To their surprise, the Traveler of Time Mirror revealed that this very mansion would face a massacre twenty five years later.

The killers would be the very enemies they had been searching for all along, the mysterious group referred to by the Traveler of Time Mirror as the Order of Holy Judgment.

Having finally found the enemies who had destroyed their clan, the two of them were overjoyed.

The flames of revenge burned fiercely within them.

In order to successfully ambush the Order of Holy Judgment twenty five years later, they decided to completely take control of the Duke Zhenguo’s mansion.

To control the mansion, they needed to control its highest authority, the Duke himself.

After realizing this, they directly targeted the Duke Zhenguo.

Dongfang Chen who is curious about the Duke’s mysterious nature wanted to uncover the secret behind his body.

The Duke who had never cultivated possessed immortality.

He had lived for three hundred years and was even about to have more children.

He also had innate divine strength and various natural talents.

Dongfang Chen decided to personally use Soul Transferal Art on him, taking over his body while simultaneously controlling the mansion and investigating the mystery of his physique.

No matter how extraordinary the Duke was, he could not resist the schemes of a Golden Core cultivator.

Everything proceeded according to Dongfang Chen’s plan.

They seized the Duke’s body and transferred his soul into the infant body that Dongfang Chen had previously used for Soul Transferal Art.

Perhaps the fragile infant body could not withstand two transfers, or perhaps it was the Duke’s soul instinctively protecting itself, but after the transfer succeeded, the Duke’s soul sealed itself and became like that of a true infant.

Only after successfully taking over the Duke’s body did Dongfang Chen have the chance to let his new body touch the Traveler of Time Mirror.

It was through this contact that he learned the Duke’s true origin.

The Duke possessed a pure terrestrial fox bloodline, which make him have a lifespan of ten thousand years without the need for cultivation.

It was an extraordinary physique with only one flaw, he lacked a spiritual root.

However, this was not a problem for Dongfang Chen.

As the master of Nine Abyssal Gate, obtaining a Spirit Root Shaping Flower was not difficult.

With such a powerful body, possessing both ancient divine beast bloodline and immense lifespan, Dongfang Chen had no intention of giving it up.

What was originally meant to be a temporary measure to gain control of the mansion became permanent.

He consumed the Spirit Root Shaping Flower, reshaped his spiritual roots, and began cultivating.

He then destroyed the heart meridian of the child whose body he had previously taken and ordering his subordinates to dispose of the corpse.

Afterward, he made various preparations for the revenge he had planned twenty five years later.

However, while he could deceive everyone else, there was one person he could not fool.

That person was the Duke’s current wife, a princess of the Great Liang Kingdom.

The princess had been worried due to her pregnancy, especially since many of the Duke’s women had died from weakness after childbirth.

After becoming pregnant, she had been sleeping separately from the Duke.

Even so, the attention and sensitivity a wife has toward her husband was something Dongfang Chen had completely underestimated.

Even the smallest differences in behavior could raise suspicion.

A slight gesture, a change in speaking habits, or different food preferences could all make someone uneasy.

If Dongfang Chen had not seen in the Traveler of Time Mirror that the princess had grown suspicious, he would not have realized he had been exposed.

The princess had already planned to return to the palace and secretly invite the Imperial Preceptor to investigate.

As a result, things unfolded as expected.

The princess died from premature labor and complications during childbirth.

To cover his tracks, Dongfang Chen controlled one of the Duke’s concubines using a secret technique.

After the princess’s death, he made it appear to everyone that the Duke deeply favored this woman and even elevated her to the position of main wife.

Soon after, Shao Hua successfully performed Soul Transferal Art into a baby with exceptional aptitude.

To take care of his lover, and also because personally killing his own child would bring too much karmic consequence, Dongfang Chen took advantage of the fact that the Traveler of Time Mirror showed the princess’s child would have a short life.

He ordered the controlled wife to secretly send away the real child of the Duke and bring back Shao Hua who had completed the Soul Transferal Art.

Shao Hua was then raised in the Duke’s mansion as the most cherished young master.

More than twenty years passed in this way.

Dongfang Chen enjoyed the twisted satisfaction of raising his lover as his own child, while also continuing his cultivation, setting traps against the Order of Holy Judgment, secretly controlling Nine Abyssal Gate, occasionally carrying out missions, and using the Traveler of Time Mirror to recruit talented individuals.

During this time, Dongfang Chen also obtained a great opportunity that allowed him to seize the essence of all things in the world for his own use.

With this advantage, both his and Shao Hua’s aptitude, strength, and fortune grew rapidly, and Nine Abyssal Gate expanded at an astonishing pace.

Finally, the day came when the Order of Holy Judgment descended.

Despite making thorough preparations and gathering all the elite members of Nine Abyssal Gate, they were still no match for their enemies.

They suffered devastating losses and were nearly wiped out.

Shao Hua was left on the brink of death.

Dongfang Chen barely managed to escape with him.

In order to save his life and heal his injuries, he secretly used the Fate Devouring Array to plunder resources.

At the same time, to avenge his clan, he began targeting both the Daoist and demonic factions, seizing the identities of their disciples for the assassins of Nine Abyssal Gate...

As for what came after, Yu Lin did not know.

She had only read up to that point.