Chapter 5401

Chapter 5398: Too Dangerous To Wait

At this moment, a maid arrived at the scene and bowed.

"My Mistresses, Young Master Azariel has returned and is currently waiting for you and First Madam in the hall."

"Ah..."

Evelynn turned to look around, nearly swaying as though she had heard explosive news.

Isabella, who was beside her, caught her arm and supported her, "Be careful."

She sent a physical soul transmission, causing Evelynn to take a breath and smile as she straightened herself. She turned to look at Davis and said.

"Esvele will be fine. Take your time to investigate and do everything in your power to heal her. I’d also like to stay, but I need to go see my son and see if he has anything to say before he leaves."

"Of course, go ahead. I’ll take care of this..."

Davis waved her a short goodbye.

Evelynn turned around and quickly flew away, and so did the majority of them, leaving behind only the ones who were knowledgeable enough to help Esvele.

Davis raised his brows at them, narrowing his eyes at Evelynn’s strange movement.

The others kept silent, not even daring to think much.

Davis’s gaze flickered.

Obviously, something was wrong.

Indeed, he didn’t know Evelynn had spat blood while deeply worried for Azariel, but the others were aware. It was an internal injury stemming from pure stress and worry. They kept it silent while Evelynn refused to be healed by Ellia until Azariel was healthy.

Nonetheless, Davis quickly thought about what Azariel could’ve done before coming here and wondered if he would be fine.

His gaze went back and forth between Esvele and them before he chose to remain beside Esvele.

Esvele’s eyes glazed as she silently gazed at him.

In her life as the Head Maid, she imagined she probably had never gained as much attention as today. She felt being sick really wasn’t as bad as everyone claimed it to be.

Only Sophie, Mingzhi, Myria, Ellia, Everlight, Xiu Juili, Tia, Dalila, and Shirley remained, hoping to brainstorm along with Jillian Hayden.

Jillian Hayden then brought Esvele back to her room along with the others, and slowly conducted more tests, sometimes even trying to provoke the instinct of the lifeform into taking action, so it reveals a vulnerability that could be taken advantage of.

However, Davis had to eventually stop these processes because he found this lifeform was extremely insidious.

Its tendrils or its long centipede manifestation body had even corrupted the Memory Physical Soul, Instinct Physical Soul, Echo Physical Soul, and Anchor Physical Soul.

Basically, it had already finished nearly all the requirements to take over Esvele’s soul silently.

Myria and the others felt a chill.

"Should we use reincarnation energy to make it loosen its grasp on these physical souls?" Myria asked worriedly, her expression solemn.

"Too dangerous." Davis said with a frown, "It’s already in the late stages of awakening. It would be fine if it was just two Physical Souls. Both of us could deal with one, but we’re dealing with four Physical Souls. Our capabilities in this deep soul realm are quite low. We can’t afford to cause Esvele’s soul to be crippled and turn her into a vegetable. Even if I revive her, this damned curse that clings to her will follow suit. We will have to depend on Jillian Hayden’s initial curing method. That’s the only way left for us at this rate, right?"

He turned to look at Jillian Hayden, causing her to nod.

"I’m afraid so. I apologize."

"No need. You did your best." Davis heaved a breath.

He felt like he might even miss sending off his son at this rate.

They cannot afford to wait and see for Esvele. They must act as soon as they get the necessary poisonous magical beast to concoct a curse.

Soon, they managed to obtain the mortal space-yang centipede from the Golden Radiance Continent. Fortunately, it seemed to be a thriving species in the Golden Radiance Continent. There were a lot of mortals in the Golden Radiance Continent since the Divine Exalt who had been residing here needed mortals to power his Godskull.

There was a thriving population of mortals nearly everywhere in this continent, and so were magical beasts.

Besides, beast taming was popular in the Golden Radiance Continent. This could be seen by how Davis bought a Rosy Cotton Rabbit for Aila when they visited the capital. There were a lot of ranches nurturing magical beasts and livestock, but there were also ones that specialized in nurturing poisons.

Mingzhi, who already controlled the imperial family of the Golden Radiance Continent, easily managed to acquire it.

"Our Esvele is somewhat lucky... hehe..."

The next morning, Mingzhi grabbed a golden-black centipede and waved it at Esvele, trying to scare her, but Esvele barely even blinked. She used a spatial treasure to decrease the size of the mortal centipede. It was scared for its life and could only let out shrill shrieks. As a livestock poison insect, it was destined to die a gruesome death in an ordinary pot that wasn’t cursed, so it could grow strong and become someone’s sacrificial pet or survive and become a poisonous pill to poison some bigshot so someone else can gain benefits.

"Give it to me~"

Jillian Hayden grabbed it from Mingzhi and began working.

That centipede wasn’t the only insect they needed.

At this moment, Mingzhi emptied out all the ranches that nurtured poisonous insect magical beasts. She bought or outright stole all of them, including poisonous Empyrean Magical Beast insects that were extremely rare to obtain on this continent. She straightway offended many royals and nobles but could care less because if they knew it was her, they could only keep silent.

Davis inwardly heaved a sigh of relief.

He maintained firm surveillance on Esvele’s soul so that the lifeform wouldn’t suddenly act up.

He low-key felt that if he were to step out, it might finally bare its fangs and awaken. After all, they had prodded it so many times. He didn’t believe it didn’t feel his threat. The lifeform was insidious and already cunning instinctively. It would surely become a frightening Realm Calamity if he let it grow. Once it emerged, it would be able to use the Hollow Law Physique and even escape.

He couldn’t afford that.

He started imagining that was why he didn’t feel any danger, because it would choose to flee rather than fight to the death.

While Jillian Hayden was working on building a soul formation to contain all these insects within Esvele’s soul, Davis finally got some room to breathe.

He gazed at Myria, stared at her for a few seconds, and then walked towards her.

"Myria, I didn’t expect you to sneak a proposal inside that list... you’ve changed." Davis said with a teasing smile.

It was hard to catch Myria these days, since she was busy helping everyone modify and improve their manuals. Since most of them were following unorthodox bloodlines, the cultivation manual they obtained was rarely ever suitable for them.

They all needed to go ask Myria for advice.

After all, Myria needed to write her own life-and-death cultivation manual, so she had studied thousands of cultivation manuals below the Empyrean Grade and their quirks over the fifty thousand years she had lived.

Even now, she was the only woman in the Davis Family to have gone through all the Empyrean Grade, Exalt Grade, and Divine Exalt Grade cultivation manuals they had bought or stolen, greatly increasing her knowledge.

She was still more erudite than every single one of them when it came to modifying manuals.

"What list?"

Myria turned to look at Davis with narrowed eyes, her white brows shimmering, "What did I sneak in?"

"..."

Davis blinked.

He sensed curiosity, doubt, and suspicion from Myria, causing him to be a bit stunned.

However, he quickly sensed a person panicking nearby.

When he turned to look at the culprit, it turned out to be Ellia, who nearly flinched and quivered where she stood. Her eyes darted towards them before quickly returning to Esvele. Then she turned to look at them and cast a forced smile.

"Hehe, I suddenly remembered I had something to say to Azariel. I’ll take my leave now."

She turned around to escape but was suddenly lifted off the ground.

"Ahh~"

Ellia screamed as Davis held her waist and lifted her off before embracing her from behind.

"Where are you going, you naughty little maid? You dare to imitate Myria and cause misunderstandings to occur between their beautiful friendship?"