Chapter 1 "Damn, the Jiangshen Platform was prepared for the esteemed Zhang family?"

Hu Ma's scalp tingled when he heard this. How could he put it? The seniors really knew how to play the game...

They'd spent twenty years tricking the Zhang family into personally building a treasure to deal with themselves?

He wanted to see it!

Unable to suppress the anticipation in his heart, Hu Ma hurriedly followed behind Senior Longjing. He saw that the inner city of the City of Wrongful Deaths had become a ruin. Houses had collapsed, roads were twisted, and the bricks and tiles that had formed this real city floated in the gloomy haze. Some were slowly dissipating, while others were being fought over by countless wronged souls.

Just before he had intruded into this place, it had been tall, grand, and imposing, with layers of defenses manned by living people and ghost servants alike.

But Senior Longjing had only borrowed a breath from him, written eight characters, and this massive residence was destroyed?

Thinking about how he had led a group of transmigrators to tear down the Iron Gate Yan family, Hu Ma felt a little inferior.

At this moment, Senior Longjing walked forward calmly. He seemed very familiar with this ruin and the twisted alleys, striding deeper into it. At the same time, he said, "Do you think the Ten Families are impressive?"

"..."

"Uh... huh?"

Hu Ma was caught off guard by the question and felt a little awkward.

He remembered how even a disciple from a branch family of the Ten Families had scared the Mingzhou transmigrators into not daring to breathe...

So he pretended to be calm and nodded, saying, "Just so-so!"

"Hmm?"

Senior Longjing turned his head to look at him, a hint of surprise on his face. "Don't be too arrogant!"

"The terror of the Ten Families has reached a point where no one dares to underestimate them."

"There are countless strange people and unusual talents in this world. With the support of the Grand Duke, all kinds of esoteric methods have appeared. Twenty years ago, when Old Lord Eyebrows peeled the emperor's skin and severed the dragon vein of the Yi Dynasty, and I severed the luck of the Du family, that insidious National Preceptor was probably scared and hid himself away. Since then, the Ten Families have been different."

"We fought to the death, but the Ten Families reaped the biggest benefit in the world."

"Now, they have spent twenty years digesting their gains, and the abilities of each family have greatly improved, far surpassing what they were twenty years ago."

"I know the esteemed Zhang family very well. By extrapolating from them, I can guess the current state of the other nine families."

As he spoke, he said faintly, "Heh, I have to admit..."

"It's said that the Ten Families are the ancestors of various Daoist sects, but that's just them patting themselves on the back. The skills of each Daoist sect have existed for a long time, inherited from the common people. It's just that the ancestors of the Ten Families were summoned to the palace by the Yi Dynasty to deal with the ghostly disturbances in the world. Over the centuries, their skills have become more and more exquisite, their abilities have grown stronger and stronger, and they've caught up with all the good things..."

"..."

His serious words surprised Hu Ma a little.

He adjusted his mindset and said in a low voice, "If that's what you say, then we understand. The abilities of the Ten Families are indeed great. They are full of hidden dragons and crouching tigers, with countless unique skills. They also widely recruit unusual talents from all over the world and control the general trend of the world. We transmigrators all have our own skills, but we usually have to hide from them, not daring to truly fight the Ten Families..."

"Hiding?"

Senior Longjing was a little surprised and looked at Hu Ma helplessly, saying, "You don't have to be so unambitious."

"The Ten Families are powerful, but we are even more powerful."

"They are the most powerful people who have risen in this world, but we are from the heavens..."

"..."

"No..."

Hu Ma certainly respected this senior, but now, he couldn't help but slander in his heart.

Do you have to go to such lengths to show off?

Whether you want to scold the Ten Families or praise the Ten Families, I can cooperate...

...

"..."

"Mr. Tie, please stop!"

Just as they were talking, a person staggered out from behind the broken wall in front of them. He was covered in blood and dust, and wisps of shadows clung to him, gnawing at him. When he looked up at Senior Longjing, his face was fierce, and he shouted sternly, "The two masters have ordered you not to leave the small courtyard. Return quickly..."

Senior Longjing didn't even look at him, continuing to walk forward. He had already understood, immediately swallowed a mouthful of blood, and suddenly took several steps, his hands constantly rubbing together.

"Hmm?"

Hu Ma was shocked in his heart and saw at a glance that this was a master.

Those with weaker abilities had already died under Senior Longjing's nightmare technique. This person's abilities were probably at least at the level of having pushed open three palace gates.

Eager to take action, he heard a series of muffled "crack, crack, crack" sounds.

As the other party's hands rubbed together, the surrounding broken walls and ruins seemed to come alive, constantly twisting and changing.

Hu Ma was originally following behind Senior Longjing, walking forward, but the road under his feet had changed, and a pitch-black, straight passage had appeared in front of him.

It led directly to a place that had already been left behind, the small courtyard.

