The Young Clan Leader Was So Fierce

Somewhere in the mountains, there was a relatively flat patch of land.

At that moment, a mature woman in a pale blue dress stained with blood was kneeling on one knee, panting heavily.

Standing before her was a tall, lean young man. He looked pale, as if he had overindulged.

With a frivolous flick, the young man's sword touched the woman's smooth chin. He looked smug as he said, "Xiao Xueyu, if you'd agreed to be with me back then, why would so many people from the Xiao Clan have died or been wounded?"

"Cha Yong, I spit on you!"

Though gravely wounded, Xiao Xueyu still managed to spit in Cha Yong's face.

Cha Yong's expression darkened. Just as he was about to say something, someone cupped his hands and said, "Young Sect Leader, the Xiao Clan members are no longer able to fight. What should we do with them?"

Xiao Xueyu's face changed drastically. She hurriedly said, "This has nothing to do with anyone but me. Let them go."

"Heh heh heh! Xiao Xueyu, do you think I'm stupid? If I let them go, how could I make you submit obediently?" Cha Yong sneered.

Then he raised his left hand and pointed at the spit on his face. "Xiao Xueyu, if you don't want your clansmen to die, lick it back into your mouth right now."

It was a tremendous humiliation!

Xiao Xueyu knew that even if she did as he asked, there was still a good chance her clansmen would be killed.

But for the faintest chance of survival, she had no choice but to endure it. "Get down on your knees. I can't stand up anymore!"

"Ha ha ha ha! Xiao Xueyu, weren't you so high and mighty? Didn't you look down on me? Weren't you so full of yourself? Let's see how full of yourself you are now!" Cha Yong shouted excitedly.

Xiao Xueyu fell silent. To let her clansmen survive, she was willing to cast aside all her pride and dignity.

Cha Yong crouched down, deliberately bringing his spit-covered face closer to Xiao Xueyu.

Just then, a voice came from ahead.

"How dare the Xiao Clan members come back... Ah..."

A scream rang out. Cha Yong was confused, but he still shouted orders, "Kill every Xiao Clan member who came back!"

The Spirit Crane Sect disciples all wore arrogant smiles, as if they no longer needed to hold back in the fight to come.

After giving the order, Cha Yong looked at Xiao Xueyu. "What are you waiting for? Lick it!"

Xiao Xueyu began to waver. She no longer knew if doing this would be worth it.

In the next instant, a series of thuds rang out, and waves of green light came sweeping in like a rainstorm.

Three seconds later, not a single scream could be heard.

Tap!

At the faint sound of a footstep, Cha Yong curiously raised his head. All he saw was a cyan lotus.

With a thunderous boom, a wave of green light burst from the lotus and pierced straight through Cha Yong's head.

"I didn't expect him to take it right in the face," Xiao Yao remarked.

[Beep! Congratulations, host. You have completed the mission: Rescue more Xiao Clan members. You have received 10 million low-grade spirit stones and Cloud-Riding Sword Art, upgraded to Dao Integration Tier.]

Xiao Xueyu lifted her head. When she saw Xiao Yao, she froze!

Xiao Yao!

The peerless trash who, in her eyes, had once been the greatest waste in the Xiao Clan, unmatched in the past and never to be surpassed in the future.

Yet now, he had saved her. It was as if the heavens had played a colossal joke on her.

After coming out of seclusion, however, she had indeed heard that the Young Clan Leader possessed a Chaos Body, had become the disciple of the Lotus Sword Emperor, and had cut down the Xiao Clan's great prodigy, Xiao Ting.

She hadn't paid it much attention at the time. But now that she thought about it, it didn't seem so hard to believe that Xiao Yao had rescued her and the other clansmen.

"Single-handedly wiping out every Spirit Crane Sect cultivator here—the Young Clan Leader is so fierce!"

"Is this really the Young Clan Leader I know?"

"Of course it is! I personally saw him cut down Xiao Ting without breaking a sweat."

After taking out a healing pill of the Sea Splitting Tier and tossing it to Xiao Xueyu, who had cultivation at the third layer of the Sea Opening Realm, Xiao Yao said, "Take it quickly, before your current injuries turn into hidden wounds that are difficult to treat."

Xiao Xueyu caught it with both hands, then paused.

