Chapter 16
This magical artifact, while interfering with the magnetic field of Little Mirror Lake, is also absorbing its spiritual energy. Over time, it will eventually drain Little Mirror Lake dry.
Centuries ago, the patriarch of the Tianyan Sword Sect chose this place to establish his sect, precisely to take advantage of the natural cultivation advantages of Little Mirror Lake. The Sword Pavilion's ability to expand and grow into the strongest sect in the entire Immortal Capital was largely due to the superior conditions of Little Mirror Lake's abundant natural resources.
It can be said that Little Mirror Lake is the foundation of the entire sect.
Without a foundation, how can a sect survive?
Xie Wen gasped upon hearing this; was it really that serious?
Doesn't that mean their number one sect is doomed?
How could Chu Xianyue remain so calm?
Seemingly knowing what Xie Wen was thinking, Chu Xianyue said, "Don't worry, our Sword Pavilion won't be finished so soon. Since things have come to this, let's go back to sleep."
Xie Wen was truly impressed by Chu Xianyue. How could he remain so calm when his family was about to be raided? He had such a big heart.
Xie Wen couldn't help but recall Chu Xianyue's strange appearance after he emerged from the illusion. What could have caused the usually calm and composed Chu Xianyue to lose his composure like that?
Just as he was thinking ill-intentioned things, he was tapped on the head. Chu Xianyue said, "Let's go."
Xie Wen asked Chu Xianyue somewhat dejectedly, "Did we just work for nothing tonight?"
Chu Xianyue: "No, that doesn't count."
Xie Wen's eyes lit up. "What clues do you have?"
Chu Xianyue raised his hand, and a golden spell appeared out of thin air in his palm.
Chu Xianyue had taught Xie Wen some of it before, and Xie Wen remembered some of it; it was a tracking spell. As long as the spell was imprinted on the target, that person could be found no matter where they ran in the world.
Xie Wen was delighted; she had truly underestimated Chu Xianyue. "When did you cast this spell on that dark figure? It was so fast I didn't even see it."
A faint hint of pleasure appeared in Chu Xianyue's eyes, which Xie Wen saw as smugness. But smugness was smugness, and Xie Wen allowed him to be smug for a moment. Chu Xianyue said, "I cast the curse when I found him."
Xie Wen nodded, yawned, and realized she was exhausted from being dragged here by Chu Xianyue in the middle of the night. Now that things had come to this, she decided to go back to sleep.
Even if something terrible had happened, Xie Wen was going to sleep by now.
Seeing Xie Wen's exhaustion, Chu Xianyue took her hand and used a teleportation talisman to instantly transport her to Feiying Pavilion. To Xie Wen, it was as if they were back in the blink of an eye, and the entire process was smooth and uneventful, truly like teleportation. But why did it feel like she was riding a rocket when she used the talisman? Indeed, Chu Xianyue did possess some skill.
Xie Wen was lost in thought when he suddenly saw Chu Xianyue still standing on the bridge, standing quietly with an unreadable expression.
Xie Wen waved his hand at him, afraid that he would be unable to sleep because of the Little Mirror Lake incident, and pushed him back to his attic with both hands, "Go back to sleep, we can talk about tomorrow's matters tomorrow."
Unconsciously, Chu Xianyue was mechanically pushed back to the pavilion by Xie Wen. Xie Wen stood outside the door, smiled at Chu Xianyue, and then the door slammed shut, sending a few splinters of wood falling on Chu Xianyue's head. Xie Wen's voice came through the door, sounding a little muffled, "Good night, Master. I'm going back to sleep too."
Xie Wen turned and strode back to his Jiang Pavilion, completely unaware of the gaze that lingered on him through the crack in the door.
It wasn't until Xie Wen's figure had completely disappeared from the Jiang Pavilion that Chu Xianyue seemed to slowly wake up and come back to his senses.
He meditated for a while, but his mind remained complicated, and his Daoist heart was subtly disturbed.
Chu Xianyue still couldn't understand why that place, the most "unspeakable" place in the depths of his heart, was her.
Will it be like that?
Chu Xianyue clearly loathed it to the extreme, and felt ashamed and indignant every time he thought about it.
It must be a problem with the illusion!
Chu Xianyue forced himself to stop thinking about the dimly lit forest, the cold pool, and the woman beside him with her fair body, turning back to smile at him—it was Xie Wen's body, Xie Wen's face. She pulled him into the water, where a hazy, murky world lay beneath. Xie Wen, like a snake, coiled around him, like a vine clinging to him.
That was Xie Wen, that was Xie Wen.
Chu Xianyue woke up with a start, squinting. He fiercely told himself that it wasn't Xie Wen at all!
What is unspeakable, what is most hidden in the depths of one's heart, are all things that the flower fairy used to seduce him.
Fortunately, Chu Xianyue recalled that in the end, he still grabbed the flower demon by the neck, just like last time, and ordered it to get off her! Just as Chu Xianyue was about to crush the flower demon's core with one palm, the illusion broke.
In that instant, he noticed something unusual at a certain point above Little Mirror Lake. That point was where the formation was located.
Chu Xianyue took a deep breath, then, filled with shame and indignation, he realized something was wrong with him. Just like in the illusion. He calmed himself down and sat down to meditate. His ruthless Daoist heart had always been firm; it must be the illusion that was causing this!
It's definitely a conspiracy, a trap set for him. The person behind this is truly despicable, trying to shatter his ruthless Dao heart and severely damage his spiritual power with such a clumsy trick? Ridiculous. Chu Xianyue scoffed coldly, spitting out a mouthful of blood.
Chu Xianyue closed his eyes, forcefully regulating his breathing. Outside the window, the sun and moon had completed a cycle, but he remained motionless, meditating. Calm down, calm down!
