“So that’s how it is! The one who stays true to love…” You You nodded, but when she turned her head, she found that all three people in the room turned their heads at the same time, even the seriously injured Long Xi. She shuddered for no reason, “Wait, why are you all looking at me?”
The three of them: "..."
Don't you have any idea who Wu Yue ultimately loves?
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"Ahem!" Yuan Qi coughed, pulling himself back to his senses, and explained, "The Love-Binding Curse only affects those who have a connection with the person under its influence, such as bloodlines, lineages, etc. Follower contracts naturally count as well." You You was unharmed because she was not Wu Yue's follower.
“Venerable One…” Long Xi, his face deathly pale, ignored his own injuries and asked with even greater concern, “Is there any way to break this curse on my sect leader?”
"I can't think of a solution yet!" The demon race has long since disappeared from the world, and the curse originating from the demon race is not so easy to break.
Long Xi's face turned even paler.
"Do you know when Wuyue was cursed?" Yuan Qi added, "Knowing its origin might provide a way to remove it."
Long Xi's expression turned even more ashen. He shook his head and said, "I don't know either. The sect leader fainted three days ago and hasn't been in contact with any outsiders in the past few days."
"Are there any other people in your faction who exhibit this phenomenon?"
"Well... I'm not sure either!" Long Xi shook his head. These past few days, his mind had been entirely on Wu Yue, and he hadn't paid any attention to anything else.
“You’d better confirm this,” Yuan Qi sighed. “The blood curse is vicious because it affects a wide range of people. If more people were to be cursed, the situation would probably be even more difficult to manage. Right now, only Wu Yue Tian Nu is still alive…”
"Sect Master!" Before he could finish speaking, Ling Qi suddenly strode in, his face filled with anxiety. He didn't even bother to greet the others in the room, immediately cupping his fists and saying, "Reporting to the Sect Master, elders from several sects, including An Yun, Tian Zhe, Da Yan, and Yun Yan, have brought their celestial maidens seeking medical help. They've already arrived at the mountain gate. Furthermore, I just received requests for help from over a dozen sects, including Luo Shu, Tuo Yue, and Xing Kong. They say their celestial maidens have suddenly fallen into a coma and are asking if our sect can request a divine healer!"
Yuan Qi: "..."
Feng Rong: "..."
Long Xi: "..."
So fast? Could there really be so many people under the curse? And all of them are celestial maidens!
"How could this be?" Feng Rong couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.
"How many sects are there in total?" Yuan Qi asked as well.
“When I arrived here, I received requests for help from fifteen sects, and there may be more later!” Ling Qi said in a deep voice. “This matter is strange, and I don’t know whether to welcome them into our sects.”
Yuan Qi frowned, suddenly having a premonition that those celestial maidens were probably in the same situation as Wu Yue. He turned to You You beside him and asked, "You You, what do you think?"
You You didn't answer; in fact, she seemed somewhat dazed from the moment Ling Qi entered. After a while, she raised her head, looked at Ling Qi, then at Feng Rong, before fixing her gaze on Yuan Qi and slowly saying, "Father Yuan, I suddenly realized that my sea of consciousness seems... to have that curse mark as well!"
Yuan Qi: "..."
Feng Rong: "..."
Ling Qi: "..."
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Of the fifteen sects that came to the True Evolution Sect this time, apart from a few highly skilled celestial maidens who were still conscious, most of the celestial maidens from the immortal sects had fallen into a coma. Not to mention those immortal sects that had not yet sent their celestial maidens over. You You did a quick mental calculation and found that nearly half of the immortal sects' celestial maidens were in trouble.
Yuan Qi carefully examined the celestial maidens and found that without exception, they were all under the spell of love binding. "When did you discover that the celestial maidens were in this condition?"
The followers exchanged glances before speaking, "Our sect leader suddenly fell into a coma three days ago at noon."
“My sect leader has been unconscious for five days.”
“My sect leader has been in this situation for even longer. It was ten days ago that he couldn’t find a cure until he heard about the Five Elements Sect and then he dared to come and ask for help.”
"Our sect started seven days ago..."
Everyone answered one by one. Strangely, the time when the celestial maidens from each sect were cursed seemed to be different, not like they were cursed at the same time, but rather like they were infected one after another. However, it was not like the curse mark on You You's body, where the curse was transmitted to her only after she came into contact with Wu Yue's sea of consciousness.
Upon further inquiry, the followers all stated that there had been no recent contact between the celestial maidens of the various sects, and the curse seemed to have appeared out of nowhere.
Yuan Qi frowned even more deeply, glancing at the celestial maidens and followers in the hall before finally speaking in a deep voice, "I cannot directly undo the Love-Binding Curse either; I can only temporarily seal its effects to prevent..."
"Sect Master!" Before he could finish speaking, a follower from another sect suddenly exclaimed, as if he had noticed something amiss. Before he could say anything, his expression suddenly changed, and he spat out a mouthful of blood.
"Look, on the head of his celestial maiden..." someone shouted, and everyone in the hall looked in that direction.
Suddenly, a faint red light appeared on the forehead of the unconscious celestial maiden, and something faintly peeked out, like a spell pattern, slowly forming an eye-like pattern, exactly the same as what Youyou had seen in Wuyue's sea of consciousness.
Before Youyou could think it through, several exclamations came from inside the hall.
"Sect Master, my Sect Master has it on his head too!"
"My sect is too!"
"And me... Pfft!"
Everyone cried out, and they saw that the foreheads of the fifteen celestial maidens in the hall all had the same eye-like curse marks, emitting an eerie red light. Moreover, as these red lights appeared, within moments, almost 90% of the followers in the hall began to cough up blood in agony, and some even lost their balance and knelt down. Their spiritual energy was dissipating, and the entire hall was filled with a scene of utter misery.
"The curse has been activated!" Yuan Qi exclaimed in surprise, quickly turning to look at Feng Rong. "Seal their meridians!"
After speaking, he immediately formed hand seals and began to activate the spell. Feng Rong did not hesitate and stepped forward one by one to seal the meridians of everyone, stopping the dissipation of spiritual energy in their bodies and temporarily isolating them from the effects of the curse.
The two moved quickly, but there were too many of them, and it took them a quarter of an hour to stabilize the situation of all the followers before everyone's expressions calmed down considerably.
"Thank you..." The follower closest to You You subconsciously wanted to clasp his hands in apology, but as soon as he looked up, he was suddenly shocked, "Sect Leader You, you...you've been cursed too!"
As soon as she finished speaking, everyone in the hall turned to look at her, staring in shock at the spot on her forehead.
Youyou was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously touched her forehead. Had the curse she had just been infected with also been activated?
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