Chapter 233: Chapter 208: The Big Reshuffle_1
On the Blood Land Vein of the Fang Family, there were at least a thousand martial soldiers, and not one dared to act.
The expert before their eyes was clearly beyond what they could have imagined.
"I’ll repeat myself once more, gather all the Martial Marquis of your Fang Family, the sooner, the better."
Lu Yan coldly stated, and then released Fang Ri.
Fang Ri fell to the ground and gasped heavily. When he looked at Lu Yan, intense fear was revealed in his eyes.
"This man is stronger than Zhao Tiansheng."
Fang Ri concluded and dared not to delay any further. He immediately sent out orders for all the Martial Marquis of the Fang Family to hurry here as soon as possible.
Lu Yan and Zhao Tianyang waited quietly.
"Zhao... Bro Zhao, what exactly is happening? How... how should we address this gentleman? Is he from outside of Lingdong?"
Fang Ri approached Zhao Tianyang and asked quietly.
"No need to ask more, you’ll be told once all the Martial Marquis from the Fang Family have arrived."
Zhao Tianyang said.
Half an hour later.
More than forty Martial Marquis had gathered in the square.
"Most of the Martial Marquis of the Fang Family are here; some are at a distance or guarding the Blood Land Veins in different areas, they won’t be here anytime soon."
Fang Ri reported.
Lu Yan nodded, walked over, and a pitch-black bone appeared in his hand.
It was a Demon Bone, extracted from the claw of a monstrous demon.
At the sight of the Demon Bone, several Martial Marquis’ faces turned pale. They quietly retracted, turned around, and wanted to leave.
"Stop, no one can leave."
Lu Yan’s figure flickered, blocking the escape of several Martial Marquis.
"Senior, I have a pressing matter at home and must leave. I hope you can understand."
One of the Martial Marquis pleaded.
"I don’t care about your home affairs, no one is allowed to leave. Whoever walks away, I will kill."
Lu Yan replied coldly.
The said Martial Marquis turned ghastly pale, and after exchanging glances, they leaped in different directions while yelling, "These two have ill intentions and want to overthrow our Fang Family. All martial soldiers, attack and shoot them."
Bang!
Before he finished speaking, he received a punch in the mouth, which blew open his head.
Roar!
A black shadow emerged with a loud scream. His shattered brain was connected by black threads, trying to return to its proper place
It’s indeed a Martial Spirit.
"Fang Family, you’ve secretly cultivated Martial Spirits, what punishment do you deserve for this?"
Lu Yan shouted angrily.
Fang Ri’s scalp was tingling and the other members of the Fang Family looked at each other.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
Lu Yan picked up his horned bow, released two shots, and the other two would-be deserters exploded instantly. Black mist enveloped them, revealing their Martial Spirits.
"Themselves secretly cultivating Martial Spirits, they’re seeking death."
Fang Ri, realizing what was happening, roared and attacked.
"Leave one alive."
Lu Yan made his command.
Fang Ri changed his palm into a claw, grabbed the Martial Marquis by the throat, and transferred his Inner Strength into him. No matter how the latter struggled, it was useless.
Lu Yan and Zhao Tianyang worked together to capture the other two Martial Spirits.
"Speak! Who else within the Fang Family has cultivated the Martial Spirits?"
Lu Yan asked.
"Have the guts to kill me, don’t expect to hear a word from me."
The Martial Marquis in the hands of Lu Yan said with a loud voice.
"Speak now, or else, I’ll exterminate your nine generations."
With his beard and hair completely upright, Fang Ri shouted in anger.
He was in a state of panic.
The fact that Martial Spirits existed within the Fang Family, and more than one, was a major crime. Once the Mansion of King Ming got to know about it, he would also be implicated.
Therefore, he wished he could break all ties with these Martial Spirits, arrest them all, and earn merit by confessing to the crime.
"Fang Ri, don’t be so obstinate. Kill these few now and you can still save your own life. Otherwise, when the Holy Sect unifies Lingdong, it would be your doomsday."
