The whole room was silent; not a single person spoke. After a few seconds, Li Tian spoke, "Do you know that lying to us is tantamount to death?"
The disciple: "How could I? How could I lie to you, Young Master? See, I even brought their soul tablets with me..." By just saying this, the Soul Tablet Hall disciple took out five broken soul tablets and gave those to the elders...
One of the elders said, shaking, "Young! Young Master! They are all the soul tablets of the Family Head, Ancestor, and the other three elders..."
Another one said, "Didn't they go to The Eternal Sect to conquer it? What kind of horror resides there that killed all of them?"
Li Tian spoke gloomily at this moment, "Maybe they were killed by someone else; that trash sect doesn't have this kind of power to act. Don't forget our Ancestor was a true Nascent Soul expert."
Before he spoke any further, a huge sound came to the hall... Boom... boommm...
"What! What happened!"
"Someone is attacking our family!"
Someone said in horror; they didn't know what was happening, but Li Tian and those elders knew. They didn't even imagine the person who killed their Family Head and elders would come here to attack. They immediately left the hall and came outside to see nine people had come to attack, but due to the night, they couldn't see their faces clearly.
Li Tian: "Your Highness! I don't know why are you attacking our family?"
"Heh! Ptui! You don't know? Aren't you the one who attacked The Eternal Sect first? We just came here to return your karma."
Everyone, even the rest of the seven Peak Masters and Ancestor Gu Xuan, looked at Ba Tian; they didn't know Ba Tian had this kind of talent to piss someone off. They all gave him a thumbs up.
By just hearing the name of The Eternal Sect, the whole area got frozen. Who didn't know that just a few hours ago their Ancestor and Patriarch went with three other elders to destroy the Eternal Sect? But now they are dead, and the other party came here for revenge.
Li Tian's face was gloomy; he said by gritting his teeth, "Are you guys wanting to be enemies of my Li family? Don't you even think of Goddess Nexus?"
This time, surprisingly, Mu Qing, the most composed one from the eight Peak Masters, said, "Ptui! What 'want to be your enemy'? Aren't we already enemies of life and death? Didn't you guys secretly kill our old Sect Master by putting poison in his breakthrough pill? Ptui to your family! Ptui to your Ancestor!"
This time, the other Peak Masters and Ancestor Gu Xuan comically looked at Mu Qing. They never saw him curse. He was the most composed one, even in dangerous times. But just after he saw that pill in Huai's hand, from then on he became fearless, even starting to curse. Ba Tian nodded in acknowledgment towards Mu Qing. While Shui Miao put a hand to her face and smiled, others also felt happy seeing Mu Qing say what they wanted to say.
But on the side of the Li family, everyone's face was more gloomy. To conquer the Eternal Sect, the Li family's all Golden Core experts and above had gone to the Eternal Sect; now they were dead, while the family only had Foundation Establishment and lower-realm members.
Li Tian thought it over and said gloomily, "Compromise! We'd like to make a compromise. No matter what the Eternal Sect wants, we'll give it to you..."
Before he finished speaking, Su Yun said, smirking, "After killing you all, don't we have everything we want?"
This sentence made a ripple throughout the family. They didn't know what to say; they didn't have anything to offer anymore. At this particular moment, Gu Xuan raised his hand and, with a single slap, slapped towards the Li family formation. The formation lit up, but in a few seconds, it broke into several pieces, then turned into specks of light and disappeared.
Li Tian, after looking at all of this, spoke in horror, "Nascent Soul! You're in the Nascent Soul realm. But how is it possible that you reached that realm? We did everything so that you didn't have those pills."
What no one knew was that their family did everything in its power to cut off the Eternal Sect's power. They even bribed the Pill Hall branch leader in the city to leave poison in the breakthrough pill that Ling Xiao took. They also made it clear so that no other member of the Eternal Sect could get a breakthrough pill.
Yan Ruyu: "So it was also you guys for whom we were rejected to get pills all this time."
A realization hit the group of Peak Masters. Although Mu Qing was also an alchemist, he was a lower-level Grade 9 alchemist; he didn't have proper medicinal herbs or equipment to make those pills that they needed. Every time they went to the Pill Hall to buy medicine, they were rejected by the staff for various reasons. Now they knew why.
Gu Xuan: "So the Sect Master was right. He already told us that he'd talk to the Goddess about this matter."
But hearing that sentence, Li Tian's face was gloomy. Although the Goddess can connect with every single human in this galaxy, still she can't observe everyone all the time. So some people found many loopholes to plunder and do countless bad things, but if what Gu Xuan said was true, then they'd face the wrath of the Goddess. His face was pale...
He attacked Shui Miao directly because she was the one standing near him, but he was slapped to death the moment he got close to Shui Miao. The elders of the Li family gulped; they never imagined in their lives they'd get attacked.
