In the bedroom.
Aaron sat cross-legged.
"Heaven Derivation Gu!"
"Method: Plum Blossom Divination!"
Aaron's fingers danced ceaselessly as he set in motion a divination method he had created by drawing on the strengths of a hundred schools and combining them with the Great Evolution Divine Art.
What was more, in an instant, he burned several hundred years of lifespan.
"There are no other outcomes... Has this matter simply passed?"
"The Li Family does have a sliver of hope... And if I were to actively become Bat Duke's tribulation, then all those under his sect would suffer calamity?"
At this thought, Aaron could not help but sigh before withdrawing his art.
"To cultivators, is the mortal world truly something so beneath contempt? Or are their channels of information simply too blocked off, and they rarely come among mortals? For them not to have heard of such a tragedy in a small town..."
Aaron reckoned that if they were cultivators of the orthodox mystic sects, upon hearing of such a tragedy, they would surely hunt down Bat Duke to accumulate external merit.
For there to have been no news for so long meant that... they truly had not heard of it.
'The cultivation world of this age is absurdly cut off from news...'
Aaron shook his head. Thinking again of the Li Family's sliver of hope, he could not help but sigh. "Karma turns in cycles; retribution never misses... I ought to go meddle a little as well. Consider it forging a good affinity..."
Though the Li Family had been wiped out, their fields, estates, and property remained. Naturally, countless people coveted them.
Yet stirring up even more uproar throughout the city than the Li Family was the Zhao Family of Yuanjia City. The Zhao Family had perished overnight, after which