LWGP - Chapter 244

Chapter 244: Kill One's Wife to Attain the Dao

"I thought I'd never come back, but here I am. But this is probably the last time."

As Wang Jiu turned to leave the underground corridor, she casually tapped the wall. The photographs ignited, and black flames shot out, quickly growing into a raging inferno that consumed the entire old castle and even spread across the whole island.

She didn't like this place. She really, really didn't like it.

Even though she had long forgotten what that woman looked like, but… it was the origin of all evil.

However, Wang Jiu was destined not to feel sad or pained by it, because she felt nothing. Her mind contained only process progression and terminal objectives.

The progression was her opening a private chat, flying out from the island amidst the scorching brilliance of the devouring flames, and contacting Yan Hui.

Meanwhile, far away in Huaxia City in the Ninth District, Roy, who was still handling the follow-up cooperation agreements from a meeting, suddenly received a private message from someone.

Thunder City, the first city of the Fifth District. The Thunder Lord, Swan, was a boorish man. This boorish man had come asking for news on behalf of two of his subordinates who had narrowly escaped death.

He was mainly targeting one person.

Wang Jiu, has she arrived in the Second District?

Roy was in the middle of signing an agreement with Qing He and the others. Even though her thoughts were turbulent, her expression remained calm as she replied to him: "I don't know."

Swan: "How could you not know? Aren't you close with Wang Jiu?"

Roy: "Are you mocking me?"

Swan: "Oh no, of course not, my beautiful ice rose. You are the only goddess in my heart. I'm just curious… After all, we're friends, aren't we?"

Roy: "That island is the Ryan Family's territory. It was a foul place to destroy back then, and many people consider it taboo. You sent people there—what were you trying to investigate?"

She had no love for useless small talk and directly pointed out his objective. Whether his team members lived or died, the lord of a city had a heart as hard as a blade. Who would care? He was just here to probe for information.

Moreover, Swan probably knew that generations of the Benroy family had unspeakable connections with the Ryan Family.

Swan: "Destroyed? Not necessarily. But I won't confirm such an uncertain matter with you, my friend. Aren't you curious why the members of the Ryan Family suddenly gathered at their main base back then, and within a single day, a terrifying explosion on the island killed every single one of them? Right, you must be curious. Otherwise, you wouldn't have sent people afterward, just like us, to retrieve soil and other material samples for investigation. You must have eventually discovered that its destructive energy didn't match any known explosive weapon. It was a mysterious power that annihilated almost all life on the island in an instant—and that wasn't during the apocalyptic game. Where would so many props have come from?"

Swan: "Therefore, this unnatural power was prepared long before the apocalypse, and it's related to the Ryan Family."

Swan: "So, here's the question. Years ago, my ancestors repeatedly warned us not to get too involved with the Ryan Family. He told me: If a family treats its own bloodline as a type of food, then it has already transcended the bounds of humanity and is an extremely dangerous demon. My dear, the Ryan Family is what we all recognize as a family of demons. So, Wang Jiu has the blood of a demon family in her, correct?"

Roy was silent for a moment, then said, "I permit you to continue."

Swan: "Thank you for your generosity. According to my investigation, the Ryan Family didn't have many connections with China. We all know that the ancient East is not an easy place to operate. They are very averse to self-righteous Western hypocrites like us, and the Ryan Family was on their blacklist long ago. But that didn't include a minor man from an eighteenth-tier branch family. He was a miserable illegitimate son who, out of admiration for Eastern culture, crossed the ocean to China decades ago. During the era of educated youth being sent to the countryside, he met a young woman in a village. A poor foreign painter and the only daughter of a highly educated family that had fallen on hard times. They fell in love and married. They were very happy and had a daughter. But the good times didn't last. The villagers later discovered that the family of three hadn't been seen for many days. When they opened the door, they found the couple had died tragically in their home. Because their deaths were so gruesome, the local government sealed off the news. Probably due to the era, no one ever found out what happened later. But the girl was gone."

Swan: "She was taken back to the Ryan Family and became a new member. A few years later, due to internal strife in the Ryan Family, she was abducted before she could be chosen as the lucky one. The person behind it was the head of your family, the Benroy patriarch. She was trafficked to Miao Village, under the control of the Black Witch Organization in China. She was subjected to psychoactive drugs and hypnotic witchcraft, turning her into a crazed, foolish woman, because the Black Witch Organization uses bloodline propagation to…"

He was about to continue, but Roy coldly interrupted him, "If you don't dare say these things in front of Wang Jiu, then don't mention them to me."

It was unclear if she was disgusted by her "grandfather's" evil deeds or if she was repulsed by the word "propagation."

That was the most tragic situation a woman could be in.

Swan probably understood. He apologized, lowered his voice, and said, "But we all know the Ryan Family's bloodline is passed down through incest… that kind of incest. If Wang Jiu's mother was chosen, then wouldn't Wang Jiu have been chosen too? And chosen long ago."

The words "chosen long ago" were deeply meaningful.

But he wasn't trying to piece together Wang Jiu's past experiences. He was an adult and didn't have the time for that. The reason he speculated like this, even starting his investigation into the Ryan Family long ago and paying close attention to Wang Jiu, could only be related to his own interests.

Roy: "So, you've also discovered some of these cultists on your side?"

The word "also" was very telling.

Swan sighed: "As expected. It's the same in your Third District, isn't it? I can no longer tell if these are traces of a developing cult like the Black Witch Organization, or if… the Ryan Family is making a comeback, and a resurrected Old Ryan wants to control us like he controlled the old Benroy patriarch, treating us like his pigs and dogs."

