Chapter 142: Chapter 142: With great power comes great responsibility.

"If only I knew then what I know now."

The spirits rushed towards Elizabeth, the renowned Elder Elizabeth, whose expression twisted due to past accusations from her family.

From terrified disbelief to uncontrollable fear, she finally went mad and slaughtered the remaining spirits of the Lopez clan.

A flicker of pity crossed Nathan's eyes, quickly concealed.

He silently shouldered the Coffin of Eternal Rest. Having become the second layer's coffin master, this object had long become one with him.

To outsiders, the Coffin of Eternal Rest was merely a mid-grade psychic artifact.

Taking advantage of Elizabeth's distracted mind, Nathan, gripping the coffin, viciously smashed it towards Elizabeth's belly!

In the distance, Elder Felix, engaged in a fierce battle with Drunken Fool, was surrounded by swirling maple leaves, clearly no ordinary matter, exchanging blows evenly.

Seeing Nathan, seemingly a simpleton, strike at his partner's swollen belly, his eyes bulged with rage, "Nathan! You'll not die a good death!!!"

That was his future, and the hope of all his life's legacy!!!

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In Ethan's mind, Nathan had always been the kindest member of the Blackwood family. Otherwise, Blackwood wouldn't have garnered so many trustworthy friends over the years.

Yet now, Ethan was witnessing Nathan's ruthlessness and madness. He saw Nathan's coffin swung towards a pregnant woman's belly! Perhaps the Blackwood family's elder, kind for over a century, had harbored enough rage over the years.

The scene abruptly stopped. Ethan clicked on Olivia's avatar.

[Your descendant Olivia has set up an altar in front of Azure Cloud Pavilion, asking for your blessing!]

That day, Blackwood faced more than just their enemies, Felix and Elizabeth! The price to be paid was no longer just by the murderers but also by those who abetted them.

It was they who forced the Blackwood family to leave their home of nearly a hundred years, to make the world their home.

The scene shifted.

In front of the lofty gates of Azure Cloud Pavilion, where Olivia once built a gruesome display of Lopez family corpses, a bent old woman sat in a wheelchair, guarded only by an AI Bionic Robot resembling a maid.

Before her, the many elders of Azure Cloud Pavilion, as well as countless disciples moving on flying swords, faced what seemed like a harmless old lady.

Yet, the entire Azure Cloud Pavilion's protective array opened without hesitation, and the gold bowls used to subdue Felix and Elizabeth with beginner and advanced psychic equipment were already suspended high above.

The entire Azure Cloud Pavilion fell into a suppressed silence.

Everyone's wary gaze was fixed on the old lady who struggled to stand, her trembling hands lighting a Spiritual Tribute and placing it on the Mystic Burner, looking like she might collapse from exhaustion at any moment.

Yet, the people of Azure Cloud Pavilion still did not feel they had lost face.

They had reason to be afraid, for this old woman was the master of Dawn, and for many years, the only time anyone in Cloudview County had seen her true face was the day Lopez was destroyed!

Also, because of her presence, no one had been able to find where the Blackwood people were hiding. In these seven years, she silently annihilated two Developing Skill families, leaving no survivors wherever the Dawn assassins went.

To exterminate one of the Developing Skill families, this seemingly kind old woman used every trick in the book, plunging her rival's family into a storm of power struggles.

Over two years, plagues, ghostly night walks, and flash floods followed them like shadows... she stopped at nothing, and by the time the Dawn assassins covered the walls of that great family, it was already too late.

And now, here she was, alone in front of Azure Cloud Pavilion, a sight more terrifying than any other!

Whenever there was the slightest disturbance outside Azure Cloud Pavilion, those masters flying on their swords felt that a great terror was lurking outside.

The winter wind blew through.

Snowflakes mixed with the white smoke rising from the Spiritual Tribute in the Mystic Burner, the Forebearer's Cards, and the pig Pete demon king's Cards endured the frost.

Olivia tightened her coat, breathed warm air onto her wrinkled hands, then stiffly knelt before the Cards, bowing in worship.

In a low murmur, she said, "Forebearer, Uncle Pig Pete, there are so many of them, it's quite frightening."

"..."

Ethan quietly sipped his bubble tea. Scary, right? Even Ethan was spooked!

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Olivia had arrived at the Azure Cloud Pavilion on her own, with nothing but an AI Bionic Robot by her side. Dawn's assassins had already been dispatched elsewhere.

But from what it looked like, the people at the Azure Cloud Pavilion were pretty scared too...

Among the descendants, Justin had a penchant for courting disaster, but Ethan hoped that Justin would never follow in Olivia's footsteps.

After the ceremony.

Olivia finally settled back into her wheelchair. She looked at the top five Developing Skills in the Azure Cloud Pavilion, especially the central figure, an elderly man with a broad back and a bear-like stature, dressed in a long robe that added to his imposing presence. This man was the new Pavilion Master, Frank.

Frank caught Olivia's gaze. Staring into Olivia's cloudy eyes from afar, he felt a chill run through him.

"Greetings to the seniors of Azure Cloud Pavilion," Olivia's voice was calm, barely louder than the howling wind and snow, yet it clearly reached the ears of everyone at the Azure Cloud Pavilion, "Do you know what kind of family my Blackwood is?"

The crowd at the Azure Cloud Pavilion furrowed their brows.

They hadn't known before; they only knew that Blackwood was supposedly a rural home in Cloudview County, deluding themselves with dreams of lasting for thousands of years on their meager land, proud of their minor abilities.

But that wasn't the case.

Over these seven years, they had come to understand that the people of Blackwood harbored all the evils of the world, showing utter indifference to life, using forbidden and sinister methods, engaging in practices that outraged both gods and men, deserving of universal condemnation!

"My Blackwood is a great benevolent house. In the twenty years of severe drought in the counties, my Blackwood sustained thousands, tens of thousands."

"In the years when the Sky Sect and the Black Tortoise Sect were at war for decades, my Blackwood wandered everywhere, sheltering over a million common folk."

"My father used to say, 'With great power comes great responsibility.' He said that once my Blackwood gains control over the Great Forest and even the Great Clear powers, we should accumulate good deeds for the people, leaving behind a legacy of a hundred generations, accumulating virtues for my Blackwood."

"My elder brother once said, his sword is the Blackwood sword, a sword that cuts down all enemies, but also protects millions. I have a second sister, whom I admire the most. She is a saint of medicine. Under her, there were dozens of doctors, extending to hundreds."

"Later, all the doctors in the Great Forest Town came from my Blackwood. They went to various towns and counties, healing hundreds of thousands."