Just after killing that man, Xu Yi opened the Starry Sky Ring's passage and brought Huang Mei out.
When Huang Mei saw the immortal soul Xu Yi had seized in his palm, he immediately understood what Xu Yi meant. He raised both heads high and let out a string of cold laughs, ready to fly into a rage, when Xu Yi said, "If you want to keep running your mouth and throwing your weight around, I'll break our master-servant contract right now, and we'll go our separate ways from here on. Otherwise, I don't want to hear a single word of nonsense."
Seeing Xu Yi's grave expression and taking in their surroundings, Huang Mei realized they were out of danger. This fellow had probably suffered plenty. With nowhere to vent the fury boiling inside him, Huang Mei thought, At a time like this, I'd better not butt heads with him. When this madman loses it, he even hits me. Why invite trouble?
Without another word, Huang Mei swallowed the man's immortal soul and promptly laid out the whole story.
The man he had swallowed was called Dong Chao. The one thrown off the cliff was called Zhong Ruyi. They had been master and servant.
Zhong Ruyi was the eldest son of Duke Lu State, a noble of Jin State. Dong Chao was his study companion, and had served him since childhood—for thirteen years already.
Duke Lu State had only one son, Zhong Ruyi, and loved him more than life itself. From childhood, he had poured every kind of resource into Zhong Ruyi. Zhong Ruyi had also lived up to his expectations: at just sixteen, he had reached the Profound Infant First Realm. Now eighteen, his cultivation had stalled, so he wanted to join the Southern Pole Sect and seek an