Ms. Diviner: The Prodigal Daughter's Return

Chapter 1008: Awakening of the Deep Sleep Man

In Han Yan’s mind, another image suddenly emerged. To save Yi Qinglian from the misfortunes of her past life, Han Yan had once ventured alone, using thunderous methods to kill the retired court official Jian Zhongtian. It was after killing him that she saw the same bizarre scene filled with piles of bones in that eerie courtyard.She understood now, she understood everything. It turned out, the protector of the Guiyu Clan was Jian Zhongtian. In exchange, he obtained the evil technique from them, which sacrificed the lives of young girls to enhance his combat power. Originally, she thought Jian Zhongtian was just a pervert addicted to torturing and killing girls, but there was a deeper reason hidden. Fortunately, the Guiyu Clan did not divulge everything to Jian Zhongtian, and he couldn’t master the technique, so despite causing harm to countless people, he didn’t have significant cultivation; otherwise, she wouldn’t have been able to kill him back then or emerge unscathed.

She couldn’t imagine how many innocent girls the Guiyu Clan had harmed to practice this evil technique. In front of Han Yan’s eyes, it seemed as if the despairing gaze of Yi Qinglian from her past life appeared once again, unable to rest in peace.

Boundless rage erupted like a volcano.

With a clear cry, Han Xiao Sword was raised high, slashing directly toward the young man on the altar.

"Stop!" All the clansmen of the Guiyu Clan shouted in alarm.

But Han Yan’s fury had already exploded completely, wishing she could slash the man on the altar into powder with one stroke. How could she possibly stop?

As the sword light came closer and closer to the Family Head, the clansmen of the Guiyu clan turned pale.

The black-robed elders fighting desperately with Ye Lanfeng and Uncle Yun suddenly turned around, rushing towards Han Yan.

With a light sound, Ye Lanfeng’s longsword pierced through the chest of another black-robed elder. The elder staggered, fell to his knees, and died immediately. Until his death, he looked sorrowfully at the Family Head, blood tears streaming from his eyes.

Another black-robed elder was struck down by Uncle Yun’s sword, collapsing powerlessly to the ground, though not yet dead, his five internal organs were shattered by the powerful sword energy, clearly unable to survive.

The last remaining black-robed elder also shed tears, realizing that with Ye Lanfeng and Uncle Yun attacking with full force, even if he fought with his life, he could not stop Han Yan, only watch helplessly as the sword blade slashed toward their Family Head.

Closer, even closer...the Han Xiao Sword was about to strike the sleeping man’s face, splitting him in two. Suddenly, a slender hand stretched out like lightning, two long fingers like iron clamps, tightly pinching the sword blade.

Everyone involuntarily stopped, shockingly watching the scene unfold.

Though Han Yan was at the third-stage Sword Master cultivation, her actual combat power was not weaker than a fifth-rank Sword Master. But even combined with the divine power of the Han Xiao Sword itself, it couldn’t match those mere two fingers.

Within those two fingers, what horrific and formidable strength did they contain?

"So young, yet possessing such power. The Mu Family is really lucky, but unfortunately, you shouldn’t have met me. Remember my name, I am Gui Yu Mie!" A hoarse voice came, like an iron spoon scraping over a porcelain plate, piercing the eardrums painfully.

After the words fell, the man lying on the altar sat up.

His movements were so stiff, as if a marionette, with joints cracking as he moved.

If Han Yan didn’t know this was the Family Head of the Guiyu Clan, who fell into deep sleep due to cultivating evil techniques, she would almost think she encountered the legendary undead.

"Awakened, the Family Head has finally awakened!" The black-clothed swordsmen cheered in unison, tears of excitement and joy streaming from their eyes. The only remaining black-robed elder, too, was overjoyed, kneeling devoutly on the ground.

Did he really wake up? Seeing before her eyes the seemingly undead youth, Gui Yu Mie, the Family Head of the Guiyu Clan, a strange feeling arose in Han Yan’s heart.

Though he clamped the Han Xiao Sword with just two fingers, Han Yan felt no Qi flowing from his body. His voice carried mockery, yet his gaze was so hollow, devoid of Spiritual Wisdom.

No, something must be wrong!

Han Yan’s Divine Sense traced along the Han Xiao Sword, probing into the other’s body.

Previously, Han Yan could only use Divine Sense to search the Mu Family’s disciples who cultivated the Heavenly Heart Technique or lifeless objects. But as her cultivation advanced and the cultivation technique leveled up several times, the restrictions lessened, usable on others, though still somewhat impeded.

Yet this time, her Divine Sense traced into Gui Yu Mie’s body through the Han Xiao Sword without any obstruction, as if it were a lifeless corpse.

Could it truly be the undead? Uncontrollably, Han Yan’s mind spawned a thought she hardly believed herself.

But as Han Yan attempted to probe into his Divine Sea with her Divine Sense, suddenly, a massive Divine Sense surged forth!

Han Yan clearly sensed this Divine Sense quietly merging with Gui Yu Mie’s body, and a trace of life, like grass after rain, rapidly grew within!

"Body Destruction and Soul Separation!" Han Yan exclaimed.

Body Destruction and Soul Separation is a strange and mysterious art that separates Divine Sense from the soul.

It’s said that some hidden cultivation masters forcibly break through bottlenecks to enhance cultivation by relying on external forces, either the Spirit Pill or Miracle Medicine, even strange flowers and herbs or Earth Fire Heavenly Thunder.

But whether they used the Spirit Pill, Miracle Medicine, or strange flowers and herbs, or Earth Fire Heavenly Thunder, all had surpassed the limits a human body could endure, possibly destroying the Divine Soul due to extreme pain.

Thus, someone devised the Body Destruction and Soul Separation technique, first extinguishing internal vitality, completely separating the Divine Soul from the body, then forcibly refining the body with the Spirit Pill, Miracle Medicine, or Earth Fire Heavenly Thunder to break through the bottleneck, enhancing cultivation. Once successful, re-fuse the Divine Sense, resurrecting the body.

Evidently, the evil technique Gui Yu Mie performed at the cost of many girls’ lives was too powerful, so powerful that his body couldn’t endure it, forcing him to resort to Body Destruction and Soul Separation.

Understanding this, Han Yan suddenly awakened, realizing Gui Yu Mie hadn’t truly accomplished the evil technique nor genuinely awakened. The previous undead act was merely to confuse her, stalling for time.

If it weren’t for the Concentrating Inner Vision effect of her Divine Sense, she might have been deceived.

A lengthy narrative condensed into a mere moment of realization, understanding the situation, Han Yan hesitated not at all, shouting as she exerted the Divine Martial Refining Soul Technique with full force, intensely concentrating the Divine Sense, like a sharp sword, stabbing toward Guiyu Clan’s yet-to-reclaim Divine Sense.