Chapter 646

Wang Daolong smiled: "It seems fellow cultivator still doesn't understand what body snatching is."

Yan Buji thought: "Could one just body snatch at will?"

"Not exactly casual..." Wang Daolong clenched his fist: "Body snatching depends on probability."

"Probability?"

"If body snatching is between the same race, the success rate is high; if different, it lowers. Even so, it's not that dogs cannot body snatch humans or humans cannot body snatch dogs—the principle is as such; it just comes down to luck."

Yan Buji smiled: "I see."

"It seems to truly kill an enemy, one must find the opponent after body snatching to finish it once and for all."

Wang Daolong smiled: "I don't know what Hall Master Yan means by saying these things."

"Hand over the cultivation method that allows you to practice both yin‑ming qi and spiritual qi together." Yan Buji said lightly.

Wang Daolong's face darkened: "This is a secret technique of our school!"

"And then?"

"Then you must answer a question for me."

"Speak."

Wang Daolong looked at Yan Buji: "Do you know Hong Chengtao?"

"Hong Chengtao?"

Yan Buji looked puzzled: "I don't know him. Who is this person?"

"A Void Refining martial cultivator." Wang Daolong looked at Yan Buji: "Since you don't know him, it means he has nothing to do with you."

"Huh?" Yan Buji, not understanding: "How can there still be a Void Refining martial cultivator? Isn't it said...."

"This person is from the ancient martial dao sect Fu Hai Gate, having sealed himself and passed through the long ages to arrive at this era." Wang Daolong explained briefly, then took out an ancient book and threw it to Yan Buji.

"Alright, since you're only here to seek benefits, you probably won't say more about other matters."

"Yes, but if I ever run into any trouble, I will send all the matters I've investigated to the Inner Gate." Yan Buji laughed.

Wang Daolong narrowed his eyes, gave a cold snort: "I hope you keep your word!"

"That's natural."

Although Yan Buji also wanted to ask about that Void Refining martial cultivator's situation, seeing the other party issue an Expel Guest Order, he took the cultivation method and left the Miscellaneous Affairs Hall.

After returning to the Pill Refining Hall.

Yan Buji sighed, thought carefully: "The Great Sinful Sect, Youming Jie cultivators, and the attitude of the Inner Gate Elder... it's all too chaotic."

With Feng Yue's death, some dangers hidden beneath the surface gradually emerged; Yan Buji profiting in such an environment is no less than plucking chestnuts from the fire.

But some things you don't want to touch can still involve you; Yan Buji merely hopes that when these people fight, they won't affect him, so he must grasp some information.

For example, what he investigated: the Great Sinful Sect comes from an ancient demonic dao force; in the past they created the blood dao, bringing calamity to the five realms, causing suffering to all living beings—its reputation is not good.

And those few Youming Jie cultivators represented by Wang Daolong, after hiding for so long, have only just revealed a few clues; we don't know what their purpose really is.

Perhaps it's also for that Sin‑ending Corpse King, but Yan Buji's level is too low; there are things he cannot personally witness, so he can only speculate.

"Perhaps I can use Ye Lin's eyes to help me investigate a bit."

Yan Buji thought, and wrote a letter:

"Ye Lin, upon receiving this letter: the Outer Gate is in continual turmoil—first Elder Feng Yue was secretly harmed, then the Internal Affairs Hall was blown up and destroyed. I see this as a tumultuous autumn; while you cultivate, do not leave the Inner Gate....."

Yan Buji finished writing the letter, used a spell to send it to Ye Lin's residence.

"Now we'll see what Ye Lin can investigate; although I didn't explicitly ask him to help look into it, given his personality plus the previous matters...." Yan Buji chuckled.

On the other side.

Ye Lin, inside the Inner Gate, was cultivating in his own cave dwelling; these new Inner Gate disciples have no master, but Ye Lin was early on taken notice of by Pang Mingde, so naturally he lacks nothing.

After several years of cultivation, he has now reached the mid‑Golden Core stage!

Cultivation methods and resources are not lacking; plus Ye Lin himself is diligent enough, his cultivation speed is a thousand miles a day.

"Hmm?"

Sensing someone sending a message outside his cave dwelling, Ye Lin withdrew the formation at the entrance and watched a golden light come before his eyes.

Taking the letter, Ye Lin smiled: "It turns out to be a letter from Hall Master Yan."

Opening the letter, Ye Lin looked at it for a while, and his smile gradually turned solemn.

"Elder Feng was actually assassinated? Is that possible?" Ye Lin's first reaction was disbelief.

"If you say someone else, it's possible; but Elder Feng is at least a late‑Nascent Soul cultivator—how could he be silently assassinated?"

Moreover, according to Hall Master Yan's words, after Elder Feng was assassinated, the Internal Affairs Hall immediately suffered an explosion; thus the Outer Gate is now in utter chaos, and in the short term it cannot possibly return to calm.

"How could this happen?"

Ye Lin put away the letter, rose, and paced back and forth in his cave dwelling.

Although Ye Lin has entered the Inner Gate, his days in the Outer Gate were still looked after by many people, especially the Internal Affairs Hall and the Pill Refining Hall, which showed him considerable care.

Now that the Internal Affairs Hall has had an incident, Hall Master Yan, although he says there's no danger and advises himself to just cultivate in peace, still feels uneasy in his heart.

"No." Ye Lin suddenly recalled the incident from a few years ago when he was pursued and killed: "Could it be those people who did it?"

But he also inquired, and the people inside the holy land seem to keep tight‑lipped about those people, never leaking any gossip.

Among the disciples, aside from himself, it seems no one else knows about this matter—what should be done?

"We can't let those people run rampant; even if they are some senior figures in the holy land permitted to act, assassinating an Outer Gate Elder such a big matter—we can't just let them off lightly!"

Thinking this through, Ye Lin concluded that wrapping up this matter early would also bring early peace to the Outer Gate—overall a good thing.

Say it, do it.

Ye Lin left his cave dwelling, intending to invite a few trusted senior brothers to jointly investigate this matter!

Soon after.

Ye Lin invited two Inner Gate disciples into his cave dwelling.

Junior Fellow Ye, I don't know what matter you have come to us for?

Yeah, Junior Fellow Ye, we usually only see you training hard, but you've never invited us over.

The two joked a bit, seeing Ye Lin's solemn expression, they thought Ye Lin might have run into some trouble as well.

Two senior brothers, the matter is like this....

Ye Lin recounted what had happened earlier at the Outer Gate, and the two Inner Gate disciples were astonished: 'Junior Fellow Ye actually encountered such a thing?!'

One of them furrowed his brow: 'Such a thing couldn't happen, but since Junior Fellow Ye experienced it, it can only mean that the situation inside the Holy Land is completely different from before.'

Really?

Hmm, Junior Fellow Ye arrived late and may not be aware—you still don't know?" The disciple beside him looked at the other: "Recently, the Inner Gate has been sending some disciples to the Forbidden Zone to cultivate techniques; those who returned all came back injured and dared not speak of it, and even now many are still nursing their wounds.

Is it because of that treasure?

Ye Lin asked curiously: 'Treasure?'

Indeed, back then our Sect Master obtained a powerful treasure called the Spirit-Evil Suppress Heaven Seal, which is said to allow one to accelerate cultivation speed.