Chapter 120 Really?
Yan Cheng looked at Master Ling Yi in horror, immediately dismissing his own unrealistic thought; it was impossible. If he wanted to end his own life, he certainly wouldn’t have chosen such an extremely brutal and painful method.
Master Ling Yi crouched down with a serious expression, turned over the corpse’s palm, and the finger bones, thin as chicken claws, clenched tightly together, with bits of stone still embedded under the blackened fingernails.
"Mage, who killed him?" Yan Cheng, despite not wanting to admit whether or not he was a person, remembered Master Ling Yi had said that these were all people.
"Himself," Master Ling Yi said, letting go of the hand with a hint of regret as he gazed at the body on the ground. He felt compassion for all beings; had these people met his master a step earlier and received his enlightening teachings, perhaps they could have become a mage of Qiandao Temple. Or, as they aged, these unique abilities might have gradually disappeared, and they could have lived peacefully as ordinary people.
Yan Cheng was shocked and couldn’t accept Master Ling Yi’s words.
"Mage, how could that be?"
"Perhaps the spell was too overbearing, making his life worse than death, with suffering surely greater than smashing himself to death with a rock. Or, perhaps, he encountered a more powerful spell than his own, which led to this," Master Ling Yi said slowly, directing the Imperial Forest Guard to take away the corpse.
Regardless of whether it was alive or dead, the mission was completed at last, and he could return.
Seeing this, Yan Cheng went back to Chenhe Hall first to report to Zheng Haoyuan that the monster was dead and immediately returned to his own territory. He had been pondering this matter in his heart for two days; the Loyal Warriors of the Wen Family needed a significant increase in strength. Picking up the many things he had abandoned before, and no longer following the Second Prince’s practices, they had to strive to become true Hidden Guards, not mere dogs, errand-runners, and accomplices.
Upon receiving the news, the first thing Zheng Haoyuan thought of was to tell Zheng Nianru; that monster had scared him so much, and naturally, his cousin would be afraid too. So, he wanted to reassure her immediately.
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