Over The World, Beyond Heaven

The conversation just now was between a City Governor, who had long been allied with Zi-Dong-Lei, and his close councilor. This City Governor was the same age as Zi-Dong-Lei, and their energy levels were not much different. And he was stuck at the sixth level of the Great Deity Stage as well.

However, his city did not have the chaos and power struggles of Zi-Dong-Lei's Demon's Hill City. Because the population of his city was all Demon Races, who placed great importance on the honor, status, and hierarchy of their bloodline. Furthermore, each clan in this city was connected to one or another through marriage between young members of the clans. In terms of governance, most of the power was held by the City Governor's clan, but when an important decision needed to be made, they would summon important people from every clan to a meeting to discuss.

However, recently, every clan had been petitioning the City Governor asking him to cancel their promise with Zi Clan, citing that it was an old promise from their dead ancestors, which made the City Governor extremely worried.

Thump! Thump! Thump!

"Councilor, sir! Here is a report from our scouts at Demon's Hill City, sir!"

Hah!?

As the middle-aged man who was the City Governor's councilor was about to leave the City Governor's office, a soldier hurriedly brought a report from the news source in Demon's Hill City.

"Hurry up! Let me see!"

Here, sir!

Blop!

............?

Ah!

"What happened, Councilor? Did the demon monster beasts attack Demon's Hill City again?" the City Governor asked immediately upon seeing the Councilor's shocked expression after reading the report.

"No, sir, City Governor! But it's a report that one of the major clans of Demon's Hill City has declared a seizure of power from Zi Clan, sir!"

Hah!?

"What did you say? Why is there such a thing? Isn't Zi Clan the strongest in Demon's Hill City?"

"From this report, the Predecessor of the Mou Clan, one of the major clans, has just broken through to the seventh level of the Great Deity Stage, sir. That's why they dared to declare their seizure of power."

Ah!

"I didn't expect that something like this would happen. In that case, we should quickly send a force to help the Zi Clan deal with this problem. Even if the other party has advanced to the seventh level, it doesn't mean that they can handle multiple highest sixth-level grandmasters at the same time. So, I'll be the one to…"

"Wait, sir, City Governor!"

"What else, Councilor?!"

"I don't think you should send a force to help Zi Clan. Don't you want to break the blood promise with Zi Clan? If that's the case, we should let the Mou Clan completely destroy the Zi Clan so that the blood promise can be ended, sir. Besides, your clan promised to protect Demon's Hill City from the demon monster beast hordes, not to protect against a power grab like this!"

The councilor immediately stopped the City Governor. This incident was like the heavens were on their side. Because they were looking for a way to break the blood promise between the two clans. And the fact that they did not go help Zi Clan deal with Mou Clan was not a breach of their promise.

Umm!

But...

The City Governor hesitated with that advice; he was uncomfortable doing so. However, after thinking it over, he saw that doing what his counselor suggested would be the best. In the past one hundred and fifty years, they had to help deal with the demon monster beast hordes that had invaded many times, causing them to suffer great losses, and there were still fifty years left; how much more would they lose? If there had been no blood promise, his city would have been able to advance to Divine City long ago.

"All right! Since it's like this, I'll pretend not to know about what happened at Demon's Hill City. And I hereby order that all communication with Demon's Hill City and Zi Clan be cut off for three days."

Yes, sir, City Governor!

Finally, the City Governor had made up his mind about what he should do. The path he chose was to sever ties with Zi Clan and Demon's Hill City for the future of his clan and city.

Back to Demon's Hill City…

Soon after Zheng-Fu returned to the city, the Mou Clan began a revolution to seize control of the city from Zi Clan, with their Predecessor, who had become the strongest in the city, unleashing his energy to suppress the people of Zi Clan.

In front of the Zi Clan camp in their defense position…

"I'll give you another chance. Call out Zi-Dong-Lei and tell him to give me the City Governor's seal and announce the change of ruler from Zi Clan to Mou Clan; otherwise, don't blame me for being cruel!"

The fierce and evil tone of Mou Clan Predecessor reverberated throughout the Zi Clan and Ma Clan camps and the camps and nearby places. Every word he said showed that he did not fear or respect Zi-Dong-Lei. His manner was extremely arrogant and conceited, as if he had already taken over the position of City Governor.

"City Governor is currently in closed-door cultivation. We cannot get in to see him. Master Elder, please go back first! I believe that the City Governor will come out soon. And when that time comes, I'll immediately tell him to hand over the power of governing this city to you."

A stern and fierce voice came from Ma Clan Leader. He rushed there immediately after receiving the news that the Mou Clan had seized power from the Zi Clan. Although he was not as strong as Mou Clan Predecessor, he definitely did not intend to let the latter interfere with Zi-Dong-Lei's closed-door energy cultivation. So, he tried every means to make the elder go back first.

