Chapter 195 (2/2)

Yu Yangzi sighed again. “That battle was a painfully desperate one. I wasn’t his match. I ended up ruining my Nascent Soul to release the powers of the Nascent Soul Realm, thinking that I must stop this devil from harming the innocent even if it means giving up my life…”

Xiao Chen looked at the hole in Yu Yangzi’s chest and thought, “So that’s how his Nascent Soul was destroyed. Looks like he used to have exceptional cultivation.” He then asked, “Did the devil end up dying?”

Yu Yangzi shook his head and heaved a deep sigh. “No. That devil is unimaginably cunning. Knowing that he couldn’t block my Nascent Soul Realm power, he sacrificed his physical body and fled with his soul to a deserted palace 10 kilometers away.”

While speaking, he pointed in the southeast direction. “Over there.”

Xiao Chen looked in the direction that he was pointing to but there was nothing but darkness in the night. Even so, he could feel the faint spirit energy fluctuation of a formation coming from that direction. He turned his head and said, “Oh? Since the devil managed to escape with his soul, why didn’t he return to the Corpse Refinery Sect immediately?”

Yu Yangzi shook his head with a wry smile after seeing how meticulous Xiao Chen was being. “You still don’t believe me, do you?” He sighed and explained, “I was too careless back then. I couldn’t tell that the devil was heavily injured and was even ambushed by him. Sigh…”

Xiao Chen narrowed his eyes. “What do you mean?”

“The moment the devil escaped with his soul, he used the mystic arts of his sect to secretly plant a soul in my body. He wanted to ingest my soul and refine me! That was why he couldn’t go far or he’d suffer great damage.”

Yu Yangzi smiled wryly again. “That was why I said the mystic arts of his devil’s sect were capable of ingesting spirits and stealing souls. Firstly, I saw that the person was trying to kill you. Secondly, I killed him to replenish my soul force so that it would be easier for me to keep fighting the devil. If I allow the devil to finish refining me, living beings within a thousand miles will all perish.”

Xiao Chen gave him a small nod. That was his biggest point of suspicion. If Yu Yangzi was truly someone from the Orthodox Path, why would he use the mystic arts of the devil’s sect, Soul-devouring Art? He found Yu Yangzi’s explanation to be reasonable. He said, “You must have told me all these for a reason. What is it?”

Yu Yangzi nodded and pointed in the southeast direction. “The devil placed a Grand Formation of Loss outside the deserted palace. I tried countless times to shatter the formation, break into the palace, and kill him before his soul recovers completely, but all my attempts end in failure. The formation is beyond my ability.”

Xiao Chen understood what Yu Yangzi wanted from him. He must have noticed Xiao Chen and Murong Xian’er long ago, particularly Xian’er’s skills with formations. Thus, he wanted to borrow Xian’er’s strength to break open the grand formation. However, there was something that Xiao Chen didn’t quite understand and yet he couldn’t point out what it was.

Seeing that he was still hesitating, Yu Yangzi added, “I have been battling the soul that the devil left in my body all these years. I know I don’t have long to live and all I hope for is to kill that devil. If we wait for the devil to finish refining my soul and break out of the palace, I fear that no one in this world would be able to stop him. When that happens, a calamity is sure to wait.”

Xiao Chen was finally moved after hearing him put his request in such a manner. It made sense to him too. Yu Yangzi was a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator, after all. If the Leader of the Corpse Refinery Sect ingested his soul, wouldn’t that plunge the entire Violet Manor into utter disaster?

Suddenly, Murong Xian’er tugged on his sleeve and shook her head timidly.

Xiao Chen became alarmed. That was right! How could he be so foolish? How could he believe this person’s words so easily? Xian’er was usually so naive and guileless, but was now more astute than he was.

Even if Yu Yangzi was telling the truth—that there was indeed a battle between the two and the devil truly wanted to ingest his soul—so much time had passed. Who could be sure of what was occupying Yu Yangzi’s body now? If Yu Yangzi’s soul was long gone, wouldn’t that make the Yu Yangzi in front of them the devil’s clone?

Moreover, who knew if that so-called deserted palace was a grand formation that Yu Yangzi left behind before his death to seal the devil within? If he rashly undid the seal on the grand formation, wouldn’t he be releasing the true devil?

It was just like that grand formation on the ancient tomb in the Xiao family’s rear mountain. Xiao Ning was the one who ordered them not to undo the seal no matter what, but the order gradually turned into him warning them against undoing the seal unless absolutely necessary. In the end, the Great Devil Gu Feng was released and nearly wiped out the entire Xiao family.

Recalling this, Xiao Chen felt cold sweat break out on his back. Suddenly, Yu Yangzi gave Murong Xian’er an unfathomable look. There was an ominous glint in his eyes.

“Girl, don’t you believe my words?!”