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Is this horse mad?

Weichi Peng squeezed the horse’s belly but found that no matter what, he couldn’t stop it. It wasn’t that he couldn’t use brute force to halt it, but the animal’s movements were so violent that using force might break its spine.

It wasn’t that he felt pity for the horse; the key issue was that in this ghostly place, without the horse, even a person with sky-high abilities couldn’t get out, let alone him now, who was less than nobody.

Watching the horse run increasingly toward the areas dense with evil spirits, Weichi Peng’s scalp tingled with apprehension.

Fortunately, although these yin spirits were extremely malicious, they hadn’t made a move yet, seemingly wary of this Ghost Horse.

Ghost Horses could shuttle between the realms of yin and yang. If it only had the ability to shuttle, it would have been torn apart and eaten as horse meat long ago.

Moreover, he was also curious as to why he had only heard about people riding this horse to traverse to the netherworld, but never heard of any Evil Ghost using it to cross into the land of the living.

He was quite intrigued by this. If one said transcendent Evil Spirits lacked a physical body and thus couldn’t establish themselves in the living realm, why hadn’t ordinary evil spirits ever done so?

What was it that allowed this horse to traverse the Path of Yin and Yang with such impunity?

There was no time to ponder further; the horse’s speed increased, and soon it charged through the throng of evil spirits, heading towards a desolate direction.

Seeing the number of evil spirits around him decreasing, Weichi Peng grew even more tense.

Although he had not become a Ghost Person, he had conversed with many, and was deeply curious about what the Path of Yin and Yang was like. When they were drinking, they revealed quite a bit to him.

On the Path of Yin and Yang, places swarming with evil spirits were not the most dangerous.

The truly perilous areas were where the evil spirits were scarce.

In this place, the number of evil spirits accumulated from ancient times to the present was innumerable, making it overrun with ghosts.

For a place to have no trace of evil spirits meant either the environment of that area was extremely harsh, or.

.. there was something extremely frightening in that area!

A vast expanse of open ground lay before him, and this place was abundant in spiritual energy. Weichi Peng felt it unlikely to be a region of harsh environment, which meant, there was probably something formidable here.

Formidable things within the Path of Yin and Yang... It could be an ancient creature that had lived for a million years.

At this thought, Weichi Peng felt numb with fear, but the horse he rode seemed excited, galloping furiously and neighing as if in heat.

Could it be that there was a mare here?

As he was wondering, he suddenly saw a familiar figure sitting cross-legged right in the middle of the vast open space, which made Weichi Peng stare in astonishment.

The Ghost Horse beneath him also stopped in shock, and after getting a clear view, it spat out saliva in anger and turned to run away.

Weichi Peng quickly dismounted and lifted the horse to prevent it from escaping, then strode towards the figure.

The person in the middle was also startled and looked at Weichi Peng for a few seconds before saying, "Young master, your... method of riding a horse is quite special."

Weichi Peng rolled his eyes but dared not put down the struggling horse since he still needed this ghastly creature to get out.

"What’s the situation with you?"

The white-clad figure was none other than his objective for this trip: Wei Gongxing!

"Are you referring to what, young master?"

"Why you... can sit here unharmed and... prevent evil spirits from invading?"

He had heard that newly born yin spirits had a very low survival rate on the Path of Yin and Yang.

Even top warriors from the living world could hardly survive there; the stronger ones would devour you directly, while the weaker ones would gang up and rip you apart, with every group posing a threat.

And moreover... How come this lad had an aura... that seemed very powerful?

"This... An accident..." Wei Gongxing said, scratching his head, not knowing quite how to explain.

In fact, it really was an accident. During the battle in the north years ago, not many knew of his capabilities—Weichi Clan’s Family Head was one, and his own cousin who was perennially under the Family Head’s tutelage, Wei Gongcheng, was another.

Wei Gongcheng later followed Chen Qing and naturally wanted to recruit subordinates for Chen Qing, hence recommended him.

The last time Chen Qing came to the Capital City, he took some time to find him, meaning to take him to Jiangnan.

Jiangnan is such a wonderful place, in his eyes, it was a perfect place to lay low. He actually quite liked it, there the people like them with capability but impure bloodlines could be given a new opportunity—it would be a lie to say he wasn’t tempted.

But unfortunately... the old Family Head wouldn’t let anyone go.

He could only regret missing out on clinging to the King of Qin’s coattails, but at the time, although he wasn’t able to leave with the other party, he did ask for a favor.

