Chapter 16: Conditions

I never thought that someone could use their hands to ‘attack’ someone’s soul. This obviously does not match my understanding of the world.

But the person who can follow Wu Tian must be extraordinary, and there are too many things in this world that I cannot understand… Although this move of his was frightening, it may have been out of consideration, or it may have been due to the limitations of this move.

I felt pain from the soul, very painful, but there was no substantial damage.

My master could not possibly not intervene at this time. He took a step forward, concentrated, and let out a low grunt. The soul power he had casually mobilized was like a sharp cone, stabbing toward the middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man could not ignore my master’s attack, so he had to “release” the hand that was holding my soul, and hastily responded to my master’s attack.

My master’s casual attack naturally could not have any effect on the middle-aged man, and even his hasty response was easily resolved. My master was only trying to solve my predicament.

At the same time, I also discovered that my master’s “progress” made me even more confused. He could even attack without any preparation or effort. What had he gone through in all these years?

“I forgot. What’s the point of tying up your people? For a high-level cultivator, being tied up is no more than being unable to perform hand seals. A real attack that would break the net and kill the fish is not effective.” After neutralizing my master’s attack, the middle-aged man suddenly sneered and then said these words in an unpredictable manner.

But just like a face-changing artist, his face suddenly turned gloomy again, and he said in a calm but somewhat sinister voice, “I hope you don’t anger me.”

My master was calm and said, “Yang Sheng is still waiting for our call. I think you should untie Lao Chen. First, he is just an ordinary person, and if you tell others, you will make others laugh. Second, he is also an old man.”

The middle-aged man looked at my master with a frown, but in the end he said, “Untie him and take him to the women.” After that, he turned and left. My master and I looked at each other and followed him.

Before that, I did not forget to say to my father, who had been looking at me with concern, “Dad, don’t worry.”

My father was taken away, and judging from what the middle-aged man said, he was taken to be with my mother and the others. This was actually much better than following me and my master. As for me and my master, the middle-aged man took us to an abandoned building in the small factory.

This building was probably where the employees of this small factory used to live. It had been cleaned up by these people, but it was simply furnished with a bed and a table. There was a cell phone on the table, and it looked like it was connected.

After the middle-aged man brought us in, he gestured for the two people in the hut to leave, and then he looked at the phone and said, “Don’t you want to talk to the Holy Ancestor? Go ahead.”

I didn’t know what to say to Yang Sheng, so I just stood there in silence. My master, however, took a step forward and said, “I’ll do it.”

The middle-aged man picked up the phone and put it to my master’s ear.

I don’t know what Yang Sheng said on the other end of the phone, but I heard my master say the following.

“If I don’t talk to you, how can I express my thoughts?”

“Chengyi and I will follow you from now on, and I have no right to interfere with what others do.”

“You can choose not to believe. In fact, I don’t believe it either.”

“The reason? I’m only doing this for Chengyi. That’s all the reason I have… I’ll convince him.”

“Are you afraid? You, Yang Sheng, are now at the peak of your power in the circle of cultivators. Are you afraid?”

“Of course, you have a much easier option: kill us, the master and the disciple, and it will be over. You can also choose to let us follow you. I believe you will be very interested. I know what you want… I can be an obstacle in your way, and I can also be the person who helps you the most.”

The master’s words stopped there, and then he looked at the middle-aged man and said, “Yang Sheng wants to talk to you.”

The middle-aged man took the phone, hesitated for a moment, and then, avoiding us, went outside to answer the phone… I looked at Master with some confusion, because I couldn’t believe that Master was so determined to talk to Yang Sheng, and that what he said was that we were going to follow Yang Sheng?

I have never doubted anything about Master from the bottom of my heart. This trust from the soul is like Master pointing to a place in front of me that is clearly a sea of fire and saying, “Walk over there. That is the realm of the immortals.”

I would walk over without hesitation, and I would believe that it was really the realm of the immortals!

So, I was just puzzled, but not at all doubtful. In the face of my gaze, Master did not offer any explanation, but just looked at me with an unusually open and honest gaze. As long as there was such a gaze, it was enough, and my heart followed suit.

I have been with Master for so many years that I have long since gotten used to the fact that he doesn’t like to tell me things explicitly. He just proves it to me time and time again with his actions.

Moreover, there were also the concerns of eavesdropping.

The middle-aged man, the so-called Liu Shengwang, didn’t pick up the phone for long. My master and I waited quietly for less than five minutes, and then he came in, looked at me and my master with a strange look, and then said, “The Holy Ancestor said to take you to the Holy Hall and talk about it. We’ll leave right away. But before that…”

Yang Sheng chose to let me and Master follow him. I dare not think if there was an emotional factor in this, but putting aside the ‘interest’ relationship, Yang Sheng should have a very strong sense of ‘conquest’, right? After all these years, he and we have been going in opposite directions, but he has never given up, at least not on me. He has never given up the so-called ‘persuasion’.

He wanted to be recognized, and perhaps that was a big factor in his decision to take the risk of making a compromise.

That night, we left the village, and I didn’t even have time to see my family and say a few words to them. I just watched them being released and leaving from a distance.

At that time, at the entrance of the small factory, my mother and sisters were still hesitant and reluctant to leave, but my father showed the decisiveness of a man at this time. He did not hesitate to take my family away, and I believe that my father would be able to explain the situation on the way.

He understood better than my mother that my family was my biggest concern. If they were safe, I could be safe. Sometimes, lingering or hesitating was a burden and cruelty.

Although, I never thought they were a burden to me.

I believe Yang Sheng will not easily use any means against my family again. Some things are taboo, and they should not be repeated again and again. After seeing them leave safely, I was also relieved.

Before we left, my master and I were freed from our bonds, but we were bound by a more powerful form of imprisonment. It was a secret method that I had never seen before, but I felt that it was similar to the Locking Yang Jie. However, it was not as effective as the Locking Yang Jie, and I felt that my spiritual power was imprisoned in my body, stiff and stagnant, and I could not mobilize it at all.

Not only the soul power, but also all the power that cultivators can use has been imprisoned.

The method was very cruel. In seven places on my body and my master’s body, nails one inch long were hammered in, made of an unknown material. They were painful, but they did not affect movement.

After all this was done, we were taken away from the village. Under the cover of the deep night, we walked on small paths. Everything was very calm, and no one was disturbed.

After leaving the village, the 30 or 50 people dispersed. After all, in China, if 30 or 50 people keep walking together, it is definitely an extremely eye-catching thing, so it is not a bad idea to walk separately.

But the people who followed me and my master were obviously important people, including Liu Shengwang and several people who were wrapped up tightly… At the entrance to the village, we were taken to a large commercial vehicle and then drove towards the town I was familiar with.

My master and I didn’t say much to each other, and it was impossible to have too much communication… This trip had an uncertain feeling, and I didn’t know if we were really going to the temple to see Yang Sheng.

What then? What should I do?

In the midst of my rambling thoughts, the car had already left the town under the cover of night, heading in an unknown direction!