Chapter 541

Chapter 541: Monks Restrain Me
Because of that one sentence, Ye Cong Xin changed her mind.

No one knew her limits better than she did.

Without the remnant soul’s strange and unpredictable Magic Arts, there was no way she could survive calmly in the Middle World, let alone live long enough to meet Yu Zhao again one day.

Of course, she could not just let the remnant soul control her however it wanted, so the two of them made a deal.

At first, her demand was that the remnant soul teach her the method to Plunder Fate, but he refused.

His reason was that the Fate Plundering Technique had very strict innate requirements, and Ye Cong Xin did not meet any of them.

Even if she tried to learn it, she would not succeed, and it might even backlash on her.

After a long tug-of-war, they finally reached an agreement.

As long as the remnant soul helped her kill Yu Zhao, or helped her reach the Great World, she would then break their bond and find him a new body.

To prevent him from going back on his word, she even forced the remnant soul to swear a Dao oath.

Because she knew the remnant soul could no longer control her at will, she had dared to talk to him so rudely just now.

But once she calmed down, Ye Cong Xin felt a faint trace of regret. With her current level of skill, she could not find Yu Zhao’s location at all.

Yet the thought of bowing her head to beg the remnant soul again made her very unwilling.

After thinking it over, she rowed her boat back toward the other small boats.

If she could not use Yu Zhao as a reference, there were still other people.

For example, that person called Lu Jiu Yuan seemed pretty good.

As for that young monk, Ye Cong Xin did not even consider him.

The shadow left in her heart by that foul-mouthed bald donkey in the past was too deep.

Now, whenever she saw a shaved head, her expression was never pleasant.

Someone in the crowd cried out: “Huh? Why did she go back again?”

Another person sneered: “Is she scared? So people from Shura Prison can also fear death.”

Someone else argued: “This is not fear. This is strategy. You people do not understand at all.”

The rest of them fell silent, at a loss for words.

Ye Cong Xin rowing away, then rowing back again, left many people staring in confusion.

Her method might have been a bit sneaky, but it was indeed effective.

After a while, she really did manage to wait for the third cultivator to break the Formation Array Arts.

But when she saw the compassionate look on his face, she instantly felt as if she had swallowed a fly.

He opened his eyes calmly, looked around, then smiled slightly in Ye Cong Xin’s direction. He pressed his palms together in a monk’s salute to her, and then rowed away.

Ye Cong Xin hesitated for a moment but still decided not to follow him.

[Monks restrain me. I should stay far away from monks.]

Another three days passed.

Ye Cong Xin finally waited for the next person to break the formation.

The young woman wore a blue-gray Daoist robe. A simple wooden hairpin held up her hair. She was gentle and lovely, and looked completely harmless.

But when Ye Cong Xin saw that woman’s eyes, her heart gave a heavy thump.

Her instinct, sharpened by years of reading people, told her that this young woman was very dangerous.

She could no longer care about her grudge with the remnant soul. She asked anxiously in her heart: “Can you see anything about this person?”

The remnant soul let out a strange, mocking hum and did not answer.

Ye Cong Xin dropped her gaze to the dark, deep water and muttered to herself: “I wonder if I can last one breath if I jump in?”

Faced with Ye Cong Xin’s naked threat, the remnant soul gave in.

He said: “She is also a Body-Seizing person like you. Her aura is messy and mixed. She is very likely cultivating a Dual Cultivation Art.”

“Dual Cultivation Art?” Ye Cong Xin curled her lip. Disgust flashed in her eyes, and she instantly lost interest in that person.

After waking up, the young woman did not stay there either. She simply rowed away.

Only when Ye Cong Xin’s patience was almost gone did she finally see the person she had been waiting for.

On the other side, Yu Zhao’s Divinatory Calculation of the Cultivation Technique had reached its final step.

But it was not enough to just deduce the Cultivation Technique. She also had to demonstrate it once to prove that the technique worked before it would be counted as a complete success.

So after finishing the Divinatory Calculation, Yu Zhao tried running the technique once through her body. Luckily, although the Cultivation Technique formula was profound and obscure, the difficulty was not too high.

Everything went smoothly. She was just about to demonstrate it in front of the Sea Monster when she opened her eyes and saw Feng Jiu Si, Jin Yuan, and the other two surrounded by several tentacles.

She raised her eyebrows.

[Enemies really do cross paths.]

At this time, several small boats were already stopped on the sea surface. The cultivators on them were all deep in thought.

Only Feng Jiu Si’s group of four was fighting the Sea Monster fiercely.

At first, Yu Zhao thought the four of them had just arrived here and did not know what the tentacles were for, so they were fighting the Sea Monster.

But after watching for a while, she noticed something different.

For some reason, when the Sea Monster faced Feng Jiu Si and the other three, its tentacles were as hard as stone, with no sign of breaking at all. Its speed and reactions were also far greater than when it had fought her earlier.

Back then, she had easily chopped off the Sea Monster’s tentacle. But now, even with the four of them working together, they were still struggling to hold on.

Yu Zhao narrowed her eyes and thought to herself: [Could the problem be the number of people?]

When she fought alone, the Sea Monster’s combat strength was weakened.

When Feng Jiu Si and the others fought it as a group of four, the Sea Monster’s strength rose to match.

If that was true, then the Daqian Alliance had tricked them again with this stage.

Jin Yuan dodged the Sea Monster’s attack and said coldly: “What is going on? Wasn’t it enough to just cut off the tentacle? Why did it suddenly get so strong?”

Huo Shao Yan barely avoided a sweeping tentacle and shouted in frustration: “I do not know either! When we arrived, the Sea Monster’s tentacles fell off with one swing. Why is it so hard when it is our turn?”

Their timing had been just right. They happened to see Nangong Yin of the Nan Gong Clan slice off a tentacle with one strike, and then sit down cross-legged.

They thought they had grasped the key and rushed forward to copy what she did. Who could have known that, when facing their group of four, the Sea Monster would act like it had gone mad, attacking them wildly and doubling its combat strength.

Huo Shao Yan was on the verge of breaking down.

Feng Jiu Si did not join their arguing. Instead, he kept thinking about what they had done differently from Nangong Yin.

In the split second when Shui Qiu Bai was almost thrown off the boat by a tentacle, Feng Jiu Si finally found the problem.

It was the number of people.

More people meant the difficulty of the trial doubled.

They had been tricked once again by the Daqian Alliance’s vague rules.

Realizing this, Feng Jiu Si felt very annoyed. If he had known earlier, he would not have agreed to team up with Jin Yuan and the other two.

But that feeling came and went quickly. He knew very well that this was not the time to be stuck on regret. He shouted to the other three: “If you want to pass this stage, then listen to me.”

Feng Jiu Si had always been the most strategic among them. The other three agreed without even thinking.

He quickly gave his order: “The rule for this stage is that we cannot attack together. Jin Yuan, you go first. The rest of us will stand on the boat and do not move.”

As soon as he said this, the other three showed doubtful looks. It was clear they were not fully convinced by his guess.

Feng Jiu Si grew angry and snapped: “If you do not believe me, then keep wasting time on this boat. Anyway, I will not be the first one to get knocked out!”

The other three hesitated. Their gazes flickered, and after looking at each other, they still chose to trust him this once.

Shui Qiu Bai and Huo Shao Yan pulled their Spirit Power back into their bodies. Jin Yuan turned the short blade in her hand into a long sword, raised it high, and, as the tentacle lashed toward her, she swung it down with all her strength.