Ten Thousand Beauties Pavilion

Pushing aside the vacant, vacant, and rolled-back eyes of the evil spirit on his body, Qi Yun expressionlessly dusted off his robes.

"A few insignificant, Desire-Enticing Evil Soul dare to try and steal my vital essence?"

Innocent!"

With a cold snort, Qi Yun's thoughts stirred, maximizing the effect of the Aura-Concealing Pearl. At the same time, his figure flickered, transforming into an invisible and intangible wisp of pure energy, silently drifting out of the room filled with decadent atmosphere.

The Aura-Concealing Pearl's ability to hide one's aura, combined with the equally powerful Concealment effect of [Gather Form and Disperse Qi], makes it virtually impossible for ordinary cultivators to detect his presence.

The interior of the Ten Thousand Beauties Pavilion is much larger than it appears from the outside.

It has as many as eighteen floors.

Each floor is like a maze, with sixty-six rooms of varying layouts.

The air was filled with a sweet, cloying fragrance. Countless "Desire-Enticing Evil Soul" formed from pure Yin Qi and desire transformed into various demonic forms, drifting and weaving through the corridors and halls, emitting alluring laughter and whispers, constantly beckoning and entangled the guests who entered this place.

"The Yellow Springs Netherworld and the Hehuan Palace are indeed 'cooperating happily,' creating these Desire-Enticing Evil Soul to specifically absorb the vital essence of passing cultivators. They've really shrewdly calculated their business acumen."

Qi Yun watched coldly as some cultivators walked out of the room with satisfied and infatuated smiles on their faces.

In reality, a subtle darkness already lurked deep within his eyes.

They couldn't help but secretly admire the insidious and cunning methods employed by these two sects' demonic practices.

Each time these Desire-Enticing Evil Soul absorb vital energy, the amount is extremely small, like a frog being slowly boiled in water, and will not immediately alert or cause discomfort to the cultivator.

But little by little, they accumulate, and the tens of thousands of evil spirits in the entire Ten Thousand Beauties Pavilion "work" day and night.

The total amount of vital energy stolen each day will be an extremely astonishing figure.

Qi Yun calmed his mind and stopped paying attention to these evil spirits.

With a slight twitch of his fingertips, he once again used the "Blood-Guided Profound Mysteries" technique to calculate his location. His figure moved like an invisible Fresh Breeze, swiftly traversing the complex and maze-like Ten Thousand Beauties Pavilion.

Avoid those evil spirits and guests, and go straight to the core of the Xun position.

Before long, he arrived at a secluded corner on the lowest floor of the Ten Thousand Beauties Pavilion.

A heavy gate appeared before them, completely out of place with the surrounding decadent environment.

This gate, forged from some dark metal, was covered with defensive and warning runes, exuding an aura of majesty and solemnity.

On either side of the entrance stood a cultivator dressed in the attire of the Yellow Springs Netherworld, exuding a cold and gloomy aura, their gazes sweeping across the surroundings like those of an eagle.

Their cultivation levels had all reached the Qi Refining Sixth Layer.

Above the gate hung a strangely shaped bone sculpture of a beast's head. The beast's head had empty eyes, but two eerie green flames burned within them, slowly rotating and emitting a strange fluctuation.

It is clearly a warning Law Artifact specifically designed to detect Law Technique such as illusion and concealment.

"Such tight security?" Qi Yun, transformed into pure energy, stopped at the edge of the skeletal beast head's detection range and observed carefully.

"Completely different from the style of the Ten Thousand Beauties Pavilion —it seems the core node of the Xun position coordinates is most likely behind this gate."

The Yellow Springs Netherworld is not stupid; it will certainly strengthen its defenses regarding the key locations of its own market's ley lines, especially during this sensitive period.

"If we can't force our way in, then we'll have to find a way to sneak in."

Forcing their way in is the worst possible strategy, not to mention whether they could quickly deal with the two guards and the skeletal beast head.

Just activating the jade talisman to replicate the earth vein coordinates requires at least half an hour of stabilization time, during which it cannot be disturbed.

This is clearly impossible.

With the main entrance blocked, Qi Yun's mind raced, and his gaze once again fell upon the guests and evil spirits moving in and out of the Ten Thousand Beauties Pavilion. A plan gradually took shape in his mind.

With a thought, Qi Yun flipped his hand and took out a bottle of pills.

This is the evil pill, [Immortal-Bewitching Incense], which I previously looted from the Storage Bag of a cultivator from the Hehuan Palace in the [Peach Garden] secret realm.

This pill is not a poison, but a potent medicine that can cloud reason and disturb the mind.

Originally, it was a toy used by disciples of the Hehuan Palace to enhance their pleasure or to deal with virtuous women.

Qi Yun was initially unsure whether the medicine would be effective against this Desire-Enticing Evil Soul.

But now is the perfect time to give it a try.

They quietly drifted to an area on the upper floor of the Ten Thousand Beauties Pavilion where there were many guests and a high concentration of evil spirits.

Qi Yun carefully observed and selected the items.

They selected a room containing several dozen low-level cultivators who appeared to have low cultivation levels and whose minds were already somewhat absorbed in the arts.

He moved like a ghost, precisely sending the powdered [Immortal-Bewitching Incense] through the crack in the door, mixed with the sweet fragrance in the air, into the room.

The powder is colorless, odorless, and highly volatile.

Mixed in with the alluring fragrance of the Ten Thousand Beauties Pavilion, which itself has a bewitching effect, it is even more difficult to detect.

At first, there was nothing unusual.

The room was still filled with sounds that would make anyone blush, as the evil spirits continued to entangle with the guests.

