Chapter 406: Breaking the Realm

"Great Elder, how could it be you?"

"Why, Bai Jincong, do you seem so surprised to see me?"

"Why?" Staggering back two steps, Bai Jincong could not believe his own eyes.

Having just witnessed all the experts here turn into blood and gore, and having seen an existence as strong as Shen Yu, who was nearly invincible, fall before his eyes, the impact on him was already immense.

However, when he looked up at the familiar figure standing to the side, that impact was even greater than before; it was the feeling of his convictions nearly collapsing.

The old man standing before him was Liu Rusheng, the Great Elder of the Baicao Sect, a man whom the entire Baicao Sect held in high esteem.

In the Baicao Sect, this Great Elder was unrivaled in strength, character, and prestige. It could be said that Liu Rusheng was the face of the Baicao Sect.

If he hadn't been unwilling to accept the position of Sect Master back then, how could his own father have become the new Sect Master?

After his father became tyrannical, this Great Elder had opposed him the most fiercely, and in the end, after being suppressed, he was imprisoned, his Life and Death unknown.

But why was it like this? The imprisoned Great Elder had become the ultimate winner behind the scenes, manipulating everything in the shadows.

So, the so-called benevolence, righteousness, and morality, the so-called high virtue and prestige of the Great Elder were all a disguise; everyone had been deceived by him.

For a moment, Bai Jincong's heart was in chaos, as if he were seeing this World for the first time; it seemed as though those familiar people had all become strangers in this instant.

Suddenly, a flash of realization crossed Bai Jincong's mind, and he jerked his head up, as if he had suddenly understood something.

"Great Elder, you also stepped into that cave? No, I should say you were the first one to enter it, right?"

"Yes, it must be that!" Thinking this way, everything seemed to make sense.

"Two years ago, your disciple came to report that they had discovered a mysterious place, and only then did my father take several Elders to investigate."

"We always thought my father and the Elders were the first to enter it, but now it seems you were the first to enter it."

"You obtained power there, obtained a legacy, and also obtained ambition!"

"Smart, not too stupid after all!" With a light laugh, Liu Rusheng did not deny it at all and directly admitted everything.

"Correct. In fact, I was the first person to discover that place, and the first to enter it. Actually, after I came out of there, I had already made my plans and thought through everything today!"

Walking forward, he glanced indifferently at where Bai Tu was; Bai Tu had already exploded on the spot, leaving only a pile of flesh and blood, mixed with the others, and it was impossible to tell whose was whose.

"Your father was merely a Chess Piece of mine, a target set up on the outside to attract other people's attention."

"He thought he had succeeded, but in reality, he had been working for my benefit all along. Only by him attracting everyone's gaze on the outside could I hide in the back and easily reap everything."

He walked up to Bai Jincong and looked down at him; the indifference in those eyes caused a trace of fear to well up in Bai Jincong's heart.

"Bai Jincong, you are actually very courageous. Back then, your father and several Elders entered inside, yet only your father survived; under such circumstances, you still dared to enter that place."

"Based on this alone, you have already surpassed the vast majority of people. Beneath your usual appearance of cowardice and incompetence, you actually hide a brave heart; I am very pleased by this!"

"It is no wonder you were able to accept the legacy of my old friend. He was just like you back then, cowardly and timid. But in the end, he still broke into that place with us."

"What a pity, I survived, but he died. Sigh, the person is gone, and the past is no more!"

"What do you mean? You—you are not the Great Elder at all. Who exactly are you?" Facing Liu Rusheng, who was close at hand, Bai Jincong retreated in unease, his heart filled with dread.

Especially when the other party said he had obtained his old friend's legacy, Bai Jincong realized where the problem lay, and he became even more terrified.

The other party hadn't accepted some legacy; he had simply occupied the Great Elder's body, just like his own father.

"Who am I? Hahaha, who am I? That is a good question; I have even forgotten who I am myself. I am Qi Qing, I am also Mu Hongtu, and I am still Liu Rusheng. You guess who I am?"

"You, you!" Retreating in a panic, Liu Rusheng appeared extremely dangerous at this moment, and that eerie expression made Bai Jincong feel filled with fear.

Who could imagine his feelings at this moment? The sense of dread from the person before him clearly having a familiar face but being someone else was enough to make one nearly collapse.

Not to mention that even Shen Yu had died at his hands; how could he not be afraid?

"Bai Jincong, you don't need to be afraid. How could I easily lay a hand on an old friend's successor!"

"You want to know who I am, don't you? If you saw the innermost part when you entered that cave, you would have discovered that there were several people outside the main hall there, and among them was a swordsman; that was me."

"No, to be precise, that was one of the bodies I occupied. At that time, I was still called Mu Hongtu."

"By the way, the legacy you accepted was from that old friend whose body I occupied at the time. After I occupied this body, we even spent some time together."

"Come to think of it, we are also old friends. He was quite good, just a bit stupid and a bit timid, just like you."

As he spoke, Liu Rusheng looked at himself as if reminiscing about the past. The more he did so, the more it made one feel a chill down their spine.

"Remember, back then there was also a Spiritual Qi Surge, a Great Contention Era, the world was in chaos, and there was countless slaughter."

"A lucky person obtained a Seed of the Blood Yin Fruit—the one you saw—which can pierce into a person's heart and absorb all their essence, energy, and spirit to bloom and bear fruit."

"After obtaining the Blood Yin Fruit Seed, this lucky person began to slaughter crazily, planting the fruit in countless experts to constantly strengthen himself."

"That was a good thing I had long coveted, but I had only just recovered not long before, and my strength was still somewhat insufficient."

"Plus, that idiot didn't know that a true Blood Yin Fruit needs to be nourished by the blood of top-tier experts. It was a treasure, yet he used it as a useless thing; truly a pity!"

Unable to help but shake his head, Liu Rusheng said with some helplessness, and a look of greed appeared on his face.

At the same time, his face, full of smiles, also inexplicably gained a few more traces of killing intent, making one shudder with fear.

"It was I who ran about, inciting the world's remaining and most top-tier, strongest experts to deal with him together. It was also I who secretly let those experts know his hiding place and his weaknesses."

"Only in this way would everyone choose him as the primary target and gather everyone's strength to eliminate him."

"I used these remaining experts, let these so-called Heavenly Pride go to their deaths; one reason was to solve the guy who obtained the Blood Yin Fruit, and the second was to use their blood to nourish the Blood Yin Fruit."

"Bai Jincong, can you imagine? Just a phrase about the 'great righteousness of the world' made this group of idiots boil with excitement, not even caring if they might die in the wilderness. You tell me, are they stupid or not!"

"As for that idiot who obtained the Blood Yin Fruit, he was pitifully stupid back then, stubborn as a mule, and after all these years, he still hasn't changed. Even now, he doesn't know who exactly is targeting him."

"And with that, he still thinks he has everything under control, not knowing that he is merely a Chess Piece of mine. Tsk tsk, so I say, this world is destined to belong to me!"