Chapter 67 Chapter 67 Yun Family
A blue figure appeared out of nowhere. Shui Furong dodged the long sword of the white-robed female cultivator by leaning sideways. A hint of surprise shone through her drunken expression. "How did you find me?"
She just saw clearly that the tip of the sword of the white-clothed female cultivator was heading straight for her eyebrows. It was not as simple as the other party guessing that someone was following her because of some feeling, but she was very directly sure of her existence, so the angle of her attack was so accurate!
She is clearly only at the peak of the Divine Transformation Realm... but he was able to see through her concealment so easily. This female cultivator in white is no ordinary person.
Yun Miao also saw Shui Furong's face clearly, and she immediately recognized that this person was the NPC who had just greeted her with a wine jug.
She knew that the opponent was a seventh-level Void Refinement Stage expert, and that she was at a significant disadvantage. So, she ignored his words and stabbed again, attempting to seize the initiative with a fierce attack.
Shui Furong also wanted to test the white-robed female cultivator's specific strength, so she also raised her palm to meet her attack. However, in the blink of an eye, the two had already exchanged several moves.
Yun Miao saw that her attacks were blocked one by one by the opponent, and that person had no intention of fighting back against her, so she gradually stopped in suspicion.
Shui Furong immediately withdrew her hand upon seeing this, distancing herself from the white-robed female cultivator to demonstrate her innocence. Hidden within her sleeve, the fingertips of her right hand bore a faint burn mark. She thought to herself, "This person is not only a top-notch swordsman, but also possesses formidable magical skills." Where did this person come from? Why had she never heard of him in the Sky Zone?
Shui Furong once again recalled the information in the airspace, such as "Inventory of the Current World's Strongest Sword Cultivators," "Inventory of the Current World's Strongest Sword Masters in the Spiritual Transformation Stage," "Inventory of the Current Strongest Sword Masters in the Void Refinement Stage," "Sword Cultivator Ranking," and so on. She then glanced at the cold-hearted female cultivator in white clothes and white hair in front of her.
Cultivators not only admire the strong but also like gossip. If a person with such striking features becomes a little famous, he will definitely be widely reported in the airspace by gossipers.
Shui Furong has been either drinking alone or wandering around in the airspace lately. The consciousness of a person in the Void Refinement Stage is as vast as the ocean, and her reading speed is as fast as lightning. In the end, she even dug out information from the airspace that was ten thousand years old. This is enough to show how bored she has been these days.
It is precisely because of this that Shui Furong can be very sure that there is absolutely no information about this person in the airspace.
Has this person been living in seclusion and never had any contact with the outside world?
Or is it because his identity is shameful, so he has been hiding in the dark and deliberately eliminating all traces of his existence?
The sudden curiosity dispelled some of the drunkenness in Shui Furong's mind, but she did not ask such a sensitive question directly. Instead, she raised her hands slightly and spoke with a smile.
"Don't be angry, don't be angry. I just came here out of curiosity. I'm Shui Furong. If you know my name, you should know that I'm not a bad person."
The entire cultivation world knew that Shui Furong was a swordsman with outstanding swordsmanship, a woman as graceful as the wind. Yun Miao had naturally also seen the legend of this swordsman in the sect's airspace, and she also knew that Shui Furong was a good friend of Jianfeng Peak Master Che Ruojin.
However, even though he knew it, Yun Miao, who was wearing a vest, still looked at Shui Furong expressionlessly, unmoved.
"Don't get in the way." "I'm a bit bored lately and want to find someone to drink with..."
Shui Furong glanced at the Yun family's old house in the distance and said, "Well, I've been unhappy with the Yun family for a long time. Whoever you want to kill, I'll help you kill him. After that, we can drink together."
This successfully piqued Yun Miao's interest. She glanced at the enthusiastic Shui Furong and raised her eyebrows slightly. "Killing just one isn't enough. I'm going to kill everyone in the Yun family. How about this: you take half and I take half. Once everyone in the Yun family is dead, I'll drink with you."
Anyway, killing monsters in this game doesn't give you any experience points, so there's no need to steal heads. It's enough as long as Shui Furong doesn't steal the spoils from the corpses.
