808: Chapter 808: The Soul-Attracting Talisman!

Before the blade even arrived, the wave of energy pressed down first.

The ginkgo trees were blown to the sides, their leaves scattering like rain.

Ye Chen looked up at the long blade of energy slashing toward him and finally pulled his right hand out of his pocket.

His movements were very slow.

But it was that very hand that, just before the long blade of energy fell, rested upon the blade.

"Boom!!!"

The violent wave of energy swept out in all directions.

A terrifying might followed, pressing down.

The Masked Man felt a long, sustained vibration transmit from the blade to his palm, like thousands of needles simultaneously piercing into his bones and then spreading from his bones throughout his entire body.

Half of his arm went numb instantly.

What shocked him the most was...

The long blade of energy dissipated the moment it touched Ye Chen's hand, turning into blue specks of light filling the sky.

Before the Masked Man could recover from the numbness in his arm, he felt a layered force surging into his chest from Ye Chen's hand, like a tidal wave.

The first layer made his chest feel stuffy.

The second layer made him hear a soft "click" from his ribs.

The third layer sent his body flying backward uncontrollably.

The fourth layer, the fifth layer, the sixth layer...

The force came one layer after another without any pause, like waves crashing against a reef—one wave subsiding only for another to rise.

This... is the terrifying nature of the "Layered Wave Strength"!

Previously, when Ye Chen practiced "Layered Wave Strength", he could only double and accumulate the power of the next punch after landing the first one.

But as he grew stronger and continued to practice "Layered Wave Strength", the might became different...

Now, Ye Chen could throw several punches in one, with the power of each punch doubling.

This. This is a divine skill!

Sure enough...

The Masked Man's body could not withstand Ye Chen's fist force at all; he traced an arc in mid-air and crashed into the landscape stone in the center of the garden.

"Boom!!!"

The landscape stone split down the middle, and gravel flew everywhere.

The Masked Man's body was embedded in the crack of the stone, his feet off the ground, and dark red liquid oozed from the edge of his mask.

He looked down at his chest...

Only to see that his sternum had caved in.

"You..."

He squeezed out one word through his teeth but couldn't finish.

A fishy, sweet taste surged up his throat, and he coughed up a mouthful of blood violently.

He had actually... been severely injured!

Just how strong was Ye Chen?

He was an Early Nascent Soul Stage expert, after all...

Ye Chen withdrew his hand, shoved it back into his pocket, and walked slowly to the landscape stone.

"I've said it before, if you want the keys, show some sincerity when you come to talk."

"Sending people to test me and then losing your patience and attacking first is not the attitude for making a deal."

"So, I am very angry."

"Go back and tell your master, there will not be a next time."

"If you come to cause trouble again, I don't care what kind of Guixu you are, I will definitely make sure that those who come..."

"...go to the afterlife."

Having said this, Ye Chen walked directly toward the elevator.

Watching Ye Chen's back, the Masked Man's face gradually twisted, and then he laughed out loud.

"Ye Chen, do you think you can have a good ending after offending my Guixu?"

Ye Chen didn't pay any attention and didn't stop his pace.

The Masked Man's laughter grew louder: "Good! Very good! You are naturally a philanderer, so... Jin Meiting, Yi Yue, they are dispensable to you, right?"

Ye Chen's feet stopped abruptly.

The next second, he turned around directly, his face dark as the bottom of a valley.

"What do you mean?"

The Masked Man braced himself against the landscape stone and stood up with difficulty, his eyes full of malice.

"I mean, people have already gone to both those places."

"What do you think... will happen to them?"

Ye Chen narrowed his eyes, just about to speak.

As a result... the phone in the Masked Man's pocket rang.

He pulled it out, glanced at the number, and his smile grew even wider.

"What a coincidence, isn't it? A call has come."

"It seems it was a success."

He pressed the answer button and turned on speakerphone.

A voice without any emotion came from the other end of the phone: "Jin Meiting has been captured."

A short sentence, but it added a hint of killing intent to Ye Chen's eyes.

He never expected... the other side had already started to take action, and so shamelessly at that.

The Masked Man raised his eyebrows and laughed out loud.

"Ye Chen, did you hear that?"

"You slap Guixu in the face, and Guixu goes after your people. Very fair, right?"

Ye Chen's voice became bone-chillingly cold: "Is your Guixu clan this shameless too?"

The Masked Man grinned.

"Shameless?"

"Ye Chen, you've been in the cultivation world for so long, and you're still asking such questions?"

"This world has never been a place that follows rules; whoever has the bigger fist makes the rules."

