Chapter 419: Chapter 3 The Deceitful Sophora Dynasty
The Spirit World reemerged, and Wang Sheng did not know the reason.
Although he wanted to study it, considering its continuous expansion, he had no time to delay. If it really developed into its previous state, he estimated it would take a considerable amount of time to erase. So he immediately crushed it while the Spirit World was still feeble.
“Does the Spirit World regenerate?” he wondered.
He hadn’t been concerned with the outside world for some time, focusing on advancing his cultivation and remodeling his own Spirit World.
However, during his cultivation, he felt something was off, and when he emerged, he saw the already-formed and expanding Spirit World.
So, he subconsciously assumed that the Spirit World could regenerate.
“I should go and ask what’s happening. It can’t be the reappearance of a dynasty, can it?”
His thoughts echoed many others; they believed that cultivators, feeling the benefits of the disappearance of the Qi Fortune Grandmaster System, wouldn’t think of establishing dynasties again. After all, with the opportunity to advance, who would choose a more troublesome method?
Thus, he sought out Li Yongfeng. Qingshan Village and Yuelai Inn had many joint ventures, and their intelligence system was gradually improving, so he was quite clear about the situation outside.
“Yun Sheng, you were in seclusion; did you know that a dynasty appeared out there?” Li Yongfeng was aware that Wang Sheng had been in seclusion and was surprised he knew about such a matter.
However, Wang Sheng’s next words quelled that thought.
“A new dynasty has really emerged?”
It was just a guess, but it turned out to be true.
“Brother Yongfeng, can you tell me about this dynasty?”
He wanted to see which power was so bold as to go against the current.
Li Yongfeng did not beat around the bush and pulled out a document, explaining as he went along.
“The newly established dynasty is called the Huai Dynasty, formed not long ago. The royal family is an inconspicuous clan, the Shao family…”
After hearing this, Wang Sheng had a general understanding of the dynasty.
It was one thing to be inconspicuous, but they were also a Beast Taming Family.
“Are you sure they are taming a Demon King?”
“It can be basically confirmed. Someone has already tested them.”
To establish a dynasty, how could there be no attempt to test their strength? It was precisely because it was verified as true that Huangtian went in person to investigate.
Aside from their Taiping Sect, no other force could handle it.
“Demon King… This family is rather interesting, daring to tame a Demon King!”
How did the Demon Clan come to be?
It was established on top of the corpses of humans, with the Demon King symbolizing mountains of corpses and seas of blood.
The Human Race was an excellent food source for the Demon Clan. Was the Shao family unaware of this?
It wasn’t just about establishing a dynasty. Even if they hadn’t established it, this family could not be allowed to remain.
Li Yongfeng: “!!”
With Wang Sheng stating this, he also realized something was off.
The origin of the Demon Clan might not be universally known, but anyone with a certain level of strength was aware of it.
Normally, as soon as a dynasty was established, it would begin to eradicate the Demon Clan.
Unfortunately, like dynasties, the Demon Clan cycled endlessly. As soon as a dynasty collapsed, they would reappear.
But regardless, one thing was for sure: humans and the Demon Clan were implacable enemies.
During the era of the four great dynasties, although no dynasty openly used the Demon Clan to win over people’s hearts, none dared to truly reveal their use. They could only exploit them in secret.
Yet this Shao family openly tamed one.
“After much difficulty, the world was finally unifying, and everyone relaxed their vigilance!”
Everyone knew that once the world unified again, they would clean out the Demon Clan, which never really stirred up much trouble.
Moreover, the Huai Dynasty was newly established and many powerful individuals unconsciously overlooked it.
“Yun Sheng, this Shao family must have an issue, right?”
“Whether they have an issue or not, they now present one that must be addressed.”
To tame a Demon King, they could not be completely ignorant.
“I need to take a trip.”
Establishing a new dynasty while taming a Demon King, he wanted to see where such courage came from.
This trip was an excellent opportunity to test his reformation of the Spirit World.
He had acquired a method from the vortex that allowed the Spirit World to be anchored in a particular place, though he had not yet fully realized it.
But Wang Sheng, forging a different path, created a method that allowed his Spirit World to be anchored to a location as long as it was not too far from himself.
This approach was originally meant as an interim measure, and he hadn’t even planned to test it.
However, with the revival of the Spirit World, it proved to be an opportunity.
As he set out and needed to test this new method of his Spirit World functioning autonomously, Wang Sheng did not travel quickly, but moved forward slowly.
