"Second Elder, don't worry about us! Keep guarding Su Garden. Once our benefactor breaks through, take him and leave the Xiao Clan. Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west! I, Xiao Zhan, believe that one day, our benefactor and Yan'er will become existences the entire Jia Ma Empire looks up to. When that time comes, they will come back to avenge us! They'll wash Wu Tan City in blood!"
This war between the Three Great Clans lasted for several hours.
In the end, the Xiao Clan was outnumbered and alone. Facing the long-planned joint suppression of the two great clans, facing the combined might of five Da Dou Shi, the Xiao Clan's three Da Dou Shi were still no match. Gradually, they fell into a disadvantage.
Bright-red blood soaked the blue bricks. Xiao Zhan's clothes were torn, his body covered in wounds, as he instructed Second Elder Xiao Ying.
Xiao Yan and Xun'er were also guarding the front of Su Garden.
Xun'er had already used a Family Secret Technique, and could actually fight a Low-Star Dou Shi. Xiao Yan was dumbstruck by the sight, thinking, this Xiao Xun'er is actually as terrifying as Brother Qingyun. She casually fights across a whole Major Realm. Terrifying, too terrifying!
Damn it, my Xiao Yan's strength is too low. The clan is in trouble, Brother Qingyun is coveted by others, yet I'm powerless! After a bloody battle, Xiao Yan's Dou Qi was already exhausted. It was Old Ya who could no longer bear to watch and lent him his power, using the Bone Chilling Flame to burn several Dou Zhe to death and ease his crisis.
Seeing that Second Elder Xiao Ying had already led several Dou Shi experts back to the entrance of Su Garden,
Xun'er's cold eyes turned toward a lush, leafy tree behind Su Garden. Although Ling Ying could not act lightly, if these people dared affect Brother Qingyun's cultivation, then she could not care about that much! But just then—
From within Su Garden came a roar.
Immortal light swept open the firmament, and a young man shone within it.
"He appeared! He finally appeared!"
"Benefactor has broken through successfully!"
Xiao Zhan, the Great Elder, the Second Elder, the Third Elder... their gazes instantly gathered over.
A graceful figure, at that moment, soared straight upward, absorbing Nine-Colored Iridescent Clouds in midair and forming an Immortal Qi Vortex.
That vortex seemed to reflect behind the young man, forming a huge flowing cloud-disk galaxy. Points of starlight flickered within it, as though a universe of stars were flowing there, empowering him as it continuously devoured and circulated Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy for that peerless young man.
Colored iridescent clouds fell upon the young man. Like an immortal from the heavens, he stepped down with Carefree Steps.
For a moment, everyone who had been fighting bloody battles could not help looking up. They were stunned by the young man's extraordinary figure, as though they could no longer even smell the blood around them, as though they had forgotten they were in the middle of a life-and-death fight, completely overwhelmed by that young man's peerless face and transcendent immortal aura.
Several streaks of blood smeared her face, and her long legs were stained crimson. Xiao Yu's sword went weak in that instant. Looking at that young man's figure, her lips trembled and buzzed. "It's... it's... it's him... I'll never forget that figure. It really is him... That wasn't a dream... The young lover who bathed with me in the hot spring... was actually real!"
"I... I!"
Xiao Yu was so excited she did not know what to say. She actually shed tears amid the pool of blood.
Xun'er also let out a breath of relief, a delighted smile appearing on her beautiful face.
"Brother Qingyun broke through! That's Brother Qingyun's qi vortex? Isn't it way too handsome!"
"No, you're telling me this is a qi vortex?"
"Whose qi vortex looks like this? Are you sure that isn't a nebula?!"
"I'd believe you if you said this was a Dou Wang expert breaking through, but you're telling me this is him condensing a Dou Qi Cyclone?"
Everyone was dumbfounded.
The same went for Xiao Zhan and the Xiao Clan's elders.
Beyond their amazement, their minds were thoroughly shaken.
Xiao Yan's mouth hung open. "Brother Qingyun... It's one thing for your Dou Qi to be different from ours, but why is even your qi vortex this terrifying... Brother Qingyun really is a Banished Immortal from the heavens, not a mortal like us! Brother Qingyun is so strong!"
