Chapter 36: Chapter 35: Obliterated
"Fire! Fire!"
Seeing the shield formation instantly crushed by Chen Yuan, Zhu Chengze immediately hid behind his numerous Guests, screaming hoarsely.
After undergoing Blood Fiend Tempering Body, Chen Yuan’s five senses were exceptionally sharp. When few arrows flew his way, he dodged them with his Perception Power alone. When there were many, he shattered them all with a single slash of his saber.
In this wave of arrows, however, many of the Zhu Family’s Guests were hit by friendly fire, causing them to erupt in curses.
Chen Yuan, however, seemed unstoppable. His figure weaved through the Zhu Family’s Guests, leaving trails of blooming blood and countless severed limbs in his wake. His viciousness was absolute.
Of the hundred Guests present, nearly half were slain by Chen Yuan in a blink of an eye.
In an instant, the morale of the Zhu Family’s Guests collapsed, and they began to flee in all directions.
But when those Guests looked back, they discovered that Zhu Chengze, who had been commanding them from the rear, was long gone.
Zhu Chengze cherished his own life dearly.
The moment he saw the situation turn sour, he had turned and fled without ordering his Guests to retreat. He was simply using their lives to buy himself time.
Chen Yuan killed another dozen or so men. Feeling that enough time had passed, he leaped out of the Zhu Family estate.
It didn’t matter that Zhu Chengze had fled; he was never the target to begin with.
Not long after Chen Yuan’s departure, Zhu Chaofeng and Zhu Cheng’an rushed back to the Zhu Family estate with their men.
They had been shocked when they saw Zhu Chengze’s signal, never imagining the scoundrel would be so bold as to launch an assault on their home.
Realizing they had fallen for the enemy’s ploy to lure the tiger from the mountain, they had immediately raced back.
When they pushed open the main gate and saw the courtyard littered with a chaotic mess of severed limbs, Zhu Chaofeng’s vision went black.
He couldn’t believe two of his sons had died in a single day!
"Father! Eldest Brother!"
Just as Zhu Chaofeng was frantically searching the ground for his son’s corpse, Zhu Chengze suddenly poked his head out from behind a rockery.
"Third Brother, you’re not dead?!"
Zhu Chengze forced a smile that looked worse than crying. "I led a hundred Guests to try and surround and kill that man, but we couldn’t stop him at all. They all broke ranks and fled."
"When I saw how bad things were, I fled immediately. The man didn’t pursue me. He must have sensed that you, Father and Eldest Brother, were returning to help."
This time, Zhu Chaofeng didn’t scold him, merely sighing. "It’s good that you’re safe. If the Guests have scattered, so be it. As long as we have money, our Zhu Family will never lack for Guests."
"Father, where’s Second Brother?" Zhu Cheng’an suddenly asked.
"I was worried that scoundrel was hiding somewhere deep, so I sent Second Brother to check the cliffs at the edge of the city."
Lonely Mountain City was built on a mountaintop surrounded by cliffs. Few people ever went there, making it an ideal hiding spot.
After he finished speaking, Zhu Chaofeng suddenly felt something was wrong. His expression changed drastically. "Damn it! We have to save your brother!"
As soon as the words left his mouth, Zhu Chaofeng grabbed Zhu Cheng’an and sped off in the direction of his second son, Zhu Chengguo.
The enemy had indeed lured the tiger from the mountain, but he had done it twice in a row!
His target had never been the weakest, Zhu Chengze, but the second son, Zhu Chengguo, whose strength was second only to Zhu Chaofeng’s!
At that moment, Zhu Chengguo was also rushing back toward the Zhu Family estate.
However, he had taken his men quite far, so he was the slowest to return.
Chen Yuan stood on the roof of a building, gazing down at the group below.
Among the Five Tigers of the Zhu Family, aside from Zhu Chengzong who was not present, Zhu Chengguo was the strongest, with a Cultivation at the Middle Stage of the Qi Casting Realm.
In terms of Realm, Zhu Chengguo was even a minor realm higher than Chen Yuan.
But one’s Realm was not the same as one’s combat strength.
A lower Realm didn’t mean one couldn’t kill.
Just then, Zhu Chengguo, who was below, suddenly felt a chill rise in his heart.
He stopped abruptly. The next moment, a terrifying killing intent erupted right above him!
Chen Yuan leaped down from the roof, activating his Killing Intent Origin and triggering Blood Fiend Entering the Body. He pushed the Surging Waves and Flowing Clouds Technique to its limit, shrouding his entire body in a piercing, blood-red Blood Fiend Qi!
’Once Zhu Chaofeng gets back to the estate, he’ll definitely notice something is wrong and rush over. Therefore, to avoid being ganged up on by three Qi Casting Realm experts, I have to kill Zhu Chengguo as quickly as possible.’
To be safe, Chen Yuan directly activated his Killing Intent Origin, unleashing his strongest power.
’I can only keep the Blood Fiend Entering the Body from spiraling out of control for five breaths’ time. But to kill Zhu Chengguo, five breaths is more than enough.’
The Blood Fiend aura on the Cyan Dragon Blood Drink was blinding as he unleashed Autumn Wind Slash, filling the sky with crimson saber shadows.
This was no longer a gentle autumn wind sweeping the land, but an endless, bloody storm that had suddenly descended.