She had never imagined she would one day receive a gift from Xiao Yao.

"Young Clan Leader, aren't you bothered by how the clansmen used to mock you?"

Xiao Yao's expression darkened. "Of course I am!"

The Xiao Clan members who were treating their wounds all felt their hearts sink. They were sure things were about to go badly!

"But I'm the one steering the Xiao Clan now. If I held on to something like that, wouldn't I seem petty?"

The Young Clan Leader truly had a magnanimous heart!

With an heir like him, the Xiao Clan had a bright future!

The Xiao Clan members all looked at him with admiration. Even Xiao Xueyu couldn't help showing a hint of it.

A faint smile curled Xiao Yao's lips. He had already secretly had Xiao Wei deal with the people who had truly wronged him!

How could he possibly have let them live until now?

While the Xiao Clan members tended to their wounds, Xiao Yao curiously asked Xiao Juan beside him,

"Can you tell me in detail what happened when the Spirit Crane Sect made contact with you?"

After recalling the events, Xiao Juan explained, "At the time, we saw a towering tree glittering with sparkling lights. It looked just like a little human baby."

"Sister Xueyu said it was a Dao Fruit Tree of the Dao Beginning Tier. If you ate a Dao Fruit, you could gain a Dao in advance. When you tried to break through into the Initial Dao Realm, you'd face no bottleneck at all."

"But then the Spirit Crane Sect arrived, along with a group of people in black! We were outnumbered and outclassed, so Sister Xueyu immediately ordered us to run."

"But the people in black told the Spirit Crane Sect's young sect leader, Cha Yong, to hunt us down. They didn't want us to escape."

"People in black?" Xiao Yao murmured.

So far, the only people in black he had encountered were Duan Qi from the Dark Palace.

But the Dark Palace had been completely wiped out a week ago by the Demonic Path forces under the command of the Ghost Fiend Demon Emperor.

So this group in black was most likely from another faction.

[Beep! As the saying goes, every debt has its debtor. So many Xiao Clan members have died; I can't stand for the people in black to get away with it. Thus, a mission is issued: eliminate the people in black. Time limit: within twenty-four hours. The more people in black you kill, the better your reward will be.]

[Beep! Friendly reminder: once all the people in black have been eliminated, the mission will be completed automatically. You don't need to wait until the time limit ends.]

Xiao Yao grumbled inwardly, "I don't even know how many people in black there are. That friendly reminder isn't much use."

[Beep! It's still better than nothing!]

"True," Xiao Yao thought.

Three minutes later, thanks to how effective the healing pills Xiao Yao had given them were, all the Xiao Clan members had recovered from their injuries.

Xiao Yao looked at Xiao Xueyu as she opened her beautiful eyes. He had to admit, she was stunning.

But after seeing his master's true appearance, a beauty of Xiao Xueyu's caliber couldn't tempt him at all.

"Xiao Xueyu, this Young Clan Leader plans to find that Dao Fruit Tree, so I need someone to guide me."

Xiao Xueyu recalled what had happened. All the humiliation had been caused by those people in black, so she volunteered at once. "Young Clan Leader, I'll guide you!"

"What about the clansmen?" Xiao Yao asked curiously.

Xiao Xueyu immediately replied, "We can have them wait somewhere hidden. If we haven't returned after a day, they don't need to wait any longer. They can leave."

"That's a good idea, but it can't guarantee everyone's safety. I think we should all go together. Besides, no one can threaten me anyway."

If he still only had cultivation at the first layer of the Sea Opening Realm, Xiao Yao wouldn't have been so confident.

But now he had two manifestations, cultivation at the Sea Opening Realm Second Layer Peak, Cloud-Riding Sword Art already raised to the Dao Beginning Tier without even using it, and all the life-saving treasures and talismans his master had given him.

Within the Giant Spirit Secret Realm, killing him would be ten thousand times harder than a mortal climbing to the heavens.

Xiao Xueyu looked at Xiao Yao, whose confidence practically spilled from his face. If he hadn't single-handedly wiped out all the Spirit Crane Sect cultivators, she would have thought he was bragging.

After thinking it over, she looked at the clansmen, whose eyes all showed how eager they were to go with them, and said, "All right!"