Chapter 1036 - 1037: Treating Human Life as Nothing?

Hearing this, Gu Jin couldn’t be more clear.

She was just astonished that the Yin Yue Sect and Rakshasa Gate within the Hidden Market were cultivating using such despicable methods.

She slightly raised her eyebrows, and a cold look appeared in her eyes: "So in the cultivator tournament every ten years, most of those who go are just headed to their deaths?"

Her words carried a tone of certainty, mixed with a trace of anger.

Because she was also one of those invited.

In this life, she found herself once again becoming a pawn in others’ eyes, to be used and discarded.

How could she not be annoyed or angry!

Even though the Yin Yue Sect and Rakshasa Gate had many Golden Core Stage Cultivators, Gu Jin would not be intimidated by them.

She had trump cards, ways to exit unscathed even when encountering numerous experts at the cultivator tournament.

But being disrespected, treated like a pawn to be sacrificed, was something she couldn’t tolerate.

It was like being a piglet chosen and discarded before it hit the dining table; regardless of the process, to others, the outcome was always death.

God knows, in her previous life, she was always manipulated to death after being used to the fullest.

This was what she hated and could not endure in this life.

"That’s right, in previous tournaments, the number of cultivators participating wasn’t large, only hundreds at most, peaking at two or three hundred, but that was over a hundred years ago, when the space for cultivation was larger.

But each time after the cultivator tournament ended, more than half of them perished, mostly dying on the martial arts stage, having their blood and cultivation sucked dry by the Yin Yue Sect or Rakshasa Gate."

Yu Shuo looked disgusted: "Damn! That’s so disgusting!"

Jiang Hanyi resonated: "Isn’t anyone governing them, letting them be so arrogant, treating lives as nothing?"

Wanqi Jingyi shook his head with a bitter smile: "For over a century, the Hidden Market has been a force ungoverned by Beijing. Within the sects of the Hidden Market, they are united. Unless their survival is at risk, they never interfere in worldly matters.

They’ve never violated the major families and royal forces of Beijing, so there’s nothing to fault. The past leniency has led to today’s audacity from them, and restraining them now would cost dearly."

Gu Jin realized from her third disciple’s words that the major families in Beijing could deal with the Hidden Market but the price would be too high.

It was like how the Yin Yue Sect and Rakshasa Gate never provoked the major families in Beijing, nor would the royal family and major families willingly provoke them.

As the saying goes, ’Mind their own business,’ keeping things peaceful on each side.

However, this time the Hidden Market’s cultivator tournament involved Gu Jin, which would inevitably drag the Wanqi Family into the mix.

The words of the Wanqi young master plunged everyone into silence.

Miao Jiayi looked around, finally fixing his gaze on Gu Jin, seated at the head.

"I wonder, how is Master Ancestor’s cultivation currently?"

He was a straightforward lad, asking his questions directly.

One sentence asked bluntly what everyone present wanted to know.

Wanqi Jingyi, Wanqi Heyang, Yu Shuo, Jiang Hanyi, Miao Jiayi, and Han Xiyuan were all staring at Gu Jin.

In Gu Jin’s clear, glass-like eyes, there was a hint of amusement.

Her beautiful eyes turned, meeting Miao Jiayi’s curious gaze, a demonic glow flaring in her eyes: "Mid to late Golden Core stage."

Yu Shuo’s eyes widened: "Heavens!"

Jiang Hanyi, resting lazily on the sofa, immediately sat up straight and tensed his entire body upon hearing this.

The Wanqi young master opened his mouth, too excited to speak.

"I! Damn!" Han Xiyuan, always the polite boy next door, blurted out words that overturned his image in excitement.