Chapter 5913: It Happened Two Hundred Years Ago
Chu Feng and Zi Ling had already concealed themselves after emerging from the teleportation formation, so others couldnât see them unless they allowed it. Thus, no one knew that they had been there even though they were the first ones to arrive there.
As the crowd had fled out of fear, everyone thought that this city was emptied.
âBig brother Chu Feng, do you think whatâs inside the formation is the key fragment?â Zi Ling asked.
âThereâs such a possibility,â Chu Feng replied.
âI didnât expect the Seven Realms Sacred Mansion to be so vicious. They could have just taken the formation away with them; thereâs no need to massacre the entire Tan Clan.â Zi Ling was getting more and more certain this was the doing of the Seven Realms Sacred Mansion.
Based on what they had heard, normal people couldnât hope to faze or move the formation here away, but it had disappeared now. Who else other than the Seven Realms Sacred Mansion had the means to do that?
Not to mention the formation was the very goal of the Seven Realms Sacred Mansion.
âI donât get it,â Zi Ling said.
Chu Feng had been observing the area when he heard Zi Lingâs words, so he asked, âWhat donât you get?â
âThe Seven Realms Sacred Mansion had the means to silently take whatever they wanted with them; did they have to go on a massacre?â Zi Ling asked.
âThey do it because they are strong enough,â Chu Feng replied.
âStrong enough?â Zi Ling thought that the reason was ridiculous. How could being strong enough be a reason to massacre tens of millions?
âThey saw those as mere ants, and they wanted to do a clean job as this matter concerns the Ancestral Martial Realm Sectâs treasure. They couldnât allow anything to go wrong. Yes, the Tan Clan wouldnât have been an obstacle to the Seven Realms Sacred Mansion, but the latter felt more at ease with their deaths. If trampling on a bunch of ants could bring you ease of mind, how many people would be willing to do it?â Chu Feng replied.
âBut they arenât ants like living people!â Zi Ling exclaimed.
âThatâs why I said they are strong enough. And they have been strong for far too long a time. That bred their arrogance and coldness. They think that they have truly become gods, so they started seeing the rest of the world as ants,â Chu Feng replied.
âI would never do such a thing even if I became strong,â Zi Ling replied.
âThatâs because my Zi Ling is a good person, but this is a world that follows the survival of the fittest. How many good people can there be in this world? However, I agree that someone with principles should call the shots, and that person should at least not massacre the innocent and be willing to stand up for the weak. If all of the galaxy overlords were good people, the world of cultivation need not be how it is now.â Chu Feng said on a whim.
Zi Ling nodded vehemently in agreement.
She had worked hard on her cultivation in hopes that she could help Chu Feng instead of pulling him back. She wanted to be able to fight alongside him the way they first met. However, she had now found a new reason for her to become strong.
The world shouldnât be the way it was.
The strong should use their powers to help the world instead of being self-entitled and squeezing everything they lorded over dry. If she ever governed a land, she would make sure to establish order and protect the weak.
âBig brother Chu Feng, what are you looking for?â Zi Ling asked.
She realized that Chu Feng had been looking around amid their chatter, even taking out the Celestial Masterâs Horsetail Whisk. And the Celestial Masterâs Horsetail Whisk had provided him with its guidance too.
However, she was unable to discern anything at all.
âIâm looking for clues,â Chu Feng replied.
âDid you find anything?â Zi Ling asked.
âJie Tianran likely sent one of the Seven Realms Sacred Mansionâs elders here instead of coming down himself,â Chu Feng replied.
âWhat makes you say that?â Zi Ling asked.
âThe formation they took might not be the real one. Thereâs another unfathomable formation hidden here. I can sense it, but Iâm unable to put my finger on it. Itâs an ingenious creation. Iâll need to find the key to activate it.
âThis hidden formation is extremely important. If Jie Tianran was here, he would have noticed it, and he wouldnât have left this place just like that,â Chu Feng replied.
âSo, the formation that the Seven Realms Sacred Mansion took away might not have the treasure at all?â Zi Ling asked.
âThatâs hard to say, but the hidden formation is formidable. I guess that the hidden formation is the real formation, whereas what the Seven Realms Sacred Mansion took away is just bait. Even so, the bait formation is still incredibly powerful. They shouldnât have been able to take it away under normal means. Something must have happened here,â Chu Feng said.
âWhat happened?â Zi Ling asked.
âI can only tell that it happened two hundred years ago. It was due to that incident that the Seven Realms Sacred Mansion was able to take away the unmovable formation.â
Chu Feng continued examining the area, but those were all the clues here. He figured that if there was truly a key fragment here, it was likely to still be here.
âLetâs go, Zi Ling.â Chu Feng took Zi Ling away with him.
While they were flying away, he began constructing a formation. Zi Ling was initially confused until an old man appeared in front of them. It was the old man who discovered that the formation inside the underground chamber had vanished.
The old man was a close friend of the Tan Clan, so he should be familiar with their affairs.
It turned out that Chu Feng had left a mark on the old man, but Zi Ling didnât even notice it.
Weng!
Chu Feng raised his arm, and the formation in his hand fell from the sky like a giant bell, trapping the old man in place. The old man found his surroundings shrouded in a fog.
Chu Feng stepped into the old manâs line of sight, but he had altered his appearance.
âMilord, you are?â The old man looked at Chu Feng, but he didnât recognize the latter. Nevertheless, he could tell that Chu Feng was stronger than him.
âYouâre in close ties with the Tan Clan?â Chu Feng asked.
The old man quickly bowed and replied, âListen to me, milord. Iâm just acquaintances with the Tan Clan. We arenât that close at all!â
He was terrified, thinking that Chu Feng was the culprit who massacred the Tan Clan.
âCalm down. I had ties with the Tan Clan too, just that I donât know much about them. I wish to avenge the Tan Clan, but I need to gather more information first,â Chu Feng replied.
The old man heaved a sigh of relief. âMilord, what do you want to know?â
âDid something happen to the Tan Clan two hundred years ago?â Chu Feng asked.
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