The King Of Warriors novel (Jared Chance) novel Chapter 6246

"But if even people like the celestials in the Celestial Basilica are rotten..." She lifted her head and looked at him. "Then what is the righteous path, really? What is light supposed to be?"

Jared looked at her for a long while before he finally spoke.

"The righteous path isn't something people claim with their mouths. It's what they do with their hands. Light isn't something other people give you. It's something you carry inside yourself."

He rose and walked over to the window, then stood there with his hands behind his back.

"The people who parade around calling themselves righteous aren't always good.

And the demonic cultivators everybody spits on aren't always evil either. What's righteous and what's wicked doesn't depend on identity. It depends on the heart."

Evelyn nodded, only half understanding.

Jared said nothing more.

He only looked out toward Saintlight Peak in the distance, his gaze deep and unreadable.

A few days later, Luther and Grace were the first to return.

Neither of them looked good.

"Mr. Chance, we found something," Luther said as he sat down, lowering his voice. "The Celestial Basilica really is secretly capturing demonic cultivators."

Jared's expression didn't change. "Go on."

Luther said, "Not just demonic cultivators. They also took some celestials who were wandering cultivators with ordinary talent.

Once those people were taken, they never showed up again. When their families and friends went to the Celestial Basilica to demand answers, all they got was the same reply: 'This person has already left Saintlight Peak. Their whereabouts are unknown.'"

"Whereabouts unknown..." Jared repeated it once, and a cold curve touched the corner of his mouth.

"There's more," Luther went on. "I found someone at the edge of the Demon Marches. His younger brother was one of the demonic cultivators taken by the Celestial Basilica.

He said that before his brother was taken away, he secretly sent him a message through the jade slip."

"What did it say?"

Luther drew in a deep breath. Then he said, one word at a time, "The Celestial Basilica is working on a crazy plan.

They want to fuse the bloodlines of celestials and demons and create super cultivators who carry the power of both races at the same time."

The teahouse went completely still.

Evelyn's eyes went wide. She just stared, disbelief written all over her face.

Jared, though, stayed calm, as if he had already seen this coming.

"So that was it," he said lightly.

Luther continued, "That demonic cultivator said the Celestial Basilica had captured a lot of people and locked them away in a secret place.

They were forcibly injected with another bloodline. Most of them died during the fusion process. The ones who lived... they turned into monsters too. They lost their minds and only knew how to slaughter each other."

"Those monsters..." Evelyn's voice came out shaking. "They're the same ones we ran into before?"

Luther gave a heavy nod.

Jared fell silent for a moment. Then he asked, "Where is that place?"

"Deep in the deep forest, 300 miles east of Saintlight Peak," Luther said. "The Celestial Basilica set wards around it, so outsiders can't get in.

But that demonic cultivator said that before his brother was taken away, he'd seen the place from far off."

Jared rose to his feet and stood with his hands behind his back.

A cold glint passed through his eyes.

"The Celestial Basilica..." he said quietly. His voice stayed even, but the chill in it cut straight to the bone. "It's even worse than the Celestial Palace."

At that moment, Lydia came back.

Her face didn't look any better.

"We found it," she said as she sat down, her voice heavy. "The Celestial Basilica really is carrying out bloodline fusion experiments. And..."

She paused.

"They've already succeeded."

Jared's brow tightened.

"Succeeded?"

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