Chapter 132 - Zihao De

"And you will be surprised to know about the reward." Elder Yu Ene said to the disciples after seeing their anxious faces.

"What is it?"

"The clan decided to give ten percent of the share of the inheritance if we win the competition to the one who performs better than the others, or if you like, you can reject the ten percent share and choose anything from the inheritance as you wish, it doesn't matter how valuable that thing is: however, in this way, you will only be allowed to pick one item. And the other two will get two percent of the share each." Elder Yu Ane spoke. 

The Bai clan did not care if only fourteen percent of the share was gone as long as it could return to the clan. After all, these three were the Bai clan disciples and would only benefit the clan if they grew stronger. So, the Bai clan was more than willing to give a little bit of the share to its disciples than the others as long as they could win the competition.

However, even after hearing about the rewards, the disciples were not happy. The news that they had achieved before was more dreadful than the benefits.

"What about the Ma clan? Are they giving the same rewards?"

"We don't know."

"Okay, now that everyone has been informed of the situation, you all can return to your rooms and train. And don't worry about your lives, as long as you are in the Ma clan, they won't try to attack you, they are not so foolish as to try to kill you right here." Elder Yu Ane explained an important point,

"Even though the competitors have already been decided, if someone is killed before the competition even begins, then we will be allowed to place someone else for the one who died. Thus, before the first round begins, nobody is going to attack you."

"And remember, the real competition is not the three rounds, but staying alive is the real competition until the third round. These three rounds could be said to be the time limit in a way. However, if all six of the competitors manage to stay alive, then of course the battles of the competition will also matter. You all can leave and practice without any fear before the first round." After elder Yu Ane said this, everyone left for their rooms.

…..

Somewhere in a dark room,

There were two men speaking to each other, and their faces could not be seen because the room was completely dark.

"You do realize what you have done, right, Zihao De?" A deep voice of a man asked someone.

"Don't worry, I am sure about what we did. This will not only help us achieve our purpose, but we will also be able to hide our traces. They must pay for what he did." The second voice replied with a calm tone at first, but the tone changed to malice at the end. 

"I did what you asked me to, now we will see what happens, even though this may risk our future." The first voice said again.

"Don't worry, brother. I am confident in what I am doing. We were just looking for an opportunity anyway. Now that it has fallen into our hands by itself, why don't we just take advantage of it." The man named Zihao De replied.

"I only agreed with you on this matter because I believe in you: otherwise, I would never have put my clan in danger like this." 

"Have no fear, brother, we already wanted to get rid of the Ma clan to begin with, their ways were really going too far. And now that he even dared to kill Ming Qi, we should have no regret to act. He was not just your son, but also mine. Even though I was not his physical father, I still took care of him, and he was like a son to me. You might be his real father, but, this doesn't mean that you are filled with more anger than me. I will destroy them from their roots." It could be seen how much Zihao De was angry at the Ma clan. It was clearly displayed in his words.

"I believe you, that is why I gave my son to you to take care of you. But, make sure that my second son doesn't get pulled into this." 

"This is why I gave such a condition. Feng Qi is rank three and the competitors are only rank 1 and no other cultivator can be chosen other than rank 1 cultivator." Zihao De stopped for a while before continuing,

"Ma clan wanted the inheritance and I took advantage of it: thus, I placed a competition in front of them through you. And they easily agreed to it as they saw a chance of winning this. After intense negotiations, the death competition was decided." 

"Now, they also know that to win the competition, they just have to kill the three of the Bai clan's competitors, and they will win. That's what I want them to do. Now, we just have to capture the people they send to assassinate the three competitors."

"However, we will only capture them and not act before the final round. In this way, we can get the Ma clan's help in deciphering the way to open the seal of the inheritance, and after the final round, we can use the excuse that they tried to kill our disciples to get rid of their few elders. This way, the agreement won't be able to affect us. And their hopes will also rise and be destroyed at the end by this scheme. The revenge in its totality, don't you think so, brother? Not just that, with the scheme set by me, Feng Qi will also not get involved in this, hahaha" with this Zihao De was trying to weaken the Ma clan and when this happens, they could get rid of the Ma clan at the right moment.

"And what's more is that the Ma clan will not be able to do anything. Not just that, even if our three disciples die, we just need to capture one of the murderers to dismiss this competition, hahahaha!!!!!." Zihao De laughed after saying everything.

