Mu Feiyang appeared above Laga Village, his expression turning extremely grim. In his perception, every villager in Laga Village had been slaughtered by a group of black-clad men.
Of the more than fifty people in the entire village, not one had survived. The methods of these black-clad men were utterly heinous. Whether adults or children, all had been killed by those damned men.
They had not even spared the livestock. Every living thing had been slaughtered. These were more than fifty human lives!
Although Mu Feiyang had attained invincible cultivation through check-ins, he had never killed anyone before. After all, in his previous life on Earth, he had been a university student who had received a higher education.
Even after transmigrating to the True Spirit Realm and gaining invincible cultivation through check-ins, he had retained many of the values from his previous life and would not kill people casually for no reason.
But the sight before him today had truly provoked Mu Feiyang. Those were more than fifty people, not more than fifty beasts.
Although Mu Feiyang did not interact much with the villagers of Laga Village, he had still lived there for several years. Their relationship might not have been particularly close, but—
Watching villagers he had lived alongside for years get killed with his own eyes was something Mu Feiyang could not accept. Moreover, they had been killed on his own turf. Was that not a slap across his face?
As Mu Feiyang's voice fell, every black-clad man who had appeared in Laga Village was pulled before him.
"Now, I will give you one chance. Tell me why you came here, why you killed these villagers, and what force stands behind you."
"Tell me, and I can give you a chance at reincarnation. Otherwise, your souls will scatter and your spirits will dissipate!"
Mu Feiyang had the strength to do that. Cultivators were different from ordinary people; after ordinary people died, they still had a chance to reincarnate.
But if cultivators were killed and their souls destroyed, they would not even have a chance at reincarnation. They would vanish completely between heaven and earth.
Mu Feiyang had questioned the strongest among the black-clad men. He was presumably their leader, and Mu Feiyang intended to uncover the force behind him.
Simply killing these people would not be enough to vent his hatred. Only by wiping out the force behind them could he avenge the more than one hundred people of Laga Village.
The black-clad man Mu Feiyang questioned felt that he could finally move again. That terrifying aura from a moment ago had suppressed him completely, leaving him unable to move even a finger.
Terror still filled the black-clad man's eyes as he said to Mu Feiyang in a trembling voice, "Your cultivation may be formidable, and you may be a Sky Soaring Realm expert, but the force behind me is not one you can afford to offend."
"If you kill us, you will never know another peaceful day. Our master will not let you off."
Since Mu Feiyang could fly through the air, he was surely in the Sky Soaring Realm. Although the black-clad man could not defeat Mu Feiyang, the force behind him was not without Sky Soaring Realm experts.
Therefore, although the black-clad man was terrified, he did not reveal his master's identity. They were Death Warriors to begin with; it was impossible for them to betray their master.
"Is that so?"
"It seems you still cannot see the situation for what it is."
"But do you think I will not know just because you refuse to speak? I merely wanted to give you a chance at reincarnation."
"Since you do not cherish it, then be destroyed!"
Seeing that the black-clad man stubbornly refused to speak, Mu Feiyang did not question him further. Just as he had said, he had only asked because he wanted to give them a chance at reincarnation.
As Mu Feiyang's words fell, he casually snapped his fingers. The black-clad men suspended in the air all vaporized. There were no screams, not even ashes left behind.
After killing those black-clad men, Mu Feiyang's Divine Sense forcefully surged into the black-clad man's mind, and he soon found the information he wanted.
"First Prince Princess Zhao?"
Mu Feiyang murmured. As his voice fell, the black-clad man whose memories he had examined met the same end as the others.
From the memories Mu Feiyang searched, he learned that these black-clad men were Death Warriors under the First Prince of the Xiling Empire. They had come to kill him and the Zhao Shanshan sisters.
"It seems the struggle within the imperial palace is crueler than I imagined. Still, you should not have offended me."
Although Mu Feiyang did not know the full story, he could infer from what the Zhao Shanshan sisters had said earlier that it was likely related to their saving the Empire Lord of the Xiling Empire.
Furthermore, this revealed that the mastermind behind everything was the First Prince. He had planned it all.
But what Mu Feiyang had not expected was that merely giving the sisters a stalk of green vegetables would bring about a fatal disaster.
What Mu Feiyang found most unacceptable was this: if they wanted to kill him, they could have come directly for him. Why did they have to slaughter these innocent commoners?
If the First Prince's Death Warriors had not killed the villagers of Laga Village, Mu Feiyang would not have been this furious even if the First Prince wanted to kill him.
"You died because of me. I hope that in your next life, you will be reborn into good families."
Mu Feiyang said this to the dead villagers below. Then, with a wave of his hand, he sent every dead villager's body back into their respective homes.
After he returned their bodies to their homes, every house in Laga Village collapsed, transforming into graves. Stone tablets rose from the ground, each bearing a villager's name.
After finishing all this, Mu Feiyang returned to his courtyard. Looking at the sisters, who were still cultivating and breaking through, his expression was somewhat complicated.
Mu Feiyang no longer had the mood for hotpot. He gave all the remaining food to Little Black, then carried his daughter back into the room.
Mu Feiyang waited for roughly another two hours before the sisters finally stopped cultivating. Both of their cultivations had achieved new breakthroughs.
Zhao Shanshan broke through from the Spirit Sea Eighth Layer to the first level of the True Spirit Realm, while Zhao Yingying advanced from the sixth level of the Adamantine Realm to the peak of the ninth level, just one step away from breaking through to the Spirit Sea Realm.
"Thank you, Young Master Mu!"
The two did not even have time to examine their cultivation before they hurriedly rose and thanked Mu Feiyang. Without him, they could never have attained their current cultivation.
However, the sisters found it somewhat strange that Mu Feiyang, who had been so polite and courteous before, was now sitting there in silence.
Still, Zhao Shanshan did not dare say anything. Instead, she took out the gifts they had prepared from her Storage Ring: ten large chests in total.
"Young Master Mu, thank you for giving us the Spirit-Connecting Flower earlier, allowing me to save my Imperial Father's life. These gifts are all the savings my sister and I possess."
"Perhaps these things are beneath Young Master Mu's notice, but they represent the heartfelt sincerity of us sisters. We hope Young Master Mu will accept them."
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