Chapter 328: Chapter 326: Slaughtering the City
"Kill! Kill! Kill!" The high-level stewards of the Cui Family had gone completely berserk. Facing the near-frenzied assault of the allied forces and unable to find their Patriarch, Cui Buping, they were led by a group of Elders. They brought out all of the Cui Family’s most elite trump cards to fight the invading powers to the death!
"Elder, we can’t hold on! We should retreat!" a Martial Artist from the Lin Family, his eyes bloodshot, yelled at a Lin Family Elder. "The Cui Family has gone mad! If we keep forcing the attack now, our losses will be too great!"
"Retreat? Retreat my ass! Charge forward with everything you’ve got!" How could this Lin Family Elder not understand the current situation? ’But if we can’t break through now, we’ll have much less say when it comes time to divide the treasures in the Cui Family’s core treasury!’
As for the ordinary treasures... who among them would truly care about those? These great powers had rushed over with lightning speed for the sole purpose of claiming the treasures within the Cui Family’s core treasury.
"Everyone, put your backs into it! The Cui Family... they’re a spent force! They can’t hold out much longer! Just hold on a little longer, and when we return to the family, there will be great rewards for all!"
The Lin Family Elder shouted madly. Just then, a Cui Family Martial Artist at the Venerable Realm slashed at him with a blast of Sword Qi, cursing, "Screw your rewards! I’ll kill you right now!"
The power of a Venerable Realm Martial Artist was truly shocking. The Sword Qi contained a sharp Sword Intent! This Sword Intent was brimming with killing intent, making it nearly impossible to resist.
The Lin Family Elder’s face paled in horror. Suddenly, a powerful force slammed into him, kicking him aside. The blast of Sword Qi instantly minced more than a dozen Lin Family disciples.
The Lin Family Elder let out a roar of grief and fury. The man who had saved him, Patriarch Lin Zixiang of the Lin Family, bellowed, "Kill!"
"Kill!"
The situation was much the same for the other attacking groups. No one had expected the Cui Family’s reserves to run so deep!
This was especially true for the families and Sects who had come hoping to pick up some easy spoils. They were now complaining endlessly. The people inside Cui City fought as if they had no fear of death, battling with their very lives.
"Dammit, have the people of the Cui Family all gone insane?"
An Elder from the Thousand Mechanism Sect at the Venerable Realm said to the Sect Leader beside him, Shen Longxing, "Where’s that old bastard Cui Buping? How come I haven’t seen him?"
"That old coot is probably too scared to show his face!" Shen Longxing’s face was alight with excitement. He shouted this after cleaving a Cui Family Martial Artist in two with his sword.
The tenacity and formidable strength of the Cui Family disciples in Cui City still surpassed everyone’s imagination. Rivers of blood flowed in a scene that would be unimaginable to anyone who hadn’t witnessed it firsthand. Severed limbs and desperate groans were everywhere. Never mind the timid; even the brave were beginning to feel their hands go numb from all the killing.
Shen Longxing was in high spirits and completely failed to notice Shen Le rushing over from the side, drenched in blood. His new wife, however, was not participating in this operation. This was because Leng Fangfei had been warned by Leng Yanru, the Sect Leader of Ice Edge, to avoid getting involved in the battle against the Cui Family as much as possible.
Ice Edge had always maintained a near-indifferent attitude towards the various affairs on Profound Island. Therefore, no one found it surprising that Leng Yanru would give such an order.
However, even Leng Yanru herself had likely never imagined that this war to divide the spoils of victory would be so cruel and brutal.
Shen Le shouted at the exhilarated Shen Longxing, "Father, our casualties are too severe! We should pull back and regroup before anything else!"
"What? Retreat? What’s there to retreat from! Tell everyone to fight to the death! There will be great rewards from the Sect when we return!"
Shen Le frowned slightly, about to say more, when several Cui Family Martial Artists with bloodshot eyes charged at them. The Primordial Power fluctuating from their bodies was extremely unstable.
Shen Longxing’s expression changed. He shoved Shen Le aside. Almost at the same instant he pushed his son away, a deafening BOOM erupted. An unstoppable force surged outward, blasting Shen Longxing high into the air as he coughed up a mouthful of blood.
Shen Le’s eyes looked ready to split with rage. He rushed forward to catch his father. "Father, are you alright?"
Shen Longxing’s face was ashen. He gave a weak wave of his hand, a vicious glint flashing in his eyes. "Give the order... keep attacking! Attack! For me... attack them to the death! I’m fine. Luckily, it was only two Celestial Integration Realm Martial Artists self-destructing. Your father won’t die. Don’t worry about me. Go and command the others! Attack them to the death!"
The slaughter continued without pause.
The battle raged from midnight until dawn, and from dawn until noon. The Cui Family... finally buckled under the relentless, tide-like assaults of the Profound Island allied forces. The walls of Cui City were breached. The Cui Family... was finished!
But just then, another shocking scene unfolded. Over a hundred Cui Family Martial Artists at the Celestial Shattering Realm and above, driven completely mad, all rushed forward to self-destruct!
The losses for the Profound Island allied forces were also catastrophic!
