Yushi An led Yang Mu to a stone room, and the dim and oppressive atmosphere inside made Yang Mu furrowed his brows in discomfort. He looked at Yushi An, wondering about his intentions.
Seemingly unaware of Yang Mu’s confusion, Yushi An guided him to a closed stone door.
He pressed a mechanism, and as the stone door moved with a rumbling sound, the scene inside gradually revealed itself to Yang Mu.
A wolf was bound at the far end of the room by iron chains, with a control collar tightly fastened around its neck. The wolf currently hung its head low, and its fur appeared dull and lifeless.
Watching from outside, Yang Mu had a sense that the wolf’s time might be running out.
He tensed up and turned his head to look at Yushi An, unsure of the deeper meaning behind bringing him to see this beastman.
Yushi An smiled gently, and the words he spoke transformed Yang Mu’s initial confusion into shock.
“Come to think of it, I must thank Elder Yang. This beastman was originally a gift from you to me.”
Yang Mu: “…”
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Did he hear that correctly? This wolf was a gift from the Elder Yang to Yushi An?
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Having recently achieved the top position in the sect’s competition, which earned him a beastman as a reward, Yushi An was now seeking a beastman from Yang Mu.
As expected, Yushi An continued, “Your achievement as the top performer in the sect’s competition has brought honor to our sect. Besides myself, you are now the top elder of the Yuan Sect.” After a pause, he added, “You must have received a beastman as a reward this time, right?”
Yushi An had reached a bottleneck in his cultivation, and beastmen were more beneficial to him than pills. However, the only beastman he had left were almost drained of their utility, providing little assistance.
However, Yang Mu happened to have acquired another beastman at hand, and according to the Yuling Sect’s wealth, the beastman that he received wasn’t likely to be too weak, and isn’t exceptionally powerful either. And if it is, with this new beastman in his possession, Yang Mu felt that it would be enough to help him overcome his current bottleneck in cultivation.
Yang Mu nodded and said, “Yes, I did receive a beastman, but I’ve given it to my disciple.”
Upon hearing this, the benevolent expression on Jade Stone An’s face turned gloomy, “You gave that beastman to your little disciple?”
Yang Mu pressed his lips together and nodded.
A heavy silence filled the stone room. Yushi An didn’t speak further, and Yang Mu didn’t feel the need to break the silence either.
Yang Mu had initially believed that Yushi An was so kind to him because of his Nascent Soul cultivation. Little did he know that the original owner of this body had been secretly giving beastmen to Yushi An.
However, Yang Mu couldn’t understand why Elder Yang, who had the chance to provide these beastmen to him, didn’t keep any for himself, aside from the one horse that still looked weak.
Raising his head, Yang Mu looked again at the dejected wolf. Just at that moment, the wolf lifted its head too and cast a cold, hateful gaze upon Yang Mu, his eyes filled with bitter resentment. However, this hateful glare didn’t last long, and the wolf’s dim eyes lowered again, breathing gently, as if even that action had drained all its remaining strength.
Although Yang Mu hadn’t directly given the beastman to Yushi An, he still couldn’t help but feel a sense of regret, akin to the feeling of “I didn't kill Boren, but Boren died because of me.“
Since Yang Mu had given the beastman to his disciple, Yushi An couldn’t ask him to take it back. His expression soured a bit. After all, for a long time, Elder Yang had been providing him beastmen, and suddenly giving them to someone else made Yushi An feel like something that had belonged to him had been taken away by someone else.
He shifted his gaze back to the beastman in front of him, observing its dejected appearance, and calculating how much utility value it could still provide him.
Just as he was lost in his thoughts and calculations, the beastman in front of him suddenly let out a mournful cry, gasping for breath as if it were struggling to breathe.
Yang Mu was taken aback. What was happening to the wolf?
Yushi An’s furrowed brows deepened, “It seems this beastman’s time is almost up.” All the beastman he had drained of their energy before had a similar appearance just before their demise.
Since the beastman was near death, Yushi An waved his hand dismissively, “Take it away and dispose of it as you wish.” He didn’t want it to die in his quarters, bringing bad luck.
Yushi An’s attitude towards Yang Mu became noticeably indifferent, but Yang Mu didn’t mind. He watched as Yushi An broke the iron chains around the wolf and removed the control collar from its neck. Yang Mu then approached, picked up the wolf, and saw that it looked quite large but felt surprisingly light. With his back to Yushi An, Yang Mu walked out of the stone door, gently placing a pill in the wolf’s mouth.
The wolf had no strength left to resist and fell into a deep slumber as the pill took effect.
Yang Mu had already administered a pill to the wolf, essentially prolonging its life. Whether the wolf would survive or not was still uncertain.
Seeing the wolf in a state of deep sleep, Yang Mu put it inside his beast-control bag.
This wolf had been given to Yushi An by Elder Yang, and its current predicament was partly due to Elder Yang’s actions. If Yang Mu were to give it to Shi Dixuan directly and he saw the wolf’s condition, who knew what action he might take?
Yang Mu’s only concern was whether the little horse had witnessed the actions of this body. Communication was possible between beastmen, and in case it revealed this body’s actions to Shi Dixuan…
One fortunate aspect for Yang Mu, however, was that there was a good chance this body had never engaged in the consumption of essences. Elder Yang might have refrained from trying it due to concerns about potential side effects on this body’s constitution. After all, the temptation of improved cultivation from ingesting beastmen’s essence, followed by a significant burst of sweet fragrance from the body, could lead to horrifying consequences.
thank you for the chapter! ^^
It was finally revealed! Now, what was the motive of old Yang Mu’s action?
Poor wolf! TT^TT it’s surprising that Elder Yang gifted beastmen to Sect Leader 🤔
Thank You for the new chapter ♡(ӦｖӦ｡)
That’s…surprising