To Lie Low Without Worry, He Had No Choice but to Destroy the Jia Lie Family; Heavenly Flames Fell from the Sky

"Jia Lie Ao, stay away from me. Don't go looking for trouble."

Xiao Xun'er frowned slightly, her clear voice devoid of emotion.

Though she had a gentle disposition, she did not want others to be implicated because of her.

Like the Xiao Family, the Jia Lie Family was one of Wutan City's three major clans.

To ordinary people, they were undoubtedly powerful and influential.

Xiao Xun'er glanced at the young man standing before her.

His Dou Qi aura was weak, and he had yet to form a Dou Qi Vortex. His looks and bearing were fairly good, though. He was probably the young master of a moderately well-off family.

"Hehe, Miss Xun'er, why keep me at arm's length? Our meeting today is fate. How about I treat Miss Xun'er to a meal?"

Jia Lie Ao fully demonstrated what it meant to be shamelessly persistent.

At the same time, he wanted to show off his superiority as the young master of the Jia Lie Family in front of Xiao Xun'er.

He folded his fan and pointed at Ji Changqing, saying flatly:

"Friend, I'm talking to you. Are you deaf?"

"I'll ask you one last time. Which family of Wutan City do you belong to?"

Ji Changqing had not listened to a word Jia Lie Ao said.

When Xiao Xun'er looked at him, every hair on his body stood on end.

He truly did not want the slightest connection with these protagonists from the original plot.

See? He had only sat at the same table, and trouble had already come knocking.

"I'm just a passerby."

Leaving those words behind, Ji Changqing strode outside.

Jia Lie Ao froze.

Even Xiao Xun'er's delicate brows rose slightly, a trace of surprise flashing through her lively eyes.

What a strange person.

"Hehe, what nerve. In Wutan City, no one has ever dared to ignore me, Jia Lie Ao."

Ji Changqing had made him lose face before Xiao Xun'er. With a cold expression, Jia Lie Ao ordered the guards beside him:

"Find out who he is."

Ji Changqing paused briefly before disappearing from the second floor.

The moment he left the restaurant, he saw Xiao Yan, Junior Sister Yanran, and Deacon Ge Ye emerging from a teahouse.

Because Ji Changqing was hiding around the corner of the restaurant, neither Nalan Yanran nor Ge Ye noticed him.

Watching the three of them from behind, relief flashed through Ji Changqing's eyes.

"Looks like they're heading to the Xiao Family. I should have avoided the karma of the broken engagement."

Ji Changqing headed in the opposite direction.

He turned into a deserted alley, and Jia Lie Ao's guards followed him in with cold smiles.

A few seconds later, Ji Changqing walked out with a calm expression.

"If Jia Lie Ao investigates me, he'll definitely learn that I'm not from Wutan City."

"If he traces it back to the Misty Cloud Sect... the Jia Lie Family isn't important enough for that to be likely, but I can't gamble on something merely being unlikely."

"Unlikely does not mean impossible. If it isn't impossible, then there is a chance I could be exposed."

"Leaving behind even the slightest source of disaster could become a fatal catastrophe in the future."

"The tree wishes to be still, but the wind refuses to stop. I don't want trouble, yet trouble has come looking for me."

"Sigh, if I want to lie low without worry, I have to nip the source of disaster in the bud."

"I can deal with the Jia Lie Family. I'm completely certain. It's feasible."

The Jia Lie Family was easy to find.

Ji Changqing spread his Dou Qi Wings and hid above the clouds, looking down at the Jia Lie Mansion.

After seeing Jia Lie Ao return home with a group of guards, a faint glimmer flashed from the Storage Ring on Ji Changqing's finger. Three hundred and sixty Formation Flags whistled down, enveloping the entire Jia Lie Mansion.

Moon Concealing Star Gathering Formation.

This formation possessed no offensive power whatsoever, but it was extremely effective at concealing auras.

No matter what happened within the Jia Lie Mansion, no one outside would notice anything unusual.

Ji Changqing slowly exhaled, bone-chilling frost surging in his dark eyes.

With a sweep of his hand, wisps of white flames radiating terrifying heat and cold fell from the sky like a torrential downpour, pouring down over the Jia Lie Mansion.

Inside the Jia Lie Mansion.

"You bastard, what trouble did you go stir up this time?!"

Jia Lie Bi, the Jia Lie Family's patriarch, glared at Jia Lie Ao, who had returned from outside, in anger at his failure to live up to expectations.

Jia Lie Ao dared not speak in anger and only muttered quietly:

"I didn't cause any trouble. I just went out for a drink."

"You bastard! You're already twenty-one and only a One-star Dou Zhe. Your talent is mediocre, yet you still refuse to cultivate diligently!"

"Hmph, hurry and pay respects to the honored guest of our Jia Lie Family, Alchemist Liu Xi!"

Jia Lie Ao stared in shock at the white-robed young man lounging lazily against the back of the chair at the head of the hall.

Alchemists were the most honored profession on the Dou Qi Continent.

Even a First-grade Alchemist was someone the Jia Lie Family had to treat as a distinguished guest.

"Greetings, Alchemist Liu Xi!"

Jia Lie Ao hurriedly bowed respectfully.

Liu Xi casually waved his hand and was just about to speak.

But at that moment...

"Ah! Fire!"

"Put it out! Hurry, put out the fire!"

"Fire... it's falling from the sky! Aah!"

"What is going on?"

Jia Lie Bi frowned and rose to go outside and take a look.

However, the sudden aura of extreme heat and cold from above made him look up in horror.

His pupils contracted sharply as he saw... a layer of ice crystals rapidly spreading across the roof of the hall. Then, amid that icy coldness, a scorching temperature of destruction erupted, and the reception hall was reduced to ashes in an instant.

"H-how is this possible?"

The hall had vanished. Jia Lie Bi stared blankly up at the sky.

Above, pale white flames fell like beads hanging from a curtain.

The entire Jia Lie Mansion was buried beneath this rain of fire from the heavens. Even the guard dogs at the gates did not escape.

"Heavenly... Heavenly Flames?!"

"Fuck your mothers!!"

"Who did your Jia Lie Family offend?!"

Liu Xi sprang from his chair and rushed outside like a madman.

Yet the next second, a wisp of white flame landed on him. He did not even get the chance to struggle before being burned into a pile of ash.

Until their deaths, the father and son, Jia Lie Ao and Jia Lie Bi, never understood.

Just which great figure had the Jia Lie Family provoked!

What kind of enormous grudge had they incurred!

That he would not even spare the dogs!

Above the sky, Ji Changqing looked at the Jia Lie Mansion, which had disappeared without a trace, and finally felt at ease.

He had just been about to retrieve the Formation Flags and leave when his brows twitched.

"No, this hasn't been resolved perfectly."

"Souls exist on the Dou Qi Continent. Although the strongest member of the Jia Lie Family was only a Da Dou Shi, and their souls had not even taken form."

"But... one can never be too careful. I absolutely cannot gamble."

"Only by erasing their souls can I truly eliminate all future trouble."

"But how am I supposed to collect souls? It's not like I'm the Soul Hall..."

As he pondered, Ji Changqing's eyes suddenly lit up.

He abruptly clenched his hand, and a triangular banner overflowing with golden light appeared in his grasp. The banner unfurled more than a zhang long, snapping loudly in the wind.

"The Blazing Ten Thousand Soul Banner can nourish souls and possesses a fatal attraction to them."

"I can use the Blazing Banner to draw in all the souls of the Jia Lie Family."

"Then, hehehehe..."