The Witch Ghost Secret Realm was empty.
Everyone had been slaughtered clean by Patriarch Tingyou during his possession attempt, and when the Golden Core Sword Qi descended, Patriarch Tingyou himself had been cleaved to pieces by it.
At this moment, Lu Yang was the only one left in the Witch Ghost Secret Realm.
Yet the Golden Core Sword Qi had not fallen. Instead, it returned to lurk above the secret realm, breathing in and out the primal energy of heaven and earth as though it would never disperse.
However, Lu Yang showed no sign of relaxing. On the contrary, his expression had grown grave to the extreme, because he could clearly sense that a karmic thread within him had been locked onto by the Sword Qi. In other words, once that Sword Qi erupted, it could sever his head with a single stroke even from tens of millions of miles away!
"Is it because I took the Witch Ghost Sect's inheritance?"
Lu Yang glanced at the soul thoughts of Patriarch Tingyou that he had gathered up. If he abandoned these thoughts, perhaps he could free himself from the Sword Qi's karma.
"But... I refuse!"
A Foundation Establishment soul—moreover, the soul thoughts of a former giant of the demonic path and sect master—was not something the soul of the Ancestor of the Yun Family from his previous life could compare to.
After all, the Ancestor of the Yun Family's soul had been scrubbed clean by True Person Yinshan.
Patriarch Tingyou's soul, on the other hand, contained a full thousand years of experience, including divine abilities, cultivation methods, and even all manner of secrets concerning Foundation Establishment!
"I'll take this karma!"
With a thought, Lu Yang immediately mounted a streak of escape light and vanished from the spot. He then casually fashioned