NOVEL ONLINE FREE Chapter 556 - 556 Thorough Soul Transformation (Second Update)
Chapter 556: Chapter 556 Thorough Soul Transformation (Second Update)
When Xue An and his group entered the Yue Lai Hotel.
Li Hongyan was quarreling with her daughter Xue Lan, her face full of displeasure.
“I just want to be a manager in this hotel, is that not allowed?” Li Hongyan muttered.
Xue Lan, with a cold face, “No!”
“You ungrateful brat! After all, I am your mother! Can’t you even agree to this small request?”
Xue Lan firmly shook her head, “No means no. Just stay at home honestly. If you need money, I’ll give it to you. Why do you need to come here to create a scene? Besides, I’m not the one calling the shots at this hotel!”
“Oh, don’t give me that official tone, as if I don’t know that the Yue Lai Hotel is yours now. Is it not easy for you to arrange a position for someone? Moreover, I’m here to help you, not to create a scene,” Li Hongyan said with a cold sneer.
Taking a deep breath, Xue Lan said with an icy tone, “First, this hotel is not mine; I’m just managing it for Brother Xue An! Second, we don’t need your help here because the moment you come, you’ll only ruin things!”
Li Hongyan’s face alternated between green and red with anger, “You… is this how you talk to your mother?”
With a cold laugh, Xue Lan said, “Mom, have you forgotten how your tongue was cut off by Brother Xue An? If it wasn’t for the fact that I later got some concentrated Heaven’s Fate Elixir from him, you wouldn’t even be able to speak now!”
Li Hongyan had her tongue cut off by Xue An in the past because she was too loose-lipped. Later, out of pity for her own mother, Xue Lan begged for a bottle of Heaven’s Fate Elixir.
But clearly Li Hongyan was not someone who knew how to be grateful and reciprocate, exploding with rage upon hearing this, “I knew it, you think you’ve climbed up the ranks by hanging onto your Brother Xue An, and you no longer have me, your mother, in your eyes! Is that it?”
Seeing her mother being so unreasonable, Xue Lan felt so angry she was on the verge of tears.
“You… you…”
“What ‘you’? Let me tell you, no matter how much you like your Brother Xue An, the two of you are still siblings!” Li Hongyan said with venomous contempt on her face.
Xue Lan felt so angry she was about to faint.
At that moment, a detached voice came through.
“Bullying on account of age, using power to oppress others, what a vast display of power indeed!”
Hearing this voice, Xue Lan trembled all over and looked up incredulously.
She saw Xue An slowly approaching, his face carrying a trace of coldness.
“Bro… Brother Xiao An!” Xue Lan hurriedly wiped away the tears on her face and said respectfully.
Xue Anchong gave his sister a slight smile, then his gaze turned towards Li Hongyan, who was standing there dumbstruck.
When she met Xue An’s gaze, Li Hongyan felt her legs go weak, and she fell to the ground with a thud, saying with extreme fear.
“Xue… Xue, I…”
She was so scared that she didn’t know what to say.
If there was anyone in this world that she was most afraid of, it was definitely Xue An.
She dared to pressure Xue Lan with words because she knew that even if Xue Lan didn’t like her, she would tolerate her because she was her mother.
But such tricks were completely ineffective against Xue An.
Xue An looked at her and said indifferently, “Now you remember to beg for mercy, isn’t it a bit late?”
“Last time, I spared your life for Lan’s sake, only severing your tongue, but now it seems you truly don’t know how to be grateful!”
Li Hongyan trembled all over, with a look of absolute horror in her eyes. She turned to her daughter and began pleading for help.
“Lan’er, save me! I know I was wrong! I won’t dare anymore!”
Xue Lan wore a hesitant expression, looking troubled as she turned to Xue An.
“Brother…”
Xue An gently shook his head.
“Don’t worry, I won’t kill her.”
Hearing these words, Li Hongyan collapsed on the ground, feeling an enormous relief as if she had survived a great calamity.
Hmph, no matter how you put it, I am still your elder, it seems you really wouldn’t dare to kill me!
Li Hongyan thought to herself somewhat triumphantly.
But Xue An’s next words plunged her into the abyss.
“Though the death sentence is spared, the crime of living cannot escape!”
Li Hongyan shivered and sighed in her heart; it seemed that her tongue was once again not going to be saved.
