CHAPTER 607: CHAPTER 586 SECOND UPDATE

Yin He recalled the past events at Prince Duan’s Mansion, especially the scene from that day, which remained deeply etched in his mind. The woman’s laughter often surfaced in his dreams. Hearing the noise outside, he couldn’t help feeling a bit annoyed.

Fortunately, Elder Su had departed quickly, and the youth’s thoughts returned. So, to make her happy first, she would be willing...

"Young Master," Elder Can entered, prepared to face death, but harboring a sliver of hope—today, the Young Master seemed to be in a good mood.

The youth’s expression immediately turned sour, looking at the person who came in. His people were becoming more and more unruly by the day, just coming in as they pleased. Elder Can, who had followed for so long and excelled at observation, realized he had come at an inappropriate time. But now that he was in, saying it wasn’t okay and not saying anything were both equally wrong.

"Young Master, something has happened to Lian Gui," Elder Can dared not digress, knowing that this was the most important matter at hand.

The youth frowned upon hearing this. It wasn’t that he wasn’t taking the matter seriously, but he wanted to appease Nian Ru’s anger first, so he could focus entirely on dealing with this issue.

"I have my own plans," even if it might take some time—at the moment, he did not have time to spare.

"Young Master, I’m afraid it’s too late," he urged. If you don’t go now, Lian Gui won’t make it.

Elder Can suppressed his urgent thoughts for the moment, trying to think about the issue from the Young Master’s perspective.

"Young Master, I understand that the most important thing right now is the Princess Royal, but she’s as delicate as a flower. If she were to be frightened by this kind of incident, what then?"

The youth looked at Elder Can upon hearing this, realizing he hadn’t considered it. He was interested in hearing what Elder Can had to say.

"Young Master, think about it. At this time, we cannot have any trouble in Ghoul Ravine. If there is trouble, the Princess Royal might deem our side dangerous. Furthermore, the state Lian Gui is in is not an isolated case. What if there’s another one, or two, and we can’t control them and let them out? What if the Princess Royal sees them, then what?"

Elder Can leaned on the issue with Zheng Nianru as much as he could. His words were not entirely alarmist—the thing within Lian Gui didn’t seem to be a Ghost Shadow; it must be something else entirely— an entity that grew stronger by absorbing the energy from Qiandao Temple’s mages. Sooner or later, the day would come when the Disciples of Ghoul Ravine would be unable to control it.

Elder Can wasn’t actually worried about the Disciples of Ghoul Ravine themselves. The training methods of Ghoul Ravine were different from others, relying on offering one’s flesh to control Ghost Shadows until eventually, the Ghost Shadows consumed these people, allowing them to persist from generation to generation, replaced by new disciples of Ghoul Ravine.

However, this entity was different: more vicious and harder to control than the Ghost Shadows, and they couldn’t even maintain the simplest of restraints. Instead, they ended up enslaved to it.

The youth wasn’t unaware of this principle. He had already experimented with such an entity before; Zheng Muyuan hadn’t died as easily. Even the energy he had stealthily absorbed from the Qiandao Temple had almost led to success.

If Zheng Muyuan could endure it, why couldn’t the people of Ghoul Ravine? Yin He refused to believe it was a significant problem; there must be something he hadn’t identified yet. Once found, he was confident of resolving it.

However, Elder Can’s words weren’t without reason. Indeed, he couldn’t let Nian Ru find out about this.

"Let’s go and take a look," Yin He said. Elder Can instantly breathed a sigh of relief and immediately led him towards the back mountain.

By now, the back mountain had already gathered numerous Disciples of Ghoul Ravine. Gui Si, Gui Wu, and Gui Liu surrounded the entire cave entrance. Aside from Elder Su, Ling San and Ling Si were all inside the cave, with piercing howls constantly emanating from within, at this point no longer sounding like a human could produce them.

Gui Wu and Gui Liu standing at the doorway looked worriedly into the cave, where the black gas tinged with scarlet was clearly visible to the naked eye. It was gathering and growing denser inside the cave, continuously churning.

"Young Master—"

"Young Master—"

The moment they caught sight of Yin He, excitement surged in their eyes, and they quickly crowded around him. Yin He glanced at the cave, his brow furrowing at the sight of the smoke, but the young man showed no sign of hesitation. He strode into the entrance of the cave and with a sweep of his hand, he scooped up the black smoke and rolled it into a ball in his palm. In the next moment, with a pop, the black smoke dissipated from the man’s hand like mist.

The remaining black smoke seemed to sense the young man’s power and started to flee in all directions. Elder Can saw this and felt a glimmer of hope. Even if Lian Gui had turned into some sort of monster, the Young Master should be able to control it, right?

Yin He immediately noticed Lian Gui, who was writhing on the ground. Lian Gui was a disciple of Ghoul Ravine, ranked just below the Ling and Gui generations. He was also among the first batch of disciples to test out the Young Master’s spells. The initial results were outstanding. Once the spells were activated, Lian Gui’s strength increased manifold, and he could easily overpower several disciples of the Ling generation, who could not match him before.

This astonished everyone in Ghoul Ravine, and many clamored to learn the spells. Fortunately, the Ravine Master hesitated, delegating important tasks to the disciples of the Ling and Gui generations, and thus, only the disciples below the Lian generation were allowed to practice them.

Now, only twenty to thirty disciples from the Ling and Gui generations, who hadn’t cultivated the spells, remained, along with some other disciples of Ghoul Ravine who were temporarily unable to cultivate them.

However, the Lian Gui on the ground could no longer be called human, having completely lost any human appearance.

"Lian Gui—" Elder Can gasped, about to step forward to check on him, only to be stopped by Yin He’s hand.

"Step back—" Yin He said coldly. Indeed, it was more troublesome than he had anticipated. The young man moved forward and saw that Lian Gui’s legs had dissolved into a puddle of black water, fortunately not spreading to the rest of his body.

"Young Master—" Lian Gui still had some consciousness, struggling to get up. But before he could move, Yin He had already kicked him away. To the astonishment of Elder Can and Elder Su, the young man swiftly took advantage of the moment Lian Gui was sent flying to grab the black smoke and rapidly knead it, unlike the earlier casual motions. The young man’s actions were incredibly fast, and he rapidly enveloped himself in the swirling black smoke.

Suddenly, a strange shrieking sound came from the young man’s hands, struggling and moaning as if it were alive.

Gradually, the moaning grew weaker until it slowly faded into silence, disappearing without a trace.

Elder Can, Elder Su, and the others heaved a collective sigh of relief. When they looked at Lian Gui again, he was still breathing and turned their eager eyes to their Young Master.

"He will live—" said the young man indifferently after taking a glance.

Immediately, everyone looked at their Young Master with tears of gratitude; their Young Master was truly formidable.

Elder Can immediately ordered someone to check on Lian Gui. Besides the loss of his legs, there was no danger to his life; they quickly bandaged his festering wounds.

The young man turned to leave, and Elder Can and Elder Su naturally did not dare to stop him, instead eagerly escorting him out. But just then, behind them, Lian Gui suddenly let out a very intense howl.