Has this horse gone mad?
Yuchi Peng squeezed the horse's belly, but found that he couldn't stop it no matter what he did. It wasn't that he couldn't use brute force to stop it, but the dead horse was moving so much that if he tried to stop it by force, he would break its spine.
It wasn't that he was heartbroken about the horse; the key issue was that without it, even someone with extraordinary abilities couldn't get out of this godforsaken place, let alone someone like himself who wasn't even a nobody.
As the horse ran further and further towards the area teeming with evil spirits, Yuchi Peng felt a chill run down his spine.
Fortunately, although these evil spirits were extremely malicious, they did not make a move, seemingly wary of this Ghost Horse horse.
The Ghost Horse can travel Yin-Yang Realm; if it only had the ability to travel, it would have been torn apart and eaten as horse meat long ago.
He was also very curious as to why he had only heard of people riding this horse to travel to the underworld, but had never heard of any evil spirit using it to travel to the mortal world.
He was actually quite curious about this: if Transcendent evil spirits couldn't exist in the mortal world without a physical body, why had ordinary evil spirits never done so?
What is the reason that this horse can roam freely on the Yin-Yang Road?
Without time to think, the horses galloped faster and faster, quickly breaking through the horde of evil spirits and heading towards a desolate place.
Seeing the dwindling number of evil spirits around him, Yuchi Peng became even more nervous.
Although he did not become a ghost, he had talked with many ghosts and was very curious about what the Yin-Yang Road was like. The other party revealed a lot to him while they were drinking.
In the Yin-Yang Road, places with many evil spirits are not actually dangerous. The most dangerous places are those with few evil spirits. The Yin-Yang Road has accumulated countless evil spirits since ancient times, and it is already overrun with ghosts. If a place is free of evil spirits, either the environment of that place is extremely harsh, or there is a very terrifying existence there!
It was a large open space, and the place was full of spiritual energy. Yuchi Peng felt that it didn't seem like a harsh environment, which meant that there was probably something extraordinary here.
The extraordinary creature in the Yin-Yang Road is probably an ancient monster that has lived for millions of years.
Thinking of this, Yuchi Peng felt so scared that he was numb. However, the dead horse he was riding was very excited and kept galloping wildly, neighing excitedly as if it were in heat.
Could there be a mare there?
Just then, he suddenly saw a familiar figure sitting cross-legged in the middle of the huge open space. Yuchi Peng was stunned, and Ghost Horse, who was sitting down, was also stunned. After seeing clearly, he angrily spat and turned to run away.
Yuchi Peng quickly dismounted, then hoisted the dead horse onto his shoulder to prevent the other party from escaping, and strode towards the figure.
The man in the middle was also taken aback, staring at Yuchi Peng for a few seconds before saying, "Young Master, your way of riding a horse is quite unique."
Yuchi Peng rolled his eyes, but dared not put the struggling horse down, after all, he still needed this wretched thing to get out of there.
What's wrong with you?
This figure in white was precisely the one he had come for: Wei Gongxing!
What does "young master" mean?
"Why are you able to live here peacefully without being harmed by evil spirits?"
He had heard that newly born Yin spirits had a very low survival rate in the Yin-Yang Road. Even top-tier experts in the human world would find it difficult to survive there. The strong ones would devour you directly, while the weak ones would band together and tear you apart. You would suffer no matter which group you encountered.
And why does this kid have such a powerful aura about him?
"This... was an accident," Wei Gongxing said, scratching his head, unsure how to explain.
It was really an accident. Back then, during the battle in the north, not many people knew his abilities. Yuchi was one of them, and his older Wei Gongcheng, who had been trained by Master Yuchi for many years, was another.
Wei Gongcheng, who was followed by Chen Qing, naturally wanted to recruit subordinates for Chen Qing, so he recommended himself.
When Chen Qing last came to the capital, she took some time to visit him, meaning she wanted to take him to Jiangnan.
Jiangnan is a great place, in his opinion, a great place to relax and unwind. He actually likes it very much. It can give people like them, who are capable but not of pure blood, a new opportunity. It would be a lie to say that he is not tempted.
Unfortunately, the old patriarch wouldn't release him.
I regretfully missed out on the opportunity to curry favor with the King of Qin. Although I couldn't leave with him at the time, I did ask him for a favor.
