277: For the sake of justice, please bear more

“Han Li?” Hu Fangzheng sized Chu Mo up and down, his body surging with killing intent, and his voice was cold as he said, “I know you. You’re that annoying Han Li my daughter often talks about.”

Chu Mo smiled and asked, “The Gu Yue Sect Leader’s daughter, let me think. Among the Xuanxiao Sect’s Xiao Zhu Peak Disciples, the only one who used Gu worms was Jiang Lingsu. So, her surname isn’t Jiang, it’s Hu! Hu Lingsu!”

“You talk too much!”

Hu Fangzheng suddenly erupted, and a fierce palm wind howled as it struck out.

Chu Mo did not retreat but advanced, and his palm collided with Hu Fangzheng’s in mid-air with a resounding crash.

In an instant, a storm was stirred up within the residence. The two exchanged blows, their palms constantly clashing, and the rumbling sounds were incessant.

The residence trembled, and all the Formations were activated.

If the Formations hadn’t been strong enough, the commotion caused by their clash would have been enough to overturn half of Luoshui City.

But under their fierce confrontation, the Formations also swayed precariously, at risk of breaking.

Seeing this, the two tacitly unleashed a palm strike.

As their palms met, they both simultaneously pulled back, creating distance.

“Lingsu was indeed right; you are very special. Therefore, I cannot let you live today.”

“Hu Fangzheng, huh? Haha, I know someone named Guyue Fangzheng. He also plays with Gu, and his conduct is rather righteous. He wouldn’t be like you, competing in palm power while secretly carrying private goods in his palm.”

As he spoke, Chu Mo grabbed his right arm and pulled it sharply. In an instant, blood splattered, and a strong smell of blood quickly permeated the room.

The discarded right arm had countless tiny blood threads squirming within it, quickly sucking the entire arm dry like cured meat.

Hu Fangzheng’s face was grim.

“How did you discover it? The Bloodworm Gu is extremely concealed, you should have… *pffft*…”

As he spoke, Hu Fangzheng suddenly felt a sharp pain in his chest, and he spat out a mouthful of old blood.

The blood splattered on the ground, and the white jade floor was corroded by the black blood, with the corrosive area still expanding.

Hu Fangzheng’s face gradually turned black, and his body began to weaken. He clutched his right chest, kneeling on one knee on the ground.

“You, you poisoned me…”

He spread his right palm, and there was a scorpion-shaped black mark on his palm. Even the usually calm Hu Fangzheng’s heart skipped a beat.

This was the Five-Essence Scorpion Tail Poison, capable of causing a Transcending Tribulation Cultivator’s Primordial Spirit to perish!

“You…”

Hu Fangzheng lost control of his body. Black and viscous blood continuously seeped from his seven orifices, and his internal organs, even his Primordial Spirit, were being corroded by the poison.

At this moment, Chu Mo had already taken a Medicinal Pill for healing. The torn wound on his right arm quickly healed. He slowly walked forward, a small black flag appearing in his hand.

“You can hide Gu worms in your palm, and I can hide poison pills in my palm. Neither of us are good people…”

“We could have fought against the Demon Race together, but alas, you keep mentioning your daughter, keep mentioning Lingsu. If I told you that your daughter is already dead and that a demon, a true demon, occupies her body, would you kill her? Most likely not, right! In that case, there’s nothing more to say. Have a good journey!”

Chu Mo narrowed his eyes slightly and inserted the Human Emperor Flag into Hu Fangzheng’s spine. A dense black Qi surged into his body, completely cutting off his path to life.

Hu Fangzheng’s eyelids slowly closed.

The Gu Yue Sect Leader, dead!

Retrieving the Human Emperor Flag, Chu Mo grabbed Hu Fangzheng’s corpse and left the place.

“Since you’re unwilling to act, then I’ll help you! For the greater good of the world, you’ll have to bear with it a little more.”

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Great Qian Dynasty.

Wu Zhao, who was holding court, suddenly stood up and looked outside the main hall.

“Old Ancestor…”

Her gaze swept over the civil and military officials. Wu Zhao casually said, “Court dismissed,” and then flew outside.

The civil and military officials looked at each other.

“I still have many memorials to report!”

“Me too. Recently, the Great Qian border has been restless. Many villages and small towns have been massacred, and the surrounding county magistrates have also sent Cultivators to investigate, but those Cultivators have also gone and never returned.”

“Could it be those Demon Cultivators?”

“Most likely! Such Demon Cultivators appearing at the Great Qian border must be eliminated as quickly as possible. I originally wanted to ask Your Majesty to dispatch the Divine Martial Army to suppress them, but Your Majesty, she dismissed court!”

After the Great Qian Empress Wu Zhao announced the dismissal of court, she went to the Imperial Mausoleum where Great Qian was located.

Unlike the Great Wei Dynasty, the ancestors of Great Qian who sealed themselves here were not for their own Immortal Ascension, but to assist a certain person in passing the path to Immortal Ascension.

The successive emperors of Great Qian had quite a few complaints about the Great Qian Old Ancestor’s actions.

This generation’s Great Qian Emperor was no exception.

Upon arriving at the Imperial Mausoleum, Wu Zhao did not enter but knelt outside on one knee.

“Wu Family’s current Patriarch Wu Zhao respectfully greets the Old Ancestor.”

Here, she did not call herself the Great Qian Empress but rather the Wu Family Patriarch.

“This generation, the Wu Family, is it just you? Where are the others?!”

From deep within the Imperial Mausoleum, a woman dressed in a Dragon robe emerged. If Shen Qingqiu were here, he would surely recognize her as the strange person he met at Youming Mountain last time.

“Reporting to Old Ancestor, the Wu Family currently… only two remain, you and I.”

Wu Zhao’s words made Wu Muying frown deeply.

“I remember that fifty thousand years ago, the Wu Family had at least tens of thousands of people. How is it that only two of us are left now?”

Wu Zhao suddenly became downcast.

“Old Ancestor, according to the Wu Family’s secret scrolls, fifty thousand years ago, the Wu Family, Chu Family, and Shen Family assisted Han Qianxue in passing the Immortal Ascension path, and fought a bloody battle with the Demon Race within it. The Wu Family was almost completely wiped out and was cursed with a Bloodline curse by the Demon Race. Since then, only one female infant would be born in each generation. Over time, the Wu Family became what it is now, with only two remaining Wu Family Bloodline members: you and I!”

Wu Muying’s expression became somewhat solemn upon hearing this. She was also a person from fifty thousand years ago, and also an Emperor of Great Qian. However, at that time, before the Immortal Ascension path opened, she was ambushed and almost died.

Han Qianxue, the Reincarnation of the Heavenly Emperor of that era, used a secret technique to place her in the Imperial Mausoleum, intending to bring her to the Immortal Realm for treatment upon her return from Immortal Ascension.

However, she was never brought to the Immortal Realm even after she awoke, and she also knew that the Reincarnation of the Heavenly Emperor, after all, failed to escape this cage of heaven and earth.

It failed again, waiting for the next life.

“Old Ancestor! Old Ancestor?”

Seeing Wu Muying standing still, Wu Zhao called out softly a few times.