"Such is time, such is fate." Han Lin sighed inwardly. If the silver-haired youth had gone with him to the ancient tomb, it would have been an entirely different ending.
Pushing these stray thoughts to the back of his mind, Han Lin continued to control the cave-ape corpse-puppet as it refined the profound corpse luminous gold. The corpse aura exhaled by the cave-ape corpse-puppet was sometimes strong and sometimes weak. Perhaps due to the excess corpse aura expelled, the ferocity on the cave-ape corpse-puppet's body had noticeably diminished compared to when it was first released. However, an uncontrollable look of excitement burned deep within those ape pupils. Until finally, the profound corpse luminous gold turned into a pale golden liquid, rolling about wrapped in dense corpse aura.
Han Lin shook the soul-seizing bell once more, and the cave-ape corpse-puppet opened its large mouth and inhaled, swallowing the refined profound corpse luminous gold into its belly. The moment it swallowed it, the cave-ape corpse-puppet let out a most miserable and piercing shriek, one high-pitched wave following another. The skeletons all over its body cracked and popped. Merely with the naked eye, Lu Xiaotian could almost see the fine lines fracturing across the bones inside the cave-ape corpse-puppet's body. At this moment, Han Lin wore a grave expression. Every time the cave-ape corpse-puppet's condition reached an extremely perilous point, he would channel a strand of corpse aura into its body to ease the process of the profound corpse luminous gold fusing with the cave-ape corpse-puppet.
The liquid transformed from the profound corpse luminous gold continuously spread and seeped inward along these fissures, beginning a slow fusion with the cave-ape corpse-puppet's main body.
The cave-ape corpse-puppet struggled violently within the ghost formation, rolling on the ground, yet the aura emanating from its body