Chapter 110: Pretend I Don't Exist
Passing through the front hall, Wei Yuan walked toward the main hall. The main hall was ten zhang high and had only collapsed by a small half, making it quite conspicuous in the vicinity. It was a full five li from the front hall to the main hall. Wei Yuan and Xu Waner didn't feel anything, but Xu Wenwu was complaining bitterly about climbing the slope.
The main hall door was still there, but only half was intact, while the other half was lying on the ground. Walking into the great hall, Wei Yuan's eyes went black. The hall was very dark, with no candles or lights, relying only on a little light penetrating through the broken hall roof for illumination. At this time, the sunlight was blocked by the main peak, and the hall was exceptionally gloomy; anything a bit further away couldn't be seen clearly.
The air was filled with a damp and rotten smell, but Wei Yuan didn't feel any living aura, not even the insects that were everywhere in the Shaman Realm.
At the end of the great hall stood a statue, only a small half remaining, and the parts above the knees had all turned into fragments, scattered all over the ground. The statue was carved from stone, and it wasn't a whole piece of stone, but spliced together from dozens of pieces.
This statue was over four zhang high. In terms of immortal means, it wasn't difficult at all to find a complete stone several zhang in size, and ten zhang wasn't difficult either, and carving it was even easier. Lan Shen Palace's past palace masters could at least be said to be powerful Dharma Forms, so how could the main statue be so shabby? It should have been at least ten zhang.
There were eight statues on each side of the great hall, all about one zhang high. However, at this time, except for one, all the statues had been smashed, leaving only empty pedestals. That surviving statue stood in the corner, a woman, looking very charming. Even though she was now covered in moss, she still had a bit of charm. It was just that the woman's statue's features looked somewhat similar to one of the women entangled by the giant snake.
Except for the statue not being stained with blood, the great hall at this time was exactly the same as the illusion Wei Yuan entered when he met the red-clothed woman.
Wei Yuan felt a stir in his heart, slowly turned around, and saw the red-clothed woman's figure walk out from Xu Waner's body, bow to him, and say: "This lowly woman is Yun Feifei, greetings to Senior Brother. I don't know how to address Senior Brother?"
Wei Yuan said: "You don't know who I am?"
At this moment, the red-clothed woman's figure had solidified, looking no different from a real person. Beside him, Xu Wenwu's eyes went straight.
Seeing Wei Yuan's unfriendly tone, she wasn't annoyed, but explained softly: "I only knew that a Senior Brother from the Grand Void Palace would come, but I didn't know who was coming."
"Then how did you know I came from the Grand Void Palace?"
"I have some small means, but they can't be on the elegant stage, so I won't say."
Facing each other, Wei Yuan perceived the rich power of incense wishes on the red-clothed woman more clearly, and guessed in his heart that she should have known through divination by wishes.
Wei Yuan didn't beat around the bush and said directly: "Where is the opportunity?"
"Once I arrive at the Grand Void Palace and meet the Tinghai Xianjun, I will naturally offer the opportunity with both hands. This opportunity is of great importance, so it is not convenient to tell Senior Brother at this time. Senior Brother only needs to send me to the Grand Void Palace."
Wei Yuan frowned slightly and asked: "Don't you have Senior Brothers and Senior Sisters? Where are they? Also, who is hunting you, and what powerful characters are there?"
"The hunting is mainly by the Wu tribe, mainly a Great Shaman, who is good at blood curses and is very powerful. I accidentally got infected with a bit of a curse, and I have been suffering a lot these days, and as long as I leave the thousand-li range of Lan Shen Palace, I will be detected by him immediately. So I only dared to leave with Senior Brother after Senior Brother came."
A Great Shaman of the Wu tribe was equivalent to a Dharma Form True Person of the human race. No wonder Yun Feifei, who could injure a Dharma Form, was forced to hide and didn't dare to show her face.
"The Senior Brother and Junior Brother are also here, and they have always protected me. I have to trouble Senior Brother to take them along, but as long as we leave the Wu tribe's territory, just send them to Hanyang Pass. There is also a Third Senior Sister; when I fought to the death with her that day, we finally escaped. Now she should have passed Hanyang Pass. Now the entire Lan Shen Palace only has the four of us left." Speaking of this, the red-clothed woman's tears were about to fall.
But Wei Yuan was unmoved and said coldly: "You still won't reveal your true face now, are you trying to test me?"
The red-clothed woman said softly: "How could Junior Sister have such great courage?"
