Chapter 960 - Interrogating Tie Niu (2/2)

~SLAP~

A tight slap hit the man's face, breaking away half of his teeth.

~splat~

If it were not for the fact that Lin Mu needed more information from Tie Niu, he would not have held back. Otherwise… it wouldn't have just been the teeth that had been broken.

”ARGH!” Tie Niu cried in pain, feeling the loss of his teeth.

The pain was still something he could not ignore, even if he would be able to heal the teeth with just a few pills in the future. It was the added fear of Lin Mu standing in front of him, that made it that much worse.

He was like the sword of Damocles hanging over his head, ready to chop it off at any moment.

”What about the others? How did they get pills?” Lin Mu questioned the man and prodded him on to speak more.

”After tasting the effect of the pills, I wanted more. I had just reached the Shell initiation stage of the Dao Shell realm and wanted more. There were many elders in the sects that were at the Dao Shell realm and they would be stronger than me.

But I wanted to be stronger than all of them. I wanted to be strong enough that the imperial court would not be able to take away my rightful property.

And to my surprise, I didn't even need to ask my son for it. It was as if he knew what it thought and had the next option ready. He told me that the elder of his sect would be willing to sponsor us with more pills if we did some of the things he wanted.

If we did as he told, not only would he give us enough pills to cultivate even further, he would even give a surplus such that others under me would be able to grow stronger too.” Tie Niu replied.

”I doubt you would be willing to give up those pills to others, though,” Lin Mu said in a low voice.

”Of course, I didn't want to give the pills to others, I wanted them all for myself. But then… when I heard what the elder wanted of us, I knew it was not something I would be able to do on my own.

I would need more people that would support me through it. And they needed to be strong too…

The cost of it all though... was too high… the work that the elder asked of us was for me to send cultivators to a place they specified. They didn't tell us much at once, just that they would be taken care of and no one would ask any questions.

But this also meant that the people I would send have to be the very ones I would need to do all that. This was not something I could do openly. If I tried that, the empire would have my neck the very next day!” Tie Niu explained.

”And thus you willingly sent them, like lambs to be slaughtered..” Lin Mu said as his eyes flickered in a cold light.