Section 18: Yin Yang Grand Harem!
2014-06-18 Author: Gu Zhenren
Demonic energy surged!
Xiao Yan’s face lost all color, and she couldn’t breathe for a moment. The entire void felt frozen. Not only Xiao Yan, but Chu Yun’s soul was also motionless, completely suppressed.
This was the internal space of the Eternal Universe Box Monster. In this space, it was the master!
“Blasphemer, I will crush you!!!” the Eternal Universe Box Monster roared with fury. Never had any being dared to sneak into this void under its watch. This was a great humiliation to the Eternal Universe Box Monster.
Chu Yun immediately felt an invisible, immense pressure attempting to crush his soul. If his true body were here, the Eternal Universe Box Monster wouldn’t dare to act so arrogant. But now, it was only his soul, and just a part of it.
He couldn’t summon or command any demonic creatures, nor could he use his Emperor level spirit pressure. He only had pure soul power, which was clearly no match for an enraged, billion-year-old Tribulation Demon.
“Wait, he came in with me. He’s my friend. Eternal Universe Box Monster, remember your contract with my Xiao family ancestor!” Xiao Yan exclaimed in terror, trying desperately to stop it.
“Hmph, the contract I signed was only for safekeeping. Besides, this soul doesn’t belong to your Xiao family. I will crush him completely, making him truly scatter into dust. How dare he deceive me? Unforgivable, unforgivable!” The Eternal Universe Box Monster’s thunderous roar filled the void. For its species, being deceived and infiltrated into their internal void was akin to a man being cuckolded – a tremendous insult.
Xiao Yan fell into deep despair. She knew that while Chu Yun was a soul powerhouse, he was far from invincible in the Ghost Continent. In the Ghost Continent’s unique environment, souls could manifest and be nourished by ghostly energy, allowing them to move freely. However, they also had countless natural enemies.
Firstly, souls were greatly restrained by light-element demonic creatures, and dark-element demonic creatures were also adept at dealing with them. For example, the Blizzard Female Demon’s breath could freeze souls. The Nine-Tailed Black Cat could devour souls to enhance its cultivation. The Bewildered Spider Mother could even implant puppet spiders on souls, controlling them and stripping them of their freedom, making their existence worse than death.
Although the Ghost Continent was overrun with ghosts, it still followed the natural truth of balance, with no single entity dominating.
Xiao Yan’s eyes were bloodshot. She wanted to resist, but her cultivation was too low, and she was trapped by the void, unable to even summon the White Bone Ape.
“No…” The young girl’s heart was filled with unwillingness and resentment. Without realizing it, she had come to rely on Chu Yun. Despite their short time together, Chu Yun had become the only one who brought her warmth.
“Please, stop!” Seeing Chu Yun’s soul about to completely dissipate, Xiao Yan cried out in agony.
But how would the Eternal Universe Box Monster listen to her?
Just as Chu Yun’s soul was about to vanish in the next moment, the Star Ghost Spirit Ring on Xiao Yan’s hand suddenly burst with a dazzling blue light.
In the originally dark and deep void, a sapphire sun seemed to rise.
Under the blue light, the pressure exerted by the Eternal Universe Box Monster instantly vanished.
“What is this…” Xiao Yan was stunned by the sudden change, her mouth agape, tears still visibly trailing down her face.
“A mere low-level Tribulation Demon, with less than a billion years of cultivation, dares to act presumptuously before me?” Chu Yun’s voice came from the Star Ghost Spirit Ring.
Xiao Yan’s spirit trembled. The voice was incredibly vast and magnificent, yet it wasn’t overbearing. Instead, it exuded warmth and kindness. It was unlike the Eternal Universe Box Monster’s voice, which was violent like thunder, filled with danger and causing unease.
With this voice, immense spirit pressure filled the entire void. At the critical moment, it was Chu Yun’s true body, far away in Xingzhou, that transmitted its spirit pressure through the Star Ghost Spirit Ring to rescue the situation.
“This, this is impossible… You are an Emperor…” The Eternal Universe Box Monster, no longer possessing its previous arrogance, shouted in horror. It had thought it was bullying a sick cat, but suddenly, the sick cat had transformed into a fierce tiger!
Xiao Yan’s eyes widened in shock. She could hear the Eternal Universe Box Monster’s panic. The situation had reversed too quickly! In the blink of an eye, their positions were completely inverted. She felt a sense of genuine joy, mixed with confusion.
“What kind of existence is this Senior Chu Yun? So powerful, so powerful that even a Tribulation Demon fears him. He is unfathomably deep!” When a Beast Tamer ascends to the Great Emperor realm, they can control Tribulation Demons of tens of millions of years. This mere Eternal Universe Box Monster, with less than a billion years of cultivation, was facing an Emperor level powerhouse like Chu Yun. There was always a higher mountain, and its arrogance had completely vanished.
“Yes, yes, you must be that destined person! I have waited for you for thousands of years. Please accept me, you must accept me!” the Eternal Universe Box Monster suddenly shouted madly, its voice filled with excitement.
“What?” Now it was Chu Yun’s turn to be surprised. What destined person? What madness was this Eternal Universe Box Monster experiencing, talking such nonsense?
The Eternal Universe Box Monster shouted again, “Destined one, I have waited for you for a long time and imagined countless scenarios. I never expected things to turn out this way. I am not speaking nonsense; look at the fourth item. I have already kept it for the old master for thousands of years. You will understand everything after seeing it.”