"Zihao De, your scheme is really deep. However, did you get any clues on how Ming Qi disappeared?" The first man asked.

"About that, as Jun Nie was the only one who knew about Ming Qi other than us, we can be sure that his disappearance must have something to do with Jun Nie: after all, nobody knew about Ming Qi, and what would someone get by making Ming Qi disappear, except for the Second Life Ka? And Jun Nie was the one who knew about this Ka except for us, so, Jun Nie is for sure related to this." Zihao De continued,

"And after a thorough investigation, I found out that someone saw a girl and Ming Qi go with some kid before they disappeared. And then there were no traces of them left anywhere after that. However, when Jun Nie and the other Ma clan members came to the clan a few days ago, I discovered something was wrong with Jun Nie's and a few of his disciples' behavior, including his son. It was fortunate that I had already asked you to be cautious and take your daughter somewhere, as I had already expected something wrong with Jun Nie."

"Two of their disciples disappeared right before they left the Bai clan. What is more is that Jun Nie sent one of his elders away to hide this incident. Even though he tried to hide this incident, I felt something strange and went to investigate the whole of the residence. Do you know what I found?  I found traces of battle right outside your daughter's room. Someone tried to hide the battle traces, but I still managed to discover it." 

Jun Nie had sent one of his few elders back to the Ma clan to hide the disappearance of the two of his disciples after reading Yang Zhai's letter. The next day, he said that the two disciples and an elder had gone back to the Ma clan. However, except for Jun Nie, Jun Haru, and Yang Zhai, nobody knew that the two disciples had already died.

"Do you know what I think? I think that Jun Nie tried to kill your daughter and someone attempted to prevent it. Maybe this was the reason a battle occurred there. After confirming all of this, I was convinced that Jun Nie was the one behind Ming Qi's disappearance and if I am not wrong, he might have already killed Ming Qi."

"After this incident, I was even more sure that Jun Nie was responsible for Ming Qi's disappearance: thus, I sent people to murder Jun Nie on their way to the Ma clan. However, I had warned those fools I sent not to mess with Yu Ane and Yu Ene, but they did not listen and died at their hands." Zihao De came to a stop after telling everything to the first man.

"Oh, so he tried to kill my daughter. That means you were right that Jun Nie might do something wrong with my daughter if he was really behind Ming Qi's disappearance. Fortunately, I listened to you and took her away before Jun Nie arrived." The first man's voice was extremely cold when he said this. Nothing could be felt, what he was thinking of.

It seemed that Zihao De and this man trusted each other so much that they did not hide anything from each other. Even to the point that the man had given one of his two sons to Zihao De to take care of. And from all this, it could be felt that this competition was not only for inheritance.

"Brother, with this scheme, we can weaken the Ma clan, take revenge for Ming Qi, protect Feng Qi from this mess, and also take the inheritance, killing four birds with one stone." Zihao De said, and a smile could be felt when he spoke within his words.

…..

On the other hand,

Yang Zhai thought about the thing that he had heard during the last fight with the black-cloaked men.

"The man said that the third elder of the Bai clan wanted Jun Nie to be killed for killing his son, and the person also asked Jun Nie if he had the Second Life Ka or not. So, if I am not wrong, then the Second Life Ka that I have must be the same Ka. After all, his Ka is so rare that finding even one in a hundred million would be considered a miracle, as it had gone extinct a long time ago." Yang Zhai stopped and pulled out the Second Life Ka, before contemplating again,

"So, according to the black-cloaked man, this Ka belongs to the son of the third elder of the Bai clan, and Jun Nie also swore at the third elder after hearing that he was betrayed, which means that the black-cloaked man was right. So, in conclusion, I killed the son of the third elder. Sigh, I had felt something like this might happen" Yang Zhai sighed after thinking of the incident. 

He had already suspected at the moment that something was wrong with Ming Qi: after all, Ming Qi's parents were poor and there was not even a single cultivator who had cultivation above rank 1 in Ming Qi's family, so how could rank 3 Ka be obtained and also activated? And even if they did obtain this Ka, how did they know the use of it? And there was no way they would ask complete strangers to help them activate this Ka, which was so rare and important. After considering everything, Yang Zhai had suspected that someone was helping Ming Qi right when he had obtained the Ka.

"Whatever," Yang Zhai shook his head and stored the Ka. After that, he began to cultivate.


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