114: Chapter 114: Reclaiming the Soul

Xiao Yuan's heart skipped a beat, and he reacted instantly.

He had no time to overthink; with a sinking mind, his consciousness instantly entered the Sea of Consciousness!

Inside the Sea of Consciousness, it was a state of Chaos.

Xiao Yuan's consciousness transformed into an illusory figure, suspended in front of the Divine Soul Origin.

Opposite him, a chilling aura had already transformed into a humanoid shape, rushing straight toward his Divine Soul Origin!

That was an illusory soul body, looking like a man in his thirties with handsome features and an elegant demeanor, wearing a cyan Daoist robe.

Xiao Yuan recognized it at a glance—this was the Disciple uniform of the Wanfa Sect!

His gaze condensed, instantly blocking in front of the Divine Soul Origin, and he raised his hand to deliver an attack!

Boom!

With a casual wave of the soul body, Xiao Yuan's attack turned into nothingness.

"Oh?" The soul body stopped in its tracks, looking at Xiao Yuan with interest. "A little fellow in the Qi Condensation Stage actually managed to react so quickly. This is somewhat interesting."

Xiao Yuan stared at him and said coldly, "Who are you?"

The soul body smiled slightly, standing with his hands behind his back in an elegant posture, as if he were chatting casually rather than performing Possession.

"Who is this seat?" He smiled. "Come to think of it, this seat hasn't spoken to anyone in many years."

He looked at Xiao Yuan, a trace of nostalgia flashing in his eyes. "During this seat's lifetime, I was an Inner Sect Disciple of the Wanfa Sect, and others all called me Li Qingyun."

Speaking of this, he looked at the nervous-looking Xiao Yuan, a trace of playfulness flashing in the depths of his eyes, and his voice carried a bit of banter!

"Don't be nervous, little fellow. This seat has been lonely for over a thousand years. It's not easy to finally have someone to talk to, so let's chat first."

Xiao Yuan: "..."

This plot is not right, is it? You even need to chat before Possession?

But since the other party was not in a hurry to make a move, naturally he wouldn't actively seek death.

After all, that previous strike was blocked so casually; the gap between them was simply too vast.

At this moment, he was truly afraid that the opponent would disregard everything and launch an attack.

He could sense the terrifying aura on the opponent; the strength of this soul body was likely already equivalent to the Divine Soul strength of the Golden Core realm.

Even though he possessed Divine Soul energy equivalent to around the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage under the blessing of the Great Turtle Breathing Technique, he was definitely no match for the soul body before him.

From the opponent's disdainful gaze, Xiao Yuan could sense that the opponent hadn't taken him seriously at all from the start.

At this moment, the fact that the opponent was willing to talk to him might really be because he had been lonely for too long and wanted to find someone to talk to!

Of course, Xiao Yuan couldn't just sit and wait for death! He had to find a way to break the deadlock!

Moreover, he faintly sensed that this soul body wouldn't be willing to talk to him just because he had been lonely for too long.

He might also be stalling for time, or perhaps he had other motives!

Right now, it depended on who could have the last laugh.

Thinking of this, Xiao Yuan's mind stirred slightly. While using his Divine Soul to sense the Earth Fire Spirit inside the creation cauldron, he looked at the soul body opposite him and asked tentatively:

"Over a thousand years? Your Excellency has been trapped here for so long?"

He decided to stabilize the opponent first. Once he summoned the Earth Fire Spirit, with the strength of the Earth Fire Spirit, there would definitely be a chance to kill this soul body with a single strike!

Hearing this, the soul body was slightly stunned.

It seemed not to have expected that Xiao Yuan could remain so calm.

However, very soon, a trace of mockery flashed across his eyes.

However, after that mockery flashed away, he sighed, his eyes filled with the vicissitudes of life: "As for how long precisely, this seat can no longer remember clearly. Anyway, I came in a very, very long time ago."

He began to ramble on, recounting his own story.

"This seat is Li Qingyun, an Inner Sect Disciple of the Wanfa Sect, and a Foundation Establishment Middle Stage Cultivator. Back then, I was full of vigor, considering myself to have extraordinary talent, and bound to become a Golden Core and Nascent Soul in the future."

"During the opening of a Secret Realm, this seat was fortunate enough to discover an ancient Legacy in an Immortal Cave. That was truly a good thing! Cultivation Techniques, secret arts, Pill Formulas—everything was available!"

