Back at the Eighth Palace, the red-clothed squad was intact, with only normal personnel changes, and no news of a comrade’s death.
The sealed ghost beast was gone.
After escaping the White Cave, it surprisingly didn’t go on a killing spree, as if it had beco intelligent, and probably hid in the nearby town.
But if this beast is not eliminated, it will cause endless trouble in the future.
"Keep guarding for another month. If we still haven’t detected the ghost beast aura, Lan Ling, you stay here, and I will search in the city. If we wait until the White Cave opens again and the ghost beast reerges, it will be too late."
"That’s fine, but be careful. The sealed ghost beast’s abilities are too mysterious... Night Guardian, where do you plan to start?"
"Tiansang City. I have so acquaintance with Fu Zhi. Starting from Tiansang City as the base, I’ll spread out in all directions to see if I can find any leads."
"Agreed. If acting alone, be cautious."
"You too."
Leaving the red-clothed squad, stepping from the mountains back into the densely populated city, felt like a lifeti had passed.
It seed like sothing was forgotten.
Yet everything seed no different from the past.
"Living..."
"Just keep moving forward."
...
"Put on this mask, forget the Golden Technique Sect, forget the painful past. From now on, you are no longer the Lone Star of the Heavenly Calamity; you belong to my Huang Quan, and you are Yama’s Five Decays of Heaven and Man."
"Yama..."
"Indeed, your life is given new aning by , and your Body of Decay will also be used by ."
"Whoever cos near will be tainted with misfortune, and they will all die..."
"I won’t."
"..."
"I need your power to help collect the ’Lei Family’s Eyes.’ As long as you agree, Yama will be your next ho."
Thus the Five Decays of Heaven and Man put on the mask, bid farewell to the Golden Technique Sect where he had lived for thirteen years, and followed Huang Quan.
He could vaguely foresee Yama’s future, but as a young man hungry for companionship and recognition, and with reality feeling dreamlike and enchanting, he didn’t want to wake up.
Over the years, he had collected several Lei Family’s Eyes for Yama and witnessed the unchanging face beneath Yama’s mask through generations.
Just as Huang Quan had said.
Only he, as the Chief, had remained unchanged.
Under the influence of the "Five Decays of Heaven and Man," Yama’s mbers would change every few years, and none lived long.
Dazed and confused, yet that’s life.
Finally, on this day, the Five Decays of Heaven and Man received instructions from Chief Huang Quan once again:
"Go visit ng Po; the God Devil Eyes have appeared in the Yunlun Mountain Range. If you can collect them, great; if not, look for another opportunity."
Initially, Chief Huang Quan had a strong desire to collect the Lei Family’s Eyes.
As ti passed, it seed even he was influenced by his own ability and began to lose his way.
He seed to have forgotten the purpose behind collecting the Lei Family’s Eyes or perhaps never knew from the beginning, blindly collecting them.
The Five Decays of Heaven and Man didn’t care about this; half a life spent, he had seen too much prosperity and void, understanding that existence itself had little aning.
The existence of "collecting the Lei Family’s Eyes" held more significance than the purpose behind it, as it gave his life motivation.
Who could have thought this ti he would run into trouble?
Chasing geese every day, finally pecked by one; the girl holding the small bronze furnace was inexperienced, yet the monster with her was terrifying imnsely.
Fate, it seems, is so fickle.
So years ago, the Five Decays of Heaven and Man heard rumors of a sealed ghost beast sowhere but didn’t delve into it, knowing it had little to do with him despite wandering far and wide.
Today, he stumbled upon this Seal Body, captured in just a few moves.
Sealed into the "Godhood-Sealing Coffin," his life’s energy halted completely, but with the Golden Technique Sect forbidden skill, the Five Decays of Heaven and Man retained a trace of spiritual intelligence.
However, there was no strength to resist!
That being was incredibly powerful, as if beyond the realm of a demi-saint!
He watched helplessly as he was taken away by the Water Ghost from the coffin and thrown into the deep sea beneath Lone Cliff casually.
In the first half of life, he lived seeking companions, yet they all died.
In the second half of life, he sought the Lei Family’s Eyes, only to end up in the deep sea due to the Water Ghost’s plan to use the Lei Family’s Eyes to bait the demi-saint Jiang Buyi of the Northern Region’s Jiang Clan.