「Two days later.」
The inhumanly brutal battle finally began to die down. By this time, there were almost no living Martial Artists left on the Cui Family’s side. As for the allied forces, the smaller families and Small Sects—aside from a few who had seen things going south and fled early—were almost completely wiped out!
Even the five major powers—the Lin Family, the Wang Family, the Xiao Family, Sword Concealment Manor, and the Thousand Mechanism Sect—had suffered casualties of over half their forces.
The leaders of these five powers gathered together, looking out at the residential districts of Cui City. They could all see a venomous glint in each other’s eyes.
"Give the order... massacre the city!"
Almost simultaneously, the leaders of the five powers issued this terrifying command.
Shen Le’s lips moved as if to speak, but he closed them again. Everyone understood the principle: if you don’t cut the weeds by the root, they’ll only cause endless trouble later. But to give the order to slaughter an entire city of over one hundred thousand women, children, and elderly... not just anyone could bring themselves to say those words.
Bloodcurdling screams filled the air, yet the faces of these leaders showed no trace of pity. ’If the Cui Family had brought the fight to our doorsteps, our fate would likely have been no better than this.’
Therefore, they felt no sympathy for the Cui Family, nor did they believe for a second that what they were doing was wrong.
In the process of this slaughter, the blood-crazed warriors from each family didn’t care who was in front of them. All they did was kill!
Some even made mistakes, killing their own people in the frenzy.
In any case, the massacre continued for another day and a half.
The sky above all of Cui City was stained blood red.
A blood-colored mist shrouded Cui City. Even someone with a weak Divine Sense would feel a chill run down their spine from over ten li away, as if a sky-high pillar of resentment enveloped the area.
"Strange. That old bastard Cui Buping and those people from the Land of the Far West... why haven’t any of them appeared?" Shen Longxing muttered to himself with a frown.
Lin Zixiang mused, "Perhaps they’ve found a place to enter seclusion and heal. In any case, the great Cui Family has now been erased from Profound Island. Shen, I say we should take this opportunity to deal with the Qin Family of Fengsha City..."
As Lin Zixiang spoke, he brought his hand down in a chopping motion.
Lin Heng, who was beside him, and Shen Le, beside Shen Longxing, almost simultaneously shouted their objections, "No, you absolutely must not do that!"
"Oh? And why does my son stop me? State your reasons," Lin Zixiang said, glancing sideways at Lin Heng, his expression unchanging. "And there’s no need to mention anything about your friendship with that Qin Li. It’s not relevant!"
Lin Heng sighed softly and said in a low voice, "Father, think about it. The strength Qin Li has displayed, and those three exceptionally powerful Martial Artists who appeared when the Qin Family was ambushed by the Cui Family..."
"Hmph, what’s that? Was the Cui Family not strong? And didn’t we break them all the same?" Lin Zixiang said dismissively.
"Mr. Lin, I have something to say, if I may," Shen Le said, stepping forward to face Lin Zixiang.
"My dear nephew, please speak freely!" Lin Zixiang said, smiling at Shen Le. If Qin Li had been there, he would have had a sudden realization: the relationship between Lin Zixiang and Shen Longxing was actually this good. To think they had acted so distant back at the Thousand Mechanism Sect. It seemed people from these great families were truly natural-born actors.
"We exterminated the Cui Family because they tried to exterminate us first. They... had already drawn the public outrage of all the families and Sects on Profound Island! In other words, we held the moral high ground from the start. That is why our warriors fought to the death without retreating." Shen Le sighed softly. "But Qin Li is not only an unstoppable, rising superstar on Profound Island, but his character is also enough to earn the admiration of countless people. Mr. Lin, there is absolutely no justifiable reason to move against the Qin Family. Often, the lure of profit alone isn’t enough to move people to action. At least, I, for one, am completely against this."
"I am also completely against it," Lin Heng said softly.
"As am I. I do not approve of Patriarch Lin’s proposal," Xie Xiaofeng, the Third Young Master of Sword Concealment Manor, stated coolly from the side. "As long as the Qin Family is selling Elixirs, we can simply buy them. Why must we tear away all pretense of civility so completely?"
Lin Zixiang gave a dry laugh. "Fine, it was just a suggestion. If you’re all unwilling, then forget it. Young Master Qin is a talent of his generation; I have no desire to offend him either."
Many people looked at Lin Zixiang with contempt. ’You’re the Patriarch of a major power. Are your words just farts in the wind?’
Just then, someone came running frantically, rushing up to Shen Longxing. Panting for breath, he said with an excited look, "Sect Leader, we... we think we’ve found the Cui Family’s treasure room!"
The news sent a shockwave through the crowd.
Nearly every eye turned to this young disciple of the Thousand Mechanism Sect, and faces lit up with excitement.
They had fought and killed for days, massacring every man, woman, and child in Cui City. Wasn’t this what it was all for?
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My sincerest apologies, only one Chapter today. There’s been a lot going on with the family, and many people came over. So, I’ll try to release more Chapters tomorrow. (To be continued. If you want to know what happens next, please log in to www.qidian.com for more Chapters, and to support the author and legitimate reading!)
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