Chapter 831: Feeling Pain

Granny Mad Dragon’s body suddenly stiffened.

She twisted her neck with some difficulty, looking at Ye Lin, who had appeared behind her at some unknown moment, her only remaining eye filled with an expression of disbelief.

"I clearly saw you get killed with my own eyes just now; how could you possibly have reacted in time?"

"I am asking you, what did you do to them?" Ye Lin pressed.

"Heh, you want to know? Then go ask them yourself!"

Granny Mad Dragon sneered, and Kuai Yan, Liu Ruyan, and Zhen Youqian charged toward Ye Lin once again.

The three of them were like frenzied wild beasts, using their physical instincts to launch continuous attacks on Ye Lin.

The blood holes on Liu Ruyan’s body had all transformed into hideous, gaping maws, ready to devour anyone at any moment.

Kuai Yan’s fingernails were constantly extending, like ten sharp blades; each time they swept through the air, they produced an astonishing whistling sound.

Various highly venomous insects flew incessantly from Zhen Youqian’s body, sweeping in all directions.

The three of them had lost their original appearances, becoming hideous and terrifying, and they kept launching fatal strikes at Ye Lin.

Ye Lin did not want to harm them, so he was forced into a steady retreat.

"Bai San, what exactly happened to the three of them?"

Ye Lin turned his gaze toward the Heaven-Swallowing Beast, Bai San. This fellow had been captured together with Kuai Yan and the others, so perhaps he would know what had happened to them.

After a moment of silence, Bai San took the initiative to communicate with Ye Lin, realizing that this might be his chance to atone for his crimes.

"Do you know about the Living Chimera Art?" Bai San asked.

"What is that?" Ye Lin countered.

"The Living Chimera Art is an evil technique that forcibly fuses humans and demonic beasts into one. This supernatural ability was originally developed to allow the human race to possess the innate talents of demonic beasts."

"But the result was that this technique failed, becoming a means of torturing people."

"After combining a human with a demonic beast, a cultivator skilled in beast-taming can drive a living person as if they were a demonic beast."

"Kuai Yan and the other two had the Living Chimera Art cast upon them by Granny Mad Dragon; after being fused with demonic beasts, they became humanoid monsters controlled by her."

Listening to Bai San’s explanation, Ye Lin’s gaze grew increasingly cold.

"Is there any possibility of recovery for a cultivator who has had the Living Chimera Art cast upon them?"

Bai San dared not answer.

In a sense, his own act of possessing the Heaven-Swallowing Beast could also be considered a form of the Living Chimera Art.

And the Living Chimera Art is almost irreversible; fusion is easy, but separating them is difficult.

It is like mixing a bottle of ink into a bucket of clear water; trying to separate the ink from the water again is by no means an easy task.

Kuai Yan and the other two were basically beyond saving; even if they lived, they could only end up as walking corpses controlled by Granny Mad Dragon.

In a sense, they could no longer be considered three people, but three monsters.

Bai San had a premonition that if he told the truth about this, it might trigger extremely terrifying consequences, so he could only choose to lie.

"I am not very clear on this either. I have no way to do it; Granny Mad Dragon is the one who cast the technique, perhaps she has a way to restore them."

Ye Lin’s gaze grew colder. While dealing with the onslaught of Kuai Yan and the others, he activated the Slave Seal, ordering Xue Bingxiao to attack Granny Mad Dragon.

Under the control of the Slave Seal, Xue Bingxiao could only obey. As she raised her jade hand, countless threads of emotion pierced toward Granny Mad Dragon.

Facing such a fierce offensive, there was not a hint of fear on Granny Mad Dragon’s face; instead, she took the initiative to thrust her neck forward.

"Come on, kill me! If you kill me, the three of them will have to die with me!"

Granny Mad Dragon clamored unscrupulously at Ye Lin; she had already seen how important Kuai Yan and the others were to him.

The fact that Ye Lin had dealt her a heavy blow earlier was merely to intimidate her and avoid being manipulated.

She was now incredibly glad that she had chosen these three people as the test subjects for her Living Chimera Art.

The lives of Kuai Yan and the others were bound to hers, which meant she could not possibly die today!

Sure enough, the threads of emotion Xue Bingxiao had thrust out stopped right in front of Granny Mad Dragon.

"Forbidden Spell: Eye of Eternal Freezing!"

Ye Lin sacrificed his pair of eyes as the price to temporarily freeze the frenzied Kuai Yan and the others, then questioned Granny Mad Dragon.

"How do I make the three of them return to normal?"

"You want them to return to normal? You’re dreaming!"

Granny Mad Dragon smiled hideously, black blood flowing continuously from her empty eye socket.

"Old woman, I might as well tell you the truth: the three of them are now equivalent to my slave beasts; they will never be able to recover in this lifetime."

"Their lives are already bound to mine; as long as I die, they must die too!"

"If you have the guts, then kill me! Kill me!"

Granny Mad Dragon’s face was filled with smugness.

No matter how crazy a madman is, as long as they have a soft spot, they have a weakness.

A madman who can be controlled is not scary at all.

"Why aren't you doing it? Weren't you very capable just now? Didn't you want to kill me?"

"Come on, do it!"

Granny Mad Dragon even walked toward Ye Lin, reaching out to pat his face.

At this moment, the pent-up frustration in her heart was completely released, and she began to provoke Ye Lin incessantly.

"These three seem to have a very good relationship with you. When I was raising insects in that little fatty, no matter how I pressed him for information about you, he kept saying he could never betray his big brother."

"I wonder, when I used the Living Chimera Art to fuse him with the insects, was he looking forward to you, his big brother, coming to save him?"

"When he was being eaten bit by bit by the insects, flesh and bone, did he think about how it was you, his big brother, who caused him to suffer so miserably?"

"That young girl, when I pressed her for information about you, she spat at me."

"So I stitched her together with seven human-faced poison spiders, giving her a bloody, gaping maw, and then stitched it shut with steel wire so she could never open her mouth again."

"The one who uses the sword, his name is Kuai Yan, right? This fellow has such vigorous energy; I let him go time and time again, and time and time again he swung his sword at me. He has such perseverance."

"Old woman, I hate that self-righteous persistence of his, so I cut off both his hands and replaced them with beast claws, so he can never hold a sword again."

"Ye Lin, tell me, before I transformed the three of them into monsters using the Living Chimera Art, did they regret ever knowing you?"

"How they must have looked forward to you descending like a divine soldier, appearing before them to save them from fire and water. You were their last hope, but you never appeared."

"All that awaited them was even more intense pain and a desperate future. They turned into three half-human, half-ghost monsters, and all of this was caused by you, Ye Lin!"