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However, evil people like Yu Xing were always afraid of their victims making a comeback against them. Today, Yu Xing seemed intent on finishing the job.

Ye Huaifeng’s face darkened. His mind raced, but he couldn’t think of any way to escape. Yu Xing and his group had sealed off all his retreat paths. Behind him was the Abyss of Malevolent Souls, a place all cultivators kept their distance from.

Ye Huaifeng had no way out.

“I had intended to spare your worthless life. Blame it on your insistence to cultivate. That left me with no choice,” Yu Xing said. “If you’d just been a regular person, I wouldn’t have had to do this.”

“Stop blabbering on, would you?” Ye Huaifeng replied.

“You’re as stubborn as always,” Yu Xing said. There was a sinister smile on his face as he crouched down in front of Ye Huaifeng, reaching towards where his spiritual root was.

“I’ll dig out your spiritual root and toss you down there. You’ll cause no more trouble from in there. Behind you is the Abyss of Malevolent Souls. You’ll die there, and no one will come to investigate, not even your master.”

Ye Huaifeng felt a profound sense of despair. Was there really no hope left for him this time?

“You’re right,” a cold voice drifted from afar. “No one will go down to find a person who died in the Abyss of Malevolent Souls. Not even your master would have the courage to.”

“Who—who’s there!?”

Yu Xing was so frightened that he trembled. He tried to escape, only to realize he couldn’t move at all. The others stood frozen in place. Their faces were filled with terror. It wasn’t that they didn’t want to move. A powerful force had locked them in place, rendering them immobile.

“It’s me.”

Qian Yan said as she landed beside Ye Huaifeng, bringing Xu Cai with her. Xu Cai quickly helped Ye Huaifeng to his feet. She was increasingly convinced that this dream might be real.

And, well, if her senior brother was injured, even in a dream, she needed to help him.

“Senior Brother, are you okay?”

Ye Huaifeng surveyed his surroundings in silence and then fixed his gaze on Qian Yan. “Why is Master come here?”

“She came to find you because you didn’t return,” Xu Cai replied.

Ye Huaifeng bit his lip. It was strange. Had she come to find him because the sun had set in the west?

Did she think he was a lost child who couldn’t find his way home?

For the moment, Qian Yan didn’t pay any attention to what Ye Huaifeng was thinking. She walked up to Yu Xing.

Yu Xing and the others were so frightened that they were peeing themselves. Puddles formed on the ground where they stood, and an unpleasant stench filled the air, causing Qian Yan to wrinkle her eyebrows.

“How filthy,” she commented.

“Martial Aunt Chu, please forgive me. I was just joking with Junior Brother Ye. I was just trying to scare him a little…” Yu Xing looked terrified. “My master and you are siblings by blood, and you are my martial aunt. How could I possibly hurt your disciples?”

Ye Huaifeng’s cold voice sounded. “Did you not cause the injuries on my body? Was it not you who wanted to destroy my cultivation and throw me into the Abyss of Malevolent Souls?”

Yu Xing glared fiercely at Ye Huaifeng, signalling him to keep quiet or face consequences.

Ye Huaifeng paid no attention to him. He was fully aware of his master’s character. She had a soft spot in her heart for her family, and she would never harm Yu Xing.

His master would never do anything against the Cu family.

Qian Yan walked up to Yu Xing. Before anyone could react, she reached out and dug out his spiritual root.

“Ahhhhh!”

Ye Huaifeng was astonished. There was no way…Could his master be playing such a grand prank?

Xu Cai whispered, “It really is a dream. Master actually dug out Yu Xing’s spiritual root.”

A dream?

Ye Huaifeng noticed Xu Cai’s excited and worshipful expression. He had thought something was off with his junior sister earlier. Did she think this was a dream?

Her words made Ye Huaifeng also begin to feel like this was all a dream.

However, the facts would prove that this was real, right? This was not a dream, right?

His master had truly removed Yu Xing’s spiritual root…

He lowered his head in thought. Could it be a dream?