The human world was silent. Standing outside that scene, Wuchen suddenly felt the shame and anger of being stripped naked for others to stare at.
He had made his name throughout Nine Li with the word "virtue," a grandmaster everyone respected and admired. Yet in his twilight years, a monologue from his own Closed-Door Disciple had brought him crashing down into the mortal dust.
The people dared not clamor, curse, or even speak up for Chu Jin, but the boundless silence of the human world was the greatest humiliation and answer they could give him.
Outside Xingshan, above the immortal mountains, the Old Marquis recovered from his shock and said in astonishment, "I knew he was a hypocrite, but I never knew... he could be this ruthless! With Chu Jin's astonishing talent, he would have been a shining pearl anywhere in Nine Li, yet Wuchen treated him as nothing but a seed, a living cauldron for longevity."
"Alas, had we known their relationship would be so accursed, we really should have taken Chu Jin into Dongdeng Prefecture. We would have had two stars shining together now." The Old Marquis's younger brother murmured with some regret.
"Wuchen used every shameless, despicable method to control this seed. Chu Jin's Divine Soul is abnormal, and he forcibly swallowed the Divine Prohibition Fruit and cut open his belly to extract the starlight, suffering all manner of backlash... even I could do nothing to save him." The Old Marquis said regretfully as well, "Today, our Nine Li loses an unparalleled talent."
Inside Tide Dragon City, the old beggar stared at Wuchen in the Emperor's Tomb and cursed contemptuously, "That old bastard thought he could control everything about Chu Jin. He never expected complications to arise in the Emperor's Tomb. That divine fruit... affected the illusory