Chapter 618: This is the Soul Locking Tower

"Relics of high monks from their lifetimes are enshrined inside to be worshipped, but your younger sister and children were ordinary people; logically, the temple would not agree to build a Relic Pagoda for them."

"But they did agree. What could be the reason?" Shi Chengye's expression changed.

"I don't know. I will only know after I go inside." Chen Yu said, leading Shi Chengye around to the back of Daxing Temple, where there was a wall over a person's height.

Chen Yu took a slight breath and leaped onto the top of the wall.

Shi Chengye was startled; although the wall was not too high, it was truly rare to see someone leap up as easily as Chen Yu.

He took a few steps back, took a running start, and then fiercely leaped onto the wall; the two of them jumped from the wall into the courtyard.

After climbing over the wall into the courtyard, Shi Chengye could not help but be slightly stunned, for he saw that in this backyard, there stood densely packed hundreds of Relic Pagodas.

Each pagoda was over three meters tall, with patterns like dragons and phoenixes carved on the bodies, but in the very center of these hundreds of densely packed Relic Pagodas, there were three pagodas that were completely different from the ones outside.

These three pagodas, one large and two small, were cast from marble, and ancient divine beasts were carved upon them.

Moreover, the pagoda bodies were blue in color, and at the bottom of each pagoda, there was a Taiji Mirror facing the tip of the pagoda.

Chen Yu's expression changed slightly, and he shouted: "Boss Shi, these three pagodas belong to your younger sister's two nephews; their birth dates are carved on them. This is not a Relic Pagoda; this is a Soul Locking Tower."

"Soul Locking Tower? What is a Soul Locking Tower?" Although Shi Chengye did not understand, seeing Chen Yu's expression change drastically, his own look also turned ugly.

"The so-called Soul Locking Tower is to lock the deceased's belongings from their lifetime inside the tower, cover the pagoda body with blue lacquer, carve it with Spirit-suppressing divine beasts, and supplement it with a Yin-Yang Mirror, so that the deceased's soul is forever imprisoned in this one place, never to be reincarnated."

Chen Yu pointed at these three pagodas and said: "The talismanic divine beasts on these three pagodas, as well as the Yin-Yang Mirror, are all means of locking souls. The fact that you could still dream of your younger sister three years after she passed away shows that her soul has been imprisoned here the whole time."

"Who did this? Who on earth did this?" Shi Chengye was nearly insane, and he roared: "Is it Zhou Ming? This bastard, my younger sister didn't mind that he was poor and married him, and I even gave him over ten million out of my own pocket, just because I saw he was an honest man and I wanted my younger sister to have someone to cherish her in the second half of her life and live happily."

"But this bastard harmed her, harmed her..." Shi Chengye's voice was hoarse, and he fell to his knees with a thud in front of the tallest Soul Locking Tower: "Yingying, I have failed you; I should have stopped you from being with that scoundrel."

"Boss Shi, do not be overly sorrowful. Although this Soul Locking Tower has taken shape, your younger sister and nephews are not beyond salvation," Chen Yu said. "I will find a way now."

"I will trouble you, Mr. Chen." Shi Chengye was worthy of being a generation of overlords; after the sorrow, he stood up and restored his previous image: "Mr. Chen, according to this, does my younger sister's death also have something to do with that scoundrel? Why would he want to harm my younger sister? She was his wife, and the two children were his sons."

"It is hard to say; it is better for Boss Shi to ask him personally," Chen Yu said. "Besides, your younger sister's soul is locked here. After I rescue them, you and your sister will be able to meet one more time."

"Really?" Shi Chengye's expression tightened, and he grabbed Chen Yu's hand tightly: "If we can meet, that would be best. Thank you so much, Mr. Chen."

After Shi Chengye finished speaking, his expression turned cold: "Zhou Ming dared to harm my younger sister. Three lives—this blood debt, I must make him pay it back."

"This Daxing Temple usually has no incense; so it turns out they take on this kind of business, doing such inhumane deeds. I will definitely raze Daxing Temple to the ground." Shi Chengye took out his phone and issued a series of orders.

Shi Chengye was the godfather of Ning City and had immense power. Although he had transformed over these years and no longer engaged in killing, when it involved his closest kin, his fury could be imagined.

Chen Yu took out three talismans and threw them onto the ground, and three faint lights slowly emerged.

After finishing all this, Chen Yu took a slight breath, and with the Lichen in his hand, he struck with his sword; the three Soul Locking Towers were broken instantly.

Inside the Soul Locking Towers were a few pieces of clothing; these clothes were stained with blood, likely the blood-stained clothes of the three when they died, which had been locked here.

Three rays of Spiritual Light shot into the sky; these were the souls of the mother and her two children.

