Chapter 402 Destroy it!

“We are under orders from the Xuantian Sect…”

Under the influence of the Soul-Seizing Art, the leader began to spill secrets, answering Li Xuanfeng's questions, while the other three provided supplementary information.

Li Xuanfeng impassively inquired about various details.

Gradually, the entire sequence of events became clear before him.

This cosmic Star Domain had three major peak powers: the Sky Feather Tribe, the Blood Spirit Tribe, and the Xuantian Sect.

Among them, the Xuantian Sect was rather unique.

The Saint King who founded the Xuantian Sect claimed to have inherited a portion of Emperor Xuan’s Legacy, declaring himself the legitimate successor of Emperor Xuan’s Bloodline, and that any treasures left behind by Emperor Xuan should rightfully belong to him.

Under this banner, he began sending people across the Star Domain to search for any traces of Emperor Xuan’s Legacy.

The Sky Feather Tribe and the Blood Spirit Tribe were not to be outdone, claiming that one of their ancestors was a Personal Disciple of Emperor Xuan, and that they too deserved a share of Emperor Xuan’s Legacy. Using this as a pretext, both sides joined the search for the Legacy.

However, many years passed, and despite searching the vast Star Domain, no one ever found any trace of Emperor Xuan’s Legacy.

A few years ago, news suddenly spread that Emperor Xuan had lived in the Black Horn Star Domain for a long time, and perhaps he had left his Legacy there.

Consequently, the Saints of the three top powers descended and thoroughly investigated this Star Domain, but found nothing.

After the Saints left empty-handed, they still dispatched many Cultivators to garrison the area and continue the search.

Among them, the Xuantian Sect seemed to possess some secret intelligence. They gathered several Cultivators who were capable enough but not likely to attract the attention of the Sky Feather Tribe and the Blood Spirit Tribe, and gave them a special mission.

The mission was to exterminate an inconspicuous small Family—the An Family.

Emperor Xuan, once unrivaled in the Universe, had indeed left behind a Bloodline.

Although it was unknown why the descendants of such a mighty Emperor remained obscure, failing to reach even a millionth, or even a billionth, or ten billionth of Emperor Xuan’s stature!

However, one thing could be roughly confirmed: Emperor Xuan still had descendants alive.

The Xuantian Sect, through unknown means, concluded that the An Family, a small Family on Xuanxiao Star whose strongest member was merely in the Divine Transformation Realm and possessed no discernible foundation, was a descendant of Emperor Xuan.

Crucially, the Xuantian Sect also seemed to have figured out a method to find the Legacy. This method was that when a person with the same Physique as Emperor Xuan appeared among his descendants, the Legacy would automatically manifest.

The era in which Emperor Xuan existed was too distant from the present, so much information had become distorted, and various versions of legends and deeds related to him existed. However, one point remained unchanged: Emperor Xuan’s terrifying Physique.

According to legends, Emperor Xuan possessed a top-tier Physique capable of devouring all things in the Universe—the Heaven Devouring Demonic Physique!

Those with this Physique could achieve the fastest cultivation speed in the Universe.

In terms of cultivation advancement speed alone, no other Physique could compare to the Heaven Devouring Demonic Physique.

It was precisely because of its terrifying advancement speed and its abnormal ability to purify and refine various energies that it was given the epithet “Demonic.”

However, once this Physique appeared in the world, it was destined not to remain obscure.

If someone among Emperor Xuan’s descendants truly possessed the Heaven Devouring Demonic Physique, they would not have fallen to such a state. Even if they couldn't replicate the Emperor's glory, they would still dominate a part of the Universe, controlling countless Star Domains.

Therefore, given the An Family’s weakness, either they were not descendants of Emperor Xuan, or they did not possess the Heaven Devouring Demonic Physique.

Nevertheless, the Xuantian Sect still discovered the possibility of the Legacy reappearing.

The An Family had a very special little girl.

This little girl was named An Ya.

Although she had not yet embarked on the path of cultivation and possessed no cultivation at all.

However, there was a very strange phenomenon about her: if one stayed too close to her for too long, they would become unlucky.

For example.

If a Mortal stayed with her for too long, they might inexplicably trip and fall, or lose some money.

If a Cultivator stayed with her for too long, they might encounter problems while practicing Martial Skills, inadvertently dropping a few Spirit Stones.

Because of this strange phenomenon, An Ya was very unpopular in her Family from a young age. Everyone's first reaction upon seeing her was to stay away, regarding her as an ominous person, a harbinger of bad Luck for others, and some Family members even mockingly insulted her with harsh words.

So, from the moment she gained consciousness, this little girl had been subjected to intense malice from the outside world.

Fortunately, she had loving parents and a grandmother who would shield her from the malice, otherwise her world would have been pitch black without a single ray of light.