Regardless of whether her courage was great or not, Wei Yuan didn't intend to follow her routine. The incense divine path had many strange means, and Yun Feifei was clearly a difficult character, but Wei Yuan had many Tinghai Xianjun means at this moment, so he wasn't afraid at all. Wei Yuan sensed the formation disk with his divine sense, and there were several karma light points in this great hall, the largest of which was right under Wei Yuan's feet. Yun Feifei had already appeared, so naturally, she couldn't escape the Tinghai Xianjun's karma tracing, and all places with karma entanglement in the vicinity were nowhere to hide. Wei Yuan sneered, ignored Yun Feifei, and walked toward the ruins of the main statue. There was a light point on the statue's left foot, and although it wasn't the largest, it was quite conspicuous. He was ready to use this to test Yun Feifei first.
The karma under the main hall was the largest, but whenever Wei Yuan thought of it, he felt a bit terrified, subconsciously not wanting to get close. Coupled with the divination result of the Asking Immortal Method, Wei Yuan had to be exceptionally cautious.
Yun Feifei's face changed, and she said: "Senior, Senior Brother! What are you doing?"
"What do you think?" Wei Yuan came to the ruins of the statue and slashed the left foot open with his sword!
The statue's left foot looked like a natural stone, but there was a hollow inside. After Wei Yuan slashed it open, a small jade statue about a foot long rolled out.
Wei Yuan caught the jade statue and picked it up to look at it carefully. The jade statue was emerald green, carving a woman entangled with a giant snake. The giant snake held a token about an inch in size in its mouth. The small token was carved extremely exquisitely, with a strand of lively Dao rhyme inside, and the rank was extremely high. Only after leaving the statue's left foot did the jade statue begin to emit Dao rhyme fluctuations, whereas before, no matter how many times Wei Yuan scanned with his divine sense, he felt it was just a solid stone, and there was nothing inside.
When he first came to the main hall, Wei Yuan had scanned the entire hall with his divine sense, but he had only scanned the two incomplete statues once, and subconsciously thought these ruins had no problems, so he didn't check them again. Now that he thought about it, it should have been that he was influenced by means like incense wishes without knowing it.
Fortunately, the Tinghai Xianjun's means suppressed everything, allowing this token to appear in the world.
Yun Feifei was pleasantly surprised: "This token was hidden here!"
Her surprise didn't look like it was faked, but when Wei Yuan walked toward the statue, the change in her expression for a moment was all caught in Wei Yuan's eyes. Wei Yuan asked with a smile: "What is the use of this token?"
Yun Feifei hadn't answered yet, when her face suddenly changed greatly! Then she ignored Wei Yuan and rushed out directly from the collapsed hole of the great hall, looking terrified and angry, and also a bit flustered.
Xu Waner wanted to follow, but looked back at Wei Yuan, hesitating without moving, as if waiting for Wei Yuan's decision.
Wei Yuan sneered inwardly. This Yun Feifei was still acting! Since entering the shattered domain, one or two of the people he met were all actors, and not a single one was easy to deal with. Wei Yuan hadn't seen a single person as upright and loyal as himself. Wei Yuan called Xu Waner and followed Yun Feifei out of the hole in the great hall, following the aura she left behind, and came to a house without a roof. Wei Yuan and Xu Waner were both Dao Foundation cultivators, moving like lightning, and one step out, they had already disappeared. Only Xu Wenwu was left in the gloomy great hall.
Xu Wenwu looked left and right, and the more he looked, the more he felt that ghosts were everywhere. In the darkness, it seemed that countless pairs of eyes were looking at him, and there was a faint female soprano singing something in the air. It seemed that someone was blowing wind behind his neck, getting colder and colder, and the darkness began to squirm.
The storybook about the giant snake scholar and the seven young ladies was also read by Xu Wenwu, and he had shouted that it was enjoyable at the time, but now that he thought about it again, the feeling changed completely. Especially since the standing goddess statue's face was very similar to one of the women in the front hall relief, and at this moment, she was smiling at him. Xu Wenwu felt cold all over, feeling that this woman was coveting his body.
Xu Wenwu felt weak all over, his legs were powerless, and he almost couldn't stand. He finally realized that this world was very dangerous, and wanting to dominate would probably require extra effort. And he hadn't wanted to work hard since he was in that world, but he just hadn't had the chance.
Fortunately, it was Wei Yuan who wanted to dominate, not him, Xu Wenwu. Xu Wenwu had self-knowledge, knowing that he was only a talent for assisting the king, not an eternal emperor. He actually didn't have any great ambitions. In the future, when Wei Yuan ruled the world, he just needed to be a king with a different surname who split the land and guarded the border. The world was very big, and Xu Wenwu wasn't greedy; as long as he could have seven or eight thousand li of fertile land to live a life, it would be fine.
Once he had a fief and was above one person and below ten thousand, he would be busy. Xu Wenwu still had ideas; at that time, things like wine pools and meat forests, leopard rooms and rain pools, all had to be built. Then, in addition to working hard on government affairs day and night, spiritual food couldn't be lacking; at least he had to catch hundreds of scholars and lock them in the library to write storybooks specifically. Reward those who wrote well, and lock those who didn't in a dark room to drink clear water. Xu Wenwu believed that no matter what kind of scholar, as long as they were hungry for three days, their literary thoughts would definitely spring up.
