Relieved, Yan Shouyi looked at the scattered souls of the Liu family members.
There must have been casualties among the Liu family, but after such a long time, it was good that even one person survived.
After overturning the Qi Refining Cauldron, it was time to deal with the faceless ghost.
Yan Shouyi turned around and stared at the faceless ghost.
The faceless ghost, disheartened and despairing, floated in mid-air as if it had given up struggling.
"Kill me," the faceless ghost said.
Yan Shouyi was taken aback. Had the faceless ghost given up too quickly?
Even if it couldn't win, couldn't it escape?
As it stood, Yan Shouyi truly had no means to capture the faceless ghost.
The faceless ghost continued, "You overturned the Qi Refining Cauldron, and the Old Ancestor won't let me go. Since I'm going to die anyway, it's better to die at your hands, which will be less painful than the Old Ancestor's. Give me a quick death!"
Yan Shouyi asked, "Is your Bai family's Old Ancestor's methods so cruel?"
Up until now, Yan Shouyi had not truly interacted with anyone from the Bai family.
Therefore, he had no concept of what kind of person the Bai family's Old Ancestor was.
"The Old Ancestor's methods are more than just cruel, they are simply... cruel!"
The faceless ghost had intended to find more powerful words to describe the Bai family's Old Ancestor, but it found that besides "cruel," there seemed to be no better adjective.
In other words, how kind could a person be who could refine a faceless ghost?
Refining a faceless ghost required forcibly flaying the skin of a living person. How could an ordinary person do such a thing?
Yan Shouyi sized up the faceless ghost, finding that this fellow still had some room for utilization.
Especially the faceless ghost's ability to transform into ghost energy at any time.
Times had changed, and it was not easy to refine a faceless ghost nowadays.
After pondering for a moment, Yan Shouyi asked, "You're not from the Bai family, are you?"
The faceless ghost gave a bitter smile, "Why would the Old Ancestor refine his own descendants into faceless ghosts?"
"So, you actually hate the Bai family quite a bit?"
"Hate them to the bone! But I'm powerless!"
For the Bai family to control the faceless ghost, they must have held some leverage over it.
Yan Shouyi knew what this leverage was – it was something that could arbitrarily control the life and death of the faceless ghost.
Thus, he stepped forward and raised his Soul Slayer blade.
The faceless ghost thought its end was near, it no longer struggled, and simply closed its eyes, waiting for deliverance.
However, as Yan Shouyi's blade struck, the faceless ghost felt no pain of its soul scattering. Instead, it felt a sense of liberation!
"What did you do?!"
"I severed your connection with the Bai family. They can no longer control your life and death," Yan Shouyi said calmly.
The faceless ghost was extremely shocked, "How did you do that?"
"A descendant of Lu Ban can do far more than you imagine."
"Then I... am free?"
"You are free."
The faceless ghost was incredibly excited. It had thought it was about to be annihilated.
Instead, it was like seeing the blue sky after the clouds parted!
Yan Shouyi sheathed his Soul Slayer blade, showing no intention of attacking the faceless ghost.
The faceless ghost thanked Yan Shouyi and turned to leave.
But after a few steps, it suddenly stopped.
"I can't... just leave like this!" the faceless ghost said.
Yan Shouyi raised an eyebrow, "You still want to fight?"
"No!" The faceless ghost turned around and said coldly, "I want to get revenge on the Bai family!!"
He was originally just a servant of the Bai family. Ten years ago, just because he broke a cup belonging to Bai Yusheng, Bai Yusheng sent him to the Bai family's ancestral home.
There, he suffered inhuman torture and finally became a nameless, faceless ghost.
He once had a happy family and a newborn daughter.
Now, he had nothing!
Having finally regained his freedom, he was unwilling to just leave.
He wanted revenge!!
He wanted the Bai family to pay the price in blood!!
Yan Shouyi's lips curved upwards. He knew this faceless ghost had backbone.
He hadn't spoken because he was waiting for the faceless ghost to willingly join him.
There was a world of difference between coercion and willingness. To make the faceless ghost completely obedient, it had to be willing to join!
Yan Shouyi looked at the faceless ghost and said,
"Do you have a name?"
The faceless ghost shook its head, "I used to, but I've forgotten."
