Slaying

Liang Zhaohuang could no longer spare any attention for the outside world. As that black Tiger Soul pounced, the Yellow Lotus within his innate spiritual art, Five-Colored Lotus Flower, instantly protected his body. But the Tiger Soul was illusory, and the Yellow Lotus's defense had no effect at all. In an instant, the black Tiger Soul plunged into his body.

The black Tiger Soul entered him and appeared directly in his Sea of Consciousness. A tiger roar shook the Sea of Consciousness as it lunged straight for Liang Zhaohuang's soul.

Black Tiger Soul Devour!

Within the innate spiritual art Five-Colored Lotus Flower, the Black Lotus suppressed his Sea of Consciousness and guarded his divine soul, blocking the Tiger Soul's path.

Though this black Tiger Soul was illusory, it was vicious and violent to the extreme. Black Baleful Intent coiled around its pair of tiger claws, and in the blink of an eye, it struck and tore at the Black Lotus over a hundred times.

Liang Zhaohuang had, after all, only just reached Foundation Establishment, and the innate spiritual art he had cultivated was limited in power as well. In the end, the Black Lotus could not withstand a hundred heavy blows from those tiger claws and directly collapsed.

However, after breaking through the Black Lotus, the black Tiger Soul also grew three parts more illusory. Clearly, it had paid no small price as well.

Facing a pincer attack from two people, the Black Wind Bandits' Foundation Establishment cultivator was clearly trying to eliminate one of them as quickly as possible, even at the cost of paying a price for it.

"Roar!"

After tearing apart the Black Lotus, the illusory Tiger Soul immediately let out a roar filled with violence, excitement, and viciousness, as if the thought of devouring Liang Zhaohuang's soul made it exceedingly excited.

Liang Zhaohuang had long since discovered that this Black Wind Bandits' Sun Family Foundation Establishment cultivator's Life-Bound Beast Soul, the black Tiger Soul, seemed to carry a kind of demonic intent. It possessed only viciousness, violence, and killing intent, without the slightest trace of reason or calm.

He had no idea what the reason was.

Without the Black Lotus guarding him, the black Tiger Soul roared, kicking up a reeking wind as it lunged straight for Liang Zhaohuang's soul.

Liang Zhaohuang, however, showed not the slightest panic. He turned the five-colored Halo behind his soul's head, and a beam of Five-Colored Buddha Light swept out, brushing across the lunging black Tiger Soul.

When it came to protecting his soul, the Black Lotus had never been what he relied on. The Five-Colored Buddha Light he had cultivated since childhood was his true trump card.

"Whimper!"

Struck by the Five-Colored Buddha Light, the black Tiger Soul no longer had that vicious, violent air of wanting to choose someone to devour. With a whimper, it instead dropped down like a little black cat and prostrated itself before Liang Zhaohuang's soul.

Behind Liang Zhaohuang's soul appeared a five-colored Halo, while the black Tiger Soul bowed before him, like a believer prostrating at the feet of a god or Buddha.

"Ah!" "Pfft..."

In the outside world, the Black Wind Bandits' Foundation Establishment cultivator suddenly lost his connection to his Life-Bound Beast Soul, the black Tiger Soul. It was as if a piece of his soul had been directly carved away by someone. He instantly suffered backlash and opened his mouth to spray out a great mouthful of blood, blasting off even the black scarf over his face and revealing a twisted, withered face.

"You... what did you do?"

He raised a hand and pointed at Liang Zhaohuang, asking in a twisted, pained voice.

Liang Zhaohuang did not answer him. With a guiding motion of his hand, the illusory Red Lotus slammed directly into the man and exploded with a roar.

"No!"

With death upon him, the Black Wind Bandits' Foundation Establishment cultivator let out a despairing howl. His soul had been torn, and his body was heavily injured; he had no strength to dodge at all, and could only desperately activate the last of his defenses.

A black light shield appeared, but in the very next instant, it was blasted apart by the Red Lotus's explosion.

The Black Wind Bandits' Foundation Establishment cultivator's body was blown away in an instant, flesh and blood bursting apart, limbs and severed arms scattering.

"He's mine!"

At the side, Zhu Yuqing suddenly let out an angry roar. With a guiding motion of his hand, the Vermilion Plume Sword chopped down, directly severing the Black Wind Bandits' Foundation Establishment cultivator's head.

Seeing his enemy's head taken, Zhu Yuqing abruptly fell to his knees and cried in a somewhat hoarse voice:

"Father! Mother! Grandfather! Grandmother! Second Uncle! Third Uncle! Brother! Sister..."

