The Witcher: Elemental Lords

Bai Yang sighed and said slowly, "The decline of a family doesn't lie in the business world, nor in interpersonal relationships. As the saying goes, 'A mountain has a spirit, and all directions pay homage.' The biggest decline of our family was the passing of the old ancestor. Although I am now at the seventh level, my lifespan is limited. Yet, you descendants prefer to engage in deceit and trickery. None of you like to cultivate. In another hundred years, when I leave this world, will the Sikong family still exist?"

The middle-aged man immediately lowered his head and stopped speaking.

Within the family, very few young people truly liked cultivation. So much so that they couldn't even deal with an outsider. This was the fault of all of them.

He lowered his head and said with determination, "Old Ancestor, I also want to rectify the family's style, but it's too difficult. Unless you personally intervene, I alone am powerless to change the family."

"Dak is my son, and I personally discipline him. I will focus on cultivating him in the future."

The old man glanced at the middle-aged man and snorted, "You have ten sons, and except for Dak, none of the others are any good. Don't think I don't know what started this. It's all because of those two bastards, Duke and Xun, who dared to antagonize someone with a sixth-level wizard tower. Where were their brains?"

...

Summer, the sun baked the earth, and the city was filled with heat, both inside and out.

Wassenburg seemed calm, even somewhat festive, but every day, people died in the dark corners.

A woman walked slowly down the street, seemingly calm but actually very flustered, constantly looking behind her.

Soon, she arrived at Azure Drink Shop, the largest in Tai Luo Street.

As soon as she entered the shop, she cautiously looked around. She went to the back and quickly changed into a shop assistant's uniform, while also hiding the item.

She touched her cuff, where there was a small packet of something. Someone had threatened her family, forcing her to put it in the shop's water.

She raised her head and saw the kind-looking shop owner. She felt a slight sense of guilt, but when she thought of her family, she steeled herself. No one else mattered; her own family was the most important. Besides, that person had said it wasn't a deadly poison, it wouldn't kill anyone. Thinking of this, she felt uneasy, yet also somewhat calm.

Just then, a small black insect flew past her eyes and landed on her head, unnoticed.

...

Dore's Wizard Tower.

Standing at the top of the wizard tower, Dore suddenly turned his gaze towards Tai Luo Street. His eyes seemed to penetrate everything, landing on the Azure Drink Shop.

Dore usually had multiple perspectives: the Eye of the Storm, constantly monitoring the environment around the wizard tower; the Xuan Corpse Insect's perspective, placed in several important locations; and even the Skyfrost Insect's perspective.

The Skyfrost Insect, obtained from the ruins, had been in his possession ever since. Cultivating it to this point had taken three months, and he had only managed to breed a few thousand. These things were even harder to cultivate than the Xuan Corpse Insect.

He kept a few for himself, and gave the rest to Aisha.

Aisha was currently in the Babel Tower, researching bloodlines, trying to make some potions for the family, while also cultivating these little things.

The Skyfrost Insect naturally carried a trace of the aura of ice rules. Coupled with the wind-type rule fragments that Old Man Shangfeng had given them, the two of them could be said to have no bottlenecks in their cultivation path.

Although the Skyfrost Insect was a cold-type creature, it liked sunlight. At this moment, a batch of Skyfrost Insects was flying in the sky above the wizard tower. With the wizard tower's cover, no one noticed the anomaly here.

The reason why Dore suddenly woke up was because the Xuan Corpse Insect lurking in the Azure Drink Shop had discovered a potent poison, which woke him from his meditation.

He switched his gaze to the shop and quickly saw the target: a woman, a shop assistant, who had a very powerful poison hidden in her cuff.

Was this an enemy spy?

Or was she being threatened?

Dore immediately sent a message to Glythe, asking him to handle the matter.

The Azure Drink Shop's business had already declined due to the Langte family's actions. If there were any more unknown factors, the business would probably be ruined.

...

Walking down the street, Glythe's face was very gloomy.

Someone wanting to poison the shop wasn't exactly new, but this wasn't the first time. The person who did it last time had disappeared, and the people behind him had all been sunk in the unknown river outside the city. Now someone else was jumping out, and at this critical juncture, it was truly damnable. It was probably the work of that family.

He didn't want to tear apart the facade yet, but now it seemed that he had to show his thunderous methods, or it wouldn't work.

Arriving at the shop entrance, he strode into the back kitchen.

At this moment, he saw a small flying insect come over and land on his shoulder.

"Who is it?" he asked the little insect.

The back kitchen wasn't big; two or three people could complete the operations. Most of the servers were placed outside, so there weren't many people in the back.

Glythe concealed his aura as he approached, and the people were busy, not noticing his presence.

However, the next moment, Glythe saw the person who was preparing to poison the drink, because he saw the woman secretly pouring something into the water. She did it very carefully, scraping a little at a time with her fingernail, very discreetly, for fear of being seen.

When Glythe looked at her, she was scraping the poison with her fingernail.

Seeing this, Glythe was immediately enraged.

He slowly walked over and came to the woman's side.

The woman didn't know there was someone next to her and was still working when she heard a voice beside her, "What kind of poison is this?"

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She subconsciously replied, "I don't know, that person gave it to me."

But as soon as she finished speaking, she immediately turned her head, her eyes showing horror.

Glythe's face was gloomy, his terrible gaze fixed on the woman.

He knew the woman's identity. At this time, he had already sent a message out to have people check on her family's situation.

He coldly snorted and said, "You don't need to do it anymore, come with me to the fifth floor."

...

In a very small courtyard, a man and a woman lay in a pool of blood. Two men in ordinary black clothes stood beside them, sneering as they looked at the man and woman.

After giving her instructions, they had deliberately waited a while to paralyze the woman, and then killed her parents directly after she had left for a long time.

After the two men finished all this, they cleaned up the traces and prepared to leave.

The gate of the small courtyard opened, and the two men were about to walk out when they saw a line of more than a dozen people standing at the entrance of the small courtyard, six or seven of whom were holding official Imperial crossbows.

The two men in black were immediately stunned.

...

Dore came down from the wizard tower and arrived at the door of the innermost room on the first floor.

He pushed open the door and walked in. Glythe's figure was facing away from him.

Hearing the movement behind him, he turned around, looked at Dore, and said faintly, "It's been found out, it was done by the Langte family, but their family didn't directly take action, but let a small family named Iris do it, they are their affiliated family."

Dore nodded, and said expressionlessly, "Knowing who did it is enough, send these people to the police station."

Glythe was a little surprised, "You?"

Dore looked at him, his expression slightly softened, "Let the police station help us deal with the Langte family and restrain their hands and feet. Since the Langte family wants to attack our foundation, then naturally we can't let them get their wish. I'll go to the market tomorrow to take a look and buy some wine worms, we'll brew our own wine."

Glythe's expression was calm, as if he had expected Dore to do this. He nodded, "I'll also find someone to mess with their business. Since the Langte family likes to play dirty, then let's all play and see who can outplay who."