Chapter 267: Retribution is Inevitable (Please Subscribe)

Long before his failed sneak attack on Du En, Zhou Ze knew clearly that his fate was sealed; it was only out of a desperate hope that he had summoned his wives and concubines, causing them to gather here.

Because the matter of Lin An was not like Chi Wu; once it exploded, it would certainly be dealt with severely by the Immortal Sect!

After all, this was a border city, right up against the side of Rotten Forest, and that bottom line was set very firmly, with no room for maneuver!

"Since you knew that once the matter was exposed you could not escape, why did you dare to go from bad to worse?"

"... It was merely a trapped beast putting up a final struggle."

"Is that so?"

Du En stared at him, his calm gaze like a sharp sword uncovering the truth, then swept toward the dense, uncountable crowd of women, causing them to lower their heads in fear and guilt.

"Looking at this, and combined with that strange three-inch infant form of yours from before, I will boldly speculate: are you people selling your own children for glory?"

As the words fell, these women's hearts and minds were instantly shaken; those whose cultivation was only at the Qi Refining stage could not help but feel their legs go weak, and having their inner secrets pierced, they burst into tears.

"My Lord! Great Cultivator! This cannot be blamed on us!"

"That's right, the world is like this; we women are weak and powerless. If we want to live a good life and live like human beings, we can only do this!"

"We truly have no other way! We beg for your understanding and leniency!"

"..."

Various pleas for mercy came, and Tong Wenrong and Zuo Kui did not react at first, not knowing why, but soon a flash of insight struck them, and connecting the events, they were instantly horrified!

"Zhou, Zhou Ze, you, you, you actually eat your own children to cultivate?!"

"What a sin! How could you do this? How could you bring yourself to do it, how could you bring yourself to eat them?!"

Facing the reprimands and questions of his colleagues, Zhou Ze's expression was dejected, and madness welled up in his eyes: "What kind of sin is this? Do you not know what kind of character our Immortal Sect has!"

Tong Wenrong: "..."

Zuo Kui: "..."

Both were left speechless, their emotions stuck in place.

After all, this was truly impossible to talk about, and they didn't dare to talk about it!

Zhou Ze sighed and continued: "Also, I am not so insane that I would lay a hand on children who call me father. That's right, at most, at most they were only six months old; they had not yet come into this world, they had not yet..."

"At one hundred days, the divine palace is initially formed, and the divine soul is already born within."

Du En directly interrupted his sophistry.

The situation in this world was such that at one hundred days, an infant was already considered a person on the level of immortal cultivation.

Zhou Ze stopped speaking instantly, and those women either ceased their arguments or buried their heads deeply.

Then, Zhou Ze spoke again, his voice becoming frantic: "Yes! I took their lives. Only by using the child to nourish the father could I change my spiritual root from inferior to superior, and change my talent from third-rate to first-rate!"

"I just wanted to live, I just wanted to accumulate power, I didn't want to go to the front-line battlefield, I, I, really, really didn't want to die, so don't force me, don't force me..."

By the end, the madness was gone, replaced only by pleading.

Those women also spoke up together.

"The so-called command of parents is only natural! The future of our children should be decided by us."

"Great Cultivator, you are so high and mighty, how could you understand our bitterness?"

"Although we are selling our children for glory, our husband treats us with true affection."

"For the sake of our loving and harmonious relationship, please show mercy and let us go!"

"We just want to live better, just to survive!"

"A family handles its own affairs; we can do whatever we want behind closed doors."

"That's right, we haven't harmed anyone else, and we can maintain all matters; we have already done the best we could!"

"..."

Each sentence sounded jarring, making the faces of Tong Wenrong and Zuo Kui change; they couldn't help but clench their hands, wanting to say something to refute, but finding themselves unable to say anything.

Du En just looked at Zhou Ze calmly, watching him hide among the people, appearing pitiful, using his wives and concubines to pressure him and fight for his life.

If he hadn't come, and if that so-called trapped beast's final struggle had reached its peak, he would have attacked Tong Wenrong and the others, killed them in a sneak attack, and usurped Lin An City...

If this evil cultivation method were to spread and everyone followed suit, how would it end then...

If...

There were too many "ifs," and he did not think about them at this moment.

In the end, he simply withdrew his gaze.

Because the ending was already destined.

There was no need to make assumptions, nor was there any need to do anything more.

Zhou Ze understood this too, but he still wanted to fight for his life; unfortunately...

"You really have a heart of stone, just like the upper echelons of the Immortal Sect..."

As the words fell, the Golden Core shattered, and the man was dead.

It really did involve the Rotten Forest Immortal Sect!

So, when Du En came here, sensed something was wrong, and took action, and he could not prove that he could turn things around, then Zhou Ze's ending was destined.

The Rotten Forest Immortal Sect could not let him fall alive into the hands of the Falling Feather Immortal Sect, and even if he were dead, he had to be thoroughly buried!

Rumble—

The entire outer city administrative office began to shake; the city defense sectors infiltrated and controlled by the Rotten Forest side were disintegrating, causing a tremor on the spatial level.

Zhou Ze's corpse was simply discarded, and his wives and concubines fled in panic; only then did Du En and the others see that many of them were actually in the gestational period, having previously used illusion arts to conceal it.

Some were a few months along, some seven or eight months, and some were even about to give birth!

"Ahhh!"

"I don't want to die! I don't want to die!"

"I still want to enjoy life! I still want to enjoy life!"

"The child is innocent! The child is about to be born! So saving me is the same as saving the child!"

"Save me! Save me!"

"I'll do anything, I'll do anything, save..."

"Retribution! This is retribution!"

Amidst the panic, screams rang out one after another; some even tried to fly away on their artifacts, only to be torn apart by the spatial rifts, blood splattering everywhere, driving the others into even greater despair.

Then the space began to shatter, and when Meng Changqing intervened, it triggered a chain reaction that directly caused this space to collapse into nothingness.

The last thing Du En saw was Zhou Ze's corpse, trampled beyond recognition.

"Watching him with wives and concubines in droves, watching him become unrecognizable!"

"Sigh~!"

Zuo Kui and Tong Wenrong were both overcome with emotion, sighing incessantly.

Du En, however, turned to look at the people already sent over by Pivot City and said, "Isn't this for the best? At the very least, Rotten Forest doesn't want to restart the war, so this place won't become a battlefield, and no more people will waste their lives."

Rotten Forest Immortal Gate destroyed the evidence and didn't want to give others grounds for gossip, clearly intending to withdraw.

At the same time, on the side of Falling Feather Immortal Gate, only Golden Core stage personnel from Pivot City came to handle the remaining affairs of the Outer City Administration Office, which indicated that they also had no intention of making an issue of it to restart the war.

Therefore.

Indeed.

Not bad.

That battlefield was truly terrifying!

To be able to end things this way this time is already a great stroke of luck!

The most crucial thing is that it didn't spread to us!

After all, the two were Golden Core cultivators with long lives, not ordinary people, so such sentiments were quickly hidden in the depths of their hearts, and they focused on the matter at hand.

(End of this chapter)