Chapter 46: The Strange Stone Statue
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
By the time she regained consciousness, Yun Qin was drenched.
However, Yun Qin did not expect that what she just experienced was just an appetizer.
After she regained consciousness and vision, she was surprised to find that everything around her had undergone a huge change.
The original antique-looking pavilion, houses, and corridors looked like they were on the verge of collapsing. When the wind blew, they turned into powder and instantly turned into nothingness.
The smoke blurred her eyes, and the evil energy surging out of the soul-capturing array was exceptionally thick. Even if Yun Qin was in the array, her presence was so small it was like a grain of sand.
Yun Qin could not see through the smoke and dust, and she could not use her evil energy to detect her surroundings.
For a moment, all her senses were blocked, and dark clouds shielded the moon. Yun Qin instantly fell into darkness.
Her back was covered with sweat. Yun Qin’s intuition told her that she encountered a troublesome entity.
And this entity was hiding in the dark, staring at her with sharp and greedy eyes.
Yun Qin didn’t dare move. Her expression didn’t change, but her fingertips were slightly trembling.
Don’t be afraid, don’t be afraid. You have the abilities that Hades gave you. You’re very powerful. Nothing will happen to you.
Yun Qin comforted herself. In this frozen pitch-black and deathly silence, Yun Qin slowly closed her eyes.
Since she couldn’t see anything with her eyes, she would rely on her evil energy to explore the way forward.
A cold blast of wind blew across, but she didn’t hear any grass move. There was only silence.
Yun Qin felt that the evil energy in her body transformed into a hand that stretched out from her body.
Her evil energy hand mixed in with the evil energy in her surroundings and didn’t cause any ripples.
This was the house that turned into powder...
This was the wilted vegetation by the pond...
This was a willow tree... how could this willow tree still be alive? It seemed to be a conduit used to gather yin energy...
This was the pond...
However, when Yun Qin’s evil energy hand touched the center of the pond, she was shocked for a moment before silently withdrawing her evil energy hand.
The entity she just touched had deformed limbs, a ferocious face, and sharp fangs.
This image was similar to the strange stone statue that Yun Qin saw when the golden mana shot through the water.
What was even stranger was that when Yun Qin sensed this entity with her evil energy, the stone statue was looking around as if it was looking for something.
Was this thing looking for her?
After thinking for a moment, Yun Qin suddenly understood.
Fortunately, this was a stone statue ghost, so its senses were not sharp.
Surrounded by the thick layer of evil energy around her, not only could she not sense her surroundings, the ghost in the array could not sense her either.
Therefore, this stone statue ghost needed to rely on its unclear vision and hearing to vaguely detect Yun Qin’s position.
Fortunately, Yun Qin could physically manifest her evil energy outside her body. Otherwise, if the ghost found her first, the consequences would be severe.
One had to know that if the ghost in this array got hold of her body that could absorb all the evil energy in the world, it would cause chaos in the world.
After confirming that the ferocious ghosts in the middle of the pond had not found her yet, Yun Qin made a bold decision.
She closed the channels through which evil energy from the surroundings was entering her body and released half of her evil energy.
Afterward, the evil energy in the surroundings was overflowing and Yun Qin, who was in the middle of it, became even harder to detect.
Not only that, but Yun Qin also picked up dust from the ground and threw it into the air. At this point, the ghost completely lost Yun Qin’s position.
Yun Qin quietly walked to the side of the pond, separated the evil energy from her body, and tread towards the center of the pond.
The stone statue ghost was still searching around, trying to find Yun Qin’s tracks.
Yun Qin slowly adjusted her breathing and then took out the yellow talisman.
The person who made this talisman, Zhang Yuan’s master, used his heart’s blood to draw the talisman and infused a large amount of mana into it.
When she used a little mana to probe it, this dark yellow talisman emitted waves of golden light.
Once she infused her mana into it, she immediately saw the talisman’s power: using the life of the person who infused mana as a source, it would curse and kill all living beings present.
This was similar to the soul-capturing array in the courtyard. The talisman used life as a source, while the array used the evil energy of the trapped ghosts as a source.
However, the curse on the Song family was much more terrifying and fiercer than Zhang Yuan’s talisman.
After Yun Qin’s investigation, she discovered that this soul-capturing array was the main body, and the curse on the Song family was just a small guiding array that was using the soul-capturing array’s power.
To break the curse, she had to break the soul-capturing array first.
As an existence similar to the soul-binding array, this talisman could be the key to breaking the array.