No wonder Bai Sha Tiancheng had lured Lu Yin to Duke Cheng. Even though Duke Cheng had fled, Bai Sha Tiancheng had still tried to find a way to kill Lu Yin. Lu Yin was certain to kill Duke Cheng, making him a threat. This must also have been the condition Duke Cheng had left for the Cheng Clan: unless they killed Lu Yin, the clan would have no descendants. Only if they killed Lu Yin would Duke Cheng allow the Cheng Clan to continue its bloodline.
His son had been killed by Lu Yin in the Spiritualized Universe, and he hated Lu Yin to the core.
Jue Ling was baffled. "How could the descendants of the mighty Cheng Clan have been completely wiped out by Duke Cheng? Are you Chengs really that stupid?"
Bai Sha Tiancheng opened his eyes. "When someone abandons every last scruple, what can't he do?"
"Since returning to the Nine Heavens Universe, he received Yue Ya's help, and his strength rose rapidly. He was second only to me. More than ten years ago, when Mr. Lu became famous in the Eastern Region, he began laying plans to poison us. There are poisons designed to target cultivators, and no one would have thought he'd poison his own clansmen. Then, some time ago, he heard that Mr. Lu was coming to the Western Region. He poisoned all the descendants of my clan and fled, forcing the Cheng Clan into a position where killing Mr. Lu was our only choice."
"Of the 168,003 members of the Cheng Clan, every last one perished. I alone survived, but I lost the ability to have children long ago. I, Bai Sha Tiancheng, have failed the ancestors of the Cheng Clan. The only way I can atone is to die." As he