"Sure enough, when traveling the Northern Dipper, you needed an imperial weapon on hand to feel secure."
Fighting with the Great Dao Precious Vase and One Thought Flower Blooms, Reigning Over the World—two signature divine arts of the Ruthless Lineage—and using Ruthless Lineage secret arts to obtain the body of the Devouring Demon Jar, while employing nothing but the Ruthless Lineage's inheritance throughout, had merely been an idle move.
News of a Ruthless Lineage successor emerging could startle the Ruthless Lineage within the Shimmering Light Holy Land. The Jiang family would likely be suspicious for a while as well, and it could also give Hua Yunfei of Star Peak a fright.
Normally, he would not casually use the Devouring Demon Jar. Naturally, this matter had nothing to do with him. But if he truly needed to use the Devouring Demon Jar and expose his identity...
So what?
He had never actively claimed to be a successor of the Ruthless Lineage. That was merely Tu Tian's speculation. What was wrong with him obtaining the Ruthless Lineage's inheritance through a fortuitous opportunity?
Did he lack imperial inheritances?
The Ruthless Lineage's inheritance was a great calamity in the hands of an ordinary person, but in the hands of an expert, its impact was really nothing much.
The Heaven Swallowing Demonic Art ate people outright, while Holy Land Families ate people by beating around the bush. Either way, they ate people. Any condemnation simply depended on whose fist was bigger.
No sooner had Adam returned to Star Peak than Elder Chen arrived.
"Ah! Huiming, you're finally back..."
Elder Chen wiped the sweat from his brow. Huiming had vanished less than a month after entering the sect. As the person who had brought him before Peak Lord Hua, if Huiming had betrayed the sect, he