But if it was to be cut, then let it be cut. After all, with the Heaven’s Fate Elixir, it could grow back.
As Li Hongyan calculated in her mind, her face still showed great fear.
Xue An looked at this shrewish woman, the corners of his mouth curling up slightly. He, of course, saw through Li Hongyan’s thoughts, and thus he spoke indifferently.
“I’ve heard that you really wanted to work in this hotel? Then I’ll grant you your wish.”
“Ah?” Li Hongyan looked at Xue An in disbelief, not understanding why he would suddenly say that.
Xue An had long grown tired of this woman, who was nominally his elder.
If it hadn’t been for Xue Lan, he would have killed her long ago.
But this woman, far from being restrained, dared to be so presumptuous.
It seemed she was certain he wouldn’t dare kill her.
But she didn’t know that if Xue An wanted to kill someone, he didn’t have to do it physically. To completely disappear from the soul was the most thorough way.
A Divine Sense rushed directly into Li Hongyan’s sea of consciousness, shattering her soul as easily as crushing dry weeds and smashing rotten wood.
Li Hongyan’s eyes instantly became vacant.
If it had stopped there, then Li Hongyan would have become a walking corpse, without any perception.
Xue An casually pinched a Spell Decree, and Li Hongyan’s shattered soul instantly condensed.
Only this time, Xue An, like a sculptor, removed all the trashy negative information, leaving only a wisp of the soul.
When everything was done,
and they looked at Li Hongyan again,
the former malice and shrewishness had disappeared without a trace; her face showed a benevolent smile.
Xue Lan had just felt a flash of Divine Sense and did not understand what had happened.
But once again, because of her, Xue An had spared her troublesome mother, causing Xue Lan to feel extremely guilty.
But by this time, Li Hongyan had already stood up, bowed to Xue An respectfully, and said, “I’ll go tidy up the room!”
This scene left Xue Lan somewhat dumbfounded.
Then Li Hongyan turned her head and gave Xue Lan a sincere and loving smile, “Lan’er, it was all Mom’s fault before, don’t blame me!”
With that, she walked away.
Xue Lan stood there stunned, seemingly unable to believe that all that had just happened was real.
From childhood, her mother had never given her a smiling face.
“Xiao An, this… ”
Xue An waved his hand, his expression solemn, “Now that you have joined the Heavenly Beings, you are truly a cultivator!”
“Even if she is your mother, many parents or elders in this world, apart from having a mere title, do not act in a manner worthy of respect! Such emotions only serve to hold you back and are otherwise useless!”
“What you must do is clearly recognize this, otherwise your path of cultivation will be extremely difficult!”
Xue Lan hung her head, her face flushed with shame.
“Several professors, it really is my grandfather; it seems he has already…”
Just then, the middle-aged man who had knelt down to inspect stood up, his expression sorrowful.
“This is Kamakura Guizhi.”
After being reminded of the urgent matter at hand, President Cass casually introduced him to Fu Qian and then continued to ask.
“Did you inspect it? Are there any other abnormal wounds?”
“No.”
Kamakura Guizhi glanced at Fu Qian and slowly shook his head.
“It looks like Mr. Yun is indeed unrelated to your grandfather’s death.”
The tone of President Cass did not vary.
“And your uncontrolled conditions seem to be more severe than the information previously provided.”
“My grandfather was always the one with the strongest reactions. Starting the day before yesterday, he chose to come down here alone in search of a solution—who would have thought it would come to this so soon…”
As he spoke, Kamakura Guizhi unconsciously surveyed his own body.
The exposed parts of his skin showed bright red marks that looked as if they were about to drip blood, a horrifying sight to behold.
And beneath his feet, the body had already been turned over to face upwards.
From this angle, one could see that it was indeed an elderly man.
On the old man’s face, more exaggerated red marks had all split open; the whole head was cracked and flayed, as if lightly tugged, it might turn into a skeleton.
Facing such a scene, President Cass thought for a moment, then with a flick of his heavy cloak, extended a hand with an eerie appearance.
There were only four fingers, the joints abnormally large, and the size far exceeded that of an average person; at the same time, the skin seemed to be covered with tooth-like scales.
Almost instantly, something seeped out from these scales.
At first glance, it appeared like black mist; gathering together, it turned into leaping flames, which then silently exploded, swooshing through the air.
Standing opposite President Cass, Fu Qian was nearly hit head-on.
