"Father, I'm sorry. Your son came too late!"
Zhang Xingfeng spoke, his heart full of guilt.
"Not too late. Not late at all..."
Zhang Qingping smiled with relief.
"Clan leader, what should we do with those Martial Warriors from the Yang Household?"
Zhang Hengbai approached them and asked respectfully.
"Kill them!"
Zhang Qingping answered with a single word, without the slightest hesitation.
"Yes, clan leader!"
Zhang Hengbai returned to the clan grounds. Looking at the Martial Warriors of the Zhang Household, he gave a stern order: "Do it!"
"Yes, steward!"
The Martial Warriors of the Zhang Household had been wounded by the Yang Household's men and had long since come to hate them bitterly. Seething with murderous intent, they surged toward Yang Piyuan and the others.
"No! Mercy, have mercy!"
"Don't—don't kill me!"
"Let me go! Please, let me go!"
At the sight, the grievously wounded Martial Warriors of the Yang Household were scared out of their wits and begged desperately for their lives.
"I was wrong! I was wrong! Don't kill me!"
Warmth spread through Yang Piyuan's crotch as he dragged himself across the ground, struggling to escape.
But every bone and tendon in his body was shattered. His escape was as laughable as a wriggling worm!
"Ah!"
Screams rose on every side. The Martial Warriors of the Yang Household were wiped out!
"Those screams really tear at the heart. How awful!"
"Yes. Even when this old man slaughters pigs, it's nothing like that!"
"Who would've thought Young Master Zhang's cultivation would rise so quickly after he joined the Cloud Offering Sect? He can even use Object-Assisted Flight now. I'm envious!"
"Tell me about it. Why couldn't my daughter have Spiritual Wisdom?"
"Look on the bright side. Our town only produces a group of people with Spiritual Wisdom every few decades!"
"True. But who are those other two disciples of the Cloud Offering Sect? Why have we never seen them before?"
"Who knows? Perhaps they're from out of town."
"They can both use Object-Assisted Flight too. Looks like the Cloud Offering Sect is about to rise!"
The onlookers murmured among themselves.
Whoosh!
A streak of blue light descended. Mo Lingyuan appeared before the crowd, looking every inch an immortal sage, and drew a wave of astonished exclamations from the onlookers.
"Elder Mo!"
Zhang Xingfeng and his two companions hurriedly greeted him with respect.
"Elder Mo!"
Zhang Qingping did the same.
"It seems matters here are settled."
Mo Lingyuan watched the Zhang Household members carrying away the Yang Household's dead and smiled faintly. Then his expression turned serious. "Do you know which sect came to cause trouble for your household and the Cloud Offering Sect?"
"The Cangri Sect!"
Zhang Xingfeng answered at once.
"So it was the Cangri Sect, as I thought."
Mo Lingyuan was an ancestor of the Azure Feather Sect, Search Province's First Sect. Naturally, he understood the situation in Search Province—especially its balance of power—better than Zhang Xingfeng and the others.
He had already suspected that the troublemakers who came today were from the Cangri Sect near Cloudmoor City.
"The Cangri Sect differs from my Azure Feather Sect by only one character, yet it bullies the weak and slaughters the innocent. It must be destroyed!"
After a moment of silent thought, he looked up and instructed them, "Xingfeng, Muxue, Guyu, the three of you return to the Sect first. I'm going to Cloudmoor City."
"Yes, Elder Mo!"
Zhang Xingfeng and the other two answered solemnly. Mo Lingyuan had already turned into a streak of light and departed.
The Cangri Sect.
The Cangri Sect lay outside Cloudmoor City, only twenty li away.
It had just over ten thousand members and could hardly be called a sect of standing in Search Province.
But its sect master had reached the first level of the Core Formation Realm. His strength was not to be underestimated.
Boom!
A mighty pressure suddenly descended upon the Cangri Sect.
Crack!
Every building in the sect was crushed to rubble, and more than a thousand members died beneath the pressure.
