Shen Shouhang’s eyes revealed a sharp light. “Correct, I am a member of the Shen family, a real power elder, but I am also just an ordinary cultivator.”

“Others’ life and death, I cannot manage, nor do I have the ability to manage.”

“I only want to go upward, to walk my own path a little better, and also for my children and grandchildren, to pave a path to becoming immortal, so they can step on my back, step by step climb upward…”

“But since one wants to climb upward, one must necessarily pay a price.”

“The scattered cultivators of Gu Du Shan are just the price.”

“Without those scattered cultivators, how would the Shen family get rich? And how would they become the largest family in Qian Dao Sect today? And where would the current prosperity come from?”

“After their value is squeezed dry, there is no need to keep them any longer.”

“This is an inevitable matter…”

“These people, if I do not kill them, naturally others will come to kill them. This is their fate, and no one can change it…”

“This is their fate…”

Shen Shouhang’s emotions had obvious fluctuations.

These words seemed to have been pressed in his heart for a long time. All these years, he kept his mouth shut and never mentioned them to anyone.

Now that things were exposed, he could not help but release the emotions he had suppressed for so many years.

But at the same time, dark colors flowed in his eyes, his divine sense also had obvious oscillations, and his aura was changing little by little.

Mo Hua felt strange and involuntarily frowned slightly.

After Shen Shouhang finished these words, Xun Zi You and the others also fell silent.

There was one sentence he did say correctly: if he, Shen Shouhang, did not kill these people, naturally other Shen family cultivators, or even cultivators from other families, would come to kill them.

As long as people in the world seek profit, they will disregard their bottom line, strip away benefits, and transfer costs. This is an inevitable matter.

Shen Shouhang just happened to be that executioner.

But…

Xun Zi You sighed slightly and raised his long sword. “This is not an excuse for you to create such deep and heavy killing karma.”

“Those who seek the Dao must maintain righteousness and cultivate their Dao heart.”

“Your path went crooked from the very beginning.”

“Righteousness? Dao heart?” Shen Shouhang coldly laughed. “These things, can they be exchanged for spirit stones? Can they be exchanged for power and benefits? They can only be used to hypocritically preach doctrines, they are fundamentally worthless.”

Xun Zi You’s gaze turned slightly cold. “Your and my Dao are different, we do not conspire.”

Shen Shouhang shook his head and also raised his long sword. “Yes, things have already reached this point, saying anything is useless.”

“Whether for the Shen family, or for me, for my Shen Shouhang’s children and grandchildren, some secrets can only be buried in this tomb.”

Shen Shouhang’s body, the cultivation of a Golden Core peak, gradually rose. Sword energy surged, and killing intent condensed.

Xun Zi You and the others were all fully on guard.

Now, everyone’s injuries were very heavy. Only Shen Shouhang not only had the highest cultivation but also the strongest preserved fighting strength. Whether to fight or not was all decided by him.

Therefore, before, he said so many words, and no one dared to take the lead to act.

And now, Shen Shouhang drew his sword, which also meant that this life and death battle would again unfold a miserable scene.

The matter concerned family honor and disgrace, personal life and death, Shen Shouhang would absolutely not show mercy.

Xun Zi You’s gaze condensed, strictly on guard.

In an instant, a white light flashed, and the long sword broke through the air. Shen Shouhang immediately killed towards Xun Zi You.

The other people in the field were either demon cultivators or demon cultivators; they were originally people who could not be seen in the light. Even if they knew some inside stories, the influence would not be great.

But Xun Zi You was different. He was an inner disciple elder of Tai Xu Men. Once he left alive, it meant that the entire high level of Tai Xu Men would know about this matter.

Therefore, Xun Zi You had to die first.

Xun Zi You’s face was solemn. He immediately dared not slack off and fully exerted the Tai Xu Sword Art to meet Shen Shouhang’s killing move.

Sword energy and sword intent interwoven, the auras of the two people oscillated, killing inextricably.

Xun Zi You was slightly inferior, but his foundation was firm and his sword intent was exquisite, so he could still support for a time.

Seeing Shen Shouhang and Xun Zi You in the midst of killing, Xiong Pi, the demon cultivator, no longer hesitated and directly pounced towards the dragon coffin, wanting to rob the dragon vein within the dragon coffin.

