As they were talking, Ye Xiu came running over in a hurry.
"Lord Ye Mo, something terrible has happened! We had only just locked Ghost Fiend in prison when he died. His soul sea burst apart."
Ye Mo frowned. Dead?
He had been planning to pry some useful information out of him.
Nie Li frowned as well. "It must have been a soul chain. It looks like the Dark Guild didn't want us getting anything out of him, so they shattered Ghost Fiend's soul sea remotely. By the way, did he have anything like a Space Ring?"
Ye Xiu nodded and took one out.
Ye Mo examined its contents.
There were quite a few good things inside. After all, Ghost Fiend had been following the Demon Lord in the Nether Realm.
He even found several Kongming Stones in there.
Those were used to summon an Abyss Troll.
That would probably give them another Legendary Rank combatant.
Meanwhile, Ye Zong saw a name on the list of the dead.
Ye Han.
Ye Han was dead, killed beneath the fists of a Black Gold Rank Wind Snow Giant Ape.
He clutched his chest as a wrenching pain welled up inside him.
Ye Han was his son, his adopted son, and he had placed great hopes in him.
Although the position of city lord could no longer belong to Ye Han, he had still hoped Ye Han could become a trusted right-hand man to Nie Li and the others. With his own standing and influence, along with Elder Ye Ming's, they might still have secured a place for him in the Wind Snow Family.
Besides, although Ye Han had contacted the Sacred Family, Shen Hong was dead, Shen Ning and Shen Xiao could pretend they knew nothing, and Shen Xiu was still locked