267: Chapter 224_2 267: Chapter 224_2 Leading this group of people through the archway, as they entered, everyone turned to look back and saw that the outside of the archway was still amidst a forest of mountain trees.
“This…”
All of them then realized the sophistication of the Illusion Technique, which made it impossible to see the true scenery before their eyes.
Yun Duoduo smiled at the surprised expressions of the group; this was exactly the effect she had intended.
If the Yun Clan didn’t have its own unique characteristics, how could it have achieved such splendid success?
Having stood unshaken for ten thousand years, they relied on their own Illusion Technique.
Yun Duoduo led them into the streets, where, observing closely, they saw that these streets were the same as other bustling ones, with shops selling various goods.
“Yun Duoduo, you’ve made your family estate so mysterious.
Do you actually expect guests to come here to shop?
Isn’t this keeping people away?
Aren’t these streets just swatting at flies?”
Yuan Baozhu saw that there were people on the street, but it wasn’t as bustling as other parts of the Imperial City, without dense crowds.
“You think we’re so incompetent?
Our family’s streets not only have shops open to outsiders, but we also invite guests here.
There are many more powerful beings in the Cultivation World, and they have the ability to see through the Illusion Techniques we use.”
Yun Duoduo rolled her eyes at Yuan Baozhu’s words again.
“Oh, so what you’re saying is that your Illusion Techniques aren’t all-powerful, haha.”
Dugu Yan’er said with a sarcastic laugh.
Yun Duoduo brought Jiang Tang and some others into the largest residential area of the bustling streets, where the buildings were antique, made of green bricks and large tiles, and the roofs were even carved with auspicious dragons and phoenixes.
If one didn’t know that this was the Yun Family’s place, they might mistake it for a landlord’s house.
At the entrance to this mansion was a stone Lion.
Jiang Tang looked at the Lion’s eyes, which seemed to have a gleam.
Others also noticed the Lion’s gleaming eyes.
“Jiang Tang, don’t look into the Lion’s eyes; it will attack you.” It was a bit late when Yun Duoduo spoke these words.
Jiang Tang only felt a momentary daze; in just a second, he regained his senses but noticed a confusion in his mind, a sense of being attacked, a desire to capture his soul.
The Avatar in his Sea of Consciousness countered the external attack with a defensive Spell and even absorbed the Spell that was thrown at him.
Jiang Tang’s mind cleared once more, and he immediately swung his hand, casting a glow toward the stone Lion.
“Wuu wuu wuu”
Jiang Tang, though more powerful, had still been momentarily dazed by the Lion’s attack.
The others seemed to have entered a foggy forest, walking alone in this place, and even heard crying sounds, lost in the Illusion Realm.
Yun Duoduo, seeing everyone’s state, knew they must have looked into the Lion’s eyes; she was most worried about Jiang Tang.
Finding that Jiang Tang seemed unharmed, she felt a bit of admiration for his ability to resist such a strong attack.
“Yun Duoduo, they’ve all been caught by the Lion’s Illusion Technique; is there a way to rescue them from the phantom world?”
Jiang Tang noticed that besides Yun Duoduo, eight women and one man appeared to have entered different illusions, their mouths moving non-stop, their hands continuously gesturing, assuming various poses.
But they couldn’t cast Spells, and their hand movements lacked Spiritual Energy.
“Jiang Tang, I cannot undo the Lion’s Soul Capturing Spell; it’s an attack on the soul.
Over ten thousand years ago, these stone Lions had been discovered by our masters, who noticed that the Soul Capturing Spell was becoming increasingly fierce, even posing the danger of soul possession.”
“Yun Duoduo, why didn’t you say so earlier?
What should be done with them?” Jiang Tang was quite anxious; he didn’t want these beauties to become the vessels for someone else’s soul.
If the souls of Demonic Beasts were to possess them, then his beauties would become beasts.
Not to mention the men turning into women; that was even more unacceptable to him.
Jiang Tang felt that he could traverse as well, for in the Cultivation World, it was quite easy for a powerful soul to seize a lower-level character; all one needed was to find a suitable one, and everything was possible.
