Chapter 67.2

Li Tianyan, still in the secret room, naturally didn’t know what was going on outside. He found that Cheng Qi had woken up from his trance, and Li Tianyan also recovered the lost spiritual energy. The spiritual energy in this secret room was richer than the spirit gathering formation in their villa, so one day of practice here could achieve three times the usual effect.

Li Tianyan noticed that after these ten days, although the size of the several air masses in his body had not changed, they were much more solid, and they no longer felt as empty as before.

“Young master, I have reached the third level. Shall we leave?” Cheng Qi also noticed the benefits of strong spiritual energy. In just a few days, his cultivation reached the peak of the third level, and he suddenly felt reluctant to leave.

However, he only knew the first three levels of this technique. If he wanted to advance to the fourth level, it was best to acquire the remaining content first.

“Let’s go.” Although this place was nice, Li Tianyan didn’t like the feeling of being trapped, so he hurried to the inheritance place to take a look.

Since they decided to leave, the two of them stood up together and walked to one of the walls of the secret room. Cheng Qi stretched out his hand and held Li Tianyan tightly, fearing that they might be separated accidentally.

Li Tianyan naturally held him back. When Cheng Qi saw that he was ready, he took a deep breath and injected a bit of spiritual power into the wall. Sure enough, the beam of light appeared again and projected onto the two of them.

The two people who were teleported this time landed steadily on the ground, but it was no longer a secret room in front of them; instead, they found themselves in a real underground palace. The spacious corridors paved with red floor tiles were spotless, and there were  paintings on both sides of the walls—various exquisite pictures of ladies. The patterns were bright and clear, as if they had just been painted.

Cheng Qi and Li Tianyan slowly moved forward holding each other, and the style of the wall  paintings gradually became explicit—from the original dignified and elegant ladies’ pictures to provocative ones. This scene made Cheng Qi feel unsure where to look at for a while.

Li Tianyan appeared calm on the surface, but he had begun to recite the Heart-Cleaning Mantra silently in his heart. The paintings on the wall had an alluring quality, and he could easily fall into an illusion if he wasn’t careful.

The owner of the underground palace seemed to have no restraint, as the pictures on the wall began to depict scenes of men and women engaging in sexual activities, with the scenes in the pictures constantly changing.

From a poor farm boy to a wealthy master in the city, from a red-robed official to an emperor wearing a bright yellow dragon robe, from a strong warrior to a monk with a serene demeanor.

In these vivid pictures on the wall, the same woman appeared, but the men were different regardless of status or appearance. Li Tianyan’s face became more and more grim along the way because these pictures depicted the life experience of the owner of the underground palace.

This woman was an evil cultivator. Her Yin Yuan body was originally a furnace body for dual cultivation, but she seemed to be able to turn others to be her furnace. She practiced by draining the essence of men. All the men who had been with her were eventually drained, but her cultivation level continued to rise.

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Cheng Qi didn’t dare to look directly at the portraits on both sides, but he couldn’t help to peek a few times out of curiosity. Until he accidentally saw a monk wearing a white wide-sleeved robe, he felt that the man in the portrait was looking at him and it looked a bit like Li Tianyan.

Suddenly, a real scene appeared in front of Cheng Qi’s eyes. Li Tianyan and the woman in the painting were passionately kissing each other. Jealousy, sadness, despair, and various negative emotions surged into his heart, almost making him wanted to destroy everything.@@novelbin@@

“Keep your heart clean and don’t let the illusion fool you.”

Just when Cheng Qi was about to be completely ensnared, Li Tianyan’s voice suddenly sounded in his consciousness, bringing him back to clarity. That person was not Li Tianyan, nor did the young master would do this. It was impossible for young master to indulge like this.

Li Tianyan originally thought that Cheng Qi was young and naive, so he was not worried that he would be misled by the painting on the wall, but he did not expect to be so careless.

“I’m sorry, young master.” Cheng Qi’s face turned slightly red when he woke up, and he lowered his head guiltily to admit his mistake. It was all because of his lack of caution that something almost went wrong.

“The path of spiritual cultivation is fraught with peril. A moment of carelessness may lead to ruin. Don’t be so careless in the future.” Li Tianyan, although softened his tone, he still took the opportunity to sternly reprimand him.

Cheng Qi nodded obediently and said, “I will remember.”

“Let’s go.” Li Tianyan thought for a moment and pulled him a little closer, reminding him, “If you don’t entertain distracting thoughts, you won’t be easily led astray.”

“Yeah.” Cheng Qi nodded, but still sighed inwardly.

As the two of them walked down the long aisle, a large hall appeared in front of them. In the middle of the hall was a crystal coffin, and the woman from the portrait was lying inside.

Li Tianyan speculated that this woman must have been a Nascent Soul Cultivator while alive. However, with the sparse spiritual energy in this world, cultivating to the Core Formation stage was extremely difficult, and reaching Nascent Soul was nearly impossible. This woman might have been a cultivator from another continent.

“Young master, is she dead?” Cheng Qi looked at the woman in the crystal coffin and found that she was even more beautiful than in the portrait. Even as she laid there with her eyes closed, her captivating appearance remained unchanged.