Reborn as Powerful Minister's Beloved-Chapter 631 - 610: Second Update
"If you want to leave, you can do so now," the young man saw the creature’s movement. To outsiders, although he did not move or speak a word, the boy addressed the creature very decisively through a telepathic bond unique to the two of them.
The creature hesitated, but then spoke weakly the next moment.
"I still want to try. If it really doesn’t work, I shall leave right away and return to my Sword Tree Forest," the creature said. Seeing that the young man made no move, it cautiously took a step forward. Noticing the youth still didn’t react, seemingly convinced by its words, the creature slowly began to approach his direction.
Elder Can sensed something wrong and tugged at Elder Su’s sleeve in secret. What’s going on? Although the creature seemed much weaker and its intimidating aura had dissipated completely, it still stood right in front of them. What was the Young Master trying to do?
Elder Su also noticed the unnerving scene and suddenly had a thought; he immediately glanced at Elder Can.
Could the Young Master be intending to absorb the creature’s abilities?
They knew better than anyone the bizarre and terrifying nature of the Young Master’s spells, capable of absorbing not only the energy of Ghost Shadows but also that of the mages from Qiandao Temple. So, by that logic, couldn’t the creature’s power be absorbed as well?
Elder Can was momentarily taken aback. This idea seemed, perhaps, a possibility.
But the energy of this creature...
Wasn’t it too...
Elder Su immediately gave Elder Can an affirmative look. It had to be it. Think about it, the greatest difference between the Young Master’s traits and the Ravine Master is that the Young Master is like a bottomless pit. Regardless of the type or amount of energy absorbed, he would drain it completely without any risk of backlash. This was truly terrifying.
Upon this realization, Elder Su was filled with excitement. If the Young Master could absorb the abilities of this creature, not only could they resolve the crisis of Ghoul Ravine, but also, the Young Master’s strength would suddenly increase by so much. Their Ghoul Ravine...
Elder Can did not speak nor dare to get excited, feeling that something was off. Moreover, no matter how powerful the Young Master became, he realized they simply couldn’t control a Young Master like him. If he truly became the Ravine Master of Ghoul Ravine one day, they couldn’t always deceive him. The Young Master would eventually grow up, and his scheming would become more profound. But would the Young Master listen to reason?
However, at this moment, it wasn’t up to Elder Can or Elder Su to speculate any longer, as the creature had already slowly walked up to Yin He.
Ju Nanyi, his subordinates, and people like Zheng Nianru could not help but take a step back, as the creature now fully revealed its true form under the light of the fire.
It was something surrounded by black smoke, resembling an ocean squid all over its body, with four long tentacles that obediently "stood" on the ground, exposing only a thick, smooth body, and two fist-sized crimson eyes watching Yin He, utterly motionless, as if controlled.
The young man did not move. His memories of living with the creature allowed him to temporarily lower his guard. In the Sword Tree Forest, where beings devoured humans without spitting out bones, the young man had not died, indeed because of this creature’s presence. Or rather, by depending on each other and using one another, they had survived in the Sword Tree Forest. Although life was not easy, at least they were alive, sharing memories of mutual respect.
The monster tentatively reached out its tentacle again, and this time, Yin He no longer resisted, only thinking that the monster must be relentless, and as long as it gave up, it would leave.
Elder Su immediately tugged at Elder Can with excitement, "Look, look, Young Master is really going to absorb the energy from this monster."
Ju Nanyi’s sword had already been silently drawn, and the guards behind him had also quietly drawn their weapons. Only the people from Ghoul Ravine, seemingly influenced by Elder Su, watched the scene with admiration, their faces full of awe as they gazed at Young Master Yin He and the monster before them.
The reverence for the powerful and the admiration for the immense energy were their innate admiration, having lived in a world where the strong prey upon the weak from a young age. At this moment, in their eyes, there was only the boundless energy of Young Master swirling around them.
The monster’s tentacle instantly touched Yin He’s arm. Elder Can’s heart tightened, and in the next instant, nothing happened, which made him curious. He was very curious about how Young Master would absorb the energy from this monster.
The young man closed his eyes. The connecting spells were quite unfamiliar to him, and moreover, the first time was while he had been unconscious. The young man vividly remembered that there was a very stringent requirement for this connection: one must be a virgin, having never released one’s vital essence. And once connected, the young man would almost certainly be unable to release his vital essence.
Suddenly, the young man reached out and grabbed the tip of the tentacle, wanting the monster to hurry up, confirm it, and then beat it.
However, as the monster’s tentacle touched his arm and something invisible penetrated beneath his skin, a numbness immediately swept over his entire body from the arm. The young man was not surprised; this was an inevitable part of the process. At least now, he wouldn’t faint from it, just felt numbness in his body.
Yet, in that instant, the monster suddenly froze. The nerves in the tentacle did not proceed to directly enter his brain. Instead, the monster erupted, portraying a false image of weakness without resistance previously, and just as the young man realized something was amiss, the monster revealed a ferocious expression. It turned, not towards Yin He, but headed straight for Zheng Nianru.
What was more fatal was that at this moment, the young man was actually controlled by the monster, his body numb, unable to move at all.
In the blink of an eye, Elder Su’s mind went blank, as a mass of black fog enveloped his brain like a giant bun descending upon him.
"Soul Locking Net—" Just as Ju Nanyi shouted, his hands rapidly threw out a net shimmering with silver light, aiming it directly at the monster and covering Elder Su’s entire body.
Elder Can was also awakened by Ju Nanyi’s loud shout. That feeling of impending disaster immediately burst forth from his mind, and his actions outpaced his thoughts as he physically flew out, placing himself between Zheng Nianru and the monster.
"Bang—" Elder Can was violently thrown out, buying time for everyone. Ju Nanyi was the first to react, following Nanny Yun’s scream, he charged out. In an instant, he threw three or four objects, all of which were Magic Artifacts he had urgently grabbed from his subordinates’ hands due to the emergency.
"Ao ao ao—" Struck by the hits, the monster did not yield, crying out in pain. But still, it charged relentlessly towards Zheng Nianru regardless of everything, and by now, everyone could see that Zheng Nianru was the target of the monster.
But why Zheng Nianru?
Ju Nanyi suddenly thought of that saying, the words that Master Huo Yi had spoken to him in his past life. Just as the monster’s force barreled forward and as a person was sent flying, a sword savagely chopped down towards the very tentacle that connected the monster with Yin He.
