"ah……"
"There's a spy..."
"Traitors, you deserve to die..."
"Someone has poisoned it..."
A series of shrill cries echoed across the sky above Mufeng City.
These sounds rang out almost simultaneously; in the span of a single breath, Lu Tao heard hundreds, even thousands, of screams.
For a moment, Lu Tao was stunned.
Judging from those screams, it turned out that spies and traitors had launched a riot in Mufeng City.
Coming to his senses, Lu Tao was about to use his Heavenly Eye and Divine Sense to assess the situation in Mufeng City when...
boom!
The protective array atop the Immortal Sect's residence has been under attack, and the attacks continue unabated.
Clearly, someone has infiltrated the Immortal Sect.
"court death!"
Enraged, Lu Tao stormed out of the room.
"Brother Lu..."
"metropolitan……"
Inside the mansion, the other Immortal Sect disciples also rushed out of their rooms in a panic, looking up at the sky above the Immortal Sect.
There were two innate experts flying in mid-air, constantly attacking the protective formation, cursing as they said, "Damn, what kind of formation is this? Its defense is so strong!"
"You will soon see something even stronger."
With a gloomy expression, Lu Tao soared into the sky, flying directly out of the formation. He looked coldly at the two innate masters and charged forward.
"A mere first level of the Innate Realm..."
The two middle-aged men, both at the Innate Realm, wore sneers and didn't take Lu Tao seriously. However, one of them stopped speaking before he could finish.
Then his gaze kept shifting, as if he were rolling around.
During the transformation, he also saw his own body, but without a head.
He was actually beheaded in one blow?
The man was stunned for a moment, and a great fear arose in his heart. His consciousness instantly left his body. Just as he was about to run away, he suddenly found Lu Tao standing in front of his consciousness, holding his companion's head in his hand, expressionless.
"Senior, please spare my life..."
The man's mind trembled, filled with fear.
He never expected that Lu Tao's strength would be so great, killing them, two mid-stage Innate Realm cultivators at the fourth level, in an instant.
Such strength indicates a late-stage expert at least at the seventh level of the Innate Realm, or even more.
laugh!
Lu Tao activated his pupil technique, unleashing a tangible beam of light that instantly killed the man's consciousness, causing him to vanish without a trace.
Lu Tao turned his head and looked around.
Even without using his Heavenly Eye, Lu Tao could see that there was fighting all around him.
Mansions, brothels, inns, city lord's mansions, and all other places were hit by sudden attacks almost simultaneously.
It was so sudden, yet so perfectly timed.
It's as if tonight's attack was planned a long time ago.
"Why? Ah..."
"Our sects have been closely allies..."
"How dare you betray Daqian?"
...
Despair, fear, disbelief... all sorts of voices rang out everywhere.
They seemed unable to believe that a traitor had appeared among their own people; they had been betrayed.
Lu Tao used his Heavenly Eye and Divine Sense to scan the surroundings simultaneously, discovering that the fighting was even more brutal in the inn and the city lord's mansion.
One moment they were chatting and drinking tea together, the next they raised their knives and slaughtered those around them, obliterating their consciousness as they looked on in bewilderment.
Almost in the blink of an eye.
Thousands of cultivators were caught off guard and killed in a sneak attack.
Those who suddenly launched a sneak attack were not only independent cultivators, but also members of a sect... the entire sect was actually composed of traitors.
Seeing this, Lu Tao felt a chill run down his spine.
That's terrifying.
If it were just a few rogue cultivators or individuals betraying their masters, Lu Tao could understand it. After all, it's the martial arts world, and it's normal to have spies in enemy countries. But such a large-scale betrayal...
A rare look of bewilderment and helplessness appeared on Lu Tao's face.
It was a feeling of despair, a sense of hopelessness.
"kill!"
Lu Tao had only been watching for a few breaths when a Xiantian expert rushed towards him.
The newcomers were two late-stage Innate Realm experts, meaning their cultivation had reached the seventh level or higher.
Lu Tao's face was gloomy, and he charged forward without saying a word.
A perfect-level Earth-rank low-grade sword technique and Earth-rank low-grade movement technique, combined with a spirit sword and spirit-equipped cloth shoes...
Lu Tao's murderous intent surged.
These traitors deserve to die!
*Sizzle*
With a single stroke, a head falls.
One glance, and all senses vanished.
Another instant kill; even a late-stage Innate Realm cultivator was no match for Lu Tao.
"Help!"
Upon seeing this, the other person was horrified. He immediately stopped abruptly, turned around, and fled without pausing for even a moment.
call out!
Unfortunately, an arrow streaked across the night sky like a beam of light, arriving in an instant and piercing straight through his head, annihilating even his consciousness with a single strike.
The body was caught by Lu Tao before it even hit the ground, and he put it into the system space along with the storage bag.
"Help! I don't want to die!"
"Ah... someone please save us."
"Spare me, please spare me... uh."
...
"Hehehe, all of you, go to hell."
