"You old fool Tuoba, since you failed to assassinate me, you will pay the price."
"Your All Heavens Gate — hasn't it always wanted to open the Tomb of the Demon-Slaying Emperor?"
"Well now, I'll help you open it."
"Unfortunately, some of the treasures inside the Tomb of the Demon-Slaying Emperor can only be unlocked with special artifacts. Even I can't do anything about that."
"So I have to thank you for sending those incompetent fools, who brought those artifacts along and successfully opened the gates one after another. Thanks to them, I finally got my hands on some good things."
"Old fool Tuoba, you really are my obedient grandson — you've done me an enormous favor."
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"Insolent!!!"
Upon reading this,
He already knew exactly who the troublemaker was.
"So the ones who snatched your treasures were that little brat Asura?"
Tuoba Chengan asked the group who had previously been robbed.
"It wasn't just one person. It was an entire group."
"And they don't call themselves Asura either — they claim to be Asura's subordinates," Grandmaster Huang said.
"What? Subordinates?"
Hearing this, Tuoba Chengan — already seething with fury — felt his expression shift dramatically.
He was not the only one. The other elders of All Heavens Gate looked just as he did.
As for Asura, they were naturally well aware of the name.
The reason they had sent people disguised as members of the Red-Clothed Sacred Ground to assassinate him was precisely because Asura's origins were unknown, and they feared that some massive power stood behind him.
Although Asura had later sent a letter making it perfectly clear that no powerful force backed him, why were there now so many formidable individuals claiming to be Asura's subordinates?
This forced them to wonder whether someone truly did stand behind Asura after all.
Could they still afford to touch this Asura?
"Grand Elder, what should we do?"
Left with no other option, all the elders focused their gazes on Tuoba Chengan.
The Tomb of the Demon-Slaying Emperor was simply too important for them.
They could not bear to stand by and watch the treasures within the Tomb of the Demon-Slaying Emperor fall into someone else's hands.
But Asura's background remained unknown, and merely a group of subordinates had already inflicted devastating losses upon them. Even Grandmaster Huang, who held numerous artifacts capable of unlocking the Tomb of the Demon-Slaying Emperor, was powerless against them. This filled them all with deep apprehension toward Asura.
For a moment, no one knew what to do.
"There is no need to panic. This matter, I can resolve for you."
Just then, a voice suddenly rang out.
The voice was exceedingly strange — it was actually two voices at once, one shrill and one rough, as if a woman and a hulking brute were speaking simultaneously.
Yet both sounds came from a single direction, and from the same person's mouth.
Standing before a bizarre war chariot was a man with a face as pale as white paper and a skeletal, gaunt body.
Though he was extremely thin, his stature was remarkably tall — well over ten meters in height.
His appearance was quite unsettling as well, but the strangest feature was his pair of eyes, which did not look human at all. They were the eyes of a savage beast.
This was the illustrious Blood Mist Heavenly Venerable.
"Blood Mist Heavenly Venerable, can you truly resolve this for me?" Tuoba Chengan asked.
"The treasures you lost — I can retrieve every last one of you."
"Everything inside the Tomb of the Demon-Slaying Emperor will belong to your All Heavens Gate. No one else will be able to take a single thing."
"I can even capture the people who robbed your All Heavens Gate and bring them back to you."
After finishing his words, the Blood Mist Heavenly Venerable curled the corner of his mouth into a faint, eerie arc, and his unsettling gaze settled upon Tuoba Chengan.
At that moment, Tuoba Chengan's expression turned ugly. The flickering in his eyes made it clear he was wrestling with a difficult decision.
"Fine. I agree," Tuoba Chengan said abruptly.
"Very good. That is exactly what I wanted to hear."
"But Elder Tuoba, now that you've agreed, you must not regret it."