Chapter 987

Roar…

The beast's howl rang out again.

Those two fourth-rank ferocious beasts had already wiped out the remaining Yin Souls completely.

But their masters had all been slain. For a moment, the two beasts didn't know what to do, letting out an angry roar with nowhere to vent.

Ye Liuyun immediately had no time to think further, activating his Golden Pupil across space again, forcibly implanting a Slave Seal on those two ferocious beasts.

One of these two ferocious beasts is a Blue Wind Wolf, skilled at wind control; the other is a Barbarian Ox, earth-attributed, skilled at commanding the land.

Without the incessant impacts of tens of thousands of Yin Souls beforehand, Ye Liuyun would not have been able to smoothly implant the Slave Seal on them.

Ye Liuyun immediately summoned them over.

But his expression remained excited from having found a clue to his mother's whereabouts.

"What's got you happy again, kid?" Li Qingyun, reading his expression, asked Ye Liuyun.

Ling Shuang and Yuan Datou also noticed, and both looked at him.

Ye Liuyun couldn't explain it to them; he merely pointed into the distance.

In the distance, two fourth-rank ferocious beasts came running, their aura fierce.

Although their Souls were somewhat fatigued, the pressure emanating from them was still formidable.

"I'll go!" Li Qingyun, Yuan Datou, and the others immediately readied themselves for battle.

Not only were the two ferocious beasts fast in their charge, but they also made the ground tremble with a buzzing vibration, leaving Li Qingyun and the others tense.

"Release the Yin Souls!" Li Qingyun shouted when he saw Ye Liuyun unmoving.

But those two ferocious beasts didn't even glance at them, instead running straight to Ye Liuyun and obediently lying down.

Ye Liuyun also immediately took out two Soul-restoring pills and fed them to the beasts, letting them recover.

"You kid... did you tame them?" Li Qingyun stared for a moment before speaking.

Ye Liuyun smiled and nodded, patting the heads of the two ferocious beasts, then stored them in his Storage Ring to let them recover faster inside the Xuan Kong Shi.

"Haha, still the boss is impressive!" Yuan Datou then put away his iron rod and relaxed his guard.

Ling Shuang also sheathed her sword, looking at Ye Liuyun with admiration.

"Kid, your ability!" Li Qingyun was also speechless.

He now also believed that Ye Liuyun surely had some special talent for taming ferocious beasts, which explained why he never lacked ferocious beasts by his side.

Suddenly he remembered something and asked Ye Liuyun, "What about the Cheng Clan people?"

"They're all dead! How so?" Ye Liuyun retorted.

"Destroy the corpses and erase the traces. We must not let them find even a clue." Li Qingyun cautioned solemnly.

Ye Liuyun nodded, immediately mounted the Ice Devil Tiger, taking the Ghost Butterfly with him as he rushed to the cave entrance to dispose of the Cheng Clan corpses.

He moved all the supplies from their Storage Rings into his own, then burned the corpses entirely with Golden Crow Holy Fire.

Finally, he drove his spirit energy to disperse all the surrounding aura.

But when he returned to the Altar, he was dumbfounded: there was no one around, and the Altar had been torn open with a huge gap.

"Where are they?" Ye Liuyun wondered, thinking Qiong Qi should not have left without waiting for him.

Moreover, Qiong Qi had said he would redesign a seal—how could he leave the Altar gaping open like that?

"Something must have gone wrong!"

Ye Liuyun thought of that, immediately recalled the Ghost Butterfly and Ice Devil Tiger, and summoned the Barbarian Ox he had just subdued.

The Barbarian Ox's thick hide and flesh could serve as a shield for him, and its earth attribute could also mobilize the ground for defense.

Ye Liuyun then followed behind the Barbarian Ox as he walked into the Altar.

Inside the Altar, a rotten, foul stench permeated the air, making even the Barbarian Ox seem a bit tense.

Suddenly, a wave of scorching heat surged over.

The Barbarian Ox let out a low roar as a wall of earth rose from the ground, completely blocking that heat wave.

"Qiong Qi is fighting someone! Hurry, go over!"

Ye Liuyun immediately sensed Qiong Qi's presence and urged the Barbarian Ox forward.

The Barbarian Ox promptly withdrew the earth wall and charged ahead.

Soon they passed through the corridor and arrived inside a Grand Hall.

Ye Liuyun saw Qiong Qi battling a black shadow completely bound in chains.

"Come help, burn it with fire!" Qiong Qi also spotted Ye Liuyun and immediately shouted for his aid.

Ye Liuyun's Golden Pupil flashed, and he sent a stream of Golden Crow Holy Fire into the black shadow's body.

"Ah! Damn it! If I hadn't been sealed for years and weakened, you ants wouldn't dare lay a hand on me!"

The black shadow first let out a miserable scream, then began to rage in protest.

Ye Liuyun ignored its words, instead repeatedly unleashing Golden Crow Holy Fire to burn the black shadow.

Qiong Qi seized the moment, tracing a Formation with his hands, then struck the black shadow with it.

Immediately, the black shadow was bound by the Formation and could no longer escape.

Ye Liuyun and Qiong Qi together released flame power, burning the black shadow weaker and weaker.

"What about the others?" Ye Liuyun asked anxiously.

Upon entering, he still hadn't seen anyone else.

"They've all been devoured by that black shadow!" Qiong Qi said helplessly.

"How could this happen? Won't the fire burn them too?" Ye Liuyun asked urgently.

"I'll explain later. Just keep burning it. Only after we destroy that black shadow can we rescue them." Qiong Qi, also having no time to explain, simply kept pouring fire on the black shadow.

Ye Liuyun also dared not delay; saving lives was urgent, and he had no time to ask more.

That Black Shadow was actually made up of countless poisonous gases.

Ye Liuyun was still worrying about the others, fearing they might be refined away by such strong toxic gas, so he attacked with absolutely no reservation.

Barbarian Ox also helped attack. However, his earth wall or Earth Spike could only pierce the Black Shadow, causing no damage, so he could only stand aside and watch.

Ye Liuyun was about to summon an ice demon tiger to try freezing it, when Qiong Qi told him, "No need to try; at present only flame works against this toxic gas."

Thus Ye Liuyun used Golden Crow Holy Fire and Nether Ghost Fire alternately to attack the Black Shadow made of toxic gas, and together with Qiong Qi wore it down until it grew ever fainter.

"How about a pen trade with the two of you? You stop attacking first; I have a very powerful technique that I can pass to you."

The Black Shadow cursed and threatened for a while, then saw it had no effect. As it was also being worn down and becoming ever fainter, it began to negotiate conditions with them.

Ye Liuyun was not moved at all. He was still worried about Yuan Datou and the others, so his attacks were extremely rapid, and he could not spare a thought to listen to what it said.

Qiong Qi, however, was far more slick than Ye Liuyun.

He kept attacking while probing the Black Shadow, saying, "What technique? Tell me first, let me hear it, and I'll see if I'm interested."

"You stop first!" The Black Shadow thought Qiong Qi had taken an interest.

"You speak first!" Qiong Qi's hands never ceased, flames continuously lashing at the Black Shadow.