Chapter 155: The Reappearance of Guangqi

"Master? You're calling me Master?"

Huang Wuchang widened his eyes, re-examining Chen Yong from top to bottom, his lips trembling slightly as he asked, "Are you—are you Guangqi!?"

Chen Yong neither admitted nor denied it, merely bursting into loud laughter.

"What? He is Guangqi!?"

Master Wei and the other two could hardly believe their eyes. How on earth had this Chen Yong turned out to be their fourth junior brother, Guangqi!?

Hearing that familiar laughter, Ye Dong felt a chill go through not just his heart, but his very soul!

"Impossible! I killed him with my own hands that day! How could he still be alive!?" Ye Dong clenched his fists tightly. "Throughout the entire tomb raiding expedition, he concealed his identity from start to finish!? Damn it, this is too terrifying!!!"

As he thought deeper, sheer terror caused his mind to erupt into chaos. Memories concerning Chen Yong flooded back continuously. Taking a deep breath, he finally figured it out. "No wonder I thought this Chen Yong looked somewhat familiar. It was Guangqi all along!!!"

"I gave him a fatal wound back then. How did he manage to survive!? How was that even possible!?"

Ye Dong looked Chen Yong—or rather, Guangqi—up and down, calculating silently in his mind, "That day, right before he died, he burned a yellow talisman. Ah, that's it! The problem must lie with that yellow talisman!"

He seemed to recall the clues hidden within the event. "Before he died, Guangqi said, 'Even in death, I will not let Huang Wuchang torture me!' He said that to deliberately make me lower my guard. In reality, that wasn't a suicide talisman to 'destroy the soul,' but rather a spell akin to the 'Dragon Transforming into Phoenix' technique! At that exact moment, through some special method, he hijacked Chen Yong's body, and the person who died that day was Chen Yong."

At this thought, Ye Dong's heart skipped a beat, and cold sweat broke out instantly. "Chen Yong acted as a scapegoat at the very brink of life and death? And I killed Chen Yong with my own hands?"

Inspiration continued to provoke his nerves, and this hypothesis seemed to be the most logical one.

Ye Dong finally straightened out the whole sequence of events. "He knew that without the Canghai Jade Pendant, and without my body, he couldn't contend with Huang Wuchang. So after the plan failed, he simply took a desperate gamble, using Master, Officer Li, and my strength to wear down Huang Wuchang, driving Huang Wuchang's vital energy and spirit step by step toward exhaustion. Then, at that moment, in this place with the heaviest Yin energy, the chronic poison in Huang Wuchang's body would be activated. Guangqi would seize that opportunity to launch a surprise attack and deal Huang Wuchang a fatal blow!"

A chill crept into the depths of Ye Dong's heart. "This plan, built upon the theft of my memories, is simply too thorough. He risked everything for this scheme! From the very moment we stepped into the Eternal Tomb, we were nothing more than chess pieces in Guangqi's hands from start to finish!?"

He finally understood. This was the ultimate grand strategy Guangqi had devised only after acquiring his memories—a flawless plan to drive Huang Wuchang to his doom!

Ye Dong swallowed hard, his suspicions filling him with even greater dread. "Why hasn't he exposed me this whole time!? Could he still have another purpose!?"

"Huang Wuchang, a gentleman takes his revenge even after ten years."

Chen Yong chuckled maliciously. "It only took me two years to get my revenge. With this little disruption of mine, decades of your painstaking effort have been reduced to ashes."

Master Wei and the other two had no idea what Huang Wuchang and Chen Yong were talking about, entirely because they knew nothing of the details regarding the True Incantations of the Outer Three Realms, and had never even heard of the Dragon Transforming into Phoenix technique.

"You! When did you learn the body-swapping technique?!"

Huang Wuchang's face turned ashen as he harshly interrogated Chen Yong. "How much of the secrets of the True Incantations of the Outer Three Realms do you know?!"

"Not bad. I wouldn't dare claim I know more than you, but it certainly isn't any less."

Chen Yong replied unhurriedly, presenting a stark contrast in vitality and spirit to Huang Wuchang.

He locked eyes with Ye Dong, yet chose not to expose him, merely saying coldly, "The four master and disciples of you today are destined to die right here!"

"You really are Guangqi!? But why do you look like a completely different person!?" Master Wei finally grasped the clue from their conversation and hurriedly shielded Huang Wuchang behind him!

"You three good-for-nothings, your brains really are as stupid as a pile of shit!"

Chen Yong sneer laughed. "That's right, Eldest Senior Brother, I am your fourth junior brother, Guangqi. Didn't expect that, did you?"

"You—how did you pull this off!?" Master Wei gasped, pointing at Guangqi and cursing, "This is an act of defying your master and destroying your ancestors!"

"Ah哈哈哈! What a fine piece of defying master and ancestors!"

Guangqi laughed loudly. "That's right, today I am not only going to defy my master and destroy my ancestors, but I am also going to burn this Eternal Tomb to ashes! Well, how about it? The few of you are in jeopardy now, what can you possibly do to me?"

Hearing Guangqi's wild and arrogant words, Huang Wuchang was burning with fury. "This Guangqi actually managed to find the Dragon Transforming into Phoenix technique from the True Incantations of the Outer Three Realms! What I never expected was that he would use this opportunity to exact revenge! It seems I truly underestimated him!"

Then he heard Guangqi sneer, "Do you all remember why those stone lions in the General's Tomb attacked us?"

Huang Wuchang's gaze tightened, and he snorted coldly, "Was that all your doing!?"

"Ah哈哈哈!"

Guangqi seemed immensely pleased with himself, shouting out, "That's right, I did it! Not just that one incident—at the iron chains, I knew beforehand that rocks would fall, and all the traps and mechanisms along the way were stirred up by me. My goal was to drain your vital energy and spirit as much as possible!"

