Chapter 550 - 235: Calamity of the Lunar Eclipse: Breaking the Agreement Midway
Chapter 550: Chapter 235: Calamity of the Lunar Eclipse: Breaking the Agreement Midway
"Stay back!"
Su Li cried out, but she could only watch helplessly as her master, a loving smile on her face, walked over to congratulate her on breaking through to Nascent Soul.
Under the full moon, the Moon Eclipse Spell spread on the moonlight, infecting every living creature for hundreds of miles around the sect.
She got up and walked out of the stone house, trying to dispel these terrible memories.
Perhaps her innate destiny had sealed her fate as the Star of Calamity and Solitude.
She had been abandoned by her parents at birth.
At the time, Su Li’s master had just given birth to her own daughter. Moved by the infant’s cries, she acted on a kind impulse and took Su Li in.
Who could have known that this act of kindness would lead to the Lunar Eclipse disaster, which devastated the land for hundreds of miles around?
From that day on, no other living thing could survive near her. Even Tier Four Spirit-Extinguishing Cloud Wood would gradually be eroded, turning rotten and decayed.
She had become a walking natural disaster.
The situation was dire, causing a massive headache for the major powers in the region.
Su Li was a Nascent Soul True Monarch and carried an ancient, forbidden curse. With no Divinity Transformation experts available, no one could do anything to her.
The problem was, the great experts of the Divinity Transformation realm were busy with their own cultivation.
They were as elusive as dragons, rarely showing themselves and almost impossible to find.
Fortunately, to avoid harming more people, Su Li voluntarily exiled herself to this extremely remote, isolated island, with only statues for company.
The surrounding Major Sects were, naturally, overjoyed.
They pooled their money and resources, joining forces to set up a massive Tier Four Illusion Array around Silent Calamity Island to conceal it. This ensured that ordinary Cultivators would never even see the island, let alone set foot on it.
The nearest sect, the Cangming Immortal Sect, even paid out of its own pocket to establish an Inspection Array.
Ostensibly, it was to ensure no one with ill intentions entered the island. In reality, its more important function was to monitor Su Li’s movements.
If she ever grew tired of staying on the island and tried to leave, they could detect it immediately and discuss countermeasures. At the very least, they could warn their own Disciples to stay away.
In truth, however, on her very first day on the island, Su Li had silently sworn an oath to the heavens.
Until her curse was broken, she would never take a single step off Silent Calamity Island.
If she could never find a solution, she would rather bear the curse alone and die of old age here for the rest of her life than harm another innocent person.
’A greedy person can’t be considered innocent.’
Su Li glanced at the nearby grotto and mused to herself, ’So, using Xiao Chen to help me make a new statue shouldn’t count as breaking my oath, right?’
For some reason, the thought made her feel a little lighter.
She thought about it carefully. ’It’s probably because I’ll be getting a new statue soon.’
Time flew by in the blink of an eye. Three days had already passed since Xiao Chen first set foot on the island and was exposed to Su Li’s curse.
Another long night passed quietly, and a great sun slowly rose from the distant sea horizon.
Golden morning light pierced the darkness, illuminating all of Silent Calamity Island.
As usual, Su Li sat on a reef by the sea, hugging her knees, her bare feet gently tapping the surging waves.
The morning light pierced the thin mist, illuminating the vermilion mark between her brows. Her snow-white hair cascaded down, shimmering like molten silver.
A few strands of hair fluttered gently in the sea breeze, playfully brushing against her neck, which was as fair as Mutton Fat Jade.
But Su Li was completely oblivious to this, her gaze subconsciously drawn to Xiao Chen on the beach, who had risen early to work on the statue.
THUD! THUD! THUD!
The familiar sound rang out—a rhythmic and powerful striking that was a testament to the carver’s robust health.
He even seemed more energetic than he had been the past two days.
But today was the fourth day.
The confusion in Su Li’s eyes deepened. Her delicate brows furrowed slightly, and she unconsciously bit her lower lip, her heart filled with bewilderment.
For the past hundred years, any living creature that approached her would be swiftly infected by the curse, an affliction that clung to its victims like a festering disease.
In less than three days, the infected would mutate in excruciating pain before dying a miserable death.
Yet the man before her, Xiao Chen, was not only still alive and well, but he didn’t even show the slightest sign of being affected by the curse.
Su Li stared intently at Xiao Chen without blinking, as if trying to pry the answer from his very being.
’Strange, why hasn’t the curse taken effect yet?’
’Could it be that after a hundred years, my Curse Power has weakened?’
A sliver of hope rose in Su Li’s heart.
But she immediately extinguished the thought. ’Impossible. How could that be?’
For years, she had tried countless methods but had never been able to escape the shadow of her curse.
This was just a fantasy born from her own wishful thinking, from her desperate desire for release.
At this thought, the light in her eyes dimmed once more.
TAP! TAP! TAP!
Xiao Chen had switched from heavy striking to making minor adjustments.
Su Li watched him walk back and forth around the block of wood, and a sudden thought struck her—’Could it be that Xiao Chen is carrying some special Magical Treasure that can resist the curse?’
However, when she observed him closely, she found no fluctuations of Spiritual Power emanating from any Magical Treasure on his person.
’How ridiculous,’ she thought. ’How could a mere Golden Core Cultivator possess a Magical Treasure? I must be getting muddled.’
’Then could it be that Xiao Chen has some kind of special constitution?’
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Su Li’s mind was in turmoil as all sorts of thoughts flooded in.
She unconsciously twirled the ends of her hair, twisting the snowy strands into tiny knots as she continued to stare at Xiao Chen without realizing it.