Gu Xuan looked towards the Peak Masters and nodded. Just by getting the permission, the Peak Masters attacked the group of the Li family fiercely. In just a single moment, there were swords, blades, spears, fire, earth, water, wind, and wood elements erupting one after another. Body after body fell upon the floor. The elders died one after another. With no one at the level of Golden Core, the disciples of the Li family fell one after another. In just a few minutes, all the members of the Li family died. The whole family was now covered in blood, as if a sea of blood came to the Li family to drown them.
When everyone was just cleaning their swords, spears, and weapons, Ba Tian went to search for treasures and surprisingly found many: spirit stones, millions of low-grade spirit stones, hundreds of medicinal herbs, and even pills—healing pills and breakthrough pills of lower grades were all there. Other Peak Masters also collected the spirit bags and treasures from the dead bodies of those Li family members. Gu Xuan came to the secret treasury of the Li family, where he found the documents and ledgers of the properties of the Li family.
After collecting all the things from the Li family, all the Peak Masters and Ancestor Gu Xuan came to the front area of the Li family. Then everyone nodded at each other to agree that everything was done. Then they left the Li family together...
After they came back to the sect, they arranged a meeting for the whole sect. There were Huai, Ancestor Gu Xuan, all the Peak Masters, stewards, and other elders, too. Huai told them all the good news of the sect's update to a 9th-tier higher-level sect and even that the Goddess wouldn't interfere in the matter of the Li family. But he didn't tell them about his 6th-grade alchemy achievement or the 7th-tier citizenship of the Human Federation. Everyone was happy after knowing all of this; the whole sect was in a joyous occasion of victory...
But for the personal disciples of the Eternal Sect Peak Masters, they didn't know anything about the things that happened in the sect for the last few days. They were getting experience outside of the sect, making small groups of four...
In a tea house, there sat four boys around 13-14 years old; they were the personal disciples of four Peak Masters: Sword Peak, Spear Peak, Earth Peak, and Wood Peak.
In the table sat a slender boy with a handsome face; he was wearing the sect's black uniform with the sect's token hanging from his waist. One side of the token was written "Eternal" and the other side was written "Sword." Even on his chest was written the word "Sword," which indicates that he is a disciple of the Sword Peak. A sword was hanging from his waist, too; he was the personal disciple of the Sword Peak Master, Lin Feng (Foundation Establishment level 9).
Beside him sat a tall boy with sharp eyes and short hair; he was also wearing the sect's uniform, but on his uniform's chest and on the sect token, the word "Spear" was written, indicating he is a disciple of the Spear Peak. A long spear was standing beside him. He is the personal disciple of the Spear Peak Master, Mu Chen (Foundation Establishment level 3).
On the opposite side of the table sat two other boys. One looked bulky but with a slender face, sword-like eyebrows, and brown hair, wearing the uniform and token with the word "Earth" written on it, indicating he is a disciple of the Earth Peak. He is the personal disciple of the Earth Peak Master, Da Zhuang (Qi Condensation level 9).
Beside him was a boy with a gentle face, the aura of wood lingering around him with a gentle nature, wearing the uniform and sect token with the word "Wood" written on it, indicating he's a disciple of the Wood Peak. He is the personal disciple of the Wood Peak Master, Bai Wei (Qi Condensation level 7).
The tea shop they were in is a tea shop famous in the nearby city called White Peony Tea Shop, a renowned tea shop of Red Brick City. Red Brick City is a city under the jurisdiction of the Eternal Sect. They were enjoying their tea when a whisper reached their ears...
"Did you see them? They are the disciples of The Eternal Sect."
"That Eternal Sect?"
"Yes, or else what? How many Eternal Sects are there in this vicinity?"
"Oh my god, I heard The Eternal Sect announced to the public that they destroyed the Li family... do you believe that?"
"I don't think it is true. Just a few days ago, the Ancestor of the Li family, Li Kuang, invited over the City Lord of Red Brick City to celebrate his breakthrough to Nascent Soul level 2. But now someone is spreading false news; aren't they afraid of the fact..."
Before he finished speaking, someone refuted and said, "Brother, you don't know anything. Someone went to the Li family—guess what they saw there?"
"Hey, don't create suspense, just say it already."
"Hehe... they saw blood, and the members of the whole Li family died on the floor..."
"Even The Eternal Sect announced their advancement to a higher-level 9th-tier sect."
"Do you know what that means? It means that they also have members at the level of Nascent Soul."
The sound of gulping and gasping filled the whole tea house. Even the disciples of the Eternal Sect gulped at this moment... They also looked into each other's eyes when Da Zhuang gulped and asked, "Is it true?"
Mu Chen looked at him then said in a hurried tone, "If it is not true, then why would the sect spread this false rumor?"
Bai Wei was more composed; he said suddenly, "Or is someone spreading the false rumor to make our sect more miserable?"
Lin Feng was tapping his finger on the table but said in a deep tone, "No! Not possible. I think what they said is true, or else our sect would respond in denial. But our sect didn't refute those rumors. So it is clear that our sect is involved in this incident. Something definitely happened to our sect; we need to go back there immediately."
As the four youths stood up, the air around them seemed to sharpen. They were no longer just traveling disciples; they were the future of a sect that had just shaken the entire region.