Chapter 353 - Complete Extermination (1/2)
The elders all had their heads lowered. Only Shangguan Jingshu stood up and said in a half fearful voice, ”Sect Master, I've let them go.”
Yuwen Taiji squinted. ”Why?”
”Li Tianming has done us a great boon by retrieving the Grand-Orient Sword.”
Everyone knew that Yuwen Taiji and Tianming had a blood feud, yet she had actually let him go. Many immediately thought that she was a goner. As far as they were aware, Yuwen Taiji was someone that was ruthless to the bone.
As expected, he looked to Shangguan Jingshu, someone who was old enough to be his grandmother, and motioned with his hand for her to walk towards him.
She grit her teeth and said, ”Sect Master, I know I wronged you. Please allow me to die in service of the sect!”
Her words made many feel for her, but little did they expect Yuwen Taiji to take out two black pills and place them in her and Zhao Zhiyuan's hands.
”You two have served the sect well. Why would I punish you?” he said with a chuckle.
Shangguan Jingshu sighed in relief. She made the right bet that Yuwen Taiji would play the role of a good guy now that he had finally become sect master.
”Thank you, Sect Master!” Zhao Zhiyuan said as he knelt and teared up.
”Please drop the formalities,” he said with a wave, then looked at Shangguan Jingshu and smiled. In a voice only the two of them could hear, he said, ”I knew that you’d let him go so the Li Saint Clan would live on. However, I have a way to make sure he dies.”
His words sent chills down her spine. By the time she looked up, Yuwen Taiji had pa.s.sed her by. He stepped in front of the crowd and said, ”Bring me every single member of the Li Saint Clan!”
The crowd didn't understand what that entailed. Fatepath Peak and Goldgleam Mountain had already been abandoned, and the members of the four bloodlines of the Li Saint Clan were mingling with the rest of the sect members. However, none of them dared disobey their new sect master.
With Li Xuanyi as leader, he brought the remnants of the clan together and came to Yuwen Taiji. There weren't many of them remaining; only old men and babies aged two or three days.
”Sect Master, do you need anything?” Li Xuanyi hurriedly asked.
Right as he finished, Yuwen Taiji thrust the Grand-Orient Sword into his chest. Li Xuanyi instantly collapsed dead with his eyes wide open. The only saint of the Li Saint Clan had died in an instant.
Yuwen Taiji raised the sword and announced, ”Have everyone from the Li Saint Clan exiled outside the Grand-Orient Barrier. They are to be killed without exception!” Countless people paled in disbelief at those words.
”Sect Master, no!” Shangguan Jingshu cried anxiously. ”The Li Saint Clan has supported the sect for millennia! Everything we have now is thanks to them! Even though they've fallen from grace, they’re still our benefactors! How can we exterminate them like this? Sect Master, you're attempting to end the thousand-generation legacy of the Li Saint Clan?!”
In fact, most of the remnants of the clan were either too young or past their prime. While they had poor talent, they were among the last traces of the once-glorious Lifesbane Clan. It was such an atrocious act that some other elders chose to speak up.
”Everyone, silence! I am the sect master, not you! Anyone that blabbers on will feel my wrath!”
That was enough to shut up the elders.
”Do it!”
”Yes!” Many Grand-Orient guardians cultivated by the Yuwen Clan stood out and surrounded the Li Saint Clan members. Now that they no longer had a single saint, they were powerless to resist. Cries of agony and fear rang out all of a sudden. It was so abrupt that they had been apprehended by the guardians before they could try anything.