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"What a fine performance they put on themselves. Yang Qiangding's mind was even more nimble than Yang Fushuo's."

Although it harmed their Merit, it was indeed effective.

The three members of the Gongyang Household went from hell to heaven, passing through ice and fire alike, and immediately knelt before Yang Fushuo and Yang Qiangding.

"Thank you, benefactors, for saving our lives!"

"We shall remember this immense grace for the rest of our lives!"

"Once we return to the Lineage and retrieve our savings, we will definitely come back to repay you for the kindness of your intervention today!"

After all that, the three simple-minded Gongyang Household cultivators did not harbor the slightest suspicion. They had completely taken Yang Fushuo and Yang Qiangding for their benefactors.

Whatever intelligence they wanted next naturally came easily.

Under the pair's patient guidance, the three men practically spilled everything they knew, laying their whole hand bare.

The three of them were members of the Gongyang Household's Twelve Clans, related as uncle and nephews. Having received word from the Lineage that the Age of Great Strife had arrived and opportunities had reappeared in the outside world, each clan was permitted to send some descendants out to train. Because their status within the Lineage was low and the cultivation resources they received were limited, the three of them had signed up to venture out.

Because their strength was lacking, they had not gone around flaunting the Elder Immortal Clan's name. Usually, others merely regarded them as ordinary Rogue Cultivators.

However, the three cultivated powerful techniques and were considered formidable among those of the same realm. The cultivators they encountered along the way had treated them with considerable respect. Who would have thought that, through excessive carelessness, they would be captured by "demonic cultivators"?

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