"But this servant... never imagined that, for the Huang family's future, Father would actually report this matter to the Immortal Alliance. And in order to wipe out the Confucian cultivators' legacy, the Immortal Alliance set a trap at the Cold River, using this servant's name to lure Brother You there, intending to kill him with the combined strength of several people! When this servant learned that something was wrong and rushed over, Brother You was already at death's door. Knowing it was all because of this servant, I severed all ties with the Huang family and even the Dao Sect by the banks of the Cold River, swearing to live and die alongside Brother You! But this servant's cultivation was truly too shallow. I could only watch helplessly as Brother You breathed his last in my arms!"
"Those people from the Immortal Alliance were even more ruthless. Without so much as a second thought, they struck and killed this servant!" Huang Yi said bitterly. "But that day was just like today—the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when a hundred ghosts roamed abroad. A vicious ghost, in the same circumstances as this servant now, was weathering its tribulation above the Cold River. Unfortunately, it too could not escape its destined calamity. When it could no longer evade the lightning tribulation, it saw this servant's soul. This servant had inherited the Huang family's Vermilion Bird True Blood. Though it had yet to awaken, my soul was unlike an ordinary soul. That vicious ghost devoured this servant's soul, intending to refine the Seven-Eyed Passion Fire and resist the lightning tribulation! Yet it was instead devoured in return by this servant's soul. However, because this servant consumed that vicious ghost, I was also forced to turn to the Ghost Cultivator path!"
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