Chapter 86 Graceful Lady in Terror
"Well then, since you, the young Taoist, do not trust what I have said, go ahead and verify it with that 'Truth-Telling Skill' you spoke of.
"However... Young Taoist, you possess profound cultivation, so when you cast your magic, please remember to be gentle."
Having said that, the graceful woman placed the jade slip on her knees, leaned back heavily against the stone chair, and displayed a look of complete submission.
Yet, unbeknownst to anyone, she had already secretly cast the Immortal Law 'Nine Curves Soul Falling'.
"Hmm?!"
"She really agreed?"
Jin Xu's lips curved slightly upwards, and a flush of surprise crossed his eyes.
He had uttered those words purely on the chance that they might strike true.
Now that the other party had coyly agreed so readily after putting on an act, she had somehow left him feeling bewildered.
"Could it be that she was telling the truth all along? No, if the explosion wasn't some sort of test, does this woman have confidence in resisting the 'Truth-Telling Skill'?
"Only, my 'Truth-Telling Skill' is not the same as the original."
The young Taoist's mind raced with thoughts, before he spoke in a light tone.
"Very well, since the lady is so forthcoming, then I shall not hold back either."
After he spoke, he didn't wait for the graceful woman to react. A beam of light gathered in the palm of his hand, and after a light flick of his wrist, the light shot out from his palm, heading straight for the woman's glabella.
On the stone chair, the woman wearing the golden silk feather robe saw the young Taoist release the light, yet her face still held the same expression of willing compliance as before.
Until the light entered her forehead, the woman was secretly pleased.
"Heh, although this person's cultivation strength is inscrutable, isn't he a bit too easily deceived? If this young Taoist is truly so gullible and isn't pretending, then not only do I have a sliver of a chance today, but I can actually contribute significantly to our lord's covert grand scheme..."
At this point in her thoughts, the woman's mind abruptly came to a halt.
It wasn't that she didn't want to continue her pleasant delusions, but at that moment, the graceful woman was shocked to discover that the countermeasures produced by 'Nine Curves Soul Falling', which she had activated, were effortlessly penetrated by that beam of light.
The light was as if someone used a key to unlock a door... No, it was as if the door to her house had been left wide open, allowing the intruder to saunter in with ease!
"What's going on, is the young Taoist tricking me? Otherwise, why would my magic..."
The woman in golden attire didn't have time to be shocked when Jin Xu's voice reached her ears.
"What is your purpose for hiding in this Chaos Space, what about the soul fragment in the puppet behind the Ink Jade Sect's door? And who exactly is your lord you speak of?"
As for whether the explosion was a test, the young Taoist didn't mention it at all.
He was well aware that once the other party realized they couldn't resist the 'Truth-Telling Skill', they might resort to some desperate measure, so, taking advantage of their lack of preparation, he hastened to ask some useful questions.
"I..."
On the stone chair, the woman with a blank expression on her face had her lips trembling slightly.
Clearly, she didn't want to speak.
However... the effect of the young Taoist's 'Truth-Telling Skill' was obviously much stronger than her willpower.
"My purpose for hiding in this Chaos Space is twofold, one is to avoid the eyes and ears of the Four Divine Monarchs of the Upper Realm, and the other is to accumulate enough power for our lord to rise from his hidden state!"
After answering the first question, the woman's eyes filled with horror as she lifted her hand to cover her mouth.
It's worth mentioning that,
having suffered the "Truth-Telling Skill," it was not only her physical body that was involuntarily answering questions in this uncontrollable manner.
Even those soul-puppet kowtows, which were who knows how far away, deep within the Chaos Space, were also uncontrollably speaking the same words.
Yet, as if driven by a mysterious force, although the woman covered her mouth with her own hands, she began to use Spiritual Sense to transmit her voice and continued to answer involuntarily the questions posed by the young Taoist.
"The soul-puppet kowtows behind the Ink Jade Sect are the means by which I accumulate power for my master.
"Since the Immortal Power required by my master must be extremely pure, and to avoid the eyes and ears of the Four Divine Monarchs, I cannot wander in the Great Thousand Realm, so I had to figure out a way in terms of quantity.
"Those soul-puppet kowtows behind the Ink Jade Sect will roam outside the Three Thousand Small Thousand Realms, manipulating weak races or talented cultivators through offerings of resources considered insignificant to my master and me, creating gods, and passing down cultivation legacies under various pretexts.
"Some of them are ordered to abduct cultivators and put them into formations bestowed by me; some are actually nutrients for my master when he comes out of seclusion; others..."
As the woman transmitted her answers to this point, she had already confirmed that she had seriously underestimated the young Taoist before her and was completely powerless to withstand the Lower Realm magic "Truth-Telling Skill."
However, although she could not control her answers, her ability to mobilize the power within her body, and even to attack the young Taoist in front of her, was unaffected.
Therefore, in a moment of desperation, the woman actually attacked the young Taoist before her!
"...some have even started sects within the Small Thousand World, passing on Cultivation Techniques with backdoors built into them. However, I dared not make too much noise for fear of alarming the Four Divine Monarchs, so sometimes when a certain force grew too strong, I would deliberately send down punishments, calling them tests from the gods.
"Over these three hundred thousand years, through the efforts of my hundreds of soul-puppet kowtows, I have managed to accumulate a significant amount of power for my master..."
From the moment she acted out of desperation, her mode of answering shifted back from Spiritual Sense transmission to verbal reply.
She swiped her hand across the thin booklet that was never far from her side.
Three golden darts appeared in the void, each thick in the back and pointed in the front.
"Swoosh!"
One of the golden darts flashed through the Chaos Space like a meteor, streaking directly towards the young Taoist's face.
The remaining two were grasped in the hands of the graceful woman.
As she continued to answer Jin Xu's questions verbally, she disappeared from the stone chair and appeared at an angle behind him.
"...I have also accumulated a considerable amount of power for my master. Of course, this pace of accumulation is still too slow, so starting with the Chaos Clan, I began to explore if there were other methods to gather more power.
"Those rule-breaking weapons bestowed by me, with each breach of another small world, would discreetly absorb a trace of that small world's Origin Power. The feedback from the trials was positive. However, I was just thinking that having tested enough with the small worlds, it was time to let them take action against the Nine Provinces Realm when you, this uninvited guest, suddenly appeared!"
Before she could finish speaking,
the first golden dart had already reached the young Taoist's face, but this treasure, seemingly razor-sharp and even causing several spatial rifts in the Chaos Space with its mere passage,
was casually clamped between two fingers extended by Jin Xu.
"Wouldn't this thing be rather useful for mending shoes?"
As he processed the woman's answers, he looked at the golden dart between his fingers and made a light quip.
Then, noticing the movements of the Taoist who had appeared behind him, Jin Xu's brow furrowed, and his body was instantly enveloped in golden spiritual power.