Chapter 202: Achieved His Goal
Although the Great Elder was sealed, a seal left the possibility of being broken.
Unless he killed the Great Elder directly, there was still a chance for him to awaken.
However, even if Lin Ming's current strength was extremely powerful, in the face of a God-tier expert, even if it was merely a slumbering God-tier expert, Lin Ming would still be unable to kill him.
Even the remaining soul of the Demon God was unable to kill this God-tier Great Elder.
Otherwise, it wouldn't have just been a seal.
"So this is why I've been feeling so uneasy," Lin Ming said with a frown.
It turned out that the three Sage tier experts from the Underworld were once again plotting this matter.
"There's a way to solve this," After lowering his head to ponder, Lin Ming thought of a solution.
The Sages in the Aboveground World might not necessarily act to stop this matter.
Even if some did, some wouldn't care.
After all, to them, as long as it was beneficial for them, they would be fine with anything. They didn't care about the lives of ordinary humans at all.
Then Lin Ming would make them care.
"Now, I need to find the families of the Sage tier experts that aren't in the city," Lin Ming pondered for a moment before speaking.
As long as the Sages' family members were sacrificed as well, they wouldn't be able to just sit idly by.
After all, if it didn't hurt them, they would just stand aloof, but the minute it interfered with their interests, they wouldn't remain calm.
Lin Ming quickly bound the Sages' important family members who were outside the city.
In any case, these people had many innocent lives in their hands too, so Lin Ming didn't feel any psychological pressure to bind and sacrifice them at all.
Lin Ming had completely crippled their powers, and he had also crippled their ability to speak.
Right now, these people were like deaf-mutes among the ordinary villagers.
At this point, their minds weren't quite sane either.
If they were captured by the soldiers, the soldiers definitely wouldn't be able to tell that these were the descendants of Sage tier experts.
Lin Ming placed them in the nearest village.
The Sages' family members were quickly captured and sacrificed.
Of course, the Underworld Sage tier magical beast had quickly rushed over to investigate the matter of the killing of the soldiers.
However, it was clueless about Lin Ming's appearance.
After dealing with the soldiers, Lin Ming used dark magic to destroy any trace of evidence.
"Damn, it's really chaotic! Now that there are only the three of us Sages in the Underworld, there are more and more brave people!" The Sage tier magical beast said with a frown.
What he was thinking was that the Underworld Sages were all by Lin Ming's side in the Aboveground World, thus they could no longer control the people below.
At this time, many of the Sage tier families had discovered that their family's elders or important members had disappeared after leaving the city!
And now, their gazes fell on the final spot where these people had disappeared.
They were taken away by soldiers.
However, the matter had once again become ridden with suspicions.
Sage tier families had special privileges, these soldiers shouldn't have dared to make a move against them!
But even though this matter was suspicious, they still had to investigate the disappearance of the important members of their family.
After all, the Sage tier family had always been had the highest status.
Now that their family members had disappeared, if they didn't look for them, they would have nowhere to place their pride.
As for the Sage tier Great Elder of each of the families, although they were in the Aboveground World, it wasn't like they were dead.
As long as their Sage tier Great Elders were alive, they would always have the confidence to be high and mighty.
Moreover, it wasn't just a sparse few great elders who went to the Aboveground World. Other than the three Sage tier experts in the center of power, all the Sages had gone to the Aboveground World.
Within the three that were still in the Underworld, two had been forced to return by Lin Ming.
If Lin Ming was willing to take them in now, at least two of the three would follow Lin Ming to the Aboveground World.
"Find out what's going on."
All of the families whose important members had disappeared began to investigate.
And without exception, the result was that their family members had been taken away by soldiers.
Why were they taken away by the soldiers? Why didn't the soldiers reveal their identities before doing anything? Also, why were their family members unable to resist the soldiers? Why were there no signs of fighting? All this was unknown.
Lin Ming did all this based on something he had discovered: The soldiers had spiritual treasures that could suppress mages and the other professions.
These spiritual treasures contained the power of the three Underworld Sages at the center of power.
Right now, whatever these three Sages were doing could be considered to be almost crazy.
Thus, they must have caused some powerful people to be dissatisfied.
In addition, almost all o the Sages had left the Underworld for the Aboveground World, leaving these three Sages who were acting crazily.
Many couldn't help but start thinking.
Thus, more and more people like Lin Ming began to resist.
This was why the soldiers suddenly had spiritual treasures that could suppress others in their hands.
This gave Lin Ming an opportunity to take advantage of it.
As they investigated further, the Sage tier families also found out about the spiritual treasures.
Thus, from their point of view, the important members of their family must have been suppressed after they left the city!
After all, no one would place their attention on Lin Ming right now.
On one hand, no one had noticed Lin Ming's arrival. On the other hand, Lin Ming's status was too high.
He was an existence that even the great elders of each Sage tier family were serving.
As such, the Sage tier families placed their mutual hat on the three Sages in the center of power.
Reaching such a conclusion, the person in charge in each family immediately sent a message to each of their great elders from the Underworld.
In their message, it was said that the three Sages were acting recklessly, and were even sacrificing the members of the Sage tier families.
When the great elders received the news, they were naturally extremely furious.
However, they had their considerations and didn't return to the Underworld directly.
Some had speculated that this was Lin Ming's doing, but no one delved too deeply into such a speculation.
In the end, the Underworld Sage tier experts gathered together and came to a consensus. They would return to the Underworld to see for themselves what had happened.
At this moment, Lin Ming, who had achieved his goal, found a place on the map.
Other places were marked on the map.
This place was also marked, but the mark was different.
There was only a symbol to mark this place.
It was a big red exclamation mark!
There must be something about this place.
From the symbol, one could tell that the place should be a forbidden area.
"Since I'm free, there might be a juncture for me to break through to the Sage tier there," Lin Ming said.
Although Lin Ming was one foot in the Sage tier now, and he had also told the Sage tier experts that as long as he could breakthrough as soon as he wanted to, but...