Extinction of the Clan

Seeing Chi Feng and the Chi Clan members all vanish without a trace, Wang Ping's pupils abruptly contracted.

But he didn't dwell on it, continuing to stare at the screen, wanting to know the answer.

At this, you immediately thought it was the Li Family's doing. Furious, you masked up and stormed the Li Family. The Li Family demanded to know why you'd come knocking, but you didn't answer, only declaring that the Li Family deserved extinction as you struck out fiercely. You slaughtered most of their Innate Realm cultivators.

While you were cutting a swath of destruction through the Li Family, their Old Ancestor finally emerged from seclusion and fought you. Because your cultivation had broken through to the Spirit Origin Realm and you'd comprehended Sword Intent, even though the Li Family Old Ancestor's cultivation was at the third layer of the Spirit Origin Realm, he was no match for you and was slain. Next, you completely annihilated the Li Family, leaving not even a chicken or dog alive.

Then, you found the basement, hoping to locate Chi Feng and the others, but found nothing—you couldn't stay calm. In the end, you uncovered the secret technique of the Blood Demon Tracking Art, intending to use the blood pool in the basement to find the Chi Clan members.

Yet again, you found nothing, as if the Chi Clan had vanished from the world overnight, eerie and unsettling, sending a chill down your spine.

"What's going on? If it wasn't the Li Family, why did Chi Feng and the others suddenly disappear?"

Wang Ping was utterly baffled.

Although the Sword Spirit Sect Leader was also a suspect, he didn't have that kind of power.

After all, given your status and influence in this simulation, if the Sword Spirit Sect Leader pulled any tricks, he couldn't have hidden them from you.

To make all the Chi Clan members vanish without a trace—that was too terrifying a method.

"Could it be that the terrifying existence that cursed the Chi bloodline made a move?"

Wang Ping's expression shifted, unable to calm down.

If it was that unknown, terrifying entity, it certainly had the ability to do such a thing.

What's more, if it wanted to, it could easily trigger the Bloodline Curse and kill off the Chi Clan.

But could anyone really live that long?

After all, the Chi Clan had fled to the Central Plains over a thousand years ago!

If you counted the time before their flight, had that being lived for one or two thousand years!?

Even a Transcendent Realm cultivator couldn't have such an astonishing lifespan.

"When I have time, I'll ask Cai Ge about it."

Wang Ping's eyes flickered as he thought to himself.

Transcendent Realm experts had been absent from the Central Plains for too long, and many records had been lost.

Although the Village Chief's Chi Clan had a glorious past, according to him, they'd nearly been wiped out several times, losing much of their heritage—they might not know the secrets of the Transcendent Realm either.

So asking Cai Yonglong directly was the best option.

But since the simulation was still ongoing and it was nighttime, Wang Ping had no intention of @-ing Cai Yonglong right now.

Of course, if he could get an answer in the upcoming simulation, that would be ideal.

But considering your situation in the simulation, it was probably unlikely.

Wang Ping set aside his many thoughts and continued watching the screen.

As he stared, the text on the screen reappeared.

Next, you remembered that the Sword Spirit Sect Leader and his wife were birds of a feather, suspecting they might have been involved, so you secretly investigated them.

But the Sword Spirit Sect Leader caught on, furious, and demanded to know why you were investigating him. You stopped hiding and confronted him directly. Startled, the Sect Leader didn't understand how you knew he was tracking the Chi Clan. Still, he figured that if he found them, he'd have to rely on you for alchemy anyway, so he admitted to the search but said he'd found nothing.

Hearing this, you were deeply unsettled. You had no idea who could have done all this if it wasn't the Sword Spirit Sect Leader.

Soon, you calmed down, thought about the secrets of the Chi Clan, and fell silent.

The Sword Spirit Sect Leader spoke again, asking you to keep his secret. You chose to ignore him.

Soon, the whole world learned that you had wiped out the Li Family, and everyone was shocked by your ferocity and ruthlessness. At the same time, Liu Yu, who had established the Shu Kingdom, was displeased with you, since the Li Family had been on his side—their destruction weakened his power. But remembering your status as the Sword Spirit Sect's Supreme Elder and a Fourth Grade Alchemist, he couldn't blame you too much.

Not only Liu Yu resented you, but the Sword Spirit Sect Leader was even more enraged. His wife was a Li, so the Li Family was essentially his ally. As for the Sect Leader's Wife, she hated you to the bone, wanting to eat your flesh and drink your blood.

The two sought to have you judged by the Supreme Elders. You coldly stated that the Li Family deserved to die for wiping out your disciple's clan. Even the Supreme Elders were taken aback. In the end, you laid out the whole story, and the Supreme Elders exchanged glances, never expecting such a past or that the Sect Leader had colluded with the Li Family in many deeds.

The Sect Leader raged and argued his case. His faction backed him, claiming you were too ruthless. But the faction opposed to the Sect Leader, who owed you favors, supported you. In the end, both sides argued themselves red-faced, and the matter fizzled out unresolved.

The Sect Leader and his wife hated you to the core and began plotting your demise, unable to rest easy otherwise. Meanwhile, you were scheming how to take out that pair of dogs.

In the 502nd year of the Great Xia Calendar, three kingdoms fell, leaving only Shu King Liu Yu and Wu King Sun Chang. By then, the combined population of the two kingdoms had dropped from the original Great Xia's hundred million to just over ten million—a true slaughter. Not only had ordinary people suffered massive casualties, but even Innate Realm and Spirit Origin Realm cultivators couldn't stay safe, with heavy losses on both sides.

Even so, the two kingdoms showed no sign of stopping, refusing to rest until one swallowed the other. And you, watching the devastation, could only drink by your close friend Bai Tianhong's grave, lost and regretful, muttering things like, "If you were still alive, the world would have long been at peace."

In the 503rd year of the Great Xia Calendar, the Sword Spirit Sect's strongest Supreme Elder, Bai Tianhong's master, could no longer stand by as the two kingdoms warred, sensing the threat of Extinction of the Clan. He abandoned the sect's thousand-year stance of neutrality, choosing to intervene and help the Shu Kingdom against the Wu Kingdom.

With the Sword Spirit Sect's many experts joining the fray, the scales of victory tipped sharply toward Shu, and peace seemed within reach for the Great Xia realm.