Slay the Remnants, Spare Not a Single One!
Looking at the scene within the collapsed altar, even Qin Zhongnan felt a sense of dizziness.
To become the new Grand Elder of the Cloud Firmament Sect under immense pressure, Qin Zhongnan's success is not simply due to his high cultivation level; he is also an extremely ruthless individual.
After all, the position of Grand Elder is not one that just anyone can hold. Not only does one need to have high cultivation and be shrewd and resourceful, but one must also be ruthless enough when necessary.
Even a ruthless man like Qin Zhongnan couldn't help but tremble at the sight before him!
At this moment, most of the altar was still collapsed and buried, with only a small part exposed. But even this small part gave Qin Zhongnan the feeling of being in hell...
Qin Zhongnan wasn't unfamiliar with corpses; what mountains of corpses and seas of blood hadn't Qin Zhongnan braved?
But Qin Zhongnan had never seen so many infant corpses before...
These babies had all turned into mummies, and not only that, their heads had been twisted off and torn off.
Qin Zhongnan simply couldn't believe it. What kind of beast could do something so horrifying!
"Clear this place out for me..." Qin Zhongnan gave the order, and countless members of the Cloud Firmament Sect began to clean the altar according to the Grand Elder's instructions.
Even Ji Moran silently followed Qin Zhongnan's instructions and began working, because Little Ji knew that what they had just seen was definitely not all there was; something even more terrifying was hidden beneath...
As the altar was continuously cleared... everything unfolded exactly as Ji Moran had predicted... beneath the altar lay not only the corpses of many members of the Great Luo Kingdom family, but also countless mummified infants and their heads...
All the Cloud Firmament Sect disciples involved in the cleanup were gritting their teeth...
Beasts... They're utterly beasts... How many infant corpses are there here? The smallest looks like they were just born, while the oldest is no more than a year old...
What kind of beast could commit such a heinous act?!
Soon, as the altar was cleared away, the guards who had survived in the capital city of the Great Luo Kingdom were brought before Qin Zhongnan.
Qin Zhongnan pointed at the infant corpses that had been moved out, his face filled with murderous intent, and said, "Today, answer whatever I ask. If you conceal even the slightest thing, your entire family will be wiped out!"
Although Qin Zhongnan's voice was calm, the murderous intent in his words terrified all the guards, who immediately knelt down. The guards knew very well that Elder Qin was not joking with them.
"What's going on with these babies?!"
"Reporting to the Grand Elder... I am only responsible for guarding the outer perimeter of the imperial city. I have never seen these babies before..." a guard said tremblingly.
"Elder... I'm also a guard on the outskirts of the imperial city. I don't usually have the qualifications to enter the inner city... I really don't know..."
"Elder... His Majesty has decreed that all guards are not allowed to enter the inner city, but only to guard the outer city, so I have never entered the inner city..."
The guards spoke one by one, and they were not lying. The imperial city of the Great Luo Kingdom was divided into an inner city and an outer city. All guards could only guard the outer city and were not allowed to enter the inner city. Therefore, the guards truly did not know the specific situation of the inner city.
Just as Qin Zhongnan was pondering this, a guard mustered up the courage to speak up, "Elder... could these infants be...?"
Seeing Qin Zhongnan's gaze, the guard was so frightened that he swallowed back all the words he was about to say.
"Speak your mind. If it has nothing to do with you, I will not involve you in the slightest."
"Yes... yes..." The guard hurriedly spoke up after hearing Qin Zhongnan's words, "Elder, could these babies be related to the recent infant abduction cases in our Great Luo Kingdom?"
"A baby abduction case?" Upon hearing this, Qin Zhongnan looked at Ji Moran beside him, Ji Moran shook his head to indicate that he had indeed never heard of such a case.
But soon, Qin Zhongnan and Ji Moran heard something unbelievable from the guards.
After the Great Moon Kingdom changed its name to the Great Luo Kingdom, the Great Luo Kingdom began to experience cases of missing infants.
Upon learning of the baby's disappearance, the Emperor of Great Luo immediately dispatched special envoys from the Great Luo royal family to investigate...
However, no matter how much they investigated, they never came to any conclusions. Not only were there no results, but as time went on, more and more children began to go missing throughout the Great Luo Kingdom...
All the missing children were under one year old, which made everyone in the Great Luo Kingdom with a child under one year old feel extremely unsafe.
However, the investigators sent by the Great Luo royal family have been unable to find any results...
As the guards spoke, the Cloud Firmament Sect members, not being fools, all had a guess after the discovery of these infant corpses.
However, Qin Zhongnan immediately arranged for disciples of the Cloud Firmament Sect to bring in the person in charge of the infant abduction case.
Although the entire royal family of Great Luo in the Great Luo Imperial City died out overnight, the people sent by the Great Luo emperor to handle the infant abduction case survived by sheer luck.
Soon, some of the people in charge of the baby abduction case were brought before Qin Zhongnan.
"Elder, we're innocent... We're just a collateral branch of the Great Luo royal family, we know nothing..." A fat man, almost dripping with oil, knelt before Qin Zhongnan, wailing loudly.
But before he could finish speaking, Qin Zhongnan used his Spirit Power to grab him by the neck and lift him into the air.
