He had always been the one slapping other people around. Why had he been the one getting hit these past few days?
Did these women think his head was made of dough, that they could flick his forehead whenever they pleased?
Ouyang was just about to blow up and show this widowed master's wife a thing or two.
But Mu Yunge turned and said, "If it were merely an Immortal's remains that had developed sentience, it wouldn't have become such a huge problem for Penglai Immortal Mountain. The sentience within these Immortal remains escaped!"
Even a corpse-dumpling could send its Divine Soul fleeing? Were corpse-dumplings in the cultivation world that much stronger than the ones in movies? Ouyang thought in astonishment.
"May I ask, Master's wife, am I supposed to find that escaped Divine Soul?" Ouyang asked uncertainly.
Mu Yunge shook her head and said with a complicated expression, "You've already met her."
"I've met her?" Mu Yunge's words left Ouyang in a fog. Then realization struck, and he asked uncertainly, "Do you mean Deputy Mountain Master Yunhai?"
Mu Yunge nodded painfully, a trace of sorrow in her eyes as she said, "If only it had been me. Why did she have to choose her?"
Ouyang recalled the woman he had just seen, her hair white as snow, her purity like fragile glass.
Mu Yunhai?
Had that reanimated founding master's Divine Soul escaped into that woman?
Only then did Ouyang see the light. The full story finally surfaced. So this was what Hu Yun had sent him here to do!
"Two souls in one body?" Ouyang asked tentatively. This situation seemed very similar to that of the Old Emperor and that scheming little Xuan in the Mortal World!
Instead of answering Ouyang, Mu Yunge gritted her teeth and said, "As