"From now on, you will take my surname, I am Yan," Yan Shouyi said. "Your name is Yan Gui!"
The faceless ghost immediately knelt before Yan Shouyi, "From now on, I am Yan Gui!"
"As a token of your loyalty, go and kill those few vine-armored Yin soldiers of the Bai family. Consider it your pledge of allegiance," Yan Shouyi said, pointing to the vine-armored Yin soldiers who were still attacking Liu Jiaren.
"With great pleasure!!"
Yan Gui revealed a ferocious expression and charged towards the vine-armored Yin soldiers without hesitation!
These vine-armored Yin soldiers were themselves members of the Bai family, though most were from collateral branches or were unpopular and lacked connections.
But they were Bai family members after all!
As long as they were Bai family members, they were Yan Gui's enemies!
Yan Gui pounced, like a wolf among sheep, and tore apart a vine-armored Yin soldier on the spot.
Another vine-armored Yin soldier, seeing this, was so frightened that it urinated itself, "What are you doing! Have you forgotten who you are! How dare you attack us Bai family members!"
"I'm killing you Bai family members!"
Yan Gui opened his mouth and bit off the head of that vine-armored Yin soldier!
Satisfying!!
Liu Jiaren was still somewhat shaken but knew that this faceless ghost had joined them.
"You did very well."
Yan Shouyi followed, giving Liu Jiaren a reassuring look, and then said to Yan Gui,
"From now on, you will follow me. Once your great revenge is achieved, I will not stop you if you wish to leave!"
Yan Gui knelt on one knee, "I will obey my master in all things."
"You don't need to call me master. We are not master and servant; we are friends."
"Then may I call you..."
Yan Shouyi thought for a moment, "Since you now have the surname Yan, you are half a member of the Yan family. I have a younger brother, so you will be behind him, and you will all call me Ge."
If Yan Gui had a face, its mouth would surely be twitching at this moment.
To call someone decades younger than him "Ge"?
Although it felt a bit awkward, Yan Gui still obediently called out, "Yan Ge."
After all, calling someone "Ge" was better than calling them "master."
Yan Shouyi nodded and took out a piece of Yin wood.
Yan Gui currently had nowhere to reside, and the Yin wood was just the thing.
Yan Shouyi was even considering carving a body for Yan Gui using the Yin wood, allowing him to move freely like San Yuan.
Although Yan Gui did not know the origin of the Yin wood in Yan Shouyi's hand, he could feel the power emanating from it.
It was as if there was a space within it prepared just for him.
So, without Yan Shouyi needing to say anything, Yan Gui burrowed into it.
Seeing Yan Gui's perceptiveness, Yan Shouyi nodded with satisfaction.
He was afraid of ghosts who were uncooperative and lacked insight.
Now that Yan Gui was so sensible, he believed they would get along well, and their force against the Bai family had increased by one.
"Is everyone alright?" Yan Shouyi looked at Liu Jiaren and Liu Yiren.
The two women were unharmed. In fact, those vine-armored Yin soldiers were just for show. Under equal strength, they might not even be a match for Liu Jiaren, a mere woman.
"Is everyone alright!"
At the same time, A Gong also ran over from the backyard.
It seemed that the faceless ghost had also been dealt with by A Gong.
Seeing that everyone was safe, Yan Shouyi felt relieved.
"Great-grandfather! Great-grandmother!"
At this moment, Liu Jiaren spotted the surviving Liu Jingkang and the others, her face filled with surprise, and she rushed over.
Yan Shouyi and the others followed.
Liu Jingkang and the other old ghosts of the Liu family were all lying on the ground, as if paralyzed, unable to move.
However, they knew they had been rescued, and their faces were filled with expressions of relief from having survived.
As Yan Shouyi passed by, a hand grabbed his ankle. He looked down and saw it was Liu Yong, the Liu family's servant.
"What, still want to hit me?" Yan Shouyi asked with a smile.
Liu Yong weakly shook his head and squeezed out three words from his mouth: "Thank you."
Yan Shouyi smiled, crouched down, and said, "Wait a moment, I will find a geomantically auspicious place for everyone so that you can all recover."
Liu Yong released his hand, a hint of guilt on his face.
It was likely he regretted bullying Yan Shouyi before.