Xie Wen woke up late in the morning and couldn't find Chu Xianyue anywhere. He asked Yun Yan, but she said she hadn't seen Chu Xianyue that day either. Xie Wen then realized something was wrong. Could it be that he had actually suffered internal injuries in the illusion last night and was keeping it a secret from Xie Wen and the others so as not to worry them, silently enduring the pain alone?
That's very likely! This won't do. How can they, as disciples, stand idly by while their master is injured!
Yun Yan didn't go to Xiaojing Lake with them last night and didn't know what had happened, but seeing Xie Wen's unusually tense expression, he had a bad feeling.
When the two rushed to Feiying Pavilion and suddenly burst open the door of Chu Xianyue Pavilion, Chu Xianyue, who was meditating, opened his eyes, his narrow eyes cold and icy.
As Yun Yan charged forward headfirst, a chill ran through him. Meeting Chu Xianyue's murderous eyes, Yun Yan's first thought was that he had been set up by Xie Wen.
The next moment, Yun Yan was blasted out of the door, crashed into a pillar, and slowly slid down under Xie Wen's curious gaze.
Xie Wen, who had already left, asked, "Hey, Junior Brother, what's wrong?"
Xie Wen swore that he absolutely did not deliberately harass Yun Yan. He did not know what happened last night, nor did he know Xie Wen's worries and concerns. Xie Wen was genuinely concerned about Chu Xianyue.
Xie Wen: Hey, junior brother, let's talk this out, don't use knives!
Before Yun Yan's broadsword could strike, Chu Xianyue was suddenly blasted away by a surge of spiritual energy rushing from inside the pavilion. He dressed and walked over, his body radiating coldness. As he passed Xie Wen, he gave her a cold glance, causing Xie Wen to shiver.
Xie Wen: He's so capricious! He seemed to be smiling at her last night. Today he looks at her like he wants to kill her, even though Xie Wen is indeed in the wrong. He's so cold-hearted!
Chu Xianyue didn't dwell on his earlier trespassing and went straight to the point, saying, "Come with me to Little Mirror Lake again."
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Standing beneath the formation that covered half the sky over Little Mirror Lake, Lian Yunyan was so shocked that he couldn't come to his senses for a long time. "This, this is the Ten Directions Cauldron?"
The evil energy array was so large that it enveloped the entire Little Mirror Lake, and so powerful that it could affect its entire magnetic field!
Shouldn't such an evil artifact have been banned and completely destroyed long ago? Why has it reappeared here now?
The Ten Directions Cauldron disappeared from the world long ago when it was banned, and very few cultivators know about this evil artifact.
There aren't many people in the Sword Pavilion who have the connections to obtain such evil artifacts, so they should be able to narrow down the search and identify the suspects quickly.
But seeing that Chu Xianyue seemed indifferent to the matter, Yun Yan guessed that Chu Xianyue probably already knew the answer.
But who exactly was the traitor? Chu Xianyue didn't say a word. Knowing his master had his own plans, Yun Yan wisely refrained from asking further.
However, Yun Yan probed Xie Wen, quietly asking her, "Senior sister, do you know who did this?"
Xie Wen waited for Chu Xianyue's action, then casually replied with an "Oh," "I know."
Yun Yan's hand, which was hanging by his thigh, trembled slightly. He clenched his fist and hesitated several times before finally asking Chu Xianyue, "Master, even Senior Sister knows, so why didn't you tell me?"
Chu Xianyue knew what he meant, but instead of answering directly, he said calmly, "This thing isn't as simple as you think. It might not have been done by our own people." In other words, there was a mole inside, and the matter wasn't as simple as it seemed on the surface.
In some aspects, Yun Yan is indeed inferior to Xie Wen. Chu Xianyue had his own reasons for not telling Yun Yan. Chu Xianyue had to admit that, most of the time, Xie Wen was indeed more composed and rational than Yun Yan. Although he often seemed idle and carefree, he never failed in serious matters. Even Chu Xianyue was a little confused by Xie Wen; was this what they called "great wisdom appearing as foolishness"?
Chu Xianyue glanced at Xie Wen, whose face was clear and innocent, with an indescribable look in his eyes. Perhaps he was overthinking it?
"We must find a way to break this evil artifact. Forcibly destroying it will only result in mutual destruction." After saying this, Chu Xianyue leaped up and flew above Little Mirror Lake. He stepped on the array, and the array's light circle rotated under his feet, shimmering with golden light. Chu Xianyue raised his fingertip and touched the center of the array with the spiritual light that flickered. The array trembled and stopped rotating for a moment, but it quickly resumed its original operation.
The center of this formation is the Ten Directions Cauldron. Only by destroying the Ten Directions Cauldron can we succeed.
Chu Xianyue closed his eyes, the light from his fingertips clashing with the golden light of the formation. In no time, he suddenly opened his eyes and saw that a dark hole had suddenly appeared in the Ten Directions Cauldron.
Before Xie Wen and Yun Yan could react, a powerful suction instantly pulled them into the shimmering cave entrance. Chu Xianyue was about to reach out and grab Xie Wen, but they disappeared too quickly, and he watched as Xie Wen vanished from his grasp.
Chu Xianyue also spun around and fell, disappearing into the evil artifact along with Xie Wen.
As the world was pieced together and reassembled, before the dawn broke again, the three heard that familiar female voice once more, "The three of you are here again. Didn't expect that, did you? I'm not dead! I'm alive again, hahahahaha..."
Xie Wen: "..."
Yun Yan: "It's you again!!! Flower Fairy!!!"
Chu Xianyue: "?" A third time?
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