Chapter 190 - 180: From the Sealed Kiln One Supreme Shall Emerge
His head was dropped to the side as if he had lost consciousness. When Xie Lian saw it was Lang Ying, he subconsciously moved to save him but quickly stopped in his step, his mind coming around: There was clearly no one else but White No-Face here earlier, so why would
Lang Ying suddenly appear?
Seeing that the pure and holy statue of the God-Pleasing Crown Prince was corrupted by dripping blood, Hua Cheng was obviously enraged, his expression radiating dark fury, and the scimitar E-Ming exuded a chilling aura. "Get the hell down." He said.
As expected, "Lang Ying's" drooping head righted itself, blinking open his eyes, and slowly "pulled" himself down from the sword, dropping to the ground.
Earlier, when White No-Face blew up that wave of silver butterflies that surrounded to attack him, he used that moment of blinding silver light to hide himself under the white veil of this divine statue and transformed into the appearance of Lang Ying. Since he could disguise himself as Lang Ying, it meant he must've seen Lang Ying before somewhere.
"Where's the real Lang Ying?" Xie Lian demanded.
"Your Highness, maybe there was never a 'real Lan Ying'." Hua Cheng said.
If, since the beginning, 'Lang Ying' had never existed, and it was only White No-Face in his unrecovered form, then everything could be easy to explain. But, when Xie Lian remembered the little girl Xiao Ying who died on Mount Yu Jun, he would rather this explanation be illogical. He then swiftly thought of another possibility and said slowly, "Or perhaps... he devoured Lang Ying."
Hearing this, the "Lang Ying" before them started growing taller, his body pulling upwards, the bandages on his face unwrapping and shedding, revealing that mask inside, and he slightly lifted his head, seeming to be smiling, "You guessed right."
So that was indeed it.
White No-Face was certainly pulverized and dispersed by Jun Wu. However, he clung on and left a wisp of a broken soul drifting in the mortal realm. Who knows how long he drifted, who knows when it happened, but he found Lang Ying who possessed the same ghost body. He must've used some way to seduce or deceive Lang Ying into making Lang Ying agree to hosting him on his own body, otherwise, by his remaining weak soul, he might not have had the ability to devour Lang Ying. He stayed glued on Lang Ying's body and slowly recovered, and the end result was what was before Xie Lian and Hua Cheng now, ghost devouring ghost, White No-Face ate his host Lang Ying. Just as how He Xuan devoured the Reverend of Empty Words, Lang Ying ironically became his slave.