Farewell (4000 Words)

Yu Province City.

This was an ancient city.

Beneath the ancient city contained a vein of the earth's life force.

The earth's life force was extremely important.

If something went wrong with the life force, extremely serious consequences would occur.

Every single vein of the earth had someone guarding it.

The guardian of Yu Province City was the Tang Sect of Tang Family Fort.

The Tang Sect was a martial arts sect.

However,

apart from being unable to soar through the skies, the martial arts masters of this world were not much weaker in combat power than immortal cultivators.

Moreover, the most formidable thing about the Tang Sect was not martial arts.

It was their mastery of poison.

Their poison techniques were peerless under heaven, and people of the martial world had always turned pale at the mere mention of their poisons.

Even cultivators would experience tremendous headaches if poisoned by them.

The current sect master of Tang Family Fort was Tang Kun.

Tang Kun lost his son in his early years, and later adopted the female protagonist Tang Xuejian, becoming the female protagonist's grandfather.

Tang Kun intended to pass the position of the next Tang Sect master to Tang Xuejian.

However,

Tang Kun's concubine-born son, Tang Tai, who was Tang Xuejian's second uncle, was extremely unconvinced by this decision of Tang Kun's.

Therefore,

he colluded with Luo Ru Lie, the master of Thunderbolt Hall.

Luo Ru Lie and Tang Kun colluded together, using the Tang Sect's exclusive poison techniques to develop biological weapons out of living people—Poisoned corpses.

The poisoned corpses were impervious to blades and spears all over their bodies, feared neither life nor death, knew no pain, and felt no fatigue.

At the same time, their entire bodies were filled with potent poison, capable of infecting two