The female cultivator in white only raised her eyebrows slightly, and her originally cold face suddenly became lively. However, what she said was not so nice. You know, even the most vicious people would not talk about killing an entire family at every turn.
Shui Furong asked in surprise, "Do you have a blood feud with the Yun family?"
Yun Miao always remembered to separate the vest and the real body, so he simply said no.
Shui Furong: "Then why did you want to wipe out the entire family?"
Because this is the plot line designed by the game planner.
Yun Miao: "Because of fate, and also because there is a sinful secret hidden here."
When Shui Furong heard the first half of the sentence, she thought the man's words were quite interesting. He didn't sound like a swordsman, but more like one of those charlatans in the Zhaixing Pavilion, who talked about fate and prophesied.
However, when she heard the second half of the sentence, she immediately stopped smiling and turned serious: "Do you know the secret of the Yun family?"
Yun Miao asked back: "What do you know?"
Shui Furong raised her hand and brushed the scabbard of her sword. "I don't know. I originally heard some rumors and wanted to come and investigate the Yun family. But before I even started, I somehow got into trouble with an old monster in the Mahayana stage and was severely injured by him. I just recovered a few days ago."
"You mean you were attacked by a Mahayana cultivator just as you were about to investigate the Yun family's secrets?"
Yun Miao frowned. She came here to defeat the elite monsters, but she didn't want to be beaten by the big boss in the Mahayana period.
Shui Furong heard her suspicion and immediately said that the Yun family did not have enough power to invite an old monster in the Mahayana stage.
Or, according to the Yun family's style, if his family really had such a powerful backer, they would definitely be more arrogant and domineering than they are now. They might even be bold enough to compete with the Xuantian Sect and try to compete for the position of overlord. They would never swallow their anger.
It's just that she has a nosy personality and has caused a lot of trouble for herself and her friends over the years. If a previous incident involved that old monster in the Mahayana stage, it wouldn't be surprising that the other party would come to seek revenge on her.
After hearing this, a normal person would definitely be more willing to believe Shui Furong's guess and give up their own guess, but players think differently from normal people.
Yun Miao asked again: "Do you really think so? Don't you think this is too coincidental?"
Again, there are indeed many coincidences in reality, but every brick and tile of this holographic game is artificially constructed, so there is absolutely no coincidence here, only the inevitability of careful design.
Shui Furong's eyes flashed, and she asked anxiously, "What do you mean? What do you know?"
Could it be that the Yun family was hiding some truly sinister secret, one that involved a Mahayana cultivator? Could it be that because of her meddling once again, she had…had harmed Shui Liu…
Shui Furong realized that her voice was a little anxious, so she bowed to Yun Miao and said that as long as Yun Miao could tell her everything she knew, she would definitely help her find whatever she wanted.
Yun Miao shook his head: "I don't know."
Afterwards, she stopped talking nonsense with Shui Furong and directly used the Five Elements Escape Technique to sneak into the Yun family's old house.
The drunkenness in Shui Furong's eyes had completely dissipated. She took out a magic mirror, and with a flash of light from the mirror, a hole appeared silently in the protective formation of the Yun family's old house. She took the opportunity to drill into it, and the hole was quickly repaired as soon as she entered the Yun family.
The Yun family guards nearby were still patrolling and chatting, completely unaware that two uninvited guests had broken in, one of whom was standing just three steps away from them.
Shui Furong stood in the shadow of the corner, ignoring the two guards who passed by her. She scanned the surroundings with her spiritual sense, but could not find the figure of the female cultivator in white.
Just when she was anxiously thinking that she had lost him, her consciousness finally saw a white shadow appear out of thin air in the garden further away.
She was delighted and appeared behind the rockery in the next moment. She turned her head to look at the female cultivator in white clothes beside her and said, "Your earth escape technique is really powerful."
The Yun family has been operating in Yunzhou for so many years, and the family protection formation accumulated from generations is not to be trifled with. If she wants to sneak in, she can only rely on magic weapons. However, this female cultivator in white can easily come in by relying on the earth escape technique, and can even hide from her special detection of spiritual consciousness. It is not an exaggeration to say that her skills are miraculous.
Shui Furong knew that this earth-escaping technique wasn't a commonplace skill in the cultivation world, but rather a precious secret technique hidden away by various sects and families. The identity of the white-robed female cultivator must be extraordinary; she must know something!