When he reached the territory of the Huai Dynasty in the North, and he could still access the Spirit World in the Three Counties, he knew his method was successful.
“Since that’s the case, this path is indeed worth trying.”
After the test succeeded, Wang Sheng no longer paid much attention to it.
Upon entering the Huai Dynasty, the focus was to see what exactly the Huai Dynasty was all about.
However, just as he was about to head to the Royal City of the Huai Dynasty, he noticed something abnormal in the city where he was.
“I have been paying attention to the Spirit World all this time and didn’t notice that the people of the Huai Dynasty are being controlled!”
He had chosen his current city at random.
The city’s people seemingly had no issues, but their conditions reminded Wang Sheng of the Heavenly Sect he had once encountered. It was his first exposure to spirit cultivators in this world.
The Heavenly Sect had once controlled many people using psychic methods.
Those methods were extremely terrifying. Had they not encountered Wang Sheng, they could have developed to a point where even a dynasty would be insignificant.
Yet, unexpectedly, he had come across such methods again.
His Divine Thought delved deep, conducting a meticulous examination.
“While the methods differ from the Heavenly Sect’s, their essence is the same. But to think that some have been under control for forty to fifty years?”
In the past, Wang Sheng would have only detected that these people were under control, but it would have been difficult to discern exactly how long.
Now, however, his Divine Thought was incredibly powerful, and he could clearly see how long these people had been controlled.
But—
“Forty to fifty years, wasn’t the Great Zhou Dynasty still standing back then?”
The Great Zhou Dynasty had already been making preparations before its downfall.
Could the Shao family have planned so far ahead?
Most crucially, the Shao family also possessed spiritual cultivation methods.
Although he had passed on some through the Spirit World, it was absolutely impossible in such a short time to reach the extent of controlling a Demon King. This meant the Shao family’s methods must be their own.
After completing his investigation, he retracted his Divine Thought.
Wang Sheng could now lift these controls, but he did not act.
Instead of resolving them one by one, it made more sense to find the source of control directly. Once that source was killed, all problems could be easily solved.
“The Shao family… exactly what are their secrets?”
Before long, Wang Sheng arrived at the Royal City.
What he hadn’t anticipated was that there was a standoff happening in the city.
One of the parties was someone Wang Sheng knew well, his half-disciple, Huangtian.
“Taiping Sect Leader, we respect you for protecting the common people, but attacking us without cause is wrong. The Huai Dynasty is not to be trifled with, nor are our people.”
The opposition was composed of four elders from the Shao family. They spoke of the common people, but clearly did not regard them as important.
Huangtian’s expression was somber; surrounded by the townspeople, he offered no explanation.
As a spirit cultivator, he wasn’t as powerful as Wang Sheng, but he could see that these people were controlled and knew that explaining would be futile.
He never expected that a power could carry out such actions right under the noses of their Taiping Sect, leaving him in a dilemma—fearful of removing the control or killing the controller, worried that it would affect so many people, so he dared not act.
The Shao Family Elders were also clever.
Seeing his hesitation, they acted without fear.
“Taiping Sect Leader, if you’re truly concerned, then hand over your trump card. Otherwise, I can’t guarantee what might happen!”
The Shao Family Elders used the people as a threat.
Huangtian ignored them. Although worried, he wasn’t foolish; he knew that the Shao family, daring to go this far, would not consider the lives of the common people and, being a family known for beast taming, if he handed over his trump card, he would truly be out of options.
Huangtian closed his eyes, then reopened them with a look of resolve.
“I’m sorry, but if something does happen, I will atone.”
He decided to take a gamble to see whether killing those in control would actually harm the people.
The expressions of the Shao Family Elders changed.
They did not expect that being pushed to the brink, Huangtian would make such a decision.
“Huangtian, aren’t you afraid we’ll all go down together?”
Huangtian was indeed conflicted, but having made his choice, he would not hesitate.
His teacher had once said, overcalculation brings its own troubles.
This situation was a time to put that philosophy into practice.
Just as he was resolute in his decision, a voice emerged.
“Are you sure about a pyrrhic victory?”
“Teacher!” Huangtian immediately recognized who had arrived.
He hadn’t expected his teacher to come here.
Wang Sheng appeared, nodded toward Huangtian, then turned towards the four Shao Family Elders and said, “A pyrrhic victory? You might not have the strength for that!”
With that, he made his move!