Lu Ye had long known that Fourth Senior Brother's reputation preceded him. This time, he had truly experienced it firsthand.
Strictly speaking, the few of them were prisoners now. Yet even so, Li Baxian's arrival had drawn many cultivators who had admired his name for a long time to come and see him.
In comparison, no one paid any attention to Tan Sheng and Xia Liang, whose cultivation was even higher than Li Baxian's.
After the crowd chattered away for quite a while, Zhou Yuntian said, "All right, all right. The Exalted One has already planted a Secret Technique in them. They'll be one of us from now on, and there'll be plenty of chances to talk. Everyone, disperse."
Only then did the noisy crowd gradually leave. Zhou Yuntian shut the door and stood guard quietly to one side. The only sound in the room was the steady breathing of the unconscious people.
All sorts of thoughts turned over in Lu Ye's mind.
Judging from what the Exalted One had done earlier, along with what Zhou Yuntian had revealed, the Exalted One had indeed planted some kind of Secret Technique in them...
He roughly understood how the Exalted One controlled these cultivators. It was precisely through that unique Secret Technique.
Recalling what he had felt earlier, Lu Ye was startled. From his experience just now, the Secret Technique the Exalted One had used was very likely related to the soul. When she cast it, he had felt his mind suffer some impact, and many inexplicable things had appeared in his head.
However, the Talent Tree could burn away anything that invaded his body and harmed him, so he was unaffected by the Secret Technique. That also made it difficult for him to discern its exact effects.
But... a Soul Secret