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The Fate Sect's sect master showed no ripples of emotion. Neither sorrowful nor joyful, he looked at Qi Mei kneeling before him. After a long silence, he finally said faintly,
"Didn't some Fate Sect disciples flee to the Yin Realm? Aren't you in the Yin Realm too? Though you can no longer seek the Great Dao of immortality, you're still alive, aren't you?"
"How is that the same?"
Qi Mei's eyes reddened as he shouted, "After becoming a Ghost Cultivator, I can never return to the Yang Realm for all eternity. I don't even feel like a human anymore."
". But you were already no longer human."
"I don't care, Sect Master! If Chen Qiu had never come to the Yin Realm, then so be it. But since he has, if I cannot avenge this grudge, I will not rest even in death!!!"
"You think I can beat him?"
"We can scheme in secret. Doesn't the Demon Race love devouring Ghost Cultivators with Merit Bodies? Chen Qiu's Merit Body is the finest Merit Body in the Yin Realm. As long as we find Chen Qiu's location and leak it to the Demon Race, their army will naturally press down upon us."
"No matter how strong he is alone, can he be stronger than the entire Demon Race?"
"Hmm?"
The Fate Sect's sect master, who had instinctively been about to refute him, suddenly froze. Resting his cheek on one hand, he said thoughtfully, "Hey, what you said isn't entirely without reason."
"That does make sense."
Chen Qiu had destroyed his sect's legacy and driven him into this neither-human-nor-ghost state. He had thought he would never have a chance to avenge himself in this life and could only hide in the gutters, praying Chen Qiu would not find him.
But now,