"I finally avenged you!"

Liang Zhaohuang did not pay much attention to his outpouring. The slaughter and fighting within the family was still continuing. Though the Black Wind Bandits' Foundation Establishment cultivator had already been killed, those few Qi Refining cultivators were still fighting the clan chief, his eldest brother, and the others.

During this stretch of time, who knew how many sacrifices the family had made, or how many losses it had suffered. Liang Zhaohuang immediately leapt up, turning into a blur as he rushed straight into the family grounds and charged toward the sounds of battle.

The Liang Family clan grounds were laid out in rings, one ring enclosing another, with four rings in total. The farther inward one went, the more important the family's core areas became.

At this moment, the invading Black Wind Bandits had already broken through the fourth and third rings and fought their way to the front of the second ring. It could be said they were only a single step away from the Liang Family's core and vital grounds.

Of course, by now the truly important resources of the Liang Family had already been transferred away, and there was no longer anything important in the final ring of vital grounds.

Thus, when the clan chief, his eldest brother, and the others resisted the Black Wind Bandits' invasion, they had not fought with all their might either. Their main priorities had still been killing the enemy and preserving themselves.

The fact that the third and fourth rings had been breached so quickly was not unrelated to these reasons.

When Liang Zhaohuang passed through the fourth ring, he clearly saw the places that had been overrun. Though they were a complete mess, and even blood had been spilled, there were no corpses of the sacrificed.

But when he arrived at the spot where the houses in the third ring had been breached, Liang Zhaohuang's eyes could not help narrowing, and his heart jolted in alarm.

There, three corpses lay on the ground!

One wore black clothes and a black scarf. It was very obviously one of the invading Black Wind Bandits.

But the other two were both members of the Liang Family.

One of them had half-white hair and a somewhat stout figure. Liang Zhaohuang recognized him at a glance—it was Fifth Uncle, Liang Xuegui!

"Fifth Uncle!"

He cried out in alarm and rushed over. He saw that Fifth Uncle's legs had been severed cleanly from the roots of his thighs, and his body was even more badly mangled. Large amounts of blood had soaked into the ground around him.

Fortunately, under Liang Zhaohuang's Spiritual Sense probe, Fifth Uncle Liang Xuegui still had a faint breath and had not completely died.

He hurriedly took out a jade bottle from his Storage Bag and poured out a green spirit pill. This was a Green Spirit Pill, a second-tier healing pill mostly used by Foundation Establishment cultivators to treat injuries.

This was a healing pill the family had purchased for him for this battle, not hesitating to consume their accumulated reserves.

Liang Zhaohuang was currently the Liang Family's only Foundation Establishment cultivator; it could be said that he was the Liang Family's hope. Not only spirit pills, but spirit tools and spirit talismans as well—the clan had nearly exhausted more than half its reserves to prepare for him, all to ensure he survived this battle. Even if he could not win, he had to be able to escape with his life.

However, because of Zhu Yuqing's appearance, Liang Zhaohuang had slain the attacking Foundation Establishment cultivator without taking the slightest injury. And so this second-rank healing spirit pill had gone unused; now, it was just right for preserving Liang Xuegui's countless lives.

Sensing countless signs of life gradually stabilizing, Liang Zhaohuang could not help but let out a slight breath of relief.

He then looked toward another corpse. It was a man in his thirties, his features somewhat similar to Fifth Uncle's—it was Fifth Uncle's youngest son, Liang Zhaoping.

Liang Zhaohuang called him Sixteenth Brother.

Unfortunately, his corpse had been severed at the waist. He was already thoroughly dead, with no chance of saving him.

Liang Zhaohuang could imagine that during the battle, Sixteenth Brother must have fallen into danger, and Fifth Uncle had tried to save him, only for one to die and the other to be crippled.

He just did not know whether that dead "Black Wind Bandit" had been the murderer.

Seeing that Fifth Uncle's aura was gradually stabilizing, Liang Zhaohuang did not linger any longer and continued rushing inward.

Just here in the third ring, deaths and injuries had already begun to appear. He could not imagine how many more sacrifices there would be in the second ring if he arrived late.

Fortunately, when Liang Zhaohuang reached the front of the second ring, although the situation was already extremely dangerous, at least no new deaths or injuries had occurred yet.

Without the slightest hesitation, a flash of golden light appeared, and the "Golden Lotus" within his innate spiritual art, "Five-Colored Lotus Flower," instantly flew out. It scattered in midair, lotus petals descending one after another like Golden Blades, cutting down all five remaining Black Wind Bandits Qi Refinement cultivators.

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