The vicious part of the Soul Locking Tower is that once the pagoda body is attacked by external force, the souls locked inside will depart and vanish into thin air within three days.

But fortunately, Chen Yu had previously laid out three Soul-Summoning Talismans; as a faint light flashed, the three rays of Spiritual Light hid into the talismans.

Chen Yu reached out and grabbed the talismans: "Boss Shi, use Black Dog Blood to splash on these Soul Locking Towers and completely destroy these harmful things."

"Good, I will have someone do it immediately," Shi Chengye said with a ferocious face.

"Who dares to trespass into our Daxing Temple Buddha Tomb?" Following a violent shout, several monks rushed over.

Most of these monks were sallow and thin, with a sinister look on their faces, but the leading monk was born white and fat, and one could tell at a glance that he was a corrupt monk.

This fat monk was none other than Huiyu, who had spoken with Zhou Kai. He gestured with his hand: "Take these people down."

The several monks with sinister expressions did not say a word and, with a violent shout, stepped forward. Shi Chengye reached back and pulled a gun from his waist, and with a few bangs, the several monks fell to the ground in response. He pointed his gun at Huiyu and said: "Let's see who dares to come up."

"You have a gun? Is that something to be proud of?" A trace of sinister intent flashed in Huiyu's eyes. He put his hands together, with a string of Buddhist Beads wrapped around his wrist. He silently recited a True Incantation, then opened his hands, and with a swish, the Buddhist Beads in his hand scattered.

These Buddhist Beads hid into the bodies of those monks; the monks who had just fallen to the ground suddenly stood up, their faces sinister, and they rushed toward Chen Yu and Shi Chengye again.

Shi Chengye raised the gun in his hand and fired several shots, emptying the bullets in the gun, but to his surprise, these monks seemed to have been cursed by Huiyu, and they seemed to feel nothing when the bullets hit them.

They did not change their expressions and did not fear pain, continuing to rush toward Shi Chengye.

Chen Yu swept his right hand, and a gust of Qingfeng passed through his palm; the several monks who were impervious to swords and guns stiffened and fell to the ground with a crash.

"You..." Huiyu did not expect Chen Yu to be so powerful. He sank his body and was about to flee, but Chen Yu did not give him that chance anymore.

Chen Yu flashed, kicked Huiyu from behind, and with a thud, Huiyu fell face-first onto the ground, his mouth hitting the floor, knocking his teeth out all over the place.

"You really are a demonic monk," Chen Yu sneered, stepped forward, and stomped on Huiyu: "Did you set up the Soul Locking Towers?"

"Spare me, expert! I will say whatever you ask, just please don't use force," Huiyu was cowardly to the extreme; Chen Yu hadn't even started using force, and he had already surrendered.

"I am asking you, did you set up the Soul Locking Towers?" Chen Yu shouted: "I don't want to repeat myself a third time. Either talk, or die."

"I'll talk! It was me who set them up—no, wait, someone entrusted me to set them up," Huiyu confessed instantly.

"Who entrusted you to set up the Soul Locking Towers? What is that person's name?" Shi Chengye rushed over and asked angrily.

"It... it is Zhou Ming." Huiyu's one sentence made Shi Chengye feel as if he had fallen into an ice cellar. Originally, he still held a glimmer of hope that it was some enemy of his who had done this.

But Huiyu's words caused his hope to be completely shattered. His brother-in-law, who looked honest and sincere and was extremely loving toward his younger sister, was actually the murderer who killed her and her two children?

"You are lying! I will give you one more chance; tell me who told you to do it," Shi Chengye roared, pointing the gun in his hand at Huiyu's head.

"What I said is true; I dare not hide anything from you. I was just collecting money," Huiyu cried with tears and snot, truly terrified of death to the extreme.

"Why did he want to do this?" Chen Yu asked.

"I don't know. I only know that the man hated his wife very much. I don't know the specific reason; I just took the money and did the job," Huiyu said, trembling.

"Regardless of the reason, setting up a Soul Locking Tower to lock a person's soul is against the Heavenly Dao and even more contrary to the tenet of compassion of your Buddhist school. If I let you go just like this today, the Heavenly Dao would not agree."

Chen Yu moved his right hand, and with a crack, one of Huiyu's arms rotated 360 degrees. Immediately after, a wisp of white smoke rose from the Baihui point on the top of his head, and his Cultivation was dissipated by Chen Yu.

Huiyu fell to the ground, screaming hoarsely; the sound was just like a pig being slaughtered.

"Get out! If I hear one more scream, I will kill you directly," Chen Yu said sternly.

Huiyu immediately closed his mouth tightly, not daring to even let out a fart. He struggled to get up and slunk away.

"Mr. Chen, why didn't you kill this demonic monk?" Shi Chengye's face was full of violence; his desire to kill had already arisen, and he wished he could slaughter all the monks in this temple.