No one knew that this incident was Chu Pingyu’s doing, including the original host, who had only learned of this after her death.
Ye Huaifeng, who had lost most of his cultivation, no longer had any strength to protect his junior siblings when they were bullied.
Ye Huaifeng, however, was a person with a resilient character. Using his broken spiritual root, he managed to cultivate and return to the Foundation Building stage. However, it was still very difficult for him to form a golden core with a broken spiritual root.
Ye Huaifeng was very skilled in drawing talismans, and he would often go down the mountain to sell the talismans that he had drawn.
Today, Ye Huaifeng would meet Chu Pingyu’s disciple, Yu Xing, when he returned from the foot of the mountain.
Yu Xing used to look up to Ye Huaifeng in the past. However, Yu Haifeng had now fallen from grace.
Ye Huaifeng was practically a waste now. Should anything happen to him, the sect would not protect him. Yu Xing believed that Yu Haifeng could be bullied without consequences, as the sect wouldn’t have the time to monitor which disciples were being mistreated, anyway.
Yu Xing was also not afraid of the original host, the master of Baoyue Peak. Chu Qianyan and his master were siblings. He could bully Ye Huaifeng, that waste of a disciple, as much as he liked.
On this day, Ye Huaifeng would return to the sect as usual and encounter Yu Xing, who was waiting on the way to bully him.
Yu Xing and several disciples from Dengyun Peak brutally beat Ye Huaifeng, not expecting him to have already reached the middle of the Foundation Building stage.
Yu Xing was filled with fear when he realised it.
Three years! In just three years, he had recovered to this extent!
If Ye Huaifeng managed to form his golden core, he would become a sect-protected genius, and the sect might spare no effort to help him restore his damaged spiritual root. Yu Xing absolutely couldn’t allow that to happen, so he used a lethal technique against Ye Huaifeng.
In the end, he completely extracted Ye Huaifeng’s damaged spiritual root, and then he banished Ye Huaifeng to the Abyss of Malevolent Souls.
The Abyss of Malevolent Souls was a place where even the strongest cultivators refused to go. It was filled with malevolent energy that eroded both the body and the soul. Yu Xing didn’t even bother checking after that; in his view, Ye Huaifeng was undoubtedly dead.
When Ye Huaifeng didn’t return, the original master noticed, but since his soul token remained intact, she simply assumed he was away. As time passed and he still didn’t return, she went to look for him but couldn’t find him.
She knew that she had her actions were disappointing to her disciples, and she thought that Ye Huaifeng had finally become too disappointed in her and left her in anger.
She never could have imagined that Ye Huaifeng had become a demon under the Abyss of Malevolent Souls. He spent hundreds of years swallowing up all the malevolent energy in the Abyss of Malevolent Souls, before becoming a great demon.
At this point, he still had some clarity left. He had absorbed the malevolent energy for two reasons: one, to stay alive and eventually return to see his master, and the second, of course, was for revenge.
However, by the time that he returned, Xuanyue Sect had changed, and all his junior brothers and sisters had died.
His master had also died. She had apparently failed to survive her tribulation. She didn’t manage to overcome her inner demons and was struck down by a heavenly thunderbolt.
When Ye Huaifeing discovered the truth about the deaths of his junior siblings, he lost the last bit of the clarity that he still had. He no longer held back.
He first wiped out the entire Xuanyue Sect, and then he went on a killing spree in the entire cultivation world. He left no one, not even a single rat, alive. In the end, he received heavenly retribution and died.
The remnant of the original host’s soul watched all of this unfold. However, for some reason, she couldn’t seem to intervene and stop anything from happening.
Ye Huaifeng felt intense pain throughout his body. He watched Yu Xing approach him. A sense of powerlessness surged within him. Because of his lack of restraint, he prematurely exposed his strength, and this made Yu Xing bear murderous intent against him.
He should have endured it a little longer.
Ye Huaifeng’s spiritual root had indeed been shattered. The only reason that he had managed to return to his current state was his determination. In reality, Yu Xing’s worries about his strength were somewhat unnecessary. It wasn’t guaranteed that Ye Huaifeng would ever reach the Core Formation stage.