When Fellow Countrymen Meet, a Shot in the Back

Qin Chenxiang, not yet six years old, turned deathly pale the moment she heard someone was going to be killed.

Meanwhile, Qin Xuan felt as though ten thousand alpacas had trampled through his heart. He could not help but sigh. This was truly some damn grand filial piety—filial enough to kill someone.

Next, Qin Xuan used a similar line of persuasion on Qin Chenxiang as he had on Ning Rongrong.

After Qin Xuan's string of outrageous maneuvers,

Qin Chenxiang was fooled just as thoroughly.

Because Tang Hao of the Clear Sky Sect had assassinated the previous Pope, Spirit Hall had been forced to go to war with the Clear Sky Sect.

As one of the Clear Sky Sect's four major subordinate clans, the Speed Clan could originally have remained uninvolved. But many Soul Master clans, seeking to curry favor with Spirit Hall and seeing that Sharp-tailed Swifts possessed no offensive power, joined forces to attack the Speed Clan.

Not only did the Clear Sky Sect refuse to provide aid, it abandoned the Speed Clan. As a result, the Speed Clan was destroyed by numerous Soul Master clans.

Qin Chenxiang was too young to understand much of it, but she understood one sentence: the Speed Clan had been dragged into the Abyss by the Clear Sky Sect.

That was only secondary. After all, she held little affection for the Speed Clan.

But she understood an even more important sentence: Tang Hao had killed the former Pope of Spirit Hall—her godfather's elder brother, and the father of Sister Xue'er, who had always treated her very well.

From then on, like Qin Rongrong, she had a target for revenge: Tang Hao's family and the entire Clear Sky Sect.

Considering that the Clear Sky Sect might have relatives,

she and Ning Rongrong made an