Bai Xian'er was also confused for a moment, unable to figure out what kind of secrets were hidden in this stone statue of a beautiful woman.
Just when the two were confused, suddenly a thick black fog floated out from the stone statue of the beautiful woman.
"careful!"
Ye Qing's heart tightened, and he took a step back with Bai Xian'er, taking out the immortal sword Jingyun in his hand, with a look of vigilance on his face.
Although this black fog contained an extremely terrifying power, it did not seem to pose any threat to them.
The black fog floated in front of them, but suddenly stopped without moving forward another step.
Instead, it condensed into a row of words directly in mid-air.
"This is the statue of the Holy King, forged by the stone forging master Yun Gezi, and contains one ten-thousandth of the Holy King's spiritual power."
Seeing this line of words, Ye Qing and Bai Xian'er were stunned.
"The Holy King's stone statue?"
"This...how is this possible?!"
Bai Xian'er was stunned and said, "We have seen the stone statue of the Holy King before in the Holy Sound Temple."
"But the shape of the stone statue is clearly a giant orc with two feet on its head and a burly body."
"How could it be possible... that she is such a graceful and beautiful woman?"
Ye Qing frowned and thought for a moment, then said in a deep voice, "This means that one of this stone statue and the one on the top of the Holy Sound Temple has deceived us."
"The Holy King may not be a giant orc, but a beautiful woman like this..."
For a moment, Ye Qing's mind was filled with thousands of thoughts, and he had many guesses, but he denied them one by one.
Bai Xian'er was silent for a moment, then said weakly, "My benefactor, do you think this stone statue... could it be the wife of the Holy King?"
"Not like."
Ye Qing shook his head and murmured, "I always feel that there must be an extremely close connection between this stone statue and the Holy King, and it is even closer than the relationship between husband and wife."
"But I have no idea what the specific situation is."
"Well, since you can't figure it out, let's use the sword to ask questions."
After saying that, Ye Qing didn't think any more about it. He swung the fairy sword in his hand casually, and a sharp sword light blasted out.
"Troubled times!"
The sword light blasted straight towards the stone statue, causing it to explode with a bang and raising thick smoke.
Ye Qing stared at the smoke in front of him with his eyes fixed, trying to find any clues from it.
After a moment, a dazzling golden light burst out and flew straight towards them.
Ye Qing frowned, then waved his hand suddenly and grasped the golden light in his palm.
He opened his palm and looked carefully, and saw that the golden light flying towards him was actually a golden elixir.
The golden elixir exuded a pure and holy power, which was completely different from the aura emanating from the other four guardians in the ancient forbidden land.
Ye Qing felt as if it was taken from an immortal.
"The power of this golden elixir is so miraculous."
Bai Xian'er also saw the clue, frowned slightly, and murmured, "If this stone statue is really the Holy King, then could it be that this golden elixir is one ten-thousandth of the Holy King's spiritual power?"
“We can’t rule out this possibility.”
Ye Qing smiled slightly and put the golden elixir into his storage ring.
"Anyway, if we get rid of the lava statue, we've already completed half of saving the ruthless empress."
"Now, we should help her unlock the Yin Seal and make her a little happy."
...Immediately, Ye Qing and Bai Xian'er set off, left Beiting and headed straight for Zhongting.
Arriving at the courtyard, Ye Qing searched for a while, but couldn't find any trace of the mountain god, so he headed straight towards the temple.
When they arrived at the temple, before Ye Qing and Bai Xian'er could speak, they heard the voice of the ruthless empress.
"I never thought you would actually do it."
The ruthless empress's face was as cold as ice, but now she was obviously excited, and she said with emotion, "With the strength of just the two of you, you can actually kill the four guardians and collect the four spirit beads that can break the Yin Seal."
"It seems that my guess was correct. You are really the ones who are destined to save me!"
"Of course, since I promised you, I will definitely do it."
Ye Qing took out four spirit beads, floating them in his palm, and asked with a faint smile, "Tell me, how can I save you now?"
"You don't have to do anything. Just integrate these four spirit beads into the light wall and you can unlock the Yin Seal."
"Well, that's easy."
Ye Qing smiled and nodded, then waved his hand and let the four spirit beads float into the air.
The four spirit beads floated to the four directions of east, west, south and north respectively and merged into the four light curtains.
The originally indestructible light curtain slowly disappeared after being integrated into this spirit bead, as if a key was inserted into a shrinkage hole.
As the light curtains on all four sides disappeared, the seal of Yin was lifted, and a strong gust of wind instantly blew through the entire hall.
"carefree!"
The previously aloof and ruthless empress couldn't help but show excitement at this moment, and said loudly, "It's been a long time since I felt this relaxed!"
"carefree!"
The ruthless empress roared, and the strong wind in the temple instantly became more fierce, even thick enough to materialize.
Ye Qing and Bai Xian'er couldn't help but take a step back, with beads of cold sweat appearing on their foreheads.
The strength of the ruthless empress is indeed terrifying.
Having only gotten rid of one layer of seal and still being blocked by another layer of Yang Seal, it has already emitted such a powerful aura.
Ye Qing could feel that the ruthless empress was definitely one of the best among all the immortal emperors in the ancient and modern times.
If she could wait until the Seal of Yang was also sealed, with her terrifying power, she would definitely be able to sweep through the ancient forbidden land in an instant.
"Thank you both for going to such great lengths to help me remove the seal."
The ruthless empress smiled faintly and said, "As a reward, this is given to you."
After saying that, the ruthless empress took out a jade slip from her arms, which flew out directly from the seal of Yang and fell into Ye Qing's hands.
Feeling the pure power emanating from the jade slip, Ye Qing asked doubtfully, "What is this?"
The ruthless empress smiled faintly and said, "This is a technique I created, called the Heaven Devouring Demon Technique. It can refine and devour all defeated enemies and turn them into spiritual power for my own use."
"Oh?"
Ye Qing wondered, "You have such a good technique, why didn't you give it to me earlier?"
“If I had this skill just now and absorbed the power of the four guardians, I might have already broken through to the Immortal King level.”
The ruthless empress smiled and said, "First of all, I don't know your strength just now, so I can't trust you completely."
"If I teach you this Heaven Devouring Demonic Art, but it falls into the hands of the four guardians instead, wouldn't it be more loss than gain?"
"Secondly, I want to transmit my skills, but I can only break through one seal at most."
"And just now when the Yin Seal was still in place, I couldn't give it to you even if I wanted to." (End of this chapter)
