The Sun Family's Demise

Liang Zhaohuang hid off to the side, watching the beast souls charging and killing across the square, and his expression could not help but change drastically.

Each of these beast souls was exceptionally savage, violent, brimming with murderous intent and baleful qi. Their combat strength was actually no weaker than that of a Foundation Establishment Realm existence.

The Sun Family truly deserved to be a county magnate clan of several hundred years. To think they still had such a trump card hidden away!

It was only that these beast souls were berserk and utterly without reason; once they charged, they did not distinguish friend from foe. Otherwise, if the Sun Family could control these beast souls to kill only their enemies, that would be fifty or sixty Foundation Establishment existences!

With such a method, so long as no Golden Core True Person took action, who could destroy the Sun Family?

Unfortunately, the Sun Family had always fallen just a little short. The Beast Taming Sect inheritance they had obtained was incomplete, and they simply could not control these frenzied beast souls. As such, these beast souls could only be used as a final method to make both sides suffer.

Unless the Sun Family had reached its final destruction, with no power left to reverse the situation, such a killing move could not be used at all.

And now, clearly, the Sun Family had reached a moment of life and death. This uncontrollable killing move had been unleashed without the slightest scruple.

The savage, brutal beast souls—black tigers, azure wolves, crimson apes, golden pythons, yellow goats... all kinds of yao beasts were there, charging and killing across the square before the Beast Soul Hall. Whether they were Sun Family cultivators or the invading Commoner's Alliance, none had the strength to resist these numerous beast souls gone mad with slaughter.

Gradually, the two sides locked in battle and massacre began to separate, each dealing with the beast souls' assault.

The Sun Family cultivators gathered toward the Beast Soul Hall, while the invaders from the Commoner's Alliance also began converging on the other side of the square.

At this moment, on one side of the square, where the people of the Commoner's Alliance had gathered.

Zhu Yuqing turned to look at a tall man beside him and said in a deep voice, "Chen Yang, these people of the Sun Family are trying to take the chance to flee! Don't forget, True Person Chiyang promised me he would wipe out the Sun Family!"

"Heh!" The tall man sneered. "'Hundred Beasts' Sun Family—nothing more than people who obtained a few incomplete inheritances of the Beast Taming Sect, then mixed in some demonic-path methods for commanding ghosts and created this so-called Life-Bound Beast Soul art."

"The result is neither yao nor ghost!"

"If they hadn't released these beast souls, it would have been somewhat troublesome for me to kill them all. But now, they're seeking death on their own!"

As the man spoke, he took out a Golden Horn. Cracks covered the horn, as if it would shatter at a touch, and not a single "fragment" was larger than a fingernail.

"Wuu..."

The man blew the Golden Horn, and a low, sobbing sound rang out, spreading in all directions.

Gradually, the berserk, savage beast souls that had been charging madly everywhere stopped one by one and quieted down.

Their blood-colored, dark, utterly witless eyes, which held only chaos, gradually became clear. Spiritual light flickered in them, as if their intelligence had returned.

The next instant, tigers roared, wolves howled, snakes hissed, and apes cried. Those beast souls that had regained their intelligence raised their heads and keened one after another. Their voices were no longer savage and violent, but filled with sorrow, pain, and hatred.

At this moment, the sound of the horn blown by the tall man on the Commoner's Alliance side suddenly changed. From a low, sorrowful sob, it abruptly turned fervent, surging, and bright!

Immediately afterward, within that fervent, bright horn call, the beast souls that had regained their intelligence all turned around and charged toward the Beast Soul Hall.

"Not good!" "Go!" "Run!"

Inside the Beast Soul Hall was gathered the Sun Family's final remaining power of resistance: four Foundation Establishment cultivators, including the Sun Family head, Sun Xingmin, the eighth-rank county commandant of Ludong County.

