CHAPTER 839: THE RUMOR

Aldrian was still in the hidden place where Herias had built his statue. At this moment, he was observing a room full of treasures, the amount of which could shock anyone who saw it.

For Aldrian, this was just what his past followers normally did for him. They left treasures for his future use. Mountains of artifacts, energy stones, divine stones, talismans, and other items filled the room.

Aldrian nodded in satisfaction. With all the treasures he kept collecting, he could support his family’s cultivation for a long time and even help them reach the three highest heavens. As for the wealth, it could keep his family prosperous for generations to come.

After checking the treasures, he returned to the hall where Herias’s statue stood and looked at his core for a moment. The core of a divine beast like Herias, even though it was only a "small" chunk, was truly valuable.

It could be used for cultivation, especially for poison cultivators or for creating powerful pills.

Many alchemists, even from the highest heavens, would fight to the death just to get their hands on such a core. Great pills could be made by mixing it with other rare ingredients, and all of them would be invaluable.

After thinking for a moment, Aldrian decided to keep the core in this place. If he took the core, then the Akares star would lose its most dangerous forbidden region.

He thought that this region was still useful for many things, such as for those who wished to cultivate here or to protect the treasures inside the core region. The poison could prevent anyone from approaching it.

After realizing there was nothing else that interested him, he decided to teleport to the upper atmosphere above the sky of the Poison Valley. Once there, he spread his domain sense across the Akares star and tried to look for the existence of devils.

After a few minutes of searching, he raised his eyebrows in astonishment because there were no devils in this world!

’Did Randolf kill every single one of Tarius’s followers in this world?’ Aldrian thought.

’Tarius would have likely already sensed that something strange has been happening here for a long time. But why did the devils not make a move toward this star? Did he only focus on the Ancient Blue Gate World because of Long Shentian and Feng Xuanyan’s existence?’ He pondered for a moment before shrugging.

’Well, whatever. The devils might not be in this world, but there are already many people who have become followers of those other invading gods, so it is still the same.’

However, here came the trouble. The invaders’ cultivation techniques did not always have the same effect as the devils’ techniques. The ones in this world were an example. The cultivation techniques here were not as brutal or violent as the devils.

From what he sensed and understood through observation, the people who used these other gods’ cultivation techniques were just like normal cultivators. They could live peacefully and did not create destruction like the devils.

However, for him, that was already the problem. Cultivating the techniques of those invaders was itself an issue, and finding a way to get rid of them was another. There was no difference in character between them and those who cultivated the normal techniques of this universe.

There was no way he could simply kill everyone who seemed harmless just because they practiced a cultivation technique from one of those invaders. It was not entirely the cultivators’ fault if Randolf had been the one who spread the technique, and they believed there was nothing wrong with it.

’How am I supposed to get rid of the cultivation technique itself without harming the innocent?’ That was the question he needed to answer if he wanted to solve one of the problem caused by those invaders.

After thinking for a moment, the only feasible way was to make all of them cultivate the technique he created. He needed to spread his own cultivation method to those people so they could abandon the invaders’ techniques.

But then he shook his head. He would think more seriously about this matter in the future. For now, one step at a time. Moreover, he still needed to keep Randolf close to him. If he took away all of Randolf’s god’s followers, he would lose the chance to make use of him. That young master would not take his actions pleasantly and might show open hostility.

To make use of Randolf so that those invaders could fight among themselves, he needed to build a good relationship with him instead.

Thinking that everything about the problems in the Akares star was already in order to be solved, he decided to return to his palace. The rest could be handled by his avatar. Moreover, with the entire Akares star already part of his domain, nothing would go wrong.

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On the next day, the team that had departed for the Poison Valley returned. All of the family members came back alive, which was truly relieving. However, something had happened inside the valley that left everyone shocked. It was said that someone had attacked the patriarch inside the Poison Valley.

The unknown attacker was said to have killed the person who had discovered the miracle herb.

Naturally, the members of the family were stunned. Who would be bold enough to attack the team led by patriarch of the Barevisk family?

The patriarch returned unconscious, which caused panic among the family members. Even hours after the team’s return, he still had not woken up. Not long after, a rumor began to spread among the members of the Barevisk family, leaving them uneasy.

The patriarch had actually been targeted by assassins from the Silent Reaper. Many immediately thought that for someone like Patriarch Barevisk to fall unconscious, the one who attacked him must have been the leader of the Silent Reaper himself.

It had been a long time since anyone had heard of that group’s leader taking action personally. For him to make a move himself, and to dare attack the Barevisk family, meant that this was a serious matter.

Many began to question what had truly happened behind the scenes for the leader of the Silent Reaper to attempt to kill the patriarch. Did that man come of his own will, or had someone hired the Silent Reaper’s services?

If it was the latter, then the situation was far more severe. For the leader to personally take action and openly attack the patriarch in the Poison Valley meant that whoever paid the Silent Reaper must have immense influence.

The question was, who?

The Valroy family was the strongest in the Akares star, but they had no conflict with the Barevisk family. In fact, the Barevisk family these years was more like a vassal to the Valroy family, thanks to the current patriarch.

Many also guessed that perhaps someone from another world. Some speculated that Patriarch Barevisk had recently offended someone with great influence, someone powerful enough to make the leader of the Silent Reaper personally take the job and dare to attack a patriarch supported by the Valroy family.

Still, those were only guesses from those who heard the rumors. Yet with such talk spreading, and the fact that the patriarch still had not woken up, uncertainty began to grow among the family members. Many supported the current patriarch, and they feared that if anything happened to him, the family would fall into instability.

Although the current patriarch already had a successor, it was still too early for him to take the reins. He did not yet have the strength to control the family’s power. He was still at the pseudo-immortal establishment stage, and he needed at least pseudo immortal stage to be worthy of the patriarch’s seat.

This became the talk that unsurprisingly spread beyond the family and eventually reached the leader of the Silent Reaper himself. After hearing it, he was confused.

How had he suddenly been dragged into this?

At this moment, he was walking through a city where he could see the floating land where the Barevisk family’s manor was located. He and many of his men had come with a single purpose.

To kill anyone in the Barevisk family who knew about the relationship between his group and Munez.

After thinking it over thoroughly, he finally decided to take the gamble and do exactly what Luvier had suggested.

To kill Munez and all of his men who knew about their connection.

He knew he could not massacre the entire Barevisk family because that would attract too much trouble. The powers of this world could unite against his group if the Silent Reaper were seen to slaughter a great family like Barevisk without clear reason.

That would be interpreted as a threat. The Silent Reaper could and would not hesitate to destroy an entire family if someone used their services.

No matter how great he was, that would be the worst-case scenario. There was no way he could contend with the united powers of the whole world.

He knew he had to execute the plan with perfection and without error. He had to make sure they were all dead in one sweep tonight.

No mistakes, no survivors, no witnesses.

But not long after he arrived, he heard a rumor that left him both interested and confused.

What was happening inside the Barevisk family?