Stepping on the Demoness to become the strongest

The follow-up news arrived late, revealing that Fan Wentang's life had been saved, but a problem had arisen.

The man had become a vegetable.

Fan Wentang's White Impermanence, whose cultivation realm was not low, could hook a person's soul and spirit with its ghostly light, resulting in him now having only two souls and six spirits, with his consciousness far from normal.

The missing soul and spirit? They were with White Impermanence.

To have White Impermanence return the soul and spirit? It was possible, but the problem was that White Impermanence had no intelligence, and only Fan Wentang, the Necromancer himself, could command it to do so.

Thus, a dilemma emerged: if Fan Wentang couldn't regain his senses, he couldn't order White Impermanence to release the soul and spirit, meaning he couldn't bring himself back to consciousness... a deadlock!

It was said that the higher-ups specifically sought out Teacher Mei, asking her to lend a hand.

Mei Yingxue was also confused. I'm a Sword Immortal, you're asking me to break a ghost cultivator's spell... isn't that a bit much to ask?

She arrived at the hospital at four in the afternoon, and after assessing the situation, said it wasn't entirely without solution.

If there were a sufficiently powerful Necromancer... preferably one from the Golden Core Realm, they could forcibly refine Fan Wentang's Soul Summoning Bell and coerce White Impermanence into changing allegiance without destroying it.

In that case, the control over White Impermanence would change hands, and the Golden Core Cultivator could command it to release the soul and spirit, waking Fan Wentang up.

The Dingbei Army was exasperated by this. With the current limit on Spiritual Energy, where could we possibly find a Golden Core Cultivator?

When the Spiritual Energy cap reaches that level, all top cultivators will have achieved their Golden Core, so what use would we have for a Qi Refinement stage cultivator like Fan Wentang?

So, the problem shifted from "how to save him" to "whether to save him" at all. After all, although someone in a vegetative state is still alive, keeping them alive costs money and resources.

If he no longer possessed any value, then considering the crimes he had already committed, he would be more than deserving of execution several times over. Why bother saving him!

Liu Longtao was the one who relayed the message; Lord Master was beaming with joy at this moment, vigorously patting Yan Yu on the back, praising him as a "bane of the people's woes" and a "hero," which left Yan Yu somewhat speechless.

"So, are you going to save him or not?" Yan Yu asked.

"Save my ass!" Liu Longtao laughed and cursed, "I made my stance clear with my family, I want him dead! Scum who would attack even children, good riddance!"

"Huh." Yan Yu sighed deeply and said, "Well, it's not that I'm insubordinate or undisciplined, I did purposely spare his life. Who would have thought that he wouldn't be able to counter his own soul-hooking specter light? With tens of thousands of cultivators in Lu Country, including those from the Military Manor, there must be at least ten thousand Necromancers among them, right?

Is there really not a single one who can save Fan Wentang? I don't buy it, it's probably more about the high cost of saving him. The organization prefers to let him sacrifice himself."

"I can only say that I did not kill Wentang, yet Wentang met his end because of me! Alas!"

Liu Longtao was momentarily stunned, as if he had never expected Yan Yu to utter such shamelessly bold words: Your next read awaits at My Virtual Library Empire

You were the one who killed him, you acted as the heavens' retribution, the people's savior! Yet you won't admit it and instead claim that you followed the rules in sparing his life, suggesting that the higher-ups intentionally refused to save him...

Wow, what a person! Wants all the benefits, but refuses to accept any of the blame, right!

"For real?" Ye Jun, however, took his words to heart and asked in surprise, "You didn't plan it this way?"

"Plan what this way?" Yan Yu asked in confusion.

"You know, pretending you didn't know the soul-hooking specter light could steal a person's soul and spirit," Ye Jun replied thoughtfully, analyzing the situation, "then you disabled Black Impermanence before using your Sword Control technique to force him to act, leaving him no choice but to resort to White Impermanence for rescue...

and thus, only able to use his soul-hooking specter light to defend himself. You deliberately allowed yourself to be hit by his technique, so it would seem like an accident and you could avoid punishment from the organization."

"Alas, I don't kill Wentang, yet Wentang dies because of me! Sigh!"

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"Tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk! Old Yan, oh Old Yan!" Liu Longtao also had a sudden realization, "So that was your design all along! I was wondering, such a good strategy! Not only using another's hand to kill, but even using the person's own hand! In this way, the higher-ups can't say anything about you either.