Listening to this, Xiao Yuan's mind was also taut to the extreme. The Earth Fire Spirit received his summons and gave a response. Afterwards, it silently entered his Sea of Consciousness, hiding within his Divine Soul.

What surprised Xiao Yuan was that when the Earth Fire Spirit entered his Sea of Consciousness, he didn't even have the slightest perception of it.

If not for the fact that the Earth Fire Spirit cast an illusory image within his Divine Soul, he wouldn't even have known that the Earth Fire Spirit was inside his Divine Soul.

As expected of a Fire Spirit possessing spiritual intelligence! Even though Xiao Yuan hadn't subdued it, because of the creation cauldron, this Fire Spirit could be considered completely at his disposal!

Xiao Yuan looked at Li Qingyun not far away opposite him, suppressing the urge to launch the Fire Spirit's attack right at that moment.

At this distance, he couldn't guarantee that the Fire Spirit could instantly annihilate the opponent. He could only wait and see how things developed!

And Li Qingyun on the opposite side seemed not to have noticed all of this.

He continued, "Yet this seat never expected that the woman who made deep vows of eternal love with this seat would actually launch a sneak attack from behind in order to seize the Legacy!"

Unreconciled and angry flashes crossed his eyes: "That sword directly pierced through this seat's Dantian! This seat fled desperately to this place, but was already at the end of my rope."

Xiao Yuan listened silently, thinking that this brother was truly miserable. However, his murderous intent toward the opponent was also growing thicker and thicker.

Miserable as the opponent was, what did that have to do with him?! Could it be that he would really act like an idiot and let the opponent perform Possession on him?!"

"This seat is not resigned to this!" Li Qingyun gritted his teeth. "Such a bright future, destroyed just like that? Thus, this seat used every last shred of strength, executed a secret art learned from the Legacy, performed Possession on a Yao Beast, and managed to barely survive."

He paused for a moment and looked at Xiao Yuan: "Do you know how this seat has spent these thousand-plus years?"

When he said this, his voice was obviously a bit emotional, and his entire expression was extremely ferocious!

Xiao Yuan, however, was stunned and almost laughed out loud.

Why do these lines sound so familiar?

Li Qingyun didn't notice Xiao Yuan's expression and continued talking to himself: "This seat performed Possession on a Yao Beast, thinking that I could slowly Cultivate, Breakthrough to the third rank, or even transform into human form. And the result? This damn Secret Realm suppresses Yao Beasts far too harshly! Yao Beasts simply cannot Breakthrough to the third rank!"

"This seat has tried countless times! Performed Possession on one Yao Beast after another! Every time filled with hope, and every time ending in failure!"

The more he spoke, the more emotional he became, and his voice was even trembling:

"Do you know that feeling? Clearly being only a step away from freedom, yet being tightly locked down by an invisible shackle! Over a thousand years! A full thousand-plus years! This seat has been trapped in this damn place, wandering around like a lonely ghost!"

Xiao Yuan finally couldn't hold it back, and the corners of his mouth twitched.

Isn't this fucking Zhang Jiahui's classic line?

"Do you know how I spent these past five years?!"

Now it had been changed to "over a thousand years".

After Li Qingyun finished venting, his emotions calmed down slightly, and his gaze looking at Xiao Yuan turned playful.

"However, the heavens have treated this seat well. You have come."

Xiao Yuan's heart tightened. He had already secretly connected with the Earth Fire Spirit. As long as Li Qingyun dared to rush over to perform Possession on his Divine Soul, the Earth Fire Spirit would blast the opponent to death at the first opportunity!

Li Qingyun didn't move, however. He continued, "Do you know why this seat chose you?"

Xiao Yuan shook his head. He also had some doubts in his heart. Logically speaking, over these thousand-plus years, the Cultivators who had entered this Secret Realm were probably not a few, and even the people who had entered this Wanling Valley were not a minority either!

With the opponent's strength, performing Possession on any single person probably wasn't any difficult task either; why would he need to perform Possession on Yao Beasts time and time again?

Moreover, what surprised Xiao Yuan the most was that Possession... actually had no restrictions?! That was a bit unreasonable, right!

Of course, if there were a secret art, the number of Possession attempts probably wouldn't have many restrictions!