Zhao Zhiming of the Zhao Family

"First slaying the Dragon Court, then slaughtering the Jade Pool—you truly have great skill, brother."

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A man approached Su Ming, clapping his hands.

"Young master, you're acting up again. I'm definitely telling the master when we get back!"

"Xiu'er, you can't do that. We agreed that if I brought you along, you'd keep my secret and not tell my father."

After killing the people from the Jade Pool Holy Land, Su Ming's anger had mostly dissipated. Seeing this peculiar master and servant, he couldn't help but feel curious.

"And you two are?"

"Oh, let me introduce myself. I am Zhao Zhiming, and this is Xiu'er, my maid."

"I saw that you have extraordinary skill, so I wanted to make friends. I wonder if you're interested?"

"Zhao Zhiming? Wait..."

Right in front of Zhao Zhiming, Su Ming took out the information on various factions given to him by Qian Youcai.

Soon, Su Ming found the information related to Zhao Zhiming.

The only son of the Zhao Family, a top-tier power in the Northern Star Domain, possessing a special Physique called the Berserker Saint Body.

This was a Physique born for battle; the holder would continuously grow stronger during combat.

For example, if a Berserker Saint Body holder at the third level of the Void Realm were to fight someone, they might Breakthrough to the fourth level during the process.

The longer the battle lasted, the more their strength would Breakthrough.

However, this kind of Breakthrough could not cross a major Realm and would subside after the battle ended.

But it was still an extremely powerful Physique.

"I am Su Ming."

"So it's Brother Su... May I ask if the 'Su' in your name is the same as the Su Family from the Outer Void?"

"That is my family."

Knowing Su Ming's true identity, Zhao Zhiming didn't seem too surprised; instead, he showed an "as expected" expression.

"Brother Su Ming, since we both entered alone, why don't we join forces?"

Facing this sudden proposal, Su Ming subconsciously activated his Heavens Mandate Vision.

As a result, he was surprised to find that Zhao Zhiming's heavenly mandate was completely different from others.

Just like him, some kind of power was masking him from the observation of the heavenly mandate.

It seemed the Zhao Family was not simple either, being able to prevent the heavenly mandate from targeting their child in advance.

Su Ming checked Qian Youcai's intelligence again and discovered there was actually a second page regarding Zhao Zhiming.

This second page was about the situation of the Zhao Family.

There was only a simple sentence: The current head of the Zhao Family, Zhao Zhiming's father, is at the Peak Heavenly Dao Realm. His grandfather is also at the Peak Heavenly Dao Realm.

Two Peak Heavenly Dao Realm experts in one family—they were hardly inferior to the Su Family.

It was likely that either Zhao Zhiming's father or his grandfather had sensed something and protected their child from being controlled by the heavenly mandate in advance.

Just the fact that the other party wasn't influenced by the heavenly mandate was enough for Su Ming to cooperate with him.

However, before that, the maid beside Zhao Zhiming required extra attention.

This was because the supreme heavenly mandate had almost taken root within this maid named Xiu'er.

Her situation was only slightly better than that of Long Ao, the temporary protagonist of destiny.

"Because it realized it couldn't control Zhao Zhiming, it targeted the person beside him?"

With Xiu'er being a hidden landmine, Su Ming naturally wouldn't cooperate with Zhao Zhiming.

However, the Xiu'er before him gave Su Ming some ideas.

After taking Long Ao's third eye and killing those from the Jade Pool Holy Land, combined with the supreme destiny points he already held.

Su Ming's supreme destiny points had now exceeded four hundred thousand.

Even if he used Heavens Mandate Destruction, he could burn it for twenty seconds.

Originally, Su Ming intended to take down Long Ao and then use Heavens Mandate Destruction to strike at the source.

But the Jade Pool Holy Land had interfered.

Now that another one had delivered herself to his door, he wouldn't be polite.

Su Ming directly sent a transmission: "Brother Zhao Zhiming, I have a question... Does this maid of yours usually exhibit some very strange behavior?"

Zhao Zhiming couldn't understand why Su Ming would ask this, but he still replied via transmission: "Strange behavior? Brother Su Ming, in what regard?"

"For instance... suddenly asking you to get something for her, or her suddenly handing something over to someone else."

Hearing this, Zhao Zhiming's gaze suddenly became profound.

After Su Ming said this, he realized something.

There had indeed been several such instances in his memory.

At the time, he couldn't understand why Xiu'er did those things.

He had followed up with questions, but she had perfectly brushed them off.

"Brother Su, what do you know?"

"I happened to encounter a situation similar to yours, and I know how to handle it..."

"If your way of handling it involves harming Xiu'er, then forget it."

Xiu'er had been with him for decades; Zhao Zhiming would never take her life without reason.

"Of course there's no need to harm her, but I need your cooperation."

"How should I cooperate?"

"First, have her stand in front of me. I have a feeling she will be very resistant, and might even ask you to attack me..."

Seeing Su Ming so certain, Zhao Zhiming spoke openly: "Xiu'er, go stand in front of Brother Su."

"Young master, I don't want to... I don't think he looks like a good person."

Xiu'er made a bitter face and secretly transmitted to Zhao Zhiming: "Young master, I'll be bold and say this: the man before us has just finished fighting the Dragon Court and the Jade Pool Holy Land; he must be in a weakened state. If you deal with him and his war pet, it would clear an obstacle for our exploration of the Secret Realm. What do you think?"

This immediately matched perfectly with what Su Ming had just said.

Not only did she show great resistance, but she also took the initiative to ask him to attack Su Ming.

Zhao Zhiming thought back carefully; similar things had actually happened many times, but out of trust for Xiu'er, he had never paid attention to these details.

"Brother Su, can you truly solve Xiu'er's problem?"

"I can't say for certain..."

"Please, lend me a hand."

"I'm sorry, Xiu'er."

As Zhao Zhiming spoke, he directly restrained Xiu'er in place and then sent her to Su Ming.

"Young master, what are you doing? Let me go quickly, or I'll get angry!"

Xiu'er struggled constantly, trying to escape Zhao Zhiming's control. However, although their Realms were similar, their combat power was not even in the same league.

Su Ming looked at the struggling Xiu'er and reached his hand directly toward the top of her head.

"Let's see how brightly this fire can burn... Heavens Mandate Destruction!"

A flame that could not be observed by other means appeared in Su Ming's hand, and then it ignited the branch of the supreme heavenly mandate atop Xiu'er's head.

That branch trembled, but it was unable to detach itself.

Because this was the Candle Dragon Secret Realm, not the Outer Void where It could manipulate things at will!