Chapter 24 Word of Power
Upon hearing this, Demon Lord Su Huo nearly stumbled and fell to the ground.
Fortunately, he was in the form of a little black snake, otherwise he would have made a fool of himself.
Instead of going to the heavens to find the elders of the White Pheasant Clan, you came to such a dangerous ancient battlefield. If you lose your life, wouldn't the elders of your White Pheasant Clan grab the headmaster of the academy by the collar and demand your return?
Seeing his shock, Ye Kemeng grabbed him and walked forward to find her other two partners, saying smugly, "I was just testing out my new ability. Look, it seems to work pretty well now."
"A new ability?" This little girl doesn't seem to know her own identity yet?
"Yes, I awakened my talent a few days ago, and I gained a lot of new abilities. The one I just used is called 'Word Power,' which is the best ability I can currently master."
As Ye Kemeng spoke, she seemed to remember something and continued, "However, the first time I used this ability, it wasn't for you, but for Feng... Fengfeng. He's my best friend. I hope he can always be safe and sound."
Su Huo gradually made contact with the person next to Ye Kemeng: "Is that pigeon next to you called Fengfeng?"
"..."
Phoenix, Cangyao, or Yao could all be his names, but Fengfeng...
Ye Kemeng said earnestly, "You're a snake, don't be so clever."
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At this moment, inside the palace of Emperor Yao, the fire of Nirvana burned ever more fiercely, reducing all the furnishings in the room to ashes.
If the walls, roof, doors, and windows hadn't all been made of paulownia wood, the flames would probably have already spread.
The phoenix phantom at the center of the flames became increasingly solid, with each feather displaying its most expansive form amidst the flames of rebirth.
His phoenix eyes were closed, his eyelashes drooped, and he was exquisitely beautiful. He seemed somewhat arrogant and charming, yet he also carried a sacred aura that made people dare not profane him.
"Merge. I never imagined you'd be willing to merge with me just to regain my power." The phoenix slowly opened its eyes, resolutely declaring, "If it were before, I might have agreed. But you're mingling with that descendant of the White Pheasant Clan, how can I trust you? Don't forget the true reason for the phoenix clan's decline. Cang Yao, I will no longer trust you. I will devour you, completely obliterate you, and utterly take over our bodies. Afterward, I will create a divine soul that poses no threat to me whatsoever."
"You...can't kill me." The phoenix was still the same phoenix, but when it spoke again, it was the 'divine soul' Cang Yao controlling the body.
"Can't be killed? I can crush you with a single finger." The phoenix body controlled by the human soul had only spoken half a sentence when it felt the purest cloud seed power belonging to the newborn phoenix within its body slowly dissipating.
He even used a barrier to try and keep Yun Miao inside his body, but to his surprise, Yun Miao easily passed through his barrier and her dissipation did not slow down.
The pure power of the cloud seedlings dissipated, and the flames of the Nirvana Fire instantly diminished.
In just a few breaths, the flames that had filled the entire palace were reduced to a few scattered points.
Of course, the one-sided absorption was also forced to stop.
The phoenix eyes of the human soul were shrouded in frost. He thought he would no longer have any expectations for his 'divine soul', but at this moment, he was still extremely disappointed.
"You're still plotting against me, Cang Yao."
“I’m sorry, I did sense Yunmiao’s power leaving earlier than you.” Cang Yao’s voice was even softer. “Yao, the Phoenix’s true form also belongs to you. I’m giving it to you… cough… as an apology.”
“I don’t need your charity,” said Ren Hunyao. “What belongs to me, I will naturally take back one by one. Now, I need to capture that unruly junior of the White Pheasant Clan and refine her to extract the Cloud Seed. After all, I did say that I would use her bones to make a necklace for you.”
"Why……"
A soft, light sigh escaped, and Cang Yao's 'divine soul' fell into a deep sleep, quickly losing its breath.
Yao thought that the 'human soul' was sighing in helplessness, and thought to himself that this was nothing, and that there would be a long time to come. He thought that Cang Yao would regret what he had done.
Unconvinced, Yao closed his eyes and concentrated again, once more drawing his soul away from his body.
This time he slowed down, but when he opened his eyes again, he still saw the phoenix in its true form.
Yao did not try a third time.
Just like the gray pigeons of the past.
After all, 'Yunmiao' was originally the eggshell of a newly hatched phoenix.
It contains the purest phoenix divine power, and only by breaking through from the inside out can it be pecked open.
Damaging the eggshell from the outside is a prohibition etched into the very bones of every phoenix.
Yao let out a deep breath.
