Chapter 770: Multicolored Peacock

Ye Liuyun and his companions followed the guidance of the artifact and finally arrived inside a massive Cave.

The Cave was spacious, even their footsteps echoed.

Inside the Cave was almost empty, with only a stone platform on which lay a skeletal frame.

The skeletal frame wore a monk's robe, a string of prayer beads hung around its neck, and it had no hair. It looked like a monk.

The skeletal frame's posture was as if it were meditating.

Strangely, one of its hands was extended, and a single finger pointed toward the underside of the stone platform.

Ye Liuyun examined the skeleton, the stone platform, and the direction of its finger with his Golden Pupil, but found nothing unusual.

At that moment, the artifact orb could no longer hold back, broke free from Yu Er's hand, and flew toward the skeletal frame.

It flew in exactly the direction the skeleton's finger indicated.

The moment the orb touched the skeleton's finger, it immediately emitted light onto the skeletal frame.

What happened next shocked Ye Liuyun and the others.

Bathed in the orb's radiance, the skeletal frame began to gradually restore its Physical Body.

First flesh grew, then skin, slowly transforming into the shape of a monk.

"Alive?" Ye Liuyun asked Qiong Qi.

Qiong Qi shook his head: "No. It should be this artifact that summoned a projection of some great being."

Hearing their words, the monk looked over, smiled at them, and nodded.

Then he opened his hand and sucked the orb into his palm, holding it gently.

"The link between that artifact and me has been severed!" Yu Er transmitted a message to Ye Liuyun with her Divine Sense.

"It seems this orb is indeed the monk's treasure!"

Ye Liuyun saw the monk's lingering expression and already guessed a few things.

Now that Yu Er confirmed again, he was even more certain.

He hadn't expected the orb to bring them here; it wanted to return to its original owner's hand.

"I am no longer in this world; you should accompany your new master well!"

The monk suddenly spoke, addressing the orb.

The orb seemed to understand, and rose from the monk's palm, hovering in the air.

It circled the monk several times.

The monk smiled: "Very well, I give you a fate!"

Then he kindly looked at Ye Liuyun and the others and said: "Since you have come, it is destiny; I will also grant you a fate."

"Thank you, Master!" Qiong Qi immediately replied, bowing in gratitude.

"Master, we have two more people in storage; can we let them share the fortune as well?"

Upon hearing the monk would grant them fate, Ye Liuyun immediately thought of Wu Qingcheng and Su Miaoyin, not wanting them to miss out.

"Ha ha!" the monk laughed, then nodded: "Alright, giving one is the same as giving two!"

Ye Liuyun felt joy in his heart and released Wu Qingcheng and Su Miaoyin, allowing them to receive this fate together.

Though he didn't know what it was, since it came from a senior cultivator, it would surely benefit them.

Seeing they were ready, the monk said nothing more and instantly his whole body blazed with light, as if the light itself were burning.

Immediately, all the light surged toward the artifact orb.

Meanwhile, the monk himself instantly reverted to his skeletal state.

Ye Liuyun looked puzzled at Qiong Qi, wanting to ask what was happening.

Qiong Qi didn't wait for him to ask; knowing he didn't understand, he explained: "The energy was exhausted! To fulfill us, its projection sacrificed itself!"

Only then did Ye Liuyun realize that the monk's offered fate meant sacrificing his own projection to share its energy with them.

"That's not right! The monk gave all his energy to the artifact!"

Ye Liuyun looked again at the orb and couldn't help but worry.

The orb had absorbed all the energy of the monk's projection.

He didn't know whether it was because it absorbed too much or for some other reason.

At this moment the artifact emitted a "ka-ka" cracking sound, and cracks appeared on the orb's surface.

"Oh no! Is the artifact being destroyed?" Yu Er was so upset she was about to cry.

Ye Liuyun gave the artifact to her; he himself was willing to part with it. She, out of curiosity, followed the artifact here.

If the artifact truly broke, she would naturally feel great guilt!

"Don't panic! Just wait and see how the artifact changes!" Though Qiong Qi also didn't understand, he believed the monk wouldn't play such a trick on them.

Hearing this, Ye Liuyun and Yu Er relaxed a little, but still stared anxiously at the orb.

As the cracks multiplied, fragments began to fall from the orb's surface.

Then more fragments fell, and Ye Liuyun and Yu Er finally saw that the thing revealed at the orb's center was a multicolored peacock.

The peacock's fire spirit was vivid; although stone, it seemed alive.

"Screech!"

The peacock let out a long cry, rose into the air, and its whole body shimmered with multicolored light.

Only then did Ye Liuyun and his companions understand what the monk meant by the fate he gave them.

That fate was this multicolored radiance!

Bathed in the radiance, Ye Liuyun felt his whole body become smooth, as if he had undergone a thorough cleansing of sinews and marrow.

Impurities in his body were expelled by the multicolored light. Soul, blood veins, True Essence, two flames, Blood Thunder and various other forces were purified and compressed.

He could compress various forces himself, but could never achieve this effect.

Moreover, the whole process wasn't as painful as washing the tendons and purifying the marrow; it was so comfortable one could fall asleep!

Ye Liuyun and the others all bathed in this five-colored rosy light, enjoying it attentively.

That five-colored peacock also flew and danced in the air, circling above their heads.

Finally, the five-colored peacock turned into a five-colored glazed glass statue, which fell into Yu Er's hand; the rosy light also vanished at once.

Everyone took a long time to recover, only then did they sober up from the just‑finished intoxicated process.

"What is this five-colored rosy light?" Ye Liuyun asked Qiong Qi.

He checked his condition and found that his strength had increased by at least twenty or thirty percent; now he could really go head‑to‑head with a Yin Yang Jiu Zhong expert.

The others were the same, marveling at the effect of this five-colored rosy light.

After this bath in the rosy light, their realms were inevitably raised, and it was also greatly beneficial for increasing their future cultivation speed.

"Legend says the peacock is a Buddhist holy object, so it must be related to the Buddha Light Power; anyway, it serves a purifying function, so it's a good thing!"

Qiong Qi had never seen a peacock before, only heard of it; but no matter what, everyone really did benefit.