The Qin Family's Destruction

Tang Tian raised a brow. His feet shifted in rapid succession as he dodged the ambushing slash, and his longsword immediately swept back to block the saber.

"Who are you?"

Tang Tian had no impression of the person before him whatsoever.

The one who had ambushed him was a young man with merely Initial Blood-Burning Realm cultivation. His blood and qi were weak and unsteady—a thoroughly ordinary cultivator.

Yet the hatred in the other party's eyes as he looked at Tang Tian came as quite a surprise.

Hatred flashed in the young man's eyes as he roared, "My sister is Qin Yuexi! You're the one who caused my sister's death!"

"Damn it, what does that have to do with me? Your father made his own choice. You're utterly unreasonable!"

Tang Tian immediately understood. This brat before him was Qin Yuexi's younger brother, Qin Xingyao.

Like sister, like brother.

Qin Yuexi had been willful and unreasonable, while her brother Qin Xingyao was simply an idiot!

"Still, Ru Xue killed Qin Yuexi for my sake, so that can naturally be put on my head. Since you just attacked me, you'd better prepare to die!"

Tang Tian sneered. His longsword traced several sword flowers before sweeping across Qin Xingyao's neck. A bloody line appeared, and blood sprayed into the air.

Only at the moment of death did terror rise in Qin Xingyao's eyes. He had never imagined that anyone would dare kill him.

And the person who had killed him was precisely the useless trash whom the siblings had always looked down upon most.

"Xingyao!"

Qin Tiande, who had been desperately fighting Ye Qingyuan, saw Qin Xingyao fail to ambush Tang Tian and instead get instantly slain by a single sword strike.

His daughter had been the flesh of his heart, while his son had been his sole hope.

Yet now they had been killed one after another. Every last shred of hope was gone!

Qin Tiande wished he could immediately rush over and cut Tang Tian down, but there was nothing he could do.

Did he regret it?

Qin Tiande naturally regretted it beyond measure. For the Lin Family's interests, the Qin Family had rashly involved itself in this conflict, leading the four great families into a bloody melee. His own son and daughter had become the first sacrifices.

If he had not been so greedy, then once Starfall City was left with only three great families, would that not have been a good thing for the Qin Family as well?

Especially now, when the fighting had reached such a fever pitch, yet the City Lord's Manor showed no intention of joining in.

Clearly, it was waiting for them to determine the outcome.

"Qin Tiande, you think too highly of yourself. You dared lose focus while fighting me to the death?"

Ye Qingyuan's voice was filled with cold indifference. Seizing the opportunity, his longsword stabbed into Qin Tiande's chest.

"Ah!"

Blood spraying from his chest splattered all over Qin Tiande's face.

Already vicious-looking, he now resembled a savage ghost, making him even more terrifying.

"Ha... ha..."

Qin Tiande threw back his head and laughed, as though he had gone completely mad, weeping and laughing at once.

"One wrong thought, and the whole game is lost. This is the calamity of my Qin Family, and my calamity as well!"

Qin Tiande had always prided himself on his schemes, yet this time, he had chosen the wrong side and become a sacrifice first instead.

The sword embedded in his chest was rapidly destroying the life force within him. There was no longer any possibility of survival.

"Let's die together!"

Qin Tiande gripped Ye Qingyuan's longsword tightly and roared madly.

"Hm?"

Ye Qingyuan's expression changed. He sensed Qin Tiande's aura suddenly becoming chaotic, while the spiritual energy of heaven and earth around them grew even more turbulent.

"Self-destruction?"

Ye Qingyuan immediately understood his opponent's intent. He had not expected Qin Tiande to be so insane.

Once cultivators reached the Soul-Emergence Realm, they could absorb and store the spiritual energy of heaven and earth through their acupoints, making them immensely powerful.

But self-destruction meant igniting the primordial energy within one's dantian and acupoints.

