Corpse Demon Grotto

『Son, why are you here ?』

In a luxurious palace located in Insurmountable Phoenix Mountain , a middle aged man stands to embrace his young son .

『Father, can't I come to visit my own parents ? 』

A dull voice replied to him .

The father and son remain in each other embrace for a long time before leaving each other and resting on the steel chair close to them , enjoying the beautiful flower-bed where hundreds of different flowers bloom .

『 Where is mother and Dandan ? It seems you are all alone in such a huge palace ? 』

Zu Yaoguai asked his father since he didn't see his mother and little sister , he was genuinely worried about them .

He has divine the future and has found that a danger is looming on everyone's life , a calamity that is inevitable. 

『 Sigh , your mother and sister has gone for shopping . You know right how ladies loves to shop here and there even if their shopping has inadequate effects to daily life 』

Father Zu smiles wryly , but there was unconcealable pride in his words . 

Why won't he be so prideful of his son when his son has brought prosperity to their family ?

Although their family was just an ordinary family with abject poverty , their son has managed to rise and bring them to a whole new world .

Luxurious palace , costly clothes , endless wealth , fame and many more. 

His son has risen like a phoenix from the ashes, hence any parent would find themselves to be proud of their children for achieving such unreachable height in their life .

He has even started cultivating in dao and immortality with the support provided by Insurmountable Phoenix Mountain .

『Father, I am here to inform you of few things you must follow during leaving the mountain 』

When Zu Yaoguai asked him seriously to follow his instruction , father Zu also became serious .

『First of all , do not trust anyone other than the member of Insurmountable Phoenix 』

『 Second, you must always let the celestials knights protect you wherever you go since because of the situation we are in , there is a high chances of someone coming to kill you just because of me 』

『Last and most important , keep this artifact with you all the time and give them to mother and sister as well 』

Zu Yaoguai took out three golden bracelets shaped like a dragon swallowing his own tail. There were myriad of dao patterns engraved , each with their unique charms .

『This is Dragon Swallowing Heaven Bracelet , those beneath the realm of Dao Sovereign can never inflict you any injuries hence protecting you from any danger you encounter 』

Father Zu takes the bracelet and wears on his right wrist, soon an extraordinary power of dao seem to have blessed him and an invisible layer of armament covers his whole body .

『 This is— 』

He was left in awe but soon he nods his head and warmly meets his eyes with his son .

『Son, you must be going through lots of suffering and must have been enduring them silently just for our sake . I don't — I don't know what to say 』

He clenches his lower lips and barely holds himself from crying , his heart was soft yet extremely weak right now .

Although he is proud of his son for giving him , his wife and his daughter luxurious life , as a father he failed to give his son anything in return .

Seeing his father become emotional , a gentle smile curls on Zu Yaoguai's face .

『 Father , what bullshit are you talking right now ? 』

Understanding what his father was trying to tell him , he can't help but shake his head , with a gentle voice he utters .

『When I was just a kid , weren't you the one who would carry me on his shoulder and walk me around the whole village ? 』

『 When there was nothing to eat , didn't you and mother gave everything to me so I don't sleep with an empty stomach ? 』

『 When I was sick , didn't you carry me for thirty kilometers away from the village with your barefoot , enduring all those pains and bloods just to take me to the doctor ? 』

『Now that I have managed to earn a little achievement in my life, do you think I would forget all those sacrifices and love you gave to me ? 』

Listening to his son's gentle and loving words , father Zu tightly closed his lips and smiled wholeheartedly. 

There was endless sweetness and happiness erupting within his heart, he felt like he had achieved something in his life after listening to his son .

Zu Yaoguai gently wipes the tear from his father's cheek , with a warm smile he utters .

『 Don't cry father , tear doesn't suit you at all 』

『Be it tear of happiness or sadness , they are priceless for me . I only want to see you smile and nothing else 』

『Even when comparing the wealth of whole world and was someday given to me , they still lacks the value of one-tenth of your priceless smile 』

Zu Yaoguai has never seen his father this happy. If he remembers clearly then his father always used to work hard for his family .

Before his sister was born , his father used to have some time to spend with him and his mother .

He didn't wear any slippers because even the slippers cost lots of money to purchase and remained barefoot , whilst on the other hand , he always provided slippers , clothes and everything to him and his mother .

After his sister was born , his father worked more than ever . He never let him and his sister feel that they lacked anything compared to other children of the village .

Now that he has started to earn and is living well , his heart is devoted to only two things .

First is to serve young lady Heng Guang , give her all his loyalty and even sacrifice his life for her . 

She has provided his family with luxury , a new life and a world where his family can smile and remain safe , protected from all that filth from the world of greed and selfishness .

And second is to protect his family's smile , cherish their happiness and always let them live in peace .

He will bath in blood, attract all the evil karma for himself and name his hand with endless murders .

Be it innocent , good or evil , it doesn't matter as long as his family can live free from this dirty world which he has already gotten himself involved in .

With calm eyes , he raises his head to look at the sky .

Even if I was to become a monster someday and was to be detested by the world and my family , I just wish for my family to be safe and sound . Even if that means I have to purge the world into chaos .

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『 Grotto Master , we are ready to leave the grotto and head to Phoenix Ascension House 』

Inside a spacious heavenly grotto where ten thousands of disciples are gathered and are refining heavenly corpses of divine beasts and other powerful beings , there were ten disciples clad with an azure cloak standing in front of an immortal cave .

『Good , this time your mission is to retrieve the heavenly corpse of a True Dragon God from Ancient Immortal Zi Family 』

An ancient and powerful voice full of law and order of the universe escapes out of the dark cave , the voice seems to have existed since time immemorial .

