"What is that?"
Zhang Daoyuan saw the figures in black pull a pile of corpses from the sacks, and his heart surged with infinite rage. He clenched his whisk tightly, veins bulging on the back of his hand!
Zhang Daoyuan was furious to the extreme.
"Calm down."
Ye Ling’s voice suppressed Zhang Daoyuan, and he simultaneously looked at Lu Shaofeng and the others, wanting to know what they would do next.
"They are all dead, so it's useless for you to be angry here. I brought you along not for you to ruin my plans," Ye Ling said ruthlessly, his eyes showing no sympathy.
For the past sixty thousand years, Ye Ling had seen nothing but mountains of corpses and seas of blood.
He had seen far too many bodies.
If the figures in black had pulled out living people from the sacks, Ye Ling might have intervened, leaving them a sliver of hope.
But now that they were dead, those corpses were merely tools Ye Ling could utilize.
Hearing Ye Ling’s cold words, Zhang Daoyuan quickly calmed down.
Although he believed the dead should be respected and did not agree with Ye Ling’s attitude, it was indeed not the right time to jump out and rage.
Doing so would only alert the enemy without any benefit.
"You guys, hurry up. If that thing gets hungry, we'll all die!"
Lu Shaofeng urged the men in black, then quickly went to the center of the construction site and lifted a steel plate, revealing a pit beneath.
From Ye Ling’s vantage point, he could see a tightly sealed coffin within the pit.
The men in black hurriedly threw the corpses inside, after which Lu Shaofeng quickly covered the pit with the steel plate and then knelt before the pit, beginning to kowtow in worship.
"What does this mean?"
Zhang Daoyuan’s eyes filled with deep confusion as he watched Lu Shaofeng and the others throw the corpses into the pit and cover it with the steel plate.
Even though he had traveled the world and seen countless strange things, he had never witnessed such bizarre behavior.
It wasn't like hiding bodies, nor was it like proper worship. Dumping corpses in a construction site filled with yin energy was truly perplexing.
"There is an evil spirit in that pit. Lu Shaofeng is feeding it."
Ye Ling said, "It seems that the Jiang Corporation bought this land with the sole purpose of nurturing that evil spirit."
Even though the pit was covered by a steel plate, Ye Ling could see through it that an evil spirit was crawling out of the coffin, gnawing on the residual souls of the corpses to strengthen itself.
However, the evil spirit was very weak, even weaker than the one attached to the Phoenix Eye. It could only hide in the pit, waiting for someone to throw "food" into it.
"They are artificially raising an evil spirit?"
Zhang Daoyuan was shocked to hear Ye Ling’s words.
He could never have imagined that in this era, people would still dare to do such a rebellious thing!
Raising evil spirits was something that many heretical cultivators did before the Qing Dynasty. Those individuals used the power of evil spirits to wreak havoc and gain personal benefits.
However, during the period of warlordism in the previous dynasty, the major sects of Yan Hua, in order to prevent those heretics from raising evil spirits during the chaotic times, joined forces with their disciples to purge them throughout Yan Hua, essentially eradicating all those who raised evil spirits.
All texts related to raising evil spirits were burned to ashes at Maoshan.
Zhang Daoyuan had traveled throughout China for decades and had never encountered anyone raising an evil spirit!
Ye Ling said in a low voice, "The principle of raising evil spirits is largely the same, but is what the Jiang family is doing just child's play?"
Raising evil spirits was also common among ghost cultivators in the Eastern Xuan Continent.
Ye Ling had once encountered a ghost cultivator who sacrificed the lives of hundreds of millions of people in a hundred large cities within a radius of ten thousand miles, using their souls to nurture his Heavenly Yin Evil Soul.
After the Heavenly Yin Evil Soul reached its peak, the ghost cultivator became invincible, rampaging everywhere and causing countless human tragedies.
Countless sects and nations were destroyed by the ghost cultivator's hand.
At that time, Ye Ling had not yet ascended to the peak of power. To deal with the ghost cultivator, he used three ancient killing formations, designed a trap to kill the ghost cultivator, and then battled the enraged Heavenly Yin Evil Soul for three days and three nights before barely achieving victory.
After that battle, Ye Ling recuperated for a full three years before recovering.
Compared to that Heavenly Yin Evil Soul, Lu Shaofeng's crude method of throwing a few corpses to feed an evil spirit would not even come close to the power of the Heavenly Yin Evil Soul, even after a hundred million years.
Ye Ling scanned the entire construction site with his spiritual power and found that in addition to the evil spirit Lu Shaofeng was currently feeding, there were three other dormant evil spirits.
Apart from that, there were no other secrets in this construction site.
"This matter is of great importance. I must immediately notify my sect and have my fellow disciples come here to deal with it."
"This Jiang family is a great disaster to the martial world and must be eradicated!"
Zhang Daoyuan said in a low voice, immediately taking out a talisman and preparing to use it to contact his sect, but he was stopped by Ye Ling.
Ye Ling snatched the talisman from Zhang Daoyuan’s hand and said lightly, "This Jiang family is my prey. Do not interfere."
Seeing that Ye Ling did not want him to send a message, Zhang Daoyuan had no choice but to give up, planning to find a way after they left.
Zhang Daoyuan knew that by staying by Ye Ling's side, he could not do anything that Ye Ling did not permit.
"What are you going to do?"
Zhang Daoyuan glanced at the setting sun and asked in a low voice.
Once the sun set, the power of evil spirits would greatly increase. Moreover, this construction site was a fierce land, and the evil spirits' power would be further amplified. It would then be difficult to eliminate them.
"These evil spirits are not to be feared. The important thing now is to confirm who instructed Lu Shaofeng to do this," Ye Ling said calmly, showing no intention of acting immediately.
"The Jiang family bought a piece of land specifically to raise a few evil spirits, which indicates that the person or force behind them has the ability to control the entire Jiang Corporation."
"And Jiang Wen Chun, who is about to become the next head of the Jiang family, has no cultivation within him. This shows that the Jiang family is merely an ordinary wealthy family, and it is not the Jiang family members who are manipulating the Jiang Corporation."
"The Jiang family is just a knife."
Zhang Daoyuan said thoughtfully, "You mean, let the line run long to catch a big fish?"
Ye Ling nodded, "Yes… After Lu Shaofeng finishes feeding the evil spirit, he should go back to report. Following him then will allow us to find the person hidden in Beihu."
As he said this, Ye Ling's killing intent intensified.
The force manipulating the Jiang family must be related to the destruction of the Ye family!
Perhaps, he could also find news about Ye You.
As the sun set and the sky darkened, the surrounding temperature began to drop, and the yin energy in the construction site became increasingly dense.
After finishing his worship, Lu Shaofeng's eyes clearly showed fear, and he tremblingly said to the men in black, "Quick, quick, let's go!"
With that, Lu Shaofeng and the others hastily fled the construction site, locked the iron gate, and drove away.
Before Ye Ling could follow, the sun completely set, and the entire construction site became pitch black in an instant!
The surrounding yin energy became exceptionally dense.
The dormant evil spirits that Lu Shaofeng had not fed with corpses suddenly awoke at this moment!
Zhang Daoyuan's hair stood on end, and a chill rushed from the soles of his feet to his forehead.
"Not good!"