Was he... Ding Yan?
No, Ding Yan would never keep calling himself "this old man." From the meaning behind his words, he sounded nothing like the War Hall Elite Lin Mo had met before, and far more like that old dog from Spirit Beast Peak!
"Could it be..."
Lin Mo looked up at "Ding Yan," hovering on his flying sword, and his pupils involuntarily contracted. "You're Gou Fengying. You possessed Ding Yan?!"
"Oh?"
Ding Yan raised an eyebrow, then smiled approvingly. "You're no fool, to have guessed that. Though I used the Soul-Transfer Secret Art, calling it possession isn't wrong."
So it really was possession!
Lin Mo's heart sank, and his wariness of Gou Fengying deepened.
Possession was hardly rare in the cultivation world. Many old monsters approaching the limits of their lifespan would use possession to prolong their lives.
However, the requirements for possession were extremely demanding. At the very least, one had to be a Golden Core True Lord to accomplish it.
Lao Gou had only been at the seventh layer of Foundation Establishment. How had he managed to perform a possession technique?
Either his divine sense was extraordinarily powerful, or the Tai Sui Gate's secret art was formidable. Neither possibility was good news for Lin Mo!
The only good news was that, after possessing Ding Yan, Lao Gou's cultivation was now only at the ninth layer of Qi Refining. Lin Mo still had a fighting chance!
The Spirit-Devouring Vine's tendrils reached only ten zhang, while Gou Fengying hovered on his flying sword at least thirty zhang away...
Lin Mo gauged the distance between them. Knowing it was not yet time to strike, he put on a puzzled expression. "You were at the seventh layer of Foundation Establishment. Was possessing Ding Yan, a ninth-layer Qi Refining cultivator, really