Chapter 752: Jumping into the Yellow River Cannot Wash Away the Stains

It must be admitted that the Bone Curse of Master Xuanhai is indeed terrifying.

The moment it was unleashed, every bone in Ye Lin's body felt as if it had undergone a thousand years of decay, becoming as brittle as dregs of tofu.

With his skeleton unable to support his body, his own flesh and blood crushed him down.

If anyone else had been struck by the Bone Curse, they would likely have died without a burial place.

But for Ye Lin... that was just another death-defying tribulation.

Ye Lin only lost one life, but Master Xuanhai was about to suffer a great deal.

The Four Great Evils surrounded him tightly, like four big gray wolves encircling a little white rabbit.

"Run? Keep running? Why aren't you running anymore? Weren't you quite good at running?"

The Flame Demon Lord rubbed his hands together, two pillars of fire shooting from his nostrils.

"Master Xuanhai, you and I have no past grievances or recent grudges. Cultivation is not easy; it is unwise to throw your life away for an Innate Supreme Treasure. You had better return that sword to us."

"As long as you return the sword to us and pass on the complete incantation to control it, we will let bygones be bygones. How about that?"

Granny Insect Heart offered Master Xuanhai a way out.

The world of cultivation is not just about killing and fighting; it is about human relationships and worldly wisdom.

When you are out in the world, it is all for the sake of profit, even for evil cultivators.

Unless absolutely forced, no one wants to engage in a life-or-death struggle with a cultivator stronger than themselves.

Master Xuanhai grew angry at the mention of this so-called incantation.

What a load of nonsense!

It was clearly Ye Lin playing him for a fool!

"I don't care if you believe me or not, I truly don't know what the incantation to control that sword is. I was tricked by someone!"

Master Xuanhai took a deep breath and began to explain slowly.

"That brat lied to me, saying he had a blood feud with you, and asked me to cooperate with him. After it was done, the Innate Supreme Treasure and other treasures would be mine, and he only wanted revenge."

"In the end, he used me to snatch the sword and then vanished without a trace!"

"If you believe me, I can take you to find that brat. He was hit by my Bone Curse, so he must be dead by now!"

Master Xuanhai's words made the Four Great Evils knit their brows.

"Do I look that easy to fool?"

The Flame Demon Lord stared at Master Xuanhai with a wise gaze.

"Stop the nonsense. Hand over the sword, or today, it will be a fight to the death!"

"You must have seen it too, the sword flew away; it is not in my hands! I am a victim too!" Master Xuanhai said in a deep voice.

"Then how do we know you aren't staging a play to trick us?" Blood Rose asked, narrowing her eyes.

Master Xuanhai fell silent.

That is the downside of being an evil cultivator; everyone is suspicious and wary of one another, and there is almost no trust between people.

But there is no help for it; nature follows the law of survival of the fittest.

Those evil cultivators who were willing to trust others now have grass growing two or three meters high on their graves.

Granny Insect Heart frowned, secretly communicating with the other three Great Evils via voice transmission, before speaking to Master Xuanhai.

"Master Xuanhai, we are naturally willing to believe you, but you must give us some guarantee, right?"

"How about this: Soul Fiend happens to be skilled in soul-based attacks. Let him place a Soul-Capturing Curse on you, and we will go with you to find the swindler you mentioned. How about that?"

The Soul-Capturing Curse, like Master Xuanhai's Bone Curse, is a technique used to control cultivators.

However, the Soul-Capturing Curse is even more evil and bizarre than the Bone Curse, as it acts directly upon a cultivator's soul.

Master Xuanhai had refined his physical body into a white jade skeleton, and soul attacks were precisely what he feared most.

Soul Fiend took the ancient blue-glowing lamp and walked toward Master Xuanhai.

Just as he tried to bring the lamp close to Master Xuanhai, the latter suddenly flicked his bone whip, forcibly pushing Soul Fiend back.

"I said I am a victim too. I can take you to find that brat, but if you want to place a restriction on me, forget it!"

Once the Soul-Capturing Curse was placed, his life would no longer be in his own hands, and Master Xuanhai was naturally unwilling.

Seeing Master Xuanhai resist, the eyes of the Four Great Evils turned cold instantly.

Master Xuanhai had come to them of his own accord.

The sword had flown away after Master Xuanhai finished chanting that "ah-ah-ah" incantation of unknown origin.

They did not care if Master Xuanhai was a victim; they only wanted to retrieve their Innate Supreme Treasure!

"Since you are unwilling to accept the Soul-Capturing Curse, Master Xuanhai, we have no choice but to attack together."

The green toad in Granny Insect Heart's eye socket began to croak.

Master Xuanhai felt deeply wronged, but he could not say it, and even if he did, no one would believe him; it was like mud falling into one's trousers—you can't explain it clearly.

It was like a young married woman asking you to her house to fix her computer; the moment you enter, she strips naked, hugs you, and starts calling you "baby."

At that moment, her husband returns.

You say you came to fix the computer—who would believe you?

As things stood, Master Xuanhai could only choose to break through and run, then find the corpse of that Ye Xiehong; anyone hit by his Bone Curse was surely dead and could not have run far.

The mysterious runes on Master Xuanhai's white jade skeleton lit up, and the heart within his chest cavity began to beat violently.

Facing the Four Great Evils, he took the initiative to attack, his bone whip smashing directly toward Blood Rose.

Clearly, among the four, Master Xuanhai felt Blood Rose was the weakest and intended to use her as his breakthrough point.

"Hmph, it seems I am being underestimated?"

The rose pinned to Blood Rose's body suddenly exploded, its petals turning into blades of blood and forming a giant blood-colored rose!

At the same time, the sound of the Blood-Weeping Pipa rang out, fast and urgent, piercingly sharp.

"Blood Pipa, Rose Fall!"

The blood-colored rose descended toward Master Xuanhai, blocking the path of the bone whip.

*Snap!

As the bone whip fell, the blood-colored rose exploded back into blood blades, which, under the control of the Blood-Weeping Pipa, sliced into the gaps of Master Xuanhai's skeleton at a bizarre angle!

Master Xuanhai let out a muffled groan and prepared to destroy the flower with a ruthless hand.

"Does Master Xuanhai not hold this old woman in any regard at all?"

Granny Insect Heart let out a strange laugh, and the green toad actually jumped directly out of her eye socket, opening its mouth to spit out a mist of Heart-Eroding Insects; wherever it passed, even space showed signs of corrosion.

Master Xuanhai's white jade left arm accidentally came into contact with it, and countless honeycomb-like holes appeared instantly.

A teeth-gritting, creaking sound rang out incessantly; clearly, the Heart-Eroding Insects were gnawing away at Master Xuanhai's body.