Chapter 785: Bestowing the Inheritance

These five short words seemed to contain all the truths of the world.

When Ye Lin spat out these five words, countless rays of brilliant light suddenly bloomed between heaven and earth, golden lotuses blossomed in the void, and the sound of Great Dao Sanskrit chants arose.

The instant he heard these five words, the Extinction Demon Venerable felt the folds of his cerebral cortex being smoothed out; he forgot the middle part, and then it was just like strolling through a forest after the rain.

He was back.

He felt it—the dead memories had all returned in this moment.

The last time he heard this joke, he was still a mother of two children.

Now, however, he was left with only a fragmented soul body.

"I announce, you have won! You shall receive my inheritance!"

The Extinction Demon Venerable announced the result on the spot.

"On what grounds?!"

The demonic cultivator on the side became anxious immediately.

"Lord Demon Venerable, it was I who retrieved your spine! That is the most important spine! I spent hundreds of years piecing it together, section by section!"

He had risked such great danger to infiltrate the Demon-Sealing Realm, all for the sake of the Extinction Demon Venerable's inheritance.

And now, he was actually being intercepted because of a joke?

If the one intercepting him were also a demonic cultivator, that would be one thing, but the one intercepting him was actually a bald monk?

A monk, stealing his Demon Venerable inheritance? Is this mother-fucking reasonable?

"I even sacrificed a lot of my own blood just now to successfully awaken you!"

The demonic cultivator felt incredibly aggrieved at this moment; he had paid so much, and yet because of a joke, he had ended up with nothing—he now felt that he was the joke!

"This Venerable has spoken: he won, so the inheritance is his. Is there a problem?" the Extinction Demon Venerable's remnant soul asked in return.

"Then give me back that spine, give me back the spine." The demonic cultivator had completely lost hope; he now only wanted to recoup his losses as much as possible.

"Must you make such an ugly scene?" the Extinction Demon Venerable asked.

"But my spine is with you! I don't want the inheritance anymore, just give me back the spine!" the demonic cultivator urged.

"Have you made enough of a scene?" the Extinction Demon Venerable continued to ask.

"My spine is with you," the demonic cultivator shouted anxiously.

Extinction Demon Venerable: "Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm."

Demonic cultivator: "Give me back my spine!"

Extinction Demon Venerable: "You don't even want my inheritance anymore."

Demonic cultivator: "That spine is what I found!"

Extinction Demon Venerable: "Hmm, that was also something you gave me voluntarily."

Demonic cultivator: "Hey you, that is the spine of a Supreme-level powerhouse!"

Extinction Demon Venerable: "Hmm, that was also something you gave me voluntarily."

"You won't give me the inheritance now, and you aren't even willing to return the spine?" the demonic cultivator asked in disbelief.

"It was you who gave it to me voluntarily." The Extinction Demon Venerable's expression remained unchanged; clearly, he had already planned this out.

"You cannot do this." Despair appeared on the demonic cultivator's face.

"Hmm, I return those exact words to you."

The Extinction Demon Venerable stopped looking at him, unwilling to spare even a single glance.

"Give me back the spine!"

The demonic cultivator was still attempting to negotiate with the other party, but the next second, the air around him began to solidify and compress.

"Noisy!"

The Extinction Demon Venerable's remnant shadow made a grasping motion with his five fingers.

Although he was only a remnant soul, he was still the remnant soul of a Demon Venerable, and his power was far beyond what a mere Third-Phase Star-Luo Realm cultivator could resist.

That demonic cultivator had gone through all sorts of hardships to find the Extinction Demon Venerable's spine and deliver it here, yet he couldn't even let out a scream before exploding into a mist of blood under the Extinction Demon Venerable's attack.

After killing this demonic cultivator, a smile quickly appeared on the Extinction Demon Venerable's face again, and he looked at Ye Lin with a gentle expression.

"What is your name?"

"Ye Xiehong," Ye Lin replied.

"Ye Xiehong, congratulations on passing my assessment."

The Extinction Demon Venerable opened his arms wide.

"Now, accept my inheritance; your physical body shall obtain the Primordial Spirit of an Unsurpassed Demon Venerable!"

"Great... wait, hold on a second!"

Halfway through his excitement, Ye Lin suddenly realized something was wrong.

"The physical body obtains the Demon Venerable's Primordial Spirit? Isn't this mother-fucking possession?"

"Congratulations, you guessed right; I just love smart people."

The smile on the Extinction Demon Venerable's face suddenly turned ferocious.

"Now that my remnant bones have all been gathered, I only lack flesh and blood. As long as I possess you and then fuse with my remains, I can recover at least thirty percent of my peak power!"

"At that time, those so-called righteous sects—I will kill them until rivers of blood flow! To avenge the grudges of the past!"

"You are very good; your body is young enough!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the Extinction Demon Venerable rushed into Ye Lin's body with lightning speed, intending to claim this body as his own.

His speed was too fast; although he was only a remnant soul, his power was completely on a different level from Ye Lin's.

In less than a single breath's time, Ye Lin's soul was directly wiped out by him; the entire possession process went smoothly, without the slightest resistance.

However, this was also normal; facing the possession of a Demon Venerable's remnant soul, it would be a miracle if Ye Lin, a Cave-Abyss Realm cultivator, could resist.

"This physical body is actually more perfect than I imagined, just like it was newly born."

The Extinction Demon Venerable examined his new body, the smile on his face extremely radiant.

But the next second, he saw his new body actually dissipating bit by bit.

"What is going on?"

The Extinction Demon Venerable's expression changed, and he hurriedly used the power of his remnant soul to try to stop this dissipation.

But then he discovered with astonishment that he couldn't stop it at all!

It was as if a pile of invisible insects were gnawing at this body, decomposing it bit by bit into nothingness, until in the end, it turned into a handful of fly ash.

The physical body disappeared, leaving only the Extinction Demon Venerable's remnant soul standing there in a daze; he didn't know what had happened either.

On the other side, a brand new Ye Lin was quickly reborn.

There was an expectant look on his face.

Because he discovered that when the Extinction Demon Venerable's remnant soul possessed him and wiped out his soul, it actually counted as a Life-and-Death Tribulation!

This made Ye Lin incredibly happy; he had been looking for a way to replace the Heavenly Tribulation for a long time and hadn't found one—sure enough, one has to court death to truly die.

"Boom, don't come again later."

Ye Lin was afraid the Extinction Demon Venerable's remnant soul would misunderstand.

Seeing the Extinction Demon Venerable's remnant soul standing there in a daze, not knowing what to do, Ye Lin immediately urged him.

"What are you still standing there for? Hurry up and possess me! No, wait, please bestow upon me your Unsurpassed Primordial Spirit, Lord Demon Venerable!"

"Primordial Spirit, activate!" ===== CHAPTER 786 =====