Lu Tianming shook his head frantically, still unwilling to believe it.
But then, Ye Fanchen's words made Lu Tianming's soul tremble:
"The last time you left the forbidden area, you ran away. Did you have the blood of those elders on your hands?"
"Otherwise, if you were in trouble, why didn't you seek help immediately? Why did you go so far away?"
"I...I was just too scared at that time!" Lu Tianming still wanted to argue.
"Are you scared, or do you simply not remember what happened in the forbidden area?"
"If you only have those vague memories or fragments in your mind, then you might really be being controlled by him."
"If that's the case, then your master and those elders were most likely killed by you, being controlled by that ghost!"
Ye Fanchen's bold speculation immediately made Lu Tianming's head feel like it was struck by lightning!
Lu Tianming recalled the past. He was indeed a little vague about what happened in the forbidden area, but he had escaped from Lake Heart City for so many years, and he had always been telling himself that he didn't want to think too much about those horrific scenes. Now, after Ye Fanchen reminded him, he suddenly felt that things were not as simple as he imagined.
"This soul mark on your body has been there for at least several years."
"As for whether the 'Fire Unicorn' you saw was real or fake, that's hard to say. You have to understand that when possessed by a ghost, you only see what it wants you to see. This forbidden area is full of illusions and realities. The key is to see what it wants to do."
Ye Fanchen pulled off Lu Tianming's collar, revealing a thumb-sized plum blossom mark.
"this..."
At this moment, Lu Tianming's pupils shrank suddenly like needles.
He suddenly remembered that after fleeing to Jiangnan Province these years, he developed a habit of wearing high-necked clothes.
At first, he thought he was old and afraid of the cold.
But now it seems that there really is a force that is interfering with his choice in the dark, and he has not even discovered this plum blossom mark after so many years in Jiangnan Province. If Ye Fanchen had not pointed it out today, he would not even know that he had this thing on his body.
"What does it want to do... What does it want to do?"
"Did I kill Master and cause the deaths of those elders? No... No!"
Suddenly, Lu Tianming felt a severe headache and muttered to himself as if he had lost his soul.
Just when An Muxi beside him showed a worried expression on his face.
Lu Tianming suddenly stood up and ran towards the depths of the stone palace passage.
"Come out... Come out here, you bastard! Don't you want to get on top of me? Come on, come on!"
Lu Tianming's roar and fearlessness of death made An Muxi's pretty face turn pale.
"Ye, Brother Ye...is he possessed again?" An Muxi felt that this stone palace was suffocating and not fun at all.
To be honest, An Muxi was a little scared. If she had known it was so dangerous down there, she would have been better off waiting outside the forbidden area.
In comparison, being accompanied by the stone sculptures and tombs in the forbidden area is better than encountering the situation in the stone palace.
"He's not crazy, he just wants to use himself as bait."
However, Ye Fanchen shook his head and quickly followed: "Lu Tianming knows my strength. He must be eager to know the truth of the matter, so he deliberately let the ghost possess him again. In this way, don't we have a chance to catch him again?"
After hearing this, An Muxi nodded vigorously with her little head following closely behind Ye Fanchen.
She guessed that Lu Tianming must have felt very guilty since the death of his master and elders?
But Lu Tianming didn't run far.
His half-crazy body stopped at the corner in front.
There, scattered were some weapon fragments and dark red blood spots that had long been oxidized, as well as some broken finger bones and human bones. An Muxi, who was curled up behind Ye Fanchen, was startled. Her pretty face turned pale, and she looked away to focus her attention on Lu Tianming.
But Lu Tianming stood there in fear, as if he had seen a devil.
That profile was full of panic and fear.
Ye Fanchen had a cold face. After turning the corner, he found a skeleton with broken ribs, chopped-off fingers and leg bones lying quietly on the ground. On the neck of the skeleton hung a pendant with a flying bird printed on it.
Plop!
Lu Tianming suddenly fell to his knees, sobbing, "Master...Master, I am an unfilial disciple. I only came back to see you now!"
As Lu Tianming spoke, he kowtowed several times on the ground.
But he wiped his tears and was about to go forward to clean up his master's body and prepare to send him out for burial after he was done.
Lu Tianming's face changed drastically, as if he had seen something even more terrifying, and he shook his head frantically!
"No... Impossible, this is impossible!"
"How...how did my dagger end up on Master?"
It turned out that when Lu Tianming got closer, he discovered that there was a rusty green dagger left in the belly of his master's skeleton.
This dagger was made of special meteorite iron and was given to him by his master himself.
But since his last escape, Lu Tianming's memory has been vague. He only felt that the dagger was lost in the fight with the "Fire Kirin".
But he never expected that the dagger was actually inside his master's body?
At this time, Lu Tianming picked up the dagger. The coldness and heaviness of the dagger made Lu Tianming tremble uncontrollably.
"Could it be that I...Is it really me who killed them?"
Lu Tianming just felt cold all over.
But a rage ignited in my heart, and I wanted to tear the ghost into pieces!
"He didn't die from your dagger."
However, Ye Fanchen's next words immediately made Lu Tianming and An Muxi's faces change drastically. They saw Ye Fanchen walk over to the remains of Lu Tianming's master and take off the skull like a toy. As Lu Tianming and An Muxi's faces changed strangely, he calmly pointed at the several finger holes on it and said, "This is a very crude soul-devouring method."
"Caster, first bleed the target to weaken him, then use this soul-devouring technique to drain his spirit."
"If I'm not mistaken, the ghost must have used your body to attack them, and then absorbed their souls to strengthen itself, eventually gaining enough mental strength to completely possess you."
It has to be said that Ye Fanchen was very knowledgeable. After seeing the remains, he could already guess about 80% of the information.
But when he heard that it was really the ghost that possessed him, he was told that he had harmed his master.
The hatred on Lu Tianming's face became even stronger.
"Seize the body? It still wants to seize the body?"
"At worst, I'll just commit suicide! I'll make sure it never comes back to life!"
Lu Tianming was panting heavily, having already made up his mind. However, when he noticed Ye Fanchen's calm expression, he immediately realized that the key to the matter still lay with him. So, he knelt down in front of Ye Fanchen again with a plop: "Master Ye! I know that no one can avenge me except you. As long as you can help me kill it, I am willing to serve you like a slave for the rest of my life!"
"Get up."
"I'm just a ghost, I can only bully you."
"Once I break the formation here, it will have nowhere to hide even if it wants to."
Ye Fanchen waved his hand, not caring whether Lu Tianming would truly surrender or not, because he didn't care about such a beast at all.
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