Without a hint of heat, an abnormal sensation immediately appeared.
It was as if, where the flames passed, the surface of the body skipped the process of ignition and turned directly into ash.
“There are no signs of struggle; your grandfather’s death is indeed due to his own conditions,” President Cass declared confidently, after snapping his fingers and making the black flames instantly dissipate.
“Take the body back, let those above have a look.”
“Okay.”
Before the judgment of the president of Heaven’s Commencement Institute, Kamakura Guizhi did not dare to show the slightest doubt and promptly obeyed with great respect.
“Mr. Yun, I believe you haven’t done anything, but right now, the Kamakura Family is facing some trouble.”
President Cass turned to Fu Qian again and pointed at Kamakura Guizhi.
“As a family known as cursed swordsmen, it seems their Sword Dao has gone out of control.”
“No doubt you are an expert in this area. Are you interested in having a look and providing some advice?”
Sharp eyesight, after all, I’m someone who once comprehended hundreds and thousands of Sword Intents!
Recalling his past experiences of enlightenment at the Sword Pavilion, Fu Qian nodded amiably.
“Okay.”
The action of President Cass was not beyond his expectations.
Although no longer pursuing the reason for his presence here, there was no doubt that letting him leave now was out of the question.
Fortunately, I had no intention of leaving anyway.
[Current task has been updated, find out the cause of the divine seal’s lack of control]
Because at almost the same time, the task prompt finally appeared.
The divine seal, was undoubtedly something belonging to the Kamakura Family, a ferocious blessing bestowed upon the Tomb Guardians according to legend.
And judging from the content of the task, his own goal was clearly aligned with that of President Cass and his team.
Even such an expert team had proactively invited him to join.
…
Upon exiting the blood-scented chamber, the group ascended along a corridor paved with gigantic rocks.
As he had imagined, this was unmistakably an underground construction with the overall layout of a tomb, cold and grim, void of any sense of the sacred.
Furthermore, its most defining feature was its enormity; the chamber they had just left was but a small corner of the whole.
As they moved along, the grandeur of the architecture was evident despite the traces of destruction, and one could easily envision its former glory.
Given the shattered statue they had seen earlier, it seemed as if deliberate destruction had occurred here, although it was unclear who the unnamed deity had offended.
Kamakura Guizhi clearly knew the route well and, despite carrying a corpse, still led the way.
Before long, the team—which included two demigods—stood before two massive doors.
Sunlight was already seeping through the cracks of the opened doors.
Holding his grandfather’s body, Kamakura Guizhi carefully sidestepped through them.
And almost immediately, uncontrollable wails of mourning came from outside.
Clearly, people had been waiting outside the doors for the trio’s exploration results.
And as he emerged last from the team, gazes converged onto Fu Qian almost instantly, even the sobbing paused momentarily.
Who was he?
Suspicious and uncertain expressions spread across numerous faces.
Only four people had descended, and now three were returning alive, along with one dead and one unfamiliar face, inevitably arousing many suspicions.
After placing his grandfather’s body down, Kamakura Guizhi quickly approached a man whose face was also covered in bloodstains and whispered to him.
“Mr. Yun? He didn’t die?”
And the man, who exuded authority as the head of the Kamakura Family, had a reaction nearly identical to his.
“Not only did he not die, but he has also been promoted to demigod; just now downstairs, President Cass has confirmed that he was not involved in grandfather’s death and even invited him to join the investigation,” Guizhi explained quickly, knowing the power of key messaging.
Not only had he not died, but he had also been promoted to demigod—this news was astonishing indeed.
What exactly was his reason for being down there?
The Kamakura clan leader was clearly full of questions but managed to suppress the urge to interrogate immediately, maintaining composure after taking a deep breath.
“Thank you both for your hard work.”
First, he expressed his gratitude to President Cass and Jian Jingzheng; the next moment, he turned his gaze to Fu Qian.
“Mr. Yun, I am Kamakura Si, and on behalf of the entire Kamakura Family, I thank you for your forthcoming assistance.”
“Let me introduce myself, my name is Huyue!” Huyue said with a beaming smile extending her hand.
“Hmm?” Xue Lan raised her head to look at this extremely handsome man, a little dazed.
Huyue then winked at Xue An and conveyed with Divine Sense, “Xue An, you’ve taken away my sister, so I’ll just have to win over your sister! That makes us even!”