Chapter 207: Chapter 20: Miaoxiang Tower, Celestial Demon Curse
Moreover, they cultivated the Heartless Refining Path, which required them to first experience love and emotion before they could finally forget it.
This particular quality was extremely appealing to male cultivators.
The three of them reveled in Miaoxiang Tower for several days before finally departing.
Feeling a guilty conscience, Fang Cheng went to a Demon Beast Wilderness Island outside the market city and sat alone in meditation for half a day before returning to Xiaocang Island.
Afterward, he escorted Ye Yan back to Demon Lion Peak.
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Since the siege and killing of the Mad Daoist, the Spiritual Ore on Jiachen Island had been held firmly in Madam Ye’s grasp.
All was calm and peaceful on Xiaocang Island.
News of the Mad Daoist’s death quickly spread throughout the Abyssal Marsh, even causing a sensation among the major powers of the Yun Country.
Many of the Ye Family Elders knew the matter was fraught with intrigue and likely connected to the power struggle between their two leading Elders. However, the current peace and quiet only made everyone feel more uneasy.
「In the blink of an eye, over a month had passed.」
Gradually, the matter faded from people’s minds.
「This day.」
Madam Ye sat alone in her palace on the Star-picking Platform, circulating her Magical Power as she entered a state of meditative breathing.
A beautiful, fair-skinned Female Cultivator with a dignified and lovely bearing quietly approached the main hall, tripping the restrictive wards.
Madam Ye slowly opened her eyes. A sharp glint flashed in her phoenix-like eyes, and the corners of her lips curled into a faint smile.
She waved a hand, opening the palace doors to let the beautiful Female Cultivator enter.
"Master," the Female Cultivator said, kneeling before Madam Ye as soon as she entered the hall.
Madam Ye made a lifting gesture with her hand, and a surge of Magical Power welled up to help the Female Cultivator to her feet.
"Xie Han, it has been more than ten years since we last met, hasn’t it?" Madam Ye said, looking at the woman before her. She noted a fragile quality on Xie Han’s beautiful, dignified face—a delicateness that could stir pity in anyone’s heart.
But it was precisely this quality that had conquered Ye Huang.
Xie Han nodded lightly and said, "As of today, it has been exactly ten years."
She was originally the partner of a Loose Cultivator on Mist Island. Unexpectedly, she had a chance encounter with Ye Huang, and the Ye Family Elder took a liking to her.
Ye Huang seized her through both trickery and force. He not only took possession of her but also forced her to change her name, passing her off as his own sister.
After that, she came to Xiaocang Island as his concubine and bore him a son.
Unfortunately, Ye Huang had a harem of women who vied jealously for his favor. Their schemes to eliminate rivals were so vicious that she and her son could barely survive.
So she devised a scheme to have Ye Huang send their son to Mist Island. She then arranged for her former husband to be cultivated into the Master of Mist Island, who would raise the boy for Ye Huang while also controlling the island on his behalf.
It was a solution that killed two birds with one stone.
But Ye Huang never knew that the pampered concubine by his side had long since betrayed him and become one of Madam Ye’s chess pieces.
Ye Huang was arrogant, conceited, and looked down on everyone. He cared only for his Cultivation and power. He applied a law of the jungle to the women in his life, even encouraging them to scheme against one another.
In his words, the losers had no right to remain by his side.
If not for Madam Ye’s secret intervention back then, Xie Han would have long been poisoned to death by Ye Huang’s other wives and concubines.
At this moment, Madam Ye looked at Xie Han and asked coolly, "Xie Ming and Xie Xida could be said to have died by my hand. Do you hold any resentment?"
Xie Han lowered her head. "You saved my life, Master. I dare not harbor any resentment. All the calamities I have faced in this life were caused by Ye Huang. I blame no one else."
"Now that the ten years are up," Madam Ye sighed, "I can fulfill the promise I made to you."
Xie Han raised her eyes, a trace of excitement showing in them.
Madam Ye formed a hand seal and tapped her fingers toward Xie Han seven times in succession.
Seven streams of blood-colored light slowly emerged from Xie Han’s body and flew towards Madam Ye.
Each of the seven streams of bloody light contained a strange, arcane rune that emanated an aura completely different from Xie Han’s.
If there were other Life Talisman Realm Cultivators familiar with Ye Huang here, they would have been able to tell at a glance that the aura on these seven blood-light runes was identical to Ye Huang’s.
Ten years ago, after saving Xie Han, Madam Ye had not only taken her on as a Spirit Servant and placed a restriction in her soul, but had also secretly taught her a Secret Technique.
For ten years, whenever Xie Han attended to Ye Huang, she would imperceptibly plant a Curse Attraction within him.
The technique left no trace and was nearly impossible to detect. Its success depended entirely on a minuscule accumulation over many long years!
