Extinction of the Clan

Seeing Chi Feng and the Chi Clan Members vanish in such a bizarre manner, Wang Ping's pupils suddenly contracted.

However, he did not dwell on it and continued staring at the screen, wanting to know the answer.

You immediately suspected the Li Family. Furious, you donned a mask and stormed the Li Family. When the Li Family demanded to know why you had come to their doorstep, you gave no answer, merely declaring that the Li Family deserved to perish before launching a ferocious assault. More than half of the Li Family's Innate Realm cultivators were slain by your blade.

Just as you were unleashing an unmatched massacre throughout the Li Family, the Li Family Old Ancestor finally emerged from seclusion and fought you. Because your cultivation had broken through to the Spirit Origin Realm and you had comprehended Sword Intent, even though the Li Family Old Ancestor had reached the third level of the Spirit Origin Realm, he was still no match for you and was slain. Next, you completely wiped out the Li Family, leaving neither chickens nor dogs alive.

You then found the underground chamber and tried to locate Chi Feng and the others, but found nothing. Unable to calm yourself, you eventually discovered the secret art of the Blood Demon Tracking Art and wished to use the blood pool in the underground chamber to find the Chi Clan Members.

Yet you still found nothing. It was as if the Chi Clan Members had completely vanished from heaven and earth overnight. The strangeness of it sent a chill through your heart.

"What is going on? If it was not the Li Family, why did Chi Feng and the others suddenly disappear?"

Wang Ping could not puzzle it out no matter how hard he thought.

Although the Sword Spirit Sect Leader was also a suspect, he did not possess such ability.

After all, given your authority and status in this simulation, any small move made by the Sword Spirit Sect Leader could not possibly have escaped your notice.

To make every single member of the Chi Family disappear without a sound—such a method was simply too terrifying.

"Could it be that the terrifying existence that cursed the Chi Family bloodline has acted?"

Wang Ping's expression shifted unpredictably, and he found it difficult to calm down.

If it was that terrifying unknown existence, then it indeed had the ability to do such a thing.

In fact, if it wished, it could easily trigger the Bloodline Curse and kill the Chi Clan Members.

But could anyone truly live for so long?

After all, the Chi Family had already fled to the Central Plains a thousand years ago!

If the time before the Chi Family's escape was included, had that person lived for one or two thousand years!?

Even the Transcendent Realm could not possibly possess such astonishing longevity.

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

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

Experts of the Transcendent Realm had vanished from the Central Plains continent for far too long, and many records had been lost.

Although the Chi Family where the Village Chief lived had once enjoyed great glory, according to the Village Chief, their Chi Family had nearly faced extinction several times. Much had been lost across the generations, so they might not know the secrets of the Transcendent Realm either.

Therefore, asking Cai Yonglong directly was the best option.

However, the simulation was still ongoing, and it was night as well, so Wang Ping had no intention of @Cai Yonglong right now.

Of course, if he could obtain the answer in the following simulation, that would be best of all.

But considering his circumstances in the simulation, that would probably be difficult.

Wang Ping put away his many thoughts and continued looking at the screen.

As he stared, words began appearing on the screen once more.

Next, you recalled that the Sword Spirit Sect Leader and his wife were birds of a feather, believing they might also have acted. You secretly gathered information, hoping to investigate the Sword Spirit Sect Leader.

However, the Sword Spirit Sect Leader noticed your actions and was greatly alarmed and enraged, demanding to know why you were investigating him. You no longer concealed anything and questioned him directly. The Sword Spirit Sect Leader was astonished. He did not understand how you had learned that he was searching for the Chi Family's whereabouts. However, he felt that if he found the Chi Clan Members, he would eventually need to ask you to refine pills anyway, so he admitted that he had been searching for them, but had found nothing.

Upon hearing the Sword Spirit Sect Leader's words, you became extremely uncertain. If the Sword Spirit Sect Leader had not acted in secret, you had no idea who could have accomplished all this.

Before long, you calmed down and thought of the secret carried by the Chi Clan Members, falling silent.

The Sword Spirit Sect Leader spoke again, hoping that you could keep the matter secret. You chose to ignore him.

Soon, the entire world learned that you had destroyed the Li Family. Everyone was incomparably shocked, never expecting you to be so fierce and ruthless. At the same time, Liu Yu, who had founded Shu Kingdom, was deeply dissatisfied with you, because the Li Family had stood in his camp. Now that the Li Family had been destroyed, his power had been weakened considerably. However, Liu Yu remembered your identities as a Supreme Elder of the Sword Spirit Sect and a Fourth Grade Alchemist, so he could not rebuke you too harshly.

It was not only Liu Yu who was dissatisfied with you. The Sword Spirit Sect Leader was even more enraged. His wife was from the Li Family, and the Li Family was effectively one of his factions. As for the Sect Leader's Wife, she hated you to the bone, wishing she could eat your flesh and drink your blood.

The two wished to punish you and have the Supreme Elders judge you. In response, you coldly stated that the Li Family had destroyed your disciple's lineage, and their deaths were deserved. The Supreme Elders were all greatly surprised. In the end, you told them the entire chain of events. The Supreme Elders looked at one another, never expecting such a past, nor that the Sect Leader and the Li Family had colluded to do so many things.

The Sect Leader flew into a rage and argued his case with reason. Those from the Sect Leader's faction also strongly supported him, believing you had been too ruthless. However, the Supreme Elders who were at odds with the Sect Leader's faction and owed you favors supported you. In the end, both sides argued until their faces were red and their ears hot, but nothing came of it.

The Sect Leader and the Sect Leader's Wife hated you to the bone and began plotting how to eliminate you, or they would never be at ease. You, too, were thinking of how to get rid of that dog man and dog woman.

In the year 502 of the Great Xia Calendar, three kingdoms fell, leaving only Liu Yu, the Shu King, and Sun Chang, the Wu King. By then, the combined population of the two kingdoms had fallen from Great Xia's original one hundred million to just over ten million. The land was ravaged, and its people were plunged into misery. Ordinary people had suffered immense casualties, and even Innate Realm and Spirit Origin Realm cultivators found it difficult to preserve themselves wisely, suffering grievous deaths and injuries.

Even so, the two kingdoms had no intention of laying down their weapons. Unless they swallowed the other whole, they would never rest. As for you, faced with the devastation of all living beings, you could only drink before the grave of your close friend Bai Tianhong, feeling lost, lonely, and remorseful as you said things like, "If you were still alive, the world would have long since known peace."

In the year 503 of the Great Xia Calendar, the strongest Supreme Elder of the Sword Spirit Sect, Bai Tianhong's Master, could no longer stand by and watch the two kingdoms continue their war. Believing there were signs of the extinction of the clan and species, he took the lead in abandoning the Sword Spirit Sect's thousand-year stance of neutrality. He chose to enter the world and aid Shu Kingdom against Wu Kingdom.

With the Sword Spirit Sect's many experts joining the war, the scales of victory instantly tipped toward Shu Kingdom. It seemed that the lands of Great Xia were about to know peace once more.