When Ye Tian's Azure Resolution Cloud Piercing Sword struck the three black holes, experts from the Dong family arrived. Yet they had not come to kill demon beasts—they had come to kill Ye Tian.
The Dong family experts surrounding Ye Tian did not even spare the Nine-Headed Serpent or the child a glance. The reason they radiated killing intent was Ye Tian, and it all stemmed from a jade slip.
Ye Tian looked at the transmission jade slip in the Dong family elder's hand and suddenly laughed.
"Laugh while you can. Once you are dead, you will never know what laughter tastes like again," Dong Ling, an elder of the Dong family, said softly.
Yet Ye Tian was not laughing at them. He was laughing at himself—at his own carelessness, at his own naivety.
Ye Tian should never have forgotten something so important. But when he faced the Nine-Headed Serpent and the child, his entire body and mind had been focused on destroying them, leaving no room for any other thoughts.
Even though he had made preparations, he had still believed stopping the black holes was the top priority. Even if the Dong family came, they should have helped him stop the black holes. After all, they were both human cultivators. Surely they would not allow demon beasts to occupy this place.
Yet he had never expected that, in order to strengthen their Lineage, the Dong family would actually permit demon beasts to appear here. This act of seeking the skin of a tiger showed Ye Tian the so-called human heart once again.
Someone had once told him that ghosts were the most frightening things in the world.
But now, he wanted to say that the most frightening thing in the world was not ghosts at all, but the human