Putting everything else aside, looking at his face, the person in front of me possessed an androgynous and handsome appearance, with a captivating charm in his demeanor.
If this person were given to Bai Ling, she would surely fall in love with another. Unfortunately, the faint deathly aura beneath the alluring face was keenly detected by Bai Lan. Before and after cultivation, she had dealt with corpses and skeletons quite a bit, so she could naturally distinguish them at a glance.
He saved the game on the spot, and with a flash of red light in his pupils, under the effect of the " Guangmu Miaofa Gong," he quickly revealed the true face of the green monster before him.
The beautiful blue-eyed True Body was a moldy, grayish-white skeleton, with rotten flesh and grime hidden inside. Looking at the two empty eye-shaped skeleton in front of it, it was indeed difficult to associate it with the beautiful eyes from before.
He merely used illusion magic to disguise himself as a normal person. It's unknown which batch of unlucky cultivators entered for training and died unexpectedly in the secret realm, their skeletons even being collected and reused...
When the skeleton saw the red light flash in Bai Lan's eyes, his expression changed immediately, as if he had guessed that she had used her Divine Ability Divine Sense to spy on him.
Before the skeleton could act, Bai Lan instantly reloaded her save and returned to the time before she used the Guangmu Miaofa Gong. Looking at the beautiful skeleton in front of her, Bai Lan smiled gently and handed her a bottle of pills, "Fellow Daoist, you can rest assured and heal here. I will protect you. Once you are fully recovered, I will send you away from this secret realm."
The skeleton looked up at Bai Lan, its face full of gratitude. "Thank you, fellow Daoist. If I hadn't met you, I would have surely passed away in this secret realm."
If this person truly intends to possess her body, then this statement is not untrue.
The skeleton took the pills from Bai Lan and swallowed two without hesitation. Then it began to pretend to meditate and regulate its breathing, occasionally glancing at Bai Lan and chatting with her.
Bai Lan naturally went along with his words, chatting casually, while on the other side, she and Elder Fu secretly speculated on the man's intentions.
"I didn't expect that you Nascent Soul cultivator would also use the beauty trap. But this face looks so fake, it's unrealistically beautiful," Bai Lan remarked.
"If I were given the chance to possess another body, I would naturally not mind transforming into a peerless beauty to bewitch people." Elder Fu shook his head and sighed, then said in a deep voice, "Who would be willing to let their thousand years of cultivation be reduced to ashes? Who wouldn't want to live if they could?"
The physical bodies of Nascent Soul cultivator are powerful, and the difficulty of reshaping their physical bodies is even greater than that of possessing a Nascent Soul Cultivator. If it weren't for the fact that he hadn't obtained the qualification to possess a body, Elder Fu would have already sought an opportunity to possess Long Aotian.
"Indeed, this old fellow is really not good at using the honey trap. His acting is too clumsy. I wasn't charmed at all." Bai Lan chatted with Qing Yi while laughing and complaining to Elder Fu.
Most importantly, even though Bai Lan didn't use the Guangmu Miaofa Gong to see through this person's illusion, he had already subconsciously regarded the person in front of him as a moldy skeleton.
"If this person's surname is Chu and his given name is Wu Dai..." Elder Fu suddenly chuckled.
"That is indeed quite interesting." Bai Lan's smile softened slightly as she looked at Qing Yi.
The skeleton's acting was clumsy, but Bai Lan's was. She only needed to Qing Xuan Bai Ling's gaze to make the Bai Lan believe she was a lecherous womanizer who had been bewitched by her.
As expected, Bai Lan deliberately indulged him, feigned affection, and even managed to hold the skeleton's hand without batting an eye. After this tug-of-war, the other party finally revealed his true intentions.
"Fellow Daoist, before leaving the Nine Yin Secret Realm, I would like to retrieve the Storage Bag I left here..." the skeleton said gently, "Fellow Daoist, can you come with me?"
Bai Lan making a quick save, and after some probing, she was now certain that the place the beautiful skeleton was trying to lead her to was most likely the person's true purpose.
However, directly agreeing might arouse suspicion from the other party, so it's better to decline first to appear genuine.
At first, Bai Lan frowned and refused, but then grabbed the skeleton's hand with a worried expression. "This secret realm is dangerous. I guess it is probably the secluded cultivation place of some powerful being. Storage Bag are just external things. It is best for us to escape from here first. Spirit Stone can be earned back, but if you lose your life, you will really lose it."
The skeleton grabbed Bai Lan's sleeve and pleaded, "Fellow Daoist, there are two high-grade Longevity Pill in that Storage Bag. It would be a pity to leave them here."
For ordinary Qi Refining stage cultivators, the Longevity Pill is indeed a very attractive item, fortuitous opportunity that many Core Formation and Nascent Soul stage cultivators cannot find even after searching far and wide.
" Longevity Pill!? Really!?"
Upon hearing Bai Lan possessed a Storage Bag Longevity Pill, spoke in shock, appearing extremely tempted.
Seeing this, the skeleton nodded emphatically. "To repay your life-saving grace today, I can offer you both Longevity Pill in my Storage Bag. You only need to retrieve my Storage Bag for me. What do you think?"
"Well, how could I possibly accept that? Haha." Bai Lan coughed lightly and patted the skeleton's shoulder. "Fellow Daoist, rest assured, with me here, I will protect you no matter what danger you encounter!"
"Fellow Daoist, you are powerful, so I naturally trust you." After saying this, the skeleton took the lead and walked ahead of Bai Lan to lead the way.
Bai Lan followed behind the skeleton, saving her file while asking Elder Fu, " Elder Fu, guess who he is and what he wants to do to me?"
"Is your mouth blessed? How could that Nascent Soul cultivator really want to possess you!" Elder Fu gritted his teeth and said, "Apart from that remnant soul of a Nascent Soul cultivator, there is no trace of any other cultivator in this place."
Previously, his Divine Sense had come into contact with the soul of another Nascent Soul cultivator, which led him to conclude that there was Nascent Soul cultivator inside and guess that this person was in seclusion. However, compared to the tension he felt when he first faced the Nascent Soul cultivator, Elder Fu was much more relaxed now.
The current situation perfectly proves that the Nascent Soul cultivator, like him, is a remnant soul. Otherwise, with the abilities of Nascent Soul cultivator, why would he go to such lengths to use a wisp of his remnant soul to possess another object and then lure Bai Lan to the location of his main soul?
Bai Lan shook her head and sighed, "It's an old tradition in the cultivation world. In secret realms, rings, Jade Slip, and martial arts manuals, eight out of ten people want to possess the remnant souls hidden inside. Elder Fu, didn't you possess someone once? Otherwise, with your personality, you would have possessed Long Aotian long ago."
Elder Fu choked, then angrily said, "Stop arguing with me! Quickly find a way to escape! If a remnant soul in the Divinity Transformation Stage wants to possess you, it'll only take the time it takes for an incense stick to burn! If it succeeds, you won't even have time to escape!"
"No rush, let me go with him and take a look. I have been possessed by Core Formation cultivators and Nascent Soul cultivators before, but I have never been possessed by Nascent Soul cultivator. Now that I have encountered one, wouldn't I regret it for the rest of my life if I didn't take a look?"
The imperfections of a cultivator's life who has never been possessed.