Thinking of these, Xu Wenwu wasn't so afraid anymore.
At this time, Wei Yuan pushed open the door and walked into the ruined house, seeing a bed in the room, with a woman lying on it, eyes closed, face pale, and black and green aura lingering in her skin. At this time, her clothes were half-undone, her outer skirt was pulled down to her ankles, revealing a pair of round, snow-white legs, and a piece of snow-white skin was also revealed on her chest.
As soon as Wei Yuan saw her, he recognized this as Yun Feifei's true body through the Primordial Spirit aura.
There were two men in the room, one of whom looked to be in his thirties, with a sinister look between his eyebrows, currently holding a flying knife magic tool, with blood all over the blade. In the corner, there was also a young cultivator with delicate and handsome features.
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The young cultivator was holding his abdomen with one hand, blood continuously flowing from between his fingers, trembling: "Senior Brother! How could you deal such a poisonous hand to me!"
The red-clothed woman saw the woman with disheveled clothes, her face as cold as frost, and barked: "What are you doing?"
The Senior Brother looked at the red-clothed woman, his gaze turning gentle and bitter, saying: "Feifei, I watched you grow up, and after you became an adult, we have always been in love, and the master also intended to fulfill us, until... until Junior Brother came."
The red-clothed woman said: "Junior Brother and I are clear and white, there is nothing."
The Senior Brother suddenly exploded, shouting: "You still want to lie to me! Those years, your eyes gradually changed when you looked at him, do you think I don't know? You two always went on missions together, practiced together. Later, even the master stopped mentioning the matter between you and me! Everyone wants you and Junior Brother to be together, no one helps me! Why? At that time, we had been together for sixteen years, and he had only been here for a few months!"
The red-clothed woman sighed and said: "Senior Brother, it's not what you think..."
The Senior Brother suddenly laughed up to the sky and said: "You are still lying to me! Actually, I know why; you just took a fancy to his family background, took a fancy to his surname Xu! Even the master is trend-following, thinking only of clinging to the Xu family!"
The Junior Brother beside him had more and more blood flowing from his fingers, his aura gradually weakening, and he became more and more panicked.
Hearing this, he hurriedly said: "Senior Brother, Junior Brother only broke your good deed unintentionally. Since you like Senior Sister Yun, then Junior Brother will let her to you! I was only ordered by the elders in the family to go undercover in Lan Shen Palace, wanting to get that thing. I actually have no interest in Senior Sister, and the family would never let me marry a wild woman from the mountains with no background. I... the things I said to her were all just acting!"
The Senior Brother hesitated, suspicious: "Is that really so?"
The Junior Brother hurriedly said: "If there is any falsehood, may heaven strike me! Senior Brother, Junior Brother is seriously injured, please save me. As long as you let me go, I will beg my father to come forward after I go back, and point a clanswoman to marry you, letting you marry into the Xu family!"
The Senior Brother hesitated even more, looking at the red-clothed woman, then at the true body lying on the bed without moving, saying: "But you and your Senior Sister..."
"Senior Brother, you have already taken action, anyway, it won't end well, so just do it to the end! Take her body, anyway, it's not a loss. If she is sensible in the future and hands over the secret of that old thing, then let her be a concubine. If she is not sensible, my family has plenty of means to make her open her mouth, and then send her to a brothel or simply sell her to the west."
The red-clothed woman was furious: "Junior Brother, it is in vain that I treated you with sincerity, and the master also looked at you with favor, is this how you repay us?"
The Junior Brother was even weaker at this time, anxious to treat his injury, and said fiercely: "A wild woman from a small sect in the countryside, don't look at what background you have, and you want to enter my Xu family's door?"
The Senior Brother's face was cloudy and sunny, but hearing the red-clothed woman's last sentence, his face suddenly turned pale, saying: "Good, good, good! You really have intentions for him! Then I have nothing to say, today I will fulfill my wish of many years!"
Saying that, he walked toward the woman on the bed, reaching out to tear her clothes.
The red-clothed woman was furious and barked: "You are courting death!"
The Senior Brother sneered, grabbed the woman's collar on the bed and pulled it open slowly, saying: "The Soul-Drawing Box you secretly buried has already been dug up by me. Now your wishes are used up one by one. Still want to kill me? You can try!"
At this moment, Wei Yuan finally couldn't watch anymore, coughed, and said: "You guys, pretend I don't exist?"
The Senior Brother and Junior Brother turned their heads together, staring at Wei Yuan as if they had seen a ghost, and said in unison: "Who are you? When did you come in?"
Wei Yuan was speechless; these two really thought he didn't exist.
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