Lu Yin stared at the ball of shadow that the Ghost Monkey had become, and his eyes flickered. He had never really trusted the Ghost Monkey from the very beginning, and Lu Yin had always tried to screen the monkey off whenever he used his innate gift of the die. The primary reason behind all of Lu Yin’s caution was the fact that the Ghost Monkey knew far too many secrets.

A person’s knowledge was related to their environment, and the monkey was too knowledgeable on too many matters. He definitely had not gained all that knowledge by raiding tombs. 

Even if Lu Yin had taken precautions towards the Ghost Monkey, the beast had never done anything threatening to Lu Yin. Thus, Lu Yin had never been overly concerned. 

However, at this moment, the Ghost Monkey’s strange behavior left Lu Yin feeling completely uncertain. 

The understanding that Lu Yin had about Beast Tamers was that, if he died, his tamed beast would also die though the converse was not true. When a tamed beast died, the controller would still be relatively fine. At worst, they would suffer severe injuries.

However, this was the case for when one used the Beast Tamers’ technique. The Ghost Monkey, on the other hand, claimed to have used the reverse technique to forcefully become Lu Yin’s tamed beast. This was also the one detail that Lu Yin doubted the most. 

Lu Yin only hoped that no accident would befall the stupid monkey, as who knew what the outcome of a reversed beast-taming technique might be. Even if Lu Yin and the...