Nowadays, ckwood haspletely turned against Cloudview County. In every vige and town within the county, you can spot wanted posters for members of ckwood.


    The major sects and families have long-standing missions to capture anyone from ckwood.


    Killing a member of the ckwood bloodline could ev earn someone a piece of top-tier psychic gear. As for taking out descdants from the first two gerations of ckwood, that''s a guaranteed bounty of psychic weapons.


    Many young talts in Cloudview County see capturing ckwood members as a rite of passage and a way to gain glory.


    "Dnis always says they''re busy," Nichs nced at the woman beside him. "Sister Hel, can you tell me what my family is like?"


    With Dnis nodding in approval, Hel walked over to Nichs, gtly touching the young boy''s head. "Your family, they are the most terrifying and feared people throughout Cloudview County."


    "Your great-grandfather carried a coffin on his back, where all his emies would evtually find their resting ce. Your great-grandmother was the most beautiful woman in the world, a three-tailed fox spirit, the greatest protector of your family."


    "Your four great-great-grandparts include Lucas, the foremost swordsman of the Azure Skies, the saint of flora, the ancestor of psychic puppetry Julian, and the elusive master of the Corpse Landscape, Lord Dawn."


    "And th there are your fearless grandparts..."


    Listing to the titles of his family elders, young Nichs''s eyes filled with admiration and anticipation.


    Dnis squatted in front of Nichs. "Child, do you rest them for leaving you?"


    Nichs shook his head, spreading his arms wide, earnestly saying, "Heroes like them have big, important things to do, much bigger than the sandcastles I build."


    Soon after, Nichs jumped up excitedly. "Oh! My ancestors and many elders are all great heroes, and I am too!"


    Watching the child''s innoct excitemt, Dnis sighed. "Hel, have you received any rect news about ckwood?"


    Hel replied, "Thetest news came two months ago. The second geration of ckwood emerged from the Pine Temple, ughtering all the monks who had tried to capture them. It seems..."


    "It seems what?"


    "It seems... the second geration of ckwood has be possessed. They were sured by other forces, but wh Swordsman Lucas appeared and joined forces with them, they fought off three Developing Skills. With a single motion of Lucas''s sword case, he beheaded a Developing Skill and escaped with the others from ckwood, disappearing once again. "


    "Now, many forces have quietly withdrawn their missions to hunt down ckwood, terrified by the mere mtion of them."


    "Ha ha ha, excellt!" Dnis was overjoyed, and immediately gathered several frids of ckwood for a three-day and three-night celebration in the ckwood estate, recounting the deeds of ckwood people in Cloudview County over the past sev years.


    Such as ckwood Larry, who with the beasts of the Swamp Jungle, annihted an oblivious Emerging Ability family.


    William, the rebellious son of ckwood, sneaked into the ck Shell  Gate and beheaded a once-in-a-millnium gius, hanging his head at the main gate before leaving unscathed.


    And Jeffrey, a rare beauty of ckwood, a veteran of love affairs, who seduced an tire geration of wom from a Developing Skill family, plundering nearly half of the family''s ctury-old wealth, reportedly not ev sparing the family head''s chamber pot.


    The demonically possessed in the Thunderfire Demon Cave? They''re no longer anyone''s concern. Now, Cloudview County has only one public emy...


    Seeing that ckwood''s frids were still loyal, allowing several of ckwood''s descdants to live a stable life, Ethan was very relieved. "I hope the fifth geration grows up quickly and settles down to marry and have childr," he murmured softly.


    Ethan switched the scre view.


    Thendscape of corpses from years ago was just the beginning. Both Ethan and the people of ckwood had to admit that it was merely a way to vt, and at that time, they simply didn''t have the strgth to make an effective counterattack.


    They also had to admit that leaving their family stronghold was a necessity.


    Ethan wasn''t ev sure if he could face a peak Developing Skill oppont if he were to return.


    ckwood had developed too quickly, they were too weak.


    But now...


    Sev years had passed, and they had found a new  of opportunities!


    And... Ethan had saved all the beast blood fruits, and the family was ready with many elixirs he needed. Over these sev years, his many descdants outside hadpleted special evts almost every year, each starting with at least 00 points of Spiritual Tribute. He had ough Spiritual Tribute!


    "It''s time to really teach Cloudview County a lesson," Ethan exhaled deeply.


    Looking at the game scre, it was the back hill of the Azure Cloud Pavilion, just like that day, with snow drifting from the sky, a beautiful sce.


    A scruffy guy emerged from the g.


    He took out a knife, shaved the stubble off his face cleanly, th reached out to catch the snowkes from the sky, his blurry eyes shing with a sharp light, "The snow this winter, is ."


    George!


    This fourth geration of ckwood... had be tomb raiding for sev years!


    Just as Ethan was about to issuemands using Cards, wisps of an old man''s soul emerged from behind George.


    These souls gradually took human form, looking in the direction of the Azure Cloud Pavilion with a hint of reminie, starting to whisper in front of the tomb, gathering like the Sunset Red Army group in front of a za speaker.


    "Ah, thirte thousand years, the sea has changed into mulberry fields, things are not what they used to be. Who would have thought, Azure Cloud Pavilion only has a few strands of luck left, how sad, howmtable."


    "Azure Cloud rose up ny thousand feet, this is the legacy of Azure Cloud, now it''s plummeting ny thousand feet."


    "The old man has calcted, s, now only a little bit of soul remains, my Azure Cloud Pavilion still has one true transmission left, named Steph. Hmph, a cowardly lot, they abandoned the Azure Cloud''s hundred thousand years of family business and fled!"


    "..."


    Watching these twty-three old m, Ethan was baffled for a long time before shaking his head, "Huh???"


    "What was supposed to be a tomb raid, what kind of guys did you bring out???"