Once Qin Shaofeng learned that the sinister old man was not the master of Nine Spirit Palace, he was not surprised.
However, after seeing the old man's life story, Qin Shaofeng was left utterly speechless.
It was far too clichéd!
The sinister old man's real name was Xie Feixue. His name was quite poetic, but the cultivation world of that time had called him the Evil Blood Daoist.
Xie Feixue had been born into a scholarly family in ancient times, but a calamity struck. Bandits ransacked his home, murdered his parents, and violated his newlywed wife before his very eyes, dozens of them taking turns.
Xie Feixue himself had fainted and thus luckily survived. Later, by a twist of fate, he entered the cultivation world and began cultivating.
Yet Xie Feixue's fate was full of hardships. After entering the cultivation world and achieving some success in his cultivation, he went back and slaughtered every last one of those bandits, finally avenging his hatred.
But helplessly, those bandits had backing as well. They had been organized by a cultivator for the sake of money.
After learning this, Xie Feixue followed the trail to find that cultivator, then slaughtered him as well.
Just when Xie Feixue finally believed that his great vengeance had been repaid, a powerful cultivation sect came knocking.
The cultivator he had killed was a lackey of that powerful sect's young master.
The lackey had been killed. Naturally, as his master, the young master could not remain unmoved—otherwise, where would his dignity be?
Thus, Xie Feixue was in trouble. What drove him to despair was that, because of him, that powerful cultivation sect's young master led a group of powerful cultivators to the sect Xie Feixue belonged to.
The sect Xie Feixue belonged to was not particularly powerful; it