Similarly, once a person is possessed, their soul will not survive for long and will soon dissipate into the world.
In most cases, those who successfully possess another's body will devour the soul of the possessed person during the possession process, and very few people manage to trap the soul within the possession array. However, the possession array at the bottom of the cliff has clearly been altered, trapping the possessed person's soul within it, preventing escape, but unlike a cultivator who has lost their physical body, the soul will not perish.
This is really strange. You've already possessed someone's body, so why are you keeping their soul?
While Chu Nian was investigating the secluded meditation chamber of the Peacock King, her feet never stopped moving, and the palm wind continued to pursue her. She also continued to pursue the Peacock King.
The Peacock King naturally knew more about the terrain and the formation than Chu Nian, and was much better at utilizing them. She escaped into a trap formation, but she didn't step on any of the traps along the way.
She had assumed that Wu Nian, who was tracking her, would inevitably step on numerous traps upon entering this place, and that countless traps would then help her eliminate this opponent. However, to her utter surprise, every step Chu Nian took after entering was a perfect copy of hers, without triggering a single trap.
The Peacock King felt heartbroken, but then a sudden idea struck him. He turned around and rushed towards the valley far from the Golden Summit of Mount Emei where the nuns were temporarily staying.
That guy is really despicable.
As Chu Nian chased after her, she realized that she was going in the wrong direction. She suddenly stopped chasing and rushed towards the quiet room where the Peacock King usually cultivated.
When the Peacock King realized that she hadn't followed, he carefully investigated and discovered the direction Chu Nian had gone. He was immediately horrified and his face changed. He shouted with his telepathic ability, "Wu Nian, if you dare to touch my things, I will make all the living beings of Emei pay with their lives!" Without turning back, he rushed towards the place where the nuns were staying.
Chu Nian sensed that she was indeed very concerned about that array diagram, but she couldn't let the Peacock King really harm those nuns.
Also, this is Xiao Jin's mother; she can't really kill her off. She still has to give Xiao Jin some face. This is a bit troublesome.
She sent Tuoba Hongyuan out to investigate the array diagram and cast a powerful spell to make him completely invisible. She then went back to find the Peacock King, and on the way, she found a rocky mountain and neutralized the palm strike that was still relentlessly pursuing her.
The nuns, having heard the words of the Peacock King, were terrified and turned pale. When they saw the Peacock King's majestic form appear in the clouds, their legs trembled, and unable to suppress their desire to worship, they all knelt down in unison.
As soon as the nuns knelt down, a loud boom came from the depths of Emei Mountain, and billowing dust rose into the sky.
The Peacock King turned and looked towards the horizon, her eyes dark and unfathomable, before landing on the ground with a whoosh. She naturally knew that the loud noise was because Chu Nian had used the stone mountain to break the palm strike from before.
Because the direction was further away from where Chu Nian had just been, she knew very well that Chu Nian was heading this way. Therefore, she needed to control these nuns as soon as possible so that she could truly hold Wu Nian hostage.
As soon as she landed on the ground, her vision blurred and a nun in a light blue robe appeared before her—it was Chu Nian.
"Wunian, your speed is really fast!" Peacock King said with some surprise. She didn't think her strength was inferior to her opponent's, but she was quite surprised by the speed of her master...
Chu Nian smiled faintly and said, "Thank you for your kind offer!"
Before the words were finished, another tall and imposing figure appeared, with a face like a full moon and a neck radiating sunlight; it was none other than the Great Sun Tathagata.
Seeing him and Chu Nian standing in a row, the Peacock King's expression became even more unpleasant than before. He asked, "Buddha, what exactly is your relationship with this Wu Nian?"
Buddha: "They are just ordinary Buddhist friends."
The Peacock King sneered and said, "Do you think an ordinary Buddhist friend would make you side with her and become my enemy?"
The Buddha said helplessly, "If anything happens to her, how could the Demon Lord forgive you? Peacock, I advise you to turn back before it's too late!"
Kong Yuan, unable to contain himself any longer, asked Chu Nian, "Wu Nian, what exactly is your relationship with the Demon Lord?"
Chu Nian: "Didn't Master already know about my relationship with him? I entered Demon Mountain to save him, so if I think about it that way, I should be his master!"
"Master?!" Kong Yuan muttered, but breathed a sigh of relief: it was good that it wasn't romantic love, so as not to ruin the Path of Ruthlessness.
The Peacock King chuckled and said, "I don't think that Demon Lord's feelings for Wu Nian are those of a master and disciple. Wu Nian, he's deeply in love with you, isn't he?"
Chu Nian said, "My relationship with him is merely that of master and disciple."
Although Lin Jingting believed that his mother was his father's master, and that master and disciple should become husband and wife and cultivate together, Chu Nian never had such thoughts. As for Lin Jingting's feelings for her, well, it was best not to mention them at this time and place.
However, Kong Yuan paid special attention to the words of the Peacock King and questioned Chu Nian, "Wunian, is what the Patriarch said true or false?"
Chu Nian said helplessly, "How many times do I need to tell you, Master? He and I are just master and disciple!"
"Ahem," Buddha coughed lightly, changing the subject: "Peacock, is the soul of the true Emei Patriarch trapped in your possession formation?"
These words sent shockwaves through the hearts of all the Emei nuns. They had always believed that the nun kneeling before them was the Emei Patriarch, but the Buddha's words made them realize something: this was merely the body of their Patriarch, and the true Patriarch was trapped within the formation.
Upon hearing the Buddha's question, the Peacock King laughed loudly several times, saying, "That's right, it's her. Buddha, I've possessed the body of your beloved's reincarnation and imprisoned her soul, just waiting for her to come and see for herself her current wretched state. How about it? Haha... Haha... Does she still deserve your pity in her current state? Haha..."
Sure enough, the story and the legend were completely different. Although Chu Nian had seen through the fact that the Peacock King had "ulterior motives" towards Tathagata from the beginning, she still looked at Tathagata with some horror upon hearing the Peacock King's words.
The Buddha frowned deeply, puzzled, and said, "My beloved? What makes you say that?"
Looking at the formations and ancient magical artifacts used by Emei today, it can only mean that this Emei patriarch was the nun who received the gift from him back then. What is the connection between him and his "beloved"?
The Peacock King said, "Back then, you never even gave me a second glance, but you gave that nun so many treasures, enabling her to establish a sect in Emei and become the revered founder of Emei, which led to Emei once being on par with Mount Ling."
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