Jiangcheng, Happiness Community.
Jian Shishi was fast asleep on the bed.
After Zhang Daoyuan brought Jian Shishi home yesterday, he bid farewell and left Jiangcheng to report back to his sect.
The emergence of Ye Ling in Huaguo, regardless of Ye Ling's stance, made Zhang Daoyuan feel it was necessary to inform his sect and all major powers.
Ye Ling's appearance was enough to stir up the entire Huaguo. Major powers might undergo a reshuffle. If any sect was unprepared, they would likely suffer heavy losses.
Of course, what Zhang Daoyuan said was one thing, and whether other sects believed it was another.
As for Jian Shishi, after experiencing so much in one night, she was utterly exhausted.
She hadn't even showered, collapsing onto the bed in her dirt-stained clothes and sleeping until now.
At this moment, a gust of wind blew in from the window.
Ye Ling appeared in the living room of Jian Shishi's apartment.
Ye Ling had only recently returned to Earth and currently had no place to stay in Jiangcheng. Moreover, only Jian Shishi and the Du family in Jiangcheng had witnessed Ye Ling's abilities.
After dealing with the Ghost Gate and the Sky Concealment Pavilion, Ye Ling had collected quite a few items and needed a place to sort them out.
The Du family villa was crowded and full of prying eyes, while Jian Shishi lived alone. Ye Ling coming to Jian Shishi's place would make things much more convenient.
Jian Shishi's home was an excellent place for Ye Ling to handle "dirty work."
Now that the Ghost Gate and the Sky Concealment Pavilion were dealt with, the Ye family's overt enemies were only the Jiang family.
Although the Jiang family was merely an ordinary commercial clan in Jiangcheng, relying on money to maintain some connection with the extraordinary circle, the Jiang family was ultimately the one who directly attacked the Ye family.
Therefore, Ye Ling would not deal with the Jiang family as directly and domineeringly as he did with the Ghost Gate and the Sky Concealment Pavilion.
Dealing with a prestigious secular family like the Jiang family required a slower approach.
"That girl, she's sleeping soundly."
Ye Ling glanced at Jian Shishi, who was still in her clothes on the bed without covering herself, shook his head with a smile, and ignored her. He directly took out the pure Yin Yuan corpse from his spatial ring in the living room.
From Mo Qianji's memories, Ye Ling learned that he needed to refine the pure Yin Yuan corpse to forge the Yin Yuan Sacred Pill, which would help him break through to the eighth-grade realm.
Mo Qianji's so-called refining of the pure Yin Yuan corpse was merely using the vital energy of a living person to draw out the spiritual energy within the pure Yin Yuan corpse, and then using that spiritual energy to fuse with human blood and flesh to form a blood pill, thus breaking through through this wicked path.
Although the Ghost Gate's actions completely wasted the pure Yin Yuan corpse's physique, their recklessness had caused this female corpse to show subtle signs of "resuscitation."
"This female corpse possesses a physique similar to the pure Yin body, yet it is different. It seems to lack the fatal flaws of the pure Yin body, and combining with a person will not cause a loss of cultivation..."
"This kind of physique, even in the Eastern Profound Continent, would be considered a top-tier physique. What was this woman's identity in life?" Ye Ling murmured, and then took out the Phoenix Eye again.
However, this time, Ye Ling used his spiritual energy to isolate the Phoenix Eye, preventing it from reactivating the female corpse.
"I remember that old Daoist priest saying that the evil spirit attached to this Phoenix Eye is the Heavenly Net Ghost King. I always thought this Heavenly Net Ghost King was related to the Ghost Gate, but from Qiu Baiyi's memories, there is no news about the Heavenly Net Ghost King at all."
"That's right. If their purpose in destroying the Ye family was for the Heavenly Net Ghost King, they shouldn't have left the Phoenix Eye to the Jiang family..."
Upon reaching this point, Ye Ling suddenly paused, his mind sensing something was amiss!
