Yuanjia City.
"Bad news! Fire!"
"The entire Zhao estate is burning..."
"This fire is truly sinister. Not a single soul in the whole household escaped with their life..."
Some of the surrounding people fought the fire, while others chattered and pointed, yet none noticed the black-robed old Daoist with a face full of flesh and three topknots on his head, looking utterly bizarre. Hearing this, he let out a cold laugh and turned to leave.
Once outside the city, without doing anything in particular, a dark-red demonic radiance appeared around him, carrying his body through the air toward Yu Kang Town.
"The Zhao Family swindled this old man's two disciples. They deserved this retribution!"
This man was none other than Bat Duke!
For the past several decades, he had been using a Secret Art of the demonic sect to fuse Killing Intent and astral qi into Bloodthirsty Demonic Radiance, seeking to break through to the Mystic Light Realm!
Methods for breaking through to Mystic Light were true secret transmissions. Among the Rogue Cultivators of the unorthodox paths, they were even rarer, hailed as genuine immortal methods.
After all, once one broke through to Mystic Light, not only could one wield many spells that those in the Killing Intent and Outer Astral realms could not, one could also fly on the physical body, travel in and out of the azure heavens, and even extend one's lifespan!
The inheritance Bat Duke had obtained from Hundred Birds Temple only went as far as Mystic Light.
Previously, he had been at a critical juncture in seclusion, attempting his breakthrough. Even when his disciple died, he had not come seeking vengeance.
Now that he had advanced, the first thing he intended to do was slaughter his enemy's entire family and search again for that treasure.