Chapter 359: The Youth's Mission
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Aspiring to the Immortal Path Chapter 359: The Youth's Mission

Translated by: Hypersheep325

Edited by: Michyrr

 

The tyrannical Jin Clan was gone.

The Jin Clan had needed fifty-some years to establish itself in Baile Village, but it had taken only one hour to wipe it out.

What had Tang Jie feeling emotional was that they had perished not because of their evil acts, but because they had offended a cultivator. In fact, they hadn't even really done that, only offending a cultivator's servant.

Thus, the root of their destruction was not their evil crimes, but their having offended the wrong person.

"Thus, in this world, not having power is the original sin," Tang Jie muttered as he stood in front of the Jin Estate. Even though he had understood this long ago, he had never felt it as deeply as today.

Xi Canhen didn't understand what Tang Jie meant. He was entirely focused on his little sister. Once he learned that the Jin Clan young master hadn't had the time to do anything to her, he sighed in relief.

The extermination of the Jin Clan drew attention from the government, but once they learned that it was a cultivator who had done the deed, particularly one from the Basking Moon Sect, they just waved it off as "Upon investigation, it was found that Jubao Village's Jin Clan was colluding with bandits to plunder trade routes and slaughter innocents. Upon confirmation, Revered Immortal Tang Jie of the Basking Moon Sect acted to remove this calamity." There was even Tang Jie's handprint at the end.

This was a method commonly employed by the government, ignoring the truth and seeing the essence behind it. At least they knew when the Jin Clan had been exterminated and by whose hands, so that it would be easy to look up the case and gather clues in the future.

Cultivators knew this, but though they knew that they couldn't be arrested, they had to at least agree to be recorded.

Tang Jie wasn't too happy about this—not because his name and deeds were being recorded, but because he found the government suspiciously efficient. The time from the destruction of the clan to its record

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Translator Notes

Hm, I wonder where this young man with a Crystallized Sandworm could have come from, hmmmmm...

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