Merging with Demon Spirits

Chapter 237: Chapter 182: Better to Break Than to Bend

”You’re meddling too much!”

Yun Kai’s expression was somewhat cold at this moment: ”Lin Feng is very strong; he deserves to be the captain.”

Yun Yong’s face turned unpleasant.

He didn’t expect Yun Kai to still be so stubborn at this point.

”Refining a wasted demon spirit, what’s so strong about that! Even if he’s unbeatable at the same tier now, what about the future? Can he keep up with your pace in the future?”

”I’m doing this for your own good; you’ll understand in the future. This gap can’t be bridged.”

Seeing Yun Kai remain indifferent, Yun Yong said angrily, ”Now I’m giving you two choices. One, you become the captain and make Lin Feng leave the team. Two, let Lin Feng be the captain and bring Tang Xin and Hao Ran into the team.”

Yun Kai shook his head. Though silent, his attitude was resolute.

Yun Kai’s lack of cooperation, along with Tang Chen’s unfriendly gaze, made Yun Yong’s face turn completely dark: ”Yun Kai, you need to understand that everything you have comes from the family. Now, they ask you to do just one thing, and you don’t even cooperate!”

The oppressive atmosphere was palpable, and the room fell silent, as if even breathing was clearly audible.

”Haha, from the family, you say?”

At this moment, Yun Kai’s patience had reached its limit. He laughed loudly, expressing a bit of arrogance, as his lion-like face brimmed with defiance and wildness: ”Nine months ago, in the family, I was still despised by everyone as a half-beastman, the family’s greatest shame. The resources the family provided in these nine months, I can give them back!”

Yun Yong obviously didn’t expect Yun Kai to be so brazen, showing not a shred of respect or fear towards himself. Towards the family, there was neither a sense of belonging nor honor, and he even seemed to harbor thoughts of leaving the family.

This tendency and sign were very troubling!

Yun Kai was only a ninth-rank body cultivator at this point, and even before he had fully grown, he was already so unruly. If his attitude and temper didn’t change, and his arrogance wasn’t suppressed, who in the family could control him once he broke through to the Martial King level?

”Big talk, do you know what the resources from the family are? Can you afford to repay them?” Yun Yong sneered.

”I know, you’re referring to the Golden Lion King! Do you need me to expel it from my soul sea right now?” Yun Kai said coldly.

To expel it from the soul sea!

The faces of the Yun Family members slightly changed, all startled by Yun Kai.

Even Yun Yong’s expression changed, a look of panic flashing in his eyes.

Earth Chart-ranked demon spirits each cost billions, let alone the Golden Lion King, which was not just an ordinary demon spirit from the Earth Chart.

It was the demon spirit refined by the Yun Family’s extraordinary ancestor, complementing the ancestral demonization. It was the most suitable demon spirit for Yun Kai.

At this moment, Tang Chen looked somewhat surprised at the boy who had once seemed a bit stunned but was now wildly arrogant.

As the chairman of a major conglomerate, using his experience in judging people, he didn’t think Yun Kai was bluffing.

This boy was very serious.

Very serious!

He was even eager to try it.

”Yun Kai, don’t talk like that; there’s no need to return anything. You’re part of the family; it’s the family’s expectations of you!”

A woman hurriedly advised.

Like Tang Chen, she had also noticed something was wrong with Yun Kai’s demeanor, as if he truly had an impulse to do so, feeling a bit terrified.

However, at this moment, Yun Yong obviously hadn’t realized this, though initially scared, he quickly reacted thinking Yun Kai was simply bluffing. Who would have the courage to abandon an Earth Chart-ranked demon spirit?

Especially the one most suited to them.

It could be said that without refining the Golden Lion King, even though Yun Kai would still be a super genius, he might not become the most anticipated new star of the Glory Alliance.

Both his potential and combat power would significantly decrease.

No fool would commit such self-destructive acts.

”Heh.”

Yun Yong sneered but didn’t respond to Yun Kai’s words.

Since Yun Kai was the most important figure in the family, the key to the clan’s rise, it wasn’t necessary to put pressure on him.

With Yun Yong not responding, the woman breathed a sigh of relief, but the next moment, when her gaze swept over Yun Kai, her body instantly tensed up and her heart seemed to stop beating.

”Don’t!”

A scream of terror echoed, scaring everyone. Once they reacted, they quickly turned their focus to Yun Kai.

