The Female CEO's Personal Bodyguard

Chapter 1073: Chapter 1073: Is There a Shortage of Killers in This World?

Ten Thousand Ghosts Sect!

Carson Flores’s heart skipped a beat. It had only been a guess, but he hadn’t expected his guess to actually come true.

This guy really was from the Ten Thousand Ghosts Sect!

Kenji Rollins said coldly, ”Explain in more detail.”

Douglas Meyers began speaking honestly, ”The Ten Thousand Ghosts Sect practices the Path of Refinement. The Path of Refinement encompasses everything, and Artifact Refining is just one of the paths within it. I’ve been fond of Artifact Refining since I was young, so I chose this path and have followed it until today...”

Carson Flores asked, ”In the Ancient Era, wasn’t the Ten Thousand Ghosts Sect wiped out? Where are you hiding now, how many people are there, and under what identities?”

Douglas Meyers replied with a cold smile, ”The Path of Refinement was originally one of the major paths in the world. However, it was ostracized by the Qi Cultivation Path. They found an excuse, branded us an Evil Sect, devised schemes to trap the masters of the Path of Refinement, and then proceeded to exterminate the sects involved in the Path of Refinement, with the foolish desire to completely eradicate it...”

Kellan Gentry shouted angrily, ”It’s one thing to refine pills and artifacts, but you refine humans, slaughtering them like animals. You still think you’re in the right?”

Douglas Meyers scoffed, ”Yes, the Path of Refining people does involve killing, but isn’t there plenty of killing in this world? Not to mention the conflicts between the Human Race and Demon Race, even the infighting among humans, fighting over resources, leads to tens of thousands of deaths. Has anyone ever said anything about that?”

”Just the same as killing, it’s okay to kill for resources, it’s okay in war, but when we of the Path of Refinement kill, it’s not allowed, and we’re an Evil Sect?”

Carson Flores didn’t join in arguing with Douglas Meyers, because he was very clear that such disputes were meaningless.

What Douglas Meyers said was also true; in the Cultivation world, the law of the jungle is more overt than in the Mortal Realm. The lives of ordinary people are like weeds in front of a cultivator. To obtain resources for Cultivation, numerous ordinary people and even low-level cultivators could become cannon fodder for the powerful.

Everyone has their own worldview, and clearly, Carson Flores and Douglas Meyers had completely different worldviews.

Different paths do not work together!

Whether it’s the Qi Cultivation Path or the Path of Refinement, everyone acts according to their own conscience.

As for the outcome?

It’s just a matter of the victor being the king and the vanquished considered a bandit.

If the Qi Cultivation Path won, then naturally the Path of Refinement would be seen as an Evil Sect, an enemy to all. But if the Path of Refinement won, then the rules of the world would naturally change again.

”Talk about the Ten Thousand Ghosts Sect. Where is the sect located?”

Douglas Meyers shook his head, ”We have a legacy, but no sect. We only gather periodically; the rest of the time, everyone goes their separate ways...”

Douglas Meyers looked at Carson Flores with a mocking gaze, ”So many Qi Cultivation sects joined forces in ancient times yet failed to eradicate the Path of Refinement. Just you alone, a little kid, and you dare to think about eradicating the Path of Refinement?”

Carson Flores didn’t get angry but seriously inquired, ”Without a sect, how do you choose disciples, how do you pass on the teachings?”

”Recommendation.”

Douglas Meyers replied frankly, ”The disciples of the Ten Thousand Ghosts Sect are chosen through a recommendation system. If someone discovers a person with talent and similar ideals, they can be recommended to join the sect. Although we don’t have a sect openly, the number of our disciples is certainly not small.”

Carson Flores asked, ”They all have other identities?”

”Of course.”

Douglas Meyers said with a cold smile, ”Am I not an Artifact Refining Master? If it weren’t for me sending you to kill Larry Stein, would I have been exposed?”

As he said this, Douglas Meyers’s face showed a mocking smile, ”Where the Bandit King goes, no grass grows. You were misled by rumors, thinking it safe to hire people like you, who are ruthless, to kill him. What I didn’t expect was that, despite being the Bandit King, you guys have a strong sense of justice. And I never imagined this kid would turn out to be the Human Emperor...”

Kellan Gentry chuckled, ”I do what I want, what’s it to you?”

Carson Flores asked, ”Give me the names of the sect disciples you know!”

Douglas Meyers scoffed, ”You want to use a list to trace the connections? Don’t dream. Considering safety, the Ten Thousand Ghosts Sect members cover up their identities during gatherings, not recognizing each other.”

Kellan Gentry rubbed his bald head, sighing, ”You’ve got a tight operation. But you must still have contacts whom you recognize, right? Otherwise, how do you keep in touch?”

Douglas Meyers answered, ”Our rule is that senior disciples know the identities of junior disciples, but junior disciples do not know their seniors. Gatherings and such are also notified each time.”

”If I want to contact my superior disciple, I must use a special method. Then he’ll know and come to see me, but I don’t know his identity.”

Kellan Gentry, not content, asked, ”Then you must have recruited disciples, right? Where are the ones you’ve recruited?”

Douglas Meyers grinned, ”Your luck isn’t great. I’ve never been much interested in recruiting disciples. I only ever tried to recruit one, but that failed, and that person has already been killed by you.”

Carson Flores’s eyes widened in surprise, questioning, ”Larry Stein?”

Douglas Meyers laughed, ”Who else? The five hundred Blood Beads were just a basic test for him—the real assessment for him would have been five thousand Blood Beads...”