The Dong Family Master was hosting a banquet when a servant hurriedly burst in, "Family Head! Something terrible has happened."
"What is it?" The Dong Family Master suppressed his anger as he demanded. If not for the presence of so many distinguished guests today, he would have killed this fool with a single palm strike. Couldn’t he see what kind of occasion it was?
"The Young Master’s Soul Token has shattered," the servant replied timidly. He was the steward in charge of the Soul Hall, where each of the Dong Family’s key members had a Soul Token. If a Soul Token shattered, it meant the person represented by that token had perished.
He had just been cleaning the Soul Tokens when he heard a loud bang. Turning his head, he found that the Young Master’s soul had exploded.
"What?!" The Dong Family Master’s expression changed drastically, and he hurried towards the Soul Hall. Dong Xu was the most outstanding among all his children, and he held great hopes for him.
As he entered the Soul Hall, he indeed saw that Dong Xu’s Soul Token had shattered.
The Dong Family Master’s face grew grim, his eyes filled with bloodthirsty wrath and madness, "No matter who killed my son, I will tear you to pieces and annihilate your entire household!"
He had already checked Dong Xu’s Token with his Divine Sense and discovered that the inside had been tampered with, indicating that Dong Xu’s death was no accident, but a murder.
Song Yan Ning and her two companions were in the midst of an animated conversation when they saw the Demon Beasts they had sent out earlier return one by one.
The Demon Beasts placed the materials and Spirit Grass they had found in front of Song Yan Ning and called out, as though seeking praise.
Song Yan Ning smiled and threw some Spirit Fruit to the Demon Beasts. These fruits were originally inside the Spiritual Pearl. Right now, her cultivation was too low to consume them as the Spiritual Energy within the fruits would burst her.
The Demon Beasts caught the Spirit Fruits and began eating them contentedly. Having an owner had its benefits.
After examining the Spirit Grass and materials the Demon Beasts had brought back, Song Yan Ning remarked, "Now we only lack the Thousand-year-old Stone Bamboo Pith, which isn’t in this direction. We need to take another route to find it."
"Mm," Qin Yushen and Yuan Yixiu nodded.
"Let’s set off now." Song Yan Ning gathered up the heap of items from the ground and recalled the Demon Beasts.
Qin Yushen reached out and took Song Yan Ning’s hand, and they began to walk back the way they had come.
Yuan Yixiu watched Song Yan Ning and Qin Yushen with a touch of envy. He had never thought about having a Taoist couple, but at this moment, he felt that it wouldn’t be a bad idea.
Wei Lingfeng, covered in blood, was stumbling along when, finally, his strength completely drained, he fell forward, plunging into darkness. He thought he could make it to the end, but he had overestimated himself.
"There’s someone lying ahead." Yuan Yixiu saw a figure on the ground not far ahead and hurried over.
He crouched down, turned the person over, and checked his breathing, "He’s still breathing."
As Yuan Yixiu turned the person over, Song Yan Ning and Qin Yushen had already recognized him. Wei Lingfeng was seriously injured—it was unclear what had happened.
Approaching, Song Yan Ning took out a Healing Pill and handed it to Yuan Yixiu, "You feed it to him."
Yuan Yixiu nodded, took the elixir, and prying open Wei Lingfeng’s mouth, placed the pill inside.
Wei Lingfeng felt a cool sensation flow down his throat. He slowly opened his eyes, saw the faces before him, and a hint of joy flashed in his eyes, "Is it you?"