frightfiction Chapter 258 Decryption
Chapter 258 Decryption
In the Mingyue Palace, the five masters and apprentices gathered together. Song Mingyue grabbed Gu Ning's red silk with a gloomy look in her eyes. "The bluebird carries no message from beyond the clouds, and the lilac brings only sorrow in the rain."
After thinking about it for a long time, he still couldn't figure out what it meant...
"Think about it, both of you..." Song Mingyue handed the red silk to Ye Shuming and Ye Xiaoshu, "What are the differences between you two and the two of them?"
At first, only Meng Jia received it. In order to prevent others from noticing, Song Mingyue did not choose to tell Ye Shuming and Ye Xiaoshu, but let the gossip fly around, wanting to see what the person behind the scenes would do...
But it didn't.
And now...after Gu Ning displayed the power of the Heavenly Dao Law, this inexplicable red silk appeared accurately outside Gu Ning's courtyard.
Song Mingyue didn't even notice it...
If it's not just about hanging red silk, but about taking lives...
Thinking of this, Song Mingyue felt as if his heart was being pulled tightly, as if there was a sword hanging high above the heads of his disciples, ready to fall down at any time.
Ye Xiaoshu and Ye Shuming, who were caught, each grabbed a piece of red silk and studied it carefully with frowns on their faces.
"My sister and I didn't receive this thing. Why?" Ye Shuming couldn't understand. Could it be that... the person behind the scenes treated us differently?
"Both of us are direct descendants..." Ye Xiaoshu nodded at the red silk, "My brother and I are from the Ye family, a family of immortal cultivators, while the origins of our eldest brother and youngest sister remain a mystery."
"Could it be that... he is picking easy targets?" Gu Ning made a bold guess, "My senior brother and I seem to be outnumbered, so we are easier to target?"
"Definitely not." Ye Xiaoshu shook his head. "How can a disciple taught directly by the head of Mingyue Sect be said to be weak and alone?"
Gu Ning thought about it and said "Oh" honestly, then continued to think hard, grabbing the corner of his clothes.
There was silence in the hall for a long while. Ye Xiaoshu looked at Meng Jia and Gu Ning hesitantly, then raised his head to look at Song Mingyue, "Master... Xiaoshu has an idea..."
"You tell me." Hearing that Ye Xiaoshu might be able to think of something crucial, Song Mingyue's eyes widened. "My brother and I... have received the soul-binding ceremony in our family since we were young."
After saying this, Song Mingyue's eyes suddenly widened, "You mean... taking over someone else's body?"
The Soul Binding Ceremony, as the name suggests, is to completely bind the soul and body of the cultivator together. Unless one has cultivated to the Nascent Soul stage, if the body dies, the soul will also be destroyed, and vice versa.
Moreover, the biggest function of the Soul Binding Ceremony is to prevent possession of other's body.
Once possession occurs, the physical body will self-destruct.
Usually, the great families who cultivate immortality will give this gift to their promising sons to ensure that the sons of the family will not be possessed by others.
"Possession?" Gu Ning blinked, "But why did they warn us in advance?"
"This is indeed strange..." Ye Xiaoshu nodded in agreement, "So I also think this...maybe it's just my random guess..."
"But sister, this is indeed the only difference between us and our senior brother and junior sister..." Ye Shuming jumped out, "Maybe the person behind this has a change of heart..."
"Pa!" Before he finished speaking, Ye Xiaoshu slapped him on the shoulder, "Use your big head and think about whether this is possible."
After saying this, Gu Ning raised his eyebrows, "Why do I feel that... what Second Senior Brother said makes some sense..."
Ye Xiaoshu turned around and looked at Gu Ning with an expression that said "You might have lost your mind", his face full of indescribable expression.
Song Mingyue and Meng Jia also choked for a moment. After a long while, Meng Jia considered his tone and asked softly, "Junior sister, are you too tired these past two days?"
Ye Shuming, who received Gu Ning's affirmation, looked proud, "Right, Junior Sister, what I said is right, right?"
Gu Ning curled his lips, "What I mean is, maybe the person who sent the letter... was controlled just like Feng Qianshan..."
The disapproving trio's eyes lit up, "Maybe... he is also struggling to save himself..."
If that's the case, it all makes sense.
"Feng Qianshan was controlled, but because his cultivation was too high, Song Yu could only influence his mind when he was very close to him..."
Gu Ning continued, "I have seen other disciples who were controlled before, and they all followed Song Yu's lead. It can be said that at Song Yu's command, they would go through fire and water without any hesitation."
"But there is also a kind of..." Gu Ning raised an eyebrow, "Their strength is neither high nor low, but they are bewitched by Song Yu. Normally, they are clear-headed and do not show any abnormality."
"Junior sister, what you mean is that the person behind the scenes didn't just ask him to send red silk to you and Senior Brother..." Ye Xiaoshu suddenly understood, "He has already done something to you two in secret, but during the struggle, he deliberately revealed an inconspicuous but strange flaw to warn us."
With this explanation, all the unreasonable things are explained.
"Then according to Xiaoshu's guess..." Meng Jia quickly followed the two people's thoughts, "This person has already planted some kind of mark on the souls of me and my junior sister."
As soon as this guess came out, the hall fell silent again.
Something was planted silently in the soul...What kind of horrifying horror story is this?
Song Mingyue immediately grabbed the hands of the two men and examined them carefully, but... nothing happened.
After a long silence, Gu Ning raised his hand and continued in a low voice, "Perhaps... the secret lies in these two sentences."
The blue bird does not spread the letter from the cloud, and the lilac is empty and sorrowful in the rain.
According to legend, the "Blue Bird" is the messenger of the Queen Mother of the West, while lilac is often seen as a symbol of love.
The bluebird failed to deliver the message, and the lilac bloomed alone in the rain; both are a kind of unattainable desire.
"I can't get it..." Gu Ning murmured, "I can't get it..."
"Love leaves, hatred meets, it is impossible to obtain." Gu Ning's eyes suddenly lit up, and he looked at Song Mingyue, "It is impossible to obtain... Master, it is impossible to obtain."
Because Song Yu "can't get what he wants", he uses the magic of face illusion to confuse more disciples who "can't get what they want" in order to achieve the way to heaven.
"What do you mean?" The other four people obviously didn't understand yet. Ye Shuming scratched his head and asked.
"According to this line of thought, my senior brother and I are the ones that the person behind the scenes cannot get." Gu Ning chuckled, "So... our souls should be of great use to the person behind the scenes."
This was confusing, but it was obvious that Gu Ning couldn't explain it clearly for a while. Finally, the few people understood that Gu Ning's goal was to "find the person who leaked the information and find the mark left on the soul."
"Then...how do we find it?" Ye Shuming continued to ask.
Gu Ning pointed at the red silk and said, "The answer has been given. Bluebird, if Bluebird doesn't deliver the message, we will go find this Bluebird."