Although Yun Miao knew that the secret manuals Xin Yi collected were valuable, they were piled high, and the sheer number of them made it difficult for her to experience much novelty. Furthermore, as a novice cultivator, she was still unfamiliar with many common practices in the world of cultivation, so she had yet to fully grasp the true value of the Five Elements Escape Technique.
She just glanced at Shui Furong and automatically defined Shui Furong in her mind as a friendly NPC who would follow the player in battle during the mission. From the player's perspective, there are only two types of words said by this NPC: one is important mission clues, and the other is nonsense for the plot.
As a veteran player for many years, Yun Miao skillfully ignored the NPC's nonsense, turned around and turned into a breeze, heading towards the north side of the old house.
When Sect Leader Chang had previously stormed the Yun family, he had deliberately used his spiritual sense to lock onto the Yun family's ancestors, the Patriarch, and the elders, unleashing a powerful pressure that inflicted severe pain on them. The spiritual sense of a peak Mahayana cultivator was incredibly powerful; with a single casual sweep of his spiritual sense, Sect Leader Chang had already captured the entire layout of the Yun family compound.
Yun Miao had asked her master about this before, and now she was also familiar with the layout of the Yun family's old house. Rumor had it that the Yun family's ancestor had been stuck at the peak of the Spiritual Transformation Stage for many years, and had been in seclusion for many years. The place she was going to was exactly where the Yun family's ancestor had been in seclusion.
However, as they flew, Yun Miao realized that Shui Furong hadn't caught up. She turned around and saw Shui Furong still standing behind the rockery like Dai Tou E. She immediately sent a telepathic message.
【Why don’t you keep up? 】
Is there something wrong with the auto-follow program? Or is it stuck?
Shui Furong was staring blankly at the direction where the female cultivator in white disappeared. She thought that the other party also knew the invisibility technique like her, but when she used her spiritual sense to scan the surroundings with all her strength, she still did not see the figure of the female cultivator in white.
Her invisibility technique could not hide herself from the consciousness of a high-level cultivator, so the spell used by the female cultivator in white must be a higher-level spell than her invisibility technique.
Shui Furong didn't know that this was actually the long-lost Five Elements Escape Technique. She thought that the female cultivator in white was deliberately getting rid of her. She was thinking about whether she should investigate the Yun family on her own when she suddenly heard the cold voice of the female cultivator in white.
Shui Furong was delighted and looked around. Because her spiritual sense could not lock onto the other party, she could not send a message through her spiritual sense. She could only whisper, "Where are you? My spiritual sense cannot see you."
Can't see?
Yun Miao withdrew the Five Elements Escape Technique, revealed his figure, then gave Shui Furong a look and turned to the north.
Shui Furong immediately thanked him sincerely and quickly followed.
One of them is at the peak of the Spirit Transformation Stage, and the other is at the seventh level of the Void Refinement Stage. Even without using magic, they can easily avoid other people from the Yun family with their spiritual awareness and speed.
It was at this time that Shui Furong discovered that the pavilions and towers in the Yun family's old house were built with great care. They themselves were a maze with thousands of twists and turns. No matter how powerful your magic power was or how strong your cultivation was, if you were not familiar with this place, it would be difficult to walk out once you walked in, and you could only break the maze by force.
However, the female cultivator in white leading the way in front of her seemed to have been here a thousand times. Every time she encountered a fork in the road, she would choose the right way out without hesitation and never took her back once. She was really amazing.
Shui Furong also understands the formation, and if she is given some time, she can figure it out, but it will never be so fast.
So the female cultivator in white was either a genius at formations who could understand everything at a glance, or she had sneaked into the Yun family many times and had already figured out the Yun family's layout and secrets.
Yun Miao had no idea what Shui Furong was thinking. Knowing nothing about formations, she hadn't noticed that these pavilions and towers, decorated with carved beams and painted rafters, were a maze in themselves. She simply thought the path to the Yun family mansion was a bit circuitous, but luckily she had a small map.
The unlit areas on the map are pure black, so she only needs to make sure that her Q-version avatar on the small map is always moving north, and every time she encounters a fork in the road, she only chooses the one leading to the black area.
