Starting with the drowned ghost, he synthesized the Myobo no Shinjun.

East City, Ding Family.

Ding Yuan leaned on his cane, his drooping eyelids concealing his angry eyes.

The stone pillar that fell from the sky turned a third of the Ding family's residence into ruins.

The clan suffered heavy casualties; even his own grandson was smashed into a pulp.

Before him, countless wounded servants limped along clearing the ruins and moving stones, not one of them daring to complain of hardship or fatigue.

If you complain of being tired, the kind-hearted Master Ding will arrange for you to rest permanently for the rest of your life.

Suddenly, the sound of horses' hooves came from afar, kicking up a cloud of dust, like an earthen dragon soaring into the sky, vast and mighty.

Ding Yuan slightly raised his eyelids, a sharp, cold glint flashing across his face.

"Is this a predicament for settling scores with me?"

Li Qijue from Xiangdi Realm rode a white horse and took the lead.

Following them were three Bone Refining Realm Bronze-level Suppression Envoys and ten Flesh Refining Realm Iron-level Suppression Envoys.

This force is enough to flatten the current Ding family.

However, it would violate the rules set by the imperial court.

Ding Yuan's withered hands gripped the dragon-headed cane tightly; he was ready at any moment to summon the Dragon King.

At worst, we'll both perish.

However, the expected ruthless crackdown did not materialize.

From a distance, Li Qijue waved his hand, and the thirteen riders behind him shouted at the same time, "Lord Ding Yuan of Yugu County is a man of great righteousness!"

In times of crisis, they sheltered the people; in recognition of this, Prime Minister Wang bestowed upon them a plaque inscribed with the words "A Heart of Lofty Righteousness!"

A loud shout, mixed with surging bloodlust, reverberated throughout the eastern city.

Many people digging for the bodies of their loved ones in the ruins couldn't help but look up and stare at each other in astonishment.

Are you kidding me? The Ding family, a wicked clan that devours people without spitting out the bones, actually received praise from the imperial court?

However, the shouts were heard three times in a row, leaving them no choice but to believe.

Not to mention the common people, Ding Yuan was equally confused.

However, after a moment's thought, he realized that perhaps the government wanted to sow discord among the three families.

"Ha, how naive."

He sneered inwardly. The alliance of the three surnames had withstood the test of centuries; how could such a divisive tactic break it?

"However, the people and livestock in the cellar must be moved to the Dragon King's Forbidden Ruins as soon as possible. The house is in ruins now, and if someone notices something amiss..."

"It's still a hassle. From now on, it's better to keep him at the base, and try not to keep him in the courtyard."

Ding Yuan forced a smile and cheerfully welcomed Li Qijue and the thirteen riders into the mansion.

"I am ashamed; I was merely a fellow human and did what I was supposed to do."

"You're too kind, Mr. Ding."

On the surface, a false politeness was exchanged, while inside the cellar, a rapid transfer of people and livestock began.

The Ding family has been operating this route for hundreds of years. Whether it's their usual secret bases or their own cellars, there are secret passages leading directly to Kunze Lake.

An hour later, several men in black led hundreds of terrified civilians, their mouths gagged and their hands bound, out of the secret passage.

After confirming that no one was around, the leader of the men in black took out a dark black bone tube, blew on it, and bubbles flew out one after another.

The bubbles enveloped the humans and animals, as if they possessed sentience, and one by one they soared into the air, floated to the surface of Kunze Lake, and then sank back down.

The bottom of Kunze Lake glistens with light, and all sorts of rare and exotic fish swim about, creating a breathtaking scene.

In the dark cave at the entrance to the forbidden ruins, Ning Kui, dressed as a beggar, suddenly opened his eyes.

"They're here!"

Beside him was a young child, breathing rapidly and looking extremely anxious.

It was none other than Cao Shuiwa, the very man who dared to draw his sword and kill him. He was a stubborn and fierce man who would not hesitate to risk his life for revenge.

Ning Kui originally wanted to find Cao Asheng to help him find a man whose family had been killed by river bandits and who was willing to act as bait.

Unexpectedly, Cao Shuiwa stepped forward without hesitation: "Why should anyone else go? I'm willing to go!"

At that moment, the hatred in Cao Shuiwa's eyes was so real that it almost turned into two lines of bloody tears.

His mother was also raped and killed in front of him by the bandits.

Cao Asheng was furious, but Cao Shuiwa was not afraid at all. He grabbed a wood-chopping knife and held it to his own neck, and blood immediately flowed out: "Brother Asheng, if you don't let me take revenge, what's the point of me living?"

Have you forgotten how my mother and aunt died?

Ning Kui took Cao Shuiwa, who was fearless in the face of death, away and gave Cao Asheng a promise before parting.

"Your brother will be recorded in the county annals; he... was a fine man."

In the dark cave, Ning Kui reached out and patted Cao Shuiwa on the shoulder, channeling a surge of profound energy into him to help him calm down.

The people and animals, strung together like pearls, entered the dark cave one by one. No one noticed that in this pitch-black section of the road, two young men with secret ambitions to slay dragons had infiltrated.

The eerie sense of spatial disorientation returned, and Ning Kui cautiously surveyed his surroundings.

Except for the gatekeeper, who changed from a black python to a giant tortoise, nothing else changed.

Several men in black skillfully guided the water sphere toward the area within the forbidden ruins where people and livestock were kept.

It was a huge, dome-shaped bubble inverted on the bottom of the lake.

The site covers nearly a thousand acres, with simple houses scattered haphazardly here and there.

It's called a house, but it's really more like a nest built by birds and animals.

What astonished Ning Kui the most was the densely packed, wriggling human and animal swarms inside, resembling maggots.

They reproduce...without ethics, without principles, without order, simply reproducing out of instinct.

The city of humans and animals was guarded by an old man carrying a tortoise shell. He was overjoyed to see that hundreds more fresh human and animal seeds had been delivered.

"New goods have arrived so soon? Excellent, excellent, the Dragon King will be pleased!"

He is a person.

A person carrying a tortoise shell, pretending to be a water beast.

Water beasts rarely speak human language. In order to facilitate communication with the Ding family, the Dragon King selected a family of obedient and outstanding individuals from among the humans and livestock it kept to manage this city of humans and livestock.

"Select one hundred from this batch for the Dragon King to enjoy fresh, and send the rest into the city to propagate their bloodline!"

The old man with the tortoise shell used his spear to pry open a corner of the city of humans and animals, letting the water spheres containing them float inside.

The moment they entered, the eerie aura in the air caused the newly arrived human and animal seeds to turn bloodshot.

It struggled violently, trying to reproduce with the creatures around it.

They showed no regard for the people around them who were just the family they had been desperately trying to protect.

"Hehe, there's a breath of immortal energy from the Dragon King in this city."

Dragons are inherently lustful. Those who fall into this city forget everything, have no worries, no constraints, and only know how to reproduce.

This is truly bliss!

The old man in the tortoise shell looked excitedly at the nauseating scene, then turned to the men in black and said, "I'm taking these last hundred to offer as tribute to the Dragon King. You may leave now."

"Yes, I'll take my leave."

Watching the men in black depart, the old man in the tortoise shell chuckled and summoned the giant turtle-like water beast, guiding the hundred people and animals towards the Dragon's Sleep Abyss.

If the Dragon King is happy with his food, then the Turtle King is happy too.