Chapter 72

As Ye Feng approached the villa construction site, he expanded his divine consciousness. Instantly, he felt a collision with an extremely cold and sinister aura. This aura was very strong, actually managing to forcibly block his divine consciousness from sensing beyond the construction area.

This made Ye Feng feel even more urgent and shocked. He realized he had encountered an extremely formidable opponent, but he had no idea who this opponent was.

This sinister aura came from the ghostly energy of Ghost Wolf.

Ye Feng was anxious, but Ghost Wolf was even more so. From the information obtained through soul searching, he had been killing without any concealment, aiming to resolve Liu Yong's resentment as quickly as possible.

His target was very clear: police officers, judges, and others who had caused Liu Yong to harbor resentment, all of whom he aimed to kill in one blow. To save time, he even abandoned the opportunity to refine souls while killing.

Time was slipping away, inching towards midnight on the 14th of July. If he couldn't resolve Liu Yong's resentment by midnight, he would miss this excellent opportunity to enhance his cultivation. More importantly, if the resentment wasn't resolved, his future cultivation would be extremely difficult to advance.

Following the consciousness memory obtained from Hao Jian through soul searching, Ghost Wolf first went to Qin Yan's law firm and her home before arriving at the construction site. Unfortunately, he didn't find Qin Yan. Realizing that there was less than an hour left until midnight, Ghost Wolf immediately abandoned Qin Yan as a target and focused on the most important target, Ye Feng.

When Ye Feng jumped out of the taxi and rushed to the construction site, Ghost Wolf had already arrived with four super ghost slaves. They encountered Zhu Zi and his fellow workers, including Du Lijun, who had just returned by car. Du Lijun had chosen not to go home that night because he was drunk.

Ghost Wolf immediately recognized Zhu Zi and the others. Why? Because the original owner of the body he had taken over, Liu Yong, was very familiar with Ye Feng's fellow workers and knew their close relationship with Ye Feng.

Without hesitation, Ghost Wolf ruthlessly attacked Zhu Zi and the others and performed soul searching on them.

The results of the soul searching disappointed Ghost Wolf. He learned from Zhu Zi and the others' consciousness memories that Ye Feng had just finished dinner with them and had left with Qin Yan.

This made Ghost Wolf very frustrated and disappointed, but soon, his ghostly consciousness sensed Ye Feng's divine consciousness.

After the collision between his ghostly consciousness and Ye Feng's divine consciousness, Ghost Wolf's ghostly consciousness slightly gained the upper hand. This made him breathe a sigh of relief. The last time he had driven his ghost slaves to fight Ye Feng, his cultivation was still in the middle stage of Ghost Wolf, and the distance between Liu Family's old residence and the beach square where the fight took place was too far for him to accurately judge Ye Feng's cultivation.

Because he hadn't taken Ye Feng seriously enough at the time, he was counterattacked by the ghostly energy, so he could only estimate that Ye Feng's cultivation might be higher than his own.

But now, with his cultivation improved, he personally clashed with Ye Feng's divine consciousness and successfully blocked Ye Feng's probe. This greatly boosted his confidence. Although he hadn't yet faced Ye Feng in person, he believed that his current cultivation was higher than Ye Feng's.

When Ye Feng finally arrived at the construction site, he saw a scene that left him utterly devastated, heartbroken, and filled with regret for the rest of his life.

The ground was drenched in rain and blood, and the open area outside the construction site was littered with the bodies of his dead coworkers. Heads were separated from bodies, chests were torn open, and the sight was unbearable.

He saw Zhu Zi's head, Du Lijun's head, and the expressions of shock and confusion on their faces, even in death.

Silent and still, there were no more words. Zhu Zi's last words to him echoed in his ears, but in just a few short minutes, they were already separated by life and death, never to share a drink again.

Then, he saw Liu Yong, the enemy he once hated with all his heart.

Ye Feng collapsed to his knees, unable to bear the sight. A wave of intense regret gnawed at his heart. If it weren't for his involvement, how could Zhu Zi and the others have died so tragically? He had never intended to cause such harm, but in reality, this killing was all because of him.

At this moment, Ye Feng suddenly felt that everything he had believed in for over twenty years had become a big joke. When the bloody reality was finally laid bare before him, he realized that all those so-called virtues, purity, justice, and fairness, and the principles of kindness and integrity he had upheld for over a decade, were all a joke. Even the Law had once despised him.

Because of this joke, he had paid a heavy price. After being falsely accused by Liu Yong, he had persisted, firmly believing that the world was more beautiful than ugly, more good than evil.

But the final result now slapped him in the face. He had embarked on the path of cultivation because of a great fortune, but his mindset had never matched that of a cultivator. From the moment he possessed the Nine Star Space, he was no longer the same Ye Feng. To cultivate and refine his mindset, he had to be decisive and ruthless, just like a true cultivator.

He now understood that if he were any other cultivator from a cultivation world, he would never have been so indecisive, so self-righteously kind, and would never have let Liu Yong off so easily. They would have killed Liu Yong to eliminate any future threats.

What Ye Feng didn't understand was that if he had followed the Law's guidance and eliminated Liu Tianlong, Hao Jian, and Zhao Chunnan, who were already determined to be great evildoers, this tragic situation would never have occurred.

Now it was too late. Liu Yong stood there alive, and no matter what reason he had for being there, the result was clear: sowing evil seeds reaps evil fruits. He hadn't killed Liu Yong then, and now Liu Yong was trying to kill him, and had also caused the deaths of so many others.

Regret, anger, self-blame, conflict, confusion, and grief surged within Ye Feng, causing his internal energy to go awry and attack his heart. With a loud cry, he spat out a mouthful of blood.

At this moment, Ghost Wolf, who had taken Liu Yong's form, seized the opportunity with great excitement. Gathering ghostly energy in his hand, he lunged at Ye Feng's head.

In Ghost Wolf's mind, Ye Feng's emotional reaction was completely unexpected. Cultivators, unless their strength was far below their opponent's, would never show such a reaction that affected their mental state in a life-or-death situation.

The only explanation for Ye Feng's reaction was that his cultivation and mindset were not on the same level. It also proved that Ye Feng was not a cultivator from a secret realm, as there was no one like him in the secret realm.

As the cold wind blew, Ye Feng seemed oblivious, making no reaction or defense.

But just as Ghost Wolf thought he could kill Ye Feng in one blow, Ye Feng suddenly disappeared. No matter how Ghost Wolf used his ghostly consciousness to sense, he could no longer detect any trace of Ye Feng.

Ye Feng, of course, hadn't truly disappeared; he had entered the Nine Star Space.

When Ye Feng witnessed the tragic deaths of Zhu Zi and the others, his inner pain, regret, and anger caused his internal energy to go awry and attack his heart, creating a mental barrier. Fortunately, the spitting of blood prevented further harm to his body.

Faced with extreme danger, he made the right choice to enter the Nine Star Space. He knew he was facing a formidable opponent, and possibly even a stronger one hiding in the shadows. So, he forcibly suppressed his grief and anger, entered the Nine Star Space, and immediately contacted the Law to reverse the time ratio between the space and the real world, adjusting it to 3:1.

He needed time to calm down. During this time, the real world would slow down.

He had to calm himself down because this time, he had to kill Liu Yong, no matter the cost.