Although the Yun family's old house covers an area of several hundred acres and it takes a mortal half a day to walk from the inner house to the outer gate, this distance is no problem for Yun Miao.
In less than half a cup of tea, she and Shui Furong sneaked into a dense forest. It was very quiet and humid here, with a gloomy feeling as if there had been no sunlight for a long time.
The ordinary stilt house built of bamboo deep in the forest is the place where the ancestor of the Yun family retreated.
Yun Miao quietly approached the stilt house, ready to deliver a fatal blow by surprise attack. However, after the two of them actually sneaked into the stilt house, they were disappointed to find that the ancestor of the Yun family was not in the building.
"What should we do now? Should we go find someone?"
Shui Furong looked at Yun Miao. As a sword fairy, she was usually a somewhat arrogant person, but now, in order to know the truth, she was willing to be a pawn of others.
Yun Miao stood outside the door and glanced around the room. Monks usually built a quiet room with good sound insulation in their residence to better calm their minds and meditate.
This room was divided into sections by an antique shelf. On the outside were a desk, tea sets and a small couch, while on the inside were a futon, an incense burner and landscape paintings. It was much more luxurious than the quiet room in her house, which had only a futon besides the four walls.
Most importantly, many things in this quiet room have collectible light flashes.
She scanned with her spiritual sense again and found that there was an alchemy room on the second floor. The shelves in the room were filled with various gourds, jade bottles, and brocade boxes, all of which were filled with natural treasures full of spiritual energy.
Unable to resist the temptation, Yun Miao couldn't help but walk in, staring at the antique display case in front of her, but she didn't dare move, because there were formations everywhere in the cultivator's residence. If she touched it casually, it would soon alert the Yun family, which would be inconsistent with her plan.
But Yun Miao felt an itch to collect some light points, so she couldn't help but look at Shui Furong. She wanted this NPC to play a role, to help her unlock the formation, so that she could have some fun with her free shopping.
"I don't know much about formations. Do you know anything about this?"
After hearing Yun Miao's words, Shui Furong's face was pensive at first, then her eyes flickered and she nodded seriously, "I understand."
Then she walked into the quiet room, took out the magic mirror, and directed the magic light in the mirror. The cone-shaped mirror light immediately pierced towards the antique shelf. Suddenly, a faint glow appeared on the antique shelf, and there seemed to be runes flashing, and then it seemed as if a hole was pierced by the mirror light.
Then the hole grew bigger and bigger as if it was corroded by some force, and finally the small defensive formation on the antique shelf completely disappeared.
Yun Miao thought Shui Furong understood what she meant, so she helped her break the formation. She was immediately happy and prepared to go into the room to put away the things on the antique display cabinet. However, she saw Shui Furong picked up the magic mirror and shone it on the decorative ornaments on the antique display cabinet one by one.
When the mirror shone upon a small screen only the size of a human head, it suddenly glowed faintly. The screen was embroidered with a scene of a group of silkworm farmers picking mulberry leaves, raising silkworms and spinning silk. However, many red runes flashing out of thin air appeared on the picture of the silkworm farmers raising silkworms reflected in the mirror.
This time, Shui Furong didn't rely on the magic mirror to break the deadlock. Instead, she frowned and pondered for a moment, then quickly used her magic power to strike the silkworms on the silkworm breeding diagram in a certain pattern. At first, nothing unusual happened, but with her final blow, the silkworms on the screen quickly emerged as butterflies and began to dance.
After Shui Furong was sure that she had not made a mistake, she gave Yun Miao a look of admiration: "You are right, the mechanism is indeed here."
Yun Miao, still waiting for the free purchase, was completely confused: "Trap? What kind of trap? Isn't it a defensive formation to protect the treasure?"
However, seeing that Shui Furong had jumped out of the window and went deeper into the forest, Yun Miao no longer had time to wonder and hurriedly followed to see what was going on.
The two of them quickly ran to a pond in the woods. It was full of water, with some duckweed and water hyacinth floating on the surface, and some small fish and shrimps in the water. At first glance, it looked like an ordinary pond.
Yun Miao had seen this pond before when she used her spiritual sense to scan the forest. She didn't notice anything unusual at that time. However, when she used her spiritual sense to scan it again, she saw that there was a secret passage at the bottom of the pond that had been opened and led directly to deep underground!
