There really was someone behind it all!
"Who was that person?"
"I don't know his name or identity. He was an old, white-haired man dressed in a plain Daoist robe. He said he had longstanding ties to my Blood Garment Sect."
"He forced me to gather our old forces with my younger brother and rebuild the sect, to avenge the Blood Garment Sect's dead experts. Otherwise, he would take our lives."
A mysterious Daoist? Forcing them to take revenge?
Shen Mo listened quietly without interrupting, merely gesturing for her to continue.
"My younger brother and I had only just escaped death. How could we be willing to be killed? We had no choice but to agree to avenge the Blood Garment Sect."
"But the Blood Garment Sect's enemies are the many orthodox factions of Tianyou City. Their experts are as numerous as the clouds. My younger brother and I were only insignificant figures in the martial world, and our strength was feeble."
"Even if we wanted revenge, we didn't have the ability."
Gu Chao didn't dare conceal anything. She poured out the whole story in one breath. "But that Daoist said he had a way to make my younger brother and me powerful martial artists of our time."
"He gave us not only divine martial arts manuals, but also many miraculous elixirs and medicines that could increase our cultivation. That was how we rose so quickly."
After receiving all kinds of benefits from the Daoist, Gu Chao and her younger brother Gu Ming had made astonishing progress in their cultivation.
In just five short years, they had entered the Innate Grandmaster realm, a level most people could never hope to reach in a lifetime.
Once a man bore a sharp blade, killing intent rose of its own accord.
As their