Chapter 1557: Mysterious People
Ling's clone had arrived in a deserted area, but he couldn't find anything there. Even the system map didn't show anything in that location, which confused him. "Did I see wrong before?"
*Rustle... Rustle..."
Ling Yun raised an eyebrow as a middle-aged man and a middle-aged woman walked out from behind the bushes with weapons in their hands, but he didn't panic at their appearance and scanned their status. Unfortunately, the woman is not the owner of the Poisonous Unapproachable Body, disappointing him. 'Their cultivation has already reached the Immortal King Realm, huh?' "Who are you guys? Did you deliberately lure me into coming here?"
The middle-aged man did not respond to Ling Yun; instead, he turned to the middle-aged woman, who immediately threw something at him. However, the item bounced back at them, causing them to panic and immediately jump away.
"Hmm?"
Ling Yun looked at the item that was starting to emit black smoke, and he crouched down to pick it up. However, the black smoke didn't hit him because he had already enveloped his body with his void element, surprising the middle-aged man and the middle-aged woman.
"Poison, huh? You two don't know my identity or my abilities, yet you dare ambush me." Ling Yun threw the poison into the void, stood up, and looked at the two people. "If you two don't want to die, you should tell me your purpose for doing this to me. Otherwise, don't blame me if I make a move, and you two will regret it if I do."
"Humph." The middle-aged man and the middle-aged woman snorted and attacked Ling Yun, but Sheng Ming suddenly appeared between them and knocked them back. "Gahh!"
"Are you okay, husband?" Sheng Ming released her aura and suppressed them. They struggled to free themselves, but her pressure was simply too strong for them. "These people are idiotic! I don't understand these people's reasons for attacking us, especially since we just arrived in this domain."
"Their cultivation is high, but they won't be able to break through my void defense." Ling Yun confined the two people within his void walls, but they did not panic in the slightest. "Who exactly are you two? Why are you looking for trouble with me?"
The middle-aged man and the middle-aged woman still did not say anything to answer Ling Yun, forcing him to call Ling Xi to their place.
Soon, Ling Xi arrived at their location, and she immediately tried to read the memories of the middle-aged man and the middle-aged woman. However, her expression changed when she realized that she couldn't read their memories because something was blocking her, and she didn't dare forcefully read them because it would kill them. "Someone is locking away their memories, and they will die if I do that. I also didn't find that old devil's devil mark in their bodies, so I'm sure someone else is controlling them."
"Hmm?" Ling Yun looked at the two people as he rubbed his chin. "Could it be that they are subordinates of the woman who possesses the Poisonous Unapproachable Body? They previously used poison balls on me, so I think they are related to each other."
Ling Xi nodded at him. "That's possible, but I can't read their memories, so we can't know for sure."
"Hmm?" Ling Yun thought about something to try to access the two people's memories. 'Old dragon, can you help me break the barrier within their memories?'
"Haha." Long Hun came straight out of Ling Yun's body. "Why don't you use that technique on them? If you use it on them, they will experience horrors they have never experienced before, and I'm sure they won't keep their mouths shut."
Ling Yun nodded in agreement and walked over to the two people, who were still not worried about their situation. He squatted in front of them, touched their foreheads, and spoke to them. "Since you two have chosen to remain silent, I will make you experience incredible horror, and I will not stop it before you speak. Chaos Dragon Nightmare!"
"Argh!" The middle-aged man and the middle-aged woman screamed hysterically as soon as Ling Yun used the technique, but they couldn't move under Sheng Ming's pressure. "Argh!"
Sheng Ming shook her head as she monitored the surrounding area, but she found no signs of movement from anyone else around them. "What kind of technique is the Chaos Dragon Nightmare?"
"I will continue searching for that woman." Ling Xi immediately disappeared from their sight and wandered around the realm.
"The technique is similar to the illusion technique, but the resulting effects are much more terrifying. The effects don't attack their bodies but their souls, and they will go insane if they are under the influence of the technique for too long," Long Hun explained.
