Inquiry (Fourth Update, Please Bookmark and Recommend)

Inquiry (Fourth Update, Please Bookmark and Recommend)

After the two argued for a while longer, Hu Meier finally began telling Hu Donghan about her life over the past three months.

After Hu Meier's Ghost Spirit Root talent was discovered, the Soul-Devouring Ancestor, who had rushed over, immediately took her as his disciple and brought her straight back to Bloodbone Peak.

The Soul-Devouring Ancestor had lived for five hundred years and had never taken a single disciple in all that time. Hu Meier was his first disciple, blessed with the astonishing Ghost Spirit Root and obedient in manner. Thus, the moment she entered his sect, he showered her with boundless affection. First, he found a special cultivation technique suited to Ghost Spirit Roots in the Scripture Repository—the Ghost King Heart Sutra—to replace the common Profound Yin Heart Method. Then he rewarded Hu Meier with a High-Grade Ghost Fiend he had kept for many years, as well as a Mid-Grade Ghost Fiend for backup—

The reason Ghost Spirit Roots were the most suitable for cultivating the Ghost Way was mainly that each time a Ghost Spirit Root advanced by a major realm, its owner could contract one more Ghost Wraith than ordinary cultivators!

The disciples of the Yin Soul Sect had already made a formidable name for themselves throughout the Southern Heaven Region with merely one Ghost Wraith at their command. Hu Meier could contract more than one Ghost Wraith, so just how formidable she would become in the future was easy to imagine! Setting everything else aside, the fact that she had reached the Sixth Layer of Qi Refining Realm after cultivating for barely three months was enough to show how terrifying the talent of a Ghost Spirit Root was!

In order not to waste Hu Meier's talent, the Soul-Devouring Ancestor had already begun searching for a second High-Grade Ghost Fiend for her. A Mid-Grade Ghost Fiend simply was not worthy of her talent. However, since the Soul-Devouring Ancestor had given the Mid-Grade Ghost Fiend to Hu Meier, he could not be bothered to take it back. That was why Hu Meier could so generously give away a Mid-Grade Ghost Fiend.

During Hu Meier's time with the Soul-Devouring Ancestor, he had also discovered that although this delicate woman lived on Bloodbone Peak, she did not feel much revulsion toward the corpses scattered everywhere across the mountain. So he summoned Hu Meier again and questioned her in detail.

Though Hu Meier was quite scheming, before the Soul-Devouring Ancestor's absolute strength, she had no ability to conceal anything. She told him everything, from beginning to end.

After hearing of Hu Meier's experiences, the Soul-Devouring Ancestor clicked his tongue in wonder. Seeing that her disposition was much like his own, he was delighted and directly declared that he would groom Hu Meier as the next Hall Master of the Enforcement Hall. Of course, he was also very interested in Hu Donghan, the instigator who, at only three years old, had taught six-year-old Hu Meier to stab people while they slept. But when he heard that Hu Donghan possessed only a Middle-Grade Four-Spirit Root, he sighed and ceased asking about him.

Clearly, in the Soul-Devouring Ancestor's eyes, a talent like Hu Donghan's had no value worth cultivating.

Hu Meier chattered on, recounting all that had happened to her over the past three months. At last, she smiled self-mockingly and said, "I truly never expected that you, little brother, who taught me how to kill from childhood and shaped me into this kind of person, would actually earn Master's favor. Becoming the next Hall Master of the Enforcement Hall... I really never imagined something like that."

Hu Donghan smiled faintly. "Girl, then you'd better work hard. Don't let anyone snatch your position away! If I'm going to run wild through the Yin Soul Sect in the future, I'll be counting on you to cover for me!"

"Hmph! You brat!" Hu Meier reached out and smacked Hu Donghan on the forehead. "If your sister becomes the Hall Master of the Enforcement Hall, then even if you destroy the Yin Soul Sect, your sister will clean up after you! But first, you need to have that ability."