"Today we will annex Yongkang Prefecture, and tomorrow we will destroy the Great Gan Kingdom!"
"Lord of the city, you can't escape. Surrender now, and we'll give you a chance to submit to us."
Shouts of killing, screams of agony, pleas for mercy, and bloodthirsty laughter filled the entire sky above Mufeng City.
At this moment, Mufeng City was like a living hell.
Countless people died tragically, whether they were cultivators or ordinary people, they fell one after another.
Those traitors didn't even spare ordinary people, reaping them without hesitation, as if they were harvesting insects rather than human lives.
Mufeng City suffered heavy losses.
Even the city lord of Mufeng City was ambushed and seriously injured, and is currently being besieged by several Divine Platform experts.
——
"kill!"
Lu Tao's eyes were bloodshot as he suddenly rushed toward a mansion not far from the Immortal Sect.
There.
The sect that had been staying at the mansion slaughtered the entire family of the mansion owner with a few laughs, as if they were butchering pigs and cattle.
This applies to everyone, whether they are elderly, women, or children.
The mansion's owner was not weak either, possessing the cultivation of the first level of the Innate Realm, but he was ambushed and killed in one move, dying with his eyes wide open in disbelief.
They had lent their mansion to these people out of kindness, but were betrayed in return.
How can he rest in peace?
"You all deserve to die!"
Lu Tao roared, as if possessed by a god of death, and charged directly into the group of traitors.
Lu Tao didn't know which sect this was, nor did he want to know. At this moment, he felt as if endless flames were burning in his chest, with nowhere to vent them. He only wanted to slaughter this bunch of bastards.
"court death!"
"Kill him, and there are still people coming to their deaths."
"Ignorance is bliss."
These people weren't afraid at all. How dare someone who was only at the first level of the Innate Realm rush up like this? Wasn't that just courting death?
Pfft!
However, in just one exchange, one of the innate elders who was at the forefront fell to Lu Tao's blade.
Without pausing, giving the others no time to react, Lu Tao transformed into the Grim Reaper, wielding his Death Blade to reap their lives as if harvesting insects.
"No, brother, this is a misunderstanding..."
"It's a misunderstanding, we...we were forced into it."
No matter how much these people begged for mercy, Lu Tao never stopped. With each swing of his spirit blade, one traitor after another fell.
The unrestrained, cruel smiles on their faces were replaced by fear—a fear they were so familiar with, just moments ago, on the face of the mansion's owner.
Now, the fear has shifted to them.
Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle...
As one traitor after another fell, Lu Tao eventually slaughtered and wiped out the entire unknown sect.
The entire mansion was so quiet you could hear a pin drop.
There was only one little girl, staring blankly at her loved one lying in a pool of blood, kneeling on the ground, her face numb.
"Come with me."
Lu Tao sighed silently, landed in front of the little girl, and stretched out his hand to her.
The little girl, her eyes vacant, subconsciously looked up at Lu Tao, as if regaining some life, before looking at her recently deceased siblings, parents, and grandfather...
She burst into tears, lay on her mother's body, and cried her heart out.
Lu Tao felt extremely distressed.
When he turned to look at other parts of Mufeng City, the discomfort felt like invisible swords slashing at his chest, trying to tear his heart apart.
The tragedy that befell this mansion is like a microcosm of the entire Mufeng City.
A living hell.
Do you want revenge?
Lu Tao didn't want to waste too much time here. He knew he shouldn't plant the seeds of hatred in a child's heart, but if he didn't, the little girl probably wouldn't go with him directly.
He couldn't bear to leave the little girl there unattended, fearing she might be killed.
Upon hearing this, the little girl stopped crying, bit her lip, wiped away her tears, stood up, and took Lu Tao's hand.
Lu Tao lifted the little girl into his arms and flew towards the Immortal Sect's residence.
The little girl stared intently at everything inside her family's mansion, her eyes filled with hatred. She imprinted the faces of her loved ones into her mind and etched those tragic scenes into her blood.
"Stay here."
Lu Tao placed the little girl at the Immortal Sect, then soared into the sky without a moment's hesitation, heading towards another mansion...
He never considered escaping with the Immortal Sect members, because it was simply impossible.
Unless he runs away alone.
But he couldn't do it either.
Lu Tao continued to rescue people everywhere. As he killed more and more traitors, he witnessed more and more tragedies. Lu Tao's heart sank and grew cold, and all that remained in his body was endless killing intent and hatred.
"A thousand layers of snow, a poignant tale... Fallen leaves flutter, the person is gone..."
As Lu Tao flew past a brothel, he saw a courtesan sitting on the windowsill, her face bearing a sorrowful smile, her body covered in blood, singing a mournful song with lifeless eyes.
The song was so mournful that it brought sorrow to the listener and grief to the heart, leaving one feeling suffocated and filled with rage.
But when it reached Lu Tao's ears, it was like a bolt of lightning, illuminating the darkness in his heart where no hope could be found...
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