“The whole way here, they were always arguing with me, and I forgot all about it,” Yun Duoduo had the thought of schadenfreude, thinking that if these women were all seized by other souls, she could find an opportunity for her master to kill them, and then no one would compete with her for Jiang Tang.
“Yun Duoduo, you need to tell us quickly how to save them.
Go ask for help from your family,” Jiang Tang urged, without the time to suspect whether Yun Duoduo deliberately withheld the information.
“Jiang Tang, these two stone lions don’t attack everyone who enters; over the past ten thousand years, incidents have only occurred a few times.”
“Is it because every time your family invites people inside, you tell them not to look at the stone lions, so they won’t fall into the illusion technique?”
“No, those invited to the street would only be on the street side; very few people come specifically to visit our clan.
Those who lead them in always remind them to avoid looking into the eyes of the stone lions.
I mentioned it earlier too; it’s just that you all moved very quickly,” Yun Duoduo explained incessantly, actually just wanting Jiang Tang not to develop a dislike for her.
She had intentionally delayed mentioning it earlier because there was always someone among the women who would talk back to her when they entered.
She especially wanted these women to know her prowess and acknowledge that she, Yun Duoduo, was one of a kind.
“Going on and on and you still haven’t mentioned how to save them?
Forget it, shouldn’t rely on you to find someone to save them; it’s better to rely on oneself.”
Jiang Tang began to realize that the women, once rosy-cheeked, now had faces either pale from fear in the illusion realm or from struggling against the invader during the possession.
Logically, with only two stone lions, there should only be two souls seeking to possess new bodies, yet ten people, including himself, were being attacked at once.
Thus, these two stone lions must have a story; there were definitely more than two souls suppressed within them.
Jiang Tang thought about using his avatar to utilize the soul attraction power to combat the stone lions’ Soul Capturing Spell.
He hit upon a plan and immediately acted, his scattered gaze shooting golden beams from his spiritual sea into the eyes of the two stone lions.
Using the gold liquid cultivated from the Golden Crystal within his spiritual sea, he cast a barrage of golden spells into the eyes of the stone lions.
From the golden solids sent out by the avatar’s gaze, Jiang Tang could feel that within the eyes of the stone lions, there lived more than one soul; the golden light wrapped around each individual soul.
He then discovered that these souls were being manipulated by some intelligence, and by following the threads of control, he uncovered that the stone lions were being operated by the faint souls of two Supreme Immortals.
Jiang Tang used the golden liquid to probe for the memories of these two Supreme Immortals, yet only discovered traces of their past as Supreme Immortals, a sliver of soul memory left behind on the Mortal Realm after a great battle ten thousand years ago.
In fact, it was a single individual’s clothing over the stones of the two lions; over the past ten thousand years in this city, they had continually collected souls to sustain their fading existence, gradully growing stronger.
This Supreme Immortal had divided into two segments of soul memories, hoping to find two bodies to possess among these nine people.
From this fragment of memory, he could sense that the soul belonged to a woman.
Jiang Tang was puzzled; among this group of people, there were two men.
Could it be that this female remnant soul wanted to become a man?
It would not be easy to possess him, so he was ready to show the full extent of his strength.
Jiang Tang stood firm, his gaze fixed on the direction of the stone lions.
Yun Duoduo had previously thought Jiang Tang wouldn’t pose a threat and wasn’t worried at all.
Seeing Jiang Tang looking steadfastly at the stone lions, she became panicked.
“Jiang Tang, I told you not to look into her eyes.
Why are you looking again?” she asked anxiously.
Yun Duoduo’s urgent voice seemed not to reach Jiang Tang for a response, growing somewhat frantic, she said to the guardians at the door, “Quick, go inside and ask the Family Head to come out.”
“Yes, Miss…” one of the two guardians by the door went to find the Family Head, while the other still stood guard at the entrance.
Having grown up in the Yun Family, Yun Duoduo knew of the legend and had been a skeptic as a child.
After passing the main entrance many times without incident, especially for those from her family, she wondered if they were immune to the Soul Capturing Spell of the two stone lions because of their practice in illusion techniques.
Jiang Tang seemed not to hear Yun Duoduo’s voice; he was busy dealing with the souls inside the stone lions.
He thought about his Hell Palace and decided to use the golden rings of light to collect all the souls into the Hell Palace.