At this moment, Yun Kai’s body trembled slightly, his expression showing some pain. At the navel, a faint golden light emitted, with part of it seemingly trying to escape from his body.

They were dumbfounded!

Everyone was directly frightened.

”Yun Kai, stop!”

”Don’t be impulsive, don’t be impulsive!”

Cries of panic and despair rang out, and Yun Yong stood frozen in place, completely struck dumb.

”Please, no!”

The woman was already on her knees, scared to tears.

Yun Kai had gone mad!

He was really going to expel the demon spirit from his body!

If Yun Kai actually did this, regardless of whether they had forced him or not, the enraged clan leader and elders would definitely kill them!

All of them!

There would be no mercy or hesitation!

Being the key to the clan’s return to glory, Yun Kai was even more important than the clan leader.

Though they wanted to stop Yun Kai, no one dared to move at this moment because the process of expelling a demon spirit was extremely dangerous and could potentially damage the soul sea.

Now, they could only cry bitterly, pleading with Yun Kai to give up, but Yun Kai acted as if he didn’t hear a thing, remaining unresponsive. The golden light grew brighter, and upon closer inspection, it was the image of an ethereal lion. As the lion’s body and tail appeared, the next moment it seemed about to completely emerge.

Buzz!

With a buzzing sound, Yun Kai suddenly stopped trembling, and the emerging golden lion shadow halted. At this moment, Yun Kai seemed to be immobilized, unable to move.

An old man appeared seemingly out of thin air in front of Yun Kai. Extending his weathered and wrinkled hand, surrounded by a glow in his palm, he gently pushed the golden lion shadow back into Yun Kai’s body.

As the golden lion shadow returned into Yun Kai, the Yun Family members let out a collective sigh of relief, with many collapsing to the ground, thoroughly exhausted.

”Child, was this necessary?”

The white-haired old man said.

The constraint was lifted, and Yun Kai regained his freedom. Staring at this extraordinarily old yet ordinary-looking elder, Yun Kai’s eyes flashed with a hint of doubt and shock.

He recognized this elder, originally believing him to be just a normal envoy dispatched by the family, never expecting him to possess such power.

Was the binding power a soul skill?

If not, then was he a Martial King?

Such power, as displayed by Bu Zheng during the throne challenge, indicated only a Martial King could easily bind him this way.

Yun Kai’s face was extremely pale at the moment. Though the demon spirit had reentered his soul sea, his spiritual power suffered severe damage, which would take ten to fifteen days to recover.

Faced with the elder’s question, Yun Kai replied: ”I can give for the family, but it has to be of my own will! If I don’t want to, no one can force me, not even my parents, not the clan leader, no one. If the family thinks it’s not worth it, I can give everything back; it doesn’t matter to me.”

”I understand, I’ll relay this to the family.”

The old man nodded. At that moment, he deeply realized how different this young man was.

Due to his unique appearance, Yun Kai had been discriminated against and disliked by his kinsmen since childhood. Even his parents didn’t favor him, having moved out to live on his own early on, which also led to his distinct personality.

Rebellious and unrestrained, with a character that would rather break than bend.

Trying to make Yun Kai compromise with a sense of belonging or familial ties was obviously laughable.

If they didn’t want to lose this genius, the family had to change their way of treating him.

”I’m leaving.”

Yun Kai said and quickly left the meeting room.

Tang Chen also stood up to leave; having watched the drama unfold, his appreciation for Yun Kai grew.

This young man, besides having rare talent, possessed a fiery character, unyielding and firm.

It’s just a pity that he couldn’t recruit him.

”So cool!”

Tang Xin said with some admiration, and her father, Tang Chen, couldn’t help but shake his head.

After Yun Kai and Tang Chen left, under the gaze of everyone, the elder approached Yun Yong and kicked him flying over ten meters before stepping forward, trampling his face underfoot, and said looking down: ”Today’s events, I will report honestly to the family.”

”What did I do wrong?”

Yun Yong felt as if his stomach was about to split open, wailing on the ground in pain, yet couldn’t help but question.

He did nothing wrong!

Lin Feng was no longer fit to be captain. For the family’s development and Yun Kai’s future, abandoning Lin Feng was the right choice.

”You were wrong, not because of Lin Feng, but because you didn’t know your place. Yun Kai is an exceptional genius with ancestral demonization, the future glory’s son, an idol looked up to and worshipped nationwide, yet you still treated him as the half-beastman he once was.