Shen Tu Ao, bearing heavy injuries, naturally could not let him succeed.

The two people killed at close quarters and were entangled again.

Xuan Gongzi’s gaze was slightly cold. Originally, as long as he took down Shen Tu Ao, he could seize the dragon vein, and with the chips he had in hand, this dragon vein would also surely be his.

Who would have thought that at the crucial moment, this Shen Shouhang would act on his own and actually betray and strike, making the situation gradually out of control.

Xuan Gongzi coldly said, “Shen Shouhang, you don’t want your son’s life?”

Shen Shouhang was just killing with Xun Zi You. He turned his head and glanced at him, coldly laughing, “Boy, eat a few more years of rice before coming to bargain with me.”

“My son is your protective talisman.”

“If he is safe and sound, I will spare you from death. If he has any mishap, you will also have to be buried with him.”

Shen Shouhang held a high position and had struggled for power for many years. He was ruthless and cruel. His ability to judge the situation was naturally not something Xuan Gongzi could compare with.

It was also impossible for him to be controlled by Xuan Gongzi.

Xuan Gongzi’s face was displeased, and he coldly laughed in his heart.

There was no way, he could only personally act to rob.

But his cultivation was weak. In this kind of killing situation involving Golden Core late stage, he could not get too deeply involved. He could only use blood-colored sword light to harass little by little. Otherwise, if he was not careful, he would perish.

The scene was even more chaotic for a time.

And in the melee, the first person to approach the dragon coffin was Shen Tu Ao.

Shen Tu Ao blasted out a punch, shaking back the Xiong Pi elder, and reached out to take the dragon vein.

The Xiong Pi elder could not attend to it.

Xuan Gongzi chopped out a sword light, wanting to force back Shen Tu Ao, but the sword light chopped on Shen Tu Ao’s body, only leaving a fine wound.

Shen Tu Ao ignored it and stretched out his big hand, grabbing towards the dragon vein.

Above the dragon vein, clear brilliance overflowed, and treasure light was translucent.

Seeing that he was about to succeed, Shen Shouhang, who was fighting with Xun Zi You, split out a sword light that broke through the air and chopped towards Shen Tu Ao.

He wanted to kill Xun Zi You, but it was also impossible to let the dragon vein fall into Shen Tu Ao’s hands.

The sword energy of the Golden Core peak Shen Shouhang was naturally not comparable to that one sword of the Golden Core initial stage Xuan Gongzi. Moreover, he aimed at a vital point.

Shen Tu Ao could only retreat to avoid.

And Shen Shouhang distracting himself to chop this one sword also gave the bitterly supporting Xun Zi You a breathing opportunity.

Taking this gap, he directly shook off Shen Shouhang and rushed towards the dragon coffin.

He was going to rob the dragon vein.

In this way, if Shen Shouhang wanted to kill him, he had to fight in front of the dragon coffin.

And Xuan Gongzi, Shen Tu Ao, and the Xiong Pi demon cultivator, these three people wanting to seize the dragon vein, had to be entangled in front of the dragon coffin.

The battlefield, led by Xun Zi You, was again mixed together.

And in the battle, all the people, between each other, roughly had some inseparable “grievances”, and all wished to put the other to death.

Therefore, as long as they were mixed in the melee, they would necessarily scheme against each other, kill each other, and guard against each other.

Shen Shouhang was distracted for a time, and Xun Zi You’s pressure suddenly reduced.

So after confronting for a while, the blood energy in the air suddenly thickened gradually.

Everyone only cared about killing and had no leisure to attend to it. Even when inhaling this blood mist into their mouths, they did not detect it for a time.

Blood energy incites desires.

Everyone’s killing heart and greed gradually flourished, falling into endless killing, and their blood energy was also accelerating consumption…

Just at this time, the Xiong Pi elder, taking advantage of everyone killing, by chance approached the dragon vein.

His gaze was greedy, and he stretched out a big hand, like a bear demon, towards the dragon vein.

But in the next instant, Xun Zi You chopped over with a sword light, cutting off his palm.

