Hao Ren sat down on the big log, he was surrounded by Volg, Tsar, Ye Jian, Ye Si, Hao Mei, Hao Xinlong, Hao Qin and Yin. There were also fifty more refugees, all as strong as Dao Integration realm. These were the people that he brought over from the earth vein settlement.
Hao Ren looked at Kage, who was kneeling before him, and the young man used his hypnosis skill and asked, "What do you know about Hao Tian?"
Kage was struck in a daze as soon as Hao Ren spoke, and he said, "Hao Tian is the head of the Hao family in the Iron City. At the same time, he is the head of the Three City Alliance controlled by six families, Hao Family, Bei Family in Iron City. Xue Family and Liu Family in the Glacia Peak City, and lastly, Hestia Family and Fiery Blade Mercenary in Cold Flame City.
Hao Tian is at the peak of Star Annihilation realm and can step into the Galaxy Devastation Realm at any time he wishes. However, he is suppressing his cultivation rigorously until he makes the family head of the Hao Family."
Hao Ren asked, "What about being the family head? Why is he so obsessed with an empty title?"
Kage replied, "He wants to find a realm above Galaxy Devastation and for that he would need to bring the Hao Family to join the forces of the blood tower, and only then can he be promoted to the higher level in the tower to continue his research."
Hao Xinlong clenched his fists and his spiritual energy became chaotic as he raged. However, after a few moments he calmed down and Hao Ren asked, "What about the blood tower? Tell me, how do you work."
Kage replied, "Blood Tower has an underground network, and at any moment our people are placed in the top designations of the other forces, be it families or mercenary groups. We operate in different ways, like brothels, kidnappings, and child beggar networks."
Ye Jian and Ye Si clenched their fists, they were both also in a similar condition once upon a time so they hated the people who did such things. Hao Ren asked again, "So, what about the power distribution inside the tower."
Kage said, "There are three factions, Enchantress, Assassin, and Whisperers namely. I belong to the assassin faction. I was responsible for protecting Hao Tian and acting as a blade in shadow on his command."
Hao Ren asked, "What is Hao Tian's position in the Blood Tower?"
Kage replied, "He is a Black level guest elder, because of his status and power." The source of thɪs content is novelFɪre.net
Hao Ren again asked how the levels were divided, and Kage told him, that the people with realm below Planet Shattering would be placed in the bracket of disciples and they had levels, bronze, silver and gold. The elders leveled from Red, Black and finally Crystal. The top three positions of all the factions were called Crystal Elders, they were at the peak of Star Annihilation, but they were old monsters who would go to any level in order to cement their dominance.
Black level was given to the rich and the influential. Hao Ren chuckled as he heard this and said, "I was thinking that the Blood Tower was a serious bunch of troublemakers. Ye Jian, if you want, throw some money on their faces and they will call you father."
Everyone laughed at this, and then Hao Ren looked at Kage as he said, "Now, tell me, why did you attack us? What instruction did Hao Tian gave you?"
Kage replied, "He wanted to kill all of you, apart from Hao Xinyuan and Han Lingshi. He told me to bring her back for him."
This time, it was Hao Ren's turned to get angry, however, he just took out a knife and tossed it before Kage as he said, "You will skin yourself and make sure that you stay awake through all this."
The people suddenly froze because they did not expect such a twist. Hao Ren said, "This bastard, dared to attack my family and even had the desire to capture my wife. He deserves to suffer even worse."
Ye Si sighed and said, "Big Brother, you are just saying this because you want others to think that you love us, but in reality, it is all because he dared to move for Sister-in-law, you are such a wife slave."
Hao Ren took a deep breath and said, "Yes, I am a wife slave, what is wrong with that? Humph, shoo."
Then he watched Kage skin himself alive, even when he growled in pain, he did not stop. Hao Ren was so cruel that he even allowed him to see what was going on with him, and he tried to break free but he could not. He wailed and cried, even begged for death but Hao Ren did not pay attention to the guy at all, he kept talking with Yin and the rest as if it was normal.
The people understood how cruel Hao Ren, even Hao Qin was shaken by this experience and Hao Mei took her to the side to calm her down. The young girl knew that the stronger the person the more blood thirsty they were, but this was something that she did not expect.
Kage was lying in a puddle of his own blood and Hao Ren set his body on fire with his Phoenix flames. The effect of the flames was very shocking, Kage began to ran around as his soul burned. Hao Ren watched him, and used his spiritual energy to make sure that the latter stays in the view at all times.
After an hour, Kage finally had no soul left inside him and then his body fell to the ground and smoldered slowly into nothingness. Hao Ren looked at the setting sun and said, "Hao Tian should be aware by now that his guard is dead. Let us leave here, if that bastard came over, and I accidently killed him, all things would be ruined."
The people split in two groups. Hao Ren took Ye Si, Yin, and Hao Qin along with Volg and moved towards the Glacia Peak City. While Hao Mei took Hao Xinyuan, Yan, Ye Jian and Tsar to the Cold Flame City.
Both these cities had Tower of light operatives living their and Hao Mei had already contacted them. Volg and Tsar had to get Identification plates for their people, as for Hao Ren and the rest, it turned out that the people stationed here were thoughtful and had already prepared the plates for them in advance.
Hao Tian was sitting in his study and was reading the details of the investigation being conducted on Hao Ren and Han Lingshi. The more he read, the shocked he felt. He mumbled, "These kids are able to do so much in such a short time, if they were to join the Blood Tower, they might have reached the peak of the world by now, too bad they are too selfless. Well, Kage should be on his way back, I will have a good chat with that Han Lingshi."
As he said that, he smirked and imagined how he would humiliate Hao Ren by conquering his wife, but at this moment, he sensed a movement in his space ring and he frowned. After investigation he found that the soul jade that belonged to Kage had cracked and turned to powder. The man took a few seconds to register everything that was going on, when he opened his eyes wide and stood up from the chair.
A crystal ball that was laid on his table began to glow and an eerie voice sounded, "Elder Hao, what happened to Kage?"
Hao Tian took a deep breath and said, "Lord Thunder Shadow, I sent him to catch an enemy and then this happened. I think he has fallen at the hands of the enemy."
The person on the other side fell silent for a second and then said, "Well, whatever it is. You owe us ten million spirit stones as per the terms agreed earlier. The Chaos Saint cannot bless guards for free, we have to buy him resources."
Hao Tian agreed and said, "I will come over in person to hand over the money."
The conversation came to an end, and Hao Tian sighed before he radiated a strong wave of spiritual pressure and destroyed the study room. He walked out of the room, and found an old man walking over to him in a hurry. He asked, "Third Elder, what happened? You look a bit panicked."
The old man sighed and said, "Family Head, Hao Xinyuan has left the continent once again. We cannot sense his presence."
Hao Tian clenched his fist and punched the wall next to him. His outburst caused one entire wing of the mansion to collapse and he yelled, "Bastard! Arghh!! Send the forces to the south. Fucking drag them out!"
Third Elder sighed and said, "The southern continent was sealed, and they are not allowing anyone to go in or to go out. The Hao Family members there have been put under house arrest and their cultivation has been sealed. We should not act in such haste."