Chapter 528: Chapter 175: 26 Free Attribute Points! The Ancestors of the Imperial City Fu Clan! (10,000-word super Chapter, please subscribe)_4
But...
Without someone to rescue them, they figured that they might as well not bother trying to climb out for the rest of their lives.
"How terrifying is this?" the Deputy Commander of the Heavenly Scouts took a deep breath, finding that each of his breaths carried the scent of blood.
How many years had it been since such a major event occurred within the Imperial City?
Ten years?
Several decades?
A century?
"My lord! Over there..." a Hundred Households Officer of the Heavenly Scouts stared dumbfounded in one direction.
After the Deputy Commander looked in that direction,
Suddenly,
He was immobilized in shock!
Because he saw a tall and burly man holding a person’s head with one hand. If he wasn’t mistaken, the person whose head was being held seemed to be a woman who looked somewhat familiar.
"Isn’t that... the Fourth Elder of the Fu Clan?" The Fourth Elder of the Fu Clan was known to be extremely beautiful, and the Deputy Commander knew her.
He had seen her before.
So at this moment, he immediately recognized the Fourth Elder of the Fu Clan.
The next instant!
He watched with his own eyes as the tall and burly man gripping the Fourth Elder’s hand suddenly exerted force. Thus, her stunningly beautiful face turned into a mist of blood.
A headless corpse collapsed to the ground, signifying the death of an Elder of the Fu Clan.
An Elder of a Family was one of the core members within the Family.
The death of a core member meant...
An absolute, undying vendetta!
And who exactly was this person with such terrifying power? To kill the Fourth Elder of the Fu Clan with his bare hands?!
Who on earth was this person?!
"Stop..." Just as the Deputy Commander of the Heavenly Scouts wanted to intervene in this dispute, requesting both parties to cease their hostilities,
He suddenly!
Seemed to sense something, his eyes instinctively widening.
His head turned sharply toward a certain direction.
That direction was where the main family hall of the Fu Clan was located!
The Deputy Commander said in disbelief, "Has the Fu Clan gone mad? How could they be forced into such a predicament so quickly? Are they actually... trying to communicate with their ancestors?!"
He knew what this signified.
If a great Family found itself in a crisis only solvable with the return of their long-deceased ancestors, it meant that such a Family had reached the brink of life and death.
But the problem was... from beginning to end, he only saw one man wreaking havoc within the Fu Clan’s residence, killing indiscriminately as if it was nothing!
The man he saw was the one who crushed the head of the Fourth Elder of the Fu Clan with his bare hands.
Even if that person was outrageously powerful, it still shouldn’t have driven the Fu Clan to this point, should it?
Had the Fu Clan lost their minds?! What exactly was the head of the main family thinking?
One person was able to push the grand Fu Clan of the Imperial City to such a state?
What a joke!
...
Even the Deputy Commander could sense that something was amiss. Fan Wu did not need to say any more; he had long felt that something about the atmosphere within the vast Fu Clan residence was not quite right.
Because, vaguely, Fan Wu seemed to catch a whiff of the scent from the Netherworld!
Furthermore, with his extraordinary hearing, Fan Wu could hear the sounds that others could not.
This allowed him to know right away what had happened.
"Quite decisive indeed!" Fan Wu had thought that the Family Head of the Fu Clan needed to test him personally to feel the gap between them before resorting to desperately summoning help.
It turned out he had underestimated the other’s caution.
The head of the Fu Clan had used their family secret technique directly without having seen Fan Wu or made contact with him!
Calling upon the ancestors of past generations!
Listening to the direction of the sounds around him, Fan Wu ignored the Fu Clan cultivators who were looking fearful, their faces a mixture of dread and despair, and walked step by step towards the grand residence’s ancestral hall.
Even Fan Wu had to commend how well-maintained the Fu Clan’s ancestral hall was, considering its large expanse.
A family with a thousand-year heritage, with countless ancestors, could arguably have a large ancestral hall.
Through the wide-open doors of the hall,
Fan Wu could see a figure sitting cross-legged on a meditation cushion.
With their back towards Fan Wu,
the person’s left hand held an Incense Burner, and the right hand held another.
Both Incense Burners had a large quantity of incense releasing plumes of smoky fragrance, causing a stinging sensation in the nose, which did not drift elsewhere.
Instead, it was as if an invisible hand was guiding the smoke towards the ancestral tablets of the Fu Family.
And the ancestral tablets of the Fu Family were greedily inhaling the incense from their descendants!
With every breath, the figure sitting on the cushion became more hunched. The hands holding the Incense Burners appeared more shriveled than a breath before.
The aura emanating from the body.
Betrayed an ancient weakness.
"When the offerings from the Nanjun branch of the Fu Clan did not arrive at the main family on time, I had already anticipated a significant event would occur. Perhaps it’s the intuition that comes with old age," said the figure sitting on the cushion, having finished the incantation, now conversing with Fan Wu.
"I just didn’t expect that the impending event would involve the survival of our entire Family. But on second thought, it’s normal for me not to have anticipated this. Who would expect that their own house might soon cease to exist?"