The palm fell with a sound, blood splattered, splashing on the ground, stirring up a pool of obscure blood mist. The Xiong Pi elder covered his arm and wailed.

Xun Zi You originally just wanted to restrain Shen Shouhang a bit, but after a long time in the melee, he inhaled the blood mist, and his mind was unknowingly affected. He actually involuntarily reached out to touch the dragon vein.

Fortunately, he was quick to react and immediately realized:

“What am I doing?”

Xun Zi You immediately backed away and retreated, but it was still a bit late. A vigorous force carrying a dragon shadow, a surging fist, directly bombarded his back.

Xun Zi You only managed to turn sideways and resolve a part of the force, but he was still hit by this punch. His internal organs vibrated, and his body flew out like a kite, falling into the corner of the great hall.

Spitting out a mouthful of blood, Xun Zi You half-squatted on the ground.

“Miscalculated…”

The remaining evil dragon’s vigorous force was entangled in his body. Xun Zi You could not move for a time and could only try to regulate his breath to recover his fighting strength as soon as possible, otherwise the situation would deteriorate to an irreparable extent.

Not to mention Mo Hua, he himself would probably have to account for it here.

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And Shen Tu Ao, after his punch sent Xun Zi You flying, was actually also dizzy. For a time, he didn’t care and reached out towards the dragon vein.

But in his heart, the warning signs were getting stronger and stronger, but greed took effect, and he could not suppress it for a time.

Sure enough, in the next moment, Shen Shouhang chopped over with a sword, opening a blood mouth on his back.

Shen Tu Ao backhanded with a palm, which was dodged by Shen Shouhang, and Shen Shouhang backhanded with a sword, using the Shen family’s Bai Yu Sword Art, condensing pure white sword energy, carelessly piercing his chest.

Shen Tu Ao gritted his teeth and slowly fell to the ground.

Up to now, around the dragon coffin, only Shen Shouhang was left.

In the dragon coffin, the dragon vein between Ye Huangzi’s hands emitted enchanting heart light.

Shen Shouhang’s heart beat with it and he involuntarily walked towards the dragon coffin.

This time no one could stop him. Shen Shouhang successfully took out the Great Wasteland’s dragon vein from the hands of the deceased Ye Huangzi.

With the dragon vein in hand, the aura of the Great Wasteland came upon him.

Strands of majestic dragon energy, along his palm, entered Shen Shouhang’s blood, flowing along his meridians throughout his body, causing him tearing pain all over.

This pain was extremely sharp, accompanied by a deafening dragon roar.

It seemed that with his bloodline, he was not qualified to own the dragon vein.

The repulsive force became stronger and stronger.

The dragon roar became more rampant, shaking his scalp numb.

His palm holding the dragon vein also began to be corroded by the Great Wasteland’s dragon energy. The flesh rotted little by little and gradually spread to his entire arm.

Pain made Shen Shouhang wake up.

Seeing his entire arm about to be wasted, Shen Shouhang’s pupils trembled violently and he could only immediately let go.

The dragon energy stopped corroding, but most of his right arm was destroyed.

And the dragon vein was also thrown by him in mid-air, drawing a clear light, falling on one side, on the empty ground.

For a time, the great hall was a piece of dead silence.

The strongest four Golden Cores were either remnant, injured, or near death.

At this time, their hearts all detected something was wrong, and they successively turned their heads to look at Xuan Gongzi.

Xuan Gongzi’s originally solemn face revealed a trace of cold laughter.

“How can the Great Wasteland’s dragon vein be touched by ordinary people? Without the bloodline of the Great Wasteland, rashly trying to lay hands on the dragon vein will trigger dragon anger and suffer dragon energy backlash.”

Everyone’s hearts were stern and they slowly realized.

Why did this Xuan Gongzi use Mo Hua and Shen Qing Sheng as chips to force everyone to help him rob this dragon vein?

Not everyone was qualified to control the dragon vein.

Except for Shen Tu Ao, who possessed imperial clan bloodline, everyone else, whoever last robbed the dragon vein, would suffer the pain of dragon energy devouring their body and bear the anger of the Great Wasteland’s karma dragon.

Even Shen Shouhang, a Golden Core peak, directly wasted one arm.