"Oh no! The Technique Pavilion is about to collapse! Get out!"
"What terrifying pressure! A powerful enemy is attacking!"
"Ah! Run! Hurry!"
Cries rang out across the Cangri Sect. Its members fled in every direction, thrown into chaos.
Bang!
Bloody blossoms burst one after another as members of the Cangri Sect died in droves.
"Wh-who's there?!"
Cao Linfu, the Cangri Sect's master, drove his Source Power to its limits. He barely managed to dispel the descending pressure and shield the others.
He looked around and called out in alarm.
"This old man!"
Standing atop his Abyssal Gourd, Mo Lingyuan floated coldly above the Cangri Sect members.
"Who... who are you? Why attack my sect for no reason?"
Cao Linfu raised his head. Seeing Mo Lingyuan with his hands clasped behind his back and his expression cold, he asked in astonishment.
He had no idea when his sect had offended such a powerful man.
The other Cangri Sect members stared at Mo Lingyuan in terror.
That man had killed and wounded countless members with nothing more than a casual release of pressure. We're no match for him!
"For no reason?" Mo Lingyuan chuckled, then his expression darkened. "Go below and repent for your crimes!"
Boom!
He channeled his Source Power, and the pressure descended again.
"Ah!"
The Cangri Sect members, still gripped by terror, screamed as they were all reduced to ash!
"Damn you! Who are you? I'll fight you to the death!"
Cao Linfu flew into a rage. He drove his Source Power to its limits, and Source Qi poured out of him, condensing into a kylin.
Kylin Stepping on the Galaxy!
He roared in fury.
"Roar!"
The kylin threw back its head and howled, its cry shaking the nine heavens.
Treading upon the galaxy and bearing the might of the firmament, it shattered space for a thousand li and lunged at Mo Lingyuan.
Cloudmoor City.
"What's going on? Where did that kylin's roar come from?"
"How terrifying! It nearly shattered my eardrums!"
"Look! The space overhead has been smashed apart!"
"That's horrifying! Quick, find somewhere to hide!"
The kylin's roar reached Cloudmoor City. Its people saw the strange sight in the sky and, struck with fear, scrambled for shelter.
"Roar!"
Just then, they heard the kylin cry again, but this time it sounded like a whimper.
In the blink of an eye, the strange sight overhead vanished as though it had never appeared.
If their ears had not still been aching faintly, everyone would have wondered whether their eyes and ears had deceived them.
"Hm?!" In the City Lord's Manor, Dong Haoqing was startled eight-tenths sober. "That sound... Could someone have destroyed the Cangri Sect?"
"Huh? What happened to the Cangri Sect?"
Feng Lingyu was astonished too.
Whoosh!
The two became streaks of light and flew toward the Cangri Sect.
"How can this be?"
At the Cangri Sect, Cao Linfu stared in horror as his kylin dissolved into smoke and cloud in an instant.
This man's strength is beyond imagining. I have to flee!
With that thought, Cao Linfu drove his Source Power to its limits and fled for his life.
"No!"
Before he could even turn around, he let out one last unwilling roar. He and his Source Core exploded into a cloud of blood!
Whoosh!
Mo Lingyuan landed inside the Cangri Sect and darted through it, searching for its resources.
"Who dares kill people and destroy a sect right before this city lord's eyes?"
Dong Haoqing suddenly appeared above the Cangri Sect. With a furious shout, he hurled the wine flask in his hand at Mo Lingyuan.
Bang!
The wine flask's force was unstoppable. Space shattered everywhere it passed!
"Hm?!"
Mo Lingyuan sensed the pressure overhead and looked up in surprise.
Boom!
He channeled his Source Power, sending a wave of pressure surging toward the wine flask.
Bang!
The flask burst in midair with a thunderclap. Its fragments shot toward Mo Lingyuan like sharp arrows.
"Alas!"
Mo Lingyuan sighed. For the moment, he had no choice but to abandon his search for the Cangri Sect's resources and dispel the force behind the fragments.
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