Spirit Power surged from Qin Zhongnan's body, and in an instant, all the fat on the fat man's body was sucked out by Qin Zhongnan. Under immense pain, the fat man dared not hide anything.
To lay everything bare.
This fat man is a member of the royal family of the Great Luo Kingdom, but he belongs to a very distant branch of the royal family.
The case of infant abduction was indeed handed over to these collateral relatives to handle. However, the so-called handling of the case was not about investigating why the babies were stolen, but about dealing with the parents who had lost their babies.
To prevent the parents of these lost children from spreading rumors, the relatives and collateral branches of the Great Luo Kingdom went to great lengths, using threats and intimidation as the most basic methods.
It's unknown how many parents who lost their children were ultimately disposed of quietly by them.
His Majesty's requirement for them was simple: whatever means they used, they absolutely could not allow the impact of the baby abduction case to continue to expand.
Their actions greatly pleased His Majesty. To this day, countless cases of infant abduction have occurred in the Great Luo Kingdom, yet their impact has always been kept within the Great Luo Kingdom's borders. Even the Cloud Firmament Sect has not received any news about the infant abductions.
"Elder... we're innocent... His Majesty ordered us to do it, we were just following orders..." The fat man knelt before Qin Zhongnan, crying out his innocence.
However, Qin Zhongnan's face remained completely expressionless.
With a gentle wave of his hand, the disciples of the Cloud Firmament Sect swarmed forward, carrying the fat man and the trembling members of the Great Luo royal family away.
At this moment, not only Qin Zhongnan, but everyone present from the Cloud Firmament Sect had a gloomy expression.
Nearly three thousand infant corpses were unearthed from the entire altar. All of them had their life force extracted using the most cruel methods, and even after their life force was extracted, their heads were twisted off.
Combining this with the cultivation level of the Great Luo Emperor that the guards witnessed today, Qin Zhongnan thought of a demonic art that had disappeared for countless years, a notorious art called the Spirit Child Curse Art...
This cultivation technique was performed at the cost of the life force of infants under one year old. The last person to cultivate this demonic art called himself the Demonic Child Ancestor. This person was not only hunted down by the righteous path, but even the Demonic Sect sects did not allow such a depraved person to exist.
The most ridiculous thing is that it was Elder Tian Qingquan of their Cloud Firmament Sect who killed this Demonic Child Ancestor...
Looking at everything before him now, Qin Zhongnan understood that Tian Qingquan must have lied to the sect. After killing the Demonic Child Ancestor, he must have seized various treasures from him, including the demonic art called the Spirit Child Curse Art...
Although Tian Qingquan did not cultivate this evil technique, who could have imagined that the descendants he left behind in the Great Luo Kingdom would truly bring him honor...
These utterly depraved individuals actually went and practiced such a demonic art... The lives of nearly three thousand infants died at the hands of these beasts.
"Pass on my order..." Qin Zhongnan took out the token representing the Grand Elder of the Cloud Firmament Sect.
"Exterminate all remaining members of the Great Luo Kingdom family... leave no one alive..."
"Yes!" The Cloud Firmament Sect members accepted the order.
With this kill order issued, everyone knew that all of Tian Qingquan's bloodlines left in this world... would be completely wiped out.
"Inform all members of the sect above the rank of hall master about the events in the Great Luo Kingdom... Take this as a warning!" Qin Zhongnan spoke again, and the words "take this as a warning" clearly carried a murderous intent in his Qin Zhongnan.
The so-called "learning from this experience" was Qin Zhongnan's way of telling all the high-ranking members of the Cloud Firmament Sect that the incident in the Great Luo Kingdom must never be allowed to happen again, and if a similar incident were to occur again, Qin Zhongnan would never let anyone off the hook.
"Let's also announce the affairs of the Great Luo Kingdom to the world..." Qin Zhongnan finally spoke.
Before making this decision, Qin Zhongnan was actually struggling with the decision... Should he suppress the matter... or announce it to the world?
Qin Zhongnan knew that once this matter became known throughout the world, even if it was not the work of the Cloud Firmament Sect, it would still deal a huge blow to the Cloud Firmament Sect's reputation.
After all, the Great Luo Kingdom was a country under the Cloud Firmament Sect, and the affair between the Great Luo Kingdom family and Tian Qingquan was hardly a secret. Ordinary people might not understand, but how could the major powers of the world not know?
At the very least, the Cloud Firmament Sect can't escape the reputation of lax supervision.
But Qin Zhongnan knew that this matter couldn't be suppressed... This matter not only concerned the Cloud Firmament Sect, but more importantly, it concerned Ma Liang...
Even now, Qin Zhongnan still couldn't understand... why Ma Liang was here... and what Ma Liang's cultivation level was? How could he fight the Great Luo Emperor to a standstill?
Even if this Great Luo Emperor cultivates demonic arts, his combat power would be at most at the Ninth Rank, right?
Now that Ma Liang 'Ten Thousand Ghosts Grand Formation has been strengthened by the Evil God's Spirit Eye, killing ordinary ninth -Ninth Rank officials is a piece of cake. So why did Ma Liang fight the Great Luo Emperor to a standstill, and even end up being injured by the Great Luo Emperor?
Most importantly, the aura is Ma Liang's, and the Spectral Power is also Ma Liang's Spectral Power, so why didn't Ma Liang use his Ten Thousand Ghosts Grand Formation?