Now, the ten years were complete, the Curse Attraction had matured, and Xie Han had brought it to her.
Madam Ye brought her hands together, and the seven Blood Talismans converged between her palms, condensing into an endlessly spinning, intricate sphere that pulsed with bloody light.
Holding the blood-light Talisman Ball, Madam Ye stood up. "Xie Han, accompany me to the Earth Palace."
As she spoke, she waved her hand and shot a stream of light at the hall floor. A Jade Brick on the floor immediately moved, revealing a pitch-black passage.
Madam Ye immediately flew into it, with Xie Han following closely behind.
After descending for over a hundred feet, the two arrived inside a massive cavern deep within the mountain.
Madam Ye waved her hands lightly, and roaring flames immediately lit up on the cavern walls, illuminating the entire space.
A colossal, hundred-foot-tall Golem was enshrined at the far end of the cavern. Standing beneath it, Madam Ye and Xie Han looked utterly minuscule.
Beneath the Golem was a circular altar, upon which sat a straw effigy. Its face was frozen in a bizarre expression that was neither crying nor laughing.
Emblazoned on its chest in blood were two words: Ye Huang.
Madam Ye glanced at Xie Han, then walked to the edge of the jade mat before the altar, removed her shoes and socks, and slowly knelt down.
Then, she tossed the bloody Talisman Ball in her hand, and it landed on the straw effigy on the altar.
The straw effigy immediately seemed to come alive. Its eyes glowed with bloody light, and it twisted its body slightly.
Madam Ye formed hand seals and began to chant a long incantation.
The altar began to glow with an intense light.
A pillar of light rose from the altar. Bathed in this light, the straw effigy gradually became transparent. Then, countless tiny runes flew out from the effigy, converged upon the Golem, and disappeared.
For a moment, the altar looked like it was setting off small fireworks. Countless flickering runes, like a swarm of dark golden butterflies, fluttered into the Golem.
Meanwhile, the straw effigy on the altar slowly disintegrated until it vanished completely.
Madam Ye came from the Feng Family, and since childhood had mastered this Feng Family Secret Technique, the Celestial Demon Curse!
After the Golem absorbed the light from the effigy, sinister wisps of black qi began to rise from its surface.
In less time than it takes to burn half a stick of incense, the black qi condensed into a hideous, terrifying demonic face. It circled the Golem ceaselessly, letting out a piercing shriek.
With a solemn expression, Madam Ye flicked her finger. A speck of light shot from her hand, and the demonic face formed from the black qi instantly opened its mouth and devoured it.
A moment later, the demonic face let out a bizarre, grating laugh before shattering the void and vanishing from the cavern.
Madam Ye looked at the tall Golem and said softly, ’Ye Huang, you were the one who made the first move.’
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「Xiaocang Island. Inside a certain luxurious and spacious Cave Mansion.」
Ye Huang sat cross-legged in his Quiet Chamber, deep in meditative cultivation.
Suddenly, he opened his eyes, a trace of surprise on his cold and majestic face.
An eerie aura quietly materialized in the Quiet Chamber.
Then, wisps of black qi, rippling with Demonic Light, appeared before him.
Ye Huang’s brow furrowed. Layers of dark, watery light flickered and rippled around his body, overflowing with cold qi, as he activated a Divine Technique to seize the black qi.
In the next instant, the black qi ignored all restrictions, Magical Power, and the barrier of his Magical Robe, suddenly lunging forward and sinking into Ye Huang’s body.
The Protective Spiritual Light on Ye Huang’s body had no reaction whatsoever!
He was stunned for a moment. Then, as if sensing something, he suddenly cried out in pain and scrambled to his feet to run out of the Quiet Chamber.
He felt his very soul being torn asunder, his five senses completely sealed!
His mind plunged into chaos!
’This is bad... it’s a Curse Killing Technique!’
He pushed open the door of the Quiet Chamber and had just taken a few steps when a ball of black qi manifested behind him. It morphed into a hideous demonic face, which opened its mouth and swallowed him.
The next moment, the black qi dispersed.
Ye Huang stood on the spot, completely unharmed, not moving at all.
A graceful and alluring concubine in the Cave Mansion saw this and couldn’t help but step forward to ask with concern, "Master, why just now... AH!"
Before she could finish her sentence, she saw a hideous, ugly tumor suddenly burst from between Ye Huang’s eyebrows!
Following that, one tumor after another erupted from Ye Huang’s body. His magnificent robes were instantly torn apart by the dense clusters of tumors.
A look of struggle and resistance appeared in Ye Huang’s eyes, but it was quickly consumed by an expression of pure madness.
His body swelled as if being inflated with air. His skin split open, and his flesh writhed like sludge. An unbearable-to-look-at mass of sinew and membrane twisted and pressed together.
His mouth split open into a cavernous maw. He grabbed the beautiful concubine before him, raised her to his lips, and bit down hard.
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