Realm of the Night God

Yang Haoran came into contact with Feng Yaoshi for the first time today. He had never seen this person before, and his understanding of Feng Yaoshi only came from Ma Yuanjin's account.

From Ma Yuanjin, he learned that Feng Yaoshi had a very eccentric personality and was difficult to get along with. Other than that, he didn't have much more information.

However, in the short time they interacted today, he found that the information he got from Ma Yuanjin was too one-sided. Feng Yaoshi was not only eccentric and difficult to get along with, but also decisive and ruthless.

The scene before him was a clear example.

Exorcist Elder threatened Feng Yaoshi's life, thinking he could intimidate him into submission.

But Feng Yaoshi didn't compromise in the slightest. He even snapped Exorcist Elder's neck without hesitation, displaying a ruthlessness and decisiveness that not everyone possessed.

Yang Haoran observed this scene silently. Although he didn't speak and wore a smile on his face, he became more wary of Feng Yaoshi's ruthlessness in his heart.

He had to be cautious of such a ruthless character to avoid unimaginable harm. Someone who could disregard their own life like this, coupled with an eccentric personality, might do something unexpected.

Although Yang Haoran helped him at the moment, he wouldn't naively believe that Feng Yaoshi would be grateful and reward him satisfactorily. There were precedents, so he had to be careful.

Exorcist Elder's eyes widened, his expression frozen with disbelief, fear, and unwillingness, a complex mixture.

Affected by severe poison, boils started to form on his skin, his clothes emitted smoke, and pieces of flesh fell off.

"I will give you what you want, and you won't have come here in vain. But before that, could you help extinguish the fire here?" Feng Yaoshi spoke faintly, his voice tinged with weakness. However, compared to before, there was less coldness in his voice now.

The entire valley was engulfed in flames. The fire was caused by the exorcist who was killed by Yang Haoran earlier. Although Feng Yaoshi had used lake water to deal with the black talisman master before, it only extinguished the fire caused by him, and the overall fire in the valley remained unaffected.

If left unchecked, the fire would not only consume the entire valley but also turn nearby mountains into a sea of flames.

"Heh, no problem." Yang Haoran smiled and readily agreed to Feng Yaoshi's request. After speaking, he flashed and appeared above the valley.

Yang Haoran didn't have talismans to control the fire, nor did he understand such techniques. Putting out the fire here was a bit troublesome for him.

If he chose to use brute force, mobilizing the Yin spirit power within him to forcibly extinguish the fire, it would work, but it would consume a considerable amount of his Yin spirit power.

He didn't trust Feng Yaoshi. He didn't know what Feng Yaoshi would do next—whether he would fulfill his promise or have other tricks up his sleeve. So, before that, he didn't want to expend too much of his Yin spirit power.

Although he still had plenty of soul pills on hand, even if his Yin spirit power was heavily depleted, he could replenish it quickly. However, not wanting to exhaust his Yin spirit power excessively was a combat habit of his, separate from whether he had soul pills or not.

Having soul pills didn't matter. But if he didn't have any on him and had developed a habit of wasting his strength like this, it would be detrimental with no benefits.

Not wanting to consume too much Yin spirit power while achieving the goal of extinguishing the fire, Yang Haoran thought of a solution.

He mobilized his Yin spirit power and condensed four black light walls around the valley. With these black light walls in place, the fire in the valley wouldn't spread further. Once all the flammable materials in the valley burned out, the fire would naturally extinguish itself.

The black light walls he condensed with Yin spirit power had no offensive capabilities but strong defensive capabilities. The fire in the valley couldn't burn through them, a fact Yang Haoran was confident about.

After completing all of this, Yang Haoran approached the body of the exorcist he had first slain. Looking at the body split in half, he decisively condensed the soul within the corpse into a spirit and forcibly removed it from the body. Throughout the process, he wore a smile, and his movements were so proficient that they were almost chilling.

He tossed the soul into a soul gathering bead. For individuals he had slain like this, he didn't intend to send their souls to the underworld to avoid trouble for himself. So, he stored them separately to use for making soul pills later.

After collecting the soul, Yang Haoran threw two fire talismans, igniting the two severed limbs. Then, he went to where the black talisman master's bones had fallen and extracted his soul from the scattered bones.

In cases like the black talisman master's, where the body no longer had flesh and blood, the soul must have been hiding within the bones. If it hadn't been influenced by external factors, it would naturally reassemble itself after seven days.

If the body was cremated, turning into a pile of ashes, the soul would hide within that pile. If it was so tragic that even the ashes were not left behind, the soul would hide in the area where the physical body turned to ashes.

For an Underworld Envoy like Yang Haoran, as long as the deceased's soul wasn't scattered, it didn't matter whether the deceased had a body or not; condensing and extracting the hidden soul into a spirit was all the same.

After collecting the black talisman master's soul, Yang Haoran also collected the soul of the black talisman master's girlfriend into the soul gathering bead. Finally, he returned to Feng Yaoshi.

Under Feng Yaoshi's gaze, he forcibly extracted the soul of Exorcist Elder, who had just turned into a pile of bones, and found the mystical artifact of this person not far from the body. Then, he casually stored the mystical artifact in an independent space.

From Yang Haoran's intervention to prevent the spread of the fire to collecting Exorcist Elder's mystical artifact, it may sound lengthy, but it actually took just a few minutes. After completing all this, he looked at Feng Yaoshi.

After resting for a few minutes, Feng Yaoshi's body not only didn't recover but became even weaker. A few minutes ago, when Yang Haoran left, he was still standing, but when Yang Haoran returned a few minutes later, he was already sitting in the mud.

"I don't know effective fire extinguishing methods, so I can only isolate the fire and prevent it from spreading further. I don't know if Feng Yaoshi is satisfied with this approach. If not, I can only use brute force to put out the fire."

With a smile on his face, Yang Haoran looked at Feng Yaoshi and spoke. Although his body seemed to be standing on the ground, in reality, his feet were not touching the ground, maintaining a distance of ten centimeters from the ground.

He could have floated higher, but it would seem impolite. However, if he stood directly on the ground, it would be muddy below, and there was poisonous black water. So, he chose to suspend his body at this height—not impolite and not sinking into the mud.

"You've already done all this, so why bother asking me if I'm satisfied or not? As long as the fire doesn't continue to spread, it's fine if this valley burns."

Feng Yaoshi said, then struggled to stand up from the mud. This chapter was uploaded by the team at M|VLEMPYR.

"Where do you want to go? Do you need my help?" Yang Haoran asked with a smile.

"No need, I don't need to rely on anyone's support to move. Follow me, and I'll take you somewhere where I can give you what you want."

As Feng Yaoshi spoke, he walked forward, and Yang Haoran watched his back. Although he still wore a smile on his face, he became a bit more cautious in his heart.

"What tricks does this old guy want to play with me?"

Yang Haoran thought to himself, hesitated slightly, and then followed behind Feng Yaoshi with his doubts and vigilance.