Xiao Yan’s parents had only left her three inheritances. This fourth item, however, was something a distant ancestor of the Xiao family had placed inside the Eternal Universe Box Monster long ago.
Chu Yun used his soul power and, with a sense of doubt, retrieved the item into the Star Ghost Spirit Ring. As the divine light dissipated, its true form was revealed: a pure white jade slip.
Seeing the jade slip through the Star Ghost Spirit Ring, Chu Yun’s true body became even more astonished. This jade slip was extraordinary. Not only were the materials used of Innate level, but the refining technique was also incredibly ingenious, opening Chu Yun’s eyes. The jade slip itself possessed a cultivation of over a hundred million years. This was the first time Chu Yun had seen a Demon Soldier jade slip with such a high cultivation.
Jade slips, a type of Demon Soldier, could only record information. To use an ancient jade slip of a hundred million years to record information made Chu Yun anticipate the profound value of that information.
Chu Yun immersed his consciousness into the jade slip and discovered that its contents were essentially a diary.
“…intentionally committed suicide and came from Barbarian Continent to Ghost Continent, living incognito for thousands of years, yet I was still discovered by the Ancient Saint…”
“…I absolutely cannot let the Ancient Saint’s scheme succeed, but my travels through seven Continents have caused my cultivation and strength to decline continuously. I must find a way to recover my power…”
“…After much thought, I finally devised a method. Perhaps my strength cannot recover to the original Saint level, but I can use my weapon forging techniques to first elevate my body to the Saint level…”
“…It seems the Ancient Saint has discovered my trace. I can no longer stay in the Ghost Continent. Perhaps Xingzhou would be a good choice…”
After reading through the contents of the jade slip, Chu Yun was extremely shocked. The author of this jade slip was none other than Bing Sheng, one of the Nine Saints! Chu Yun’s first reaction was, “This is impossible.” According to the contents of the jade slip, the true Bing Sheng had visited the Sea Eye Abyss a very long time ago, met the Ancient Saint there, and was ambushed by him. Bing Sheng was terribly tricked, with his great military camp, Bingzhou, even being seized by the Ancient Saint, and his cultivation reduced from Saint level to Emperor level by some means of the Ancient Saint.
However, although Bing Sheng was careless and ambushed, he was still a Saint. He escaped a certain death situation and moved through eight other Continents to evade the Ancient Saint’s pursuit. The jade slip recorded many extremely perilous situations. Although Bing Sheng narrowly escaped each time, the price he paid was heavy. He was constantly suppressed by the Ancient Saint, his injuries worsened, and his cultivation declined. In desperation, he resorted to a method of self-destruction, sacrificing his body for his plan, and secretly came to the Ghost Continent as a soul.
He did not know if he was the only victim and did not trust the other Saints. After all, if his Saintly Soul fell into the hands of other Saints, its remaining value would also be exploited. Therefore, he did not seek help and spent many eras developing in the Ghost Continent. Under the name Xiao, he established the Xiao family and partially recovered his cultivation. At an opportune moment, he also formed a contract with an Eternal Universe Box Monster.
“This is impossible. If this jade slip is true, then the real Bing Sheng was framed long ago, and a fake Bing Sheng has deceived the other eight Saints and maintained his disguise until now?!” Chu Yun’s heart was filled with shock and doubt. But facing such absurd content, a faint intuition told him that everything in the jade slip was the truth!
“Who should I believe?” Ordinary people’s intuition is often unreliable and cannot be used as a basis for action. However, for Beast Tamers, intuition is a manifestation of wisdom. When wisdom reaches a profound level, one can arrive at the truth without detailed analysis or prolonged thought. This is intuition. Some gifted prodigy Beast Tamers, like Erlang Tian Jun, possessed such wisdom at the King level, earning them the title “King of Intuition.” Chu Yun, at the Emperor level, was even more extraordinary. Emperor level intuition was a hundred times more reliable than that of the King of Intuition.
But then another problem arose. If this was indeed written by Bing Sheng, with the means of a Saint, influencing an Emperor level intuition was not impossible. Was this jade slip real? If it truly was written by Bing Sheng, could it be a trap set by Bing Sheng? In an instant, Chu Yun’s true body, relying on his Emperor level spirit light, deduced thousands of possibilities. These thousands of possibilities intertwined and influenced each other, giving rise to tens of thousands of secondary possibilities. These tens of thousands of secondary possibilities could then give rise to an even larger number of tertiary possibilities. By the fourth level of possibility, the number of possibilities had already exploded geometrically, exceeding one hundred billion.
“I can’t deduce any further.” Chu Yun’s true body was covered in cold sweat; half of his internal spirit light had dimmed. The crucial point was that he had over thirty thousand devout followers. The spirit light of these followers was dragging down his own. An Emperor level being could wield spirit light at one hundred percent, but Chu Yun could now only muster forty-nine percent, needing to reserve half to stabilize the situation.
“I need more evidence.” With this thought, Chu Yun once again immersed his consciousness into the jade slip, meticulously searching for any clues. The jade slip recorded that after Bing Sheng became a fugitive in the Ghost Continent, he painstakingly invented a method that could temporarily elevate his body to the Saint level. Bing Sheng called this weapon forging method the “Yin Yang Grand Harem.” The jade slip also included the design blueprints and refining plan for the Yin Yang Grand Harem.
“Wait… what is this?!” Carefully examining the design, Chu Yun’s eyes widened, and he was suddenly startled!
(To be continued)
