The Dungeon Conquerors: Journey to the Peak

Chapter 176: Ch 176: Lu Shi's Past

Once upon a time there were three big sects in the Flowing Stream City. All three of these sects had a very harmonious relationship between them. Lu Shi was the daughter of the sect master of the Weathering Sect. Her father and mother were both very kind people and they taught her to also be kind to everyone.

Lu Shi loved her parents and was very fond of them. She took their teachings to her heart and decided to always act in a way that would not disappoint her kind parents.

When Lu Shi was only 8 years old, a demon suddenly appeared close to the city. It was quite a powerful demon but fortunately all the high level cultivators should be able to defeat it if they worked together. So it was decided that the top ranking people from all the sects would go out to fight the demon.

After about an hour since the battle started a very bad news was delivered to the city. It turned out that this cunning demon was actually hiding its strength and as soon as it got the chance, it erupted with all its powers and severely injured all the top powerhouses of the city.

Later on the top powerhouses returned back but Lu Shi's father and mother were not among them. It was declared to the city that both of them died when the demon targeted them with an all out final attack before it's eventual death.

This was a story that was hard for Lu Shi to believe as she knew that her father and mother were stronger than they let the world know and there was no way that they would die but the other people who were weaker than them would be alive.

The reason why her father and mother did not reveal their exceptional strength to the world was because they wanted to keep the system that three sects were managing the sect together. If their strength was revealed then they would become the undisputed overlords of the city and that was something that they did not want.

But somehow the news of their increased strength was released to the other sects which made them fearful as there was a chance that they might lose their hegemony. That was the reason why, when the unexpectedly strong demon was about to be killed by the Lu couple, their so-called allies betrayed them and sneak attacked them from behind.

The demon took this chance to fatally injure the couple as he had a lot of hatred for them. But that was the last thing that the demon was able to do before it lost almost all its powers and became an easy target for the other powerhouses.

Obviously this was a news that the other sect did not want to be spread. As for the Weathering Sect, after the death of the current sect master, all the other people started to fight for the position of the sect master and started an internal struggle.

Even Lu Shi, who was just a child at that time was in danger of dying and she was only able to escape because many of her father's loyal retainers gave up their lives for her.

After running away from the sect, she went to visit the place where her father and mother had died. There she was able to find a recording stone which was a spiritual item capable of recording a scene. It was not a very expensive spirit item but there were not many craftsmen who created these, so it was somewhat rare.

The only reason why Lu Shi was able to find it was because she knew her mother's habit very well and she had a very good idea about places where her mother would hide things. In that recording stone there was a message that her dying mother had left behind with her last breath and that was how Lu Shi came to know about the truth of the situation.

After staying out of the city for a few months, Lu Shi returned back to the city and found something horrendous. After failing to catch her the people who were fighting for the sect master seat of the Weathering Sect decided to spread slanders about the previous sect master and mistress.

Those two noble people were made to be cheaters and cowards and their well built reputation in the city was in shambles.

But the thing that surprised and saddened her the most was the reaction of the general population of the city. These people were helped by her father and mother for many times but as soon as any bad rumours spread about these two noble people, these turncoats did not take any time to change their tone and spit on the people who were the only ones who had helped them.

This made Lu Shi to actually be sick and she was bed ridden for a few days.

After recovering from her devastated state, Lu Shi swore to take revenge on the people who were responsible for making her life a real hell. This list not only included all the sects of the city but all the general population of this cursed city were also included in the list. She wanted to destroy all of them.

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After that a long struggle started for Lu Shi. She was still just a child and was powerless to do much. She was denied access to any and all cultivation techniques of the sect but still she did not give up and created a new cultivation technique for the skill she was awakened to.

This was not a very high quality cultivation technique as she did not have access to anything that she could use as a reference. The only reason why she was able to create a cultivation technique was mostly because her father and mother had explained many techniques to her when she was just a young child.

Alongside cultivating, she also started to do many things in the shadows of the city. Her intelligence had always been exceptionally high and she was planning to use that to its limit.

Lu Shi truly showed how capable she was when she was able to destroy the Weathering Sect after just two years of scheming. She knew quite a few internal things about her own sect and using some of these details to destroy the sect was not a big deal to her. She was happy to be able to get rid of the people who slander her father and mother.

But she was not having an easy time with the other two sects. Lu Shi did not know many things about them so it was hard to make a concrete plan and after the destruction of the Weathering Sect, those two sects became more cautious and information gathering became harder.

That was why Lu Shi starred to make grand plans that would allow her to not only target the two sects but the whole city itself. That was how she created her plans and why Rein became interested in her. Now that she had told all the stories to other people for the first time in her life, she had no idea what she should do next or how the people listening to her would react.

With those fears in her heart Lu Shi looked up.