414: Chapter 414 Misfortune and fortune are intertwined

“Senior,” Gu Jing suddenly spoke.

Before her voice faded, she bent her knees and knelt directly before you.

“If Senior can help me, Junior is willing to do anything for you.”

You looked down at her.

She knelt perfectly straight, without a trace of shame on her face, only a calmness that came from having gone all out.

This woman has something special about her.

It was not hard to see that she was a filial person.

Several thoughts spun in your mind.

A Heavenly Fate Dao Embryo, this is not something one encounters casually.

Once she matures, there are too many things she can do.

Just like the founding emperors in the mortal world, there always had to be someone by their side who could calculate, strategize, and see through the situation.

Currently, Gu Jing is still young, and her cultivation is mediocre, but what about the future?

If she becomes powerful in the future...

You thought for a moment, then nodded.

“Alright. I’ll help you.”

You took off a spatial ring from your hand and handed it to her—the one Qin Han lived in.

“Take it.”

“Tonight, go to the Bai Manor.”

Gu Jing took the spatial ring with a puzzled expression.

She didn't need to believe or disbelieve, because she could calculate.

So she didn't ask further.

Time flew by, and in a blink, it was dawn.

The stars were sparse, and the cold wind howled, chilling one to the bone.

The Bai Manor was located in the western district of the Imperial Capital. Though called a manor, it was more like a city within a city.

It covered at least tens of kilometers, with manors nested within manors, courtyards connected to courtyards, pavilions, rockeries, ponds, and gardens, layer upon layer, housing tens of thousands of people.

The entire estate was brightly lit, enveloped by a grand formation, with four city gates left open in each direction, guarded day and night by Disciples.

Gu Jing arrived before the city gate, her expression composed.

Several guards inside the gate were chatting. Seeing her, they were first stunned, then one grinned.

“Oh, isn’t this Young Miss Gu? What, here to beg for forgiveness?”

Another guard crossed his arms, sizing her up with a sneer:

“If it’s for forgiveness, our Clan Chief said—the Gu Family must first give up a supreme-grade spirit vein, plus one hundred Heaven And Earth Treasures of a thousand years, and ten million Spirit Stones. Not a single coin less…”

He didn't finish his sentence.

Gu Jing raised her hand.

A silver light shot out from her fingertip, so fast that it was impossible to see what it was.

The guard’s head flew into the sky, his face still bearing the smile he hadn't had time to retract, his mouth half-open as if he wanted to say something.

“Thud.”

The head landed, rolled twice, and stopped in a pool of blood.

The remaining guards froze for a moment, then their faces turned deathly pale.

Someone opened their mouth to shout, someone turned to run—

But the silver light had already moved.

It transformed into an arc, weaving back and forth among the crowd, as fast as lightning.

“Puff, puff, puff—”

Heads flew up one after another, and headless bodies fell to the ground with thuds.

Before the blood had time to spread, the silver light had already returned to Gu Jing’s shoulder.

Qin Han squatted on her shoulder, his two front paws clasped across his chest, looking innocently ahead: “Let’s go, finish quickly, and go back to sleep.”

Gu Jing looked at the bodies strewn across the ground, her heart still beating a half-tempo faster, but she quickly steadied herself, stepped through the city gate, and walked towards the depths of the estate.

Where the person and the Yao Beast passed, not a blade of grass grew.

Some of the Bai Family members in the estate were still asleep, some had just poked their heads out of their rooms to see what was happening—not a single one could react in time.

Those Foundation Establishment guards and Golden Core Disciples couldn't even withstand a single encounter before Qin Han.

With a flash of silver light, one person fell.

Heads separated from bodies, clean and decisive.

They didn't even have time to scream.

Before long, Gu Jing had reached the center of the estate.

The Bai Family Grand Hall.

On the stone steps in front of the door stood a group of people, led by a middle-aged man with a stern face and gloomy eyes.

This person was none other than the Bai Family Clan Leader, in the Late Nascent Soul Stage.

Beside him stood two Elders, their auras calm and collected, both of Nascent Soul cultivation.

These three were the Bai Family’s three Nascent Souls—the Clan Chief and the two Elders.

As for the Bai Family Old Ancestor, he had always been with the Divine Dragon Cult, so he was not here.

The Bai Family Clan Leader glanced at the bodies scattered across the ground, then at Gu Jing, and the silly-looking little beast with clasped paws on her shoulder, trembling with rage.

“Gu Jing… you, you dare to kill my Bai Family members?!”

He pointed at Gu Jing, his finger trembling: “Aren’t you afraid of your Family being annihilated?!”

Gu Jing smiled.

That smile, in the cold wind of dawn, appeared especially calm.

“Uncle Bai, what you’re saying…”

She paused, then tilted her head: “Is that even human?”

The Bai Family Clan Leader’s face stiffened.

Gu Jing continued: “Over the years, throughout the entire Tianyang Continent, the number of Families annihilated by your Bai Family must be at least eight hundred, if not a thousand.”

“How is it that when it comes to yourselves, you start talking about reason?”

She took half a step forward: “In this world, the strong are respected. When you pressured the Gu Family, when you tried to collude with outsiders to swallow the Gu Family, did you ever think about today?”

The Bai Family Clan Leader’s face was ashen, but he couldn’t speak.

Of course, he had thought about it.

He had considered many possibilities—the Gu Family submitting, the Gu Family resisting, the Immortal Dynasty intervening, the Divine Dragon Cult participating, ultimately leading to chaos and fishing in troubled waters…

He had never imagined that Gu Jing alone, with a Yao Beast, would charge into his Bai Family Grand Hall.

What he didn’t know was that behind this, a hand had been quietly pushing.

This hand belonged to True Lord Piaomiao.

True Lord Piaomiao’s goal was to make the True Spirit Immortal Dynasty and the Divine Dragon Cult fight.

As this incident gradually escalated, both the True Spirit Immortal Dynasty and the Divine Dragon Cult could clearly see what True Lord Piaomiao intended.

But what could they do even if they saw it clearly?

They couldn’t openly abandon the Gu Family—who would work for the Immortal Dynasty in the future then?

So the Immortal Dynasty could only feign ignorance, turning a blind eye.

The best way to resolve the situation was to push out a small figure like Gu Jing, to reduce a major issue to a minor one, and a minor issue to nothing.

But the Bai Family was unwilling; they wanted to escalate the matter to secure more benefits.

In fact, those Soul Transformation cultivators had more or less guessed this layer.

The Bai Family knew even more clearly that they were the knife on the chessboard, a mere pawn.

Pawns have their own way of living.

A disobedient knife would eventually break.

The Bai Family had killed too many people for the Divine Dragon Cult over the years; they understood this principle too well.

So, after discussion, the Bai Family unanimously decided—to be this knife, to escalate the matter, and to gain greater benefits.

After all, they were the party in the right.

Even some irrelevant people hoped that the Bai Family would seize this incident to attack the Gu Family.

Someone said: “This time, the Gu Family is in the wrong. If we don’t bite off a piece of their flesh now, we won’t get this chance again.”

“Right, I contacted over a hundred Families, and they all expressed their support for you.”

“Exactly, Bai Family Clan Leader, rest assured, we support you this time.”

The Bai Family Clan Leader was also immersed in various flatteries.

He imagined carving up the Gu Family’s territory.

After all, some people from the Divine Dragon Cult also expressed their support for him.

Moreover, the Immortal Dynasty’s attitude of turning a blind eye gave him immense courage.

Unfortunately, no one expected that a “small figure” like Gu Jing would actually have the ability to overturn the chessboard.