Xu Ming clenched his fist tightly as he gazed at the woman.

"How did this happen? I was just here a few days back?" He asked the woman. ​​

"Sigh, What can I say. The old lady made some bad choices," The woman replied.

"What choices?" Xu Ming inquired.

"She asked for money from a cultivator," The woman sighed as she looked down.

"Some men stopped at her inn and asked her to give them a room for the night. She asked for money. The men apparently didn't like this one bit. They started getting angry as they thought that the old lady was intentionally trying to annoy them,"

"They came out of the Inn and burned it down before they left. The old lady was burnt alive inside her own place," The woman replied.

Xu Ming didn't say anything for close to a minute and just stayed there in silence.

"No one tried to stop them?" He asked after a long time.

"Are you crazy? Those people were cultivators! How could anyone in this village compare to them." The woman said in a self-depreciation tone.

"Do you know who those guys were?" Xu Ming asked again. The woman could see the pain on his face.

"I hadn't seen those men before, but I did see a few people in similar uniforms pass through the town on various occasions. They were carrying a sword on their back. There was also a Blue sword symbol on their chest," The woman described what she remembered.

"Sword on the back? Blue sword symbol? Spirit Establishment Realm cultivators from the Glorious Sword Sect?" Xu Ming muttered as he turned back.

He didn't ask anything else from the woman as he silently walked towards the destroyed place.

He sat in front of the remains of the hotel.

"Why is the world so complicated? Everyone is evil. Those who claim to be evil are evil and those who claim to detest evil are the bigger evil. They should all be wiped out of the face of the universe," Xu Ming let out softly as he stood up.

"I'm sorry I couldn't give it to you in time," He muttered as he threw a gold coin in the ash and walked back to his Wild Eagle beast.

He didn't know it at the time, but a seed of destruction was planted in his heart at the time. He had seen so many bad things in life. He had seen so many betrayals that he had lost faith in everything.

The sect that called them righteous, their people killed an innocent and kind lady for a silver coin. He wanted to destroy the sect. He wanted to destroy all such people who acted to be righteous but hid darkness in their hearts.

He sat on the Wild Eagle Beast as it flew freely in the boundless sky.

Xu Ming traveled without a map for as far as he could remember before taking out the map.

He followed the map and traveled the journey ahead as shown in the map. As he flew, he had a feeling that he hadn't traveled using this path before, but it was just a feeling.

He still followed the map. After 3 days of travel, he reached the location that was marked on the map as the location of the Sect.

He just stayed there blankly as he looked at the ground.

The place was in the middle of nowhere. There was no sect there but sand. There was only sand for as far as his eyes could see.

"This map is false," He muttered as he glanced at the Map. He hadn't even seen a desert when he left the sect. There was no way that the sect would be here.

"I should've expected that. The Map was given to me by the Punishment Elder's disciple after all. It was all their plan. They wanted to kill me and hoped that even if I survived, I wouldn't be able to come back. Sigh, I can't understand anything. Why would they do this," He muttered as he looked at the map.

He turned the Wild Eagle Beast back and started flying back towards the last town he had seen along the way. He had been running out of food and he didn't restock in the last town as he thought that he would get back in time.

Along the way, he realized that the Wild Eagle beast was getting tired. He came down and sent the Wild Eagle beast back to rest while he also began resting near a tree.

It was afternoon and the sun was high in the sky, but the shade of the tree protected him from the sun. He stayed below the tree for over 4 hours doing nothing.

He didn't feel like cultivating and he couldn't even sleep either. It was like his head couldn't stop thinking.

He stood up when he felt like it was enough rest for the Wild Eagle Beast. He brought the beast out of his storage ring and continued their journey.

He stopped at a town and bought things to eat.

He was walking through the crowded streets of the town when he noticed a commotion at some distance.

He walked up to that place and noticed that a person was beating up a man brutally.

Xu Ming wasn't upset though. He was somewhat relieved as he saw the uniform of the man that was beating the other person.

The man was wearing the uniform of the Mighty Demon Sect.

He walked up to the man while he was still torturing the man and asked.

"You're from the Mighty Demon Sect right?" He asked.

"Yeah. Who the heck are you kid?" The man asked.

Xu Ming didn't reply and just showed him his disciple badge.

"Oh, so you're a fellow disciple. Do you need anything?" The man further asked.

"Well, it might sound funny, but I'm actually lost. I came outside to complete a mission and now I can't find my way back," Xu Ming replied.

"Geez, such a newbie mistake. You should've brought a map with you," The blonde-haired man said as he chuckled.

"I did bring a map. The map was wrong," Xu Ming replied.

"Hah, alright. I'll believe you. Just wait for me to finish my mission and we can go back together," The blonde hair man said as he shifted his focus towards the man that was lying on the ground.

He kicked the man and made him fly away. He stepped towards the man that was groaning in pain.

"Sorry man, it's nothing personal," The blonde-haired man said as he raised his sword and stabbed down.