The man in Lu Yan’s hands roared with a fearless face.
The thing that Lu Yan liked the most was to fulfill others; since the enemy wanted to die, he would certainly make it so.
He pressed his palm forcefully, transferred his Inner Strength into the other’s body, and then it exploded from within. The man’s body quickly shattered into pieces, and a black shadow tried to attack Lu Yan. But Lu Yan simply grabbed it and then crushed it. The black shadow let out a scream, then exploded into black smoke and dispersed.
Lu Yan walked toward the crowd, holding the Demon Bone. He channeled his Inner Strength into it which resulted in terrifying fluctuations within the Demon Bone. Dark energy surged out like a tide, enveloping a hundred meters around him.
All the Martial Marquis, including Fang Ri, were within this range.
In the crowd, three Martial Marquis suddenly twisted their faces in ferocious distortion as if something eerie was trying to burst out from within their bodies.
They roared out loud as black mist fled their bodies.
The others were shocked and retreated, keeping distance from the three martial marquis, creating a wide space around them.
Martial Spirits, three more of them.
Fang Ri, full of rage, turned pale.
He didn’t expect that so many people in the Fang Family had stepped onto the path of Martial Spirits without him knowing.
"Speak up, who else in the Fang Family is a Martial Spirit? If you confess, even though you’ll die for sure, I can spare your family members."
"If you don’t, according to the laws of Da Chu, your entire clan will be exterminated."
Lu Yan began, his tone cold and murderous.
"I’ll confess."
Finally, one of the Martial Spirits spoke.
"Don’t say it. Even if you do, he won’t spare your family."
Another Martial Spirit shouted.
Bang!
With a flash of his figure, Lu Yan appeared in front of the bellowing Martial Spirit, punching, smashing the man and the shadow inside him into dust, disappearing like smoke in the wind.
"I am an outsider from beyond Lingdong. I am a man of my word. If I say I will not kill your families, then I won’t."
Said Lu Yan.
He originally wanted to say that he was from the Mansion of King Ming, but on second thought, impersonating someone from the Mansion of King Ming could lead to prosecution. So he changed his words on the fly.
But those few Martial Spirits started to speculate wildly.
A powerful outsider from beyond Lingdong, investigating Martial Spirits, could it be from the Mansion of King Ming?
"I say, I say, inside Fang Family, besides us, there are two people. They are..."
The former Martial Spirit named two individuals.
Fang Ri’s face turned gloomier. He noticed that these Martial Spirits were all confidants of the other two master-level individuals of Fang Family.
"Kill!"
Fang Ri coldly ordered, personally killing a Martial Spirit.
Lu Yan and Zhao Tianyang took action together. In the blink of an eye, all the Martial Spirits there were killed.
"Fang Ri, just to let you know, your Fang Family’s masters, Fang Xiao and Fang Ben, have both joined the Spirit Sect and went down the path of the Martial Spirit. They attacked Kunwu Mountain together with the Spirit Sect not long ago and were killed by us."
Zhao Tianyang said loudly.
The crowd was in an uproar, and many people showed expressions of horror.
Fang Ri looked complex.
What was he feeling? He could only guess.
On the one hand, Fang Family was left with him as the only master, and he could control the whole Fang Family, holding great power.
But on the other hand, the strength of Fang Family has been greatly reduced, would they be attacked by other Feudal Lords?
"What lousy names..."
Lu Yan smirked, thinking to himself that this Fang Family cannot be spared and will be wiped out when the opportunity arises.
"Fang Ri, the remaining two are left to you. Don’t disappoint us."
Said Lu Yan.
Then he called for Blood Slaughter and along with Zhao Tianyang leaped onto the eagle’s back. Blood Slaughter soared upward with a long howl.
The remaining two Martial Spirits were clearly not here. They still have to go to other Feudal Lords, so they didn’t have time to wait.
After all, Fang Ri was a grandmaster. Dealing with two Martial Marquis-level Martial Spirits should be more than enough for him.
