Gui Yuan froze for a moment.
Then the Banshee Queen appeared before him and unleashed a piercing shriek!
Gui Yuan's mind went blank. An instant later, an incredibly sharp, penetrating force pierced his body and raced along his meridians into his brain.
"He's trying to control me!"
Gui Yuan was horrified. If he fell under Mind Control, he was doomed—or worse than dead.
The moment his controller decided his "pawn" was no longer useful, he could end the Mind Control. For Gui Yuan, the pawn, that would mean the death of his consciousness.
Gui Yuan fought desperately to resist.
But he had only an Elite Template. Even though he was three or four levels above Bai Xiaowen, his consciousness was no match. Bai Xiaowen's invading consciousness had the protection of True Essence Force, and Gui Yuan had already taken a direct hit from the Banshee Queen's shriek.
Before long, Bai Xiaowen seized control of Gui Yuan's consciousness and turned him into his servant.
"All right. Clear the battlefield." Bai Xiaowen rubbed his brow. While the warriors under his command cleaned up, he sifted through fragments of Gui Yuan's memories.
The Great Tang Domain had once had a Heroic Tier Command-type Evolver named Ji Yong. After the domain changed hands, Taizong Li Weichen had wanted to shut himself away and play emperor. Ji Yong had promptly taken his leave and been recruited by another territory.
Command-type Evolvers were relatively rare, so Gui Yuan, an Elite Tier Command-type Evolver, had become the only commander Li Weichen felt he could trust. More importantly, Gui Yuan had no pride to speak of and no qualms about groveling before Li Weichen. Li Weichen had poured resources into him, forcing his advancement to High-tier Evolver.
But that was the limit of Gui Yuan's talent. He had