Chapter 78: The Mysterious Figure Wreathed in Mist

Ye Chen listened to their words, knowing that the "God" they spoke of was actually those experts beyond Xingkong.

And this superpower organization was actually formed to oppose those cultivators, for becoming a cultivator grants great power and even... eternal life.

No one could fail to covet this power; they too wanted it, but once one became a cultivator, they would be unwilling to pass on the cultivation secrets.

Especially when cultivators number less than one percent of several billion people, human nature cannot withstand scrutiny.

However, their research was built on human and beast lives; fundamentally, it is not much different from those ruthless cultivators.

"God... it's truly unfair, giving such great power to those scumbags, making the world increasingly chaotic."

Wei Lian said, his voice full of sorrow.

"Teacher... we... let's join."

Andre Xi advised, in his view joining the cultivators' side now is undoubtedly the best choice.

"Impossible!"

When Andre Xi said to join the cultivators' side, Wei Lian refused without hesitation, almost without any thought.

"Teacher Wei Lian, I know cultivators killed your family, but with cultivators' great power, do you still fear being unable to take revenge? I recall an ancient saying: 'A gentleman's revenge, ten years is not too late.' Teacher, stop struggling; fighting cultivators will only bring about your own doom."

Andre Xi spoke each word sincerely.

Wei Lian naturally knew how formidable this was, but he couldn't let go!

A monstrous grudge, yet it would have him join the enemy's camp and learn the enemy's cultivation methods—how could he do that?

Ye Chen listened from the shadows, feeling little in his heart—perhaps because he had killed many, or perhaps because slaughter had numbed him; his emotions were now dull, and aside from those he cared about, he didn't want to bother with others.

He had always lived by one saying: in the cultivators' world, either you die or I live; excess pity is merely a blade that kills oneself.

Just as he was about to step forward, his phone watch suddenly lit up; fortunately he had set it to silent earlier, so Wei Lian and Andre Xi didn't notice.

Ye Chen glanced at his wrist phone watch and saw it was Gan Yi calling.

"What does she want calling me now?"

Ye Chen frowned, hung up, and replied with a message.

"What's up?"

"Can't I contact you if there's nothing?"

"..."

Ye Chen sent a string of ellipses; he wasn't the type to like awkward silence, but when facing Gan Yi he was willing to do so.

After not replying to the message, he moved around elsewhere in the lab, but only after planting a mark on Andre Xi and Wei Lian did he leave.

At that moment, Gan Yi looked at the ellipsis on her phone, smiled slightly, her smile alluring, making her seem like a different person from before.

"Sister, why are you clinging to Ye Chen like this? I don't understand."

After Gan Yi finished saying that, her expression instantly changed, losing its allure and appearing rather... cute; although it was the same face, the feeling was different.

"You don't understand; when that time comes, you'll naturally understand."

Gan Yi's expression turned alluring once again.

"But doing this will easily make him dislike you, with no sense of boundaries at all."

"But this makes him remember you more deeply, doesn't it?"

Having said that, the alluring expression never faded; obviously, the "younger sister" had nothing more to say.

Meanwhile, the older sister gave a strange smile.

"Younger sister, I'm doing this to protect us; otherwise, with our current abilities we couldn't handle the upcoming crisis, and besides, we are innate furnaces..."

The older sister finished, then looked toward Ye Chen's home: "Ye Chen... the paper effigy you left won't be enough for your parents to survive this crisis; remember you owe me a favor."

Gan Yi finished, and suddenly a powerful aura burst from her body—it was... Foundation Establishment!

"Younger sister, I won't let you come to any harm—definitely!"

As she said that, her expression ceased to be alluring, replaced by a stern look.

In the next instant, her figure vanished and appeared near Ye Chen's home.

Near his home were five sneaky foreigners, each of them at Foundation Establishment level.

They used a great formation to make the people here fall asleep; they still couldn't directly slaughter the Chinese, for China also has cultivators, many of them wild, but that too is a force not to be ignored.

After the five foreigners set up the formation, without hesitation they flew straight toward Ye Chen's house; at the same time, Ye Chen's paper effigy, at fifteenth level of Qi Refining, rushed out of the room and battled those foreigners.

Ye Chen's paper effigy and the five foreigners clashed; instantly the paper effigy was blown backward, smashing into the building, while the five also fared no better, their qi and blood surging, and in their eyes was deep shock.

They were cultivators, naturally knowing how hard cross‑rank battles are, yet this person before them had fought while surpassing an entire realm—how could they not be shocked?

At that moment, Ye Chen, far across the sea, had his pupils contract violently: "Damn it, if my parents come to harm, you people of these nations—every one of you—won't escape!"

Ye Chen finished speaking, his body instantly moved, but at that very moment a figure wrapped in mournful mist appeared; she raised her hand and disposed of the five, who had no power to resist before that mist‑wreathed figure.

After dealing with them, the mist‑wreathed figure burned their corpses with a fire, then lifted her head to glance at Ye Chen's home; Ye Chen, seeing this through the paper effigy, was instantly shocked.

"She... knows me!"

Ye Chen's guess stems from the fact that after that person looked at his home, she immediately turned her gaze to the paper effigy Ye Chen, as if the mist‑wreathed figure knew he... was watching all of this.

Thereafter, that person vanished on the spot, and the paper effigy returned to the room to feign sleep; shortly after the five died, the formation dissolved and the neighborhood's people all returned to normal.

In their memories there was no record of why they suddenly fell asleep; their memories were seamlessly stitched together, so they justified it with various reasonable reasons, proving they had just dozed off.

Perhaps only the paper effigy Ye Chen knew all of this.

But at this moment the paper effigy Ye Chen felt a sense of being watched; yet when he turned his head, he detected nothing unusual.

He frowned deeply, "True self, there's a problem—I'm being watched, but I can't find anyone."

Perhaps because the other Ye Chen cultivates a top‑grade secret art and, having broken through the Extreme Boundary, his divine sense is extremely powerful; thus, even though he is now far from the paper effigy Ye Chen, at the moment the paper effigy finished speaking he also received the message.