I think my luck is turning around.

Han Ren watched as Ji Xia pulled in two people. One of them was someone he recognized—the one who had argued with Li Yuesheng at the polo match. He didn't recognize the other one; was she also at the polo match that day?

"Now you can repeat your thoughts."

Shi San sat there leisurely drinking tea, but the difficulty of this matter was not to be underestimated.

"I want to ask for an elixir of immortality to save my brother."

An Ge looked at the face but didn't recognize it, so she asked Mu An in confusion. Mu An simply pulled up some information and showed it to An Ge. Looking at those images, good heavens! Isn't this a scene of wild ghosts chasing each other? And that person in it is Han Renguan's brother!

But those people all perished on Zhougan Mountain; it's unknown whether they were eaten by wild animals.

“You are trying to defy fate, but the person is already dead. This is going against the will of Heaven, and you will be punished by Heaven.”

An Ge's voice reached Han Renguan's ears, but there was only silence. Was his brother really not coming back? Han Renguan, who was usually strong and holding back his tears, almost couldn't hold back anymore, but An Ge sighed again.

But a voice entered An Ge's brain—it was a telepathic transmission! It was Song Tianqing's voice.

"The bodies of those people are gone; they've all been eaten clean. Even though it's just the edge of Zhougan Mountain, there are plenty of man-eating creatures there. And they're man-eating plants too; they're not easy to deal with."

Song Tianqing glanced at An Ge furtively. How did he know all this? Several times when he went to look for things near his farm, he saw that many demonic beasts had become stronger. This was not surprising in itself, since they were also cultivating. However, the faint human scent on them indicated that they had been eating people.

Song Tianqing only caught a gray snake without any patterns. The snake smelled strongly of humans. He beat it up and threatened to use it to make medicinal wine before he found out that they ate human corpses.

Only then did Song Tianqing realize that many people had died in the area. He went to check, but there were no traces left. It seemed they had all been divided up. Since they were corpses, Song Tianqing didn't bother the gray snake any further. Recently, the snake had settled down on his farm, a consequence of his own harsh treatment.

I brought it with me this time, hiding it in my sleeve. It usually doesn't come out, probably because I don't want to scare people.

"Do you really want your brother to come back to life? The price will be very high, and your brother certainly wouldn't want you to suffer."

This was the first time such words had come from An Ge's mouth; the gentle, comforting tone was quite unusual. Han Renguan wept. He hadn't cried when he betrayed himself before the king, nor when he heard of his brother's death, but hearing these words now was truly heartbreaking.

His brother was like that, unwilling to suffer any hardship, but now he only had Zhang Man left, his only family member.

Just as Han Renguan was crying his heart out, something ran out of Song Tianqing's sleeve. Seeing this scene, Ji Xia and An Ge quickly took a step back. Shi San didn't care at all; Han Renguan was still crying his heart out.

"Little Huihui!"

"A man shouldn't cry, Renkan."

Han Renguan looked up in surprise and saw his brother standing in front of him. He was both surprised and delighted, while everyone else was puzzled. What was going on? Could it be that the snake had eaten Han Jingguan?

Han Renguan cried, and cried even louder this time, his sobs so unrestrained and carefree. Watching this scene, Song Tianqing felt a strange unease; wasn't this all too coincidental?

As the first to discover the corpses, Little Grey couldn't possibly have only eaten one; it directly refined three corpses. Although they were inanimate objects, its cultivation level had increased considerably. The souls of the other two had long been taken away, leaving only this one's soul within its body. If it could directly digest this soul, its cultivation level would also rise significantly.

Originally, we wanted to let him go, but he wouldn't leave, so we decided to annex him. We gave him a chance, and whether he chose to stay is none of our business.