Chapter 63: Eat It

Cang Cang Yin Yue whipped her head around and looked down, only to see Cang Yuanhou—clad in a deep purple, splendid brocade robe, a jade crown on his head—standing with his hands clasped behind his back inside the rock cave, gazing at her with a smiling face.

Seeing this, Cang Cang Yin Yue leapt down from the bronze cauldron in a flash, instantly overcome with fury, her gaze fixed dead on the other party:

"All of this is your doing? Do you even know what you're doing?"

Cang Yuanhou's temples were faintly white, his features slightly aged, yet his nose bridge was high and straight, his brows and eyes clear and bright—clearly a handsome man in his youth as well.

He looked at Cang Cang Yin Yue, his expression perfectly calm, and gave a slight nod:

"Of course I know what I'm doing; you needn't make such a fuss."

Hearing this, Cang Cang Yin Yue gazed at the father she hadn't seen in some time, and for the first time felt he was utterly unfamiliar—nothing like the Cang Yuanhou in her memory who curried favor with the powerful and was timid by nature.

Suppressing the shock and fury in her heart, she pointed at the top of the rock cave and asked in a low voice:

"Did you kill all those people? Why exactly? Why would you do something so utterly depraved?"

Cang Cang Yin Yue's feelings at this moment were extremely complicated; although she despised her timid father, because if he hadn't taken that vicious woman as a wife, her mother and eldest brother wouldn't have been killed.

But in her heart she still kept some beautiful scenes from childhood—the warm memories of their family of four.

Back then, she could still feel a father's loving kindness, unlike the present, where father and daughter were like strangers.

Yet she had never imagined he could have changed so utterly, become so brutally savage.

Not only did he kill so many people, he even used their bones to collect corpse oil—utterly devoid of conscience!

At this moment, faced with Cang Cang Yin Yue's questioning, Cang Yuanhou slowly raised his head to look at the cave ceiling, but shook his head and said:

"That's where you've misunderstood me. Not all of those people were killed by me; I merely borrowed your second mother's light. If she hadn't kept killing people so persistently, I could never have refined this 'Earth Corpse Pill'!"

Having said that, Cang Yuanhou turned his head and gave Cang Cang Yin Yue a slight smile; the next instant, his entire being faintly emanated a shocking aura.

He rotated his palm downward, and streams of yin-cold true qi swiftly gathered into a hazy gray palm imprint; then he flipped his palm and abruptly raised his hand, striking through the air toward the bronze cauldron above.

Crack!

The green-rust-spotted bronze cauldron split open abruptly under the forceful palm imprint's blow; the remaining corpse water and a pile of unidentified medicinal dregs cascaded down with a clatter, and at the same time a yellow-glimmering corpse Governor Zhu Zi dropped as well.

Cang Yuanhou suddenly reached out and snatched the Earth Corpse Pill into his hand, while his true qi pulsed around him, scattering all the spilled corpse water and dregs.

"When did you advance to Wudaoda Sect?"

Cang Cang Yin Yue sensed the powerful aura on Cang Yuanhou and instantly stepped back, looking extremely astonished.

Cang Yuanhou's martial talent was mediocre; after cultivating for so many years he had barely reached the Grandmaster realm, and by all rights should never have touched Wudaoda Sect in this lifetime.

Yet the current Cang Yuanhou was clearly a true Wudaoda Sect without a doubt, and his true qi was extremely abundant—far from the simple case of a newly advanced Wudaoda Sect.

Cang Yuanhou shook his head and said:

"Don't worry about that; I have my own opportunity."

As he spoke, he beckoned to Cang Cang Yin Yue with a grin:

"Good daughter, haven't you always wanted to kill your second mother and avenge your mother and eldest brother?"

"Come, swallow this Earth Corpse Pill, and you'll possess the powerful strength to kill her."

Hearing this, Cang Cang Yin Yue's delicate brows knit slightly as she stared at Cang Yuanhou and the corpse Governor Zhu Zi in his hand for a moment.

She didn't know what this so-called Earth Corpse Pill was, but something refined from human corpses was clearly no good thing.

