Xuan City Zhang Family

"Damn it, I'd already been keeping such a low profile. How did they still come knocking?"

You began to question your life.

You sized up the six distinctly different old brothers before you.

One at Skin Refinement Peak, three at the Mid Skin Tempering Realm, and two at the Early Skin Tempering Realm.

What kind of garbage delivery squad was this?

And they still dared to come swaggering over to make trouble for you!

Still, before making a move, you asked, "Gentlemen, what brings you here?"

Better to clarify their origins first, lest any fish slipped through the net.

"Cut the crap! We are the Seven Sons of the Xuancheng Zhang Family, and today we've come to take the life of you, this vile bandit!"

You counted the six of them. "The Seven Sons of Xuancheng, right? You can't even fucking count. I hate people who can't count the most!"

The Minghong Saber instantly appeared in your hand.

You charged forward fiercely.

"Ah—"

Miserable screams rose from the other side.

You cut down one little friend with every swing, like chopping melons and slicing vegetables.

"Not good! He's a Bone Tempering Martial Artist! Run!!"

You gave a vicious smile. "Run? You kicked my courtyard gate to pieces, and you still want to run?"

The local gangs had no manners at all!

As you spoke, you cut down another man.

In the span of two breaths, only the last two remained alive.

The souls of those two nearly flew from their bodies, and they decided to flee separately.

Panicked and desperate, the two ran wildly in different directions.

Your Phantom Phoenix Steps were strange and unfathomable, and you directly caught up with one of them.

With one slash, you split the man vertically into two halves.

Without even looking, you turned and went after the other.

Yet the remaining man had unexpectedly vanished.

You frowned and swept your gaze around. "He ran that fast?"

Suddenly, a spark of inspiration flashed through your mind.

You walked straight back into the small courtyard.

"You still dare to play hide-and-seek right under the lamp with me!"

You strode directly to the pigsty and dragged the man out.

"Spare me, hero! Spare my life, hero!!"

Covered from head to toe in the pigsty's foul stench, the man kept begging for mercy.

"Ah—"

You chopped off his hands and feet to make sure he could not run.

"I ask, you answer. You understand?"

"I understand, I understand!!"

You asked, "Did one of your Seven Sons of Zhang get lost on the way here?"

"Hero! Only six of us came! My seventh brother was already killed by you eight years ago!"

You remembered that you had only wiped out a few nests of bandits. You had never provoked any proper Lineage.

The title Seven Sons of Zhang, those seven Calabash Brothers, did not sound like bandits.

You frowned. "Explain everything clearly!"

It turned out that eight years ago, the seventh of the Seven Sons of Zhang had gone traveling through the martial world.

He became the Third Chief of Black Wind Fort.

Every day, he robbed homes and plundered houses, living free and easy.

Then one day, he robbed the wrong person—you.

You did not indulge them in the slightest. You slaughtered your way up the mountain and wiped out Black Wind Fort's lair.

Naturally, you casually killed that seventh brother as well.

That was why the six older brothers among the Seven Sons of Zhang had come seeking revenge.

They had always been used to acting arrogantly, never expecting to run into a hard bone like you today. Their entire force was wiped out on the spot.

You understood everything.

You turned a deaf ear to the remaining man's pleas and slashed apart his dog head with one stroke.

"Instead of being a rich second-generation heir properly, he insisted on going out to experience life."

"Experiencing life was one thing, but he insisted on becoming a bandit and committing every sort of evil."

"After becoming a bandit and getting killed, you still refused to accept it and came for revenge. You really deserved to die!"

"The Xuancheng Zhang Family, is it?" You decided to pull them up by the roots.

Since those six brothers had been able to come looking for you together, they must have explained the situation to their family before setting out.

You did not want endless trouble afterward, so you had to wipe them out in one pot.

A month later, you arrived in Xuan City.

The Zhang Family had quite a reputation locally. All seven of their sons were martial artists, and no one dared provoke them.

Even Xuan City's County Magistrate avoided the Zhang Family whenever possible.

Calling the Zhang Family the local emperor of Xuan City would not have been an exaggeration.

You easily learned the Zhang Family's location.

You arrived outside the Zhang Estate.

