Chapter 466: Making a Painstaking Investigation (2) (1/2)
Chapter 466: Making a Painstaking Investigation (2)
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In another broad hall next to the secret hall, Feng Qi was sealed in a blue-purple ice with a twisted face.
A beautiful woman in a colorful, luxurious dress was standing beside the ice block. She was breathtakingly beautiful, like a goddess in heaven; her beauty could make anyone have a sense of inferiority and dare not to come close to her. She stood beside the ice block with her pair of eyes sparkling brightly with a splendid multicolored light, which had been transforming into extremely thin and flowing beams of light and ceaselessly injecting into Feng Qi’s widely opened eyes.
A sizzling noise was coming from around Feng Qi’s body, followed by a raging fire blazing on her body, burning the ice block and evaporating it into puffs of white steam and dissipating in the air. It seemed like Feng Qi could break out from the ice anytime. Within that fire, streams of golden light had been shining. Occasionally, these golden lights would shake, and the ice block would let out muffled rumbles, and next, countless hair-thin cracks would appear in it.
Hundreds of Maguspreists in long black robes were standing in the hall. They all had long snakes coiling around their waists, necks, arms or legs.
Their eyes were all shining with a cold light while chilly and strong power vibrations had been releasing from their bodies. Every one of them had been concentrating on the ice block which had Feng Qi sealed in it and gathering all their powers in that ice. Hundreds of them joined hands and cast a sealing magic, but they only managed to narrowly suppress that dazzling fire blazing on Feng Qi’s body.
All these Maguspreists were from different large and powerful Northern Wasteland clans, under the Water God, Gong Gong’s command. They were all at the same power level as Feng Qi, some were even a lot more powerful than her. However, the ice they could manipulate was only ordinary dark ice that started to exist after the world was created, while the fire burning on Feng Qi’s body was divine phoenix fire, one of the most powerful ones amongst many different types of fires, which existed even before the world was created.
Confronting a pre-world divine fire with post-world ordinary dark ice was same as confronting a sharp blade with a piece of wood. Therefore, by joining hands, hundreds of Maguspreists could only barely suppress Feng Qi’s power and keep her from breaking out of that ice block which had her sealed.
When Emperor Shun and a group of human ministers walked in, the beautiful woman abruptly let out a long breath and slowly took a few steps backward.
Emperor Shun walked up to the beautiful lady, cupped his hands and saluted to her while he said, “Elder Feng San, is anything wrong with elder Feng Qi?”
Feng San’s breathtakingly beautiful face was now deeply darkened and cold as if it was covered in a layer of frost. She then said coldly, “Anything wrong? Too many things are wrong. Hm, what a smart soul spell, it actually managed to leave a noetic seed deep in Feng Qi’s soul hundreds of years ago!”
Emperor Shun, Si Wen Ming, and other human ministers were badly confused by Feng San’s words.
Human Magi only cultivate their bodies and never put much attention to their souls. Therefore, their knowledge regarding the soul and spirit were extremely limited. Even though Si Wen Ming was now the leader of the Magi Palace, the most profound, soul-related magic he learned was only the one for raising and manipulating ghosts.
Unlike the humankind, the phoenix-kind were born with an incomparably great and pure soul power. The accomplishments they achieved in the area of soul-related magics were literally top of the heap that not a single kind could ever defeat the phoenix-kind in studies of souls and soul-related magics.
Therefore, the concept of ‘noetic seed’ mentioned by elder Feng San just now was way too strange for Emperor Shun and Si Wen Ming, as well as the other human ministers. Not only them, but even the large group of Magi Palace elders standing behind them were also badly confused.
Feng San looked at these confused human leaders, helplessly shook her head and said, “Simply speaking, hundreds of years ago, when Feng Qi wasn’t as powerful as she is now, someone had left a bad thought deep in her heart.”
“During all these years, this thought was nourished by Feng Qi’s emotions and desires and had been growing in her heart. As this thought grew stronger and stronger, Feng Qi became prouder and prouder, more and more extreme and unreasonable. Correspondingly, as Feng Qi’s personality became more and more unstable and her greedy desires became greater and greater, this thought grew faster and faster.”
“What shocked me…the stronger this thought became, the faster Feng Qi could improve in the cultivation of our secret soul magics, and the greater her soul power became. This is just like a snowball running down from the mountaintop; the more achievements she made in her cultivation, the faster she could improve, the stronger this thought became, and Feng Qi’s personality became more and more twisted and strange.”