"I see." Sheng Ming nodded in understanding. "Who exactly are these people? Why did they attack Ling Yun? Moreover, there are no devil marks within their souls, so they shouldn't be our enemies."
"The person behind them is definitely not ordinary, and that person has done something to them, which is why they haven't told us anything." Long Hun then spoke to Ling Yun. "Kid, you must stop that technique now, or their souls will be broken, and you won't be able to get any information from them."
"Alright." Ling Yun immediately stopped the technique, causing their expressions to turn pale and terrified. "Now tell me, who ordered you to attack me? If you keep your mouths shut, I will kill you in the most cruel way possible, and I will kill both of your families if I ever find them."
Even though Ling Yun threatened them like that, the two people still kept their mouths shut and stared at him with a flat gaze, confusing them.
Ling Yun felt helpless against them, and he turned to Long Hun. "Do you think I could use a slave mark on them?"
"Try it."
"Phew." Ling Yun exhaled before suppressing their souls, and he used the enslavement technique he hadn't used for a long time. The middle-aged man and the middle-aged woman trembled as they felt something appear within their souls, but he suddenly stopped after he felt something emerge from within their souls. "What the hell is that?"
"What happened?" Sheng Ming asked him.
Ling Yun raised an eyebrow and tried to find it, but it was gone from their souls. "I felt something moving inside their souls when I tried to implant my slave mark into them, and that something seemed like it would destroy their souls if I forced it into them."
"Eh?" Sheng Ming was surprised to hear that and looked at Long Hun. "Have you ever heard something like that before?"
"Yes." Long Hun touched the middle-aged man's chest. "The thing you feel in their souls comes from an ancient technique, and it serves to counter the enslavement technique. If you forcefully enslave these two people, it will destroy their souls, and they will die."
"Ancient technique? Did the user of that technique come from the Ancient Era like Zhizun Buxiu and Xie Zuzhou?" Ling Yun asked.
"I'm sure that person didn't come from the Ancient Era, but he or she found a relic from that era." Long Hun fell silent and thought about several possibilities before speaking to them again. "I don't understand why that person ordered them to attack you, but I think that person is the woman who possesses the Poisonous Unapproachable Body, and she knows about you."
"How does that woman know about me?" Ling Yun asked in confusion. "I've never been to this domain before, so that woman shouldn't know anything about me, right?"
"Haha." Long Hun laughed at that. "Have you forgotten about Lu Yi? She never met you back then, but she knew a lot about you even before you arrived in the upper realm."
Ling Yun raised an eyebrow. "Are you saying that woman inherited a bit of the Seer's abilities like Lu Yi?"
"Yes." Long Hun nodded at him. "For now, this matter is just my guess, and we will find out the truth if we manage to find that woman. Since she ordered these two people to chase you, she should be in this domain right now, and she's watching us from somewhere. She might have acquired a disguise or a concealment technique so good that your void eyes can't find her, or perhaps she used an artifact that was a relic from the Ancient Era to hide."
"So, what should we do to find that woman?"
"We don't need to do anything. We just need to monitor the entire domain area, waiting for the woman to come out on her own." Long Hun pointed to the two people on the ground. "Imprison them and throw them into the void so that woman won't be able to free them, and we will wait for her to come out of hiding. With Sheng Ming in this domain, I'm sure that woman won't be able to escape, and we will capture her once we can find her location."
Ling Yun didn't say anything else, and he enveloped the two people with his void element before throwing them into the void. "Let's wait for that woman to make a move."
"I will circle this domain again to look for that woman's whereabouts, husband." Sheng Ming immediately flew away, leaving Ling Yun and Long Hun behind.
"Phew." Ling Yun sighed heavily. "This woman is really troublesome, and she's wasting so much of my time just looking for her."
Long Hun shook his head. "Why should you worry about that? It's just your clone, so it's not a big deal to you, right?"
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