CHAPTER 1309  A GATHERING OF EXILES

"Dazzling Sword…? Is there another name I can address you as?" Yuan asked with a weird look on his face.

"You can just call me Daz then." Copyright Nôv/el/Dra/ma.Org.

"Alright. Then, Daz, what's next?" Yuan asked.

"There's still one last part of the recruitment before you can meet the others." Dazzling Sword said, and he continued, "You see, there's a reason why the Ten Great Families gathered all of us together. Do you know why?"

Yuan pretended to think about the answer before responding, "Is there some kind of insanely hard dungeon that requires this much firepower?"

Dazzling Sword laughed at his answer for a moment before speaking, "Something like that, but it's not a dungeon. It's an Exile."

Yuan acted surprised and exclaimed, "What? The Ten Great Families is doing all of this just for a single Exile?"

"She's not just a mere Exile! She's an Exile from the Asura Clan!" Hu Kaize exclaimed with clenched fists.

'Xiao Hua, act surprised and shout: What?! The Asura Clan?! That's impossible!' Yuan instructed her through divine sense.

"W-What?! The Asura Clan?! T-That's impossible!" Xiao Hua shouted a moment later, but it sounded a bit stiff and unnatural.

"I know it sounds ridiculous, and while there isn't any actual proof, just the possibility of the Asura Clan existing outside the Primordial Realm is dangerous enough for us to work together." Hu Kaize took Xiao Hua's unnatural response as a kind of shock and continued to explain further, "If it's true—that someone from the Asura Clan has managed to acquire the Supreme Heaven's Legacy, we must work together to get rid of her before she gets rid of us! If we don't deal with her as soon as possible, none of us will have a chance of survival!"

"..."

Xiao Hua's eyebrows twitched after hearing such a thing, as Hu Kaize made it sound like her family was the most dangerous thing in this world.

"I-If it's really the Asura Clan, then I am willing to work together with the other Exiles to get rid of her." Xiao Hua said a moment later, following Yuan's instructions again.

"Great. Then until we remove the threat, we are in a truce. If you attack any of the other Exiles for any reason, we will all attack you at once. Do you understand?" Hu Kaize asked, his gaze filled with killing intent.

Xiao Hua silently nodded her head.

"Is that all there is to it? Just hunting this Exile?" Yuan suddenly asked.

"Yeah. What else do you want?" Dazzling Sword nodded. "Oh, are you perhaps asking about the rewards? Don't worry, you'll receive your share once we meet up with the others."

'So the Ten Great Families are purposefully not mentioning the true purpose of their recruitment, huh.' Yuan thought to himself.

"Then what will happen after we finish this quest?" Yuan continued asking.

"We will return to our own journey." Dazzling Sword said. "But if you manage to make a connection with the Ten Great Families, you can probably continue working with them."

"I see… then when are we going to make a move?" "I'm not sure about that, but from what I've been hearing, we might be moving out very soon."

"Anyways, if you have more questions, you can wait until we group up with the others." Dazzling Sword said.

"Follow me."

Yuan and Xiao Hua proceeded to follow Dazzling Sword into a nearby city to use their teleportation device.

As they traveled, Hu Kaize started a conversation with Xiao Hua, "So, what did you do to end up as an Exile?"

Xiao Hua responded without looking at him, "I killed people."

"Of course you did. All of us did. How did you kill them? How many did you kill? Did you have a nickname? They called me the Butcherer. I had killed at least ten thousand mortals and over a thousand cultivators."

'Brother Yuan, can I kill him?' Xiao Hua asked even though she already knew his answer.

'You'll get your chance later. Try to keep calm for now.' Yuan said.

After a moment of silence, Xiao Hua responded to Hu Kaize in a cold voice, "That's all? A thousand cultivators? You're much more pathetic than I thought."

"W-What did you say…?" Hu Kaize stared at her with immense killing intent shooting out of his eyes.

Seeing this, Xiao Hua turned to look at him and suddenly released her own killing intent.

"!?!?!"

Xiao Hua's killing intent was so powerful that it materialized around her as an aura, making it seem as though she was surrounded by the countless souls that she had murdered.

"Heavens!" Hu Kaize fell on his buttocks from shock after sensing Xiao Hua's dreadful killing intent. "Do I still need to answer your questions?" Xiao Hua asked.

Hu Kaize hastily shook his head.

'What a fucking monster!' Hu Kaize cried inwardly. 'How many people did she kill to acquire such immense killing intent? Hundred of thousands? Millions?'

Dazzling Sword was left dumbfounded after what he'd just witnessed. It was also the first instance he had seen Hu Kaize, typically assertive, behaving with such timidity.

'Is this the power of a Lord-grade servant?' Dazzling Sword swallowed nervously, as Hu Kaize was only an Elite-grade servant. After a while, they reached a sizable mansion perched atop a solitary hill, approximately a hundred miles away from the nearest city.

Yuan could sense the presence of over a hundred individuals inside this building, and most of them were Spirit Kings.

'A hundred and twelve Spirit Kings… So they managed to recruit this many Exiles, huh…' Yuan sighed inwardly.

However, even though he was against so many Exiles, Yuan did not feel worried in the slightest.

"Where are we?" Yuan asked Dazzling Sword.

"The Xiong Family's property. Those rich bastards bought this land and this mansion here just for this quest." Dazzling Sword sighed out loud, and he continued, "Anyways, once we go inside, you'll be assigned to a room. Stay in there until you're called. Someone from the Ten Great Families will personally interview you later. If they approve of you, you'll officially be recruited and receive your rewards."