The Ghost Gate, in collusion with the Jiang family, destroyed the Ye family because Ye Shan had displayed Ye Feng's inheritance. Qiu Baiyi suspected that the Ye family possessed the Heavenly Mandate Map, which is why Qiu Baiyi acted!
Logically, this was a matter between the Sky Concealment Pavilion and the Ye family, and had nothing to do with the Heavenly Net Ghost King!
And Shen Bo's death... was caused by the Yin Curse Elder.
The patterns drawn by the Yin Curse Elder and Jiang Tianhao were related to the Heavenly Net Ghost King, clearly not connected to the Ghost Gate!
If both the Sky Concealment Pavilion and the Ghost Gate were being manipulated by another force...
Thinking of this, Ye Ling couldn't help but feel that his speculation was somewhat absurd.
The Sky Concealment Pavilion was already a hidden sect in Huaguo, with three seventh-grade extraordinary individuals guarding it. Its sect's strength was considerably stronger than the True One Gate behind Zhang Daoyuan!
The Ye family was merely an ordinary family. If there was a force that could manipulate the Sky Concealment Pavilion from behind without their knowledge, its power would naturally surpass many forces in Huaguo!
Why would a force with such means go to such great lengths, in such a roundabout way, to deal with a mere Ye family?
It must be known that when those people acted six years ago, Ye Ling had not yet transmigrated to the Eastern Profound Continent. Those people could not have been so cautious because of Ye Ling!
"Meaning... there's something else going on here?"
Ye Ling looked at the Phoenix Eye in his hand, his brow furrowed.
This Phoenix Eye was the key to opening a certain place, and it could resonate with the pure Yin Yuan corpse. Even more absurdly, the force that might exist behind the scenes, using the grievances between the Sky Concealment Pavilion and Ye Feng to instigate Qiu Baiyi to attack the Ye family, yet did not take this Phoenix Eye...
One piece of illogical clue after another intertwined, making it difficult for even Ye Ling to sort out his thoughts.
"It seems I can't underestimate this Earth..."
Ye Ling murmured softly, extracted the information from the Phoenix Eye, and transmitted it to his divine soldiers scattered across the world, asking them to investigate this matter together.
After finishing these tasks, Ye Ling released the evil spirit he had subdued from the Jiang family construction site from his spatial ring, removing its restrictions.
Seeing that Ye Ling had released it, the evil spirit immediately flew towards the window, attempting to escape Ye Ling's clutches, but was entangled by Ye Ling's spiritual energy and easily suppressed.
"Who exactly are you?" the evil spirit snarled at Ye Ling, demanding fiercely.
"If you don't want to be utterly destroyed, cooperate with me obediently," Ye Ling said calmly, his tone icy.
Upon hearing Ye Ling's words, the evil spirit, which had been looking ferocious, trembled instantly, fear appearing on its face.
It suddenly felt an unimaginable pressure from Ye Ling!
The evil spirit immediately understood that Ye Ling was not joking!
"Wh-what do you want to do?" the evil spirit asked Ye Ling in a low voice, its previous ferocity gone, replaced by fear. It didn't even dare to struggle.
Ye Ling said lightly, "I originally intended to refine you directly, but after yesterday's events, I feel it's necessary to ask you some questions."
This evil spirit was raised by the Ghost Gate, provided by the Jiang family.
And from the memories of Xie Shuangjun and Lu Wende, this evil spirit was obtained by the Yin Curse Elder. However, Ye Ling had also searched the Yin Curse Elder's memories...
The Yin Curse Elder had no recollection of this evil spirit.
This meant that the Jiang family had given this evil spirit to the Ghost Gate through the Yin Curse Elder.
Furthermore, judging by Jiang Wuhong leading Tie Hu Feiyan to attack a branch of the Ghost Gate, the Jiang family, if not openly disregarding the Ghost Gate, at least harbored ulterior motives.
A mere Jiang family, with few extraordinary individuals within its clan, dared to make a move against the Ghost Gate...
This confidence was far too excessive.
Therefore, Ye Ling realized...
This evil spirit, which he had captured from the Jiang family construction site, might not be as simple as he imagined.
It held a secret!