Ghost Mother cracked open upon hearing this, presumably out of anger.
However, her anger was not directed at Lu Yun, so she posed no threat to him.
Once she split open, Ghost Mother restrained the breeding boar, then bit open the stitches on its belly.
A heavily decomposed corpse slid out from inside the boar.
Ghost Mother resumed her human form, blood and tears streaming from her eyes. Clenching her fists tightly, she gnashed her teeth and roared, "Yang Chuandong, I will make sure you die a horrific death!"
Meanwhile, the breeding boar, now free from Ghost Mother's control, began to devour Tang Lun's corpse. With a few bites of its massive jaws, Tang Lun's body was completely consumed.
Then the boar began to distort; its head was replaced by Tang Lun's heavily decomposed head, turning Tang Lun into a Human-headed Pig.
This scene caused many of the spectators outside to retch.
In past Spirit Master College Entrance Exam broadcasts, candidates had never gone to such lengths.
Most simply stayed put, waiting out the seven days.
The few who dared to explore the world inside the Secret Realm generally made very little progress.
Huaxia once had someone who successfully explored an entire Secret Realm during the Spirit Master College Entrance Exam, but that person was set up and murdered by a mysterious force.
Only a handful of top officials knew about this incident, as everyone else who learned of it was forced to sign a non-disclosure agreement.
Most of the evidence pointed toward Neon, while a small portion pointed toward Old Mei.
At the time, Huaxia's Spirit Masters lacked the strength to contend with them, so the matter had to be dropped in humiliation.
Just then, a man whose rank appeared even higher than the chief examiner walked in.
All the examiners stood up and shouted respectfully, "Hello, Chief."
The chief pressed his hand down and said, "Sit down, everyone. I'm just here to check on the invigilation."
With that, the chief walked over to the chief examiner and asked, "Little He, are there any good prospects?"
"Right there, on the big screen, see for yourself."
The chief paid no attention to his tone, instead fixing his gaze on Lu Yun on the main screen.
He said, "I have high hopes for this kid. No matter where he wants to go for further studies later on, let him go; just don't send him abroad. Double the team protecting his safety—that kind of incident must never happen again."
The chief examiner knew about that incident, but having signed a non-disclosure agreement, he could not speak of it to anyone.
The scene the chief had just witnessed was none other than Lu Yun helping Ghost Mother cut open the breeding boar's belly, followed by the boar consuming Tang Lun.
Back in the Secret Realm, Grey Hakimi had also arrived at the scene.
Upon seeing the Human-headed Pig that Tang Lun had transformed into, Hakimi's face also morphed into the outline of a Hui Cat.
"Grey Cat, doesn't that just sound like Hui Cat?" Many viewers only just realized.
Some viewers had not been watching the live broadcast continuously.
After all, time inside the Secret Realm flowed at a one-to-one ratio with the outside world.
Inside Lu Yun's Secret Realm, Ghost Mother hugged Lu Yun, then placed both hands on his shoulders and told him gently, "Child, find somewhere to hide for now. Mom, Dad, and Hui Cat are going to go settle a score."
With that, Ghost Mother took Hui Cat and the Human-headed Pig father and headed toward the bamboo grove.
How could Lu Yun possibly obey obediently?
He remembered that during his terrain reconnaissance, there was another path leading directly to Yang Chuandong's house.
There was bound to be something hidden there.
Taking advantage of the time Ghost Mother and the others spent going to settle scores with Yang Chuandong, Lu Yun needed to hurry over and investigate Yang Chuandong's home.
However, before leaving, Lu Yun needed to observe for a moment. He had to confirm that the fight had broken out before heading over; otherwise, what if he arrived before the battle started and ran straight into Yang Chuandong?
Wouldn't that just be a free delivery?
Taking a glance outside the bamboo grove, he confirmed they were indeed fighting.
Lu Yun muttered softly, "Then I can rest easy."
Following the other path through the loquat grove, he entered the pig farm at Yang Chuandong's house.
He discovered that the pigs raised at Yang Chuandong's home had also rotted away.
He noticed faint, massive cuts visible across the necks of those pigs.
"Could these pigs have been killed by Yang Chuandong?" Lu Yun's guess was spot on.
He had now walked into Yang Chuandong's courtyard, where there were several patches of blackened bloodstains.
If Lu Yun remembered the locations correctly, those bloodstains had been left by Tang Lun.
And the drop-by-drop traces on the ground were left by Yang Chuandong chasing Hui Cat with a butcher's knife.
Unfortunately, there was nothing at all in Yang Chuandong's house.
Perhaps it was because Lu Yun was worried Yang Chuandong might return at any moment and rushed through his search without checking carefully.
However, he found the massive pear tree in Yang Chuandong's backyard.
Picking up a nearby shovel, he dug into the soil beneath the pear tree shovel by shovel, quickly unearthing a skeleton.
This skeleton was also heavily decomposed, with writhing lines of disgusting maggots still crawling through the corpse.
One maggot even burrowed out of Hui Cat's skeletal eye socket.
Lu Yun frowned; this was indeed rather disgusting, but it hadn't reached the point of making him retch.
After all, before transmigrating, he had lived in the countryside for a period of time.
He had once beaten a palm-sized toad to death and buried it in the ground.
A few days later, he dug up the toad's corpse again just to watch the maggots writhe across its body.
Now, he simply imagined Hui Cat as a giant toad, and remarkably, it worked very well.
A loud crash echoed from the bamboo grove, and he caught a glimpse of a human-faced cat flying into the air.
It looked like the battle over there was fiercely contested.
Lu Yun was momentarily at a loss, unsure of what to do next.
He looked down at Hui Cat's corpse on the ground, and an idea formed in his mind.
Meanwhile, the live broadcast in the city showed Lu Yun moving while carrying a heavily decomposed corpse on his back.
Lines of maggots crawled onto his clothes, and quite a few dropped onto the ground—he left a trail of them wherever he went.
Crucially, the broadcast even gave the corpse an ambiguous, lingering close-up.
Many spectators who had crowded around to watch the broadcast threw up on the spot.
"This student has immense nerve. Running around carrying a corpse through this black fog, he really has no fear of death," a spectator remarked.
"That's the difference between you and him. If you had his kind of nerve, you wouldn't be standing out here watching—you might be an examiner inside instead," another spectator joked.
The teased spectator didn't get angry; he just smiled and said, "Speaking of which, my son is in there too."
"Oh? Well, it's already the third day, so your son is practically guaranteed to pass. Let me congratulate you in advance, brother."
"Thanks, many thanks."
"So, what's your son's name?"
"Oh, my son is named Wei Xiaoxiao. I never had much faith in him to begin with; I didn't expect him to actually go take the Spirit Master College Entrance Exam."
Just as he finished speaking, a doctor shouted, "Who is Wei Xiaoxiao's parent? Come over here and sign the critical illness notice."