Chapter 809: Ye Guxuan’s Wild Theories! Is Gu Yuexi’s Faction Powerful?
Utterly domineering!!!
Whether it was Ye Guxuan and Chu Nianci, or the newly-recovered Xiao Feng.
Whether it was Huo Lang and Daya, or the crowd of onlooking Loose Cultivators.
No one could have possibly imagined it.
That Chu Sheng would actually dare to kill Jiang Xinglan.
And he’d killed him twice, at that.
When he first shattered Jiang Xinglan’s physical body, everyone had still held out a sliver of hope.
The second time, he crushed the Divine Soul that had transformed into a mosquito—eradicating him, root and stem, leaving no chance for survival.
The Loose Cultivators stood frozen in place, a powerful thought suddenly surging through their minds.
The heavens above Luoping City…
…were about to change!!!
An unwritten rule that no one had dared to break for hundreds of thousands of years.
Today, it had been utterly shattered by a mosquito and a Female Cultivator.
However, before this great change…
Could Gu Yuexi and Chu Sheng withstand the cataclysmic fury the Eight Great Clans were about to unleash?
This was the question on every Loose Cultivator’s mind.
No one knew the answer.
But they all knew one thing.
Luoping City was about to be plunged into a storm of blood!
And as the representatives of the Eight Great Clans on the scene—Ye Guxuan, Chu Nianci, and Xiao Feng.
They stood frozen, their minds completely blank.
They had no idea what to do next.
Chu Nianci had received Ye Guxuan’s order and was rushing over at full speed to capture Gu Yuexi.
The plan was to use Gu Yuexi as a bargaining chip in a hostage exchange with Chu Sheng.
But before she could even reach Gu Yuexi…
Chu Sheng, inside the All Things Return to Origin Bell, had already acted, crushing Jiang Xinglan to death.
So decisive!
So ruthless!
He had completely ignored Ye Guxuan’s desperate pleas.
No matter how powerful Chu Nianci was, no matter how great her Speed, she was still a step too slow.
She could only stop in her tracks, standing dumbfounded less than a hundred meters from Gu Yuexi.
She could neither advance nor retreat.
‘Should I keep going and capture Gu Yuexi?’
‘And what if I do?’
‘Kill her or not?’
‘But if I don’t capture Gu Yuexi, what else can we do?’
Chu Nianci felt like her brain had turned to mush.
She could only turn her helpless gaze back toward Ye Guxuan not far away.
But at this moment, Ye Guxuan’s situation was no different from Chu Nianci’s.
His face paled and flushed in turns, a ghastly sight.
Chu Sheng had completely thrown out the script. He was impervious to both threats and persuasion, and had utterly demolished all of Ye Guxuan’s plans.
He, too, was at a complete loss.
‘I have no idea what to do next.’
‘Keep trying to capture Gu Yuexi?’
‘Is there even a point?’
‘Jiang Xinglan is already dead.’
‘Capturing Gu Yuexi won’t bring him back.’
‘But if we don’t, how will we explain this to the Jiang Family?’
‘How will we explain it to the other Seven Great Clans?’
‘Do I just say we did our best to save him, but failed?’
‘But I don’t have a single speck of dust on my clothes. We stood by and watched the whole thing. Who would believe us?!’
They couldn’t even come up with an excuse they themselves would believe.
Ye Guxuan’s mind raced as he desperately sought a solution.
‘It’s come to this.’
‘Jiang Qingyao and Jiang Xinglan are well and truly dead. Not even someone from the Immortal Realm could save them now.’
‘He and Chu Nianci had just stood by and watched them die, a severe violation of the pact of mutual aid among the Eight Great Clans.’
‘They had lost all substance.’
‘And they had certainly earned the Jiang Family’s enmity.’
‘If we want to save face and mitigate the punishment…’
‘The only way now is to go all-out and capture Gu Yuexi and Chu Sheng before the Elders of the Eight Great Clans arrive.’
‘Even if we can’t capture them, fighting to a draw would work.’
‘When the experts of the Eight Great Clans arrive and see me and Chu Nianci in a life-or-death battle with Gu Yuexi… ‘
‘Then we can claim we did our best, but our opponents were simply too powerful.’
