I Can Devour Spirits

Yang Yi’s expression was becoming increasingly impatient.

”Get lost, all of you!”

Upon hearing this, everyone immediately scattered, standing aside.

Yang Yi walked up to the stone bed with a grim face, suddenly gathered his energy, and struck one corner of the stone bed with his palm.

With a loud bang, Yang Yi smashed the corner of the stone bed, causing it to collapse.

It turned out the stone bed was hollow inside, dark and eerie.

Yang Yi knew that so many of his subordinates had been searching for a long time without finding the mechanism, indicating its hidden nature. He feared continued searching would be futile and was better off breaking it open directly.

To avoid damaging the contents inside, he deliberately struck the corner of the stone bed with his palm.

Yang Yi’s eyes moved, and he struck again, smashing one side of the stone bed from the inside, with the broken pieces falling to the ground.

Seeing that the secret compartment was open, Yang Yi looked at one person and said, ”Go see what’s inside the compartment.”

”Yes!” a dark-skinned young man responded, then went towards the stone bed.

The dark-skinned young man, holding a candle, crawled inside the hollow stone bed and after searching for a while, only emerged with a stack of books.

Yang Yi’s eyelid twitched. ”Is it just these few books?”

”Yes, Chief Yang. It’s empty inside, just these few books.”

Yang Yi’s eyes moved, grabbed the candle from the dark-skinned youth, and crawled inside the stone bed himself.

Yang Yi scanned the place, finding it indeed empty, before coming out and roughly flipping through these books.

Upon seeing the last few books, which were related to the Filthy Blood Sect and the Filthy Blood Divine Skill, Yang Yi’s face changed drastically.

”I knew that bastard was up to something!”

”To secretly hide books of the Filthy Blood Sect within the sect, and they are all early out-of-print copies! Shang Xiangyu, what exactly are you up to?”

Duan Rong was cultivating in the dark cave when suddenly chaotic footsteps echoed inside.

Duan Rong opened his eyes on the stone bed, seeing Yang Yi already standing in front of him, followed by two others holding torches.

The torchlight illuminated the originally dark cave, turning it red.

Yang Yi said, ”Young friend Duan, I know you’ve only recently joined the sect; I didn’t want to involve you in this case. However, the case is becoming more and more widespread. I must ask you to come with me to the Judgement and Rectification Department.”

Duan Rong’s eyelid twitched slightly.

He saw one of the people behind Yang Yi carrying a stack of books, and just by looking at the side of that stack, he knew those were the books from Shang Xiangyu’s secret compartment.

So Yang Yi’s mention of the case’s expanding scope clearly refers to the Filthy Blood Sect.

Duan Rong was somewhat unprepared for the rapid progression of events.

Currently, Shang Xiangyu’s matter has not been exposed yet. He is still an Inner Sect Disciple and also a Pharmacist, only he went out for half a year.

Though Duan Rong already knew he would not come back, Yang Yi didn’t know that.

How could this person be so bold?!

The current case was just Pan Yong stealing precious medicines from the sect. Duan Rong originally thought Yang Yi was here merely to investigate Pan Yong.

And Pan Yong had already fled from the mountain, hiding outside, naturally leading various government offices to issue Sea Arrest Documents to capture him.

But Yang Yi acted like a mad dog,

turning the mountain inside out!

Was he not afraid of Shang Xiangyu returning and inconveniencing him?

He even unearthed Shang Xiangyu’s secret compartment and carried those books out.

Since Shang Xiangyu is both an Inner Sect Disciple and a Pharmacist, even if he has a secret compartment in his stone chamber, it remains private, unless he commits a crime. Why investigate him?

And now, Shang Xiangyu left the sect just over ten days ago.

Yang Yi actually directly raided his stone chamber’s secret compartment.

What a mad dog he is!

Duan Rong glanced at Yang Yi, got off the stone bed, and followed the two behind Yang Yi out of the cave.

Yang Yi’s mad dog behavior clearly disrupted Duan Rong’s plans.

Yang Yi stood with a torch at the entrance of Duan Rong’s cave, glanced back inside before he previously checked Duan Rong’s cave thoroughly.

Only because he found no suspicions did he treat Duan Rong cordially before.

Yang Yi and his group led Duan Rong over to the ropeway area.

Beside Duan Rong, a black iron cabinet from Shang Xiangyu’s stone chamber appeared, tightly chained, carried by two people walking alongside Duan Rong.

Duan Rong originally thought Pan Yong’s case wouldn’t focus on the mountain gate, but in the mortal world’s various government offices.

After all, Pan Yong went to the Lower Courtyard for a permission slip from Old Qin, and then disappeared from the mountain gate.

Logically, wouldn’t it be to have various government offices capture him?

If so, he could continue as Medicine Boy, guarding the gate for Shang Xiangyu. Even if Shang Xiangyu was not in the mountain, his influence should remain.

After half a year, when the sect reacted and found Shang Xiangyu missing, it would already be too late to trace.

By then, guarding the mountain alone for half a year would prove he was ignorant of Shang Xiangyu’s betrayal and didn’t know of it.

But now, Yang Yi exposed the matter prematurely.

Isn’t this creating trouble for him?!

As Duan Rong walked, he cursed Yang Yi’s ancestors profusely in his heart.

The Judgement Sect Department was set on a mountain head not far from the Elder Hall.