Chapter 729 Life Cauldron (1)
"There's no need for that here. You'll come to find that out soon enough.." calmly said Yang Qing as he wore a warm smile on his face taking the seat that was opposite them. The duo had conveniently sat in one direction, seemingly in anticipation of his arrival.
"How was the trip over?" asked Yang Qing, trying to defuse the tenseness which he had a feeling had little to do with his presence.
Even while they were admiring the sceneries outside, Yang Qing had detected a bit of tenseness coming from them as he was climbing their stairs.
Their reactions weren't all that surprising really with all things considered. The couple was in an unfamiliar place, and even if they were veterans who had lived quite the life, especially on a battlefield that left them predisposed to have strong wills and mental fortitude, coming to an unfamiliar place to start over would leave anyone shaken. It was the same for Wen Yingjie who left his home as a core formation expert but still was quite shaken and struggled to adjust to his life as a rogue cultivator, and it was the same for the couple who had left all they knew behind at the Red Maple Empire to come start over at the Order.
Yang Qing couldn't help but admire them. They had made such a significant change to their lives all for two children they held no blood relation with. Few would make such a sacrifice even to those they were related with.
Wang Siyi who seemed to have regained his senses earlier answered,
"It wasn't bad. The chief inquisitor of the Yellow Plains County Branch was more than kind to bring us over from Purple City. The journey was fast and smooth thanks to it.."
"That's good, that's good. What about your sons? Will they be coming?" asked Yang Qing when he noticed one of the sons who had served him when he was at their restaurant at Purple City was absent.
The couple looked at each other as they smiled wryly at one another before Wang Siyi's wife, Wang Huiyin answered,
"They said they didn't want to let the restaurant we built together at Purple City fade away like that. They wished to continue running it and our eldest already has someone he is pursuing in the city, making the move impossible.."
"Mmph, Huiyin'er no need to sugarcoat it, we both know they wanted to avoid us. Ever since they were kids they have always been trying to find a way to leave us behind and now they do. Ungrateful brats.." said Wang Siyi as he crossed his arms.
Yang Qing only smiled at the response, hiding his thoughts. Zou Yi had once told him about the relationship between the couple and their sons during his evaluations.
Even though Zou Yi didn't know the complete story, he knew the two sons were always a little reserved almost cowering whenever they were around the couple, and it wasn't hard to guess why considering the fiery temper of Wang Siyi. Even the guests knew well enough not to provoke the old man and his wife, she was even scarier, at least with Wang Siyi you could see the beating coming, but with the wife it was like a cat playing around with a mouse, enjoying the thrill of the torment.
Yang Qing could feel the fiendish spirits of his instructors from the couple. It was only when it came to the Zou siblings did they reveal a soft side.
"What about that other matter?" asked Yang Qing with a serious expression.
The couple straightened up as Wang Huiyin answered,
"With little... with the help of the City Lord of Purple City, we rooted out all the underground organizations in the city, though there were some that no doubt managed to escape we did manage to destroy the major ones, such as the Jade Scorpions where that blood fiend cultivator had belonged to, and the Crimson blades, and the Tiger Claw gang..."
Noticing the pause, Yang Qing asked, "Did something happen?"
"We found two blood fiend cultivators in a few of the underworld organizations, the Crimson Blade, and the Flying Serpent gang respectively. In both, they were unassuming members but when the fight broke out and they became cornered, they both revealed the strengths of core formation experts, with the one found in the Soaring Flying Serpent gang proving especially dangerous.
From the records, her name was Ling Shi, and she had been masquerading as a late-stage foundation establishment member of the Flying Serpent gang. She handled the gang's herbal trade activities along with being one of their alchemists.
She would have made a clear getaway had the leader of the Flying Serpent gang not revealed every escape route and contingencies the gang had if ever things got bad for them. Some of those contingencies involved using contacts from a few elders of the Chen family that they had a few dealings with over the years..." Wang Huiyin's look darkened as she paused.
"The gang did all sorts of work for them such as hindering the trade of the other families, a few assassinations and kidnappings in there, and including sourcing of young children of about four to five to serve as pill slaves for the alchemists of the Chen family. They used them to test their various recipes, especially the more dangerous ones, with some of them even being used as life cauldrons.."
Yang Qing's eyes couldn't help but narrow when he heard the word 'life cauldron'. Every aspect of the world had its dark side, that was more so in cultivation and its different schools, like talisman makers who use the blood of cultivators with certain physiques to boost the quality of the talismans, blacksmiths, and weapon refiners who imprison the soul of a cultivator and refine it into the artifact or weapon they're making, formation masters who dig out cores of cultivators and use it as treasures for anchoring their arrays, and when it came to alchemy and herbology there were pill slaves and life cauldrons.
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