Below the deep sea, all his spiritual source was lost.
But this couldn’t trap the Five Decays of Heaven and Man who possessed nurous forbidden techniques from the Golden Technique Sect, only needing so ti to recover so energy.
At the cost of consuming life span, it would take only a mont for the Five Decays of Heaven and Man to confidently escape alive.
After all, many of the Golden Technique Sect’s thods originate from the Cursed Yin Evil God and don’t solely rely on spiritual sources; sacrifices work too.
Fate is unpredictable.
Destiny seems fond of playing tricks and can shift one from paradise to h*ll in an instant.
His energy hadn’t recovered much when he drifted into the range of soone’s Nine Death Thunder Calamity.
An ordinary Cutting Path transcending the tribulation, even if successful, would find it hard to kill him, the Five Decays of Heaven and Man.
Strange...
On Lone Cliff, he encountered a ghost beast host body showing one of the Five Extre Physiques, the Seal Body, that sealed him without a word.
Under Lone Cliff, he t a Red Coat whose mission was to fight ghost beasts; surprisingly, this Red Coat was also a ghost beast host body.
And when its power unfolded, it turned out to be one of the Five Extre Physiques, a Body of Devour, which was even the foremost amongst them!
"Red Coat?"
"Ghost beast?"
The world is absurd, and the Five Decays of Heaven and Man had experienced it.
To his imnse surprise, his ultimate end was being consud by the mouth of this insane Red Coat, becoming its blood food.
The Five Decays of Heaven and Man regained so energy.
Even at death, he offered no futile resistance.
As his flesh was torn apart and swallowed, sinking into the deep sea, his thoughts road infinitely, reflecting that his entire life was a cage of cause and effect:
"This life of mine, filled with sins, finally finds its end here."
...
Rumble!
Fragnts of mory poured down like a torrential rain.
Night Guardian’s eyes trembled, staring in disbelief at the corpse-wrapped man before him and at Bei Huai, the creator of everything.
His mind reeled with images of shedding the red coat, donning a new mask, installing the Three Loathso Eyes, becoming the next Five Decays of Heaven and Man of Yama, and gaining control over Huang Quan.
And then the images of going to Abyss Island, devouring the Dark Division Chief Ye Xiao, sanctifying with the Blood World Pearl, utterly abandoning past, future, and faith, just for a better revenge against the Holy Divine Palace in the future.
And then the images of acting senselessly as he lost reason, manipulating Huang Quan, acquiring the Three Tribulation Eyes, confronting Ai Cangsheng, and now, uncovering that all initiators were Bei Huai.
The past, broken, tragic...
All answers once evaded by the Lord Cang Sheng, but now he walked up directly, appeared before him.
"You..."
The Power of Decay exploded, and the Five Decays of Heaven and Man stared dead ahead at the barefoot and white-clothed Bei Huai.
"Yes, it’s ."
Bei Huai smiled, gently caressing the top of his head, "It’s all , including yours, it’s all mine. Rember your promise?"
Night Guardian’s mories exploded; he recalled drawing a vertical line on the ground upon waking in the White Cave.
Clearly, here stood the one he sought, yet he resurrected the red-clothed squad anew. To not seek revenge would be an abuse of the opportunity; seeking revenge would an denying his past self...
"No, no, no..."
Night Guardian’s mind descended into chaos as various selves jumped out, fighting for control over his body.
There was Starry Night, the Five Decays of Heaven and Man, Ye Xiao, every significant, insignificant person and non-person he had devoured.
"Lied to ..."
"Impossible..."
"This absolutely..."
Slap!
Bei Huai slamd his palm onto the top of his head, and tendrils broke through the tough body, starting to invade.
His entire bandage unraveled continuously, his whole being began to fade, becoming semi-transparent...
This was Decay Transformation!
Also, ghost beast transformation!
"I know you won’t accept it and can’t accept it, and from the start, I never intended for you to accept."
"Your body, from start to finish, was prepared for this mont of mine to end your tumultuous past!"
"From today, we have only one na..."
The corpse-wrapped man’s bandages completely unraveled, his life force exploding into a puddle of grinning mist, entering through Night Guardian’s eyes, ears, mouth, and nose:
"Bei! Huai!"
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