Chapter 1499: Dreaming Back to the Shallow Moon Pool

“This hall is called the Wenwu Hall. And these two statues are one of literature (Wen) and one of martial arts (Wu). They were brought from the lower realm by the first-generation old Sect Master when he ascended. It is said that these two statues were objects of his master, that is, our Martial Grandcestor’s original sect. Later, because the lower realm sect also had few people, when the first-generation old Sect Master ascended, he brought some of the items left by his master up with him. The original intention was to rely on the rich cultivation resources of the Immortal Spirit Realm to rebuild the sect with some tokens and carry it forward.

“However, these two statues themselves are not any peerless magical treasures, so they cannot become the ultimate foundation of the sect’s protection. But because the person who carved the statues back then was a supreme expert of our Soul Suppression Palace, these two statues themselves are imbued with a certain indescribable artistic conception.

“After observing these two statues here, different people will also have different comprehensions, which is quite strange. And when cultivators who practice the ‘Saintly Soul Transformation’ come here to comprehend, not only will their cultivation improve, but the effect will be even stronger. Later, after confirmation, the reason was also guessed.

“Because that cultivation method emphasizes cultivating the Yang Po and Yin Hun. And the martial general statue is for comprehending the power of the Yang Po, while the scholar statue is for comprehending the power of the Yin Hun. So, Brother Li, when you cultivate later, you just need to, according to your current actual situation, identify the missing power in your soul and comprehend the different statues.

“According to the sect’s records, if one wants to cultivate the Power of the Cold Moon, as long as one can achieve a balance between these two powers, the phenomenon of Stellar Shift and Lunar Advent can occur. That is to say, the stage mentioned in the ‘Saintly Soul Transformation’ where yin and yang intertwine, the dragon and tiger are harmonized, and the Yang Po and Yin Hun alternate day and night. The Power of the Cold Moon will naturally form. Brother Li must remember this point and make good use of these two statues…”

Tang Feng had already stopped in front of the statues.

He began to explain the use of these two statues, pointing at them with his hand as he spoke. He was telling Li Yan the shortcut to cultivating the Power of the Cold Moon as much as possible, so that he could take fewer detours and see if he could have some breakthrough in comprehension in the shortest possible time. To reduce the waste of time in pondering the use of the two statues, this was also the main purpose of him accompanying Li Yan here.

At this moment, Li Yan had already suppressed the shock in his heart and was listening to Tang Feng’s explanation with a calm face. At the same time, he looked up at the two statues in front of him and examined them carefully.

On the right was a statue dressed as a scholar. He had a handsome appearance and wore a Confucian scholar’s hat. His eyes looked straight ahead. One hand was half-bent and placed in front of his chest, and in his hand, he was also holding a scroll of Iron Scroll Cinnabar Book. And his other hand was behind his back. Looking into the distance, he seemed to be deep in thought.

The moment Li Yan looked at this statue, he felt a strange movement in his three huns, as if they wanted to float up inside his body. This made his three huns feel a kind of lightness and comfort at this moment, as if he were in the clouds.

And the statue on the left was dressed in a suit of armor, but without a helmet. It was a big man who looked to be in his forties or fifties. This statue was of a martial general. His eyes were looking diagonally upwards. One eye was wide open, and the other was half-closed. His body was leaning back slightly. One hand was resting on one leg, and in his other hand, there was a long spear, as if he was about to throw it. Under his armored robe, a large foot extended out, with the knee slightly bent and stepping on the base. The place where his other foot landed was in a parallel stance. This posture was very strange. In addition, the hand that was resting on his leg made it feel very difficult to exert force, which looked a bit awkward.

Comparing the two statues, the martial general statue seemed a bit stiff, not as natural and free as the scholar statue on the left.

And Li Yan, before, had also been when his eyes had swept over this statue that his entire heart had suddenly clenched, and his emotions had changed…

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In the main hall, after a hundred breaths, Tang Feng had explained everything. Then he pointed to the ground in front of the two statues, where there were a number of prayer mats, some far and some near.

