Ye Xiao started walking in the darkness, he could neither see nor hear anything. As he walked, a spacious hall was revealed in front of him. From the hall, three paths were leading in three different directions.

Other than that, there were six pillars, each two of them guarding the three different paths.

Ye Xiao was still confused as to which direction he should choose to go when he suddenly heard the sounds of footsteps coming.

Ye Xiao frowned and released his Divine Sense, immediately locating two people.

Ye Xiao thought of taking action and immediately killing them, but he stopped after hearing what they were talking about.

"Lord Hu is too much, he keeps bossing us around like we are his servant. For thirteen days straight, he made us lay down formations at different locations inside the Demon Cloud Mountain Range. He also made us capture both mother and son to sacrifice them. If it weren't for 'that', we would be dead because of overworking. And today, he slapped us and told us to fetch the captives for him, for the time to sacrifice them has come. Can't he do it by himself? What an asshole!"

"It can't be helped. His position is way higher than ours in the Twin Divine Hall. We can only follow his commands unconditionally. At least, we will enjoy having our ranks upgraded after completing this mission."

"Anyway, do you know why Lord Hu captured both mother and son and to whom he wants to sacrifice them?"

"I don't know much, but I heard our leader of Twin Divine Hall had made a contract with an Ancient Devil. The Ancient Devil promised our leader to make the world bow to him, but it'll take a long time. You might not know, but Lord Hu wants to obtain the Origin Drift Bottle, however, it is not possible as long as the Origin Tower is there, guarding the Origin Drift Bottle. So, he asked help from our Twin Divine Hall's Leader who sent that Ancient Devil for help."

"That Ancient Devil is making the riot among demonic beast and he is the main cause of beast tide. But the beast tide is just a facade, the main goal is to sneak inside the Origin Tower and get to know the hidden location of Origin Drift Bottle."

"And as far as I can think after connecting many dots, Lord Hu is sacrificing those mother and son for this purpose, and it must be because that Ancient Devil told him to do."

The two people finally appeared in the hall. Their conversation was overheard by a pair of ears, but they didn't realize that.

One of them was holding a lamp, which illuminated up to 10 meters of their surroundings. The other had his hands subconsciously on the hilt of his blades.

They moved to a different path, where a door could be seen.

Ye Xiao frowned when he heard them. "I didn't expect Ancient Devils to be involved in this matter. It looks like the Supreme Ancient Devil has come closer to the Heavens and will think of ways to enter the Heavens. His purpose must be to take revenge on me and at the same time, swallow the Source of Heavens. I must stop them."

"For now, I should follow these two guys. Let's see what is special about both mother and son, for them to be chosen as sacrifices.Ye Xiao started following them.

The two people kept walking and soon stepped into the darkness ahead. Then they arrived in front of a huge door and stopped.

"Mu Numo, open it." Reaching before the door, one of them handed over a set of keys dangling from an iron circle to his companion. He wasn't good with keys. He covered it up by using the lamp to illuminate the keyhole. Mu Numo put one of the keys in it and twisted it, unlocking the door.

Pushing it open, they opened a room with a cage. Inside it, two terrified captives could be discerned. One was a young boy, and the other was a mature woman with long, silky white legs.

Hearing the sound of footsteps approaching, the boy hid in his mother's bosom. She caressed his head, whispering that it'll all be fine.

"Clank!"

Just then, metallic noises were produced by a key hitting the metal bars. She raised her head in horror. Reflected in her eyes were Mu Numo and his companion, Mo Fu. They had twisted smiles on their faces.

Mu Numo licked his lips while directing a disgusting stare at the woman. He said in a sinister voice: "It's sad that we will part ways tonight. I at least wanted to have a good taste of you before sending you off to damnation. I guess I can only miss out on a fine fun piece like you."

Mo Fu, on the other hand, didn't like the look in her eyes. He sneered and spoke coldly: "Don't look at us like that, lady. We are not the bad guys. We are only following orders from above. Anyway, your pathetic lives don't amount to much." He said these disturbing words too easily. Not a single sign of turbulence was present in the voice he used to say that.

"Click!" "Clang!"

The sealed entrance to the cage was unlocked and pushed open by Mu Numo.

Seeing this, the mother and son pair crawled to a corner of the cage, shivering uncontrollably.

"Resistance is futile." Mo Fu snickered at them and turned to his partner. "Go in and get them. Knock them out if they resist. They are undeserving of our mercy."

"I was going to do that." Mu Numo crouched to go inside the cage through the tiny entrance.

A distance was created between him and Mo Fu.

It was at this moment Ye Xiao took action."Swoosh!" It sounded like a gale of wind had flown into the room. But if one were to see what it truly was, they would realize that it was just Ye Xiao charging into the room through the open door and shooting toward Mo Fu like an arrow.

As it was weird for the wind to be blowing in this tightly enclosed space, Mo Fu turned his head to the source of the noise.

He only got to have a glimpse of Ye Xiao's figure before a spear pierced into his chest. It pierced his heart. The groan that was to escape his mouth was silenced by Ye Xiao. He did so by sealing his mouth with his hand.

"Soul Destruction!"

Ye Xiao immediately destroyed Mo Fu's soul.

It was at this moment that Mu Numo came back to his senses.

"Who are you?" He was terrified.

Ye Xiao didn't answer him. He just said: "You don't deserve to know!"

As he said these words, he executed the ability "Soul Search", causing Mo Numo to cry out in pain. The pain was intense and it was coming directly from his soul. He felt as if his soul was being forcefully peeled by some external force, and that external force was extracting some sort of the previous essence from his soul.

The pain continued for more than five minutes and he kept groaning out in pain while twitching on the ground non-stop for those five minutes. After that, he lost his life and his soul was destroyed.

Ye Xiao now completely knows everything that is happening at this place.

Just as the two of them were talking, every plan was executed by Twin Divine Hall, but the maker of these plans was none other than the Ancient Devil.

They were fighting a War of Attrition for now. They plan to tire out the entire Golden River City as well as the countries helping them. After that, they'll send their expert to sneak inside the Origin Tower in order to find out the hidden location of the Origin Drift Bottle, and then they'll launch their true attack.

While everyone's focus completely shifts to the war launched by Twin Divine Hall, their two hall masters will go to obtain the Origin Drift Bottle.

As for both mother and son, that man only knew that they are special and Lord Hu wants to sacrifice them for some reason.

Only now did Ye Xiao shift his attention to the mother and son who were looking at him with fear in their eyes.

Although Ye Xiao killed the two people eyeing them, they are not aware of who Ye Xiao is and why did he kill the two people.

Ye Xiao could be a friend or foe, he could be anything.

The mother was protecting her child, hiding him behind her. She was looking straight into Ye Xiao's eyes. Although she was scared, her eyes were cold. It seems she would do anything, even risk her life, for the sake of her child.

Her child was only six years old after all. She herself was very young and seemed to be only in her twenties.

Well, her real age was unknown though.

Her cultivation base was sealed at this moment, causing her unable to use the True Essence.