"Afterward, his friend kept helping him in secret, never imagining that the Chaotic Life-Birthing Art would prove so overwhelmingly domineering.
Despite a thousand precautions and ten thousand careful measures, he still suffered cultivation deviation.
On the day the Chong Household's family head lost his mind completely, he killed the dozen or so members of his lineage who had been meeting with him.
In the end, he died beneath True Lord Pinglan's sword.
The first to rush into the meeting hall was a woman of the Chong Household. She knew nothing of what had happened and assumed True Lord Pinglan had killed everyone there.
From that moment on, True Lord Pinglan's reputation was ruined.
One day within the following month, a great fire broke out at the Chong Household, deliberately set by someone with an ulterior motive.
Yet even then, not a single member of the Chong Household ran out to seek help.
Only when True Lord Pinglan arrived did he discover that a barrier shrouded the Chong Household. It was not hard to imagine that whoever had erected it meant to wipe out the entire lineage. Two hundred years ago, True Lord Pinglan had not yet attained his later cultivation, so he used his own essence blood to forcefully break the formation. Unfortunately, by the time it shattered, it was already too late. The fire had all but raged beyond control.
In the end, he managed to save only Chong Mo, who had still been a babe in swaddling clothes. He survived only because the Chong Household's sole Fourth Tier Formation had been used to protect him.
Afterward, True Lord Pinglan began investigating the cause of the fire everywhere he could, but the perpetrators had been utterly ruthless, their arrangements so watertight that not a drop could leak through. He