Meng Tianyuan, Lin Shuangluo, and the others had already received news of their return, so they were all waiting in front of the mountain gate. Ye Sisi's smile never faded when she saw them.
From afar, she shouted, "Master, Junior Uncle, Third Senior Brother, Fourth Senior Brother, Fifth Senior Brother, we're back!"
A genuine smile appeared on everyone's face. It had been a long time since the people of the Heavenly Spirit Sect had all gathered together. One thing after another had happened during this period, and it was good that they were all still alive!
As soon as the flying boat stopped, Bai Luochen jumped onto it, hugged Ye Sisi, and spun her around a few times: "Junior Sister, it's so good that you didn't kill yourself!"
Ye Sisi was initially very happy, but her face darkened upon hearing his words. Did this idiot even know how to speak properly? So she slapped his hand away and said irritably, "Who told you to hug me? Don't you know that men and women shouldn't touch each other?"
"Junior sister, you've changed. You weren't like this before. Besides, we were even in the same womb, what's wrong with sharing this!"
Everyone burst into laughter upon hearing this, and the alluring woman asked with sparkling eyes, "Junior nephew, what do you mean by 'having been in the same belly'? Did you two get reincarnated?"
The others also looked at the two of them with strange eyes. Ye Sisi then stomped hard on Bai Luochen's foot. Was being swallowed by a demon beast a glorious thing? Why did she have to say it in front of so many people? Didn't she have any dignity?
Bai Luochen clutched his foot and started hopping on one leg: "Ouch! Ouch! Junior Sister, you stomped too hard! Can't you learn from other girls? This isn't cute at all!"
Ye Sisi smiled sweetly, her lips curving upwards: "Fifth Senior Brother, what did you just say? I didn't hear you clearly!"
At this moment, not only Bai Luochen, but also Meng Tianyuan sensed the danger behind his little apprentice's smile. Sure enough, you must never provoke a woman, even if she is a young girl. She is too terrifying!
"No...no...I didn't say anything. My junior sister is the most beautiful and adorable junior sister in the world!"
Su Jiuli couldn't help but twitch her lips. Why was this junior brother still the same as before, so childish? When will he ever grow up?
Meng Tianyuan coughed lightly: "Jiuli, where's Yanyu? How is she?"
Everyone then became a little more serious, and the smiles on their faces faded considerably.
Su Jiuli then turned around and carried Ouyang Yanyu off the flying boat, while also explaining her current situation in general.
"Let's go back and talk about it!"
The eight members of the Tianling Sect then turned and stepped into the mountain gate. Su Jiuli placed the unconscious Ouyang Yanyu on the soft bed, and a trace of heartache flashed in her eyes as she looked at her pale face.
Meng Tianyuan waved his hand, and everyone obediently stepped aside, then watched nervously as he probed his spiritual power into Ouyang Yanyu's body and sea of consciousness.
Just like Ye Sisi had encountered before, Meng Tianyuan's spiritual power was also bounced back. Those strange curse marks and that eerie red lotus reappeared on Ouyang Yanyu's body and between her eyebrows, but they only flashed by.
Meng Tianyuan frowned, then turned to look at the thoughtful and alluring woman: "Junior brother, come and take a look!"
She nodded enchantingly, her face unusually serious. Soon, the curse marks and red lotuses reappeared, but this time they took a little longer to appear.
He withdrew his hand, exchanged a glance with Meng Tianyuan, and said in unison, "The Body Sacrifice Curse!"
These three words touched upon Ye Sisi's blind spot in knowledge. It seemed she should go to the library to fill in the gaps in her knowledge. Why had she never heard of any spells in all the books she had read? She had never heard of the sacrificial curse in Ouyang Yanyu, nor had she heard of the female protagonist's substitute death curse.
Su Jiuli asked in confusion, "Master, what is this sacrificial incantation?"
He had read far more books than Ye Sisi, yet he had never seen any record of the Body Sacrifice Curse in any ancient book or forbidden technique. However, judging from the expressions on Meng Tianyuan and the other man's faces, he knew that this thing was probably not easy to unravel.
Meng Tianyuan sighed: "The Body Sacrifice Curse is one of the three forbidden techniques in the cultivation world. The person cursed will have their life force drained by the curse seal within seven days, and their soul will also spontaneously burn and disintegrate into the curse seal within seven days. If I'm not mistaken, those bastards probably wanted to use Yan Yu's life force and soul to forcibly stimulate the chaotic energy within her chaotic spirit body."
Meng Tianyuan looked at everyone and continued, "Yan Yu's condition has been stabilized by Si Si's Pixiu, but it can only last for another month at most. If the sacrificial curse cannot be lifted within a month, not only will her body be drained of its life force and she die, but even her soul will be lost!"
"Then how can we break this self-sacrifice curse?" Ye Sisi and the other four asked in unison.
Meng Tianyuan's eyes darkened, and then he said, "If I'm not mistaken, the person who cast the curse should be a successor of the Curse Spirit Sect. We can just find him and kill him! Or we can find someone with a higher cultivation level than Yan Yu to learn the technique to undo the curse! But the latter is unrealistic. The only thing we know about the Body Sacrifice Curse is a few lines of records found in some ancient secret realms and caves. It's more feasible to find the person who cast the curse than to find the method to undo it!"
Ye Sisi and the others stared blankly at Meng Tianyuan. In their Cangjing, there was a sect called the Curse Spirit Sect.
Although they hadn't traveled all over the Cang Realm, they still had a general understanding of the forces on each continent, and they would definitely remember a rather strange sect like the Cursed Spirit Sect if they had heard of it.
The alluring woman explained, "The Curse Spirit Sect was the strongest sect in the cultivation world ten thousand years ago. Not only in lower planes like ours, but even in higher planes, they were a behemoth that dominated the world. They established themselves in the cultivation world with various curses. Curses like the Body Sacrifice Curse and the Substitute Death Curse originated from the Curse Spirit Sect. Because their methods were bizarre, they could curse people without them even noticing, which made them feared. However, they suddenly disappeared for some unknown reason!"
Ye Sisi stroked her chin. It sounded pretty impressive. However, since the substitution curse and the sacrificial curse had appeared, it meant that people from the Curse Spirit Sect had started to become active in the cultivation world. But why was the Curse Spirit Sect never mentioned in the original work? Could it be that it only appeared in the second half of the story?
She was pondering the plot she had read when she heard Bai Luochen say, "Don't we have a simpleton in our Heavenly Spirit Sect? Let him do the calculations and we'll know!"
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