Huh!

"Do you think I'm stupid, Li-Wei Kid? If I wait for Dong-Lei to finish cultivating his energy and he breaks through to the seventh level, then I'll be in trouble. You'd better get out of the way if you don't want your Ma Clan to suffer as well. More importantly, you must hand over your daughter to marry my Mou Clan member. Otherwise…, don't say I didn't warn you!"

The elder sneered indifferently. He had been through a lot, so he was not stupid enough to wait for Zi-Dong-Lei to finish cultivating his energy. If Zi-Dong-Lei could break through the bottleneck and be promoted to the seventh level of the Great Deity Stage like him, then everything he had done would become a joke. Therefore, he could not let it go like that.

He also would not let Ma Clan go. He had heard from his grandson that Ma Clan Leader's daughter was a beautiful and talented young woman. So, he ordered Ma-Li-Wei to give his daughter in marriage to a Mou Clan member.

You!

Ma-Li-Wei never thought that Mou Clan Predecessor would be such a willful person. But no matter how dissatisfied he was, he could not do anything at that time. Because those with higher energy could do whatever they wanted.

"I don't care what you think, but when the time comes that I successfully seize power from Dong-Lei, I hope you'll give me a good answer. Get out of the way!"

Flap!

Groooaaan!!!

Arrrrgh!

With just a flick of Mou Clan Predecessor's hand, Ma-Li-Wei was blown back several steps before he could regain his balance.

"Protect City Governor, quickly!"

"Even if we die, we'll never let evil bandits like those Mou Clan guys in!"

Instantly, Zi Clan's great skilled masters and elders gathered in front of the tent to protect Zi-Dong-Lei. Since Zi-Dong-Lei was Zi Clan's hope, if anything happened to him, Zi Clan might no longer exist in this world.

Huh!

"You termites, get out of the way!"

Booooooom!!!

Arrrrrrrgh!!!

With just one release of energy from Mou Clan Predecessor, everyone gathered in front of Zi-Dong-Lei's tent was blown away in all directions. Fortunately, no one died. But they were all severely injured and would need to recuperate for several days before they could fully recover.

Huh!

"I spoke nicely, but you guys didn't obey, so you had to face this! If anyone still wants to die, come on in. This time, I won't just injure you guys, I'll send you to your ancestors!"

Ah!

No matter how much they wanted to go back in and help protect Zi-Dong-Lei's tent entrance, they could not. Because their bodies and internal organs were injured in many parts. As for the ones who were still intact, they did not dare to move because even if they blocked the elder's path, they would not be able to do anything other than being the shields made of flesh and blood.

"Good! Now that's more like it. When I become the City Governor, I'll take good care of you!"

Ha ha ha!

The Mou Clan Predecessor laughed loudly with satisfaction, happily using his power and energy to suppress Zi Clan's people. He had waited for that moment for a long time. He could finally do what he wanted, and this was just the beginning.

"Quickly contact Four-armed Demon Deity City Governor for help!" The Zi Clan First Elder immediately ordered the ones who were still intact to send a message asking for help to the allied clan. The only reliance they had at that time was on the people from the Four-armed Demon Deity City.

"Yes, sir, Master First Elder!"

Beep! Beep! Beep!

"Oh no, Master First Elder. We can't contact them, no matter which channel, sir. It's like the channels are cut off!"

What did you say?!

"Damn! Why is this happening? Why is it like this now? Or… are they colluding with Mou Clan as well?"

"It must be that way, Master First Elder. They've wanted to cancel the blood promise with our Zi Clan for a long time. If the Mou Clan can overthrow the Zi Clan, then the blood promise will be void!" Zi Clan Second Elder immediately said after hearing the First Elder's words. He had heard that the Four-armed Demon Deity City Governor's clan wanted to cancel the blood promise with them, so he thought that the reason why the other party closed contact like that must have been because of this.

"No wonder… they didn't send a force to help us deal with the demon monster beast hordes. It turns out that they were just waiting for this opportunity. Huh! Damn it! Just wait, if Zi Clan survives today, I certainly won't let them go!" Normally, Third Elder Zi-Leng-Kong was not a hot-tempered and ruthless person, but today, he felt very angry and resentful towards his allied clan.

'I didn't expect the situation to be this bad. Should I lend a hand and help? I want to know how far Master Zi has gone in cultivating energy with the new technique. Hopefully, he can succeed before his clan's members are completely killed!'

All the events that happened back then were under Zheng-Fu's watchful eye, but he did not show up to help Zi Clan because he still hoped that Zi-Dong-Lei could cultivate energy according to the new cultivation technique he had given him and break through to the seventh level soon.