Chapter 68 Facing Off Against Each Other
Mu Jianjian's brain was racing.
The lion and tiger's goal should be the "spirit" that the two just mentioned. The spirit increases in each cultivator's body as their cultivation, true qi, and spiritual power improve, and many even merge into the body and become a part of it.
Although the soul is not indispensable, losing it will make it easier to fall into inner demons and go astray in future cultivation.
But can the soul still be extracted...?
She watched as the stone lion picked up the cultivator in front of Rong Yuqi and threw him into the room, knowing she couldn't wait any longer.
As soon as Mu Jianjian activated her right pupil technique, she flashed to Rong Yuqi's side. Just as she was about to use it again, a large foot descended from the sky and stomped down with a loud "boom," smashing a hole in the jade floor.
She retreated while still feeling lingering fear, clutching Rong Yuqi, only to meet the eyes of a tiger and a lion.
Both of them were made of stone, but their eyes rolled slowly as their eyelids opened and closed, which looked extremely terrifying.
"She came from the bottom of the lake? Has the formation in the lake been opened?" Stone Lion scratched his head, puzzled.
It remembered that the formation of the Lake Pavilion had not been broken for ten thousand years, since the chaos in the upper realm.
"You grab her, I'll go check at the bottom of the lake." Shi Hu didn't take the suddenly appearing Mu Jianjian seriously, turned around and walked towards the wooden door. As the "thump thump thump" sound faded away, its figure completely disappeared.
The stone lion looked at Mu Jianjian, who was staring at it warily, and spread its hands. "I remember you when you entered the Zhu Pavilion. Give her to me, and I won't make things difficult for you, okay?"
Mu Jianjian remained silent. Just as she was about to use her pupil technique again, she saw the stone lion in front of her swing its fist and smash down.
Fast! Too fast!
Faster than any opponent she had ever faced!
She swiftly dodged, barely narrowly avoiding the stone fist.
“You can’t leave. Hand her over to me,” the stone lion explained. “We only extract a small amount of their souls. They will all wake up safely without noticing anything.”
Mu Jianjian did not answer. She turned her head to look at the dozen or so cultivators behind her. Including the one she had just seen thrown into the room, there were no more than twenty of them.
In other words, the cultivators targeted by the lion and tiger were actually being targeted.
What exactly is the reason?
True Qi cultivation? That brother and sister are at the Foundation Establishment stage, while Rong Yuqi's cultivation is at the Qi Condensation stage. No, that's not right.
Mu Jianjian suddenly remembered the runes engraved under the pool in the Zhu Pavilion, which were for extracting true energy and life force. Could it be that their standard of judgment was... the degree of injury?
In other words, it's about how much water from the sacred lake is used.
The brother and sister were captured because Yueyue had flattened them twice, and Rong Yuqi was probably too badly injured because she had protected Zhong Chuan all the way from the inner layer of the secret realm.
“This is forced buying and selling,” Mu Jianjian finally spoke up.
The Vermilion Pavilion is the last place in the Mysterious Heaven Realm where secret techniques are selected on the fifth floor. How could anyone imagine that it was all just a pretext to extract the life force and soul of cultivators?
"Forced sale?" Stone Lion repeated this phrase, realizing that the other party had seen through their purpose. He found it amusing. "Everything has a cause and effect. Without the sacred lake water, these people would probably be dead long ago. Now we are only extracting some of their souls. I believe many people would choose to exchange their souls for their lives, wouldn't they?"
really.
Mu Jianjian couldn't deny this, but she was still secretly using her pupil technique in her right eye.
If it's really as simple as they say, why not just trade openly and honestly?
Instead, they chose to knock the cultivators unconscious; who knows how many spiritual souls they would absorb...
The stone lion grabbed an unconscious cultivator from beneath it and threw him into the room, adding, "However... your aura is quite familiar."
She carried the foul odor from the polluted sacred lake, but slowly the foul odor dissipated, and her original aura began to emanate.
Mu Jianjian shuddered, inevitably developing PTSD from the word "breath".
The stone lion's nose twitched slightly. He looked at the female cultivator who was about to turn away, his eyes shining. "I know, you're the one who cut off the talisman from the bottom of the pool!"
Mu Jianjian gasped, looking at the fist hurtling towards her. Unable to use her eye technique again, she could only turn and dodge.
It is said that a large size makes one much more cumbersome, but every time she dodged the opponent's punch, her heart would pound with fear!
“I smelled it, the vibrant life force that appeared on you on the fifth floor. What is that? Can I have it?” The stone lion’s tone changed from somber to cheerful. “Give me that thing, and I’ll release all these people.”
That was... a gift from the divine tree. It seems she was noticed when she was tending to the plants.
The female cultivator they were talking about must have been herself. If she hadn't seen the three of them rushing towards the pavilion in the middle of the lake and jumped off, she probably would have been caught on the fifth floor long ago.
Oh no, I failed to save someone and ended up getting myself killed!
Mu Jianjian wanted to cry but had no tears.
——
A palace in the water.
In the dimly lit room, a woman was rushing forward, followed by heavy footsteps.
As the footsteps grew closer and closer, Sang Wanyue turned around to face them. When she saw Shi Hu standing in front of her, she raised an eyebrow in surprise, but still raised her knife to strike.
"bite--"
A strong vibration emanated from the point of impact, and Sang Wanyue felt the aftershocks shake her hands, but the surface of the stone tiger remained completely undamaged.
There wasn't even a crack.
Sang Wanyue instantly flipped backward and leaped away from Shi Hu to keep her distance.
"This is not a place for you." Shi Hu's stiff voice echoed in the palace. He looked at the entrance in front of the woman and sensed three more auras.
The entrance to the pavilion in the middle of the lake was opened silently?
One after another they came.
Shi Hu raised his claws in annoyance, his eyes flashing with ferocity as he looked at the woman in front of him.
Sang Wanyue gripped the curved knife tightly, struggling to parry Shi Hu's blows.
The tiger was incredibly agile, and no one knew what kind of stone it was made of; no matter how she swung her knife, her entire body remained unscathed.
If this continues, she will only be slowly worn down and killed.
"Twelve sides, cloud-stepping fan."
As the deep male voice fell, a figure in red appeared before Sang Wanyue. He held a golden fan and slowly waved it toward Shi Hu's neck.
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