Bloodbath of the Jialie Clan

"Facing death and still barking like a dog—it's a miracle your Jialie Clan has survived until today!"

As Ye Xiu spoke, he had already made his move!

A surge of intensely rigid and masculine Dou Qi shot from his palm, instantly killing the nearest two-star Dou Shi steward, who collapsed on the spot.

Everyone was stunned by the sudden turn of events.

After a brief, deathly silence, furious shouts and curses erupted.

"Insolent!"

"You little bastard, you're courting death!"

"Kneel!"

Jialie Nu, who had been sitting to the left of Jialie Bi, slammed his hand on the table and rose to his feet. His robust Dou Qi exploded outward, and the pressure belonging to a three-star Da Dou Shi instantly bore down on the youth at the entrance.

"You ignorant wretch! It seems the lessons in the dungeon weren't enough! I will personally shatter every meridian in your body before throwing you back in!"

With his hair standing on end and a sinister grin, Jialie Nu kicked off the ground. His figure lunged like a tiger breaking from its cage, wreathed in deep blue water-attribute Dou Qi as he charged straight at Ye Xiu!

Although he didn't know how Ye Xiu had managed to kill a two-star Dou Shi in one blow, it was likely the result of some forbidden technique.

However, now that he, a master Da Dou Shi, had stepped in, no matter how powerful the forbidden technique was, it would be nothing in the face of absolute strength!

Still, this forbidden technique was remarkable; it had allowed someone like Ye Xiu, who wasn't even a Dou Zhe, to suddenly climb to a level comparable to a Dou Shi!

Once he crippled this brat, he would have to get his hands on that technique!

"Die, you little bastard!"

Facing this ferocious pounce, Ye Xiu stood as still as a monolith, unmoved.

He simply stood there quietly until Jialie Nu's palm, capable of splitting stones and breaking monuments, was less than three feet away.

Ye Xiu moved.

His figure swayed only slightly, and a slender hand reached out, instantly locking onto Jialie Nu's wrist.

"What?!" Jialie Nu's pupils constricted. Despite his best efforts, he couldn't advance even an inch, and the terrifying heat radiating from Ye Xiu's hand caused his own Dou Qi to instantly spiral into chaos!

"Is that it?"

Ye Xiu's five fingers, which were clamped onto Jialie Nu's wrist, squeezed gently.

"Crack—!"

A series of bone-shattering sounds rang out clearly.

"Ah—!!!" Jialie Nu let out a shrill, pig-like scream.

It wasn't over yet.

Ye Xiu held onto the now-crippled hand, pulled it toward his side, and simultaneously raised his right foot, kicking forward as if it were a casual gesture.

The movement was effortless, smooth, and flowing.

"Bang!"

A muffled thud!

Jialie Nu's scream was cut short.

His massive body flew backward faster than he had lunged, a clear, charred footprint deeply indented into his chest, while scorching Dou Qi rampaged wildly through his body.

The wall cracked instantly, leaving a human-shaped crater.

Jialie Nu slumped to the ground, his eyes wide open, blood continuously gushing from his mouth. His chest was charred black, and he no longer showed any signs of life.

A three-star Dou Shi, the Second Elder of the Jialie Clan, was dead!

From the sudden outburst of violence to his death on the spot, the entire process had taken less than two breaths.

The hall fell into a deathly silence.

All the high-ranking members of the Jialie Clan, including the clan head Jialie Bi, froze in place.

What had they just seen?

Jialie Nu... had been killed in an instant?

Killed by that "lowly servant boy" they had spoken of, kicked to death as casually as one would crush a bug?

"Nine... nine-star Da Dou Shi?!" Finally, Jialie Bi was the first to regain his senses. He felt the ripple of Dou Qi leaked by Ye Xiu's casual kick and was filled with horror.

"What?!"

"A nine-star Da Dou Shi?!"

"This, how is this possible?!"

Everyone looked toward that direction again, all subconsciously taking a step back.

If he truly were a nine-star Da Dou Shi, then it would be useless even if their entire Jialie Clan attacked at once!

One had to know that the strongest people in all of Wutan City were the heads of the three great clans, and the highest among them was only a five-star Da Dou Shi!

Ye Xiu lightly flicked his hand, as if he had just brushed off a bit of dust, and then continued to take a step forward.

He walked toward the center of the hall, toward the group of terrified Jialie Clan executives.

"Ye Xiu, if there's an issue, we can sit down and talk this through!" Jialie Bi retreated three steps, speaking in a rush.

"Heh."

Ye Xiu looked at Jialie Bi, his killing intent fully unleashed, and said, "When you were stripping my tendons and draining my blood, did you want to sit down and discuss it with me then? Now that I want to slaughter your entire Jialie Clan, you intend to negotiate?! I have never seen such a shameless person! Come up here and meet your death at once!"

Jialie Bi's eyes nearly split from rage upon hearing this.

"This man actually wants to exterminate my entire clan; he is absolutely insane! Stop him! Attack together! He is only one person after all!"

Jialie Bi roared, his pale green wind-attribute Dou Qi as a five-star Da Dou Shi erupting with a boom, forming a small whirlwind around his body.

He knew that today, there would be no peaceful resolution! The strength and killing intent Ye Xiu displayed clearly showed he intended to wipe the Jialie Clan off the face of the earth.

The clan leader's order, combined with the drive of survival instinct, caused the remaining elders and stewards to lose their minds.

"Kill!"

"Fight him to the death!"

Six or seven figures simultaneously erupted with Dou Qi, mostly at the Dou Zhe to Dou Shi level, crazily lunging at Ye Xiu. The lights of various Dou Techniques flared as blade flashes, sword shadows, fist winds, and palm strikes descended from all directions.

Facing this encirclement, Ye Xiu did not stop his pace.

He moved through the flashes of blades and shadows as if he were taking a leisurely stroll.

"Yellow-tier high-grade Dou Technique—Venomous Fang Stab!"

A one-star Dou Shi steward held a long sword, condensing his entire Dou Qi into a sword light like a venomous snake, thrusting straight at Ye Xiu.

Ye Xiu seemed to have eyes in the back of his head; he pressed his index and middle fingers together and tapped lightly behind him.

A flash of crimson light sparked at his fingertips.

"Clang!"

The tip of the long sword collided with Ye Xiu's fingers, yet it emitted the sound of clashing metal.

In the elder's horrified gaze, the long sword, into which he had poured all his Dou Qi, began to shatter from the tip, breaking apart inch by inch like shattered glass!

The fire-attribute Dou Qi traveled along the blade like lightning, reaching his hand.

"Ah—!" The elder screamed and let go, but Ye Xiu's Dou Qi had already invaded his arm. His entire arm instantly turned charred and withered, spreading rapidly toward his body.

He stumbled backward, falling to the ground after only a few steps. After twitching twice, he stopped moving, his body resembling a piece of charred, dead wood.

"Black-tier low-grade Dou Technique—Azure Wind Palm!" A nine-star Dou Shi elder launched a sneak attack from the side, his palm striking out with cutting wind blades.

Ye Xiu didn't even look, casually waving his left arm backward.

"Sshh!"

The crimson fire-attribute Dou Qi swept past like the sharpest blade of flame.

The steward froze in his lunging posture. The next second, a smooth, charred cut appeared from his shoulder to his waist. His upper body slowly slid off, and the flesh at the wound instantly vaporized, not a single drop of blood flowing out.

Ye Xiu's figure was like a ghost; with every step he took, another Jialie Clan executive fell!