After they released these uncontrollable beast souls, they had all withdrawn into the Beast Soul Hall, activated the Beast Soul Hall's protective formation, and swiftly begun packing up the family's last and most important foundation inside the Beast Soul Hall, preparing to take this chance to flee.

So long as they remained, so long as the family seeds they had arranged escaped smoothly, then once the cultivators of the Commoner's Alliance withdrew, their Sun Family could still return, occupy Beast Soul Mountain, rebuild the clan, and continue being an eighth-rank county magnate clan in Ludong County.

Preserve the people and lose the land, and both people and land will remain; preserve the land and lose the people, and both people and land will be lost!

Only, the Sun Family's Foundation Establishment cultivators never expected that the attackers from the Commoner's Alliance would actually possess a treasure like the Golden Horn, turning it around to control those dozens of beast souls and send them straight at them.

Boom! Crack! Bang...

Under the assault of fifty to sixty frenzied beast souls whose strength was no weaker than the Foundation Establishment Realm, the Beast Soul Hall's protective formation simply could not hold.

In just a moment, cracks had already burst across the protective formation, and signs of collapse began to appear.

Inside the Beast Soul Hall, the Sun Family's only four remaining Foundation Establishment cultivators instantly changed expression. One after another, they abandoned the resources they had not yet finished packing and tried to flee.

"Wuu..."

Seeing that the people of the Sun Family were about to escape, the sound of the horn Chen Yang blew became ever brighter and more impassioned.

The beast souls attacking the Beast Soul Hall instantly grew mad and berserk once more, charging at the Beast Soul Hall's defensive formation with the force of jade and stone burning together.

Black tigers, azure wolves, crimson apes, golden pythons, yellow goats... all kinds of beast souls ignited with black flames one after another, heedless of life and death as they slammed into the Beast Soul Hall's protective formation.

The protective formation, already covered in cracks and swaying on the verge of shattering, could no longer hold on. It broke apart directly and dispersed.

Crack! Crack-crack...

Even the huge Beast Soul Hall on the mountaintop suffered the impact, splitting open with several cracks.

With the protective formation shattered, the crowd of berserk beast souls all charged into the Beast Soul Hall. Furious, violent beast roars filled with destruction rang out from within the Beast Soul Hall.

The startled cries, furious shouts, and despairing roars of several Sun Family Foundation Establishment cultivators followed.

Under the beast souls' berserk attacks that burned jade and stone together, in the end, they still failed to escape.

On the square, the tall Chen Yang had already lowered the crack-covered Golden Horn. He turned to Zhu Yuqing and said, "Under the charge of these beast souls, not one of the Sun Family's people will be able to escape."

"Zhu Yuqing, my master has already done everything he promised you. Don't forget what you promised my master!"

"Heh!" With his enemies wiped out before his eyes and his family's blood debt repaid, there was not the slightest joy on Zhu Yuqing's face. He only sneered and said in a deep voice, "Naturally, I will not go back on what I promised True Person Chiyang, nor do I have the power to go back on it!"

"Once this matter is over and we return, I'll be his fourteenth concubine!"

As soon as Zhu Yuqing finished speaking, he turned and left, heading down the mountain.

Seeing this, Chen Yang smiled, then turned to the few people beside him and said, "Those beast souls will burn out completely within half an hour. After half an hour, go in and clean up. Take everything that can be taken."

"Yes!"

The surrounding Foundation Establishment cultivators of the Commoner's Alliance clearly took him as their leader, and answered in unison.

After Chen Yang finished speaking, he did not linger here either. He likewise turned and headed down the mountain.

Liang Zhaohuang was hiding to one side at this moment. He had seen the end of this battle, this slaughter, and had also heard what Zhu Yuqing and Chen Yang said. He knew that this time, the Sun Family had been utterly planted in the ground. Even if they had not been completely exterminated, they absolutely no longer had the strength to turn things around.

Zhu Yuqing was absolutely ruthless, actually using himself as the bargaining chip in exchange for the Sun Family's destruction.

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