Chapter 12

In the end, Jiang Lianyue was still driven away by Jiang Chen. It wasn’t that he didn’t want to do something, but the risk was too great.Who knew whether Jiang Lianyue’s madness was intermittent or permanent?

What if she suddenly regained her clarity in the midst of excitement? Wouldn’t that mean the end of his life?

“However, why would she go mad for no reason? The original plot didn’t mention this. Could it be her retribution?”

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Through nine cycles of reincarnation, he always reminded himself that the misunderstandings and cold looks from his Junior Brothers and Sisters were not intentional but rather influenced by this world and the protagonist’s halo.

Even so, he still couldn’t help but feel resentment.

After all, a thousand years of countless cold stares and accusations would chill even a volcano.

Returning to the wooden hut, Jiang Chen’s thoughts moved, and a crimson blood sword emerged and hovered in the air from his Core Formation.

The sword was over three zhang long, with a blood-red blade as if congealed from blood. The hilt was entwined with two flame dragons, fierce and imposing.

This was the superior grade spiritual weapon he had just obtained through the system, the Flame Blood Dragon Sword!

Cultivators who open their Purple Mansion and condense their Core Formation can store spiritual weapons within it, nurturing them year-round.

In this world, common spiritual weapons are categorized into low grade, middle grade, and high grade, with superior and divine grades above them.

The Jiuyan Sect, as a first-class sect in the Central Domain, has a divine-grade spiritual weapon as its sect’s treasure.

Most Core Formation realm cultivators typically only possess a middle-grade spiritual weapon. Before Jiang Chen’s Core Formation was destroyed, he nurtured a high grade spiritual sword in his Purple Mansion.

When the Core Formation is discarded, this superior spirit sword also perishes along with it. As for the superior grade spiritual weapons, they are mostly in the hands of cultivators from the upper four realms. Xiao Hongyi has a red whip, which is absolutely powerful.

Holding the Flame Blood Dragon Sword, Jiang Chen can instantly feel the energy contained within it is too violent. If a cultivator from the lower four realms were to touch it, their sanity would be devoured in an instant. Even for him, holding it for a long time poses the same danger.

Jiang Chen’s eyes narrow slightly as he falls into deep thought while continuing to nurture the sword in the Core Formation.

Ma Wu.

This man who opposes him must die!

But if he were to simply kill him, it would not quench Jiang Chen’s deep-seated hatred, so he decides to take another approach.

……

A hundred li south of the Jiuyan Sect, there is a city called Qingshi City.

That night, more than a dozen burly men each dressed differently take advantage of the cover of darkness to sneak into the city.

The group moves along the alleyways, eventually arriving in front of a large estate.

This place is the Ma family residence. Inside live the descendants of Ma Wu, along with their parents, spouses, and children.

“The young master has ordered that not even the chickens and dogs of the Ma family shall be spared.”

“The Jiang family is cautious in its actions and never makes any mistakes. Shouldn’t we seek the approval of the family head before carrying out such an act?”

“You’re told to act, not to talk nonsense. As commanded by the family head, we are the young master’s servants and prioritize his orders above anything else!”

“I spoke out of turn.”

With that, the group leaps into the Ma family compound.

Immediately, the lights of the Ma family are lit and screams fill the air.

Half an hour has passed by the time the lord of Qingshi City arrives with his troops.

The scene before everyone makes them gasp in shock.

Limbs and body parts are scattered everywhere. The forty-ish members of the Ma family all lie in pools of blood.

Men, women, the elderly, and children, without exception! Truly, not even a single chicken and dog left!

“There’s still residual vital energy, it must be the work of a Core Formation realm cultivator.”

“It’s likely all Core Formation realm cultivators. Otherwise, it wouldn’t have been so swift, and there are no signs of a fight.”

“These people are well-trained, not like ordinary cultivators, more like an army!”

“My god, who did the Ma family offend to bring about such a catastrophe?”

“Report this immediately! And send someone to the Jiuyan Sect with the news!”

……

The next day, at the Jiuyan Sect.

Ma Wu is refining pills in the pill room.

