Mutou Masao, seeing the bloody hand that grabbed his ankle, felt a surge of panic and quickly called out to Ye Ling, "Emperor!"
"What are you panicking about?"
Ye Ling shot Mutou Masao an exasperated glance, shattered the bloody hand emerging from the ground, and simultaneously destroyed the altar in the room.
As the altar was destroyed, the candles in the four corners of the room extinguished, and a large number of vengeful spirits rushed out of the room, their mournful screams echoing within, making Mutou Masao's eardrums ache.
"It... it hurts so much!"
Mutou Masao clutched his ears in pain, his eyes tightly shut, wishing for the events unfolding to pass as quickly as possible. The vengeful spirits dancing wildly in the room could easily tear him to shreds!
Ye Ling stood in the center of the room, surrounded by swirling vengeful spirits. A resentful aggregate formed in the air, crying out to Ye Ling, "Why? Why are you helping those hypocritical gods? Why are you doing this to us?"
"Why don't you die?"
The resentment screamed at Ye Ling, and a large number of vengeful spirits flew out of the whirlwind, lunging at Ye Ling. However, before the vengeful spirits could get close to Ye Ling, they were purified by Ye Ling's spiritual energy and dissipated on the spot.
Ye Ling could have directly annihilated the vengeful spirits, but he held back, expending some effort to secretly send them to the corners of the room. In the corners of the room, unseen by the resentment and Mutou Masao, Black and White Impermanence were working overtime for Ye Ling, collecting the vengeful spirits.
In reality, all the vengeful spirits here should have entered the underworld of Yang Country. However, Ye Ling did not know the ruler of Yang Country's underworld, so he crossed borders to find Black and White Impermanence from the Underworld. Ye Ling had specifically opened an international passage to supercede the vengeful spirits here, allowing Black and White Impermanence to escort them to the underworld for reincarnation in Hua Country.
At this moment, Black and White Impermanence were constantly collecting the souls transmitted by Ye Ling. Although they grumbled in their hearts, they worked with smiles on their faces. They had finally finished dealing with a pile of troublesome matters at Buzhou Mountain, and there were still many souls waiting to be harvested in Hua Country. Now, Ye Ling had pulled them into Yang Country to work overtime... Although they were deities, they were resistant to overtime.
Unfortunately, Ye Ling was even more ruthless than their boss, and Black and White Impermanence dared not refuse Ye Ling's requests. Thus, Black and White Impermanence helped escort the vengeful spirits. On the surface, it appeared that the vengeful spirits filling the room were gradually decreasing, and the power of the resentful aggregate was weakening.
Finally, the resentful aggregate realized that Ye Ling was truly superceding the vengeful spirits, its expression becoming even more distorted as it screamed, "You dog of the gods, I will never forgive you!" The resentful aggregate roared, gathering the remaining vengeful spirits to form a physical entity, preventing Ye Ling from superceding them.
Seeing the resentful aggregate collecting the remaining vengeful spirits, White Impermanence quickly said to Ye Ling, "Emperor, that resentment has gathered the remaining vengeful spirits, and we cannot collect them. You had better hurry!"
Black Impermanence also said, "Emperor! White Impermanence is right. We are here illegally, snatching business from Takamagahara. If we are discovered, the Heavenly Court will never spare us!"
Ye Ling glanced at Black and White Impermanence and said exasperatedly, "I know. Wait another minute, and I'll package those vengeful spirits for you. When you take them back, remember to give them a good reincarnation."
Black and White Impermanence said in unison, "Understood, Emperor. Please hurry!"
After being urged by Black and White Impermanence, Ye Ling did not delay further. He looked at the resentful aggregate that had condensed into a physical form and instantly appeared before it!
Seeing Ye Ling charging forward, the resentful aggregate's expression twisted, and its hands transformed into claws, reaching out to Ye Ling.
Ye Ling said, "I'm sorry, you're going to hurt for a while." With that, Ye Ling grabbed the resentful aggregate's head, and demonic energy surged into its body. A large number of vengeful spirits were purified at a visible speed!
"Ahhhhhhh!"
The resentful aggregate let out a mournful roar as a large number of vengeful spirits were stripped away by Ye Ling. The resentful aggregate could feel its power constantly decreasing and pleaded, "No... don't... please... I want revenge..." Realizing that it was utterly incapable of stopping Ye Ling's power, the resentful aggregate stopped struggling and turned to beg Ye Ling.
Ye Ling calmly watched the resentful aggregate begin to cry, his state of mind undisturbed. He continued to strip the vengeful spirits from the resentful aggregate. Although Ye Ling did not believe that the resentful aggregate's desire for revenge was wrong, if these vengeful spirits continued to gather, even without the intervention of the gods of Takamagahara, as soon as the gods of other divine realms in the immortal world discovered the existence of this resentful aggregate, both it and all the vengeful spirits would be annihilated! This resentful aggregate had devoured many lives, but its current strength was only at the peak of the Mortal Immortal realm, not even reaching the Heavenly Palace realm. It was far from being able to deal with Izanagi, and even Black and White Impermanence could easily subdue it! Its revenge was a futile fantasy.
Soon, Ye Ling had stripped all the vengeful spirits from the resentful aggregate and packaged them for Black and White Impermanence. Upon receiving all the vengeful spirits, Black and White Impermanence acted like thieves, quickly stuffing the vengeful spirits into the passage opened by Ye Ling, allowing them to illegally cross into the underworld to avoid being discovered by the high gods of Takamagahara. Black and White Impermanence were merely minor deities in the Heavenly Court. Although they were part of the system, their status was not high. If they caused a conflict between the Heavenly Court and Takamagahara, they would surely be sacrificed to the heavens by the Jade Emperor!
After settling all the vengeful spirits, Black and White Impermanence bid farewell to Ye Ling, saying, "Emperor, we're taking our leave. Let's meet again sometime!"
Ye Ling grabbed the resentful aggregate with one hand and smiled at Black and White Impermanence, saying, "I owe you a favor this time. If you need anything in the future, just ask me." Hearing Ye Ling's words, Black and White Impermanence immediately shook off their overtime fatigue and excitedly said to Ye Ling, "Thank you for your kindness, Emperor. Goodbye, Emperor!" With that, Black and White Impermanence quickly departed, and the spatial passage opened by Ye Ling dissipated.
As Black and White Impermanence left with the large number of vengeful spirits, the corrupted room returned to normal, with only a ball of red resentment writhing in Ye Ling's palm. Mutou Masao, seeing Ye Ling suppress the terrifying resentful aggregate and even purify the myriad vengeful spirits by merely talking to himself in the room, was completely dumbfounded. Emperor... Who was he talking to just now? Mutou Masao was somewhat confused, but he did not dare to ask Ye Ling, so he suppressed his doubts and focused his attention on the ball of resentment in Ye Ling's hand.
Mutou Masao stepped forward and said incredulously, "This ball of red light is the resentment that corrupted half the spiritual realm?"
Ye Ling looked at the writhing resentful aggregate in his hand and nodded, "Sort of. But I've stripped the resentment from those vengeful spirits. To be precise, this ball of resentment is only half the master of this building."
Mutou Masao asked again, "Then should we eliminate it?"
Ye Ling shook his head, "No... I've changed my mind."
Mutou Masao was stunned. The resentful aggregate was full of negative emotions; what was the use of keeping it? Under Mutou Masao's bewildered gaze, Ye Ling released the ball of resentment, and demonic energy flowed from his palm, coiling around the resentment. Ye Ling looked at the resentful aggregate enveloped by demonic energy and said faintly, "I want it to..."
"Revenge for itself."