Wasted Spiritual Root to Embark on Demonic Cultivation

Chapter 119

Although he did not intend to reveal his identity, he could still show himself, ask questions, and then erase the other party’s memory.

The divine sense of a cultivator had countless marvelous uses. To do this to a mortal was simple.

Thus, Old Gradpa Qin, who was half-asleep in his dreams, suddenly shivered. When he opened his eyes again, he saw a white-haired youth wearing a tall crown, with a jade hairpin inserted in it.

The young man had a dignified appearance. Handsome and elegant, his features were sharp and angular, showing a hint of edge, yet his eyes carried gentle warmth. He looked like an otherworldly youth.

Old Gradpa Qin could not help rubbing his eyes, blurting out in surprise.

“Young Master Yu… Young Master Yu.”

Gradpa Qin had once been his groom, and also helped guard the gates. From the age of six, he had accompanied him for ten years, later becoming the gatekeeper for some unknown reason.

As for Wang Yu, a cultivator had yet to even reach the age of decline. Compared to more than ten years ago, he had only become more mature, shedding his youthful immaturity. His features were more delicate, his skin fairer. These were benefits brought by cultivation.

Overall, he still looked about eighty percent similar to his sixteen-year-old self.

“It is me. After so many years apart, is my father still at the residence?”“This…”

Gradpa Qin rubbed his eyes again. After a long silence, two streams of tears slid down from the corners of his eyes. He almost could not control his sobbing, his voice trembling.

“Young Master… you came back too late. The Wang Residence is now in the hands of Wang Wu. Even the great…”

As he spoke, he suddenly stopped, as though remembering something, and asked urgently. “Young Master Yu, are you now a cultivator?”

“Yes.”

In truth, before coming, Wang Yu had already prepared himself to hear grievous news. Yet he had not expected it to be so severe.

After confirming that Wang Yu possessed the power of a cultivator, Gradpa Qin slowly recounted everything that had happened over the years.

“In those days, after Young Master Yu disappeared, your father searched all over Stone Lake City but could not find you. He suspected that it was Young Master Wu’s doing, so he asked the clan elders to preside over justice.

“Young Master Wu was about to leave to cultivate at the Spirit Vulture Sect, but he was stopped by the clansmen. They said it was not him. Yet your father refused to believe it, demanding he hand you over. The elders also sided with your father.

“They thought Young Master Wu had gone too far. After all, you were both from the same clan. How could he do such a thing? But as days were delayed, the immortals from the Spirit Vulture Sect grew impatient. They asked the City Lord’s Mansion to deliver judgment.

“The City Lord’s Mansion pushed all blame onto your father, siding with Young Master Wu. They even beat your father severely, breaking all his limbs…”

As he spoke, Gradpa Qin’s tears could no longer be held back. Wang Yu’s eyes also turned red, his fists clenched tightly.

Others might not know, but he understood the truth clearly. They were all the same kind of jackals, yet they dared to strike so viciously.

“After that, your father grew depressed. Every day he lay in bed in a daze. His ears could no longer hear sounds. After lying in bed for half a year, he passed away.

“In the third year after, Young Master Wu returned once. He said you had been taken to the demonic sects as a Spirit Slave, and had surely already died. From then on, he displayed several immortal methods.

“He expanded the Wang family’s business severalfold. Today, five or six streets in Stone Lake City belong to the Wang family. Outside the city they own ten thousand acres of fertile land. Their relationship with the City Lord’s Mansion has only grown closer.

“But in order to enlarge the team of herb gatherers, Wang Wu had conflicts with the clan elders. He demanded that they offer up one hundred-year-old spirit herb every day.

“But such herbs are already extremely rare. The mountains are very dangerous. Only by greatly expanding the gatherers could it be barely possible. Yet he did not want the herbs cultivated in the fields.

“In short, the elders did not want to see too many deaths and injuries. They said it violated the will of Heaven. After that… the elders were all buried in the clan’s ancestral tombs. Now in the Wang Residence there is not a single clansman over fifty years old.”

Wang Wu…

So ruthless. His father had indeed not misjudged him. He was truly a vicious villain who struck to kill.

Gradpa Qin drew in a deep breath, his eyes filled with fear.

“Then five years ago, he wanted to send the younger women of our family to the Spirit Vulture Sect, including his own younger sister, Wang Shulan.”

“At first, everyone thought it was a good thing. After all, it was the land of immortals, to go and serve immortals. But after sending four or five, it was still not enough. They demanded more than twenty.”

“How could the Wang clan have so many unmarried women. They had to select from the household servants. By the third time, the number of young women required had reached one hundred.”

“Wang Wu’s father, your eldest uncle, could not help but ask the reason. From then on, for the past five years, we have never seen the clan head again.”

Driven to the extreme of anger, Wang Yu instead calmed down and returned to rational thought. The dead cannot be brought back to life. At that time, he could not even protect himself, let alone save others.

Now that he had returned, he must take revenge.

What a beast was born in this family.

“In the previous generation, there were more than a hundred members of the Wang clan. In this generation, there are only thirty. Your third and fourth uncles are both dead. Your aunt married into Qianqiu City, and you only keep contact through letters.”

“By the way, Wang Wen has had many children. Two of them are twelve years old and capable of cultivation, but they could not join the Spirit Vulture Sect, so they remain in the Wang residence.”

“I understand. Where is my father’s grave.”

“All of them are on the clan’s burial mountain.”

“Okay.”

After roughly understanding the situation, Wang Yu sighed. A wisp of divine sense drilled out from between his brows and poured into Old Qin’s sea of consciousness, causing him to fall asleep instantly.

When he woke, he would only remember it as a confused but pleasant dream.

Wang Yu truly had not expected Wang Wu to be so utterly depraved. Every member of the Wang family who opposed him was killed, even those who merely quarreled with him were not spared.

Spirit Vulture Sect, the City Lord’s Mansion, Wang Wu.

One by one, he would settle the debts.

As for the missing young women, other than dual cultivation, he could think of no other reason. The orthodox path does not forbid dual cultivation methods. What it forbids are the demonic arts of harvesting essence.

But what essence could be harvested from mere mortals. Could it be purely for play. Such twisted taste was hard to imagine.

As for the two cultivators of the Wang clan, Wang Yu probed them and found they were only first-layer Qi Refining cultivators, with just a few wisps of spiritual power in their bodies.

But that spiritual power was gray and lifeless, which meant it was not cultivated by themselves.

Indeed, at only twelve years old, without experiencing the tempering of heavenly treasures, their bodies were not yet fully developed and could not possibly bear the power of heaven and earth.

Clearly it was an evil method, far inferior to the true techniques of the demonic sects. Most likely they were both Wasted Spiritual Roots.

Wang Yu did not harm them. After planting a divine sense imprint, he could only wait for Wang Wu to return from the Spirit Vulture Sect to settle the account.

There was certainly another secret behind all of this. Thinking of the situation with the slave-hunting squads, their trade was based on cooperation. Could it be that the other task of the slave-hunters was connected to this matter.

Or perhaps, it was directly a plan of the Joyous Union Sect. After all, the Joyous Union Sect and the Blood Reversal Sect are both not far from Blackbone Mountain. If those two sects joined forces to stir up trouble in the Taihu Spiritual Domain, it would be nothing unusual.

With heavy feelings, Wang Yu left the Wang clan and went to the burial mountain, where he paid respects before his father’s grave.