Less than half an hour later, the temperature in the lobby had already soared to forty degrees Celsius and was still rising at an alarming rate.
Meanwhile, everyone in the hall was holding a bottle of water and drinking it voraciously. However, due to the extremely hot temperature, this amount of water was hardly enough to solve the problem.
Finally, Wen Jiajia shouted, "No, I can't take it anymore! Rather than slowly dying from the heat, I'd rather just get it over with!"
After saying that, she ran frantically into the sea of fire. Sun Qiang, who was with her, was also pulled along by her.
No one knows where she got the strength, but Sun Qiang struggled several times without being able to break free. In the end, he was reluctantly dragged into the sea of fire.
"Big brother—!!!" Sun Gui couldn't care less about anything else, and then gritted his teeth and ran over.
Next was Mu Xiao, who seemed to be deep in thought. Seeing the three of them go in, he slowly moved over as well.
Finally, only the four disciples of the Sun family remained in the front hall, watching as their two elder brothers were engulfed in flames. After a moment's hesitation, the four steeled their hearts and followed them inside.
"Huh?!" As soon as Wen Jiajia entered the sea of fire, she instantly felt a sense of comfort wash over her entire body. She finally came to her senses; it turned out that this so-called sea of fire was just an illusion!
I'm so angry! She fell for it again!!
In stark contrast to her furious expression was the gratitude of the Sun brothers, who had narrowly escaped death. The two brothers exchanged a glance, both showing a hint of joy.
Then, Sun Gui abandoned the two of them and walked ahead first. Sun Qiang stayed behind to continue being his protector.
When Sun Gui arrived at his destination, he saw three people sitting in a row on the ground.
Yue Qi, Yan Qing, and Monk Yuan Hui sat in a row directly behind the stone platform, maintaining a subtle distance of about one meter from it.
Sun Qiang's eyes flickered a few times. "Are you all meditating?" His gaze immediately fell on the stone platform, and his eyes were instantly captivated.
Even from a short distance, Yan Qing could hear his heavy breathing, indicating that what was inside the stone platform was indeed what the Sun brothers wanted.
At this moment, the people behind gradually came over. Wen Jiajia appeared a little late; it was as if she had changed her clothes at some point.
Yan Qing expressed her admiration.
After the Sun family arrived, no one dared to go to the stone platform immediately, because the posture of the first three people was a bit strange.
Monk Yuanhui looked much better now, while Yan Qing and Yue Qi didn't look so good.
In the eyes of the Sun brothers, they suddenly had the inexplicable idea that Yan Qing and her companion had been kidnapped.
Therefore, the two brothers looked at each other, neither willing to take the first step closer to the stone platform.
The atmosphere remained tense.
Wen Jiajia then very tactfully indicated that she was delicate and frail, and chose a place farthest from them to rest.
With such keen insight, she truly lives up to her reputation as the independent and self-reliant "leading lady" from the original novel! Just based on her ability to disregard the lives of others, Yan Qing is confident that this Miss Wen will definitely survive to the end.
Everyone thought the stalemate would continue, but to their surprise, Mu Xiao appeared and walked towards Yan Qing without any hesitation.
Then she plopped down next to Yue Qi and didn't move.
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