"Xiao Mu."

Xiao Mu approached the young Mutated Being and squatted beside him.

"I have heard of your name. You're very powerful, much more so than me."

The young Mutated Being said with respect on his face, "My name is Yang Ze."

"Yang Ze, nice to meet you. What's this jar for?"

Xiao Mu pointed to the two ashes urns beside Yang Ze.

Yang Ze lowered his head to look at the ashes urns, a look of admiration on his face as he pointed at each urn, "This is my dad, this is my mom."

Xiao Mu looked surprised. Yang Ze actually carried his parents' ashes urns with him. What was this for?

Yang Ze seemed to guess Xiao Mu's confusion. The young man suddenly smiled warmly, "Do you think I am a failure, carrying my parents' ashes into battle?"

"Just curious!" said Xiao Mu indifferently.

A nostalgic expression crossed Yang Ze's face, "When I was alive, we were poor, and my parents' income wasn't high. They were too frugal to eat meat, opting for frozen chicken skin from the market instead."

"Have you ever eaten frozen chicken skin? It's the skin peeled from the chicken breast. Rich people don't eat the skin, only the breast meat."

"Chicken skin is cheap and fatty. Mom would stir-fry dishes with it; our whole family loved it, fighting to eat it."

"At the age of sixteen, I got a serious illness, lung cancer."

"But my family had no money, we couldn't afford treatment."

"My parents borrowed thirty thousand yuan from relatives to treat me."

"I had a cousin who was a delinquent. He never did well and only knew how to steal. Suddenly, he came to my house, telling my dad that he knew a Divine Doctor who had a Divine Medicine that specifically cured lung cancer."

"My mom told my dad not to believe it, but dad didn't listen and gave the money to my cousin, who ran away with it."

"Mom and dad argued; dad hit mom."

"My lung cancer reached the late stages, and I began to cough up blood."

"Yet there was genuinely no more money at home, and the relatives wouldn't lend any more."

"Dad started staying out all night and apparently made some friends who liked to gamble."

"Dad kept losing, always losing! The food at home started to dwindle, one bag, then two bags."

"Mom always cried alone, keeping it from me, trying to persuade dad, but he wouldn't listen; they argued behind my back."

"They thought I couldn't hear, but I heard every argument."

"My mom suddenly borrowed money, and I was able to go to the hospital again."

"Maybe it was luck, but my condition started to improve."

"But one time when my dad came home, he saw Old Huang leaving our house with his pants in hand. Dad opened the door and saw mom undressed."

"In a fit of rage, dad killed mom with a knife."

"At the bedside of the large bed mom and Old Huang had just left, dad saw my hospital payment receipt."

"Riddled with guilt and regret, dad took his own life in a moment of impulsivity."

"Later... later I died too."

"After the World Mutation, I came back to life. Yin Spirits achieved Tao."

"But the Mutation didn't affect my parents; they didn't come back to life, and there weren't even any Yin Spirits."

"I wanted to resurrect my parents and retrieve their Yin Spirits."

"So, I collected my parents' ashes and carried them with me, nourishing them with my own Spiritual Energy, allowing my dad's and mom's Yin Spirits to return."

"This method is effective..."

The young man, or more accurately, the teenage boy Yang Ze, suddenly showed a joyful smile, filled with happiness, "The Yin Spirits of my mom and dad are slowly starting to gather. They've begun to show Spirituality. Maybe in a few months, perhaps half a year to a year, their Yin Spirits will be completely assembled, and they can return to the human world."

Xiao Mu looked at Yang Ze with a complex expression, not expecting the young man to have such a heavy past.

He looked down at the ashes urns beside Yang Ze.

The urns were filled with dense Yin Qi, and indeed, there were signs of the ashes condensing into Yin Spirits.

Yang Ze was right; his parents' Yin Spirits were gradually taking shape, and it seemed they might soon return to the human world.

"I wish you the best, brother. Your parents will definitely be able to return to the human world."

Xiao Mu patted Yang Ze's shoulder and, while he was distracted, infused a surge of Dao Method Spiritual Energy into the two ashes urns.

The Yin Qi in the urns immediately became denser, meaning the speed at which Yang Ze's parents would return to the human world had increased.

"Thank you!"

Yang Ze gave Xiao Mu his earnest thanks, yet failed to notice the change in the ashes urns.

"Nice carving!"

Du Wenzhen's voice of admiration suddenly came from not far off Xiao Mu.

"Thank you for the compliment!"

Xiao Mu turned his head and saw a middle-aged man with a stubby beard and a calm face thanking Du Wenzhen.

The middle-aged man held a small knife in his right hand and a piece of wood in his left, a Mutated Willow Wood infused with Spirituality.

The man's hands were very dexterous, his right hand and the knife dancing swiftly over the Spiritual Energy-infused willow wood, a statue of a woman slowly took shape in his hands.

All at once, the middle-aged man looked up, smiling at Du Wenzhen and Xiao Mu, revealing his teeth, "This is my girlfriend."

"We met in college."

"Neither of our families was well-off, and we didn't have much money. So on weekends, we would work part-time jobs outside the school to earn some pocket money."

"My girlfriend always left the money with me, asking me to keep it safe."

"After we graduated, I struggled to find a job; I ended up at a Sales Office, without a Base Salary. But I wasn't good at speaking, and I kept failing to make any sales."

"My girlfriend didn't despise me, and even supported me for a while."

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