Beastmaster of the Ages

Chapter 3325 - Freaking Out

Chapter 3325 - Freaking Out

The monochrome specter was as eerie as could be. Those that understood House Yumo would know that he was an impermanence variant, a peak skyghoul bloodline. [1]

Impermanence variants were even more fearsome than yellowspring variants. Yellowspring variants had great regeneration and vitality, while impermanence variants were much more adept at combat thanks to having two combat units instead of the usual one.

The middle-aged man with an impermanence variant bloodline was the official leader of House Yumo, Eminent Diyan. His mask-like face was menacing, and his entire body was covered in a ghostly mist. He seemed far stronger than the pale Eminent Baigui.

When he appeared, everyone stopped talking and turned to him. The authority he commanded was far above that of Eminent Ranxing in House Suishen. The two houses had very different internal cultures, after all. House Yumo's specters were fiercer and held people who were stronger than them to be absolute authorities, while House Suishen seemed less stringent.

Standing on a podium, Eminent Diyan calmly looked at the people he was addressing. "I’ve summoned all of you to discuss how we may help House Suishen apprehend the top fugitive. He might end up becoming a problem if we let him escape into the outer mundi. We of House Yumo have to take the initiative and wipe him out before he grows to threaten—"

"Move aside!" someone interrupted before Eminent Diyan finished his speech. It was an unrestrained voice that caused the eminents and reverends there to furrow their brows.

"Who dares disrupt on an august occasion like this?!"

"Are they courting death?"

At the same time, they made space for the newcomer. They were quite surprised to see that it was someone rather famous in House Yumo, Yumo Qiangming.

A rowdy, crimson-clad youth pushed the crowd apart as he hurriedly made his way to the front. The bloody aura around him showed that he had consumed a considerable amount of starblood and he had the bloodline of a bloodfiend variant. Having a variant bloodline, he was more talented than many of the eminents and reverends present.

While everyone knew the bloodfiend youth rather well, they didn't understand why he, the first ranker of the Maniverse Ranking, would look so horrified. He was already an eminent before the age of two thousand, yet he looked so distraught.

"Dad! Dad!" Yumo Qiangming scrambled toward Eminent Diyan with a messy expression.

"What’re you freaking out over? Is that how someone like you should be acting?" Eminent Diyan coldly said.

Yumo Qiangming's voice was completely hoarse as he pointed behind him like a fool and breathlessly said, "Look... the Subsoul Hall.... Uncle Baigui and Auntie's subsouls shattered! The other eighteen eminents on the Hellfiend with them are also dead! They're all dead, Dad! All dead!"

The louder and more panicked he got, the clearer he spoke. It was completely unbelievable!

"What?"

"He must be mistaken."

Everyone simply couldn't believe what he said.

Eminent Diyan furrowed his brows. "Come, let us go to the Subsoul Hall together."

The Subsoul Hall was how they kept track of who was still alive. Anything short of the main soul itself scattering into nothingness after true death wouldn’t cause any changes in the subsouls.

"Yu Nu, head to the Myriadpath Celestial Formation right away!" Eminent Diyan ordered as he made his way to the hall.

"Yes!" Yu Nu headed to the formation as quickly as he could.

Eminent Diyan pulled up his distraught son and snapped, "If you're making things up, I’ll kill you, you hear me?!"

Yumo Qiangming said, "Dad, I'm not Yuanni! I wouldn't make something like this up! I know you don't believe me, so just go look!"

The words didn't make Eminent Diyan happy at all. In fact, his heart even skipped a beat. His firm look crumbled and he looked nothing like before. Many reverends and eminents had heard the news and it began spreading through Yumo Cave like the supernova of an exploding star.

Five-hundred-plus elite members of House Yumo nervously flew toward the Subsoul Hall. Right after they entered, Eminent Diyan saw the shattered subsouls and his eyes almost cracked apart.

"Impossible!"

"Eminent Baigui and the rest were refining starblood at a very insignificant mundus! Not even House Qitian and House Suishen knew where they were! How could they end up dead?!"

"There's no way that House Qitian and House Suishen would do that even if they knew! They'd have to mobilize more than fifty eminents to kill them. Eminent Ranxing and Qitian Muyu are still in Myriadpath Valley! They don't even have that many eminents who are away!"

"Something must be wrong. Perhaps their subsouls shattered because they’re just too far away?"

Yumo Qiangming yelled, "It can't be because of the distance! The subsouls of my brother and two more are still there!"

"What?" They turned and saw that Yumo Xue, Yumo Yuanni, and Yumo Lingyue's subsouls hadn't shattered yet.

"They're all on the Hellfiend, yet some of their subsouls have shattered, but not all. What does it mean?"

Everyone understood that it meant they were in danger. Eminent Diyan grabbed Yumo Qiangming by the collar and hissed, "How’d they shatter? One by one? Or all at once?"

Yumo Qiangming tried recalling it. "Dad, they shattered one by one! It started with Auntie's, then stopped for a while. After that, the other subsouls began shattering. Uncle's was the last to shatter—he held on for quite a while!"

The description only horrified them more. Had the subsouls shattered at the same time, they could have simply stumbled into some special secret realm that messed up the subsoul connection. It was rare, but at least it was a ray of hope they could hold on to. But if they shattered one by one, with the subsoul of the strongest shattering at the very end, it could mean that they had been hunted down! But by whom?

"Impossible...." Eminent Diyan bit his lip hard as the others widened their eyes. The relaxed atmosphere from before had completely flipped.

1. Impermanence here is another way literal translation of '??' (wuchang). It's inspired by underworld deities Heibai Wuchang in Chinese folk religion. ?