Chapter 285: Divine Tool Boundless Jade
This is of course not Shen Liqian.
Ming Zhaoshuang looked at the long flute in the young girl’s hand again, and understood a little.
The long flute was emerald green all over, and the vibrant green was as fresh and pure as dew drops on lotus leaves in the summer sun. It appeared exceptionally clear and warm on the gloomy Youdu Mountain, and was engraved with two azure luans, exquisitely crafted, spreading their wings, and trailing long, magnificent tail feathers.
This long flute is named Boundless Jade.
It has always belonged to the Saintess of the Lapis Lazuli Azure Sea, and is a divine tool made from phoenix feathers. The young girl in front of her is clearly Shen Liqian’s twin sister, Shen Yuyin!
Shen Yuyin clearly did not expect anyone to be on the barren Youdu Mountain, but she paid no attention to Ming Zhaoshuang and continued to play the long flute in her hand.
Cold sweat beaded on her forehead; she clearly had more important matters.
And the two men beside her, without a word, struck out with a sword towards her, clearly annoyed that she was blocking their path.
Ming Zhaoshuang frowned and flicked out a defense talisman, blocking the attack.
Obviously, the cultivation of these two men was also beyond the Nascent Soul stage, but they were suppressed by the formation of this entire Youdu Mountain, and could only exert their strength at the late Nascent Soul stage.
Ming Zhaoshuang’s Soul Power Cultivation had already approached the Bright Soul Realm, and it was relatively easy for her talismans to block their sword qi.
“Wait! Shen Yuyin! Stop playing for now!!”
Ming Zhaoshuang could no longer bother with these two and quickly said to Shen Yuyin, “My Fourth Senior Sister is getting agitated by your playing, quickly stop!”
Seeing that Ming Zhaoshuang accurately spoke their Second Young Lady’s name, the two men became anxious and hastily struck out with another sword towards Ming Zhaoshuang.
Ming Zhaoshuang: “…”
Can you just listen to people properly.
She easily flicked out two more talismans, blocking the two men’s attacks, and continued to say to Shen Yuyin, “I am your sister Shen Liqian’s friend! Stop playing for now! If you keep playing, I’ll report you to your sister!”
Upon hearing the name Shen Liqian, Shen Yuyin finally raised her eyes and looked towards Ming Zhaoshuang, her delicate gaze holding a hint of scrutiny.
Seeing that she had calmed down a bit, Ming Zhaoshuang quickly said, “Really, I still have the Elder Token and the note your sister gave me!”
Saying so, she threw out the Elder Token and the note that Shen Liqian had left her.
The Elder Token was not conspicuous in the dim twilight, but it made Shen Yuyin stop her music instantly. She reached out and grabbed the small note, truly feeling her sister’s presence, and the handwriting was indeed her sister’s.
Shen Yuyin’s expression softened slightly, and she turned to the two men and said, “Stop.”
The two men finally ceased their swords against Ming Zhaoshuang. Ming Zhaoshuang breathed a sigh of relief and then heard Shen Yuyin say to her:
“Who are you?”
“I am Ming Zhaoshuang. When we were at the Ao Tian Sect, I met your sister.”
Ao Tian Sect, that explains it.
Shen Yuyin understood, but did not put down her long flute, and said to Ming Zhaoshuang, “I’m sorry, I am being pursued right now. I must play the flute to stimulate these ghost beasts to defend against them, so I cannot stop.”
“Why? Are there other people on Youdu Mountain?”
“Not just people, but also a conspiracy.”
Shen Yuyin lowered her eyes slightly and said to Ming Zhaoshuang, “You can ask them. I must play the flute now. If it disturbs your Senior Sister’s state of mind, I hope you can take me to see your Senior Sister. I can control the flute sound so that it no longer affects her.”
Shen Yuyin spoke with evident impatience. She lowered her head again and began to play the long flute.
Ming Zhaoshuang no longer hesitated and brought Shen Yuyin and the others to find Tan Zhu.