"You have three keys in your hand, so Guixu has its eyes on you."

"If you don't hand them over, Guixu will force you to; as for what methods to use..."

"Any method that can make you bow your head is a good method."

Ye Chen took a deep breath, forcing himself to calm down: "Do you think I wouldn't have a backup plan?"

The Masked Man's smile stiffened, then he sneered.

"A backup plan? You're just a twenty-something-year-old punk; how long have you even been emerging in the cultivation world?"

"If Guixu wants to move against your people, what kind of backup plan could you possibly have? Stop bluffing there."

"Bluffing?" Ye Chen tilted his head, "Then call the people who went to capture Yi Yue right now and see if they can pick up."

Upon hearing this, the Masked Man felt a surge of doubt and uncertainty.

No way... Ye Chen actually dared to say this; could he really have some sort of backup plan?

He didn't believe it and pulled out his phone, found the number, and pressed the dial button.

As a result... a busy signal came from the receiver; no one answered.

Until...

"The number you have dialed is temporarily unavailable, please try again later!"

The voice from the other end made the Masked Man's expression change completely.

People on a mission might mute their phones, but they would never not answer.

Unless something had happened, or they had run into trouble...

"No!"

"How could this be?"

He immediately gritted his teeth and dialed again.

The result was the same!

He was completely shocked and continued to dial...

The third time. The fourth time. The fifth time... Every time, the result was the same.

"How could this be?"

The Masked Man completely lost his composure.

The other side would absolutely not dare not to answer!!!

"Looks like you can't get through?"

"Then I'll help you call."

Ye Chen took out his phone, dialed Yi Yue's number directly, and kindly turned on the speakerphone.

"Beep!"

It only rang once before the call was answered.

Yi Yue's voice came from the other end, anxious: "A-Chen! I was just about to call you! A group of people just tried to capture us..."

"And now?"

Ye Chen interrupted her, "Are you okay?"

"We're fine!"

Yi Yue's voice then became filled with doubt and uncertainty.

"It's just that it was so strange just now; that group of people suddenly..."

"...collapsed on their own!"

"And they seem to have stopped breathing; I don't know what to do!"

"Euphemia suggested I call you, and I was just about to, but you had already called."

"In the restaurant?" Ye Chen asked.

Yi Yue was very certain: "Yes, right in the back kitchen of our restaurant."

Ye Chen nodded.

"Tell Xiaoya to call Brother Li; he is a policeman, and he will handle it."

"You just need to tell him that these people were trying to kidnap you, and let him follow the procedures."

"Okay, I'll have Xiaoya call right away."

The two didn't waste words and hung up directly.

But... the Masked Man was stunned: "You... how is that possible???"

He had heard the conversation on the phone clearly.

The people the Bai family sent to kidnap them had died suddenly for no reason.

This completely defied logic.

It was ten to one that Ye Chen was the one behind it!!!

Ye Chen looked at the Masked Man and smiled.

"What? Surprised?"

How could the Masked Man not be surprised? He was shocked to death!

The Bai family's operation team was arranged by him personally.

Capturing a female chef from the Secular World, even if she had one or two martial artist guards by her side, should have been a walk in the park.

But the news from the phone was... they hadn't captured her, and everyone sent had died.

And died inexplicably.

The Masked Man suddenly realized, his face full of disbelief: "You... did you do something to them???"

That's right! It must have been Ye Chen who did something to that woman.

Otherwise... it was completely unexplainable!

Ye Chen pulled a piece of yellow paper from his pocket, upon which cinnabar runes were drawn.

"You people from Guixu should be knowledgeable enough to understand this thing, right?"

The Masked Man's gaze fell on that Talisman paper, and his pupils constricted sharply.

Of course he recognized it.

That was a Soul-Guiding Talisman, an extremely rare spiritual Talisman.

This kind of Talisman didn't need True Qi to activate; it only required the caster to attach a sliver of spiritual imprint to the Talisman and hide the paper on the target.

Once the target encountered danger or an abnormal state, it would activate on its own.

Then, it would throw the attacking enemy's soul out of their body.

If they weren't an Nascent Soul Stage expert, once their soul was thrown out, they basically couldn't return to their body, which was no different from being dead...

More importantly, the conditions for using this kind of Talisman were very harsh; it required the caster's understanding of runes to reach a very profound level.

But in the entire cultivation world, there wasn't a single person who could draw a complete Soul-Guiding Talisman!

The Masked Man's gaze became dull: "You... you can also draw Talismans? This is a Soul... Soul-Guiding Talisman!"