A demon who could propagate with his own close kin and produce offspring to obtain certain powers—how terrifying must he be?

And if their territories and cities, which ranked among the top three powers in the Third and Fifth Districts, had been infiltrated by the enemy's believers, what about other places? What did this imply?

Both the Black Witch Organization and the Ryan Family were representatives of extreme madness. Swan was acting this way out of fear and a desire for self-preservation, but he hadn't expected Wang Jiu to return to the island so quickly and run into Gamma and the others. He didn't know whether to be excited or uneasy, so he was sounding out Roy.

Now that it was basically a confession session, he was waiting for Roy to pull him into her camp, so he slyly sent a friend request.

A second later, a system notification: The other party has rejected your request.

Swan: "?"

What the fuck! Are all powerful and beautiful women such assholes!?

Roy finished signing the agreement. After walking out of the office, she paused before the railing of a high-rise balcony. She thought in silence for a moment, and as Qing He, Xie Lu, and Wang Shu walked past behind her, she decisively took screenshots of the conversation and sent them to Qing He and Xie Lu.

In an instant, both of them saw it, but their pace didn't change, nor did they look back. A minute later, however, they appeared in the same small group chat.

Roy wasted no words, confident that the two had already processed the information.

Then she sent another photo.

Xie Lu had seen this photo before, but it was Qing He's first time. She glanced at it and suddenly said, "This cat?"

Her reaction was even faster than Xie Lu's, perhaps because of her background as a spy.

"At the banquet, the cat in her arms belonged to Old Ryan's family. I only discovered this much later. And after the banquet ended, she cooperated with me in a scheme… Later, she disappeared for a period of time. I originally thought she was hiding for self-preservation during that time. Thinking back now, she was probably captured by the Ryan Family."

Qing He mused: "So the key point isn't just how she escaped death on the island back then, or whether the explosion was related to her. It's that—this Old Ryan had his eyes on her long ago. If he's not dead now, he will definitely make a move, because there's only one reason for her to go to that sea."

"That is also when she is at her weakest and most constrained."

"You contacted the two of us because Xie Lu can contact the central government, and I can add weight to Xie Lu's negotiations with the central government."

Against a behemoth like Old Ryan, Gobi Territory alone is not enough.

Roy raised an eyebrow. "No, it just means I have no intention of taking risks for her. You are her people, so it's your responsibility to act. I am only responsible for passing on the message."

The implication was that her relationship with Wang Jiu wasn't close enough for her to take such a risk.

Qing He didn't press the issue and gave a slight nod. But then she suddenly remembered something. "I still don't fully understand this spacetime of yours. So, what benefit does incestuous propagation bring to Old Ryan?"

Xie Lu, who had been silent all this time, suddenly said, "Sacrifice."

The two women were stunned and saw Xie Lu's grave expression.

"There are investigation records on Old Ryan in the department. They mention that he has lived for far longer than just over a hundred years. Because in the nation's historical secret investigation documents, there was once a record of a person extremely similar to Old Ryan who came to our country during the Ming Dynasty."

The Ming Dynasty!!

That was over six hundred years ago.

The two well-informed women were shaken, their expressions turning grim. No wonder. No wonder he wasn't blown to bits back then.

How could a normal human live for so long? He must have obtained some benefit from the bloodline produced by this incestuous propagation, but it wasn't permanent.

"After that time, he was likely severely wounded by some of the ancient cultivators who still existed in our country back then. He entered a period of serious injury and never dared to offend again."

Roy seemed to remember something. "I always felt something was off. The person who conspired with my grandfather to abduct Wang Jiu's mother didn't have enough influence, nor could they offer significant resources. Based on my understanding of him, this deal was too risky. If Old Ryan found out, it would have been a catastrophe. But suspiciously, Old Ryan never found out, and my grandfather got through it safely, even gaining a high degree of trust from the Ryan Family… I'm thinking, could it have been a setup from the very beginning?"

What setup?

Xie Lu's lips turned pale as he gritted his teeth. "Wang Jiu was artificially created."

Old Ryan didn't just want an incestuous bloodline; he also coveted the sacrificial power of the Black Witch Organization!

The one who instigated the old Benroy patriarch wasn't some member of the Ryan Family, but Old Ryan himself. He needed to create a natural set of circumstances so the Black Witch Organization wouldn't detect his true objective!

When he entered China over six hundred years ago, he didn't come away empty-handed. At the very least, he learned about the Black Witch Organization and witnessed the extraordinary power that came from sacrifice!

But he was, after all, an old monster who had lived for over six hundred years. Although he feared the terror of that "Black Witch deity," he was unwilling to become a believer, a slave driven by "it." So, Old Ryan chose to "steal."

To artificially create a vessel for sacrificial energy… That person was Wang Jiu.

After a moment of silence, Xie Lu didn't succumb to his anger. Instead, he calmly asked another critical question. "If he doesn't want to become a Black Witch believer, then how can he control and devour Wang Jiu to transfer her power?"

This time, it was Qing He who thought of it. "I don't know if this is right, but back in the Second Spacetime, I heard that in the First Spacetime, where magical arts were highly developed, they had transcended mere skills. There were two such methods: one was to kill one's wife/husband to attain the Dao, and the other was a marital pact sacrifice. The forms are different, but the fundamentals are more or less the same. Both can perfectly transfer the other person's power for one's own use. However, the latter requires consent, while the former… is unilaterally coercive."

"I think Old Ryan must have mastered this secret art."

Roy was numb. So, this was why so many members of the Ryan Family had gathered on the island back then. Because Old Ryan was going to kill his wife to attain the Dao?

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