He had wanted to protect Brother Qingyun, but he had not expected that hugging Brother Qingyun's thigh was the correct choice!
And just as everyone was lost in that fleeting, stunning sight,
unexpectedly, the immortal-cloud vortex behind the young man was now stained with a touch of red.
The young man's gaze fell on Jialie Bi, Aoba Pa, and the others, and a thread of blood appeared in his eyes.
It was them. It was them who had, back then, secretly ordered servants and landlords to bully the simple Old Grandma who had raised him, attempting to abduct him back to their clans and keep him like livestock!
Scene after scene from those years surged into his mind, and a towering rage erupted.
Boom—
The young man's figure descended from the sky. When he landed, the floor tiles beneath him shattered, and the aura around him turned blood-red.
The reason that still remained made him look back at Xiao Zhan, the Great Elder, and the others, a trace of apology in his heart. "Clan Head Xiao Zhan, Great Elder, I brought trouble to you. I'm sorry. In the future, Su Qingyun will definitely repay this kindness. Next, leave it to me."
"Benefactor, your words are too serious. The Jialie Family and the Aoba Family have long coveted my Xiao Clan's businesses. Sooner or later, they would have made a move against my Xiao Clan. This cannot be blamed on you. However, benefactor, the other side has no small number of Dou Shi experts, and five Da Dou Shi as well. Let us deal with them..."
Xiao Zhan and the Great Elder forced themselves to stand, still intending to keep fighting.
But Su Qingyun shook his head. "With my own hands, I will make them pay the price in blood and lives."
The young man, holy as an immortal, now carried an aura as though he had stepped into hell as a shura, a cold stillness that made people shudder.
Although Jialie Bi and Aoba Pa were slightly deterred by the young man's aura, their hearts were incomparably excited. Seeing that the young man's face and talent had not been damaged in the slightest, and had instead become even more handsome and powerful, they were even more certain they had not misjudged him back then.
If this boy really were brought back to the clan, perhaps the clan would gain a peerless Beloved Son-in-Law who would lead the clan toward glory! Jialie Bi could not help swallowing. "So it really is you. I didn't expect you to have been living in Falling Immortal Stream all these years. You shouldn't have come out."
"The Xiao Clan can't protect you. Your momentum may be great, but you have only just condensed your cyclone. You are not our match."
"This Clan Head will give you a choice. Sisi still thinks of you to this day. As long as you are willing to marry Sisi and Become a Live-in Son-in-Law of my Jialie Family, we can write off My Ao'er's death, and the resources of my Jialie Family will also be tilted toward you. How about it?"
Aoba Pa hurriedly said as well, "My Yuan'er has also never stopped thinking of you. As long as you marry Yuan'er and become my Aoba Family's son-in-law, I am willing to slowly hand the entire clan over to you! How about it!"
"Aoba Pa, stop dreaming. That Aoba Yuan of yours is just like her name, squat and round, like a pig. How could she possibly be worthy of my little lover brother?"
"And you, Jialie Bi. Your Jialie Si is already thirty years old, aren't you ashamed? Besides, she was fooling around with servants when she was eight or nine, and she was already pregnant at twelve or thirteen. She's just rotten goods. What right does she have?"
The moment she heard Jialie Bi and Aoba Pa actually publicly ask for him as a son-in-law, Xiao Xun'er was the first to grow angry, and Xiao Yu was the first who could not hold back from stepping out and cursing them! In her heart, Su Qingyun was sacred and needed to be protected. He was not someone any rotten fish or shrimp could come up and match themselves with!
With Xiao Yu stabbing right into their sore spot, Jialie Bi's and Aoba Pa's expressions became truly ugly.
"Stinking girl, you're courting death!"
"I'll tell you the truth. With his talent, and with such deep ties to our two families, if he does not become my son-in-law, then he can only die!"
With a wave of Aoba Pa's hand, a Dou Technique pressed down toward Xiao Yu.
Xiao Yu was merely a Dou Zhe. How could she be a match for a Da Dou Shi?
And just then, that peerless young man finally spoke slowly—and made his move. "I don't want to die. Then the ones who die can only be you. I want every last one of you to pay with your lives!"
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