After all, the Soul Summoning Bell was released by that thing itself, if it doesn't step in to block as a meat shield, does that mean you need to take the hit yourself? Even legally speaking, this can be considered an act of emergency defense! Impressive! Brilliant! Admirable!"

"What are you guys talking about?" Yan Yu showed a puzzled expression, "Do I look like the kind of person who is sly and deceitful?"

"You are!" Liu Longtao said loudly.

"I don't know." Ye Jun shook his head honestly.

"Then Lord Master, you really misunderstood me." Yan Yu argued seriously, "All that about deliberately crippling Black Impermanence, intentionally provoking him to use the Soul Summoning Bell, and purposely making him fall into his own trap... these were all accidents, unfortunate coincidences, I really didn't know beforehand!"

"You really didn't know?" Ye Jun remained skeptical.

"Stop pretending, he definitely knew." Liu Longtao was certain.

"How would I know about the Soul Summoning Bell being able to damage the soul?" Yan Yu spread his hands and said, "Although Chen Lingyun is a Necromancer, her style isn't this, and I couldn't have inquired about Fan Wentang's intelligence in advance, right? Today was the first time I met the person introduced by Ye Jun."

"That's true." Ye Jun nodded thoughtfully, "You couldn't have known beforehand that Fan Wentang's Soul Summoning Bell could extract people's souls and cause permanent mental damage. You must have just instinctively tried to dodge the attack, and Fan Wentang happened to be nearby, so you just used him to block the blow."

"Exactly, exactly, exactly!" Yan Yu immediately felt overjoyed upon hearing this, "This is the truth!"

"No way!" Liu Longtao still didn't believe it, "Ye Jun, don't be fooled by him, Old Yan here is full of tricks and best at playing innocent!"

"Old Liu, you can't be unreasonable." Yan Yu pleaded earnestly, "It's an objective fact that I couldn't have known about the Soul Summoning Bell's intelligence beforehand, so I couldn't have used another to kill. We need evidence when we talk, I had agreed in front of so many people that it was just a sparring, no one should die, so I definitely expected him not to use lethal methods, right?

If I didn't know that was a knife, how could I use it to kill? It's impossible, this was an accident!"

"Indeed." Ye Jun agreed with his point of view, and continued to persuade Liu Longtao, "The situation with Fan Wentang hasn't been made public, even if Yan Yu could get intelligence from Chen Lingyun, he had no motive to get information in advance. Unless he could foresee the future and knew that Fan Wentang would suffer soul damage from the blow, but that's obviously not possible."

"Alright, alright, alright." Liu Longtao raised his hands in surrender, "Anyway, you say it's an accident, the organization also decided it's an accident, I have no problem. I'll just keep my opinion to myself, shall I? Old Yan is innocent, the beast deserved to die, everyone's happy! Doesn't matter if it's an accident or not, this is good enough."

"Sigh." Yan Yu showed a helpless look and continued, "Even if it was an accident, I did kill a comrade with my own hands, which makes me very sad. My heart is truly grieving.

Fan Wentang was a formally recruited Rikoku Cultivator, originally he could have defended our country on the battlefield, killing more foreign invaders, but now he has indirectly died by my hand, how many enemies will survive because of this? The sins of those people in the future, should they be counted on my head?"

Liu Longtao felt like vomiting. The organization had already determined it was an accident and would not pursue your responsibility, why are you still putting on an act in front of us? Do you really need to appear spotlessly innocent, desperately playing the part of a pure white lotus?

"Yan Yu, don't feel too sad." Ye Jun comforted him softly, "There are a limited number of recruitment slots, too many monks and not enough porridge, Rikoku isn't lacking one Fan Wentang. Forget it if he's dead, someone else will step up. If he's not fighting, plenty of others will."

"Even so, it doesn't cover the fact that I caused the death of a comrade. What Longcheng Flying General? I'm just a violent person, who would harm his own comrades, nothing but trash." Yan Yu said with a sad expression, "Ye Jun, is there a bar nearby? I want to have a drink, I'll be going first."

With these words, he stood up in grief and turned to leave. Ye Jun was also worried, after all, the Longcheng Flying General was now a big celebrity, what if he went to some public bar and got surrounded by a horde of female fans?

Many bars are quite chaotic!

"Team Leader Liu, I'll go check on him." Ye Jun informed Lord Master and quickly stood up to follow after him.

Liu Longtao chuckled coldly, picked up a wine glass from beside him, and began to pour and drink on his own.

Whether Old Yan did it on purpose or by accident, in the end that beast is dead, and it counts as a public service!

Hmm?

Don't I have wine right here? Why does he need to go to a bar?

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