Dragon's Origin

Suddenly, the various families became lively again, all discussing the recently learned information.

If before, the families only considered Wang Sheng a guide in the Perpetual Killing Grounds, hearing this news made them realize they were likely mistaken. Wang Sheng should be the gatekeeper of the Perpetual Killing Grounds.

The gatekeeper meant that he decided who could enter. If he didn't want someone to enter, no matter who it was, entering would only lead to death.

The thirty-plus lives of the Dai family clearly demonstrated this point. Adding the number of people sent by various families to chase Wang Sheng and enter the Perpetual Killing Grounds, the cost in lives already exceeded several hundred.

Hundreds of lives, and the families only now realized it. It was truly a great irony.

The way large families do things isn't unique to the Dai family; they're all the same, birds of a feather. Even when they cooperated with Wang Sheng, they only saw him as a pawn to be used, never as a chess player who controlled the board.

Suddenly, a small figure had become a powerful figure capable of deciding life and death, which many families couldn't accept. The families were unsure how to treat Wang Sheng from now on. Therefore, they all adopted the same approach: observe and wait to see how others reacted.

Wasn't there a direct reference? The Dai family was the most direct party involved. Watching what they did and how Wang Sheng responded would help them decide.

When the Dai family's ruler received the news, it was already more than half a day later. Upon receiving the message and clearly reading the contents of the messenger bird's letter, Marquis Dai screamed and spat out a mouthful of blood, fainting on the spot.

The surrounding people hurriedly and frantically tried to revive Marquis Dai, while the Prime Minister and First Elder were busy reading the contents of the messenger bird's letter. After reading it, although he didn't vomit blood and faint like the Marquis, he remained silent for a long time, feeling heartbroken.

More than thirty people! Those were more than thirty descendants that the Dai family had sent to the Perpetual Killing Grounds camp! What kind of descendants could stand out from such a large force as the Dai family and be sent to the Perpetual Killing Grounds for cultivation at great expense?

It could only be said that if they weren't the descendants of powerful and influential figures, they were rare cultivation geniuses. Especially in the first batch, when all parties were striving to improve their family's strength, they sent all the geniuses who were on the verge of breakthroughs, so that these geniuses could be influenced by the aura of experts in the Perpetual Killing Grounds and successfully break through to become stronger experts.

The worst of the descendants was at the peak of the sixth level, and the strongest was at the peak of the eighth level. If this group of geniuses could successfully break through, the Dai family's strength would rapidly rise to a new level. Even if it wasn't more outstanding than other families, it could at least stand on the same level.

However, because of a previous action by the Dai family's First Elder, Wang Sheng directly launched a retaliatory attack. More than thirty people, none of whom returned.

More than thirty genius descendants, including several direct core descendants, all died in the bellies of ants. Besides their belongings being left behind, their bodies and flesh didn't even leave a trace!

Of course, the Marquis knew who these thirty-plus descendants were, and that's why he spat out a mouthful of blood and fainted on the spot. As for the Prime Minister and First Elder, it was his unauthorized action without notifying the Marquis that led to all of this. If responsibility were to be assigned, the First Elder would bear the greatest responsibility.

The Dai kingdom's core leadership had all read the returned message and remained silent. However, many suspicious glances had already been cast at the First Elder. In any case, someone had to take responsibility for this matter.

Without the breakthroughs of these thirty-plus genius descendants, the Dai family might indeed be slightly lacking in high-end martial strength, but that was all. Thirty-plus genius descendants weren't a big deal. The Dai family was large and prosperous, with tens of thousands of direct descendants. Losing thirty-plus was just a loss.

But the biggest trouble was that the Dai family could no longer enter the Perpetual Killing Grounds. One or two days would be fine, but if several cycles continued, and people from other families kept breaking through while the Dai family stagnated, it was feared that in a few years, the Dai family would be reduced to the same level as those small vassal states, only able to live in a corner.

This wasn't the worst part. The key was that the Dai family had no chance to get involved in the great secrets related to the Dai family within the core of the Perpetual Killing Grounds. How could this be allowed?

A hundred or so experts at the seventh or eighth level were probably not as powerful as one expert within the core of the Perpetual Killing Grounds. Everyone now knew that there were still living experts inside the core of the Perpetual Killing Grounds. What everyone knew but no one said was that the expert probably belonged to the Dai family. The Dai family's boundary marker could prove it.

Because he discovered the great secret of the boundary marker, the First Elder wanted to capture Wang Sheng alive to obtain the greatest benefits, or at least kill Wang Sheng so that other families couldn't snatch ahead of them. Now, everything had been ruined.

Whether it was capturing Wang Sheng alive or killing Wang Sheng, in the eyes of Marquis Dai and his ministers, these weren't big problems. If it were them, they would have made the same decision. The First Elder's biggest mistake was that he misjudged Wang Sheng's strength, misjudged Wang Sheng's control over the Perpetual Killing Grounds, so that the capture and killing operations failed, leading to the Dai family being locked out of the Perpetual Killing Grounds.

Now the Dai family was completely stunned. The high-level officials, from the Marquis down, had no idea what to do. Apologize to Wang Sheng? That was impossible! How could the dignified Dai kingdom bow its head to one person? But if they didn't bow their heads, did the Dai kingdom really not plan to obtain the great benefits of the Perpetual Killing Grounds core?

"Our people have also been practicing in Worry-Free City for a long time. If we enter the Perpetual Killing Grounds from our side, how confident are we?" After Marquis Dai woke up, he pondered for a long time and asked this question first.

The crowd looked at each other, you looked at me, I looked at you, and after a while, they all shook their heads in unison.

Following Wang Sheng into the Perpetual Killing Grounds was as simple as it could be. But if they really wanted to get rid of Wang Sheng and walk in by themselves, from the edge of the Dai kingdom to the core area, so long a distance, how many below the sixth level would die? It was estimated that one out of ten above the sixth level could survive. The Dai family could never bear such a loss.

"Let's not talk about responsibility or anything. What about the current situation?" Marquis Dai also knew that it was meaningless to blame the First Elder alone. The Dai kingdom's troubles needed everyone to work together to solve.

The trouble was really so big that it could affect the Dai kingdom's fortunes for the next century. It had to be taken seriously!