She and Shui Furong almost jumped into the water together and entered the secret passage. Although it was underwater, the secret passage was blocked by a formation, so there was no water, but it was very dry. Not long after they entered, the entrance to the secret passage above automatically closed.
Yun Miao raised her hand and touched the surrounding walls, quickly realizing why she hadn't discovered the secret passage earlier. Sure enough, the bricks were made of the Dark Stone again. Her spiritual sense was blocked again.
Shui Furong also noticed this. Unable to see with her spiritual sense, she took out a night pearl, and the soft light immediately illuminated the surroundings.
"The Yun family's ancestor placed such a secret passage in his retreat. It's obvious that he was guarding something. You are right that the Yun family is indeed hiding a big secret."
Yun Miao did not respond to Shui Furong's words. She mistakenly thought that there were some ancient relics hidden in the underground of the Yun family. She was a little excited and thought she could make a fortune. However, when she came to the end of this passage, what she saw were simple cells and the haggard and frightened people locked in the cells.
There was no light here either, it was so dark that one could not see one's hand in front of one's face. The light of the night pearl alarmed the people in the nearest cells, and they immediately curled up in the corner of the cell as if they were under stress.
Yun Miao was stunned when she saw what she saw. These cells were even worse than the ones she had seen in TV dramas. Not only were they small and dirty, there wasn't even any straw. The floor, made of dark stones, looked cold, hard, and rough.
Bad news: If you sleep in this crappy place for one night, you will probably get a stiff neck, lumbar herniation, pelvic tilt, constipation, cerebellar and cerebral atrophy, and all kinds of problems.
The good news: a dozen people were packed tightly into a few square meters, like sardines in a can. Sleeping on top of each other was difficult, let alone lying down. The air was filled with a thick, fermented, rotten smell that was nauseating.
Suddenly, a woman pounced on the cell's gate and roared at Yun Miao and Shui Furong, "Kill me if you want to! Kill me quickly!"
Yun Miao noticed that the man had red rings on his hands and feet. At first glance, they looked like fine red jade bracelets, but she intuitively knew that they were not good things.
Shui Furong frowned. "The Soul Locking Ring. This is something used by demonic cultivators. Did the Yun family collude with demonic cultivators?"
Upon hearing this, Yun Miao immediately remembered that her master had previously told her that one of the ten most dangerous magical tools in the world of cultivation was the Soul Locking Ring.
This device utilizes demonic energy to create multiple barriers within a cultivator's veins and dantian. Because demonic energy and spiritual energy repel each other, any time a cultivator absorbs spiritual energy or uses spiritual power, it reacts with the demonic energy within their veins. It's like thousands of needles exploding within their veins and dantian, a pain unbearable for any ordinary cultivator.
If the cultivator could endure the excruciating pain and determinedly mobilized their spiritual energy to attack the magic energy card, the Soul Locking Ring would instantly inject all of its stored magic energy into the cultivator's body. This would either severely damage the cultivator's dantian and tendons, rendering them crippled, or lead to a sudden explosion and death.
So the question is, she can understand that the Yun family is colluding with the evil cultivators, but why did they capture so many cultivators?
Just as Yun Miao was thinking, Shui Furong on the other side had already walked directly to the prison door and asked.
"We are not from the Yun family. Tell me, what did the Yun family want to do by arresting you?"
The disheveled woman was originally glaring at Shui Furong fiercely, but she soon recognized the person through some details.
"Are you the Sword Fairy Shui Furong?"
Her breath quickened, and she immediately said that if Shui Furong let her out now, she would tell her everything she knew.
The others also became excited when they heard Shui Furong's name. They immediately crowded in front of the prison door and waved their hands desperately for help. They were once unrestrained and unrestrained monks, but now they were like zombies out of the cage, desperately trying to grab the only life-saving straw in front of them.
Shui Furong immediately shouted at them to be quiet, reminding them not to make too much noise. She also said that the formations of so many prison doors were connected, and if one move affected the whole body, if they could not all be lifted at the same time, it would alert the people of the Yun family.
The soul-locking rings on them cannot be taken off for the time being, and they are no different from ordinary people. If the Yun family is alarmed, the Yun family's Qi-refining period sweeping servants will use brooms to beat them up, and how can they escape?
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