Another image suddenly surfaced in Mu Hanyan's mind. To save Yi Qinglian from the same fate as her past life, Mu Hanyan had once risked her life alone, swiftly killing the retired high-ranking official Jiang Zhongtian. It was after that, in that eerie courtyard, that she had witnessed the same eerie scene of piles of bones.
She understood, understood everything. It turned out that Jiang Zhongtian had provided Gui Yu with protection, and in exchange, he had obtained from Gui Yu this unholy technique that increased his combat power at the cost of young girls' lives. She had initially assumed Jiang Zhongtian was simply a pervert, addicted to torturing and killing young girls, but she hadn't expected there to be a deeper motive. Fortunately, Gui Yu hadn't taught Jiang Zhongtian everything he knew, and Jiang Zhongtian hadn't learned the right techniques. Therefore, despite his countless devastation, he hadn't achieved any significant cultivation. Otherwise, she would never have been able to kill him, let alone escape unscathed.
I couldn't imagine how many innocent girls the Guiyu clan had murdered in order to cultivate this evil technique. Mu Hanyan's eyes seemed to reappear in front of her, as if she had seen Yi Qinglian in her previous life, with her eyes wide open in despair.
Boundless anger erupted like a volcano.
Han Xiao Sword whistled, raised the sword high, and slashed directly at the young man on the altar.
"Stop!" All the members of the Gui Yu clan shouted in shock.
Mu Hanyan's rage had completely erupted at this moment. She wished she could chop the man on the altar into powder with one sword. How could she stop?
Seeing that the sword light was getting closer and closer to the head of the family, all the members of the Gui Yu clan turned pale.
The black-robed old men who were fighting desperately with Ye Lanxun and Yun Bo suddenly turned around and rushed towards Mu Hanyan.
With a soft chi, Ye Lanxun's longsword pierced through the chest of another black-robed old man. The old man stumbled and fell to his knees, dying instantly. Even until his death, he gazed at the patriarch with a look of despair, tears streaming down his face.
Another old man in black robe was also hit by Yun Bo's sword and collapsed to the ground powerlessly. Although he was not killed for the time being, his internal organs were shattered into pieces by the powerful sword energy in the sword, and it was obvious that he would not survive.
The last remaining old man in black robe was also in tears. He knew that with Ye Lanxun and Yun Bo fighting with all their strength, he would never be able to stop Mu Hanyan even if he risked his life. He could only watch the sharp sword slash towards their patriarch.
Closer, closer... Just as the Frost Sky Sword was about to strike him in the face, cleaving the sleeping man in two, a slender hand suddenly shot out like lightning, its two long fingers clamping tightly around the sword like iron pliers.
Everyone stopped involuntarily and looked at the scene in shock.
Although Mu Hanyan is a third-level swordsman, his actual combat power is no weaker than that of a fifth-level swordsman. However, even with the power of the Hanxiao Sword itself, he is still no match for the opponent's mere two fingers.
What kind of terrifying and powerful power is contained in these two fingers.
"You are so young, yet you have such strength. The Mu family is quite lucky, but unfortunately, you shouldn't have met me. Remember my name, my name is Gui Yumie!" A hoarse voice came, like an iron spoon scraping across a porcelain plate, piercing the eardrums and causing pain.
As soon as he finished speaking, the man lying on the altar sat up.
His movements were so stiff, like a puppet, and his joints made a crackling sound as he moved.
If Mu Hanyan hadn't known that this person was the head of the Gui Yu clan, who had fallen into a deep sleep due to practicing evil techniques, she would have almost thought that she had encountered the legendary zombie.
"He's awake! The master of the family has finally awakened!" The black-clad swordsmen cheered in unison, tears of excitement and joy streaming down their faces. The only black-robed old man who had managed to escape death also knelt on the ground in reverence, his face filled with ecstasy.
Is he really awake? Seeing the young man in front of her who looked like a resurrected corpse, that is, Gui Yumie, the patriarch of the Gui Yu clan, Mu Hanyan suddenly felt a strange feeling in her heart.
Although he held the Hanxiao Sword with two fingers, Mu Hanyan did not feel any energy flowing from his body. Although there was a hint of sarcasm in his voice, his eyes were so empty, without any intelligence at all.
No, something must be wrong!
Mu Hanyan's spiritual sense followed the Hanxiao Sword and explored into the opponent's body.
In the past, Mu Hanyan could only use her spiritual sense to investigate the Mu family members who also practiced the Tianxin technique, or lifeless objects. However, with the improvement of her cultivation and the advancement of the technique several times, there are fewer restrictions and it can be used on other people. However, compared with the former, there are still many obstacles.
But this time, her spiritual sense followed the Hanxiao Sword into Gui Yumie's body, and there was no hindrance at all, as if it was just a lifeless corpse.
Could it be that he was really faking his death? Mu Hanyan couldn't help but have thoughts in her mind that even she herself didn't believe.
However, just when Mu Hanyan tried to probe his divine sense into the other party's sea of consciousness, suddenly, a huge divine sense came towards him!
Mu Hanyan clearly felt that this divine consciousness was quietly merging with Gui Yumie's body, and a trace of vitality was rapidly growing in his body like green grass after rain!
"Destroy the body and split the soul!" Mu Hanyan exclaimed.
Destroying the body and splitting the spirit is a strange and unusual technique that separates the mind, soul and body.
It is said that in order to break through the bottleneck and improve their cultivation, some powerful hermits have to rely on external forces, such as elixirs, exotic flowers and herbs, or even earth fire and sky thunder.
But no matter the elixir, exotic flowers and herbs, or earth fire and sky thunder they used, they all exceeded the limit of what the human body could endure, and it was very likely that the soul would be destroyed because of the extreme pain.
As a result, someone devised the art of destroying the body and separating the spirit. First, the vital energy within the body was extinguished, completely separating the spirit from the body. Then, the body was forcibly tempered with miraculous elixirs, exotic flowers and herbs, or earthly fire and heavenly thunder, in order to break through bottlenecks and improve cultivation. Once the technique was complete, the spirit would be restored to the body, bringing the dead back to life.
Obviously, the evil magic that Gui Yumie used at the cost of countless girls' lives was too powerful, so powerful that his body could not withstand it, so he had to use the technique of destroying the body and splitting the soul.
Thinking of this, Mu Hanyan suddenly woke up. It turned out that Gui Yumie had not yet mastered his evil magic and had not truly awakened. His previous revelation was just to confuse her and delay time.
If it weren't for her spiritual power that could focus the mind and see inward, she would have been fooled by him.
It's a long story, but it actually just took a moment of thought. After realizing what was going on, Mu Hanyan didn't hesitate at all. While exclaiming in surprise, she used all her strength to activate the Divine Martial Soul Refining Technique, concentrating her spiritual thoughts like a sharp sword, stabbing at Gui Yu's spiritual thoughts that had not yet fully returned to his body.
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