Chapter 228
As soon as Qi Ping sensed something was wrong, his main body within the territory immediately began making arrangements for the Dream-Cloud Mist Tiger’s breakthrough.
The tree-man clone in Zone C of the Cloud Mist Mountains pretended nothing had happened and continued chatting with Wang Shan about the latest news from Qing Shi County.
Since Wang Shan had many connections and was well-informed, he knew a great deal about what had been happening to the ordinary rogue cultivators in Qingshi County.
The more Qi Ping learned, the more alarmed and silent he became. Wang Shan painted vivid picture after vivid picture for him—when each parent had given birth to their child, the joy they’d felt when the child tested positive for extraordinary talent, the day the child vanished, and the parents’ utter collapse as they searched desperately.
Each missing child was no longer just a cold statistic, but the hope of an entire family and the very heart of every parent.
Behind each one lay a shattered home and a pair of parents living a life worse than death.
If one day Qi Ping were to suddenly disappear, how would Old Man Zhou ever bear it?
And that was with no blood relation—how much worse for parents and children bound by flesh and blood?
Even though Qi Ping was selfish and timid by nature, hearing these living examples and feeling the crushing despair behind them still stirred something deep within him.