Cang Cang Yin Yue shook her head and slowly retreated backward, away from Cang Yuanhou, saying:

"I don't need it. I believe that through my own efforts, sooner or later I can kill that vicious woman."

Seeing this, Cang Yuanhou narrowed his eyes slightly, then shifted his gaze to the Earth Corpse Pill in his hand, sighed softly, and said:

"Cang Yin Yue, you may not know this, but your father wanted to kill that bitch Zhu Fenglan long ago, to avenge your mother and eldest brother—but... I couldn't do it!"

"My martial cultivation is meager; that bitch could stomp me underfoot with a single foot. No matter how hard I tried it was useless—I was as lowly as a dog before her."

As he spoke, Cang Yuanhou's face showed pain, and he lowered his head and said:

"Ever since that woman entered Hou Fu, relying on her connection with Noble Consort Ji, the entire household has been hers to command. Now Cang Yuanhou Fu is full of her people; only the surname hasn't been changed to Zhu yet."

Hearing this, Cang Cang Yin Yue remained unmoved, and instead gave a cold laugh:

"Isn't this your own doing? For the sake of inheriting the marquis title, you cast aside your wife and children—you should have foreseen today's retribution long ago."

"Yes, it's my retribution. I'm no human; I deserve to die a thousand deaths!"

Cang Yuanhou nodded heavily, his voice hoarse:

"But this Cang Yuanhou Fu absolutely cannot fall into the hands of an outsider. I've exhausted my lifespan cultivating the martial path and have little time left. Cang Yin Yue, this entire Hou Fu will be yours in the future."

Hearing this, Cang Cang Yin Yue shook her head and said coldly:

"I don't need it, and besides—don't you still have Cang Yuning?"

At these words, Cang Yuanhou fell silent for a moment. After a long while, he suddenly gritted his teeth and said:

"That little beast Cang Yuning isn't of my Cang family blood. He's the son of that bitch Zhu Fenglan and the Fourth Elder of Taiyin Yuan Sect. All these years I've been made a fool of, kept in the dark."

"And not only did that bitch kill your eldest brother, she wants to kill you too—this is to cut off my Cang family's line. I absolutely cannot let such a thing happen."

"So I must not let her remain in this world; that bastard of hers must die too!"

As he spoke, Cang Yuanhou raised his head; his once-gentle face was now utterly savage, as if he wished he could tear Zhu Fenglan and Cang Yuning into a thousand pieces.

Cang Cang Yin Yue was slightly stunned, seemingly taken aback by this situation as well.

She truly hadn't expected that Cang Yuning wasn't actually his son.

But very quickly, Cang Cang Yin Yue merely shook her head indifferently and said:

"This has nothing to do with me, and I don't need this Hou Fu. The only goal of my life is to avenge my mother and eldest brother."

Hearing this, Cang Yuanhou laughed, opened his hand to reveal the Earth Corpse Pill, and said:

"That's perfect—as long as you take it, you can kill that bitch tonight!"

Cang Cang Yin Yue stared at the man before her who seemed both familiar and unfamiliar, and suddenly grew wary:

"If taking this thing lets you get revenge, why don't you eat it yourself?"

Hearing this, the smile on Cang Yuanhou's face instantly froze. He looked at Cang Cang Yin Yue's guarded expression and sighed:

"Good daughter, I'm entrusting such a precious opportunity for revenge to you, yet you doubt your father—what am I to say to you?"

The moment his words fell, Marquis Marquis Marquis Cangyuan vanished from where he stood, appearing beside Cang Cang Yin Yue in the blink of an eye.

His palm landed on Cang Cang Yin Yue's shoulder, and surging powerful, dark, cold true qi pinned her in place; then his other hand abruptly shoved the Corpse Earth Pill toward Cang Cang Yin Yue's mouth.

Cang Cang Yin Yue's face showed terror, and she could not resist at all, but the next instant, she saw Marquis Marquis Marquis Cangyuan freeze completely.

Then, a hand reached out from somewhere unknown, pinched the Corpse Earth Pill from Marquis Marquis Marquis Cangyuan's hand, and stuffed it directly into Marquis Marquis Marquis Cangyuan's mouth.

(End of chapter)