Blood Slaughter headed north.
Next stop, the Qiu Family.
The Qiu Family originally had four grandmasters, but due to Qiu Cao, the Family Head of the Qiu Family, having gone down the path of the Martial Spirit and entered into the demonic path, he hid in some unknown deep mountain and old forest.
Outside Wei Family’s Weapon Collection Pavilion, one more was shot and killed by Lu Yan, so only two were left.
When Blood Slaughter appeared in the sky above the Qiu Family, the Qiu Family quickly mobilized, with armies running on the Blood Land Vein and giant crossbow arrows aiming at Blood Slaughter.
Because, they recognized Blood Slaughter.
It is because on the Blood Land Vein of the Wei Family, the people on Blood Slaughter killed a grandmaster of their Qiu Family.
Lu Yan didn’t rush down, but let Blood Slaughter hover over the Blood Land Vein, giving the Qiu Family time to gather forces.
Above the Blood Land Vein, more and more soldiers gathered, making the defense around the fortress on the Blood Land Vein impenetrable.
The two grandmasters of the Qiu Family also appeared on the square above the Blood Land Vein, hiding behind the soldiers, their faces solemn.
They had heard that the person on the eagle’s back could kill a grandmaster with a single arrow.
This made them afraid.
"It should be enough, let’s go down."
Said Lu Yan.
Blood Slaughter swooped down.
The soldiers of the Qiu Family immediately became nervous, their fists gripping their bows tightly, their veins bulging.
"Don’t act rashly."
One of the grandmasters of the Qiu Family yelled.
When facing an inscrutable enemy, the grandmasters of the Qiu Family took the same approach as Fang Ri, trying to avoid war if possible.
Lu Yan and Zhao Tianyang jumped down.
"Zhao Tianyang..."
Upon seeing Zhao Tianyang, the two grandmasters of the Qiu Family relaxed a little.
The situation afterward was almost the same as at Fang Family.
At the beginning, the two grandmasters of the Qiu Family were quite stubborn and unwilling. However, after Lu Yan demonstrated his formidable strength, they had no choice but to obey.
At the Qiu Family, Lu Yan found a total of seven Martial Marquis who were cultivating the Martial Spirit. After forcing out other names, they were executed on the spot.
After that, Lu Yan and Zhao Tianyang left the Qiu Family and made another trip to the Ouyang Family.
After visiting the Ouyang Family, they rode Blood Slaughter back to Kunwu Mountain.
Half a day later, Guan Shan and others also returned on Blood Kill.
They each visited the Bai Clan, Li Family, and Gao Family, rooting out the Martial Spirits within them.
Thus, most of the Martial Spirits in the Feudal Lords on the master level were wiped out.
But there were probably still some hidden away.
For example, several Martial Marquis of the Liu Family in Changfeng City have been missing.
There must be a small number of Martial Spirits hiding in secret.
But they can’t stir up any waves anymore. As long as the various Feudal Lords stay vigilant in the future and deal with any that are found without mercy.
Then, Zhao Tianyang and Zhao Tianxing bid everyone farewell, leading the people of the Zhao Clan hastily away from Kunwu Mountain.
They were heading back to Lingwang City to manage the overall situation.
Meanwhile, the remaining grandmasters of Ding Family also led the people of Ding Family back to the Blood Land Vein of the Ding Family.
The six counties of Lingdong have just undergone a great calamity. Grandmasters have fallen, nearly every Feudal Lord on the grandmaster level has lost more than half of their grandmasters.
The Zhao Clan of Lingwang City had the worst losses. Of the ten grandmasters, only two were left.
The status of being the top Feudal Lord was wiped out.
One could imagine that the six counties of Lingdong are going to undergo a major reshuffling.
Lu Yan bid farewell to Guan Shan and left with hundreds of soldiers for Changfeng City.
Li Xingchen followed along.
"Lu Yan, if you need anything, just ask. Kunwu Mountain is your backing."
As he was leaving, Guan Shan whispered.
Lu Yan nodded solemnly.
