Six hundred sixty-six, this person is a ghost.

“Xiaoxi, what are you waiting for?”

Seeing the bitter look on Ye Xiaoxi’s face, Medusa and Danxia urged her on. “Do you really want to stand by and watch your father risk his life to save you?”

“If your father dies, it’ll be your fault.”

Ye Xiaoxi was practically numb.

Putting this kind of pressure on a child who wasn’t even ten yet? Were they really her mothers? She must have been picked up from the roadside!

No, no, no.

She had to think of a way to survive.

Watching Medusa’s gaze grow heavier, Ye Xiaoxi’s thoughts raced. She dared say her brain had never worked this quickly in her entire life.

At last, she raised her head and spoke at lightning speed.

“Mother, I don’t think this is right.”

“Why? You’re unwilling?” Medusa’s brows furrowed slightly. The look in her eyes seemed to say, “I raised you all these years for nothing. You won’t even sacrifice yourself for your father? Do you understand nothing about filial piety and righteousness?”

Ye Xiaoxi forced a smile.

“How could I be unwilling?”

“Xiaoxi is absolutely willing to sacrifice herself for Father.”

“But, Mother, have you ever considered this? Since Father dared to come here, he must have something up his sleeve. There’s no way he came to throw his life away empty-handed and unprepared.” Ye Xiaoxi spoke as quickly as she could, afraid that if she slowed down, her mother would drag her into self-destruction.

“If Father really has a way to save us, and you drag me into blowing ourselves up, wouldn’t all his efforts be wasted? Even if he manages to deal with these people, it’ll only leave him grieving over what might have been.”

“But…”

Medusa’s eyes wavered, yet she still couldn’t make up her mind.

Seeing this, Ye Xiaoxi decided to deliver the killing blow.

Her expression shifted as she slowly said, “Mother, you wouldn’t want Father to beat all these bad guys to death, only to be left holding your corpse and weeping bitterly before turning around and finding another woman and gradually forgetting you… would you?”

The moment those words left her mouth, Medusa’s eyes changed.

The heartless bastard would turn around and find someone else?

That would be letting him off far too easily!

Seeing her hesitation, Ye Xiaoxi knew her words had worked and immediately pressed the advantage.

“So, there’s no harm in watching for a little while, right?”

“If Father really can’t hold out, we can still do everything we can to hold the enemies back for him. Even if we die, we’ll die standing, not like cowards. When the time comes, Xiaoxi will be the first to rush forward and blow herself up!”

Ye Xiaoxi thumped her chest as she made the guarantee, as if saying, “See? I’m not afraid of death. I’m only saying this for your sake, Mother.”

Medusa pondered for a moment.

Indeed, she couldn’t let that group of bastards have things their way.

She nodded and reluctantly agreed. “Fine. We’ll do as you say. If your father can’t hold on, you’ll be the first one I use as a human bomb.”

Hearing this, Ye Xiaoxi finally let out a sigh of relief.

She stared intently at the distant dust cloud, her eyes shining with a desperate longing to survive.

Hehe, I’m definitely going to live!

Meanwhile, Ye Shu, who had been standing behind Mo Yu and watching the mother and daughter the whole time, was completely dumbfounded.

“What the hell are those two muttering about?”

He had watched for quite some time, but Ye Xiaoxi’s mouth had been moving like a machine gun without pause. He had no idea that his wife and daughter had nearly left this world without him.

On the other side, Mo Yu finally reacted as well.

He stroked his chin, his brows drawing together. “It’s also possible that they’re putting on an act to deceive me.”

“You. Go over there and slap him twice.” He casually pointed at the nearest Void Refining expert and ordered, “Teach him a lesson. How dare some worthless nobody play the hero and rescue the beauty?”

“Yes, Young Master.”

The black-robed man cupped his fists, then vanished in an instant.

When he appeared again, he was already a thousand meters away.

He stood in the air before Ye Shu, looking down at the man who had caused countless major figures throughout the Central Continent to toss and turn sleeplessly, all of them eager to kill him.

He had heard some rumors and seen a few portraits.

Yet he simply couldn’t connect the ordinary-looking young man before him with the legendary Half-Immortal.

No matter how he looked at him or probed his cultivation, the man before him seemed no more than an ordinary Void Reversion cultivator.

“Had enough?”

Ye Shu held a foxtail grass between his teeth and stared coldly at the black-robed man.

Though his cultivation seemed inadequate, there was not the slightest trace of fear in his eyes.

“I have.”

The black-robed man withdrew his gaze and spoke indifferently.

No matter how glorious this man’s past had been, he was now nothing more than a pitiful wretch who had been forced to reveal himself by the Young Master and had no choice but to come out and die.

Perhaps, given enough time, he might have grown into a towering figure.

But the Central Continent had never lacked geniuses who fell before reaching the peak.

“By the Young Master’s command, I’m here to take your life,” the black-robed man said coldly. “If I kill you, I’ll receive a reward comparable to half of a branch family of the Mo Clan.”

“So you might as well die!”

With that, his figure blurred. In the next instant, he was already before Ye Shu. A black radiance that seemed capable of devouring even light gathered at his fingertip, and he thrust one finger toward Ye Shu.

He had been charging up this attack ever since he arrived.

The moment he struck, he unleashed his full power and strongest killing move, leaving no room for restraint or underestimating his opponent.

“Tsk. I’m really being underestimated.”

Ye Shu raised his eyelids and glanced at him.

The instant their eyes met, the black-robed man’s body froze, unable to advance even an inch. Then Ye Shu casually lifted his hand and flicked his sleeve.

Bang!

The black-robed man exploded, transforming into a cloud of blood mist.

Even at the moment of death, he couldn’t understand it.

Why?

Why was he so strong?

“What?”

The other black-robed men in the distance were all shocked.

The man who had attacked wasn’t the strongest among them, but he was still an expert. Yet he had been killed with such effortless ease?

Mo Yu’s expression remained relatively calm, though his face was still dark.

But that wasn’t the end.

Almost at the exact moment he killed the first man, Ye Shu’s figure blurred. He crossed several hundred meters in an instant and appeared before another Void Refining expert, casually flicking his sleeve.

Bang!

That man had no time to react before he likewise exploded into a cloud of blood mist.

“What?!”

This time, everyone’s expressions changed—including the two Tribulation Transcendence experts.

They couldn’t see through him.

They couldn’t see through how he had arrived, nor what method or technique he had used.

Bang!

After no more than a moment’s thought, another Void Refining expert exploded into a cloud of blood mist.

Ye Shu still had a foxtail grass between his teeth, moving with the leisure of someone strolling through a garden. He took a lazy step, and without fail appeared before another person, then casually flicked his sleeve and sent blood mist scattering through the air.

It was practically a fireworks show.

Everyone was gripped by terror.

Mo Yu, in particular, was so furious that his eyes nearly split open.

He had expected Ye Shu to be powerful, but clearly not this powerful.

Where exactly had things gone wrong?

The aura around Ye Shu was unmistakably that of a Void Reversion cultivator. There was no mistake. There were no signs that he was disguising or suppressing his cultivation. Staring at the figure leisurely strolling through the wind and sand, Mo Yu rapidly ran through every possibility in his mind—secret techniques, pills, magical artifacts, formations—but not one of them could explain what was happening before him.

It was inconceivable. Utterly inconceivable.

And Ye Xiaoxi was already completely dumbstruck.

She stared blankly at the figure darting back and forth, murmuring softly, “S-so... cool...”

“Silly girl.”

As if he had heard her, Ye Shu suddenly came to a stop. He winked at her and laughed aloud. “Watch closely! This is how you use ghost possession!”