His eyelids twitched, and his mood worsened as he realized that he had been tricked by Cang Yao after all.
Actually, keeping him inside the Phoenix's true form only prevented him from attacking Ye Kemeng.
If he were to summon any skeleton legion soldier, he could easily kill Ye Kemeng, who had not yet cultivated.
But the human soul Yao would not do that.
He had to eliminate the silver pheasant tribe himself.
To ask anyone else to do it would be an insult to him.
Yao coldly opened his eyes and transformed into a phoenix in human form.
One day.
One day, he will make Cang Yao regret his actions.
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The little black snake circled in Ye Kemeng's palm, feeling inexplicably sticky. It thought to itself that it wasn't time to shed its skin yet, so there was no reason for it to feel so uncomfortable.
I turned around.
What came into view was a striking crimson.
...If it weren't for its extensive experience, even someone as bold as the little black snake would have been scared to death by this scene.
He tried to keep his tone steady as he began, "Xiao Ye."
Ye Kemeng didn't react at all, and didn't even hear what the little black snake was saying.
The little black snake raised its voice: "Little Ye."
"What leaf?" Ye Kemeng gets nervous whenever she hears anything with the word 'leaf' in it. "I really didn't mean to eat the leaves of the Nine-Aperture Exquisite Flower."
"I'm calling you, Xiao Ye." The little black snake was almost unable to hold back its emotions, its voice sounding like each word was being squeezed out of its throat.
"..." Ye Kemeng reacted for a moment, "Why do you like giving people nicknames so much, you call me Pigeon Fengfeng one minute and Little Ye the next?"
"Your hand is bleeding." Demon Lord Su Huo always spoke directly and to the point.
Upon hearing this, Ye Kemeng looked up and saw that the wound she had inflicted by the sharp blade on the cave ceiling while searching for the little black snake was still bleeding.
She poured the little black snake into her other hand and instinctively reached out to lick it.
But when her fingertips were extremely close to her eyes, Ye Kemeng realized that the wound on her finger had already healed. Yet, fresh blood was still seeping from her skin.
The little black snake had obviously noticed this as well, and his tone became serious: "This is a wound to the soul. How come you've gotten yourself all bruised and battered in just a short while since I left your side?"
"How should this be treated?" Ye Kemeng felt a little creeped out by the unexplained bleeding from her fingertip, but she didn't care about the little black snake's question.
“There is no other way but to nurture it gently,” the black snake said. “Of all things in the world, the soul is the most precious and the most delicate. There is no medicine that can heal it, and no magic spell that can protect it. The evil energy here is too heavy. If you stay here, your soul will be constantly attacked by the evil energy, and the injury to your soul will continue to worsen.”
After listening to the first half, Ye Kemeng's thoughts couldn't help but drift away.
One cave contains a sharp blade that can sever the soul, while another cave contains a soul-binding lock that is also designed to ensnare the soul. What about the other caves?
Are they all targeting the soul?
If the caves are filled with magical artifacts that torment the soul, then... who are all these caves meant to torment?
Thinking about how dark and narrow the stone cave was, Ye Kemeng had a very bold guess in her mind.
"Don't defile my bedchamber with your lowly silver pheasant blood."
mine……
his……
The human soul Yao forbids others from bleeding, but these stone caves contain so many punishments... that even the slightest touch will cause blood to flow.
So who does he punish with these punishments?
Himself?
Ye Kemeng was shocked; she felt she had grasped the truth of the matter.
Those 'torture instruments' that would make one wish they were dead if one of them were used by 'human soul' Yao to harm himself.
She had been wondering who would build their bedchamber near the dungeon, perhaps because they thought the feng shui was too good?
She had only accidentally touched that sharp blade twice, and her fingertips had been bleeding ever since.
Yao's soul was incomplete to begin with, and without the protection of a body, his self-inflicted torment was tantamount to courting death.
If that's really the case, he's gone completely insane.
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"Hey, are you scared?"
"Hello?"
"Xiao Ye?"
Her name isn't Xiao Ye!
Ye Kemeng curled her fingers and said, "We need to find Gu Qingli and Bai Lingyu as soon as possible so that we can leave here together."
"I could easily take you up there and leave those two burdens behind," the little black snake said confidently. "It's just a break at the eighty-first step. If you hadn't thrown those two people up there and had instead descended quickly, I could have pulled you up the steps right then and there."
“They weren’t sacrifices, they were comrades.” Ye Kemeng blurted out without thinking.
When she woke up in the dungeon, Gu Qingli and Bai Lingyu were by her side.
Even though kittens are solitary animals, that doesn't stop them from making friends.
But she only lost two companions.
