Chapter 854

This large-scale weird invasion severely compressed the living space of local weirds, and they seemed to have concepts of territory, beginning to fight each other.

The battles between weirds affected humans.

Unstable villages, once already unstable, flocked to big cities for safety in numbers, allowing Qingsi County—once in decline—to rapidly revive.

The 【Fallen Petal Weird】 clan, while fighting local weirds for territory, appeared to be hunting a person named Niu Niu.

Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu originally thought they were looking for the Niu Niu she knew, but the Fallen Petal Weirds were seeking Niu Niu of the Flame Fire Sect—this was not the same person, so she paid it no mind.

The rampaging Fallen Petal Weirds soon established a foothold in the Heiqing Shanmai region.

But not long after settling down, the 【Fallen Petal Weirds】 suddenly surged en masse toward Heiqing Shanmai.

After that, what happened, she did not know—only that afterward, she rarely saw the strange outsider 【Fallen Petal Stranger】 again.

"Heiqing Shanmai… Transcendence-level Weird…"

Boom!!

As Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu thought of this, a sudden explosion rang out outside, and the carriage lurched violently, nearly throwing her out.

She stabilized her stance, leaned out, and saw the driver frantically apologizing.

When Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu asked the reason, she was stunned.

"Earthquake?"

Having stayed in Qingsi County so long, she rarely heard talk of earthquakes.

Looking down at the ground, she indeed saw a crack splitting the earth.

And it wasn't just her side—looking around, the ground everywhere showed cracks, as if the entire surface had suffered some impact.

Boom!!

Another deafening roar—cracks on the ground spread further, becoming more severe and fragmented.

If this continued, the Official Road would collapse and become unusable.

"What exactly is happening…"

Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu felt confused, recalling where the sound had originated—it seemed… toward Heiqing Shanmai.

Looking at the direction of the cracks spreading across the ground—it was unmistakably Heiqing Shanmai!

"Something must have happened over there!"

Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu thought for a moment, then returned to the carriage and told the driver:

"Hurry up. It's fine to veer off the Official Road— I want to reach Jingcheng as soon as possible."

"Yes!"

Though she worried about Qingsi County's situation—after all, the rebuilt Qingsi County was also her life's work.

But Heiqing Shanmai was a place of that caliber—she could not interfere.

Ignoring it entirely was the best response.

Heiqing Shanmai had remained untouched for so many years, never harming the villages around it—this time wouldn't be any different, surely.

With concern in her heart, Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu opened the Ganliang she had prepared for the journey.

【Green-Eyed Frog Legs】, 【Big-Head Rabbit Meat】, 【She-Xu Weird Lamb Leg Meat】…

She cooked and prepared various weird corpses as ingredients, turning them into delicious meals.

Under the innate condition that eating increased her stats, Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu, after her initial impulsive phase, began scientifically and rationally preparing weird corpses, achieving dual satisfaction in flavor and stats.

Of course, she had paid a great deal of effort—she had to improve her pitiful cooking enough to make weird corpses edible.

Those were truly grueling days.

Recalling how she had churned out endless dark dishes just to test flavors, forced to eat them all herself—it was a hellish time.

Now, everything was different—she had graduated.

Eating delicious weird cuisine while gaining stats—she was utterly delighted.

"I must definitely surprise Ye Ge! Hehe!"

She deliberately ignored the noises outside the carriage, immersed in her meal.

But Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu's indifference didn't mean the events wouldn't unfold.

…

Heiqing Shanmai.

On the ground, as far as the eye could see, lay withered corpses of black flowers and She-Xu Weirds.

In the sky, vast numbers of human-bone kites fluttered in the wind.

As the bones of the bone kites trembled, black clouds spread from within them, concealing their forms.

And when this black cloud formed, a figure wearing a crown descended from the sky, standing firmly atop the black cloud like a sovereign, gazing down upon all life.

Behind this figure, five shadows arrived in quick succession, kneeling halfway to the ground.

"O Supreme Father, the invaders—the 【Fallen Petal Weird】 clan and the 【She-Xu Weird】 clan—have all been eradicated. We, the Royal Family of Wu Yu, have reclaimed dominion over Heiqing Shanmai!"

The man, with his back to them, turned his head slightly, his profile casting a cold gaze upon them.

"Who told you I killed them to reclaim dominion over Heiqing Shanmai?"

At his words, the five immediately bowed their heads, drenched in cold sweat, daring not to breathe loudly.

"Useless fools—you're still the Royal Family of Wu Yu? If you don't use your brains, don't blame me for sending you to join your sixth sister!"

The five trembled in fear, gritting their teeth, silent.

The sixth sister was the new member of the Wu Yu Royal Family who had suddenly appeared recently.

More precisely, she was the father's illegitimate daughter; due to an internal rebellion in Wu Yu, she, possessing only half the royal bloodline, had been exiled from the Wu Yu lineage and stripped of her status because of her elders' treason.

Only today, ten years later, could she return to Wu Yu—on the condition that she complete the Royal Family's Trial!

Yet, she failed.

That one called Ma Ling Er, the sixth sister he had never met, had failed — she died at the hands of her Trial target!

This is a disgrace to the Wuyu Clan. According to clan law, it should be the sixth sister's elder, someone of her bloodline, who steps in to handle the aftermath, kills that Trial target, and upholds the Wuyu Clan's position as hegemon!

But the elders of the sixth sister's clan who shared her bloodline had long since been wiped out, leaving only… His Majesty, her father!

His Majesty was in closed-door cultivation at the time, and only emerged recently.

No one doubted that person would die.

Because the royal clan's curse had already marked the target.

What remained was simply to find the person and kill them.

For His Majesty, this was merely a matter to be handled at will. Compared to such a trivial affair, the Heiqing Shanmai seemed to hold something more important that weighed heavily on His Majesty's mind.

This time was no different.

The outsiders of the black flower — the 【Falling Flower Curse】 clan — seemed to want to contest the Wuyu Clan for hegemony over this land, and had even joined hands with the 【Sheep Void Curse】 clan, long-standing enemies of the Wuyu Clan, to plot secretly in the Heiqing Shanmai.

Once the Wuyu Clan learned of this, they prepared to send troops to deal with it.

But His Majesty had his people gather more and more. Only when every member of the 【Falling Flower Curse】 clan and 【Sheep Void Curse】 clan had assembled in the Heiqing Shanmai did His Majesty order his men to strike, wiping them all out in one net.

From then on, the Heiqing Shanmai remained their Wuyu Clan's territory!

(End of chapter)