"Your Highness, King of Qin, my elder brother is now the lord of the underworld in Lyuzhou of Jiangnan. As for the Capital City... the current situation is treacherous, and I want to say if my mother and I accidentally kick the bucket, could you help send us back to Jiangnan?"

"Generally speaking, it’s not easy to arrange, but there is a way..."

That was what Chen Qing had said at the time, and it was also one of the reasons he could still be alive here now.

The method was to have that little guy called Nezha leave a drop of his spirit blood deep within his spiritual body. Once he died and was dragged into the Path of Yin and Yang, the spirit blood within his yin spirit would evaporate.

According to Chen Qing, Nezha was a top-tier Ghost General under the Ghost King in the Path of Yin and Yang, and possessed the potential of a Ghost King.

His spirit blood had a deterrent effect on ordinary Evil Spirits.

As long as the place he fell wasn’t the territory of some great power, he should be able to temporarily keep himself unharmed.

In practice, the effect was very good. And he was quite lucky too.

After death, his spirit body was pulled to this stop.

The swarms of Evil Spirits that initially pounced on him scattered in all directions when that drop of spirit blood evaporated, resulting in no ghost shadows within dozens of miles around him.

However, now it didn’t seem quite right to tell Weichi Peng. After all, he was only tagging along with the Weichi Clan, and yet he had already found a backup plan for himself, which might sound somewhat disloyal.

Seeing that he was hemming and hawing, Weichi Peng didn’t press for details but instead directly addressed the pressing matter: "My father said you chose to commit suicide, does that mean you’ve found their weakness?"

"The old Family Head is truly formidable.

.." Wei Gongxing sighed. That old fox was said to be the weakest Family Head in the history of the Weichi Clan, knocked down by his teenage son, losing all face.

But in his opinion, he was the most formidable Family Head of the Weichi Clan, and sometimes his insight was truly incisive.

"Did you really find it?" Weichi Peng asked excitedly.

"There are some clues..." Wei Gongxing spoke in a low voice: "This time Mu Ye managed to rebel successfully, and it all relied on a kind of insect."

"Insect?" Weichi Peng was startled: "What insect?"

"I don’t know its origins, but that insect is terrifying.

Once it parasitizes the host, it directly causes qualitative changes to the host’s body.

In just a single day, he created many Transcendents whose strength soared above those elites in the Ghost Temple, truly horrifying.

But I knew right then that this method must have severe side effects; otherwise, they wouldn’t have needed any schemes and could have unified the world long ago with just this kind of insect. "

Weichi Peng nodded; these words were exactly the same as what the Duke of Song said!

"What are the side effects?"

"Not completely certain, but I can somewhat see..." Wei Gongxing said gravely: "This monster’s way of changing the human body is too overbearing, easily causing mental derangement and turning it into an uncontrollable beast!"

"Ah?" Weichi Peng was taken aback, puzzled: "Uncontrollable? If a person cannot control themselves, wouldn’t it be easy for the insects inside to take control? Could it be that those insects are also beyond their control?"

"No..." Wei Gongxing shook his head: "The insects cannot control them either. I’ve seen two cases where they grew too fast and suddenly went mad. Mu Ye didn’t hesitate to kill those two, destroying the insects inside their bodies as well!"

Weichi Peng’s eyes lit up: "You mean to say... his subordinates... are uncontrollable?"

"There’s a chance they are uncontrollable!

" Wei Gongxing said solemnly: "They ought to become uncontrollable upon certain stimuli, and the threat they pose must be huge; otherwise, Mu Ye wouldn’t kill them immediately. If I am not mistaken, those out-of-control insects would bring about very serious consequences, ones that even those monsters couldn’t bear! "

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"You mean to say that these Ancient Demons have a severe weakness?"

On the other side, Shen Qi was also taken aback upon hearing the information about the Ancient Worm passed on by Chen Qing.

"Of course..." Chen Qing snickered: "If there were no weaknesses, then with these ghastly creatures’ characteristics, what business would other monsters in the world have?"

Ancient Demons evolved at an incredibly exaggerated rate; a mere larva, given a rich enough body, could quickly grow into a top-tier powerhouse, leading to their grotesquely exaggerated plundering habits.

But it’s precisely because they evolved too rapidly that, without some weaknesses, they would be too invincible. In the world he had designed, of course, he couldn’t allow such awesome beings to exist.

In the countless eras of the Ancient Demonic Dynasty, the massive dynasties built by the Ancient Demons were ultimately destroyed by their own subjects!