If a Soul-Emergence Realm expert self-destructed, he could at the very least drag Ye Qingyuan down with him at close range and raze an area several zhang wide to the ground.

"You want me to die with you? Are you worthy?"

Ye Qingyuan sneered. Light flashed in his left hand, and another longsword appeared. With incomparable speed, he stabbed several major acupoints on Qin Tiande's body.

"Pfft... pfft... pfft..."

After several successive strikes, Qin Tiande's swollen body became like a punctured leather ball. Its dangerous, terrifying aura instantly deflated and subsided.

"You... how could you possibly... Urgh..."

Qin Tiande opened his mouth and spat out a large mouthful of blood. His eyes began to lose focus. Until his death, he had never imagined that before Ye Qingyuan, he could not even self-destruct.

"Thud..."

Ye Qingyuan withdrew his longsword, and Qin Tiande's corpse fell from the air and smashed onto the ground.

"The Patriarch is dead!"

"Run, everyone! The Patriarch is dead!"

Seeing their Patriarch slain, the Qin Family members were all struck pale with fright. How could they possibly still have any desire to continue fighting?

At that moment, every Qin Family member only hated that their parents had not given them a few extra pairs of legs. They turned and fled.

Even if Starfall City no longer had a place for the Qin Family, nothing was better than staying alive.

"Ye Family members, heed my command. Hunt down every Qin Family member. Leave none alive!"

Ye Qingyuan spoke coldly.

Either everyone smiled faintly, and all could be discussed.

Or blades flashed and swords danced—cut the grass at its roots.

After Tang Tian killed Qin Xingyao, Ye Ruxue's figure happened to land before him.

"Ru Xue, it's dangerous here. You should go to Uncle Ye's side."

Tang Tian's heart felt warm. He knew Ye Ruxue was worried about his safety.

Ye Ruxue rolled her eyes at Tang Tian and said unhappily, "What? In your eyes, I'm just dead weight? So I'm not worthy of following you, is that it?"

"No, no, no!"

Seeing from Ye Ruxue's tone that she seemed to have misunderstood him, Tang Tian hurriedly tried to explain.

"In my heart, you have always been the finest woman. I would never think of you as dead weight. I'm only worried for your safety and don't want you taking risks. With your strength, who could possibly be your opponent?"

Ye Ruxue's face flushed crimson, and she was deeply moved. She had not expected this "fool" to have always worried so much about her.

"You really know how to talk! Hmph!"

Ye Ruxue gave a soft snort, hurriedly hiding her embarrassment.

Tang Tian chuckled. "Since neither of us is afraid, then let's fight side by side!"

"Alright. I'll do as you say."

Ye Ruxue nodded. With the Wind-Snow Sword in hand, her blade was like swirling white snow, ethereal enough that no one could grasp the trajectory of the Sword Qi it formed.

"Ha ha, come on! Let's kill to our hearts' content!"

Tang Tian laughed loudly, showing absolutely no mercy to the Lin Family and Qin Family disciples.

Just like before, the more Tang Tian had yielded and endured, the only things he had received in return were others' scornful looks and mockery, even oppression.

"If I were the one lying on the ground today, I'm afraid this would have been another story."

At the very least, Tang Tian knew one thing clearly: if anything happened to him, the most anxious person would be his father, Tang Lingyun.

And when it came to avenging him, Tang Lingyun would be a hundred times fiercer and more terrifying than anyone else.

After taking another enemy with a single sword strike, Tang Tian looked up and nodded toward the sky. Tang Lingyun was currently fighting the Lin Family Patriarch in a mad, savage battle.

Everything that happened today was enough to change the entire balance of Starfall City, and Tang Tian was the one who had shattered that balance.

Just as Tang Tian was deep in thought, Ye Ruxue suddenly let out a sharp cry beside him. "Watch out!"

[Author's note: Today's third update is here too! Once again, thank you to all the brothers and sisters who sent me gold tickets, silver tickets, and rewards!]