Wang Yuan slowly turned his head back.
His icy gaze fell once more upon the two Gao and Ye Family disciples, who faced him as though confronting a great enemy.
"The ones I'm killing are members of your Three Great Families."
Before his words had faded, Wang Yuan moved!
The mighty blood and qi of his Second Blood Change erupted with a boom. The ground beneath his feet cracked as his figure shot forward like a ghost.
"Mountain Breaking Spear Technique—Cloud Break!"
Wang Yuan let out a low roar.
A point of cold light gathered at the spear tip in his hand. Moving at an extreme speed, it thrust straight for the Gao Family disciple's throat.
The spear wind was so fierce that it carried a piercing howl.
"Bold!"
The Gao Family disciple was both shocked and enraged. In his haste, he raised his sword to block, blood and qi flooding into the blade and making it gleam faintly.
As a disciple of the Three Great Families, he believed that both his cultivation method and martial skills were superior.
With two against one, taking down his opponent should have been no problem.
Clang!
Spear and sword collided once again!
But this time, Wang Yuan held nothing back.
To ensure there were no mishaps, he had even activated the Blood Burning Technique.
The terrifying strength granted by Dragon Tendon Tiger Bone, combined with the blood and qi of the Second Blood Change—
Along with the sliver of ferocious enhancement brought by the Entry Stage Vajra Skill—all of it was poured into this thrust.
Crack!
That rather high-quality longsword was forcibly snapped by the Black Dragon Spear.
The spear tip slowed slightly.
Yet it still carried unmatched force as it instantly pierced through the Gao Family disciple's throat.
"Urgh..."
The Gao Family disciple's eyes bulged wide, his face filled with terror and unwillingness.
He seemed unable to believe that he would die so easily at the hands of a nobody.
The broken sword fell from his hand with a clang, and his body crumpled to the ground.
Everything had happened in the span of a spark.
The Ye Family disciple beside him had not even had time to react effectively before he saw his companion already dead.
Frightened out of his wits, he shrieked and turned to flee, shouting:
"You dare kill members of the Three Great Families! You're dead—"
Sshk!
Another black spear-shadow swept past!
"You're this weak, yet you still have so much to say!"
The domineering, savage Black Dragon Spear made a nimble turn and swept sideways.
"Mountain Breaking Spear Technique: Mountain Collapse!"
The heavy spear shaft, carrying the tremendous force of crumbling mountains and shattered rocks, smashed viciously into the Ye Family disciple's back.
Pfft!
As though struck by a charging savage bull, the Ye Family disciple sprayed blood from his mouth. His spine gave a teeth-grinding crack.
His entire body flew forward and crashed into a large tree. His tendons and bones shattered, and he died on the spot.
In the blink of an eye, two Second Blood Change disciples from the Three Great Families had become two corpses that still retained some warmth.
The wilderness forest fell deathly silent.
Only the rustling of wind through the leaves remained, along with the thick scent of blood spreading through the air.
Wang Yuan remained in the posture of his sweeping strike as the boiling blood and qi around him gradually settled.
The scorching sensation brought by the Blood Burning Technique also slowly faded.
Looking at the two corpses that had nearly been smashed to pieces, he stood there in a daze himself.
"Weren't these two... elite disciples of great families?"
"How... could they not even block a single strike from me?"
He had been prepared for a bitter battle, even for injury. He had activated the Blood Burning Technique, and yet... this was all?
Zhang Mingyuan and his cousin stared dumbfoundedly at the sight before them, as if they had been dropped into a dream.
They knew Wang Yuan was exceptionally gifted and that his strength had advanced at a breathtaking pace.
But they had never imagined that he would be this formidable!
Killing Second Blood Change martial artists was as easy as chopping melons and vegetables.
What kind of terrifying strength was this?
Zhang Mingyuan clearly remembered that less than two months ago, when he had first met Wang Yuan, Wang Yuan had only just broken through to the First Blood Change.
How long had it been?
And now he could casually kill a Second Blood Change martial artist in an instant?
This cultivation speed was simply unheard of!
Wang Yuan slowly withdrew his spear. Blood dripping from the Black Dragon Spear's tip spread into small dark-red stains in the dirt.
He quickly recovered from his astonishment. This was not the time to stand around in a daze.
He strode swiftly to the corpses and began searching them expressionlessly, finding some silver, scattered medicinal pills, and identity tokens.
