Chapter 1309: Chapter 1304: Don't Be Overly Ruthless
Chapter 1309: Chapter 1304: Don’t Be Overly Ruthless
But Su Yingxue wouldn’t let Xiao Yu off easily. She planned to find the best craftsman, to slice off Xiao Yu’s flesh piece by piece, letting him watch as his own flesh fed dogs, letting him witness his own body be devoured by pigs, dogs, beasts!
The proud and noble heir to the Xiao family, this would be his end!
Just thinking of this scene made Xiao Muyan’s brain seethe with abnormal excitement. He felt as if he was flying high in the sky, nearly losing himself!
Xiao Yu’s hand tapped gently on the wheelchair. Before Xiao Muyan could come back to his senses, several black figures burst in from outside the door. The one in the lead waved a knife at Xiao Muyan twice, and Xiao Muyan’s undergarments were instantly shredded, leaving her completely exposed.
The spectators in the hall weren’t startled by the sudden appearance of the dark figures but were shocked by the sight of Xiao Muyan.
Xiao Changfeng, as an elder of the Xiao family, was sixty years old and prided himself on his vast experience. Yet, upon seeing Xiao Muyan’s body, he couldn’t help but widen his eyes in shock, “This… you… who are you?”
How could it be so strange!
Wu Zhuangjing, after his initial shock, stated calmly, “The Second Young Master didn’t exist after all.”
Xiao Muyan, a man?
She was clearly a woman!
The steward had just opened his mouth wide, unable to utter a sound, when a knife slashed his throat.
“Pfft—”
Blood splashed onto Xiao Muyan, finally bringing her back to her senses. She felt a coldness below and let out a shriek, hurriedly crouching down to grab and cover her lower half with clothing.
“Ahh!!!”
Her screaming voice contained both the roughness of a man and the shrillness of a woman, sounding oddly uncomfortable to the ear.
Xiao Changfeng furrowed his brow, “Could this be not a human, but… a demon!?”
How could there be someone whose upper body was that of a man, but whose lower half lacked that particular thing, just like a woman’s?
After seeing what happened, Xiao Qingyu immediately turned away, his face reddening somewhat.
Although he despised Xiao Muyan’s behavior, he had indeed never seen the… lower half of a woman.
With a wave of his hand, Xiao Yu had the assassins from the Silver Moon Pavilion place a knife at Xiao Muyan’s neck and hoist her up, not allowing her to shield herself with clothing, displaying her before the Xiao family as if conducting a public humiliation.
Humiliated to the brink of death, Xiao Muyan screamed shrilly, “Xiao Yu, you beast worse than animals! If you dare, kill me!”
How could he humiliate her like this!
This scoundrel!
Xiao Yu turned a deaf ear, only looking towards Xiao Changfeng, “Elder, have you seen clearly now?”
Xiao Changfeng nodded with a solemn expression, “Clearly now. Xiao Muyan, having impersonated a man, has brought chaos into our Xiao family’s affairs. She should be stripped of her name from the family genealogy and expelled from the Xiao family!”
Wu Zhuangjing also said, “Xiao Muyan, being a woman, has no right to handle business. All transactions managed through the family’s trading posts should be retracted, especially the Silver that was mobilized. I will immediately send people to recover it.”
Xiao Yu nodded but didn’t order them to proceed immediately because as soon as their people tried to leave, they cried out in horror, “Monsters! A large group of monsters have come, it’s terrifying!”
“Upon her call, the entire Xiao Family was in tumult; the puppet corpses attacked, and Xiao Muyan took advantage of the chaos to break free from her restraints and began to play the short flute hung around her neck.
She had escaped from the hands of the Silver Moon Pavilion assassins and, surrounded by the puppet corpses, Xiao Muyan—though disheveled—defiantly shouted at Xiao Yu, ‘Xiao Yu, you wait, one day, you will surely die by my hand!’
