Sure enough, the Immortal-Thief Outsider scoffed. "Of course the Gods-and-Devils Hand is powerful, but can you keep using it without stopping? If you enter the Land of Despair, you'll only have a thirty percent chance! If we find that Blood Baleful Old Devil, your chances will rise to seventy percent!"
At those words, Ye Han's brow twitched. Only thirty percent? He couldn't help glancing at Teacher Lan Qing. Teacher Lan Qing had told him that with the Demon God's Hand, they should have a fifty percent chance of rescuing his physical body...
Had Teacher Lan Qing deceived me?
Or was this Immortal-Thief Outsider deliberately making alarming claims to lure us into a trap?
Still, the fellow clansman the Immortal-Thief Outsider had mentioned had to be Old Fox. Old Fox's cultivation had soared in the Heavenly Secret Hall, and he had even reached the Nascent Soul Realm. Given such a tremendous fortuitous opportunity, both Ye Han and Teacher Lan Qing had suspected that Old Fox had received guidance from some powerful being...
When they killed Old Fox, an extremely terrifying remnant soul in a streak of bloody light had indeed tried to escape. His Ghost Skull Mirror had caught it, however, and the thing had then detonated itself...
Was that fellow the Blood Baleful Old Ancestor's remnant soul? But if it had detonated itself, shouldn't it have died too?
Something strange lay behind all this. Who was lying, Teacher Lan Qing or the Immortal-Thief Outsider? Or was there some other reason?
Teacher Lan Qing seemed to understand what Ye Han was thinking and spoke directly to the Immortal-Thief Outsider. "Fellow Daoist! What does that fellow from the Blood Baleful Race have that could help us enter the Land of Despair more smoothly?"
The Immortal-Thief Outsider answered gravely, "Since you know some