"Why do you want to destroy the Infant Soul Sect? Could it be that the Infant Soul Sect has some grudge against you, Father?" Chu Feng asked.
He was surprised because he hadn't expected that after his father warned him about the danger of the Infant Soul Sect, he would still want him to destroy it.
However, he felt that his father must have his reasons for giving him this task, and the most likely reason was that the Infant Soul Sect was his father's enemy.
"The Infant Soul Sect has no grudge against me. It's simply that the Infant Soul Sect is an evil cult. Do you know why they're called the Infant Soul Sect?"
"That's because every member of the Infant Soul Sect uses the souls of newborn babies to cultivate. The longer the Infant Soul Sect exists, the more innocent babies die miserably at their hands. That is why the Infant Soul Sect deserves to be destroyed," Chu Xuanyuan said.
"They truly deserve death." What Chu Feng hated most of all were those who bullied the old, the weak, and the helpless—let alone… a faction that harmed innocent babies.
Just thinking about it—fresh lives, barely born into this world, having not yet experienced its wonders, having barely even begun to know it, only to be brutally cut down by these people. How cruel they must be.
"The Infant Soul Sect does deserve destruction, but there are many such factions throughout the world that use dark arts to cultivate. Eradicating them all is extremely difficult."
"That is why I want you to destroy the Infant Soul Sect. Removing this menace from the Hundred Refinements Mortal World is only the first reason. There is a second reason, and that is the key," Chu Xuanyuan said.
"Please go on, Father," Chu Feng said solemnly.
"The Chu Heavenly Clan uses rather extreme methods to train the younger generation. These methods involve having the juniors accept missions and then complete them."
"As I understand it, there are many such missions available in the Hundred Refinements Mortal World."
"So even though the Chu Heavenly Clan resides in the Upper Realm, they have people stationed in the Hundred Refinements Mortal World as well—and they are mostly juniors."
"However, the Chu Heavenly Clan has a rule: any junior who dares to enter the Hundred Refinements Mortal World to take on missions will no longer receive the clan's protection. Even if their lives are in danger, no one from the Chu Heavenly Clan will intervene."
"In other words, for the Chu Heavenly Clan's juniors within the Hundred Refinements Mortal World, who lives and who dies depends entirely on themselves."
"And among all the missions in the Hundred Refinements Mortal World, the highest-ranking and most difficult one is the destruction of the Infant Soul Sect."
"Yet, to this day, no junior of the Chu Heavenly Clan has ever successfully eliminated the Infant Soul Sect. On the contrary… many elite juniors of the Chu Heavenly Clan have perished at their hands."
"Over time, the Infant Soul Sect has grown fearless of the Chu Heavenly Clan. After all… they've killed so many of the clan's geniuses and gotten away with it," Chu Xuanyuan said.
"Did the Chu Heavenly Clan deliberately allow the Infant Soul Sect to persist? Simply for the purpose of… training the clan's juniors?" Chu Feng asked.
"You're correct. A faction like the Infant Soul Sect may run rampant in the Hundred Refinements Mortal World, but if the Chu Heavenly Clan wanted to eliminate them, it would be a trivial matter."
"The reason they haven't wiped them out, and instead keep sending the clan's juniors to challenge the Infant Soul Sect, is because they hope that one day, a junior of the Chu Heavenly Clan will be able to destroy them."
"After all, since the Infant Soul Sect mission was first posted, not a single junior of the Chu Heavenly Clan has been able to complete it," Chu Xuanyuan said.
"Father, I understand what you're getting at," Chu Feng said. He truly understood now.
Destroying the Infant Soul Sect was a mission that no junior of the Chu Heavenly Clan could accomplish.
And if Chu Feng succeeded, it would be a tremendous slap in the face to the entire Chu Heavenly Clan—after all, he had been labeled a worthless cripple deemed unworthy of the Heaven-level bloodline, stripped of the family name.
"There is an age requirement for the Infant Soul Sect mission. Juniors over the age of forty cannot take it, and as for you, Feng'er, you have more than enough leeway—you're not even thirty yet."
"But there's no need for you to go to the Chu Heavenly Clan to officially accept the mission. Just do it directly. After all, in name, you are no longer a member of the Chu Heavenly Clan."
"Yet for the Chu Heavenly Clan, as long as anyone under the age of forty manages to destroy the Infant Soul Sect, then for the Chu Heavenly Clan, this…