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n“Sweet words. I wonder if you are really willing to do that? Giving all your power, luckiness, and even the chance to survive to one of your fellows in Xuan Sect and let him become a real master?”

n“Yes… I… I am!”

nSome reluctance flashed through Zhao Wu’s eyes.

nSacrificing everything he had to for the success of someone else? He couldn’t do that!

nThe reason he chose to sacrifice himself today was that he knew he couldn’t escape today.

nSo that he had better give up so that his brother could survive.

n“Hypocrite! If you are willing, why could I see the reluctance in your eyes?”

n“I…”

nWith the breeze, the fallen leaves rose and flew between the two of them.

nLi Mu flickered one of the leaves with his fingers.

nThe leaf quickly flew across the mountain top like a meteor and then went straight into Zhao Wu’s forehead.

nThen Zhao Wu’s body went off the cliff.

n“Rubbish! What a pity! Such a talent finally chose to live like a rat!

nGross!”

nLi Mu grabbed Liu Rui again.

nLiu Rui hurriedly said, “Sir, can you slow down, I can’t stand it anymore.”

n“Fine!”

nLi Mu sighed. He injected some true qi into Liu Rui’s body and carried Liu Rui away.

nLi Mu still couldn’t let Zhao Seven escape since he was so important.

n“Sir, are you going to kill Zhao Seven?”

nLi Mu’s true qi circulated in Liu Rui’s body and she felt much better.

nBut she still didn’t see what Li Mu looked like.

nThere seemed to be a veil on his face.

n“Yes!”

nLiu Rui asked, “Can you leave Zhao Seven to me?”

n“You? You are not only less talented than him but also worse than him in terms of Cultivation Achievement. If we let him live for one more day, it is hard to tell how many more innocent people would die.”

n“Then… Okay!” Liu Rui said with her head lowered.

nInside a grotto of Mount Mang.

nZhao Seven kept a low profile and took a jade pendant from his pocket.

nIt was horrible!

nIt spent so many years for him to build the Black Dragon Gang but it was destroyed in half a day.

nHe took deep breaths several times to calm himself down.

nThen he bit his finger and dripped his blood on the jade pendant.

nUttering a spell in silence, he said, “Master, I am being chased…”

nAfter three breaths of time, the jade pendant cracked.

nThe space around Zhao Seven distorted and he disappeared.

nAfter a while, Li Mu appeared with Liu Rui in this place.

n“Strange! There is a trace that he left. How come he disappeared?”

nAfter searching around for a while, Li Mu still couldn’t find Zhao Seven.

nHe had no choice but to take Liu Rui and leave first.

nThere was no way that he would let this black sheep go if he had any chance.

nHe brought Liu Rui to the main road outside and left her in a town. Then he returned to Shouning Palace.

nAfter Concubine Jing left, Li Mu was too lazy to clean up the palace.

nThere were many fallen leaves on the ground and green moss appearing at the corners of the steps.

nIt still looked elegant.

nIn the next two months, Li Mu did not hear any news about the Black Dragon Gang.

nAfter Liu Rui left the town, she immediately contacted the army and launched a thorough siege on the Black Dragon Gang.

nNo one knew the Black Dragon Gang better than she did.

nWhen the emperor learned the secret plan of Zhao Seven and the Black Dragon Gang, he remained silent for a long time.

nHe didn’t expect that Black Dragon Gang would be built by Zhao Seven.

nHe underestimated his people.

nThen he checked his side and found none of his descendants was a match for Zhao Seven. Not even himself!

nThe emperor could only sigh. He was depressed and grew much older.

nHe felt he was really old this time.

nThe treasures collected by the Black Dragon Gang in the White Dragon Creek were taken back by Liu Rui.

nTwo years later, Liu An was recalled from the front line.

nThe emperor died and Liu An inherited the throne.

nEverything went smoothly and no accidents happened.

nEven if some of the princes were not satisfied with it, they were too much inferior to Liu An in terms of prestige and Cultivation Achievement.

nWhat could they do if they were dissatisfied?

nRebel?

nThey would be defeated by Liu An’s followers as soon as they made a move.