Xiao Yu remained calm and collected in his wheelchair, holding only the family head’s seal in his hand. The assassin from the Silver Moon Pavilion, bought by Xiao Yu, knelt before him, ‘Master, Xiao Muyan has successfully escaped from the Xiao family, and the poison has also been administered.’
It was he who had captured Xiao Muyan. Xiao Muyan, lacking in martial arts skills, had yet to realize she had been poisoned by him.
Xiao Yu nodded, ‘Drive them towards the Gorge Skyline.’
Pursuing Shadow replied, ‘Yes, master!’
He and his men chopped off the heads of the puppet corpses as they pursued them, reducing their numbers along the way until they had cornered them in the One-Line Sky Canyon—the same place where Xiao Yu had been forced to flee to once before.
Xiao Muyan, driven into the Canyon, found herself hiding among a group of unconscious puppet corpses.
After driving away Xiao Muyan, Xiao Yu began purging the Xiao Family.
Xiao Qingyu led his men to blockade all the Xiao Family’s secret passages, utterly eradicating them. Some passages were ones Xiao Muyan had dug; after inspecting them, he had them sealed off.
They also discovered a Stone Chamber underground with emaciated men trapped inside, tortured beyond recognition. Deeper in, the stench of blood was even more intense. By the time Su Yingxue finished exploring the Stone Chamber and came out, she cursed furiously, ‘Xiao Muyan is a heartless monster, holding no regard for human life! Who knows how many people have died in this filthy and vile chamber!’
The sight was simply harrowing.
Xiao Yu sat under the eaves of the corridor, from where he could overlook the Xiao Family Estate stretching over a hundred li. He told Su Yingxue, ‘There might still be some clues in the Stone Chamber. Take proper precautions, and feel free to explore several times more to understand the methods used by the princess of Ji Yun Country to place her curses.’
Su Yingxue nodded gravely, ‘I’ll go down again to look! As for you…’
She saw how Xiao Yu had remained unshaken and composed from beginning to end… It looked quite terrifying.
‘The Xiao Family still has matters that require my attention,’ he said coldly, providing no further response to Su Yingxue.
Su Yingxue, concerned about Rong Sheng, went down to the Stone Chamber, hoping to find more clues.
After blocking the secret passages, Xiao Qingyu came back to report to Xiao Yu, including all the funds Xiao Muyan had misappropriated from the Xiao family over the years and the supply lines to Ji Yun Country; he had uncovered them all. Xiao Yu ordered Xiao Qingyu, ‘Search along the way, and deal with anyone transporting the items on the spot. Be discreet about it.’
Xiao Qingyu asked, ‘For those carrying the goods, if they are from the Xiao Family… Do we deal with all of them?’
Such methods, weren’t they a bit too ruthless?
Xiao Yu: ‘Yes, make it clean.’
Xiao Qingyu nodded and went to carry out the order, not realizing that Xiao Yu had actually sent him away.
Because tonight, the Xiao Family Estate reeked of blood!
Pursuing Shadow followed by Xiao Yu’s side, listening as his subordinates dealt with those Xiao Yu wanted handled. He was just as unperturbed as Xiao Yu and equally taciturn, but by observing the expression on Xiao Yu’s face, he could tell that this new master was no less ruthless and merciless than the Pavilion Master.
Xiao Yu sat in his wheelchair, inhaling the thick scent of blood, yet he showed no abnormal reaction; those who knelt and begged for their lives seemed no more than ants in his eyes.
An accountant who had been in the Xiao Family for many years and bribed by Xiao Muyan with silver funds crawled towards Xiao Yu, leaving a trail of blood. He cried and begged, ‘Family head… Eldest Young Master! Please, please, do not kill my wife and daughters! It’s my fault! I was bewitched to serve the Second Young Master, causing harm to you, causing harm to the Xiao Family! Please, spare the lives of my wife and daughters!’
‘If you must kill someone, kill me alone, please do not wipe us all out!'”