However, before half an incense stick had burned out, a strange change occurred!

"Nya-!"

A bloodcurdling scream, filled with pain and terror, suddenly erupted from one of the rooms, instantly drowning out the soft music playing in the building.

Immediately afterwards, a similar horrific scene came from the next room, accompanied by the chaotic sounds of overturned tables and chairs and shattered objects.

"What happened?!"

"Ah! Help!"

"These evil spirits—they've gone mad!"

The commotion was like a pebble thrown into a still lake, quickly creating ripples.

Several room doors were suddenly kicked open, and several Xiu Tu, disheveled, pale-faced, with sunken eyes, as if all their energy had been drained, scrambled out.

Their eyes were filled with extreme fear as they ran, screaming hoarsely:

"Evil spirits are killing people! They're trying to drain our vital energy!"

"Run! The Yellow Springs Netherworld is trying to kill us!"

Almost at the same time they escaped, the Desire-Enticing Evil Soul inside those dozens of rooms underwent a drastic change in form.

Their pinkish nitrogen and argon aura turned blood red, their faces contorted, their eyes glazed over, and they emitted sharp, piercing whistles.

These Desire-Enticing Evil Soul pounced out of the room like wild beasts out of control, swarming around anyone they encountered.

And it is no longer a gentle absorption, but a violent plunder.

One of the evil spirits was particularly ferocious, pouncing directly on a fat cultivator in the corridor who was still in the middle of revelry and hadn't even realized what was happening.

Countless illusory tentacles instantly entangled him. The fat cultivator could only let out half a scream before his body was visibly destroyed, turning into a skin-and-bones desiccated corpse in an instant.

This scene ignited complete panic!

"The evil spirit has backfired!"

"Ten Thousand Beauties Pavilion is going to kill people!"

"Run!"

Screams, curses, and screams of fleeing instantly echoed throughout the entire Ten Thousand Beauties Pavilion.

Some cultivators were indeed terrified and furious that the Ten Thousand Beauties Pavilion was so dangerous.

However, there were many who harbored resentment, either because they had a grudge against the Yellow Springs Netherworld or simply wanted to take advantage of the chaos to plunder. They immediately began to stir up trouble, even deliberately attacking the evil spirits around them and the furnishings of the Ten Thousand Beauties Pavilion.

"The Yellow Springs Netherworld have no right to human life! Smash this hellish place!"

"Maybe they're planning to wipe us all out in one fell swoop!"

"We stole their treasure!"

Chaos spread rapidly, like a plague.

What began as a small-scale disturbance quickly escalated into a riot that swept through the entire Ten Thousand Beauties Pavilion, fueled by intentional or unintentional actions.

Evil spirits went out of control, guests fled in terror, and unscrupulous guests took advantage of the chaos to loot the building's treasured wines, spiritual materials, and even some forbidden furnaces, all of which became targets for robbery.

The sounds of Law Technique light, clashing weapons, and collapsing buildings filled the air.

The two cultivators from the Yellow Springs Netherworld who were guarding the gate at the bottom of the gate immediately turned extremely ugly.

"What's going on? What's causing this commotion up there?!" one of them shouted sternly.

"Go and suppress it! We can't let the chaos spread here!" another person said urgently and angrily.

They tried to maintain order, waving their Law Artifact to drive away the crowd rushing towards them, shouting angrily:

"Back off! This is forbidden territory. Trespassers will be killed without exception!"

However, their rebukes seemed pale and powerless in the face of the panicked crowd who had lost their minds and the troublemakers with ulterior motives.

The surging crowd, carrying out-of-control evil spirits, relentlessly assaulted their defenses.

They had to defend against attacks from the open and guard against sneak attacks from the shadows.

They were caught off guard and in a sorry state.

They didn't even have time to pay attention to the subtle changes in the skeletal beast head?

Right at this once-in-a-lifetime moment of chaos.

A wisp of faint, almost invisible "blue smoke," nearly blending into the dust and lingering Yin Qi in the air, skimmed the ground and drifted silently toward the heavy gate at an extremely tricky angle.

Woo~ Howl~

Above the gate, the green flames in the eyes of the skeletal beast head suddenly accelerated their rotation, emitting a low, warning sound that only the caster could perceive.

It detected an unusual Law Technique aura.

At that moment, however, the two guards were being blocked from their view and path by several "guests" who were pretending to be panicked but were actually deliberately harassing them.

My ears were filled with screams and curses, leaving me no time to pay attention to anything else.

Even though they vaguely heard the buzzing of the beast's head, they assumed it was just interference from the surrounding Law Technique traces or some scoundrel trying to approach in disguise, and didn't take it seriously.

After all, the immediate and tangible impact is the primary threat.

Within this brief blind spot of sight and perception created by chaos.

The wisp of "green smoke" precisely detected the subtle gap in the probe's fluctuations from the white bone beast head, and like a swimming fish, it "whooshed" through the almost negligible gap between the gate and the ground.

Successfully infiltrated!

Beyond the gate lies a dimly lit passageway extending downwards, a world apart from the hustle and bustle outside.

The pure energy that Qi Yun had transformed into re-condensed into a blurry human figure. It glanced back at the heavy gate that was still bearing the impact, and a faint smile appeared on its lips.

Their rise and Devil Cultivator both stemmed from Devil Cultivator.

The unbridled indulgence of those in the demonic path has made the Wan Ten Thousand Beauties Pavilion) a thriving business.

But if anything goes wrong, these Devil Cultivator are no pushovers either; they're very adept at taking advantage of others' misfortunes.

And this bitter fruit can only be borne by the Yellow Springs Netherworld itself.