nLiu Rui became a nun.

nAn Mu turned a front-line supervisor first, then a border general.

nNo one expected that a junior eunuch a long time ago would achieve something like this today.

nIn the palace, many young eunuchs took An Mu as a goal to strive for.

nThe days passed one after another.

nLi Mu still signed in at the underground palace and Luoshen River.

nAfter Xuan Sect was destroyed, the sign-in rewards were basically useless.

nLi Mu also gave up going to Xuan Sect.

nLiu An and Liu Rui both appeared in Shouning Palace from time to time to read the books from themselves. If Li Mu happened to be in, they would talk to Li Mu for a while.

nAt this time, Li Mu would reply with many “yes”.

nLi Mu also looked around for the members of the Black Dragon Gang in secret.

nMany hidden members of the Black Dragon Gang were killed by him.

nAnother two years passed.

nBaiyun Temple issued a notice to the whole country that it would accept all kinds of disciples and teach them the secret cultivation methods of the royal family.

nThe whole Xia was shaken by the news.

nThose secret cultivation methods were all kept by the noble clans, including those books of literature and philosophy.

nOrdinary people couldn’t have the chance to have a look at all.

nIn some clans, the children born by concubines couldn’t get equal chances to take a look at these things like the children born by wives.

nAt this time, Baiyun Temple was willing to take ordinary people as disciples and teach them cultivation methods!

nOrdinary people in the State of Great Xia ordinary people all cried with joy.

nBut the noble clans were terrified.

nDid the royal clan want to be the gravediggers of themselves or the noble clans?

nThe abbot of Baiyun was Liu Rui, who was once Princess Royal.

nThe key figure in destroying the Black Dragon Gang.

nThere were several old nuns and a few eunuchs in the temple.

nThe old nuns were all learned and talented concubines of the deceased emperor.

nFor the world, it was enough to know about Liu Rui.

nWherever the sound of her zither passed, members of the Black Dragon Gang fell one after another.

nLiu An sent the secret cultivation methods of the Zhao Clan and other destroyed clans to Baiyun temple along with the ones stored in Shouning Palace

nExperts in the palace had studied these methods thoroughly.

nThe world gradually stepped into peace.

nEunuch Rain, the last one with a Spirit Manipulation Realm of Supreme Level also passed away.

nLuckily, at this time in the State of Great Xia, no one dared to offend the emperor.

nAs for the power outside the State of Great Xia, they seemed to be held back by something.

nTwenty thousand miles away from Mount Mang.

nKangrou City on the upper reaches of Luoshen River.

nIt belongs to another country of Nanzhou, the State of Qi.

nIn a ruined manor in the northeast corner of the city, it overgrew with weeds and was dilapidated.

nNobody lived around this abandoned yard for many years.

nBecause rumored had it that there was a ghost in this place.

nOnce many people lived here and the whole family became mummies within a few days.

nThe beggars would choose to live here temporarily if they happened to pass here and had no other places to go.

nAnd they all disappeared the next day.

nWith such news spreading, this house was said to be a haunted one in Kangrou City.

nIt was daytime and nobody dared to come close to the manor.

nUnder an acacia tree in the garden, there was a youth half sitting on a huge green stone.

nAfter a closer look, it turned out that the youth had no legs and the entire lower half of his body was covered by the black robe.

nIn front of him, there was a mirror emitting black gases of the demon.

n“Master, my injuries have healed. I will definitely take revenge this time.”

n“Revenge? Look at you, how can you take revenge like this? Focus on your cultivation well. I will help you take revenge after I am released.”

nIn the mirror, there was a black face formed by gases. Others could only see the mouth on the face open and close but couldn’t tell what this person looked like.

n“Master, I can’t wait.”

n“How will you take revenge?”

n“I… I will revive the Black Dragon Gang,”

nThe youth was no one else but Zhao Seven.

nBack then, he borrowed power from the jade pendant to tear the space and escape. To come here, he lost his legs in the rift between spaces and burned all his essence and blood.

nHe sucked the essence and blood of many people along the way to keep himself alive.

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