There's also a phoenix... but it probably won't go out with her.
Ye Kemeng immediately crouched down and became alert.
The little black snake swallowed the last word and, together with Ye Kemeng, became wary of the approaching people.
The footsteps of the newcomers were heavy. Although two of them seemed to have a foundation in cultivation, their strength was ultimately too weak, completely lacking the powerful yet unassuming aura of a true master.
Ye Kemeng felt that the person in front looked slightly familiar, but it was too dark around her, so she couldn't see him very clearly.
The man seemed to have noticed that someone was watching them, and immediately spoke up: "Everyone, don't move, calm down, there seems to be someone ahead."
"Junior Brother Bai..." A completely unfamiliar, delicate female sobbing voice rang out, "Junior Brother Bai, how come there's someone here?"
Bai Lingyu focused his spiritual power on his eyes, and Ye Kemeng felt two things flash brightly in the distance. Only then did she realize that they were human eyes.
Immediately, Bai Lingyu's excited voice was heard: "Senior Sister Ye, we finally found you! Senior Sister Ye and the Demon Serpent are just ahead. Junior Sister Gu, your divination skills are amazing! We chose the fork in the road based on your divination of good and bad fortune, and we met Senior Sister Ye after only walking for a short while!"
Upon hearing this, Gu Qingli excitedly ran over, holding a copper coin symbolizing 'good fortune' in her hand: "Senior sister, senior sister! It really is you! We were so scared when we turned around and couldn't see you and the demon snake!"
She took a quick breath and then reported the good news: "Senior sister, we found your lost companion, and we also found another girl who came in last year but couldn't find her way out."
Upon hearing her companion's voice, Ye Kemeng immediately looked behind Bai Lingyu.
Under the tiny, weak flame, a tall man stood there. From her angle, she could see his narrow phoenix eyes and high nose, as well as the aloofness in his eyes that kept people at arm's length.
Just then, an untimely voice rang out from between Ye Kemeng's fingers: "Is he Fengfeng?"
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Author's note: 'Human Soul' Yao: Say it again.
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My next Xianxia (fantasy/martial arts) novel, feel free to add it to your favorites if you like it~ This is the third book in my series, I'll be writing it this year~
After the Villainous Demon Lord Heard My Heart's Voice
Ye Qingqing had just finished writing a tragic ending for her novel a second ago, and the next second she transmigrated into it, becoming a second-generation immortal.
Her parents were of very high seniority, and even though she was a weakling, countless old people still called her "ancestor" every day.
Ye Qingqing thought: Wouldn't this mean I could just lie down and be a couch potato?
Soon, Ye Qingqing, a lazy bum, discovered that he and Duan Heng, the villain before he became a demon, were actually in the same sect!
Of course, Duan Heng also had to call her Little Ancestor.
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On the day that Duan Heng, the most talented young man among the juniors of the immortal sect, had his immortal bones removed and was reduced to a demon, the Demon-Slaying Platform was surrounded by onlookers.
"Duan Heng is really crazy. I heard that... his master, the Ten Silence Immortal, has no remains."
"This kind of traitor who betrays his master and ancestors deserves to be tortured with his bones removed ten thousand times over!"
"But I heard that it was Master Shiji who slaughtered the entire Duan family..."
Amidst the clamor of discussion, the girl in plain clothes, who was engaged to Duan Heng, slowly stepped forward and placed half of a jade pendant next to the young man, who was covered in blood and had only a sliver of clear consciousness.
Her voice was gentle yet firm: "Duan Heng, today you have fallen into the Demon-Slaying Platform. I, Chu Lingyue, will consider you dead and keep vigil for you for a year. If you ever return, I will wait for you to come and ask for my hand in marriage again."
"This jade pendant will be Duan Heng's only means of maintaining a clear mind on the Demon-Slaying Platform."
"Tsk tsk, Chu Lingyue is so kind-hearted and nice! She truly deserves to be the female lead! I want to be close to her!"
"Alas, Duan Heng is truly pitiful. He has entered the Demon-Slaying Platform and will have to endure all kinds of tortures. Fortunately, the Demon-Slaying Platform is his destiny. When he comes out in three years, he will be invincible in the world."
Duan Heng was stunned. Before he could even touch the jade pendant, he was swallowed up by the Demon-Slaying Platform.
No one knew that in the dark and sunless Demon-Slaying Platform, the girl's clear voice could always be heard.
"Duan Heng will be able to come out in a thousand days."
"Go Duan Heng, five hundred days!"
"Three hundred days. When you come out, you'll be amazing."
That voice was the only light in Duan Heng's life, which was as dark as ink.
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