"The Tombstone Mountain Secret Realm was destroyed by the Calamity Successor!?"
When Ying Ru Shi heard the news, she had no more specific intelligence or evidence, yet the figure standing atop the pile of corpses in the Ping City Secret Realm suddenly came to mind.
He had been drenched in blood and sheathing his blade. At the time, he probably had not recognized her, but his eyes had clearly revealed goodwill. When she was about to leave, he had even shown concern over whether she would be blamed after returning... Or perhaps it had not been concern, but an attempt to probe her relationship with His Majesty?
The powerful figures of the Central Plains were all accounted for. The strong had all risen from weakness, building mountains from grains of sand, like Black Wolf and Red Snake. The former had been born into Zhou Kingdom's nobility, while the latter was a noble daughter of a Liang Kingdom aristocratic clan. Ying Ru Shi could even narrow the candidates down to five, but there was no need to continue investigating.
The only exception was 'Yellow Dog.'
He and his subordinates seemed to have burst out of the stones. 'Yan San,' 'Night Four,' 'Jiang Shi,' 'Bunny Heroine,' and 'Rat Monk,' who had saved Shang Xuanwen's life—each one was a peerless genius, and each one had an unknown background.
So whenever a powerful figure of unknown origin appeared, Ying Ru Shi's first reaction was to suspect that they belonged to him.
But why would he destroy the secret realm?
The thought was actually rather strange. Ying Ru Shi was not ignorant of the Calamity Successor's information. Just as thieves stole and dogs ate filth, the Calamity Successor had naturally destroyed the secret realm for his own selfish reasons, pursuing power at the cost of