Chapter 43 It was Ye Wange who killed him
The little boy was attracted by the noise and landed beside Shen Yubai in the blink of an eye.
He leaned over, stretched out two fingers, and touched Shen Yubai's pulse point.
Then, his expression became serious.
"What kind of skills have you been practicing recently?"
Chen Yubai gritted his teeth and endured the severe pain. His consciousness gradually recovered a little. "I am practicing... the Soul-Capturing Technique given to me by my master!... I have been practicing it smoothly until now, and there has never been any problem..."
"The Secret of Conquering the Soul?" The little boy slowly stood up. "That's not the Secret of Conquering the Soul."
"If my guess is correct, the true name of that technique is the Soul-Snatching Sutra."
There was an uproar all around.
"Soul-stealing Sutra? It doesn't sound like a righteous technique..."
"Indeed." The child nodded. "This is a technique that has long been banned by the righteous. It focuses on cultivating the soul and spirit, and in turn deprives one of their luck. Long-term practice will backfire, and eventually the body will collapse and turn into a puppet!"
These words caused everyone to gasp.
Shen Yubai shook his head frantically: "No, it's impossible! Master can't possibly harm me! She has already accepted me as her disciple, how could she...how could she possibly pass on this kind of technique to me?!"
The little boy said coldly, "It only proves that your master is not a good person either."
Shen Yubai's expression changed from confusion to fear, and then to disbelief. "You are lying... She is the person I respect the most and the person I trust the most... She can't possibly..."
"But the facts are here. Otherwise, why would you become like this? Look at your own face, it's so disgusting." A disciple said bluntly.
Shen Yubai felt as if he had been hit by a slap in the face. He reached out his hand tremblingly to touch his face, but only felt a handful of cold, hard, and dry skin.
"I don't believe it... I don't believe it--!!!" he yelled out of control.
The child lowered his eyes and looked at him. "In less than three days, you will become a puppet controlled by others, speechless."
Shen Yubai's face was pale, "I'm going to ask Master for clarification. She can't possibly harm me!"
He staggered towards the exit of the secret realm, "I want to get out! I want to get out!"
The child casually threw a jade talisman from his sleeve and said, "Go straight from that side and follow the guidance of the jade talisman, and you will be able to get out."
Chen Yubai caught the jade talisman. The jade talisman seemed to be able to sense the location of the exit of the secret realm. It emitted a faint green light and gently pulled in a certain direction.
Shen Yubai grabbed it tightly and ran out like crazy following the guidance of the jade talisman.
After watching him leave, the disciples gradually came to their senses. Someone whispered, "Can he really get out?"
"So this secret realm is indeed not a dangerous place. Let's practice in peace."
Not long after, a white light suddenly appeared at the exit shrouded in thick fog in the distance, and everyone saw with their own eyes that Shen Yubai's figure disappeared in the light.
The disciples felt relieved, finally certain that the little boy had not lied to them.
The rest of the people also calmed down and began to look for opportunities in the secret realm where elixirs were everywhere.
Outside the secret realm.
Shen Yubai stumbled out of the secret realm. His face was covered with withered skin and bony skin, and he no longer looked as handsome as before. His fingers looked more like shriveled branches.
He knew that Ye Wange had taken the first ladder, and fortunately the entrance to the secret realm had not been completely closed yet, so he staggered in.
After searching for half a day, he found Xia Lingfeng's team beside the stream at the foot of the mountain.
Several disciples sat around to rest, while Pei Yan, holding a long sword, was looking around vigilantly.
Shen Yubai was overjoyed and stepped forward, shouting, "Senior Brother Pei! It's... ah!"
A cold light broke through the air!
"Monster! Die!" Pei Yan pointed his sword directly at Shen Yubai's chest and knocked him back several feet with one sword.
"I... I'm not..." Shen Yubai's face was filled with panic. He quickly took out the inner disciple token from his arms and shouted breathlessly: "I am Shen Yubai! Look, this is my token!"
Pei Yan stared at the token coldly, his eyes stern: "Where did you kill Shen Yubai and snatch this token?"
The murderous intent in his eyes was even stronger, and he stabbed with a sword. Shen Yubai screamed and was forced to retreat three steps, and the grass was stained with blood!
"I'm really Shen Yubai!" He was almost desperate, "I can prove that the true art of capturing... capturing the spirit that I practiced was passed down to me by my master!"
Pei Yan paused.
“Are you really…Shen Yubai?”
Shen Yubai burst into tears: "You finally believed it..."
Pei Yan looked at his almost inhuman appearance, frowned and asked, "What happened? Why did you become like this?"
Chen Yubai revealed everything that happened in the secret realm, word for word: "There was something wrong with the technique that Master gave me. I cultivated it to the fourth level, and ended up like this..."
Pei Yan's expression was even more solemn than when he drew his sword just now.
He tore open his tattered clothes, revealing the black spiritual patterns on his chest that twisted like vines.
Pei Yan subconsciously took a half step back, looking at Shen Yubai's appearance that was neither human nor ghost, and a chill ran down his spine.
But he quickly forced himself to control his emotions, frowned and said, "...Don't talk nonsense."
"Master is the head of our Xialing Peak. How could she deliberately harm our disciples?"
"But this technique was indeed given to me by her! How do you explain this?"
Pei Yan's expression was gloomy and unclear.
It's not that he didn't see Shen Yubai's miserable condition, nor did he fail to notice the strangeness of the martial arts, but he couldn't and didn't want to easily believe that Ye Wange had done such a thing.
Pei Yan suddenly thought of something and looked at Shen Yubai intently: "You said that this technique was given to you by your master...but I have practiced this technique she gave me."
"But I'm fine now. I'm still full of energy and I'm nothing like you."
Shen Yubai was stunned for a moment: "You mean..."
"Hmm," Pei Yan narrowed his eyes, "Have you had any contact with Ye Zhao in the past few days?"
“Yes!”
Pei Yan's eyes deepened. "You look like this... maybe it's not a problem with your technique, but Ye Zhao has tampered with you."
"Why else would you be like this, but I'm fine?"
Shen Yubai was stunned.
His mind raced back to the slightly teasing look Ye Zhao had given him in the secret realm...
"... Could it be that he did something to me?"
He muttered to himself, his eyes gradually becoming confused.
Seeing him like this, Pei Yan became even more convinced of his speculation. "Perhaps the reason you became like this wasn't because you practiced the technique given by Master, but because you were exploited by Ye Zhao."
Shen Yubai's hair stood on end when he heard this. "Why would she do this to me?"
Pei Yan's expression was stern: "She has always been so vicious."
"No!" Chen Yubai seemed to have suddenly thought of something. "I became like this after I practiced that technique to the fourth level. If you continue to practice the technique Ye Wange gave you, you will definitely become like me!"
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