The Heart Ape Enters the Body

In the world of his mind, darkness stretched in every direction, and Mountain Ghost's consciousness was growing ever more blurred.

Under the suppression of Gu Lingxiao's Mountain Lord Seal, he was nearly at his limit. The Five-Mountains Suppressing Peak Bowl, a measure left behind by Lianshan Daoist, happened to counter him. That was precisely why he had wanted to kill Gu Lingxiao, reclaim the Wu-Earth Mountain-Suppressing Bowl, and eliminate the threat.

"There's really nothing I can do."

His will was a bowstring on the verge of snapping. Despair rose in Mountain Ghost's heart, but just as darkness was about to swallow his mind completely, a peculiar pair of eyes appeared within it.

Deep and intricate, those spiritual eyes drew Mountain Ghost's mind toward them the instant they appeared.

Under normal circumstances, Mountain Ghost's first response to an outside force invading his mind would have been to drive it out. But now he could not. "Are you truly willing to be enslaved?"

An ethereal voice echoed through the space of his mind. Mountain Ghost's fading consciousness jolted awake, and strength welled up once more in the mind that had been about to submit.

"I'm not willing..."

Mountain Ghost answered almost by instinct.

"Then resist. Use your power to kill that damned bastard. You're a fourth-tier Ghost Emperor. How can you let a third-tier cultivator enslave you?"

"If he dared do this, he must be prepared to pay the price. Even if you die, you must drag him down with you."

The ethereal voice rang out again, washing through the space of Mountain Ghost's mind.

Those words ignited the pride and fury in Mountain Ghost's heart. As a fourth-tier Ghost Emperor, he had his pride. How could he accept enslavement, especially by a third-tier cultivator?

"I'll make him pay."

With a roar,