Opening the Treasure Vault

The one with designs on it was not only the patriarch of that small aristocratic family.

As he concealed his tracks and sneaked toward the inner city,

he discovered that more than a dozen auras were likewise quietly making their way toward the inner city.

Likewise, the others had noticed one another.

At once, everyone understood that they were all after the same thing.

Someone immediately gave a sinister chuckle, sped up, and charged straight into the inner city.

Seeing this, the others did not dare delay either, using their movement techniques to race toward the inner city.

Before long, a fresh wave of turmoil surged through the inner city.

Amid the unrest, a glazed flying boat bearing the emblem of the Holy Alliance suddenly appeared above Zhou Tian City.

More than a dozen powerful figures stood aboard the flying boat.

Yet when these powerful figures saw the scene below, every one of them was greatly shocked.

"What... happened to Zhou Tian City?"

Lu Qing did not care what would happen to Zhou Tian City after he left.

After slaughtering all of the Gongshu Family's Nascent Soul Realm and Golden Core Realm cultivators in Zhou Tian City, he had known that this enormous family was finished.

As one of the Thirty-Six Upper Clans, the Gongshu Family controlled vast territories and resources. Its foundations ran deep, and its influence was immense.

But by the same token, such territories and resources required sufficient martial force to keep them under control.

Now that he had nearly wiped out the Gongshu Family's top combat power, it had lost that power of suppression and become the fattest piece of meat.

Whether it was the other great families among the Thirty-Six Upper Clans, or the small sects and aristocratic families long oppressed beneath them,

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