In an unremarkable little city in the northern part of the Great Scarlet Reach.
Creak.
In a luxurious courtyard, a scantily dressed maid pushed open a door with a platter of fruit and vegetables in her hands. "Master, here is the fruit you requested," she said softly.
Boom!
The moment the maid entered the room, a powerful pressure erupted within it.
As the pressure descended on her, the young maid turned deathly pale. The porcelain platter slipped from her hands with a clatter and shattered on the floor.
"Ah... spare me, Master! Spare me!"
The young maid looked up and saw a burly middle-aged man with a murderous air, bloodshot eyes, and disheveled hair.
His eyes blazed with fury.
"Die!"
As though venting his rage, the middle-aged man abruptly waved his hand. A surge of power blasted into the young maid.
With a muffled grunt, she was hurled out of the room and slammed into the courtyard, dying on the spot.
There were many other maids and guards in the courtyard.
Now, every one of them fell silent as cicadas in winter.
Bang!
The door slammed shut.
The pressure quickly dissipated, but the overwhelmingly dense killing intent still permeated the entire courtyard.
"Qin Hao, damn you, Qin Hao!"
"You destroyed my true self! I, Lei Yunkui, cannot live under the same sky as you!"
The middle-aged man's furious, hoarse roar rang out from the room.
This middle-aged man was none other than Lei Yunkui. However, he was not Lei Yunkui's true self, but a doppelganger he had refined.
With his true self dead, Lei Yunkui was consumed by rage.
It meant he could never advance again. Becoming a Venerable Martial Venerable was out of the question; even restoring his true self's peak strength was nothing but a fool's dream.
His