Chapter 140: The Long Sword Cleaves the Scabbard, Slashing Through the Entire Yu Province - Fourth Installment

Xiahou Sheng, Xia Ning, Li Hao, and seven or eight others slammed the table and sprang to their feet, roaring, “What the hell did you just say?”

Li Hao’s eyes reddened. He stumbled backward several steps, his legs suddenly powerless. Clutching at the table and chairs, he barely managed to remain standing. He seized Du Yanran by the shoulders, his fingertips almost digging into her flesh, his eyes blazing with murderous intent.

“Who did it?”

His furious roar resounded through the Qin Clan Valley.

Countless disciples cried out in alarm and looked toward the place where the Immortal Master stood.

Through her sobs, Du Yanran said, “The Xu family of Yuzhou deliberately spread the news that Gu Feifei was Jiang Dana’s woman. That was why Shadow Kill and four Immortals from the Rothschild family came. They severed both of Feifei’s arms and hung her from Yandang Mountain as a warning to anyone connected with Jiang Dana.”

“I think I also saw someone from the Xia family of Yuncheng…”

At the end of her sentence, Du Yanran lifted her head and looked toward Jiang Yu. Her entire body stiffened, and the words caught in her throat before she could finish.

Jiang Yu’s face was dark and grim, his eyes blood-red. Everyone stood trembling, scarcely daring to breathe. Neither Li Hao nor Xia Ning had ever seen him look so terrifying.

Xiahou Sheng immediately turned and left. “I will give Master Jiang a satisfactory explanation.”

Clearly, the Xia family had played a part in this.

“Xia Shenghui!”

Xia Ning’s expression turned icy. She instinctively recalled the Xia family’s young master who had been forced to kneel in Yuncheng the last time—Xia Shenghui.

“It seems my methods of intimidating the world have been too gentle. So it was the Xu family of Yuzhou, was it?”

Jiang Yu laughed in the extremity of his rage. With one step, he vanished before everyone’s eyes.

Two hours later.

The Xu family of Yuzhou.

More than a dozen members of the Xu family were seated at a banquet, laughing and celebrating. Gu Feifei had been hanging from Yandang Mountain for three or four days. Even an immortal would be unable to save her now, surely.

Whenever they recalled the scene of Jiang Yu killing Xu Changming, boundless hatred welled up within them.

“Come, today is a day worth celebrating.”

Someone raised a wineglass, his face radiant with delight and his smile unceasing. Their scheme of borrowing another’s blade to kill had succeeded. If they had not spread the rumor, how would Shadow Kill and the Rothschild family have learned that Gu Feifei was Jiang Yu’s woman?

Four peerless masters had gathered together. A boy of eighteen or nineteen was nothing to them. Though the Xu family had suffered for a time, being ordered around by Gu Feifei every day, they had now transformed once more and become the masters of Huating Entertainment.

All their hardships had been worthwhile.

“Hmph. Three days have passed, and he still hasn’t shown himself. He must be frightened, right? We thought he was some ruthless character, but when faced with four peerless masters, he abandoned his own woman and fled for his life!”

“He’s smart enough to know he isn’t a match for those four masters, so he slipped away secretly. Besides, five peerless masters from the Hidden Sect are currently gathered in Yuzhou to keep watch over the city. Whoever comes here today will have to avoid them, won’t they?”

Everyone’s expression grew solemn.

“Could it be that nine peerless masters have gathered in Yuzhou alone? With such power, even the legendary Earth Immortals would not dare confront them directly.”

The Xu family possessed connections that reached into every corner of Yuzhou. Though they were merely an ordinary family, they could still obtain the latest news from the circles of worldly martial artists.

“Who said I abandoned my woman and fled for my life?”

A calm, indifferent voice sounded from behind them.

The Xu family turned around. Jiang Yu stood behind them at some point, and that face had nearly become their collective nightmare. Seeing him again, every hair on their bodies stood on end.

“Jiang… Jiang Yu? What are you doing here?”

Jiang Yu remained silent and turned his gaze toward the window.

“Get out!”

At his roar, a figure was sent tumbling away, spewing blood from his mouth. His lungs seemed to have been displaced.

A cultivator who had reached the threshold of the peerless-master realm had been gravely injured by a single word. He climbed to his feet and fled at top speed.

“No, I have to inform Elder Ma at once. Jiang Yu’s realm is even more terrifying than before.”

From the moment Jiang Yu entered Yuzhou, he had already come under the Hidden Sect’s watch.

This time, he had come only to kill. If the Hidden Sect dared interfere, he would destroy the Hidden Sect along with everyone else. At worst, he would flee overseas. He would never return until he had formed a Golden Core.

Jiang Yu was prepared to pay any price. Since being reborn through possession, he had never felt such an intense murderous impulse.

Tonight, he would wash Yuzhou in blood. Even if the battle shattered the city and innocent bystanders were caught in the devastation, he would make an example so horrifying that the entire world would tremble.

Some people deserved to die.

Some people had to be executed.

“Jiang Yu, do you really think you can wipe out more than a dozen members of my Xu family? I have no problem telling you that we have heard the latest news from the worldly martial world. Five peerless masters of the Hidden Sect have already gathered in Yuzhou. If you dare slaughter people recklessly, the Hidden Sect will hunt you until there is no path to heaven or earth.”

The Xu family was not foolish. They dared to drink and celebrate because they had something to rely on.

With the Hidden Sect gathered in Yuzhou, what was there to fear?

The vast martial world of China could not possibly be controlled by one young peerless master. If it could, the world would have fallen into chaos long ago.

