The Ascension of Contracted Spirits

Chapter 1048 - 408: Hai Xiong Clan_2

"Big Tadpole, should we check it out? Since we’re here, it wouldn’t feel right to return empty-handed!"

The implication of GuaGua’s words was that although they needed to bring Lan Qixiong back to the West Sea and then head to Mechanic God Mountain with Xiahou.

But having stumbled upon this place, not to wander around felt tantalizingly uncomfortable.

"Why do I sense Ye Yin’s life fluctuations?"

Ye Hanjun suddenly frowned, his face doubtful.

He carefully sensed and then confirmed that the vague threads of fate, which had become somewhat clearer since leaving the Solar Abyss.

These threads connected priests, Su Mei, Li Jingming, Wang Xinfei... The seven disciples seemed very distant.

Yu Ruoxin was even further, so much so that her thread appeared blurred, as if blocked by something, severely affecting Ye Hanjun’s judgment.

But Ye Yin suddenly became clear, the distance between them seemed to be within the scope of the Cloud Sea, otherwise, there wouldn’t be such a strange feeling surging.

"Elder Ye Yin?"

GuaGua tilted his head, quickly corrected himself:

"No, we can’t call him an elder anymore!"

"He has reverted to his young self and is quite handsome!"

"What if I call him ’Cockroach Leader’? If that doesn’t sound good, how about ’Lucky One’?"

"Cockroach Leader..."

Ye Liuying squinted, finding it amusing, yet feeling the nickname was quite apt.

Ye Yin’s Contracted Spirit was the "Undying Cockroach," famously known as "Indestructible Da Qiang," adept at breeding, capable of multiplying wherever it went.

Back on the isolated island on the 15th layer of Shura’s Tomb, he was forced to leave a large number behind, unable to take them all.

This kind of pervasive spawning, dubbed as "Cockroach Leader," really wasn’t up for debate.

"It’s been a long time since we’ve heard from him."

"Ye Hanjun, let’s go and find him, see what he has been up to these years."

"Before you returned, he was always secretive, always tinkering on his own."

"In the blink of an eye, more than 1000 years have passed in the Second Epoch of the New Era, he must have changed a lot."

"I think so too."

Ye Hanjun chuckled softly, shifting the topic:

"But don’t forget, we’re all in the Cloud Sea, no layered spatial barriers."

"With my current rank, I can directly summon him here."

"Oh, right, you still have that door."

Ye Liuying, realizing belatedly, looked slightly moved.

"There are no living beings nearby, feel free to cast your spell."

Though Lie Xinxin was unclear about what exactly Ye Hanjun intended to do, as the Holy Beast King, she naturally took on the role of protector.

Ye Hanjun nodded, his mind stirred, and a towering gray stone door emerged from nothingness, its outline sketched.

"Holy War Gate, open!"

Bright starlight flashed for a moment, then archaic gray mist swirled around.

The stone door opened, and on the other side, a black-robed youth sat cross-legged, eyebrows raised, his expression stirred.

He seemed to be engulfed by darkness, the airtight Dark Element wrapping around him.

But when those "darkness" began to wriggle, Ye Liuying suddenly realized that the darkness was composed of insects—countless human-faced cockroaches, undying cockroaches, swarming around Ye Yin as if he were the emperor of the cockroaches, leading all by example.

"Eek!"

Lieyang Mushoucong shuddered, it had once been gnawed on by a holy-ranked insect and had nearly perished.

An overwhelming army of cockroaches, not only intimidating by numbers but also exuding an aura so terrifying it threatened its life.

"Surely not, has this lad ascended to sainthood?"

"Not even Godslayer Asura ascended this quickly, how did he do it, just picking up treasures along the way?"

Lieyang Mushoucong strongly questioned, unable to believe its own judgment.

"Whoosh~~"

Ye Yin stood up, and the swarming cockroaches climbed on his arms and legs before quietly returning to the ground.

He slowly passed through the stone gate, his true body arriving on this side, his calm face suddenly stirred with three parts lament, seven parts of regret, and ninety parts of melancholy:

"Long time no see, how have you all been over these years?"

"Generally unscathed, how about you?"

Ye Hanjun stepped forward and lightly embraced Ye Yin, then looked him up and down with a surprised expression:

"8th Rank?"

"Yes."

Ye Yin grinned and sighed:

"Becoming a saint isn’t so easy. What you just sensed was the aura of the Guardian Saint Spirit beside me."

"Nice, you have a Guardian Saint Spirit now, quite the progress!"

Lieyang Mushoucong stretched its neck, trying to peek through the doorway, but that door gradually faded into nothingness as Ye Yin crossed through.

Certainly, those behind the door weren’t Contracted Fond Spirits; they don’t meet the transportation conditions of the Holy War Gate and couldn’t space-jump along with Ye Yin.

"You’ve arrived just in time, I’ve encountered a very thorny issue and need your help."

Ye Yin also gently embraced Ye Liuying, their faint blood kinship flowing invisibly between them.

Then, his expression became serious immediately as he got straight to the point:

"Ye Mochou has been captured, his life and death unknown; we must go rescue him."

"What?!"

Lieyang Mushoucong suddenly jumped, its eyes widening immensely:

"Ye Mochou? That Sealing Emperor?"

"When he was sent away, he also had Saint Spirits protecting him."

"Who dares to capture him? And how could he easily fall into enemy hands?"

"Is this... a mutated Mu Shoucong?"

Ye Yin stared at Lieyang Mushoucong for a moment, barely recognizing its identity, and shook his head:

"Indeed, Saint Spirits accompanied Ye Mochou."

"Over centuries of development, he has also established his own power, with forces not to be underestimated."