Chapter 701: The Inner Demon Appears!

The night-luminescent pearls inside the cave emitted a fluorescent glow.

Ye Lin stepped, one step at a time, onto the neatly cut stone floor tiles.

The shadow that should have been quietly following him unexpectedly stopped in its tracks at this moment.

Ye Lin continued to walk forward, yet he did not know when his shadow had vanished; his shadow stood where it was, watching Ye Lin depart.

This scene was extremely eerie, enough to make one's hair stand on end.

Ye Lin did not notice the abnormality of his shadow and continued walking forward.

Who among ordinary people would check to see if their shadow was still there for no reason?

This cave was very deep; Ye Lin walked for a long time, and he felt he should have already reached the heart of the mountain.

After rounding a bend, an ancient well appeared before his eyes.

The mouth of the well was about ten meters wide; it was an octagonal well, and the well walls were already covered in dense, dark green moss.

The cave was very spacious, but apart from this octagonal well, it was completely empty.

From Ye Lin's angle, he could vaguely see the well water inside.

The color of the well water was not normal, but presented an eerie silver-gray, as if it were composed entirely of mercury.

If he had not guessed wrong, this well should be the Reincarnation Heart-Severing Well.

Ye Lin walked over and looked toward the bottom of the well.

Although this well water was silver-gray, one could eerily see the bottom of the well.

Deep at the bottom of the well were countless jade tablets inscribed with names and birth dates!

Ye Lin soon saw a jade tablet inscribed with a name he was familiar with.

Punishment Elder, Pei Jiuye!

It stood to reason that the jade tablets of the Seven Emotions Elders and the Hall Masters were likely down there as well, though Ye Lin did not know their names.

"Could it be that for this Heart-Severing Reincarnation Well to work, one must take a jade tablet and write down their birth date and name?"

Ye Lin took out a jade tablet, and after carving his name, he ran into trouble with the birth date section.

Because he could not easily calculate how much time had passed from his rebirth until now.

Thus, Ye Lin could only commit suicide on the spot and then revive, then carve the birth date of that very instant onto the jade tablet and toss it into the well.

*Plop.

The jade tablet fell into the water, and the calm well water rippled in circles.

The scene before his eyes changed within the ripples.

In the well water, Ye Lin saw a child of only seven or eight years old.

A torrential rain poured down, and sewage flowed across the streets.

That child held a sharp piece of bone in his hand, and the bone was stained with fresh blood.

A thin, gaunt figure lay on the ground, his body riddled with several bloody holes poked out by the bone.

Rainwater washed over a twisted, deformed face, and fresh blood flowed together with the black sewage.

A look of ambiguous meaning appeared in Ye Lin's eyes.

He remembered this scene.

This was the first time he had killed someone, and the location was in the slums of Qingcheng.

At that time, he wanted nothing else; he only wanted to live.

Yet, for this simplest requirement of just living, there were people who would not let him have his way.

Back then, the small him had been targeted by human traffickers; after scouting, the traffickers confirmed he was the only one at home, so they came to his door and abducted him directly.

Ye Lin knew very well what would happen once he was taken away; he forcibly snapped his own arm and used the jagged broken bone to stab into the trafficker's lungs.

The trafficker's lungs were punctured, and he wheezed like a broken bellows while dying in the rain; Ye Lin still remembered it clearly even now.

After killing for the first time, Ye Lin was terrified and could not help but retch.

He hid at home for half a month, not eating, drinking, or sleeping.

Even though he had starved to death several times during that period, he did not dare to go out.

He did not want to kill.

But he had no choice.

If he fell into the hands of the traffickers, he would definitely end up in a fate worse than death.

If he wanted to live well, he could only choose to kill.

The silver-gray well water began to boil at some point, bubbling as it rose.

Every time a bubble emerged, a bloody and cruel scene would appear in Ye Lin's eyes.

The assassination of the Underground King Kensen, the pit-killing of countless people in Secret Realm No. 79, the slaughter of all thirteen members of the Yin family, the killing of Xie Zhanxin in the Mountain-Sea Secret Realm, the blood sacrifice of an entire Sang Kingdom, the offering of the entire Ye clan, and watching coldly as the masses died at the hands of the Brahma cultivators.

Every single deed Ye Lin had committed in the past now surfaced in the Reincarnation Heart-Severing Well.

Face after face that should have long been dead reappeared before Ye Lin's eyes; they were ferocious, their gazes filled with resentment.

"Ye Lin, return my life to me!"

"Ye Lin, you have killed so many people, slaughtering the innocent; do you not feel a pang of conscience?"

"Ye Lin, I am waiting for you in the depths of the Avici Hell; you will surely be damned forever after you die, hahahahaha!"

From beneath the silver-gray well water, countless translucent, pale arms reached out, grabbing his hem and body, trying to drag him into the well.

"Ye Lin, come down and join us! Only by letting us slice you to pieces while you are still alive can you atone for your sins!"

"A beast like you, rejected by heaven and earth, should not exist in this world; even your closest kin despise you!"

"Your mother was cursed to death by you; if it weren't for you, your mother would still be living well!"

"Ye Lin, your existence is a curse to those around you; die quickly! You are not worthy of living!"

Listening to these curses, Ye Lin's expression was very calm; the corners of his mouth slowly curled up, and suddenly he began to laugh wildly, unable to stop.

"Ha↑ ha↑ ha↑ ha↑ ha↑ ha↑ ha↑ ha↑!"

"Is this the extent of so-called inner demons? Truly pitifully weak."

The countless faces condensed in the well water suddenly froze in place.

They had not expected that someone could be so calm and composed when facing those who had died by their own hands.

"Ye Lin! Do you truly not realize your own mistakes?!"

Those twisted faces let out vicious roars.

Ye Lin felt as if he were listening to celestial music, his face full of enjoyment, and he even spread his arms quite naturally.

"Come, let me clarify the logic for you."

"Known condition one: the more the enemy opposes me, the more it proves I am doing the right thing; furthermore, if even the enemy supports me, it proves even more that I am doing the right thing."

"Also known condition two: if friends support me, it likewise proves I am doing the right thing; but if a friend opposes me, that means he is my enemy! Automatically returning to condition one."

"And also known condition three: if a passerby supports me, it likewise proves I am doing the right thing, and if he opposes me, it means the passerby is also my enemy, automatically returning to condition one again."

"In summary, we can conclude that enemies, friends, and passersby are all supporting me without reservation; I am walking on the most correct path!"

"I, what wrong have I done?"