Jiang Yu smiled. “If the Hidden Sect dares interfere, I will destroy the Hidden Sect as well.”

With that, Jiang Yu drew one finger downward.

A brilliant streak of power swept through the air. Every member of the Xu family was severed at the neck. The several-yard-long arc of energy had nearly solidified, and it was countless times denser and more powerful than before.

The Xu family villa collapsed amid a thunderous roar. Every living thing connected to the Xu family perished without exception—even the cats and dogs.

Not a single creature was spared.

The Xu family, which had dominated one corner of Yuzhou, was erased from history after that night.

Jiang Yu had appeared in Yuzhou and unleashed a massacre. The Xu family had been destroyed.

Within minutes, the news spread throughout the sects and prominent families of Yuzhou. Everyone was thrown into a state of panic, terrified that Jiang Yu might come knocking at their door.

Jiang Yu, who had vanished for half a year, had returned—and his methods were even more ruthless than before.

Half an hour later, countless reports from Jiangbei and Monan flooded Jiang Yu’s phone. Nearly a hundred wealthy men were gathering information for him. Even they were trembling with fear. Every sign indicated that Jiang Yu had lost his reason.

Why had he received the news only three days after the incident?

It was a question worth deep thought—and one that filled everyone with dread.

An hour later, the entire Li family of Yuzhou was wiped out. Just like the Xu family, not even a rat escaped; they were all crushed to death beneath the ground.

Three hours later.

The Wang family.

The Zhou family.

The Tan family.

The fifth family was trampled into oblivion by Jiang Yu. No one knew how many people had died at his hands.

That night, Yuzhou—and indeed the entire worldly martial world of China—erupted into turmoil.

Jiang Yu was killing like a madman, as though he intended to wipe out Yuzhou itself.

When the news reached the Hidden Sect, three peerless masters acted at once. They encountered Jiang Yu at Yuzhou’s Little Victoria Harbor, and a battle between peerless masters broke out.

Many people watched from a distance. Sword energy surged in every direction, cleaving the Yu River and exposing its riverbed. Flames blazed in the sky, incinerating everything in their path.

One report after another spread rapidly in every direction.

The Hidden Sect was forced backward step by step by Jiang Yu. Of the three peerless masters, two were gravely injured, while the third fell into the Yu River and vanished without a trace.

Shortly afterward, the Hidden Sect issued a death warrant and formally began hunting Jiang Yu.

Four hours later, the sixth family in Yuzhou was destroyed. Two more peerless masters of the Hidden Sect fought Jiang Yu, and buildings collapsed as masses of civilians were evacuated.

It was said that the Hidden Sect’s four War Gods had set out through the night from a place a thousand miles away, racing toward the Yu River to join forces and suppress Jiang Yu.

The four War Gods had mobilized.

Countless sects and factions rushed toward the Yu River, eager to witness a battle that would shake the world. Whatever the outcome, Jiang Yu’s name would be recorded in the annals of the martial world.

The Hidden Sect’s final two peerless masters were defeated in bitter despair. Jiang Yu unleashed the might of a god or demon, striking one of them into the earth with a single palm and nearly destroying his body and soul.

Fortunately, Jiang Yu did not linger in battle. He soon headed toward the next family.

At the same time, a private company in Yuncheng called Jiang’s Pharmaceuticals posted a bounty of one hundred million dollars on the dark web for the deaths of every member of Shadow Kill and the Rothschild family.

A few minutes later, the bounty posted on the dark web surged to five hundred million dollars.

Underground forces across the world were utterly bewildered.

What kind of person had Shadow Kill angered?

It was unheard of for an assassin organization to become the target of a public bounty hunt.

That same day, Xu Daozhi of Zhongzhou declared that he would not interfere in the matter at the Yu River, and that all consequences had nothing to do with him.

The relationship between Jiang Yu and the Hidden Sect had finally deteriorated beyond repair. Jiang Yu had defeated five peerless masters in succession.

Everyone had known that Jiang Yu would be enraged, but no one had expected the consequences to be so bloody.

“The seventh.”

Jiang Yu murmured to himself, then glanced back at the ruins behind him.

As the price for having taken part in this affair, not one person had been able to escape. His methods had surpassed even those of Xu Daozhi.

“Jiang Yu, haven’t you killed enough?”

A shriek came from behind him.

Qin Huishi slid down two lines of tears and weakly sank to one knee.

“The Hidden Sect’s four War Gods will arrive any moment. If you still refuse to stop, the entire world will have no place for you.”

Jiang Yu replied calmly, “And what if the world has no place for me? At worst, I will go overseas. If the Hidden Sect dares harm any of my family or friends while I am gone, then the day I return will be the day I slaughter the Hidden Sect.”

Qin Huishi raised her head. “Give us some time. We will certainly give you a satisfactory explanation.”

It was obvious that the Hidden Sect could not even protect an ordinary person. Jiang Yu had already lost faith in it.

Now he acted entirely according to his own will.

That state of mind was the most terrifying of all.

Just as she was about to say something, Qin Huishi’s phone began to ring.

For reasons she herself did not understand, she switched on the speaker and held the phone to her ear.

“Hello?”

There was no answer from the other end.

“Elder Ma, what happened?”

Three or four minutes later, Elder Ma’s voice finally came through the phone, filled with helplessness.

“The Chen family. Chen Shanhe has entered the world. He is on his way to Yuzhou.”

The phone slipped from Qin Huishi’s hand and struck the ground.

An Earth Immortal had come.