I had no intention of protecting the Black and White Clinic. Besides, Xiang Yue hadn't hired me to do that.

What I needed to do was get Old Yun out to cure Yun Ya. As for Old Yun's life or death, that wasn't within my consideration.

I had considered capturing her and forcing her to lift the curse on Yun Ya, but the odds of that ending in mutual destruction were nine out of ten. I didn't dare gamble!

After hesitating for a long time, she nodded and said, "Alright!"

Only then did I step forward and ask, "How long until your Ten-Day Life-Extinguishing Curse takes effect?"

The person shook his head slightly, "That depends on the individual's constitution. Originally, I suppressed the curse on this girl with a shroud. But, some idiots acted clever and tried to break the curse, which only accelerated the life-extinguishing curse. She won't live past midnight tonight."

The person assumed that I had interfered with his curse, but I didn't explain, "You've killed so many members of the Yun family in the past. Did Old Yun not react at all?"

The person sneered, "When it comes to ruthlessness, no one dares to call themselves number one if the Yuns are number two. I killed so many members of the Yun family, and he didn't even flinch. He didn't even come out to take a look. A doctor's benevolence, hah... he doesn't even save his own family. Who else would you expect him to save?"

I frowned slightly and asked, "I want to know, were you a person or a ghost before you came looking for Old Yun?"

The person glanced at me coldly, "A person! At least, I was a person before I completed the curse."

Before I could finish speaking, the person continued, "But, my wife wasn't. She was a corpse demon. She was injured by a pure yang spell, which damaged her foundation. Only Old Yun could cure her."

I pressed, "Then how did you know that Old Yun had the ability to heal ghosts?"

"A friend told me," the person said, "Many ghosts and monsters have been treated at the Black and White Clinic. Word spread, and I learned about the Black and White Clinic. I came seeking help, but the Yun refused to lend a hand."

"My wife was too severely injured and could only heal in the Xuan Yin Great Tomb (Mysterious Yin Great Tomb). Old Yun refused to leave the Black and White Clinic no matter what, so I had no choice but to bring my wife out. Who knew…"

As the person spoke, the yin energy around him surged again, almost beyond control.

While we were talking, I had already seen our location clearly. Ye Yang also nodded slightly at me, signaling that this was where he sensed the earth energy fluctuations.

We were standing in an open area on a hillside. Further ahead was a mountain wall with stone crevices.

Looking into the crevices, I could vaguely see the edge of a mountain valley.

I took two steps forward and asked, "Is the Black and White Clinic inside the valley?"

"That's the real Black and White Clinic!"

The person said grimly, "Over the years, every time I caught a member of the Yun family, I brought them to this clearing. I placed the most vicious curses on them. Making them wish they were dead.

The person paused, "Are you going first, or am I?"

"After you!" I made a gesture and stepped aside.

The person put his hands behind his back, his feet slightly sinking into the ground. The sky around us seemed to dim suddenly, and the wind howled under the broad daylight.

The ground beneath my feet began to tremble slightly, as if something was surging up from below.

In the blink of an eye, grave mounds burst out of the earth, and fragmented corpses crawled out of the graves, kneeling at the entrance to the valley, cursing Old Doctor Yun's ruthlessness and unwillingness to help.

The person sneered grimly, "Yun, all forty-three members of your family are here. No matter what curse they died under, I will break their legs and make them unable to stand for eternity, forcing them to kneel here and atone for your sins."

"I, Hei Ye Xiao (Black Night Owl), have never loved anyone in my life. The only person who ever moved my heart died because you refused to help. You deserve to die. Your family deserves to die as well."

As Hei Ye Xiao spoke, the resentment around him soared like wolf smoke, shooting straight into the sky. The temperature around me dropped several degrees.

The corpses kneeling outside the valley also began to wail loudly.

Soon, the sound of the ghosts' wails and the resentment on Hei Ye Xiao's body began to resonate at the same frequency. Within a hundred meters, all the plants withered, and even the black soil on the ground turned into grains of yellow sand.

The desert-like ground was rapidly advancing towards the valley entrance until it hit the mountain wall at the entrance. Only then did the sand stop spreading.

However, the grains of sand continued to strike the valley entrance incessantly, as if they were Hei Ye Xiao's suppressed anger, wanting to break into the valley but desperately controlling his emotions to avoid crossing that final line.

I said in a deep voice, "Friend, your power of the curse has already reached the valley entrance. Why don't you just kill your way in and destroy Old Yun?"

Hei Ye Xiao clenched his fists tightly and said, "Before my wife died, she only made one request of me, and that was to expose the hypocritical true face of the Black and White Clinic. I will never kill anyone until I get that Yun out."

I stared directly at Hei Ye Xiao and said, "Have you ever considered that Old Yun might already be dead, and that the one who repeatedly made things difficult for you back then wasn't the Black and White Clinic at all?"