Zhao Sheng Ying I

The moment they entered the innermost oval courtyard, they saw two crooked-necked trees planted within, scarlet as blood. Black fruits pulsed like hearts from their branches, endlessly devouring and absorbing the gray-black mist around them.

Yet those fruits were only a drop in the ocean. Vast amounts of gray-black mist still continued to seep out from the small iron house at the center of the courtyard.

Zhao Quanmo led the three of them to a spot more than ten meters from the iron house, stopped, and pointed at a pale yellow line on the ground.

"This is the grand sealing restriction array. The three of you only need to purify the Heavy Star Pollutant spreading beyond this line. Specialists will calculate the exact amount purified, so there is no need to worry that your efforts will go unaccounted for."

The hunchbacked old man nodded. "This arrangement is just right. I only wonder whether your estate has White Shadow Clan Members responsible for security here? Once this Heavy Star Pollutant leaks out, no one below that level can handle it."

Zhao Quanmo nodded. "Old Gu understands the matter thoroughly. There are indeed White Shadow Clan Members guarding this place. The three of you may rest assured!"

The old man's expression immediately relaxed.

Seeing Lu Sheng's confusion, the Taoist nun explained through voice transmission.

"Fellow Taoist, you may not know this, but the Zhao Family has tens of billions of clan members, while only a mere few thousand truly govern them.

"According to the clan's classification, those few thousand are uniformly divided into four ranks: Gray Shadow, White Shadow, Red Shadow, and Ink Shadow. White Shadow is considered lower-middle, yet even so, they are first-rate Bewilderment Realm experts in the outside world."

Lu Sheng's heart tightened. The Zhao Family's strength truly was