Chapter 512: Chapter 512: The Bizarre Land of Yin Sha, the Heart of Wisdom Reveals Its Power
The following morning at dawn.
Disciples, bearing huge dark circles, were training in spells at the Sect Main Plaza.
“Didn’t sleep well?”
Ye Feng looked at Qiao Jiaxi, noticing the heavy dark circles under the little fellow’s eyes, and couldn’t help but laugh.
“Last night, the Ninefold Heavenly Tribulation appeared twice in a row, which scared the disciples and kept us awake all night. We have been cultivating through the night, and that’s why we are extremely tired.”
Qiao Jiaxi said weakly.
Ye Feng was immediately puzzled.
The disciples were all cultivators, and theoretically, they shouldn’t have dark circles even after staying awake for ten days and nights.
But today, they all seemed a bit off.
“Eh!”
Suddenly, Ye Feng noticed a wisp of Yin Sha Qi floating above Qiao Jiaxi’s head.
He reached out his hand, absorbed the wisp of Yin Sha Qi with the Origin of Slaughter Energy, and Qiao Jiaxi immediately became spirited, with his dark circles gone.
“What’s going on?”
Ye Feng frowned.
There is something strange when abnormalities arise.
Why was there Yin Sha Qi emerging within the Misty Sect?
Moreover, every disciple seemed to be entangled by a wisp of Yin Sha Qi, carrying huge dark circles under their eyes.
“Could it be that Wang Xuanping made a move?”
Ye Feng slightly knitted his brows, returned to the summit of Misty Peak, and looked down below. He saw Wang Xuanping standing solemnly under a big tree, looking into a mirror.
She, too, had two dark circles under her eyes.
“It wasn’t his doing!”
Ye Feng’s gaze sharpened as he reached a conclusion.
Ever since obtaining the Heart of Wisdom, he could resolve many issues with just a glance.
After surveying his surroundings, he quickly found the source of the Yin Sha Qi.
The Spiritual Spring!
It was not only emitting spring water containing a vast amount of Spiritual Energy but was also accompanied by a large amount of Yin Sha Qi.
Even the Purifying Green Lotus couldn’t purify it fast enough.
“I understand now!”
“There is a land of Yin Sha beneath the ground.”
“Usually, this land of Yin Sha is sealed.”
“But the fluctuations from the recent battle were strong, causing cracks in the seal, and last night, the Princess and the Refining Furnace both transcended their tribulations one after another, completely breaking the seal open.”
“These wisps of Yin Sha Qi emerged along the Spiritual Spring and spread throughout the Misty Sect, entangling every single person and causing them to enter a negative state.”
Ye Feng understood clearly in his heart.
If he did not have the Heart of Wisdom and Eye of Insight, he would have needed to investigate for a good while before uncovering the truth.
But now, in just a few breaths, he had grasped the source of the Yin Sha Qi.
Whoosh!
Ye Feng instantly dove underground.
Following the Spiritual Spring, he plunged deeper, eventually reaching an underground river located a hundred miles below the surface.
The place was shrouded in darkness and filled with a bone-chilling cold.
Ye Feng hovered above the underground water, activated his Eye of Insight and Spirit Eyes, and the darkness before him seemed to vanish.
All things became clear and distinct.
Soon, he found a small island at the center of the underground river and saw a black corpse that was continuously emitting thick Yin Sha Qi.
“A corpse of a Divine Origin Realm great power!”
Ye Feng examined the individual, “He died three thousand years ago, had cultivated a malicious Auxiliary Cultivation Method, and was covered in Evil Qi.”
“However, someone placed a seal on the corpse.”
“The Evil Qi could not escape, continuously fused, and ultimately transformed into a higher level of Yin Sha Qi.”
Ye Feng discerned the identity and history of this individual.
He stood beside the corpse, stretched out his hand, and absorbed all the Yin Sha Qi with the Origin of Slaughter Energy.
Even the Yin Sha Qi floating in the passage of the Spiritual Spring and within the Misty Sect started to flow back, all being absorbed by Ye Feng.
Misty Sect.
Wang Xuanping could feel the Yin Sha Qi dissipating from her body, and her dark circles instantly vanished.
She looked around and saw that others were experiencing similar situations.
“What exactly happened?”
Wang Xuanping expressed confusion.
At first, she thought that it was the Soul-Devouring Clan’s great power beginning their scheming, but upon closer consideration, she felt that something was amiss.
Now, with the Yin Sha Qi mysteriously retracting, she was even more at a loss, finding everything elusive and hard to understand.
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A hundred miles underground.
As Ye Feng completely absorbed the Yin Sha Qi from the corpse, it suddenly cracked with a snap and turned into bone ash.
Within the ashes, Ye Feng found a small stele.
It had originally been pressed under the corpse.
