1002 Remnant Soul Restrictive Spell (1/2)
Xu Que had no idea how big the interior of the Refined Moon Palace was. However, he soon figured it out when he was in there. The Refined Moon Palace was not as simple as it looked. At the very least, it would have been impossible to crush it with the Five Elements Mountain as per his previous plan!
For the next few days, the team trudged onward at high speed. If they had tried to figure out the distance traveled at that speed, they would have realized that they had covered a distance that far surpassed the Refined Moon Palace's total perimeter. It was clear that the size of the Refined Moon Palace's interior was almost impossible to gauge.
Xu Que disarmed and deactivated countless traps within the palace, big and small. Even spells and restrictive barriers dissolved easily in his hands. However, things began to get arduous as they reached the next stretch of their journey. As Elder Yu had said, people will encounter different levels of difficulties upon entering the Refined Moon Palace, which would correspond to their cultivation stages.
Within the team, Bai Cailing was the one with the highest cultivation, the strongest of them all. They encountered traps and spells of the greatest difficulty, due to the presence of a cultivator at the Human Celestial Stage. Everywhere they went, they would be blocked by a dominant spell. The good thing was that Bai Cailing was a force to be reckoned with. She managed to dispel all the restrictive barriers and spells that they encountered along the way.
At last, on the tenth day after they had entered the Refines Moon Palace, the team finally reached their destination—a massive hall filled with countless tombstones.
”So this is the place where they hid the 3-stripe Spiritual Tao Stone?” Xu Que asked as he took in the surroundings curiously. The hall was filled with tombstones, and it looked like an indoor graveyard. Every tombstone had an epitaph. However, the carvings had faded over the course of time, so they were almost entirely illegible. What disturbed Xu Que was that there was an eerie atmosphere. The moment he stepped foot into the hall, he could feel someone's gaze on him from the dark, and not just one, but multiple gazes.
Arwoof! ”Something's amiss! Why do I feel like someone's spying on my fabulous figure? Who, who exactly?” Buttface called out at once. He immediately scanned the surroundings with a piercing and wary gaze. It was clear that Buttface too felt that someone was observing them and was put off.
”I feel that too!” Elder Yu too nodded and looked around solemnly.
The rest of the Leaving Leaves disciples all huddled together carefully, trying to prevent sneak attacks and ambushes.
”Your hunches were right. There's indeed someone observing us. However, they are not humans, but souls!” Bai Cailing said mildly. She had come here 100 years ago and was well aware of the eeriness of this place. Now that she had returned, she was no longer surprised by this sort of situation.
”Souls? You mean the souls under the tombstones?” Xu Que caught on immediately and stared stupefied at the endless stretch of tombstones.
”That's right!” Bai Cailing nodded.
Xu Que became serious at once and clapped his palms together, shouting, ”All right! Let this holy monk release their souls from misery, sending them into the afterlife!” Xu Que posed to make a move once he had finished his words, attempting to kill a batch of souls and see if they could be translated into experience points.
”Wait!” Bai Cailing stopped Xu Que immediately. She said solemnly, ”Don't harm them. The consciousness of these souls had long dissipated, and they exist as nothing more than an unconscious Remnant Soul. They pose no threat to us. Furthermore, we would need to rely on them to find the 3-stripe Spiritual Tao Stone!”
”Oh?” Xu Que was surprised.
Could a group of unconscious Remnant Souls determine the ownership of the 3-stripe Spiritual Tao Stone?
”The reason why I needed your help was that there seems to be a restrictive spell cast over this area. The spell was merged as one with all of the Remnant Souls; if the souls disappear, the restrictive spell would also disintegrate, destroying the 3-stripe Spiritual Tao Stone within it. Therefore, I need you to awaken all of these Remnant Souls and unlock the restrictive spell, so that we may retrieve the stone!” Bai Cailing said to Xu Que while looking into his eyes.
Xu Que understood at once. ”You mean you want to use my melodies to awaken them or even control them?”
Back when he was at the Dong family, Bai Cailing had said that she chose him because of his exceptional talent in music. It was only afterward that she discovered that he was a cultivator. Putting the pieces together, Xu Que guessed the reason instantly. Thanks to his skills as a musician, his melodies would have a doubled effect on the souls. Waking these Remnant Souls should not be too difficult.
”That's right. Your melodies are exquisite. Maybe you could awaken them. However, I hope that you could play a profound and challenging piece that you're most familiar with, to improve the rates of success,” added Bai Cailing.Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please clickfor visiting.