The Legendary Master’s Wife - Chap 181

Chapter 181: Captured

Ling Xiao said it all very clearly in front of the statue.

If the one here today were not him, but Luo ShuHe and those people, there would probably be a massacre over those treasures. It was too bad the statue found itself with the wrong people this time around.

The statue that didn’t receive an answer after a long time ordered one word, “Kill!”

Then the glinting blood-red eyes of the statue suddenly shot forth two rays of red light. The red light shot right at where they were standing before, but it didn’t pierce through the floor. It seemed like the statue was impatient for them killing each other, so it decided to act.

Ling Xiao hugged You XiaoMo and dodged the statue’s attack. He laughed coldly, “Finally can’t wait any longer?”

The statue’s reaction was to continue attacking. At the same time, sounds could be heard coming from deep in the palace. During the ghastly green light, a group of puppets which looked exactly like the guards outside slowly emerged. If there was a difference, it would be the aura.

The strengths of these puppets were higher than the two guards outside by quite a bit. The weakest one was Moon level. And it seemed like it wasn’t just a few, emerging continuously from deep in the palace. At least a hundred.

You XiaoMo jumped in fright, “This seems a little too showy.”

He finally understood the traps Ling Xiao mentioned. There were so many puppets hidden in the palace. If it were the Tian Xin Sect and the other forces, they would probably be unable to cope and suffer a terrible beating, akin to losing one’s army even after giving away the bride.

But there was something he didn’t understand. Since it was a trap, why would they still come up, fully aware of the dangers? It couldn’t be that the stone platforms were that enticing to them, making them willing to forfeit their lives?

Ling Xiao thrust his palm forward and the wind immediately crushed ten of the puppets into bits and pieces.

But the puppets were after all without intelligence and without life. They didn’t know tiredness. They didn’t know pain. They only knew how to attack blindly, only stopping when they could no longer move an inch.

Since Ling Xiao knew this, he did not hold back. Right away he turned them to powder. The floor was very quickly covered in layers upon layers of fine powder, really crushed to the extreme.

The statue’s eyes saw that the puppets were being crushed to pieces, making the statue furious.

After getting infuriated, it stood up. In an instant it was standing from its original cross-legged position.

Its huge hand swiped down forcefully at their heads, with a force that wanted to flatten them. But it came up empty-handed again, leaving the floor shaking, but not split open.

Ling Xiao’s brow twitched. He saw the intact formation on the floor from the corner of his eye and his lips curved up suddenly. He thrust out his palm; burning hot flames condensed into a fiery ball and slammed onto the floor, causing it to crumble with a loud shattering noise. The intact floorboards were finally completely ruined, exposing a huge hole in the floor.

Naturally the explosive sound did not escape the sects that had come up one third of the way. They could even feel the ground beneath their feet vibrating. Everyone’s expressions changed instantly.

Luo ShuHe exclaimed in shock, “What is the meaning of this? Did someone actually beat us there?”

It was not just Luo ShuHe. The people from the other forces also had the same stunned expression. While guessing in their hearts who beat them to it, they quickened their steps, lest the treasures were all wiped clean by the first to arrive.

Unfortunately, no matter how quickly they moved, it wouldn’t be of any use. They hadn’t even passed the Shallow Shores. If the water demons wanted to stop them, even if they were given speedy wings, it would be of no use.

“A guy who only knows how to use brute force won’t have a peaceful reincarnation!” Ling Xiao dodged the statue’s fist as it came down on his head. He then delivered You XiaoMo to a safe spot and brought out Xiao Hei from the dimension to guard him at his side.

You XiaoMo hugged Xiao Hei who was in his original form and popped his head out from behind the pillar before lowering his head to whisper to Xiao Hei. “Xiao Hei, do you think Ling-shixiong will be able to swipe all ten treasures?”

Xiao Hei rolled his eyes at him. How could a mere soul remnant be the boss’s match?

You XiaoMo pretended he didn’t see it. Suddenly the corner of his eye caught sight of that the ten treasures had fallen onto the stone platforms. Those orbs of light had also vanished. He couldn’t help suggesting, “Xiao Hei, how about we go over there while they are fighting…”

Before he could finish what, he was saying, with a thud, Ling Xiao’s fist smashed the entire statue. Stone chips scattered in every direction and a red soul flew out from the pieces of the statue. Before it could escape, it was engulfed by a ball of flames, turning into ashes.

A ghostlike voice suddenly cried out. The sound was so deafening that it hurt the eardrums and it seemed to come from the depths of the palace. It was followed by an infuriated voice that was different from the hoarse one before, “You actually dare to destroy my spirit double. You deserve to die. I will make you pay the price!”