Any Martial Artists who strayed within a ten-foot radius were instantly torn apart by the supremely tyrannical Blood Fiend Power.
Zhu Chengguo let out a furious roar, his Inner Strength circulating wildly. The sword light emanating from the Long Sword in his hand flickered, instantly producing sixteen sword florets to meet Chen Yuan’s attack.
However, the Zhu Family’s Celestial Water Qi Condensation Technique was just an ordinary Profound Level Lower Grade Inner Power. Its cultivation speed was decent, but its explosive power was pitifully weak.
Under the supremely tyrannical Blood Fiend Saber Aura, the sword florets shattered, the sword light vanished, and the Long Sword in Zhu Chengguo’s hand was instantly torn to pieces!
Even Zhu Chengguo’s right hand was injured by the Blood Fiend Qi, instantly becoming a bloody mess covered in wounds so deep the bone was visible.
Instead of retreating, Zhu Chengguo advanced. He jabbed a series of pressure points on his body, causing his Qi Blood to burn furiously. In an instant, an extremely violent, black Evil Qi erupted from him.
This was a Secret Technique from the Zhu Family’s Black Death Fire Cloud Palm.
It burned one’s Qi Blood to strengthen the Evil Qi. Although its explosive power was astonishing, the damage was irreversible. It could even scorch the Meridians, leaving one a permanent cripple.
An immense and violent Power of Black Death surged from Zhu Chengguo’s palms.
With one palm strike, a blackish-red Palm Force erupted, releasing an intense Black Death firelight. It was like a cloud of fire descending, dazzling in the night.
Chen Yuan also struck with his palm. His crimson Blood Fiend Power converged into a giant handprint as an endless killing calamity descended!
The Palm Force of the Blood Killing Heaven-Seizing Hand was incomparably tyrannical. With a single strike, all Attributes of True Qi in the vicinity were instantly suppressed.
Zhu Chengguo’s Black Death Fire Cloud Palm seemed impressively powerful, but under Chen Yuan’s Blood Killing Heaven-Seizing Hand, the fire cloud was instantly extinguished, and the Black Death was suppressed and dissipated.
Before he could react, the handprint fell. Astonishing Blood Fiend Power instantly poured into his body, and Zhu Chengguo was blasted into smithereens by the palm strike!
Chen Yuan took a deep breath and circulated his Inner Strength to suppress his own Qi Blood.
Three breaths.
One slash, one palm strike. It had only taken three breaths to kill Zhu Chengguo.
The surrounding Zhu Family Guests were scared witless.
From their perspective, Chen Yuan had suddenly appeared in mid-air, delivered a slash, and then brought down a palm strike that had simply blown Zhu Chengguo to bits.
The entire sequence was as swift as a pouncing falcon, a speed they simply couldn’t comprehend.
As Guests of the Zhu Family, they were all veterans of the Jianghu’s struggles.
But lopping off a head with a saber and blowing a man into a pile of shredded meat with a palm strike were two entirely different concepts.
’Is this guy even human?’
After being stunned for a moment, the Zhu Family Guests under Zhu Chengguo’s command scattered and fled in terror.
It wasn’t that they were cowards; it was that Chen Yuan’s palm strike had been so horrifying it had shattered their nerve.
At that moment, Zhu Chaofeng and Zhu Cheng’an finally arrived. Seeing the Guests fleeing in every direction, Zhu Chaofeng roared furiously, "Why are you all running!? Where’s my second son? Where is he!?"
But which of the Guests had time for Zhu Chaofeng now?
The Zhu Family paid well, but it wasn’t enough for them to fight to the death against such a terrifying opponent!
"Stop shouting. Your son’s right here. This on the ground is him, and so is some of that on the roof."
Chen Yuan pointed to the pile of mangled flesh on the ground and the parts that had been splattered onto the roof.
Zhu Chaofeng’s face was ashen, his bloodshot eyes fixed on Chen Yuan.
He had never imagined that the person who had killed two of his sons and nearly torn his family apart would be so young—even younger than his youngest son, Zhu Chengzong.
"Who in the world are you!? Why would you be so ruthless to my Zhu Family!"
Zhu Chaofeng asked through gritted teeth.
Chen Yuan shook his head lightly. "You Zhu Family members ask that every time you see me. I’m just an Assassin, hired for a mission to exterminate your Zhu Family."
"It’s just wiping out a family. Your Zhu Family has done it plenty of times. What’s there to be so surprised about?"
"An Assassin? Do you take me for a fool? That bitch from the Chu Family could sell her own body and still not afford to hire an expert like you to deal with my Zhu Family!"
No matter what, Zhu Chaofeng refused to believe that the expert before him, the man who had killed two of his sons, had been hired by Chu Hongshang to take revenge for the Chu Family.
"Sigh. I’m telling the truth. Why won’t any of you believe me?"
Chen Yuan shook his head with an exasperated look.
"Kill him!"
Zhu Chaofeng roared, his True Qi erupting as he lunged at Chen Yuan.
Zhu Cheng’an also attacked with his full strength, following close behind.
But Chen Yuan had just suppressed his roiling Blood Fiend Power and had no desire to fight these two to the death.
Unleashing the power of his Surging Waves and Flowing Clouds Technique to its fullest, he leaped several dozen feet in a single bound and vanished into the night.
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