‘At the very least, it would be an excuse to silence the wagging tongues of the Eight Great Clans.’
‘But if we don’t make a single move and just continue to spectate… ‘
‘When the experts of the Eight Great Clans arrive, we won’t even have a decent excuse.’
‘Other than the Ye Family and the Chu Family, the other clans definitely won’t let it go.’
‘But in the end, the Ye Family and Chu Family will inevitably have to pay a huge price for us.’
As the leaders of the Ye and Chu Family contingents…
This was not the outcome Ye Guxuan and Chu Nianci wanted to see.
“This is the only way!”
A ferocious look flashed across Ye Guxuan’s face, his eyes turning hard.
Things had come to this; there was no more room for mercy.
And there was no more time for hesitation.
“Nianci, you deal with Gu Yuexi. I’ll deal with this mosquito.”
“Give it your all. We must capture Gu Yuexi and her Beast Pet before the clan Elders arrive.”
Ye Guxuan paused, then gritted his teeth and added in an icy tone.
“Dead or alive!”
Chu Nianci froze, her eyes instinctively flicking to Gu Yuexi in the distance. She hesitated.
“Can we kill Gu Yuexi too?”
Just a moment ago, Ye Guxuan had insisted they must not harm Gu Yuexi, for fear of offending the power behind her.
But now, his tone and attitude made it clear he was ready to drop all pretenses.
‘Killing Gu Yuexi would be easy,’ she thought.
‘But we still haven’t figured out who’s backing her!’
However, Ye Guxuan had already made up his mind.
He nodded heavily, his tone firm.
“If she resists arrest, you can kill her on the spot. I’ll take responsibility for whatever happens.”
“But…”
Chu Nianci was still hesitant, her brow tightly furrowed.
‘After all, based on our earlier deductions, Gu Yuexi must have a powerful force backing her to dare kill Jiang Qingyao and Jiang Xinglan so brazenly.’
‘If we really kill her and completely infuriate her backers… ‘
‘the consequences will be unthinkable!’
Of course, Ye Guxuan knew what Chu Nianci was worried about.
He was afraid too.
‘But we’re past the point where being afraid does any good,’ he thought.
“Jiang Qingyao is dead.”
Ye Guxuan sighed.
“As long as Jiang Xinglan was alive, there was still room for negotiation between us and Gu Yuexi’s backers.”
“At worst, we could have taken the initiative to offer compensation and an apology.”
“But now, Jiang Xinglan is dead too.”
“The Jiang Family won’t let this rest, and the Eight Great Clans, bound together as they are, will have to bite the bullet and see this through.”
“What’s more, Gu Yuexi has already brought the fight to our doorstep.”
“Even if we groveled and begged for mercy, do you really think they would spare us?”
“As it stands, our conflict with Gu Yuexi’s backers can only end when one side is annihilated.”
“There’s no longer any possibility of de-escalation.”
After hearing Ye Guxuan’s analysis, Chu Nianci quickly understood his meaning.
It was like a pack of thugs storming a farmer’s home.
They slaughtered his sheep and destroyed his house.
The farmer could only swallow his anger, not daring to fight back.
But the thugs weren’t satisfied. They then killed the farmer’s young son.
At this point, the farmer could not endure it any longer.
If he kept enduring, he and his entire family would be killed.
In such a situation, to rise up and fight for his life…
…might just make the thugs hesitate, leaving his family a sliver of a chance to survive.
Continuing to endure would only make the thugs more brazen. Sooner or later, his whole family would die without a proper burial.
The situation the Eight Great Clans now faced was the same as the farmer’s.
Today, Gu Yuexi could kill the Jiang Family’s top prodigy without a second thought.
Tomorrow, she could just as brazenly kill Ye Guxuan, Chu Nianci, and Xiao Feng.
It wouldn’t be surprising if one day, she simply decided to wipe out all the Eight Great Clans.
Gu Yuexi herself certainly didn’t have this ability.
But what about her backers? Did they have that kind of power?
No one knew for sure.
But no one dared to bet on it.
So, Ye Guxuan understood the Eight Great Clans’ predicament perfectly.
Gu Yuexi and her backers had already declared all-out war on the Eight Great Clans!