The voice howled in crazed anger, shaking the whole palace…

Ling Xiao ignored the owner of that voice and moved to the stone platforms in a flash, using the time to put the treasures directly into his dimension.

The owner of the soul remnant did not plan on letting him go just like that. After a few piercing screams, all the green candles went out with a puff.

A gust of spine-chilling cold wind enveloped the whole palace in an instant.

“Xiao Hei, don’t touch me.” You XiaoMo suddenly felt a rush of cold air rising from his feet. He then felt something touch his arm. He thought it was Xiao Hei who was standing by his side, so he said that without turning his head.

Xiao Hei rolls his eyes at him, “When did I touch you?”

“Just now. If not you…” You XiaoMo turned his head; before he could say ‘who’, a faintly glowing pale green face suddenly appeared in front of him. Now, the face was looking at him expressionlessly.

“Ghost ah!!!” You XiaoMo screamed out wildly.

This fellow feinted to the east and attacked from the west. Because Xiao Hei’s strength was not a match for the other party, and the other party also seemed to practice some deviant combat techniques, by the time Xiao Hei reacted, You XiaoMo had already disappeared, taken away by that lingering soul fragment right in front of his face.

When You XiaoMo’s smell disappeared from the grand hall, Ling Xiao seemed to have sensed it immediately. He appeared a second later where they were hiding behind the pillar and saw that only a certain demon beast remained. Ling Xiao looked at Xiao Hei wordlessly.

Xiao Hei hung his head in shame. He knew he was wrong. If he had known, he would have dragged Master into his dimension at all costs.

Speaking of You XiaoMo who was taken away by the soul remnant, one man and one ghost very quickly appeared in a certain corner of the palace.

This was a stone room that was not much smaller than the great hall. An enormous pool of blood was placed right in front. A human figure was soaking in the middle of the pool of blood. The face of the human figure resembled that of the lingering soul remnant.

The soul remnant lifted You XiaoMo and walked up to the pool of blood. He raised his arms and without a moment of hesitation, tossed You XiaoMo into the pool…

You XiaoMo was terrified, leaving his whole body in cold sweat. Just when he was about to fall into the pool of blood, You XiaoMo disappeared in an instant.

The pale green pupils of the soul remnant contracted as its extremely hoarse voice was heard once more, mixed with a trace of incredulity, “Dimension?”

The green pupils moved about determinedly, rapidly scanning all four corners of the blood pool. It was too bad; since he couldn’t refine a genuine dimension while he was alive, how could he possibly discover You XiaoMo’s high level dimension now that he was dead?

When he was searching, You XiaoMo already manipulated his dimension to leave the stone room.

The stone room made him feel too oppressed, as if it were some sort of sacrificial chamber. Especially that pool of blood. The stench of blood was unbelievably strong. Furthermore, it seemed as if it was not just the blood of human practitioners, it looked like even a great number of different demon beasts was thrown in there.

However, to leave the stone room, You XiaoMo depleted his soul force in an instant. He was now a level four mage, but the most he could manipulate his dimension was about two hundred meters. Any more, and he would overuse his soul force.

Due to the speed of the soul remnant being too high before, You XiaoMo had no idea where he was in the palace. He had no choice but to drink spiritual water while looking for a way out.

Just as he was wandering around in confusion, Ling Xiao already reached with stone room with Xiao Hei. Although he didn’t see You XiaoMo, he knew that You XiaoMo was already out of danger.

Naturally, the soul remnant didn’t expect that his lair would be so easily found by the other party.

The two sides went all out. This time, Ling Xiao no longer stayed his hand. He simply smashed the pool of blood, which was also the real embodiment of the soul remnant, into bits. The pool of blood that had been nurtured for over a thousand years was no more, just like that.

Negative emotions poured out from the body of the soul remnant, like an enormous black hole. At this time, all the other spirit doubles distributed throughout the palace were called back to replenish the soul remnant. Not long after, an almost complete soul appeared in front of Ling Xiao…

You XiaoMo, who was completely unaware of the showdown happening in the stone room, was controlling his dimension to take a few halting steps at a time, moving forward in small spurts. He really wanted to leave his dimension, but he was afraid that the ghost soul would suddenly appear in front of him and cause him to piss in his pants.

When it was quiet all around, with not a sound to be heard, You XiaoMo finally came out of his dimension.

This was a very long and wide corridor. At one glance, it seemed that the end of the corridor was not visible. On both sides there were loft-like stone rooms. Some of them had no doors at all, making it possible to walk right in. Others had doors which were tightly closed.