Thus, on the road ahead, Gao Yue easily pulled the coffin forward, forming a striking dividing line.
Pang Yi thought that if Second Junior Brother woke up midway and saw himself being put in a coffin, he might be so angry that he would faint…
They walked north for quite a long distance without encountering any danger. Apart from the poison mist and Bones hidden by illusionary techniques, nothing happened along the way. It seemed that this place was empty, nothing to worry about.
Gao Yue was originally apprehensive about mistaking Bones for Treasure, feeling that this place was extremely strange. Later, feeling that there was no danger, he naturally walked in the front.
Although pulling the coffin along the way was bumpy due to small stones, Tian Ning thoughtfully placed soft cushions and pillows inside the coffin, so there was no need to worry about Lei Tianzhi sleeping uncomfortably.
Just as they completely relaxed their guard, a group of creatures as agile as wild monkeys suddenly emerged from the crack in the stone wall. They were bony and thin, using their flexible limbs to quickly approach Gao Yue, who was in the front, tugging at his clothes to take him away.
After those creatures approached, Tian Ning and the others finally saw clearly.
They had no hair, not wild monkeys at all. Their eyes were bulging, their backs were hunched, their faces were ferocious, and only a few sparse hairs remained on their heads, only vaguely showing traces of their past existence as humans… They looked exactly like the Gollum in the 《Lord of the Rings》 movie.
Those monsters were not strong, but Gao Yue, as a Pill Cultivator, was a combat power 5 trash, and for a while, he dared not abandon the coffin and run away.
"Fourth Junior Brother!" Ye Yiyi, who reacted first, spoke. Those monsters clearly wanted to kidnap someone, and she hurriedly said, "Cover your ears!"
This was the first time Tian Ning heard Ye Yiyi speak. Because she hadn't spoken for a long time, the young girl's voice was hoarse. Upon hearing this, Gao Yue immediately stopped struggling and actually covered his ears with his hands.
Tian Ning blinked her eyes, somewhat anticipating how the Words Cultivator would act next?
Pang Yi next to her had already put earplugs in her ears. Noticing Tian Ning's eagerness to watch the show, she quickly helped Tian Ning plug her ears too!
Tian Ning: "?"
With a questioning look, Tian Ning saw Ye Yiyi slowly pronounce a word from her mouth. She couldn't hear it with her earplugs, but she could see the lip movement saying: Die!
Almost the moment Ye Yiyi spoke, the heads of more than ten monsters exploded like watermelons falling to the ground, blood and flesh splattering two meters away. The scene was extremely bloody. The monsters, having lost their heads, instantly fell to the ground. Only Gao Yue remained, covering his ears and splattered with blood and flesh.
Tian Ning: "!!!"
So cool!
This kind of skill that only requires opening one's mouth to solve the opponent is simply showing off without effort!
After using the word spell, Ye Yiyi's face turned pale, and she leaned weakly against the wall behind her to rest. Pang Yi came forward to check on Gao Yue's condition. Fortunately, apart from being splattered with blood and flesh, he was not injured.
Ye Yiyi looked somewhat pained as she gasped for breath. After resting for a while, she raised her head and met Tian Ning's shining eyes, holding a top-grade Revival Pill in her hand.
"Fellow Cultivator Ye, your Words Cultivation is amazing! Can you teach me?" She also wanted to learn!
Ye Yiyi didn't speak again, only shaking her head continuously. It was clear that she was very reluctant to teach Tian Ning. Even when Tian Ning specially took out paper and pen to write it down for her, she didn't take it.
Pang Yi came over with Gao Yue, and seeing this situation, she first let Gao Yue and Ye Yiyi take care of each other. She pulled Tian Ning away and said:
"Fellow Cultivator Tian, actually, Words Cultivation is a special existence, extremely rare. Even in the Central Continent, the number of Words Cultivators is less than ten."
"Because Words Cultivation depends on talent. They are born with the ability to transform language into power, which other cultivators cannot do. So my Third Junior Sister can't teach you how to become a Words Cultivator…"
Tian Ning understood Pang Yi's explanation, but felt a little regretful.
To become a Words Cultivator, one must be born with that talent, she couldn't learn it.
But more than that, she was more concerned about something else: "I think Fellow Cultivator Ye's condition was very wrong just now, is she alright?"
Speaking of which, except for Gao Yue, the skills of the others in this Sect were all very powerful, but they basically inflicted a thousand injuries on the enemy while sustaining eight hundred on themselves. Could Ye Yiyi have suffered a serious injury from speaking once?
"Don't worry, it's not a matter of injury…" Pang Yi paused, but still didn't hide it from Tian Ning and took the initiative to speak.
"Actually, this matter is a bit complicated. In recent years, due to the decline of our Lingyun Sect, we have rarely been able to recruit disciples. Therefore, Master and the others often go to various places to find abandoned children and bring them into the Sect for training. My Third Junior Sister is also a child brought back from the Mortal Realm by Master…"
Pang Yi continued to talk about Ye Yiyi's matter.
The Mortal Realm has always had a preference for sons. The village where Ye Yiyi lived was like that. As the eldest daughter of the family, she was not allowed to eat at the table since birth, and could only eat leftovers to barely survive, and had to do heavy labor for the family.
Not only that, Ye Yiyi had a younger brother. As a son who was born after four pregnancies, the whole family doted on this younger brother, so this brother was very mischievous and often bullied Ye Yiyi, putting caterpillars in her clothes, pouring water on her bed in the dead of winter… Once, when Ye Yiyi was washing clothes by the river, he secretly pushed her from behind.
If Ye Yiyi hadn't been able to swim and, in the cold winter, managed to climb ashore with a strong will to survive, she would have been killed in the river.
After Ye Yiyi climbed ashore, her brother was still laughing at her, saying she looked like a drowned chicken. At that time, Ye Yiyi was really furious. She said to her brother with disgust: "You're a devil! You should die! You should die!"
At that time, Ye Yiyi never imagined that her words would come true. After hearing her words, her brother stared blankly, ran to a man who was sharpening a knife by the river, picked up a sharpened knife, and slit his throat in front of everyone!
The group of women gathered by the river to wash clothes naturally heard Ye Yiyi's words. They screamed and cursed Ye Yiyi as an evil spirit, and so did Ye Yiyi's family who arrived later!
The villagers specially invited a Daoist priest to perform an exorcism to burn Ye Yiyi to death at the village entrance!
Later, thanks to Pang Yi's Master passing by that village, she saved the poor little girl, discovered her talent for Words Cultivation, brought her back to Lingyun Sect, and accepted her into the Sect.
But since then, Ye Yiyi has been reluctant to speak easily.
Her brother's death left her with a shadow. Even when she later thought of her brother, she still hated him, but the feeling of accidentally taking a life just by saying a word was too terrifying!
She clearly knew that a Words Cultivator, if careless and said the wrong thing… could hurt others.
It was even more so after coming to Lingyun Sect. She was afraid that she would say the wrong thing and hurt her fellow disciples who were genuinely good to her.
Therefore, Ye Yiyi usually did not speak easily.
The more you speak, the more mistakes you make; the less you speak, the fewer mistakes you make; if you don't speak… you won't make mistakes.
That way, the people around her would be safe.
She didn't think Words Cultivation was amazing. As a Words Cultivator, she couldn't speak freely like ordinary people, so she didn't want others to become like her, without the right to speak normally.
That's why Ye Yiyi was so resistant when Tian Ning proposed wanting to become a Words Cultivator earlier.
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