“Brother Li can just observe and comprehend here. Different positions will also have different effects on your comprehension, because your state of mind will change after observing from each angle. Alright, I’ve said what I needed to say! Brother Li, it’s up to you now. Please!”

Speaking to this point, Tang Feng actually bowed to Li Yan. Li Yan quickly dodged.

“Brother Tang, since this is an important matter for the sect, I will definitely do my best!”

He didn’t know why Tang Feng was so solemn about this matter. Of course, in terms of his identity, the sect was more closely related to the Soul Palace’s Rear Hall. It was a matter of shared glory and shared loss. Therefore, Tang Feng would naturally attach great importance to this matter. But this kind of importance, in Li Yan’s view, should be more like Grandmaster Lan’s attitude, cautious and solemn. And Tang Feng’s expression made Li Yan feel a personal emotional outpouring, but he was not sure if his feeling was correct.

After Tang Feng stepped into the bamboo forest, Li Yan reached out a hand and took back the scroll of Iron Scroll Cinnabar Book. As the ripples of light disappeared, the grayish-white main door appeared again.

Li Yan did not immediately return to the front of the two statues, but began to look around carefully in the entire main hall, as if he were admiring the entire hall. He would occasionally release his soul power and carefully sense every place. It was not until after more than half an hour that Li Yan slowly walked back to the front of the two statues again.

When he looked up again, his eyes were already filled with some strange lights.

“A complete statue actually appeared here. This should no longer be a coincidence… In that case, the Soul Suppression Palace and the Hellsoul Clan really do have a connection…”

Li Yan’s gaze was now firmly fixed on the statue of the martial general. He was seventy to eighty percent familiar with this statue. The reason he said this was precisely because back then, in the ruins of the Hellsoul Clan, he had seen a similar broken statue near a pool at the bottom of a broken cliff.

And that statue, apart from missing an eyeball, a hand and a leg, and the long spear in its hand, the other parts were almost exactly the same as the martial general statue before him. Therefore, the moment Li Yan saw this statue, his mind was greatly shaken, and he almost showed too much abnormality, but he managed to suppress it in time.

He had just carefully checked this palace to see if there was any kind of surveillance formation. Although he knew that if an expert like Grandmaster Lan were to act, if they really wanted to see the situation here without him knowing, then he wouldn’t be able to find it out. But any cultivator understood a principle: when a person was cultivating a technique, their senses were at their most sensitive. Some dangers that were completely undetectable might trigger a warning in the heart during the operation of the technique.

The main reason was that at that time, the mind was communicating with the heaven and earth in a way of the heavenly Dao’s rules, and some abnormalities would be sensed by the heart. And this kind of sensing of abnormalities, the higher the cultivation of the cultivator, and the more profound the cultivation method, the greater the chance of it appearing during the practice. So, if Grandmaster Lan and the others wanted Li Yan to cultivate in peace, they shouldn’t have made this simple mistake.

Li Yan, out of his usual caution, still felt that he would be a little more at ease after checking.

He stared at the statue above without blinking, recalling what Tang Feng had said before. These two statues were brought from the lower realm by the first-generation Sect Master of the Soul Suppression Palace, and they were the property of his master.

“If we were to speculate from this, is the Soul Suppression Palace itself a branch of the Hellsoul Clan? Or is it that the cultivator who held these two statues was from the Hellsoul Clan, and later founded the Soul Suppression Palace? Or is it that that person also obtained these two statues by accident, just like I encountered the broken statue at the edge of the pool in the Hellsoul Clan back then… This means that there should be quite a few statues similar to this one. At least I have seen two. It’s just that the statue of the scholar was not seen in the Hellsoul Clan…”

Li Yan’s thoughts raced.

He could now, from these two statues, sense some reactions from his own soul quite clearly. He felt that the broken statue at the edge of the pool in the Hellsoul Clan might also have this effect. But because it was a statue that only had a reaction to Soul Cultivators, when other cultivators encountered it, it would naturally be of no use, so they would not take it away, and it was left there.