"Hm? She was murdered? What happened?" Xiao Yu asked in surprise.
Had events still unfolded as before, with someone plotting her death? Things should have changed. Before reaching Core Formation, he had sold the Miaoyin Sect a large quantity of Demon Beast materials at wholesale prices, allowing them to earn a tidy profit as intermediaries.
That had lifted the entire Miaoyin Sect's development to a new level. Many disciples had gained considerable resources through this opportunity and improved their cultivation. Surely the task of earning Spirit Stones should have been left to the disciples.
Wang Ning then explained the whole story:
"Thanks to the transactions you conducted with our sect years ago, Senior, many of our disciples grew stronger. For a long time, the Sect Master has no longer needed to handle ordinary transactions personally."
"But more than ten years ago, a major client approached us with an enormous deal. The Sect Master was uneasy and went to escort the shipment herself. Who could have imagined that someone would deliberately ambush her along the way? They had five or six Core Formation cultivators alone. Outnumbered, the Sect Master died on the spot."
At this point, tears welled in Wang Ning's eyes. She wiped them with her hand before continuing:
"What was infuriating was that, afterward, we sisters invited others to help avenge the Sect Master. But when we fought our way into the enemy's lair, we discovered that we had targeted the wrong people. Both sides had been manipulated by a third party."
"And the most hateful part was that Elders Zhao and Fu, the two early Core Formation cultivators our sect had supported, turned out to be moles—traitors! It was because of those two that the Sect Master fell victim to those villains!" Her eyes blazed with fury at