As the corpse turned to ash, it naturally revealed itself and was picked up by Ye Feng.
“A stele with inscriptions from the starry sky!”
Ye Feng looked at the stele, intending to decipher something, but found no writing or special symbols on it.
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Apart from coming from the starry sky, there was nothing special about it.
Ye Feng hesitated for a moment before tossing the stele into the System Space.
After looking around and finding nothing else, he immediately dove into the ground and returned to Misty Sect.
He released his Divine Sense Power to scan the entire sect.
Realizing all the Yin Sha Qi had been devoured and the disciples no longer had dark circles under their eyes, Ye Feng felt relieved.
He sat on a recliner, contemplating life.
Two days later.
The news that Misty Sect had passed the Two-Star Rank assessment spread throughout the Mystique Kingdom.
Learning that Misty Sect’s star elevation celebration was only a few days away, the major powers immediately prepared gifts.
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“Sect Leader, I have sent out all the invitations.”
Gong Qingqiu stood in front of Ye Feng, reporting the situation.
“Good!”
Ye Feng nodded in satisfaction, “This is a Wonderful Transformation Spirit Pill. Keep it safe. At the critical moment, it can be used to break through to the Spirit Sea Realm.”
He lifted his palm, revealing an elixir in the center.
Throughout this period, Gong Qingqiu had often gone to the Spirit Gathering Tower to cultivate and was close to reaching the peak of the Element Gathering Realm.
He believed she would soon be attempting to break through to the Spirit Sea Realm.
“Thank you, Sect Leader!”
Gong Qingqiu accepted the elixir and withdrew.
That night.
Ye Feng looked up and noticed it was a full moon night, with an abundance of Moonlight Power falling down, absorbed by the Starlight Great Array.
As a result, a halo had appeared above Misty Sect, soft and holy, enticing onlookers.
Suddenly, Ye Feng’s gaze shifted.
He stretched out his hand, the palm laid flat with the undecorated stele he had obtained from underground.
Faint silver runes were emerging on its surface.
“I understand now!”
“This stele has an extremely profound restriction set inside it, which only reveals the inscriptions during a full moon night.”
Ye Feng had an epiphany.
He activated the Heart of Wisdom to comprehend the inscriptions.
The script was very ancient and from the starry sky, beyond the recognition of ordinary people, but not for Ye Feng, who was able to decipher it.
In the latter half of the night.
Ye Feng suddenly took a deep breath, his eyes fiery, as if two bright lamps.
From the stele, he had acquired a Divine Skill!
It was called “Weird Curse.”
This Divine Skill had a high threshold.
You must possess Slaughter Energy to be qualified to cultivate it.
To achieve some success, you need to condense the Slaughter Energy into higher-level Yin Sha Qi.
And to cultivate it to perfection, you must rely on the Origin of Slaughter Energy.
Although cultivating it was difficult, once “Weird Curse” was mastered, its power was also quite terrifying.
“After pondering it for most of the night, even I could only barely manage to cultivate it. Now, let’s test out the might of this Divine Skill.”
Ye Feng teleported away in an instant.
Thirty thousand li away.
This place was beyond the boundaries of the Mystique Kingdom, adjacent to the Barren Desert, a region rampant with Demonic Beasts.
Ye Feng used the Eye of Insight and located an Evil Beast that lay on a mountain peak, often causing havoc.
“Curse Slaughter!”
He formed hand seals, channelling the Slaughter Energy within his body, then pointed towards the distant Evil Beast.
Silently, the Evil Beast felt as if it were suffocating and desperately began to pound on its chest.
But the next moment, it abruptly found its consciousness rapidly fading until it collapsed completely. The behemoth’s body “boom” fell on the spot, devoid of life.
“Not bad!”
Ye Feng was quite satisfied.
This Divine Skill named “Weird Curse” specialized in killing souls.
It used negative energies like Slaughter Energy, Yin Sha Qi, and Slaughter Force to communicate with the laws of heaven and earth, forcibly wiping out the cursed individual’s soul and turning it into Slaughter Energy.
This Divine Skill was unavoidable.
The only way was to rely on one’s own powerful soul to block the curse.
If you can withstand it, you’re safe.
If you can’t, you’re dead without a doubt.
“This Divine Skill is very sinister and also very dangerous.”
Ye Feng realized this problem.
If the enemies of Misty Sect also knew this move, once they utilised this Divine Skill, the disciples would have no way to evade it.
Luckily, only those with the Origin of Slaughter Energy can exert “Weird Curse” to its fullest potential.
If only possessing Slaughter Energy or Yin Sha Qi, the power of this Divine Skill would be greatly reduced. It might not even be able to kill a cultivator of the same level, but could bully those of a lower realm.
Half a quarter-hour later.
Ye Feng returned to Misty Sect.
He put the stele away and peacefully fell asleep.
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