“Bang——”

Disturbed in his thoughts, this is the third batch of pills he has ruined.

“No more refining, no more.”

Ma Wu walks out of the pill room with a dark face, appearing extremely irritable.

Seeing this, the pill disciples all lower their heads, not daring to make any sound.

What caused Ma Wu to be like this aside from the lingering fear from yesterday’s events is that he has a bad premonition deep inside.

As a Core Formation cultivator, Ma Wu knows such premonitions must have a cause, but he can’t figure it out at the moment.

“Any news from Ninth Peak?”

He casually asks one of the pill disciples.

“Reporting to the elder, I took the opportunity to inquire discreetly while delivering pills. It seems that Jiang Chen has been punished by the head of Ninth Peak to face the wall and reflect.”

Dan Tong replied, “Just reflecting while facing the wall?”

Ma Wu frowned.

What difference did such a punishment make from no punishment at all?

In his opinion, at the very least, the status of a true disciple should be stripped, especially considering that Jiang Chen…

Hmm?

What did Jiang Chen do yesterday?

After thinking for a long time, Ma Wu couldn’t come up with a suitable charge.

After all, his conflict with Jiang Chen yesterday was merely a war of words, and the one who nearly killed him and brought disaster to the sect was Jiang Lianyue.

Suddenly, his eyes lit up: “That’s right! Instigation! It must have been Jiang Chen who knew Jiang Lianyue had fallen into madness and instigated her, nearly causing a catastrophe! His heart deserves punishment!”

“Master, why are you so against that Ninth Peak Eldest Senior Brother?” asked the young disciple.

“Against him? I, Ma Wu, am upright in my actions. I never target anyone!”

Ma Wu said disdainfully and earnestly, “As my disciple, you should share the concerns of the sect and Elixir Peak. That Jiang Chen has a despicable character, and his misdeeds are too numerous to record! If such a person remains in the sect, it’s a disgrace to the righteous path, a disgrace to the Jiuyan Sect!”

“I will remember this,” the disciple said while nodding repeatedly.

“It’s strange. After all, the Jiang Family is a millennium-old family, and the Jiang family’s patriarch is imposing in all directions. How did they produce a degenerate like Jiang Chen? If the top beam is not straight, the bottom beam will be crooked. I think that Jiang family is no good either,” Ma Wu began to mutter to himself.

“Is the Jiang Family very strong?” the disciple asked again.

Hearing this, Ma Wu’s expression became a bit more serious: “Not just strong, but extremely strong! Do you think the sect doesn’t know about Jiang Chen’s misdeeds? Doesn’t the Hall of Enforcement know? The reason they turn a blind eye is because of Xiao Hongyi’s partiality and also because of the concern for the Jiang family.”

The Jiuyan Sect was already a first-class sect in the Central Domain, and besides the sects of the same level, only the imperial dynasty could surpass it.

Even so, the Jiuyan Sect still feared the Jiang family!

Doesn’t this mean that the strength of the Jiang family is such that even the Jiuyan Sect has to be cautious?

Thinking of this, the young disciple took a deep breath and decided that in the future, he must avoid Jiang Chen at all costs!

Seeing his disciple frightened, Ma Wu frowned again and scolded, “Why are you so cowardly! What if the Jiang family is strong? Once Jiang Chen joined the Jiuyan Sect, he became a disciple of the Jiuyan Sect! Everyone knows that I have openly opposed him, and am I not still safe and sound? Give him a hundred guts, would he dare to lay a finger on me? The sect rules are not just for show!”

As soon as he finished speaking,

“Elder Ma!”

An elder from the Hall of Enforcement carrying a spiritual sword arrived in haste and said, “There’s been a disaster! More than forty people of your Ma family have been slaughtered overnight! Not a single one was spared!”

“What?!”

Ma Wu jumped up in shock.

The Ma family, slaughtered?

“Pfft—”

The next second, he felt darkness before his eyes, spat out a mouthful of blood, and passed out.

Seeing this, the young disciple beside him turned pale and trembled uncontrollably.

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