Chapter 196: The Truth

The yellow sand filling the air blurred Ye Feng’s vision, giving the scene before him an unreal appearance.
The man who had disguised himself as someone in the Diversion Stage now stood proudly in mid-air. His cultivation at the late Tribulation Stage was fully exposed to Wei Jie.
Meanwhile, Wei Jie was being chased by three magical beasts at the Tribulation Stage. Through Ye Feng’s detection, one of the beasts was at the peak of the Tribulation Stage, while the other two were in the late Tribulation Stage. Ye Feng finally understood why that man had been so unafraid—he could control magical beasts!
Ye Feng was puzzled. If this man could control magical beasts, he must belong to the Beast Taming Sect. With his cultivation at the late Tribulation Stage, his status within the sect was likely second only to the elders.
These materials were originally meant to be sent back to the Crafting Sect to be used in producing spiritual weapons for the Beast Taming Sect. In other words, the other party had stolen what should have belonged to them, which made Ye Feng even more confused.
Watching Wei Jie being hunted by the three magical beasts, Ye Feng did not intervene. He had originally planned to kill Wei Jie himself, so it was even better now that someone else was doing it. He simply chose to observe coldly to see how things would unfold.
Under the pursuit of the three magical beasts, Wei Jie was in a desperate situation. His top-tier spiritual weapon armor was already severely damaged.
The man controlling the magical beasts did not intervene but watched from afar, directing them to continue attacking. It seemed he wasn’t in a hurry to kill Wei Jie but rather enjoyed the thrill of this cat-and-mouse game.
“That guy isn’t any better!” Ye Feng felt a killing intent flash in his eyes after seeing his actions.
After about an hour, the three magical beasts finally stopped chasing and surrounded Wei Jie. The controller then slowly descended and watched Wei Jie, who was no longer able to resist.
“You’re from the Beast Taming Sect. Why are you attacking me?” Wei Jie roared angrily at him.
“Since you’re going to die anyway, it doesn’t hurt to tell you!” The man, confident in his victory, wasn’t in a hurry to kill Wei Jie. “Actually, our Beast Taming Sect has never intended to mass-produce spiritual weapons. The contract we signed with you was just to lure you out and steal some special items from your ring. We know that your father, with his cultivation as a Five Tribulation Immortal, seized many treasures back then, and we also know that some of those treasures are now in your possession!”

“After you’re killed, the ring containing the materials will disappear. Your Alchemy Sect will surely delay the delivery of these spiritual artifacts on the pretext that the materials have been stolen. Then we’ll have a reason to terminate the contract, and you’ll have to return our deposit. In that way, we can get what we want without spending a penny. Moreover, no one will suspect us, as we’re in a cooperative relationship.”

“Despicable!” Wei Jie never expected that the other party had been targeting him from the start. “No wonder your Grand Elder secretly informed me, saying he and my father were old acquaintances and wanted to meet me, even offering to give me a pet beast. He also said not to tell anyone else about the pet beast yet to avoid jealousy. I actually believed it and spent a lot of effort to secure this escort mission. It was all a trap from the beginning!”

“Oh, that wasn’t our Grand Elder—it was me!” The controller sneered coldly. “Our Beast Taming Sect is the third-largest faction in the cultivation world. Elders like us are under close scrutiny at every move. They only entrust such tasks to us to avoid leaving any traces. So, I’m the only one sent to carry out this mission.”

“By the way, I still haven’t told you my name!” The man wore a cruel smile. “Remember, my name is Master—the most talented and youngest protector of the Beast Taming Sect!”

As soon as he finished speaking, three magical beasts leaped up and instantly torn Wei Jie to pieces.

Master picked up one of the fingers left on the ground, removed the ring from it, placed the two top-quality spiritual artifacts scattered nearby into the ring, then casually tossed the finger to one of the magical beasts. “Clean this place thoroughly. Also, get rid of those two corpses from earlier—leave no traces!”

Ye Feng watched quietly as the three magical beasts devoured Wei Jie’s body. Aside from a few drops of blood still on the ground, not even a piece of flesh or bone remained. It made Ye Feng feel nauseous.

Master didn’t leave right away. He patiently waited as the three magical beasts cleaned up the scene. Meanwhile, he gently rubbed the newly acquired ring, seemingly using his mental power to examine its contents.