And Shen Tu Ao would not reveal this secret of the Great Wasteland.

Xuan Gongzi had calculations in his heart and was even less likely to say anything.

He was both looking for an opportunity to let everyone burst into internal conflict. At the same time, he also wanted to use the dragon vein’s backlash to cripple the opponents present.

“Not bad… a little evil spawn of Xuan Mo Sect…” Shen Shouhang’s voice was hoarse.

He was not old, but his thoughts were deep and vicious, not at all inferior to those old demons.

Shen Shouhang secretly circulated energy, wanting to recover the injury to his arm from the dragon vein backlash, but the Great Wasteland’s karma dragon energy was abnormally fierce and could not be cleared in a short time.

Moreover, he discovered a trace of filthy blood source in his body.

Recalling how he had lost his bearings upon seeing the dragon vein and his inner desires, Shen Shouhang’s pupils immediately shrank.

“You also used other means?”

“I used some poison from Illusion Demon Sect…” Xuan Gongzi was also very frank.

While stepping towards the dragon vein not far away, he said calmly, “Illusion Demon Sect’s poison is good at creating illusions and confusing people’s divine sense. I mixed the poison in the blood, disturbed your minds, and then cooperated with planting a demon on your Dao heart, letting you disregard life and death for the sake of the dragon vein.”

“The wonderful thing is that this poison’s toxicity is not strong. I smeared it on the sword and poisoned you with the sword light of Xuan Mo Blood Sword, God unaware, ghost unaware.”

“When you kill each other, as long as you see blood, this poison will disperse. Because the toxicity is not strong, you fundamentally won’t detect it.”

“No way, your cultivation is too high. Even if I cultivate the original scriptures of Illusion Demon Sect, I still have to put in this effort if I want to plant a demon on your Dao heart…”

Shen Shouhang’s gaze was icy cold. “You calculated everything well?”

“This is natural…”

Xuan Gongzi had already walked to the front of the dragon vein at this time, with a shallow smile hanging on the corners of his mouth. “If not so, how would I, a Golden Core initial stage cultivator, dare to risk danger and deal with you Golden Core late stage or even peak cultivators?”

“This is also a tempering for me, a test.”

“A group of demons dancing chaotically, licking blood from knives and swords.”

“Only by doing things that general Golden Core cultivators cannot do, can the old ancestor recognize me and hand over Xuan Mo Sect to me in the future.”

“In Xuan Mo Sect, those various kinds of unruly demons will willingly obey me and listen to me.”

“And now, the dragon vein is finally in my hands…”

Xuan Gongzi looked at the dragon vein in front of him, his mood generous and excited, but he did not act rashly. Instead, he took out a black magic banner and covered the dragon vein.

This magic banner was ancient. He did not know its origin. It actually covered the clear light of the dragon vein and sealed the dragon energy.

The dragon vein wrapped by the magic banner was like a section of ordinary bone, without that arrogant dragon might.

Only then did Xuan Gongzi dare to hold the dragon vein in his hand and not suffer the dragon energy backlash.

With the dragon vein in hand, everything was according to plan.

“Let you be some Great Wasteland prince, family Golden Core, sect elder… still all are my playthings, manipulated by me in the palm of my hand…”

Xuan Gongzi’s face revealed a trace of sarcasm. He weighed the dragon vein in his hand a bit, smiled delightedly, and then casually handed it to Mo Hua beside him, instructing, “Help me hold it.”

Mo Hua took over the dragon vein.

Xuan Gongzi turned his head and looked at Shen Shouhang. Before he could say anything, his heart suddenly “thumped”:

“What was I doing just now?”

“Why did I give the dragon vein to someone else to keep?”

The smile on Xuan Gongzi’s face disappeared, his pupils slowly widened, and he hurriedly turned his head to look, but found that there was no figure of Mo Hua beside him.

He slightly raised his head and saw that, he did not know when, Mo Hua had already stealthily walked out ten zhang away.

Sensing Xuan Gongzi looking at him, Mo Hua turned his head and also looked at Xuan Gongzi.

The two people stared at each other for a moment, and time seemed to have solidified.

Mo Hua blinked, then silently turned his head back, no longer hesitated, hugged the dragon vein, and ran.