『I have divine that the Ancient Immortal Zi Family has found an ancient coffin where the heavenly corpse of True Dragon God is kept , if you can bring me that heavenly corpse , I will refine the heavenly corpse into a corpse-fiend king which will be very beneficial for me to cause chaos in the outside world 』

A corpse-fiend king is an existence equivalent to a World Emperor , if one can successfully refine a corpse-fiend king and survive the tribulation sent by heaven , unlike World Emperors , they can freely exist in the outside world .

This is also why corpse-fiend are an extremely terrifying and dangerous existence in the world of Immortals .

『 Grotto Master , you do not need to worry about such trivial matter. Retrieving the heavenly corpse will only be matter of time』

The leader of the group cups her long and slender snow white hand together , although her beauty is hidden by the cloak , one can't ignore her snow white skin. 

But sadly, her voice was full of death qi , cold and dangerous . Those with weak body and soul or the cultivation would die just from her death qi .

She is the current generation Grotto Master Candidate , one who has won her position after slaughtering her own kins before reaching where she is now .

One can easily understand how cold-blooded and heartless she is to become the candidate of the current generation .

Of course there are other candidates as well but they are busy on their own .

『Viscous Venomous Corpse Princess , I am assigning you with such important mission since i deem you worthy of my attention . I hope you will understand and not fail the mission , otherwise I will be forced to re-evaluate my opinion on you 』

『You must know that compared to you , Yin Yang Corpse Princess has shown much better potential and results during the assignments I handed to her 』

『 I have high expectations of you , know this even the ancestors are starting turn their attention to Yin Yang Corpse Princess of all the candidates but still , here I am giving you a new opportunity 』

『 Make sure to use it to your benefits when I am showing a rare kindness to someone which I usually don't do for anyone 』

Viscous Venomous Corpse Princess remains silent while listening to what Grotto Master said to her , although he was harsh but his every words were true. 

Nowadays even ancestors are starting to turn their attention to Yin Yang Corpse Princess , causing the possibility of Yin Yang Corpse Princess becoming the next Grotto Master higher than any other candidates .

This threat was impossible to ignore so she can't miss out this opportunity given to her by any means .

『 This junior is grateful to the Grotto Master for granting such opportunity, I will never forget for this kindness you have bestowed on me 』

She lowers her head and expresses her gratitude .

There was only a light scoff from the dark immortal cave and no response came out .

Turning around, she left the grotto and was greeted by a vast and endless forest where there was an Ancient Fairy Ship hovering above the forest .

She and her team flies to the ship and rides it , traveling through dimension after dimension.

It would require a total of five days to reach Phoenix Ascension House , hence she enters the room and starts to cultivate her heavenly corpse.

Corpse Demon Grotto are specialized in corpse refining so their ability doesn't rely on their physical or spiritual power but instead relies on their corpse .

Since she has one of the strongest heavenly corpses compared to her peers , she can be said to be a powerful corpse practitioner of her generation .

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Boom

The land of Butterfly Phoenix Mountain trembles when a young man lands with unrestrained force , causing a deep crater to open beneath his foot .

『Tang Dong , what happened to you ? 』

When a beautiful silver haired beauty came to the source of such a destructive impact , she found a young man burning with divine flame of supremacy .

The young man was burning with a sovereign flame , a flame that can extinguish even the heavenly dao .

His eyes were deeply golden and resembled a pair of sun , his whole body emanating an endless life-force capable of drowning mankind into suffocation. 

『Nothing , i just couldn't control my strength, that's all 』

He turns to look at the silver haired beauty who was protected by powerful celestial knights , although he felt grief and hatred for her , he didn't reveal it on his face .

He can remember clearly what happened before he came here .

When he searched the memories of those mysterious attackers , their memories were blurry and sealed . But there was one name which everyone knew and the owner of that name seemed to be the mastermind behind everything. 

And that name was Heng Jinggao , and the person named Heng Jinggao he is familiar with is none other than the soon to be husband of Heng Zhanshen. 

Since there is some relation between those mysterious attackers and Heng Jinggao , as his fiancee , how could this bitch not be involved with the matter related to his sect's destruction ?

Although he wanted to ask her what her connection with his sect annihilation was , he held himself and did his best not to reveal any abnormalities. 

With a calm smile , he pretends to be alright .

『 Young lady Zhanshen , sorry for being rude to you . You see I have just experience a breakdown because of the destruction of my sect , so please do understand my situation and what I am going through right now 』

He asks the young lady to understand his situation which Heng Zhanshen understands , since he has just experienced such heavy loss , he must be feeling sorrow and pain in his heart. 

『I understand your pain so no need to ask for forgiveness , Tang Dong. Go and rest for now since you must be tired from all the things that happened to you 』

Heng Zhanshen smiles in understanding , her voice was full of sympathy .

『 Thank you , young lady Zhanshen 』

He bows to her and turns around to leave but after he turns around , his expression is distorted and he grits his teeth in resentment .

He was doing his best to hold himself back , he truly wanted to ask this bitch about the connection between her and those mysterious attackers. 

Was she the one to destroy his sect and his family ?

Or was her man responsible for his agony ?

What was the truth ?

Once he finds the truth, he swears that he will torment the culprit with his own hand . Even purgatory will be a blessing for the miserable soul of his enemy .

Just after Tang Dong left the scene, Heng Zhanshen deeply frowned , feeling suspicious. 

『 Keep a close eye on Tang Dong, maybe I am mistaken but I think i felt an enormous killing intent directing at me for a second 』

『With that much killing intent aiming on me , I can't relax myself knowing that someone out there is holding such terrifying killing intent for me 』

For some reason she felt a sense of loss in her chest , it felt as if she was starting to lose something very precious to her but she can't exactly pinpoint on what that is ?

The celestial knights bow to her and follow her order .