Countdown to the Wang Family's Destruction
Su Tianyu regarded the lavish mansion with a cold gaze, his heart utterly calm. Everything here would soon become a source of funds for his cultivation as a Soul Master.
After looking around the area surrounding the mansion, he stopped in front of an inn a few dozen meters from the baron's residence and walked inside. At the front desk, Su Tianyu booked a room on the top floor facing the street.
He took the key from the clerk, climbed the stairs to his room, and pushed the door open.
The room was fairly neat and clean, about forty or fifty square meters in size, with a single bed that was neither big nor small. That was everything he got for fifty silver coins a day. He wasn't picky, though; as long as it was fit to live in, it would do.
He strode to the window and pushed open its closed shutters, then stuck his head out to look at the nearby residence. This was the best spot he had carefully chosen, offering a view of how the buildings inside the baron's residence were laid out.
The interior of the residence now lay clear before his eyes. Pavilions and towers dotted the gardens, and quite a few servants carrying fruit were passing through the landscaped grove toward the rear courtyard, where they were taking it to the Wang Family's young ladies.
In the back garden, two little girls in splendid short skirts sat on swings. Several maidservants doing menial work stood behind them, pushing with all their might, drawing cheerful giggles from the girls now and then.
"Laugh all you want. Before long, you won't have anything to laugh about." Su Tianyu watched the two girls playing in the garden with a gloomy expression and muttered under his breath.
After staking out and observing the baron's residence, he finally got his chance ten days later. During the day, he saw all the direct descendants of the baron's Wang Family return to the residence. There seemed to be something important going on, and no one came out of the mansion all day. He realized his chance had arrived.
That evening, he checked out of his room and went to an alley in the city's commoner district to wait for nightfall.
In the blink of an eye, it was late at night. The Soul Guidance Lamps on Heaven Lake City's streets had long since gone out. Su Tianyu slowly emerged from the alley, a cruel smile curling his lips as he looked at the baron's residence in the distance.
He had already learned the arrangement and distribution of the guards at the Wang Family's baronial residence when he searched Wang Shan's memories in the Heavenly Eye Forest.
He quickly reached the weak point in the Wang Family's security. Seeing that it was much as he remembered from Wang Shan's memories, he felt along the perimeter wall and soon found a protrusion on one brick that differed from the others.
He pressed it, and a round opening about half a meter high appeared before him. He immediately bent down, lowered his head, and crawled through into the Wang Family residence.
Once inside, Su Tianyu pressed the corresponding mechanism. The wall slowly closed behind him without making a sound.
Looking at the nearby pavilions and towers, Su Tianyu's eyes gleamed fiercely. He rushed toward the building closest to him.
"First Soul Skill, Golden Pupil Illusory Realm."
As the domain unfolded, an invisible force of spiritual power quickly enveloped the building ahead, altering the surrounding reality so that no one could make out what was happening inside.
Crack!
Su Tianyu smashed the front door to pieces with a kick and strode inside. He went straight to the master bedroom and blasted its door apart with one punch, then glared fiercely at Wang Jun and his wife as they woke.
"Who are you? How dare you break into the Wang Family residence? Aren't you afraid my Wang Family will cut you to pieces?"
The sudden crash of the door being broken down had frightened Wang Jun into a cold sweat. When he saw that the intruder was a child under ten, his face darkened and a towering killing intent rose in his heart. He cursed angrily and viciously.
"You don't need to know who I am. There's no need for people about to die to know so much." Su Tianyu looked at the pair as if they were already corpses, coldly and mercilessly pronouncing their death sentence.
With that, he immediately directed the spiritual power within the domain to attack Wang Jun.
"Ah!"
A heart-rending scream tore from Wang Jun's mouth. Bright red blood flowed from his seven orifices, and his face twisted into a grotesque mask.
Seeing that his beloved wife had already fallen, Wang Jun's eyes filled with unbearable grief. He stared fixedly at the murderer before him and growled in a voice like a vengeful ghost's.
"Damn you! You killed my wife! My Wang Family won't let you go! No matter where you run, my Wang Family will kill you, even if we have to pay a terrible price!"
"You're nothing but the lowest kind of baron, and the strongest person in the Wang Family is only a Soul Elder. Yet you dare spout such wild words here? Look at your cultivation and see whether it's worthy of the threats you're making.
"All right, I've wasted enough time on you. The fact that you could withstand the spiritual impact of my Soul Skill does justice to the level nineteen Soul Power you cultivated through so many years of hard work."
With that, he once again summoned the spiritual power within the domain and delivered the final blow to Wang Jun.
Looking at Wang Jun lying on the bed with his eyes wide open, unable to rest in death, Su Tianyu took a dagger from his Soul Tool and quickly stepped up to him. He slashed Wang Jun and his wife once each across the neck. Only then did he feel reassured; now they were finally as dead as could be.
He quickly searched the room, then fixed his gaze on a cabinet not far from the head of the bed. He walked over and pulled it open, and the clatter of Gold Soul Coins striking one another reached his ears.
"I didn't expect him to have saved so many Gold Soul Coins. Even the neglected third son of the direct line has savings."
Su Tianyu counted roughly five hundred Gold Soul Coins. He pointed his bracelet at the coins in the cabinet and activated it with a thought. The Storage Soul Tool bracelet immediately lit up, and suction came from within it. Before long, all the Gold Soul Coins in the cabinet had been stored away.
"Not a bad haul. I wonder if I'll get even more Gold Soul Coins from Wang Hu next."
Of course, the biggest prize was still Wang Tianba, head of the Wang Family. As the man in charge of the entire baronial residence, he had to have at least several hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins saved up. Su Tianyu's eyes flickered as he couldn't help wondering whether Wang Tianba also had any medicines that could help with Soul Power cultivation.
At that thought, he was filled with anticipation for the hunt ahead. As for the scream that had come from killing Wang Jun, he naturally wasn't worried about anyone else in the Wang Family hearing it. The domain blocked both sound and sight; even if Wang Tianba stood outside its barrier and looked in, all he would see was his own building.
Su Tianyu strode out and quickly came to a stop in front of the second building. One yellow and one purple Soul Ring rose beneath his feet, and the First Soul Ring suddenly lit up.
Space in the real world blurred, and a rippling domain quickly spread to cover an area of three hundred meters, making it impossible for outsiders to distinguish truth from falsehood or illusion from reality.
"Heh... heh... heh."
Su Tianyu gave a strange laugh and walked slowly to the entrance. He sent the door flying with a kick, then stood quietly where he was, waiting for Wang Hu to come.
Inside, Wang Hu had been fast asleep, happily enjoying a pleasant dream, when he was jolted awake by the tremendous crash of someone kicking the front door off and sending it smashing against the wall.