226 Ambush (2/2)

”First Refining Stage Golden Body!”

As Fang Yuan exclaimed, a golden glow appeared around his body. With the Sixth Elemental Strength, he was like a destructive dragon to the survivors of the Xu Family.

”Don't harm our Grandmaster!”

Seeing how he could tear apart the Grandmaster's defence like cotton, one of the members of the Xu Family exclaimed and rushed to the back of Fang Yuan, striking him with his fists.

”Weng!”

As the fist landed on Fang Yuan's back, a loud sound akin to a gong was heard.

”Ants, scram and get lost!”

As he casually flicked his hands, the Wu Zong behind him was in shock and flew back uncontrollably. He suffered many fractures in his ribs and his blood spurted across the air as he flew. His internal organs and bones became a bloodied mess.

”Are you... sent by the Qin Siblings?”

Seeing Fang Yuan unharmed with the protection of the spiritual armour, Elder Xu retreated continuously as though he was truly afraid.

If he was given time to prepare, he would not be afraid of even a Wu Zong in the Elemental Opening Realm.

However, the only thing he was lacking now was time!

He was quickly overcome in a matter of seconds!

In front of a Wu Zong who ambushed him, his weakness was revealed!

”I can give you 2 times of what they offered! No... Three times!”

With another fist, Elder Xu spat out another mouthful of blood. As his last defensive equipment was destroyed, he crawled on the floor with embarrassment. With all his strength, he continued to exclaim. ”I help others cast spiritual arrays and I have loads of wealth and connections. Let me go and you will gain my friendship and valuable treasures. Compared to all I have, what can the Qin Siblings offer you?”

”You can never match up to what they can offer me...”

Fang Yuan went up and sighed. ”They can give me the entire Qin Family. Can you?”

”The entire Qin Family? You...”

As his pupils contracted, Elder Xu could see a white finger approaching him.

This finger was white and long, as though it was carved from the finest white jade. It was perfect-looking, but now, it was reaching towards his forehead!

”Chi!”

As Elder Xu's head exploded, his Zu Qiao was shattered as he fell straight to the ground without a breath.

This influential and powerful spiritual array master could do nothing to defend himself under an ambush and had now become a corpse.

”Eh? He didn't even resist!”

As his spiritual will trembled, Fang Yuan took a few steps backwards and casually picked up a disciple of the Xu Family and threw him forward.

”Ah!”

The disciple let out a cry and was struck by a dark glow which emitted from Elder Xu. The skin on his forehead was peeled off, revealing a black coloured ghost face which seemed to have a life of its own.

Sweeping him with his spiritual will, the black ghost recorded everything from his mind and appeared enraged.

”Chi!”

It was extremely quick. In a matter of seconds, it disappeared completely, and it took a while before Fang Yuan knew what had just happened.

”The imprint of death? This should be the doing of an even stronger spiritual knight. This spiritual knight must have made is such that the print would be activated upon the death of Elder Xu and it would target the closest living person...”

If he were to be imprinted with the imprint, it would be an enemy that wouldn't rest until his death.

Fortunately, Fang Yuan was a Wu Zong and also a dream master. He was adept with distractions and illusionary spells. In that instant, he could detect that something was wrong and could quickly find a scapegoat to take his place. With a little spiritual technique, he had resulted in the imprint landing on the Xu Family's own disciple.

”Kacha!”

After confirming, Fang Yuan casually broke the unfortunate scapegoat's neck and started to sweep the area to kill off any survivors and loot from them.

The most important was, of course, Elder Xu, since he was wealthy. The next would be the hidden Wu Zong in the Xu Family.

'However... that black ghost face seems familiar...'

After thinking for a while, the image of Qing Gui's face appeared in Fang Yuan's mind.

'Venerable Qing Gui? No! It doesn't seem so, but it seems likely that these two ghosts are related. Could both of these originate from evil dream masters?'

After looting all of them, Fang Yuan burnt down the entire area.

”The Xu Family's reinforcements are settled. Next up would be to clean up the Qin Family!”

...

The 13th day and the weather in Dongyi County was cooling.

The atmosphere in the Qin Family's mansion was a weird one.

Everyone was rushing here and there to finish the final preparations for the gathering.

In the backyard, the atmosphere was tense.

”It has been a while and Grandmaster is not here yet. I am worried!”

Lady Xu held the meditation beads in her hands and looked down. ”Xu Fu, wait at the city gates. If they are not here by noon, follow the path which they would take and find them!”

”Yes My Lady!”

Xu Fu was the man the black. This time, he had no more hesitation and agreed loudly.

”Reporting! My Lady, bad news!”

At this point in time, a housekeeper ran over frantically. He clumsily tripped over the doorstep and broke his front tooth as his mouth started to bleed. It was a funny sight to behold, but his message seemed extremely important. ”There are traces of a fight between spiritual knights outside the city. After an investigation, it is confirmed to be the Xu Family's caravan! I'm afraid... it's a bad thing!”

”What?”

Lady Xu stood up and her mind went black, as she struggled to maintain her balance.