"Mad hatred forged this frenzied desire for vengeance within Guangqi."

Shocked, Ye Dong glanced at Guangqi out of the corner of his eye, only to find that Guangqi paid no attention to his actions.

"You've said so much, isn't it still just to take my old life!?"

Huang Wuchang laughed wildly. "Guangqi, you're underestimating me if you think I'm that simple!"

To his surprise, Guangqi sneered and flipped a stack of spiritual talismans out from inside his robe. "Huang Wuchang, take a look at what these are!?"

"What!?"

Seeing the spiritual talismans in Guangqi's hand, Huang Wuchang's face filled with astonishment. "These are advanced 'Soul-Trapping Talismans'!? Where on earth did you learn so many magical arts!?"

Ye Dong furrowed his brows. "The Soul-Trapping Talismans can forcibly imprison the souls of evil ghosts within the spell to enhance magical power. It is a deeply malevolent and heaven-defying art."

"Go to hell, Huang Wuchang!"

Guangqi scattered the spiritual talismans in his hand, and the talismans filling the sky seemed to be guided by a navigation system as they pursued Huang Wuchang directly!

"Hexing, hurry up and carry your master deeper inside!"

The aura of death rapidly enveloped Huang Wuchang, driving him to scream desperately!

This time, he was truly terrified.

He hadn't anticipated that Guangqi would hatch such a vicious plan for revenge. At this moment, both he and Master Wei's group had suffered heavy blows to their vitality, while Guangqi possessed insidious and ruthless tricks unknown to ordinary people. Huang Wuchang's only choice right now remained that single option: flee!

Master Wei didn't hesitate in the slightest, but since the main doors had not been opened yet, he had no choice but to carry Huang Wuchang on his back and run toward the side door of the massive stone gates!

"Want to run!"

Guangqi shouted coldly, "The Great Emperor Xuanwu is right before our eyes; gods return to the temple, ghosts return to tombs, and demons and monsters return to the mountains and forests. By decree of the True Lord Xuanwu, execute this immediately!!!"

With Soul-Trapping Talismans above and the "Xuanwu Exorcism Curse" below, it seemed the heavily injured Huang Wuchang truly had no wings to escape!

"Master, run!"

Lecheng roared at the top of his lungs, likewise employing the "Xuanwu Exorcism Curse" against Guangqi!

However, Guangqi surpassed Lecheng by a vast margin in both vitality, spirit, and comprehension of magical arts. In the exchange of blows, Lecheng was quickly defeated and forced to flee!

"Guangqi, you're vicious!"

Lecheng clutched his wound, desperately following closely behind Master Wei and the others!

Seeing that his grand revenge was within reach, Guangqi could no longer suppress the wild joy in his heart, laughing as he gave chase. "Run? Let's see where you can possibly run to!?"

His palm flicked, and a purple spiritual talisman shot straight toward Huang Wuchang's back!

Seeing this, Lixing didn't even stop to think as he pulled out his dagger and batted the spiritual talisman away!

However, was a purple spiritual talisman something mortal strength could resist?

With a cry of pain from Lixing, his body was sent flying several meters away, crashing heavily onto the ground!

Yet Master Wei and Lecheng paid Lixing no mind whatsoever, continuing to sprint forward while carrying Huang Wuchang!

"Ah哈哈哈! A bunch of blindly loyal fools, hurry up and die so you can be reincarnated!"

Guangqi was about to deliver a fatal blow to Lixing when Ye Dong fiercely intercepted his weapon. "Guangqi, you cannot kill him!"

"Go to hell!"

Having obtained Chen Yong's unusually tall and sturdy body, Guangqi's strength had also received a massive boost. With a single shove, he pushed Ye Dong aside and cursed in a low voice, "Don't you want to kill him!? Don't you want to!?"

Upon hearing this, Lixing was so terrified that cold sweat poured down him!

With trembling lips, he asked Ye Dong, "Brother Tian, you—you two know each other!? What is going on here!?"

Guangqi grinned, sneering, "You idiot, not only does he know me, but besides myself, no one on this earth understands this so-called He Wentian better than he does! Ah哈哈哈!"

Lixing gripped his dagger tightly, backing away frantically. "Brother Tian, you—you want to harm Master too!?"

Ye Dong glared fiercely at Guangqi, yelling, "Guangqi, stop spouting nonsense!"

"Ye Dong? You say I'm spouting nonsense!?"

Guangqi stepped forward aggressively, retorting, "If our goals weren't aligned, I would have killed you, this chess piece, long ago, Ye Dong!"

Hearing Guangqi's absolute conviction, Lixing's trust in Ye Dong was shaken to its core in an instant!

"I can't be bothered with you!"

Ye Dong waved his Prison Flame, and a burst of Samadhi True Fire, swift as lightning, lunged straight at Guangqi!

"You're courting death!"

Guangqi dodged sideways. Instead of counterattacking Ye Dong, he strode aggressively toward Lixing. His target was clearly defined; he still intended to kill Lixing first!

"No!!!"

Ye Dong shouted at the top of his lungs, "Guangqi, do you really want to fight me to the death right now? If we both end up severely injured, there's no telling whether Huang Wuchang will be the ultimate beneficiary!"

"Hmm?"

Hearing Ye Dong's reprimand, Guangqi paused for a single second, shot Lixing a cold glare, and spat, "Lixing, consider yourself lucky this time!"

Because his hatred for Huang Wuchang outweighed all else, Guangqi finally abandoned his attempt to relentlessly slaughter Lixing, pivoting his feet to pursue the direction in which Huang Wuchang had fled!

"Huang Wuchang, I'm coming, hahaha! Go to hell!"