The “them” Shen Yuyin mentioned were clearly the two men who had followed her. One was named Xingyun and the other was named Liushui, both sword cultivators from the Lapis Lazuli Azure Sea.
Their cultivation was originally late Void Refinement, but it was now suppressed to late Nascent Soul by the formation.
Shen Yuyin was unable to speak while playing the long flute, so Ming Zhaoshuang asked the two men, and only later learned the reason for their actions.
It turned out that ever since Shen Liqian had dug out her spirit root, her cultivation path had not been greatly affected, but her Origin had been damaged. Even though Shen Yuyin had an Innate Wood Spirit Root, it would still take eight to ten years of nurturing to completely alleviate Shen Liqian’s piercing pain.
For Shen Yuyin, who was obsessed with her sister, this was clearly unbearable. Therefore, she had been searching for news of the Nine-Orifice Lotus Platform Petals all these years.
A few months ago, Shen Yuyin learned that there were Nine-Orifice Lotus Platform Petals on the peak of Youdu Mountain. Although their father did not approve, Shen Yuyin still brought several senior brothers from the Lapis Lazuli Azure Sea to Youdu Mountain, wanting to retrieve the Nine-Orifice Lotus Platform Petals to heal Shen Liqian.
However, when they climbed Youdu Mountain, they discovered that the peak of Youdu Mountain was not quite right.
Hearing this, Ming Zhaoshuang couldn’t help but ask, “What was different? Were there no Nine-Orifice Lotuses?”
“No, not only was there no lack of Nine-Orifice Lotuses on the peak of Youdu Mountain, but there was also a formation added,” Xingyun said. “This formation can block the invasion of vengeful energy and also allow us to recover our original cultivation. It can be called a pure land.”
“Isn’t that good?”
“If that were the case, it would indeed be good. But the problem is, this secret realm was not set up for us, but for the cultivators and mortals surviving within it.”
“Mortals? How can there be mortals in the Ghost Realm?”
“Yes,” Liushui swallowed, “We also don’t know why there are mortals in that formation, but there are indeed, and it seems those mortals were captured.”
Ming Zhaoshuang knitted her brows, completely baffled this time.
In a gloomy place like the Ghost Realm, it was good enough that there were living beings, so how could there be mortals who couldn’t even lift a chicken, let alone a hand? Furthermore, there was an unwritten rule among the Six Realms that cultivators could not harm mortals.
The problem was, who in their right mind would capture mortals and bring them here?
These two continued to say:
“Most importantly, the relationship between the Human Race and the Ghost Race has never been good, and those cultivators, some are human cultivators, some are ghost cultivators, it is clear that someone with ill intentions is colluding.”
“We originally didn’t want to get involved in this matter and just planned to take the Nine-Orifice Lotus and leave. Who knew that a restriction had been placed on the Nine-Orifice Lotus, and we were immediately discovered by those people.”
“Although they are mainly Pill Cultivators and Artifact Cultivators, there are also sword cultivators among them. The highest cultivation reached Mid-stage Mahayana, and we are simply no match for them. Therefore, we had to give up the Nine-Orifice Lotus and chose to leave.”
“But one of our elders at the Late Integration Stage and one senior brother at the Early Integration Stage sacrificed themselves to cover our escape, dying at the hands of those cultivators.”
Speaking of this, the two men showed grief, and their voices could not help but choke up.
“Fortunately, there was still a formation on Youdu Mountain that suppressed their cultivation, so we rode the Azure Luan and fled all the way, arriving here just now.”
“The Second Young Lady playing the flute was because even though their cultivation decreased, they still wanted to slay us.”
“We could only utilize the natural vengeful energy of Youdu Mountain to stimulate the awareness of the ghost beasts within to resist these cultivators.”
“There must be a great conspiracy here.”
Cold sweat beaded on Xingyun’s forehead, and he seemed a little shaken. “And they don’t want us to discover it, which is why they are relentlessly pursuing us.”