After speaking, Hu Meier paused before asking, "Little brother, how have you spent these past three months? Have you really just been cultivating every day?"

Hu Donghan smiled. "Of course! I don't have talent as impressive as yours. After these three months, I've only just reached the Qi Refining First Layer."

Though Hu Donghan made it sound simple, Hu Meier was deeply worried when she heard it—Hu Donghan had spent three months merely reaching the Qi Refining First Layer. His talent was simply too poor. Moreover, judging by his manner, he did not seem willing to let her help him.

The two chatted on and off, and before they knew it, night had already fallen.

Outside the door, an Enforcement Hall disciple knocked and reminded Hu Meier that she had to leave. Only then did the two turn their gazes toward Mu Zhengfeng, who was off to the side.

Mu Zhengfeng had merely been knocked unconscious by Hu Donghan's kick, and he had awakened not long afterward. However, though he was awake, he kept his eyes shut and pretended to be unconscious, afraid that the moment he made a sound, he would draw Hu Donghan and Hu Meier's attention. Yet Hu Donghan and Hu Meier had long noticed that Mu Zhengfeng was awake; they simply had not wanted to deal with him for the time being!

"Little brother, how should we deal with this trash?" Hu Meier stood, kicked Mu Zhengfeng, and asked Hu Donghan.

"Naturally, we need to give him a proper lesson. But before that, I have a few questions I want this fellow to answer." Hu Donghan narrowed his eyes, grabbed Mu Zhengfeng's other ear, and tore it straight off.

Wracked by pain, how could Mu Zhengfeng keep pretending to be unconscious? He immediately dropped to his knees and begged for mercy without end.

Hu Donghan looked coldly at Mu Zhengfeng and asked in an icy tone, "Mu Zhengfeng, you and I had neither grievance nor enmity between us. I want to know exactly why you were so determined to kill me."

Mu Zhengfeng's head was covered in blood, his face filled with terror. He stammered, "No... no... I didn't mean that! I... I only wanted to play a joke on Senior Brother Hu..."

"A joke?" Hu Donghan gave a scornful chuckle, seized Mu Zhengfeng's left hand, and with a slight exertion, tore off one of Mu Zhengfeng's fingers.

Hu Donghan had never been a kind-hearted person. When facing enemies, his savage methods were enough to make even some vicious criminals feel their scalps go numb.

Mu Zhengfeng screamed, his face twisting in agony. "I... I really only wanted to play a joke on you..."

"Little brother, how could you leave your sister out of something so interesting?" Seeing that Hu Donghan seemed to be interrogating him, Hu Meier grabbed Mu Zhengfeng's right hand and, with a slight exertion, tore off one of his fingers as well.

The two divided the work clearly, and even their methods were exactly the same. Clearly, this was not the first time they had done such a thing.

Seeing that Mu Zhengfeng still refused to speak, Hu Donghan did not waste any words. He simply reached out and tore off another of Mu Zhengfeng's fingers; then Hu Meier cooperated from the other side.

Only when Hu Donghan tore off Mu Zhengfeng's third finger did Mu Zhengfeng finally collapse, crying miserably, "Don't... don't torture me anymore! Give me a quick death! I'll talk! I'll tell you everything!"

Yet Hu Donghan did not stop. Only after he had stripped Mu Zhengfeng's palm bare did he ask, "All right, now you can speak. I imagine that after all this time, you've had enough time to recall every detail, haven't you?"

Mu Zhengfeng nodded repeatedly. "It was Senior Brother Wu from Jade Finger Peak! Senior Brother Wu was the one who told me to do it! When I was investigating your identity, I came to know Senior Brother Wu from Jade Finger Peak. Senior Brother Wu said he knew your identity and that you had no background at all. Then he said he had a grudge against you and gave me ten thousand Spirit Stones to kill you. He also said that if I could kill you, he would introduce Martial Uncle Lin from Jade Finger Peak to me... Other than that, I truly don't know anything! I really told you everything!"

(End of Chapter)