Longevity through Upgrading Buildings

Chapter 955: Chapter 366: Breakthrough, Mid-stage Core Formation!

On the third day.

Ji Yuan himself felt he couldn’t steal any more.

He worried that if he continued, the deficit would be too great. Even the Account Balancing Saint wouldn’t be able to balance it, and if it led to the Bone Nightmare Old Demon investigating personally, there would be trouble.

So, he came out of the mine early and chatted idly with the Demon General and Purgatory Old Demon.

It wasn’t until noon that day that Ma Gui hurriedly flew out from the depths of the mine.

He initially thought he could catch Ji Yuan off guard, but unexpectedly, Ji Yuan was already waiting at the entrance.

This made Ma Gui feel a bit awkward.

Fortunately, he had the ability to act as if nothing happened; pretending as if nothing was wrong, he stationed the Demon General and Purgatory Old Demon there while sealing the entire mine before returning with Ji Yuan to report.

They said nothing along the way.

After returning to Nightmare Island and reporting with Ma Gui, Ji Yuan was granted a five-year leave.

The Bone Nightmare Old Demon intended not to assign him any tasks during these five years, allowing him to cultivate in peace and enhance his cultivation quickly.

The Fire Spirit Ghost Mother was even more direct.

"Go back and wait for my news. Soon, I will give you a treasure that can enhance your cultivation, directly advancing you to mid-stage Core Formation."

Ji Yuan didn’t feel much about it, but Ma Gui, standing beside him, suddenly raised his head.

"What?!"

He thought his master and mistress treated Ji Yuan well, but he didn’t expect it would be this good!

Shortly after this moment of jealousy, Ma Gui realized something... something wasn’t right, something dreadfully wrong!

Given the nature of the two old demons, how could they be so selflessly kind to someone?

A little kindness could be understood, but this was too much; far too much!

Even for a true disciple, they wouldn’t be this good to him.

Not to mention that as the old demon’s true disciple, I, Ma Gui, know him all too well!

The two... they must have some other motives.

There must be something on Hu Beizhi’s body that they covet.

Ma Gui’s expression was calm, but in his heart, he started to understand.

"I watch Hu Beizhi as if seeing a celestial being, but now... I fear he’s a dead man!"

"If this is Hu Beizhi’s fate, then what about me, Ma Gui?"

Suppressing the terror in his heart, Ma Gui obediently followed behind Ji Yuan and left the place.

It was not until he returned to Bone Nightmare Island that he became somewhat distraught. While he had previously felt only a little jealous and upset toward the Bone Nightmare Old Demon, now it was fear and deep terror.

A cunning rabbit dies, a running dog is cooked!

The idea of ’lip gone, teeth cold’ was not lost on Ma Gui, who even considered whether to flee before the control grew deeper, for what should he do when Hu Beizhi inevitably disappeared?

Just thinking about it made him restless.

But just at that moment, a soft breeze brushed past, and as he looked up, he found another person in front of him.

"Master..."

Ma Gui was frightened and quickly stood up... Could it be that this old demon was about to act against me right now? He couldn’t wait even this little while?!

"Sit, sit down and talk."

The Bone Nightmare Old Demon soothed him with a few gestures, then paced back and forth in the hall with a smile.

"I saw you leaving with a heavy heart, perhaps there is some trouble? If so, just tell your master." The Bone Nightmare Old Demon asked cheerfully.

"No, how could your disciple have any worries?"

Ma Gui lowered his head, resembling a childlike figure.

"All right, we’ve been master and apprentice for nearly a hundred years, so I won’t waste words with you." The Bone Nightmare Old Demon lowered his voice, prompting Ma Gui to step forward respectfully.

"That Hu Beizhi is a consumable for my Bone Nightmare Sect, but you, Ma Gui, are different. You are the talent of my sect, the one to succeed me."

"So... don’t worry about what you shouldn’t worry about, don’t think about what you shouldn’t think about, and don’t say what shouldn’t be said, understand?"

"Understood!"

Ma Gui nodded vigorously.

But after waiting for a moment with no further comment, he tentatively raised his head to find that the Bone Nightmare Old Demon... the master’s figure had long disappeared.

He still replayed the conversation in his mind, and the more he thought, the more agitated he became.

"What does ’consumable’ mean, what does ’talent’ mean, and succeeding master’s position... that’s not my interpretation; it’s what master said himself."

"Sure enough, Hu Beizhi was brought in just to be a consumable. Why compete with him? Why compete with a dead man?"

"And that demon slave, now seemingly reliant on Hu Beizhi, but when something happens to him, what will she do then? Who will protect her then?"

Thinking of this, Ma Gui’s throat emitted an excited laugh.

"Hehehe."

But after this brief excitement, he calmed down again... What if master were deceiving even me?

With his nature, doing this would be all too normal.

"..."

Great Dream Island.

Ji Yuan sat by the stone table, his face rather unsightly.

"These two old thieves disdain my cultivation for being too low. They want to enhance my cultivation quickly; this seems good on the surface, but it actually means they can’t wait..."

"Do they want to devour me soon? Refine the Yin Corpse Demon Fire inside me?"

Ji Yuan immersed his focus into his Dantian, where the previously egg-sized Demon Fire now burned, already as large as a fist.

Its power could be described as several times stronger.

Then he looked to the side at the sword... formation!