Your contemplation did not escape the Void Spirit's notice. Seeing that his words had worked, the Void Spirit could not help increasing the temptation. The previous terms would remain unchanged, and he could also make amends for taking the two of them. The benefits Ye Wuhuan and Jin Wuya received would certainly outweigh the suffering they had endured during this time...
That same year, the Emperor Corpse made a complete Great Dao Oath before you and Qin Huang, and only then did you stop attacking him. After the two sides ceased hostilities, he took you and Qin Huang to retrieve Ye Wuhuan and Jin Wuya.
When you found them, Ye Wuhuan and Jin Wuya were both unconscious. Ye Wuhuan had received better treatment, placed upon a prepared altar surrounded by quite a few Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, perhaps in preparation for perfect parasitism. Jin Wuya, on the other hand, had been placed rather casually atop a high platform that radiated dazzling light.
You could not recognize the platform, but there was no way you would fail to recognize the formation patterns linking it all the way to the altar. With one glance, you confirmed that they resembled the patterns used when you set up formations to connect energy treasures such as Immortal Fate Stones. Combined with the records in the ancient texts, it seemed Jin Wuya truly had not caught their fancy and had instead been treated as an energy source.
On the other side, from certain details you sensed and the things the Void Spirit told you afterward, you reconstructed most of what had happened.
It had to be said that Ye Wuhuan and Jin Wuya had truly been fortunate. They had not met with disaster while you were in secluded cultivation. All of this was because the