The Beginning and End of the Reason!
After East Shuang City was massacred by Crushing Mountain Demon Saint of Ten Thousand Demons Valley, the place had become a wasteland.
A year ago, after Lin Bai and the others completed their mission in East Shuang City, the Zhu Family took over its reconstruction. Under the banner of rebuilding the city, they were actually secretly excavating the Immaculate Divine Iron Mine beneath it!
Immaculate Divine Iron was the foremost divine metal in the lands south of the Nanling Mountains. It was extraordinarily precious, and mining it was exceedingly difficult!
After a year of mining, the Zhu Family had not even excavated a third of the Immaculate Divine Iron Mine beneath East Shuang City. Moreover, they were digging in secret and did not dare make the matter public, so their progress had become even slower!
After more than a year of mining, the Zhu Family had managed to extract only a little over three hundred kilograms of Immaculate Divine Iron. Zhu Lei had taken one hundred kilograms to forge the Nether Sword, leaving the Zhu Family with two hundred kilograms in storage!
The Zhu Family had originally planned to secretly take it out and sell it, but before they could make their move, news of Zhu Lei and Zhu Lei's deaths arrived, delaying the Zhu Family's plans once again!
At this moment, apart from the Zhu Family's martial artists, there were basically no other Rogue Cultivators in East Shuang City.
Across the ruins of East Shuang City stood densely packed patrols of Zhu Family martial artists. They were almost all loyal members of the Zhu Family's direct line. Otherwise, Zhu Shang would never have dared send them here to guard East Shuang City!
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
From high in the sky, streaks of