After that Zhao Family ancestor emerged, it was not his true body, but an external incarnation he had left at home.
As they searched for spirit veins in the ancient secret realm, they all felt a chill run down their spines.
Realizing that something might have happened at home, he was the first to leave the ancient secret realm, awakening his external incarnation and sending it to Nine Emperor City.
After chasing and killing without pause, he slaughtered more than three thousand cultivators.
The enraged Zhao Family ancestor returned to the City Lord's Manor. Looking at the corpses of his clansmen strewn across the ground, his fury surged to the heavens as he stared at the badly wounded Huang Quan and demanded, "Huang Quan, as the City Lord of Nine Emperor City, why did something like this happen today?"
"Ancestor Zhao, today's affair wasn't my fault. It was them..."
Huang Quan hurriedly fell to his knees, trembling as he tried to explain.
"Useless trash. What use are you?"
Before Huang Quan could finish, the Zhao Family ancestor stomped him into the ground, crippling all his cultivation. He then looked at the disciples of the Zhang and Zhao Families around him and said, "The spirit vein is ruined? Arrest every person who came into contact with it! Someone clearly set our two families up on purpose! They don't want our two families earning spirit stones!"
Nine Emperor City was currently at the height of its prosperity.
The upper echelons of both families had regarded this as an opportunity for their families to soar. Perhaps they might even have a chance to develop in the Central Divine Continent. That was why all the ancestors of the two families had been willing to join forces and search for spirit veins!
Yet this upheaval