Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
“Sectmaster, please punish the Mu Family!”
“Okay, I will investigate this matter and deal with it,” Qiu Shuzhen said. He rolled his eyes at them and waved his hand.
Qiu Shuzhen had been hard pressed ever since he confirmed that there was a Virtual Realm master from the South Continent.
The Sacred Ground was under great threat.
And the elders were becoming increasingly difficult to manage.
After the Wu Ma and Baizu Families had been destroyed, the Mu Family was next.
But if the Mu Family was so easily defeated, it would have been destroyed a long time ago.
Besides, the Mu Family didn’t have much.
The elders just wanted to test him.
Once the South Continent people were provoked, it was likely that the Sacred Ground would bear the brunt of their anger and become their target of attack.
Qiu Shu politely entertained them but didn’t give them any real answers.
Once the elders left…
Boom!
Qiu Shuzhen threw all the things he was holding onto the ground.
“These elders are eccentric! Do they really think that we, the people of Honghai Sacred Ground, have no more tricks up our sleeves?”
He turned around and headed to the cavern at the back of the mountain.
Passing through a long and narrow tunnel, he came to an altar and placed a few prenatal stones at its base.
Then, Qiu Shuzhen hit the altar in front of him with anger.
A burst of blue light erupted from the altar.
A topless old man with a white beard and white hair appeared in front of him.
The old man’s hair was so long that it reached the ground.
His eyebrows were almost two feet long.
“Senior, there is a Virtual Realm master from the South Continent who may disrupt our plan. Please find that master and destroy him as soon as possible,” Qiu Shuzhen said respectfully.
“I know. My spatial jade plate in the South Continent was also destroyed. Originally, I used it to keep the demon locked up and absorb the prenatal qi in the South Continent. I didn’t expect that a Virtual Realm master would appear.” The old man with white eyebrows frowned slightly, somewhat puzzled.
He had already advised the Sacred Ground to suppress the people of the South Continent. How could there be a Virtual Realm master from the South Continent?
“Senior…”
“At Honghai Sacred Ground, you are most familiar with the situation in the South Continent. If you don’t know the location of this Virtual Realm master, how can I find him?”
“Our mole in the Xia Family said that he is an ancestor of the Xia Family. The Sacred Ground elders are eccentric, so I have to keep this a secret from them. I really am…”
“You can’t manage the Sacred Ground elders? What about the other people of Honghai?”
“There’s no news about the ancestor who has been in retreat for many years. I am only halfway to the Virtual Realm. Many elders have already made alliances with other Sacred Grounds and I can’t control them well. Now that there’s a Virtual Realm master from the South Continent, the attitude of the elders has worsened.” Qiu Shuzhen said bitterly.
“I remember that there’s another master hiding in your family who’s also halfway to the Virtual Realm! It’s time for him to stop hiding! You should use all your resources to find that Virtual Realm master. If he attacks, your Honghai Sacred Ground will be badly affected.”
Qiu Shuzhen pursed his lips.
He already knew this.
That was why he had asked this old man for help.
He never expected that the old man would be so reluctant to take action.
“Senior, please do something about this.”
The old man with white eyebrows only sighed but didn’t reply.
He just stared at Qiu Shuzhen with mixed emotions.
He only wanted to enjoy the benefits without putting in the effort.
The Qiu Family was as stingy as they were back then.
Not wanting to suffer losses, they would let others take the blow for them.
Did he really think it was that easy to deceive him?
Every time he faced the Qiu family, he felt that his baseline was being pushed.
He should never have supported such people at the beginning.
“Senior, the Qiu Family’s ancestor is at a critical moment of breakthrough. But I can’t deal with this Virtual Realm master from the South Continent by myself!” Qiu Shuzhen looked at the old man in the blue light and said respectfully.
This old bastard. He just didn’t want to deal with a master in the Virtual Realm.
Who did he think the Qiu Family was?
His lackey?
He was the one who wanted to occupy the South Continent.
It was he who wanted to dominate the world.
Yet, all he knew how to do was to talk, but he never took any action. It was the Sacred Ground who had put in all the effort.
After losing so many elders, he had not a single word of consolation.
Didn’t he work with them just because they were powerful?
Hmph!
But whenever the Qiu Family suffered a loss, he would immediately turn away and deny it.
“Sigh. If you help me find this Virtual Realm master, I will consider dealing with him!”
After that, the blue light disappeared.
Qiu Shuzhen narrowed his eyes.
What did he mean by that? The old man would consider dealing with the Virtual Realm master after he found him?
Did the old man treat him like an idiot?
Qiu Shuzhen’s mouth twitched as he turned to leave the cave.
“It’s too difficult!”
With a long sigh, Qiu Shuzhen headed to the Forbidden Grounds and entered a cavern.
After a long while, Qiu Shuzhen came out of the cave with a relaxed expression on his face.
“No matter what you do, our Qiu Family is still very powerful. In this world, power is all that matters.”
It was difficult to gain power.
His ancestor was right. Strength was power.
If there is another Virtual Realm master in the Qiu Family, no matter what trouble there was, their status would not be threatened.
They shouldn’t get entangled with external affairs!
He glanced at the animal skin scroll in his hand repeatedly.
Taking in a deep breath, Qiu Shuzhen seemed to have made a major decision.
This animal skin roll had been stolen from Clan Nangong.
It recorded the skill of absorbing the essence and blood of others to improve one’s cultivation level.
This was the legendary cultivation method of the demons.
He could adapt this skill and make use of it when he made a breakthrough.
“It will be useful to learn how to absorb the essence and blood of others!”
In Zhongzhou, a trace of sword qi flashed by over Blood City.
After a while, blood rained down from the sky.
The entire Blood City was covered in blood.
There was bright red blood everywhere.
How terrifying!
All the masters and the civilians were stunned.
“It’s too scary! I thought I was going crazy.” “We have to find a place to hide! A master has come to Blood City.”
“What on earth just happened?”
On one of the streets in Blood City, a woman was lying on the ground, covered in blood.
The woman’s body was full of scars and a long knife protruded out of her chest.
She wore a silver hairpin and a long sleeved robe, just like the people from the South Continent.
There were more than 20 headless corpses around her, fresh blood spewing out of the bodies.
On the corner of the street more than twenty meters away from the corpses, a little boy stood there.
He stared at the woman blankly, lips trembling, eyes full of fear.
From the looks of it, the woman on the ground seemed to have been besieged and killed while trying to protect the little boy.
Li Mu was overwhelmed with emotion.
He had just reached here and already encountered a killing.
The women staring at Li Mu pleadingly.
“Don’t worry! I will take your child under my charge and take care of him until he is an adult.”
“Thank…” The woman uttered with much difficulty.
Then, she shifted her gaze, wanting to look at the boy again.
Before she turned her head, her eyes glazed over.
Even in that moment, she was still trying to see the last glimpse of the little boy.
“Mother!”
After a long time, the little boy seemed to realize what was going on. Running over, he lay on the woman’s body and started crying.
The most tragic thing in the world was the parting of life.