The Mastermind

Mu Feiyang, who had appeared above Laga Village, had a very grim expression. In his perception, all the villagers of Laga Village had been slaughtered by a group of black-clothed men.

Not a single one of the over fifty people in Laga Village had survived. These black-clothed men had used methods so cruel they were outrageous. They had killed everyone, from adults to children.

They hadn't even spared the poultry. Everything with a life had been killed by them. That was over fifty lives!

Although Mu Feiyang possessed invincible cultivation through his sign-in system, he had never killed anyone. After all, he was a university student with a higher education from Earth in his past life.

Even after transmigrating to the True Spirit Realm and signing in for invincible cultivation, he had largely retained his past life's values and wouldn't kill people for no reason.

But the scene today had truly provoked Mu Feiyang. Those were over fifty lives, not fifty beasts.

Mu Feiyang didn't interact much with the villagers of Laga Village, but he had lived there for several years. While he didn't have deep feelings for them, he couldn't stand by and watch the villagers he'd lived alongside for years be murdered, especially not on his territory. Wasn't that a slap in the face?

As Mu Feiyang's voice fell, all the black-clothed men present in Laga Village were sucked towards him.

"Now I'll give you a chance. Tell me why you came, why you killed these villagers, and what force is behind you."

"If you tell me, I can give you a chance at reincarnation. Otherwise, you'll be utterly annihilated!"

Mu Feiyang had the power to do this. Cultivators were different from ordinary people. Ordinary people had a chance at reincarnation even after death.

But if a cultivator was killed and their soul destroyed, they wouldn't even have the chance to reincarnate, completely vanishing from existence.

Mu Feiyang was addressing the strongest among the black-clothed men, likely their leader. Mu Feiyang wanted to find out the force behind them.

Killing these men alone wouldn't satisfy his anger. Only by eradicating the entire force behind them could he avenge the over fifty people of Laga Village.

The black-clothed man Mu Feiyang questioned felt he could finally move. The terrifying aura from moments ago had completely suppressed him, rendering him unable to even twitch a finger.

Fear still lingered in the black-clothed man's eyes as he spoke to Mu Feiyang in a trembling voice, "Although your cultivation is formidable, and you're a Sky Soaring Realm expert, the force behind me is not someone you can afford to offend."

"If you kill us, you will definitely not have a good life. Our master will not let you go."

Mu Feiyang could fly, so he was definitely in the Sky Soaring Realm. While he couldn't defeat Mu Feiyang, the force behind him wasn't without Sky Soaring Realm experts.

Therefore, despite being terrified, the black-clothed man didn't reveal his master's identity. They were essentially death warriors, incapable of betraying their master.

"Is that so?"

"It seems you still don't understand the situation!"

"But do you think I won't know just because you don't tell me? I was merely offering you a chance at reincarnation."

"Since you don't cherish it, then be destroyed!"

Seeing that the black-clothed men were being stubborn and refusing to speak, Mu Feiyang didn't ask further. As he had said himself, the reason he asked was merely to give them a chance at reincarnation.

As Mu Feiyang's words fell, he snapped his fingers. All the black-clothed men he had frozen in mid-air vaporized. There wasn't even a scream, let alone any ashes left behind.

After killing the black-clothed men, Mu Feiyang's Divine Sense forcefully surged into their minds, quickly finding the information he wanted.

"First Prince, Princess Zhao?"

Mu Feiyang muttered. As his voice faded, the black-clothed man whose memories he had just examined met the same fate as the others.

From the memories Mu Feiyang had examined, he learned that these black-clothed men were death warriors belonging to the First Prince of the Xiling Empire, sent to kill him and the Zhao sisters.

"It seems the power struggles in the palace are more brutal than I imagined. However, you shouldn't have offended me."

Although Mu Feiyang didn't know the full story, he could infer from the Zhao sisters' previous words that it likely had something to do with them saving the Xiling Empire's Empire Lord.

Furthermore, this indicated that the mastermind behind everything was the First Prince, who had orchestrated it all.

What Mu Feiyang couldn't fathom was that merely giving a head of vegetables to the sisters had led to a death sentence.

What Mu Feiyang found most unacceptable was why they had to kill innocent civilians instead of just coming for him directly!

If the First Prince's death warriors hadn't killed the villagers of Laga Village, Mu Feiyang wouldn't have been this enraged, even if the First Prince had intended to kill him.

"You died because of me. I hope you can be reborn into a good family in your next life!"

Mu Feiyang said to the deceased villagers of Laga Village below. Then, with a wave of his hand, he sent the bodies of all the dead villagers back to their respective homes.

After their bodies were returned, all the houses in Laga Village collapsed, transforming into graves. Tombstones rose from the ground, inscribed with the names of the villagers.

Having done all this, Mu Feiyang returned to his courtyard and looked at the sisters, who were still cultivating and breaking through. Mu Feiyang's expression was somewhat complex.

Mu Feiyang was no longer in the mood for hot pot. He gave all the remaining food to Little Black, while he took his daughter back to their room.

Mu Feiyang waited for about another hour. The sisters finally stopped cultivating, both having achieved new breakthroughs in their cultivation.

Zhao Shanshan broke through from the Spirit Sea Eighth Layer to the True Spirit Realm First Layer, while Zhao Yingying advanced from the Adamantine Realm Sixth Layer to the Adamantine Realm Ninth Layer peak, just one step away from breaking into the Spirit Sea Realm.

"Thank you, Young Master Mu!"

Without even checking their cultivation levels, the sisters quickly rose and thanked Mu Feiyang. Without him, they would never have reached their current cultivation.

However, the sisters found it strange that Mu Feiyang, who had been so polite and courteous before, was now sitting there silently.

Still, Zhao Shanshan didn't dare to say anything. Instead, she took out the gifts she had prepared from her Storage Ring – a total of ten large chests.

"Young Master Mu, thank you for the Spirit-Connecting Flower you gave us before, which saved my Imperial Father's life. These gifts are all our sisters' savings."

"Perhaps these items are not worthy of your dharma eye, Young Master Mu, but they represent our sisters' sincere intentions. Please accept them."