The Death Warrant was not just a normal treasure. It was considered one of the many deadly treasures. However, it was mostly useless at rank 1 and almost had no value. But, its value would keep on increasing with every increasing rank.
But the lifespan it consumed also kept on increasing with higher ranks. However, the massacre it could produce was beyond imagination if it advanced to higher levels. What was more impressive was that the more it killed, the stronger it would become. It was a double edge sword and was considered worthless. After all, by the time it advances to the higher ranks, the owner would already be dead because of lifespan consumption.
Nevertheless, it would still be protected as to not let it get into the wrong hands. However, someone wanted to steal the Death Warrant tonight.
A man wearing a veil on his face cut the neck of a cultivator from behind. The cultivator could not scream as his face was covered by the hand of the man. After a while, the cultivator fell down to the ground and died.
The knife that the man was using was made of a very sharp rock. It was of a high rank.
The man kept on moving forward and killed everyone who came his way. It could be seen that the man was very powerful compared to the cultivators that he killed.
After a while, the man arrived in front of a gate. On the gate was written, "Return If You Value Your Life".
"Hmm, if I valued my life, I would not have come here to take the Death Warrant." the man grumbled with a sinister smile.
The man pulled out something and placed it on the gate. When he did that, the gate opened slowly and a dark place appeared in front of him.
The man entered the dark place and disappeared into the darkness.
…..
Meanwhile,
"Brother, what do you think about this?" Zihao De asked the clan leader.
"Nothing, I am thinking of doing nothing at all. Let him do whatever he wants to do." Tai Qi replies with a calm face.
"Are you sure about this?" Zihao De did not understand and asked with narrowed eyes.
"Yes, I am. Why should I fight with him for a traitor who betrayed me? But, we can let him steal whatever he wants. He won't steal anything that is valuable to the clan and to me, I am sure he realized that we already know about him. However, he is still going at it. He will only steal something that can be helpful to him. And, won't this benefit us?" Tai Qi said with a confident smile.
…..
The man came in front of a shelf. On the shelf were placed many things, but the man was not interested in them. He looked at a black spider and it was four inches long. This spider had dark black eyes and was silent like a rock. It did not move and looked like it was lifeless.
It was the Death Warrant that Yang Zhai was after. It was a treasure and one of its kind. Treasures were mostly used for defense and over a few were for other purposes and were rare, the Death Warrant was one such type.
The man picked up the spider and examined it.
"Now you will know the meaning of pain, Ma Wan Liu." The man muttered. An extreme hatred was present in the words spoken by the man.
The man left after picking up the spider.
…..
"Cu Gil, don't disappoint me. I hope you create a massacre worth watching. Your revenge should shake the whole Ma clan, haha."
A red glint appeared in Tai Qi's eyes when he said this. He even laughed in a low voice at the end, as if he was the one who succeeded when the spider was stolen.
…..
The man removed the veil from his face. He was standing in the woods. The man who stole the Death Warrant was Cu Gil.
"Get ready, Ma Wan Liu. You might have thought that I would attack you, right? But that's not going to happen, I will make sure you regret what you did. I know my limits and that I will die in just a minute if I go against you." Cu Gil murmured.
He looked back at the Bai village one last time and left.
When he looked at the village, regret had appeared in his eyes.
…..
"I am sure Cu Gil wants to create a massacre at the Ma clan to take his revenge. But first, he will have to make the Death Warrant strong enough to create a massacre. This is good for us as well. This will not only kill Ma clan members but will also make Ma Wan Liu angry enough to attack us personally. Zihao De,"
"Yes, brother,"
"Announce that Cu Gil has betrayed us completely and has nothing to do with us anymore. I don't want to give others a chance to use Cu Gil as an excuse to team up with the Ma clan and gang up on us." Tai Qi said after pondering.
"I think we should do this as well. Don't worry, brother, I will do as you said."
"Also, didn't Yang Zhai want to go to the clan's treasury to choose something helpful to his cultivation?" Tai Qi looked at Zihao De and inquired.
"Yes, he did ask me. But why are you asking this?"
"Let him go to the treasury then. But make sure that he picks up the Death Warrant."
When Tai Qi said this, Zihao De was confused. He did not understand what the clan leader said at all. Wasn't the Death Warrant just stolen, then why was Tai Qi asking him to make Yang Zhai pick up the Death Warrant?
"From your expression, I can understand that you did not get what I just said. Well, I can't blame you: after all, we just saw the Death Warrant get stolen." Tai Qi smiled and continued,
"What I actually mean is to create a fake Death Warrant that matches the Death Warrant wholly, with no difference in their appearances. After that, place it in the treasury and make sure that Yang Zhai picks it up."
"But before that, spread the rumor that Yang Zhai has been allowed to enter the clan's treasury. When he picks up the fake Death Warrant, spread the rumors again that Yang Zhai chose the Death Warrant. This way, nobody will be able to blame us that Cu Gil was using our Death Warrant. We can simply say that the Death Warrant in our treasury was picked by Yang Zhai. Not just that, if something bad does happen, we will simply blame Yang Zhai for everything, but we should make sure to delay it until the final round of the competition. Before that, Yang Zhai is valuable to us."
"Now I get it, this way, we can cover up the tracks of us all, including Cu Gil." Zihao De understood the reason for Tai Qi's plan.
This plan was really beneficial for their future schemes.
…..
Three days later,
Yang Zhai was cultivating when elder Zihao De came to him and said,
"Yang Zhai,"
"Yes, elder."
"Did you have a breakthrough?"
"No,"
"I got permission from the clan leader to let you enter the clan's treasury, come with me."
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