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Chapter 470 - 449: One More Update

Chapter 470: Chapter 449: One More Update

Yin He witnessed this, retracting his own moves and letting Master Ling Yi charge towards the dark red smoke. Due to Master Ling Yi’s entanglement, the dark smoke grew brighter and turned to a reddish brown.

"Elder Brother, run—" Master Chang Ling had realized something at that moment. This evil spell was fundamentally different from those of Qiandao Temple. It wasn’t about borrowing and redirecting force; instead, it sinisterly offered oneself as a sacrifice to demons, and now it was absorbing their energy.

Master Ling Yi was shocked. He had never heard of such spells and little by little, fear filled his heart. For the first time, he realized that he had underestimated Ghoul Ravine, and even more, the boy his master had valued so greatly. No wonder his master had spent so much effort on the boy. He had never known what secret the boy held. Now he knew that perhaps his master didn’t know either—that boy...

"Ah—" Master Chang Ling, being in the forefront, had already turned a dark red color, resembling molten lava, but his body did not melt away instantly like the disciples outside the cave had.

Yin He frowned slightly. This spell’s capability varied with the caster’s personal talent. The spells of those disciples from Ghoul Ravine looked overpowering and terrifying, but the truly beneficial ones were like Elder Can’s, capable of transferring the locale’s talents onto oneself. The others, even if they melted, the effect would not last long or would simply be wasted, dissipating into the air.

However, the endurance of these mages from Qiandao Temple—wasn’t it a bit too long? Although Yin He had his doubts, he showed no intention of assisting. Elder Can was already in the critical moment of maintaining the ritual. Yet, he hadn’t expected the first person to be so difficult. However, their energy was still undeniably flowing into his body.

"Elder Brother—" Master Chang Ling’s body began to stiffen, only able to move his eyes as he looked toward Master Ling Yi. "Take them and leave—" At that moment, nobody understood the horror of this spell better than Master Chang Ling. If this continued, Qiandao Temple would suffer significant losses in strength.

Master Ling Yi calmed down and quickly dispersed the restraints on another disciple with his Golden Whip. Reluctantly leaving Master Chang Ling behind, he exerted all his strength in a whip strike aimed at Elder Can. At the same moment, Master Chang Ling suddenly let out a series of forced roars, almost shattering the stones inside the cave. Instantly, the dark red smoke dispersed rapidly in all directions, then in the next moment swept toward Elder Can.

Master Ling Yi did not dare delay any longer, quickly using his whip to wrap up the disciples trapped inside the cave. Taking advantage of the disruption caused by the loud roar, he headed straight for the cave entrance, where there was no sign of the ambushing brethren anymore.

Master Ling Yi’s heart sank, aware they had been betrayed. In this critical situation, he couldn’t afford the slightest bit of panic or confusion.

"Let’s head back—" Master Ling Yi said coldly. His alabaster skin turned even whiter, drained of all color. Pulling Master Chang Ling’s arm with one hand and holding the Golden Whip with the other, none of them had the pride they had on their way here, swiftly running towards their camp.

However, before they reached the camp, everyone had already noticed something wrong with it. Before Master Ling Yi could react, there was no trace of the disciples who were supposed to guard the outpost.

"Elder Brother—" By then, Master Chang Ling had regained his senses enough to stand on his own, and he looked at the empty camp with a realization of the grave danger they were in.

"Let’s go in and check—" Master Ling Yi steadied his spirit, handed Master Chang Ling over to a disciple behind him, and they all walked towards the camp with trepidation.

However, they hadn’t walked far when they heard voices. To Master Ling Yi and the others, hearing voices was now the greatest comfort.

"Elder Brother, they are over there." This relief made everyone feel a fortunate sense of survival after a calamity. They hurried forward, knowing that as long as there were people, it would be alright, it would be good.

But after walking a few steps, they immediately realized that something was off with the atmosphere. The disciples in the camp had formed a circle and were exuding a tense air; everyone’s expression was panicky, seemingly in fear of something. When Master Ling Yi approached, he saw that the person surrounded in the middle was also a disciple of Qiandao Temple—none other than Disciple Wei Qing.

"What happened? Wei Qing?" Master Ling Yi immediately asked, instinctively addressing the person in the center, when someone interrupted him.

"Brother, that’s not Brother Wei Qing, it’s a monster." As soon as the words were spoken, Master Ling Yi noticed that everyone had already drawn their magic artifacts and weapons, even the seated disciples of Qiandao Temple. What on earth had happened?

"Brother, they want to kill me—" The Wei Qing in the center suddenly spoke up, his expression filled with panic and fear, "They have killed Wei Yan and Ji Lu."

Master Ling Yi immediately looked at the surrounding disciples. Wei Qing was one of their own from Qiandao Temple, so his words naturally carried weight. But looking around, three of the seated disciples of Qiandao Temple were missing, and the rest wore expressions of doubt, not knowing whom to believe.

"Nonsense, it was clearly you, the monster, who killed them. You also let the monster from Ghoul Ravine escape." Those mages, though not as skilled as those from Qiandao Temple, were much slicker in the Districts and Counties and had finally managed to lure people into this Maze Formation.

"Brother, let me out first, then we can talk. I can prove my innocence." Disciple Wei Qing looked towards Master Ling Yi, who made a slight move as if about to step forward and personally investigate the matter, when Master Chang Ling suddenly grabbed his sleeve.

"Brother, don’t—" Master Chang Ling shook his head, and although he didn’t yet know what was off about the Wei Qing before him, something felt eerily off, and...

And...

Master Chang Ling suddenly pointed towards Wei Qing, who was trapped in a small Maze Formation.

"Brother, look at his hand—"

Master Ling Yi was slightly startled, and upon looking over, from his perspective, he could see that Wei Qing’s hand was shaking violently. The trembling was so severe that the flesh on his fingers was almost flung off, and the next moment, the flesh actually did fall off, along with a trail of dark liquid.

"Monster, monster— " Chaos erupted in the area, with shouts of panic filling the space.

"It’s a monster, truly a monster—"

Master Ling Yi tightly gripped the whip in his hand, while the "Wei Qing" inside the Maze Formation realized he could no longer keep up the act. To have lasted this long was already his limit. Moreover, having already killed three or four people, he had completed the task assigned by the Young Master. Now, every additional person he could kill was a bonus.

"Qiandao Temple is nothing after all." Wei Qing spoke, as the flesh from his face, along with half of his scalp, fell off, eliciting screams from all around.