Another Filler Chapter, Feeling Relaxed and Content

“Possessed by a ghost?”

Ye Xiaoxi froze. Then she blankly raised her right hand and looked at the ring on her finger.

“Mother Danxia, when did you secretly possess Father? That’s so mean!”

“You were this powerful and didn’t even use it to protect Xiaoxi.”

“You made Xiaoxi think Mother was useless and left me worrying here!” she complained, gazing at the ring with a wounded expression.

“But the problem is, I didn’t possess him.”

Danxia, who had suddenly been blamed for everything, felt completely innocent.

Why was she being accused of ghost possession? Did she know anything about it herself?

Danxia helplessly defended herself. “Even if I really had possessed Shu’er, there’s no way I could have casually turned all those people into clouds of blood. You’re giving me far too much credit. You do remember that I was only a Void Refining expert when I was alive, right? How could I possibly be stronger after death than I was when I was alive?”

“That completely violates the law of conservation of energy.”

“Y-yes, you’re right.”

Only then did Ye Xiaoxi come to her senses. But immediately afterward, an even deeper confusion appeared on her face.

“Then what did Father mean by ‘possessed by a ghost’?”

“What else could he mean?”

Inside the ring’s space, Danxia puffed out her cheeks, crossed her arms over her chest, and said sourly, “He must have found a more powerful ghost and decided he didn’t want your mother anymore.”

“That... Father isn’t that kind of person, is he?” Ye Xiaoxi said awkwardly.

“Why wouldn’t he be?”

At the mention of this, Danxia immediately became energized and began listing his faults without pause.

“That man is exactly like that. He’s a hopelessly kind fool who saves every woman he meets. Every single one of them gets stars in her eyes the moment she sees him, and before they know it, they’ve fallen head over heels.”

“Back when your father and I were together, there were already almost enough women surrounding him to count on both hands!”

“No way!”

Ye Xiaoxi’s eyes widened in disbelief.

She had never expected to hear such scandalous secrets from her mother. Could her father actually be the greatest scumbag in history? And how had Mother managed to fight her way through all the competition?

It couldn’t be that she had taken advantage of Father while no one was looking and forced herself on him, could it?

“How could it not be true?”

Danxia spoke with great conviction, still deeply aggrieved.

“And the worst part is that you can’t even criticize him. Whenever he opens his mouth, he spouts nothing but flowery nonsense—something about being a tree, something about sand. The moment you hear it, who wouldn’t be bewitched?”

“That’s how I ended up boarding the pirate ship without even realizing it.”

“Do you know what the most frightening part is?”

“What?”

Ye Xiaoxi’s curiosity had been completely aroused.

As for the random underlings being dealt with by Ye Shu nearby, and the danger surrounding them, none of that mattered anymore.

Who cared?

Death could happen at any time.

But a sudden stroke of inspiration—no, wait, padding out the chapter with filler—wasn’t the same as listening to Mother tell the love story between her and Father. An opportunity like this might never come again.

“The most frightening part is that he’s completely Teflon-coated!”

Danxia spoke with heartfelt anguish, as though years of accumulated resentment were finally pouring out.

“He’s always saying, ‘I didn’t want this either,’ as if all those romantic entanglements had simply floated straight into his face on their own.”

“Then he gets sweet-talked and forcibly seduced.”

“And after that, he has no choice but to take responsibility, no choice but to bring them home, and no choice but to give them a proper place in the family.”

By the time Danxia reached this point, her tone had become utterly certain.

“If you don’t believe me, just wait and see.”

“Your father has been running wild outside for so long. Who knows how many more lovely ladies he’s been forced to get involved with?”

“That seems a little unlikely...”

The corner of Ye Xiaoxi’s mouth twitched, but she still found it hard to believe.

Did that mean she had a whole lot of mothers?

“When you and the other mothers encountered situations where Father had no choice but to bring another woman home, what did you do?” Ye Xiaoxi asked curiously, blinking.

“What did we do?”

Danxia complained pitifully. “What else could we do? We could only accept it. Were we supposed to throw a tantrum and leave home, allowing your father to carry on being lovey-dovey with another woman?”

“After all, it wasn’t his fault.”

“So naturally, we could only forgive him.”

“...”

Ye Xiaoxi was speechless.

She suddenly felt that her mothers were far too spineless. They were practically turtles burrowing through the center of the earth.

Meanwhile, Ye Shu was completely unaware of any of this.

If he knew that Danxia was badmouthing him to Ye Xiaoxi, he would certainly expose her without mercy. After all, back then, it was clearly his master who had forcibly possessed Medusa and violated him, which had led to Ye Xiaoxi’s birth and caused him to betray Lin Qingxue.

And now she was accusing him of doing the very same thing.

Women were terrifying.

But Ye Shu was currently focused on clearing out the remaining soldiers and had no time to pay attention to the mother-and-daughter trio nearby.

After all, the duration of ghost possession was extremely limited.

“One... two...”

Ye Shu’s expression was cold as he silently counted.

Every time he reached another number, another Mo family expert inevitably dissolved into an endless cloud of blood.

“This... why is this happening?”

Mo Yu’s eyes were bulging with rage.

He couldn’t understand it. Strength itself wasn’t the issue. The truly terrifying thing was strength that defied all explanation.

Behind Mo Yu, Mo Shisan gave a faint smile.

How could mortals possibly comprehend the wisdom of gods?

As everyone knew, the essence of ghost possession was that a once-powerful expert had fallen, leaving behind a remnant of an extremely high-level soul. That remnant would possess a still-weak host and use the host’s body to temporarily unleash the power it had possessed in life.

Danxia’s soul level was clearly insufficient.

After three hundred chapters of upheaval, ghost possession had long since become an outdated skill.

But the fundamental problem was the lack of a powerful remnant soul.

So then—

Was there a powerful remnant soul capable of allowing Ye Shu to leap straight to the level of the strongest person on the battlefield and sweep through everyone present?

Of course there was, brother. Of course there was.

A remnant soul like that naturally existed.

It was Ye Shu himself.

What remnant soul could possibly be stronger than that of a half-immortal who had fallen fifteen years ago and then been resurrected from pieces of stone?

It was just that Ye Shu had not understood how to use the realm of the soul at that time. Back in Paper Man Valley, he had relied purely on overwhelming force. Even with his immense soul power, he had only been able to suppress a single Void Refining expert for a short time.

But everything changed after he obtained the Nine Nether inheritance.

The crown contained all of the Nine Nether Empress’s insights into the Dao of the soul. Combined with Ye Shu’s own repeated tempering and refinement, it had finally made the impossible possible.

He had possessed himself!

Some people might find this absurd, unbelievable, and completely unreasonable.

But if someone else could possess a person, then surely a person could possess himself.

Ye Shu had only one thing to say about it:

“Ghost possession. Pretty amazing, huh?”

Before long, with the support of a half-immortal soul, Ye Shu swept through the entire Mo family force with the speed of thunder, leaving only the isolated Mo Yu behind.

But—

Mo Shisan, standing behind Mo Yu, frowned slightly.

Why?

Although Mo Yu looked shocked and incredulous, there was not the slightest trace of fear in his eyes.

That made no sense at all.

Unless...

He still had some hidden trump card he had yet to reveal.

Almost the instant this thought arose—

Boom!

A massive spatial rift suddenly tore open above the dome of the heavens. Radiant flames filled the sky as a crimson figure slowly descended upon the scene, stepping on blazing fire and sweeping a cold gaze over everyone below.

“Are you the ones who killed my son?”