In less than ten minutes, the other two corpses were also completely cleaned up.

Master then recited a long string of obscure spells at the three magical beasts, causing three black portals to open in the void. The three beasts stepped into the black holes reluctantly, and the eerie portals slowly disappeared.
“Great job!” Just as Master was about to turn and leave, he suddenly heard a voice behind him, making him break into cold sweat. He slowly turned around to see who it was.
“Who are you?” Master turned around in surprise, looking at Ye Feng. The other man had clearly seen everything he had done. He wanted to kill him to silence him, but since he had just summoned three magical beasts, he couldn’t summon more in the short term; he could only buy time.
“It doesn’t matter who I am. The fact that you didn’t summon any magical beasts right away means you can’t do it again anytime soon!” Ye Feng saw through his trick at a glance. “I don’t know if it’s due to a restriction of this spell or your body, but you don’t need to try to buy time!”
Hearing Ye Feng’s words, Master realized his scheme had been exposed. Without hesitation, he exerted all his strength, chose a direction, and shot forward.
As he rushed forward, he suddenly saw another person appear before him—the young man who had been chasing him. Knowing this wasn’t the best time to fight, he quickly turned and rushed in another direction. But not long after, the young man blocked his path again.
He tried to turn again but found himself surrounded by three identical young men.
“This is… a clone technique?” Master immediately understood what had happened.
“Smart, but being scared by illusions just now was foolish!” Ye Feng grabbed his neck with one hand while forming a fist with the other…
Master felt he no longer had the strength to resist. He frantically shook his head, “You can’t kill me… Please don’t kill me! I’m the son of the sect leader and the grandson of the grand elder! If you kill me, they’ll come after you!”
“If I don’t kill you, they’ll come after me!” Ye Feng shook his head. Hearing Master’s identity, he became even happier. “Besides, being the son of the sect leader and the grandson of the grand elder means your storage ring must also contain many valuable things!”

Ye Feng mercilessly shattered Master’s dantian and yuanying with a punch, then took the Wei Jie ring from his hand as well as the ring he was wearing himself.
“Number of dead souls absorbed: 1”
“Second-tier domain value obtained: 321,937”
He didn’t immediately check what was inside the two rings; instead, he put them straight into his storage cabinet, worried that they might have tracking marks on them. The incident from last time was still fresh in Ye Feng’s memory, and he didn’t want to make the same mistake twice.
As for Master’s top-grade spiritual weapon armor and supreme-grade spiritual weapon, Ye Feng didn’t pay them much attention. He reached out to take the armor, intending to recycle it to gain some domain value, but unexpectedly, after saying the word “recycle,” a dialog box appeared in front of him.
“Please select the item to recycle!”
“A. Recycle top-grade spiritual weapon armor!”
“B. Recycle the corpse!”
“C. Recycle the corpse and all items at the scene!”
“Even the corpse can be recycled?” Ye Feng really hadn’t expected the recycling function to have such an effect.
“I choose to recycle everything!” Ye Feng answered without hesitation.
As soon as he finished speaking, the corpse, the armor, and the weapon in his hand disappeared, even the blood on the ground vanished, as if it had never existed.
“Recycling the dead corpse yielded 321,937 domain value points!”
“Recycling the top-grade spiritual weapon armor yielded 602,746 domain value points!”
“Recycling the supreme-grade spiritual weapon yielded 8,093,651 domain value points!”
“The domain value from recycling a dead corpse is actually the same as that from soul conversion?” Ye Feng was surprised. “Killing one person earned me over nine million second-tier domain value points. Indeed, killing is still the fastest way to gain domain value!”
Quickly leaving the scene, Ye Feng headed straight for the teleportation array where he had arrived. It was a two-way teleportation array that could take him back to Agri Planet.
In a large hall, an old man and a middle-aged man stared sadly at the extinguished oil lamp.
“His storage ring might have been placed inside another storage ring, so it’s difficult to locate it for now. We also don’t know who killed him! We can only wait for them to reveal the location of their storage ring, then follow the trail to find it,” the middle-aged man said with a furrowed brow.

“Find him!” the white-haired old man cried in grief. “I must avenge my grandson with my own hands!!!”