He could even hear the hoarse sound of a gramophone, drifting faintly from the front.

Hu Ma, who had been prepared to attack the moment he saw the other party, was now stunned. The figure of that person was gone.

Only tall brick walls and dark alleys remained.

Senior Longjing continued to walk forward, approached the wall, reached out and took a brick from the wall, and inserted it back upside down.

Then, pointing to the brick, he said, "Blast him!"

Hu Ma immediately shot a True Yang Arrow over, and the brick suddenly burst into flames.

The next moment, a muffled groan sounded, and the surrounding alleys and walls returned to their original state, still a ruin. The person who had blocked the way was kneeling in the alley.

Blood flowed from his seven orifices, his body stiff, and his face still showed an unbelievable look of terror, but he was already dead.

"What kind of ability is this?"

Hu Ma walked past this person, even a little dumbfounded. "Our True Yang Arrow can easily kill a small Yin spirit, but such a master, just killed like that?"

"Indeed, we lost that battle twenty years ago, but it wasn't a crime of war."

Senior Longjing didn't even look at this person, just picked up a nail from the side, walked forward, and said to Hu Ma, "We misjudged the National Preceptor."

"We didn't expect him to betray us, and we didn't expect the Ten Families to have the guts to stab us in the back."

"..."

Hu Ma was immediately attracted by the content of Senior Longjing's words. "So, the key is that National Preceptor?"

Senior Longjing said faintly, "You've heard of him too?"

Hu Ma nodded and said in a low voice, "There are Ten Families in the world today, but the Ten Families believe that there are eleven families in the world."

"The extra family is the National Preceptor's lineage."

After a pause, he said in a low voice, "I also heard people say that twenty years ago, the National Preceptor fought with the Great Virtuous Teacher in the capital, the sky was dark and the earth was dim, and the gods and ghosts cried. In the end, the Great Virtuous Teacher lost, but even though he lost, he still peeled the skin of the old emperor and cut off the Yi Dynasty's luck. After that, the National Preceptor also disappeared, and the transmigrators were purged and had to hide."

"That's what they say?"

Senior Longjing listened to these words, a faint smile appearing on his face, with a hint of ridicule in it. "They really know how to pat themselves on the back..."

"I've stayed in the Zhang family for twenty years, and no one has dared to tell me such things."

"..."

The ridicule on his face didn't disappear, and he sneered, "If we're talking about ability, he has it."

"But his greatest ability is that he deceived all of us."

"..."

Hu Ma listened, his heart already excited, and he said in a low voice, "Senior, these things are very important to us."

"The so-called National Preceptor is just a title."

When Longjing mentioned this person, there was still an undisguised sarcasm and disgust in his heart. "Their sect is called the Great Luo Dharma Sect. When they entered the palace, they were named Protector of the Nation, so they were naturally called the National Preceptor. And he was the thirteenth generation successor of the Great Luo Dharma Sect, and the third generation Protector of the Nation, with the Dharma name Dongxuan. We were familiar with each other even when his master was still alive."

"Although he is a person from this world, he is very intelligent, longing for everything we have, envying our talents. We also thought highly of him. Twenty years ago, we joined hands with him to destroy the Yi Dynasty Du clan, just to stop the Heavenly Offering Ceremony that had lasted for two hundred years. Looking back now, we were indeed too crazy at the time. We were doing something truly against the heavens..."

"Dynasties rise and fall, it is the mandate of heaven. The Yi Dynasty Du family can be finished, but it should be finished according to this law, not forcibly cut off by personal power!"

"But we did it at the time, and we succeeded..."

"It's just that the result..."

"..."

He said faintly, and couldn't help but sigh in a low voice, "It is indeed difficult to bear..."

"Heavenly Offering Ceremony?"

Hu Ma heard these four words, and his heart jumped. He hurriedly looked up at Senior Longjing.

"Drive this nail into the space between the third stone slab in front!"

Senior Longjing said as he stopped, handing the nail he had just picked up to Hu Ma, gesturing with his eyes to the stone slab in front.

"Yes!"

Hu Ma took it, grasped it with both hands, and inserted it downwards with force, and immediately half of it was driven in. He raised his foot and stepped on it, and the whole nail was embedded in it.

"Chi"

As the nail was inserted, in the seemingly empty ruins around them, a sound of spitting blood suddenly sounded, and four people in black robes slowly fell down.

Each person's forehead was a patch of dark green, but they were already dead.

"Yes."

Senior Longjing walked past them, saying faintly, "Originating from the ambition of the Du clan ancestors, to create stone weights and sell the entire world in exchange for immortality."

"We cooperated with the Great Luo Dharma Sect, originally thinking that they had also seen through it, but now it seems that we were wrong."

"His longing for us is fake. He was willing to stop the Du clan, not because he saw through the trap of immortality, but because..."

"He also wants to become an immortal!"