" King of Qin Highness, my elder brother is now the Lord of the Underworld in Liuzhou, Jiangnan. The situation in the capital is currently very strange. I was wondering if, if my mother and I were to accidentally die, could you help me bring them back to Jiangnan?"
"Generally speaking, it's not easy to do, but there is a method."
These were Chen Qing's words at the time, and that method is one of the reasons why I am able to survive here now.
The method was to have that little guy named Nezha leave a drop of his essence blood deep within his spirit. Once he died and was pulled into the Yin-Yang Road, the essence blood within his spirit would evaporate.
According to Chen Qing, Nezha is a top-tier Ghost General below the Ghost King on the Yin-Yang Road, and has the potential to become Ghost King himself. His essence blood has a deterrent effect on ordinary evil spirits. As long as the place where he falls is not the territory of a powerful being, he should be able to stay safe for the time being.
It proved to be very effective, and I was also quite lucky. After death, my spirit was absorbed to this point. As soon as the hordes of evil spirits rushed over, the drop of evaporating essence blood in my body caused a large number of evil spirits to retreat, resulting in no ghosts within dozens of miles of me.
However, there's something I can't say to Yuchi Peng right now. He was originally following the Yuchi Household family, but now they've even found a backup plan. It sounds a bit underhanded.
Seeing the other party Yuchi Peng didn't press for details, but instead asked about the more pressing matter, "My father said that you chose to commit suicide because you found the other party's weakness, right?"
"The old patriarch is still formidable," Wei Gongxing sighed. That old fox was said to be the weakest patriarch in the history of the Yuchi Household, defeated by his own teenage son and losing all face. Yet Wei Gongxing believed that he was the most powerful patriarch in the Yuchi Household. Sometimes his judgment was truly sharp.
"We really found it?" Yuchi Peng exclaimed excitedly.
"There are some clues," Wei Gongxing said in a low voice, " The Muye was able to successfully rebel this time was entirely due to a kind of insect."
"Insects?" Yuchi Peng was taken aback. "What insects?"
"I don't know their origin, but those insects are terrifying. Once they parasitize a host, they can directly cause a qualitative change in the host's body. In just one day, they created a lot of Transcendent, and their strength surpassed that of the elites in the Ghost Temple. It's truly terrifying. But I knew then that their method must have significant side effects. Otherwise, they wouldn't have needed to make any plans; they could have unified the world long ago with just these insects."
Yuchi Peng nodded; these words were exactly the same as those of the Duke of Song!
What are the side effects?
"Not entirely certain, but we can probably see some things," Wei Gongxing said solemnly. "This kind of monster is too domineering when it alters the human body, easily causing the body and mind to go insane, turning them into uncontrollable beasts!"
"Huh?" Yuchi was taken aback, puzzled. "Out of control? If a person is out of control, wouldn't that be perfect for the worms inside their body to control them? Could it be that they can't control those worms?"
"No," Wei Gongxing shook his head, "Those insects are uncontrollable. I've seen two examples; they grew too fast and suddenly went berserk. Muye killed those two without hesitation, destroying the insects inside them as well!"
Yuchi Peng's eyes lit up. "You mean to say that his subordinates are uncontrollable?"
"There's a chance it will become uncontrollable!" Wei Gongxing said quietly. "It should become uncontrollable after being stimulated to a certain extent, and the harm should be extremely great. Otherwise, Muye wouldn't have killed them immediately. If I'm not mistaken, those out-of-control insects will cause very serious consequences, consequences that even those monsters couldn't withstand!"
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"Does my lord mean that these Ancient Demon have a very serious weakness?"
On the other side, Shen Qi was also taken aback when he heard Chen Qing transmit information about the Ancient Insect.
"Of course," Chen Qing sneered. "If they had no weaknesses, with these monsters' characteristics, what chance would any other monsters have in the world?"
Ancient Demon evolve at an incredibly rapid pace. A larva with a sufficiently robust physique can quickly grow into a top-tier powerhouse, which also leads to the extremely aggressive predatory nature of Ancient Demon.
But precisely because it evolved so quickly, without some weaknesses, this thing would be far too invincible. In the world I designed, of course, I couldn't allow something so awesome to exist.
Throughout countless Ancient Demon Dynasty, the vast dynasties established by the Ancient Demon were all destroyed by their own people!