Then Wang Yuan took a small porcelain bottle from his robes, pulled out the stopper, and carefully dripped the pungent Bone Dissolving Water inside onto the corpses and bloodstains.
"Sizzle..."
White smoke rose as the corpses and bloodstains began dissolving rapidly.
Only after finishing this did Wang Yuan turn toward Zhang Mingyuan, who was still in shock, and ask in a low voice:
"Brother Zhang, we can talk later."
"Let me ask you this first. Where is my sister, Wang Yu, now?"
"Is she in the Zhang Family residence?"
Zhang Mingyuan was jolted awake by Wang Yuan's words and forcibly suppressed the terror in his heart.
A grave and guilty look appeared on his face. After hesitating for a moment, he said hoarsely:
"Brother Wang, at noon today, the Three Great Families suddenly made their move and attacked the Zhang Family. The estate was thrown into chaos at once."
"At that time, the situation was critical. To avoid implicating innocents, the family head ordered that most of the servants and attendants be dismissed on the spot, so they could each flee for their lives."
"Miss Wang Yu... should have been among them."
He paused, his tone becoming even heavier:
"However... the Three Great Families had clearly prepared in advance. They have likely already cast a net that covered heaven and earth outside the city."
"Whether those dismissed servants could truly escape... is difficult to say."
"As far as I know, quite a few scattered servants have already been captured by the Three Great Families."
"By now... they have likely all been thrown into prison and are being interrogated one by one, in an attempt to torture out the Zhang Family's secrets and... the whereabouts of the Black Tai Sui."
With every word Zhang Mingyuan spoke, Wang Yuan's heart sank a little deeper.
Although there was a chance that his sister had escaped amid the chaos, it was more likely that she had been captured and thrown into prison!
Wang Yuan nodded again, his gaze sweeping across the surroundings. "This is not a place to linger. Let's leave first."
He knew clearly that by killing members of the Gao and Ye Families, he had completely forged an irreconcilable feud.
But since he had done it, there was no room for regret.
The most urgent matter was to leave this place of trouble as quickly as possible.
And... to find out exactly what that Black Tai Sui was.
It had actually made the Three Great Families go to such great lengths, even willing to frame others and wipe out an entire family!
Wang Yuan quickly finished dealing with the scene. Just as the three of them were about to leave this blood-soaked place—
Suddenly, every hair on his body stood on end.
Wang Yuan abruptly looked up.
In the forest clearing not far ahead, moonlight poured down like spilled mercury.
A figure had appeared there at some unknown time, standing silently without a sound.
Dressed in green with an unadorned face, her eyes as cold as an ancient pond frozen for ten thousand years—it was Huang Yao, whom they had encountered that morning!
Her indifferent gaze swept over the two corpses on the ground, which were being corroded beyond recognition by the Bone Dissolving Water.
Then she looked at Wang Yuan and the other two, who stood ready as though facing a great enemy.
There was no expression on her face. From her thin lips, she merely breathed two icy words:
"Trash."
Clearly, she was judging the two Gao and Ye Family disciples who had been so easily killed in an instant.
When Zhang Mingyuan and his cousin saw Huang Yao appear, their faces instantly turned as white as paper, their eyes filled with despair.
Zhang Mingyuan's lips trembled as he muttered to himself, his voice steeped in endless bitterness:
"Of course... of course they couldn't have sent only two Second Blood Change disciples to hunt us down."
"The Force Martial Masters have all been desperately held back by Father and several clan elders."
"But against small fry like us, sending a Third Blood Change martial artist... is already more than enough. It is even... giving us too much credit..."
Third Blood Change!
And it was Huang Yao, known as Mother Yaksha. Her strength was likely even more terrifying than that of an ordinary Third Blood Change martial artist.
Wang Yuan's heart also sank to the bottom.
He had personally experienced Huang Yao's terror that morning. She was absolutely an existence far beyond an ordinary Third Blood Change martial artist.
Her strength was also nothing like those two weaklings from before!
He tightened his grip on the Black Dragon Spear. The blood and qi within his body circulated madly, Dragon Tendon Tiger Bone stretched to the limit.
The thin strand of Vajra Strength condensed by the Vajra Skill was also poised to strike.
Even the Blood Burning Technique was on the verge of being activated again at any moment.
Wang Yuan knew that this time, he had truly encountered a life-or-death trial!
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