Ultimately, Zhao Ritian left the family he had lived in for decades like a walking corpse.
Zhou Xuan also kept his word and sent people to pursue him.
It wasn't out of kindness, but because in Zhou Xuan's eyes, someone like Zhao Ritian posed no threat to him.
"Boss, the box is open!"
"Quick, let's see what's inside!"
"Maybe it's some rare treasure!"
After Zhao Ritian left, Hei Hu sidled up to Zhou Xuan, looking expectantly at the box in Zhou Xuan's hand. Humans are always full of curiosity about the unknown.
"Let's take a look then!"
Hearing Hei Hu's words, Zhou Xuan didn't object.
He directly widened the gap that Zhao Ritian had opened and opened the entire box.
"This..."
"What is this?"
"What about the safe?"
"What about the treasure?"
"I took off my pants, and this is what you show me?"
"Is Zhao Guangming out of his mind?"
"To treat a piece of ragged cloth as a treasure?"
But after the box was opened, Hei Hu and the others who had crowded around, ready to search for treasure, were dumbfounded.
Inside the box, there were no rare treasures or wealth they had imagined.
There was only a piece of white cloth that looked very tattered.
The white cloth was only the size of a few palms, and on its back, there were more than a dozen holes of various sizes.
On the front, a mess of crooked lines were drawn with black ink.
The lines were chaotic, making it impossible to discern any clue.
Someone unfamiliar might even think it was the scribbling of a child!
Zhou Xuan took the white cloth out of the box and found nothing else inside.
This meant that the treasure chest Zhao Guangming had placed next to his pillow really contained only a piece of ragged cloth!
Seeing this result, even Zhou Xuan, who hadn't held much hope, had a grim expression.
"Brother, I'll go and chase that Zhao Ritian back right now!"
"Damn it!"
"He must have known what his grandfather put inside!"
"He's deliberately toying with us!"
"When I catch him, I'll break his legs!"
Seeing Zhou Xuan's expression, Hei Hu, who had not found any treasure, was also very angry.
He immediately shouted, wanting to catch Zhao Ritian and settle the score.
"Forget it, the words have already been spoken!"
"It's not good to go back on it!"
"Besides, our goal this time was to destroy the Zhao family, not to search for treasure!"
"It's fine if there's no treasure!"
"Pack up and take whatever assets you can!"
"If you can't take it, I'll have the Lu family come and collect it tomorrow!"
"Prepare to head back!"
"Everyone has worked hard all night!"
Zhou Xuan did not agree to Hei Hu's suggestion.
He casually threw the disgusting white cloth onto the ground and ordered his men to prepare to return.
Seeing that Zhou Xuan was no longer pursuing the matter, Hei Hu and the others naturally had nothing more to say.
After a final sweep of the Zhao family to ensure no one was left behind, they followed Zhou Xuan back towards the Lu family.
The things they needed to pack up had already been taken care of while they were dealing with the remnants of the Zhao family.
Now, they were just waiting for Zhou Xuan to leverage the Lu family's influence to build momentum for them tomorrow morning!
As Zhou Xuan and his men left the Zhao family, this dark and evil family, a top force on the Cangyun side, had officially become history.
However, no one saw that not long after Zhou Xuan and his group left the Zhao family, a person wearing a black conical hat slowly appeared in the main hall of the Zhao family.
The dark figure walked directly to the spot where Zhou Xuan had discarded the ragged cloth and picked it up.
"This should be what the Zhao family possessed!"
"I didn't expect that brat to be so ignorant of its value!"
"To treat such a good remedy like trash and discard it here!"
"But that's fine, it's cheap for me!"
"Coincidentally, there's still a survivor in the Zhao family that I can use to test this formula!"
"If it succeeds, it will be good news for the family!"
"It's just that the brat from earlier was indeed formidable!"
"To have reached the Creation Realm at such a young age!"
"Even in our family, this is unheard of!"
"I wonder what kind of extraordinary person the brat's master behind him is!"
"Never mind, it has nothing to do with me!"
"From his appearance, he should be a descendant of the Zhou family from ten years ago!"
"I didn't expect the Zhou family to be like a centipede with a thousand legs, dead but not stiff!"
"There are still descendants alive!"
"And this descendant is so extraordinary!"
"This way, someone is bound to have a headache!"
"Heh heh!"
"But that's also good!"
"That family has become quite arrogant in recent years!"
"They even wanted to form an alliance with our clan and tried to encroach on our clan's assets!"
"Truly ignorant!"
"Now that you have a monstrous enemy to deal with you, let's see how long you can last!"
"Zhou family brat, keep up the good work!"
"I'm in Shangjing, waiting for your good news!"
After murmuring to himself for a moment, the figure in black disappeared from the Zhao family again with the ragged cloth, as if nothing had happened.
Meanwhile, after leaving the Zhao family, Zhou Xuan and his group soon returned to the Lu family.
Without alerting anyone, Zhou Xuan and Hei Hu retired to their respective rooms.
"Strange!"
"Why did it feel like someone was watching me throughout the operation tonight?"
"But that shouldn't be the case!"
"If ordinary people were monitoring us, Hei Hu and the others wouldn't have failed to find them!"
"If it were cultivators monitoring us, I would definitely have sensed it!"
"But neither scenario occurred!"
"Could it be that after days without rest, I'm experiencing mental fatigue and illusions?"
Back in his room, Zhou Xuan did not choose to rest but instead carefully recalled the strange feeling he had in the Zhao family.
For some unknown reason, he felt as if he had been watched by someone else when he was killing Zhao Guangming.
However, when he probed with the unique senses of his Innate Dao Body, he found nothing.
This made Zhou Xuan wonder if he had been too busy cultivating without rest these past few nights, leading to some mental imbalance!
Even so, Zhou Xuan had no intention of resting tonight.
Because he knew he had to reach the late stage of the Creation Realm within half a year.
Only then would he be qualified to retrieve the other half of the Zhou family's heirloom.
And only by making his strength more formidable would he feel at ease.
The extermination of the Zhao family today made Zhou Xuan deeply understand one truth.
Only by being strong himself could he have countermeasures when facing any situation.
Otherwise, if a powerful enemy were to attack one day and he lacked the strength, the fate of the Zhao family would serve as a cautionary tale.
With that thought, Zhou Xuan did not hesitate and directly activated the Void Ring on his hand.
He teleported himself into the space within the Void Ring and began his cultivation for the day.
He wanted to arm himself with strength to protect everything he cherished!