When he heard them speak to this point, Li Xuanfeng couldn't help but sigh inwardly, feeling even more pity for the little girl.

He knew that people who got close to An Ya became unlucky because their Luck was invisibly siphoned away. This was beyond the little girl's control. No one in the An Family knew the reason, and the little girl certainly couldn't have known. She only knew that apart from her parents and grandmother, everyone else disliked and detested her.

Actually, the situation of being affected by An Ya was easily resolved: as long as one didn't stay with her for too long, or kept a little distance from her, they wouldn't be affected. After all, her Heaven Devouring Demonic Physique had not yet undergone Awakening.

Moreover, even if one was affected by staying too long, as long as they left her, they would return to normal after not too long.

With her Physique unawakened and passively absorbing, becoming unlucky by being too close was the limit; no one would suffer life-threatening danger because of it.

Li Xuanfeng, who could check the color of one’s fate using the System, was well aware that Luck fluctuated. Before her Physique’s Awakening, An Ya's influence on others' Luck was negligible.

Normal people have their unlucky moments; being near An Ya merely brought that unlucky moment forward. To call her a harbinger of disaster was a far stretch.

As for those Family members who died tragically after encountering misfortune near her, it was not her fault, but rather the Xuantian Sect manipulating events from behind the scenes.

The Saints of the Xuantian Sect, based on the strange phenomena occurring around An Ya, guessed that she might be experiencing a Physique's self-concealment.

So-called self-concealment means self-obscurity, requiring specific conditions to awaken.

Although this phenomenon was rare, it was not nonexistent. Li Xuanfeng had encountered it; Wei Qingyan, the first Daughter of Destiny he bound, also had a self-concealed Physique.

To awaken An Ya’s self-concealed Physique, a special method was required.

One method required extremely rare top-tier resources, resources that even Saints might not be able to produce.

The other method was to make her experience extreme sorrow.

When sorrow reached its peak, the Heaven Devouring Demonic Physique might also automatically awaken and devour everything around it.

However, the probability of success using this extreme method was pitifully small.

Nevertheless, the Xuantian Sect still chose the second method.

Thus, they arranged the mission to exterminate the An Family.

And while exterminating them, they also shifted all the blame onto An Ya.

The strange phenomenon of becoming unlucky when close to An Ya was already deeply ingrained in people's minds, so no one would doubt it if they said she had caused the death of her entire Family.

Watching her closest relatives die before her, An Ya herself deeply believed this.

Her grandmother took her and fled to Great Xuan City, but ultimately also died under the Xuantian Sect's arrangements.

Without her grandmother, An Ya became a wandering little beggar.

During this period, it wasn't that no one felt compassion and approached her to help her. However, anyone who got close to her eventually died tragically and inexplicably.

Not to mention staying with her for long, anyone who even gave her a bite to eat would soon die due to various bizarre reasons.

All of this was still the Xuantian Sect causing trouble behind the scenes.

Some people wanted to drive her away or kill her, but before the Heaven Devouring Demonic Physique awakened and triggered the Legacy, the Xuantian Sect would not allow such a thing to happen.

Those who tried to drive her away would also be arranged by the Xuantian Sect to have a “mysterious” death.

Those who prepared to kill her would also die strangely before they could act.

Thus, An Ya became a complete and utter harbinger of disaster.

No one dared to help her, no one dared to approach her, and no one even dared to drive her away or kill her. In short, no one dared to associate with her.

The little girl, barely three or four years old, suffered malice from the entire world, unwillingly and unknowingly.

And this time, there would be no parents or grandmother to shield her from the malice of the outside world.

She had fainted several times from grief, yet the Heaven Devouring Demonic Physique still did not awaken.

Therefore, the Xuantian Sect, still without results, prepared to have the King Realm expert, King Zhenhai, handle the matter.

The reason they had previously entrusted this task to Life and Death Realm Cultivators was to avoid attracting the attention of the Sky Feather Tribe and the Blood Spirit Tribe.

The Saints and Saint Kings of the three powers were constantly wary of each other; either they all acted together to explore, or everyone stayed put.

So, the stronger the Cultivator performing this task, the more likely they were to attract attention. Life and Death Realm Cultivators were neither too strong nor too weak, just right, which is why they were dispatched to complete this mission.

However, just as Li Xuanfeng had guessed, all four Life and Death Realm Cultivators had Soul Restrictions planted on them. Once their Souls were searched, or they voluntarily revealed secrets, their Souls would self-destruct, attracting the attention of Xuantian Sect experts.

Yet, Li Xuanfeng possessed a special Soul-Seizing Art that could bypass Soul Restrictions and learn the entire course of events.

“The Xuantian Sect, it must be destroyed!”

Li Xuanfeng took a deep breath and then exhaled.

He didn't care about Saint Kings or anything of the sort; from the moment he bound An Ya, he was determined to take charge of this matter.