The two guards at the entrance immediately cursed, "What the fuck are you blocking the Zhang Estate's gate for? Looking to die? Get the hell out of the way!!"

You turned a deaf ear and instead walked straight toward them.

"Hey! We told you to get lost. Did you lose your way or something?!"

One guard weighed the silver longsaber in his hand, then approached you with a fierce expression.

Clang—

You did not seem to make any move.

Yet the lower half of the guard's saber snapped off abruptly and fell to the ground.

He dazedly picked up the remaining upper half of the saber and examined it.

The cut was extraordinarily smooth, even reflecting the sunlight.

"You..."

Before he could finish speaking, the upper half of his body slowly slid downward.

Like his broken saber, his body split into two halves and crashed to the ground.

The two halves in the pool of blood twitched unconsciously twice before completely losing all life.

Seeing this, the other guard's face filled with terror. His legs gave way, and he collapsed onto the ground.

"Murder! Murder!!"

The guard screamed madly, scrambling and crawling across the ground as he tried to escape.

You slid over in a single step.

A flash of saber light passed, and a fine head flew into the air.

You kicked the Zhang Family's gates flying.

"Hands on your heads and squat down! Vice squad!!"

Everyone in the Zhang Family was startled.

"Outrageous! You dare barge into the Zhang Family? No one can save you today! Die!!"

A Mid Skin Tempering Realm martial artist swung a nine-ring Great Saber and rushed at you.

Behind this martial artist stood a squad of armored guards wearing standardized soft armor and carrying weapons.

Private ownership of armored guards was a grave crime of rebellion. The Zhang Family had already become so arrogant that they ignored the laws of the kingdom.

"You think you're worthy of using a saber too!"

You flashed forward to meet the Mid Skin Tempering Realm martial artist charging at you.

A flash of saber light passed, and you cut the martial artist in half at the waist.

That squad of armored guards immediately fell into chaos.

This Mid Skin Tempering Realm martial artist who had been cut down was their chief instructor. He specialized in teaching them basketball... ah, ptooey, he taught them the Martial Path. He was currently the strongest fighter in the Zhang Family.

Yet he could not withstand even a single exchange with you.

You charged into the squad of armored guards, your movements graceful and your steps elegant.

Like a butterfly flitting among flowers, wherever you passed, heads dropped one after another like ripe fruit.

The Minghong Blade flashed amid spurting blood.

More than a hundred armored guards died in an instant.

Without that squad of armored guards, the Zhang Family lost its core fighting force.

The remaining servants and courtyard guards were even more incapable of putting up a fight, and you casually dealt with them.

You cut from south to north, from east to west.

With every rise and fall of your saber, you killed without blinking an eye.

Of the Zhang Family's more than five hundred members, nearly all had received their boxed lunches.

Only four people remained in the main hall.

The Zhang Family Patriarch and Madam Zhang, along with a grandson and granddaughter around ten years old.

The four collapsed on the floor, terrified beyond measure.

The Zhang Family Patriarch was over sixty, dressed in embroidered robes and fine clothes, and had seen quite a few things in the world.

He had thought he had seen every sort of scene, but today's scene was his first.

"Young hero! Spare us! Young hero! Whatever you want, my Zhang Family will give it to you. We only beg you to spare us!"

The Zhang Family Patriarch did not ask your identity at all, only kowtowed and begged for mercy.

Because he knew the Zhang Family had offended too many people. There was no point in asking.

He calculated that he would first steady you, then wait for his six sons to return before taking revenge.

Beside him, Madam Zhang's face was covered in tears and snot.

She hurriedly chimed in through sobs, "Yes, yes! Young hero, our Zhang Family has ten thousand mu of fertile land and countless riches. As long as you spare us, it will all be yours!!"

You thought about it. "All mine?"

"Yes! All yours!!"

With a flick of your wrist, two heads flew up, clean and decisive.

"Foolish. If I kill you, it will still all be mine!"

The two children around ten years old were pale with terror. They had long been shaking like sieves and could not say a single word.

They stared at you with bloodless faces, their hands and feet twitching nonstop.

You frowned. "This is difficult. I don't kill children..."

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