Chapter 265: Destruction of the Wu Clan

Chapter 265: Destruction of the Wu Clan

The Wu Clan, clan grounds.

Inside the ancestral hall, the Patriarch of the Wu Clan stared at the ancestral tablets above with a livid expression.

Beside his ears, the voice of bewitchment, sounding like demonic whispers filling his mind, continued to ring out endlessly.

Just then, the doors of the ancestral hall were burst open from the outside. Wu Shan, with a look of utter panic, stumbled in terror and fell to the ground in front, wailing toward the Patriarch of the Wu Clan, "Father, Father! It's bad, something terrible has happened!"

"With such alarm and panic, how can you succeed as the future Patriarch of the Wu Clan?"

The Patriarch of the Wu Clan stood over a zhang tall, having already activated his own Bloodline, making him distinctly different from ordinary people.

He turned around, his face cold, looking at the fallen Wu Shan with unspeakable disdain.

Had his eldest son not died tragically, leaving him with only this single seedling, the position of Young Master of the Wu Clan would never have fallen to Wu Shan, his second son.

"Why the panic? Could it be that Wu Bingqing was counter-killed by that Qin Xuan?"

"If that is the case, it would drive a wedge between Qin Xuan and Empress Mingyue, which could be considered a good thing."

The Patriarch of the Wu Clan remained steady and calm, as if he had already mentally prepared himself for all outcomes.

Wu Shan shook his head frantically, "No! That slut Wu Bingqing, she didn't even fight Qin Xuan at all. The moment she saw Qin Xuan, that slut seemed to have lost her three souls and seven spirits, even going so far as to declare that her Master deserved to die and the Butian Holy Land deserved to be destroyed."

"Those disciples from the Aristocratic Families who slandered Qin Xuan or held grudges against him were all killed by Wu Bingqing."

"If it weren't for the Wu Clan's retainers blocking her for me, I would likely have died tragically at the hands of Wu Bingqing."

"That Wu Bingqing killed our clan's retainers, destroyed the Nine Heavens and Earth Water Cage, and has fought her way to our Wu Clan's clan grounds!"

Boom—outside the ancestral hall, a deafening roar erupted.

The mountains shook and the seas swayed; the tiles within the ancestral hall clashed, making crisp, cracking sounds.

Wu Shan felt as if needles were pricking his back, his entire body shuddering. He pointed outside the ancestral hall and cried out in terror, "Father, that god of slaughter Wu Bingqing has attacked!"

The Patriarch of the Wu Clan was confident, coldly and dismissively saying, "Within our clan grounds, we have the Clan-Protecting Array, established by the sages of the Wu Clan through the generations and refined and strengthened for countless years. Setting aside the fact that Wu Bingqing is merely at the Peak of the Saint Realm, even if a Quasi-Emperor came, they would not be able to break through for some time!"

Sssss—a sharp, screeching sound, like a silver needle piercing a giant tire, causing it to leak air through a tiny pinhole.

Inside the ancestral hall, another steward of the Wu Clan stumbled in, kneeling in terror before the Patriarch of the Wu Clan, "Patriarch, it's bad! That Wu Bingqing has used some unknown means, and our Clan-Protecting Array has actually been corroded, creating a large pit. That god of slaughter has already broken into our clan grounds!"

The Patriarch of the Wu Clan furrowed his brows, his expression extremely unsightly.

He had not expected Wu Bingqing to enter the clan grounds so unimpeded.

It must be that the Soul-Devouring Body has some bizarre properties.

That must be how she found a loophole in the Wu Clan's clan grounds, which possessed a Clan-Protecting Array.

"Where are the Ten Elders of the Wu Clan?" the Patriarch of the Wu Clan hummed deeply.

The Wu Clan steward hurriedly replied, "The Ten Elders have already appeared and have joined forces to capture that god of slaughter, Wu Bingqing."

The Patriarch of the Wu Clan raised his hand and said, "All of you, rise. Do not panic when encountering trouble. No matter how great the crisis, the Wu Clan has experts standing at the front to bear it."

The Ten Elders of the Wu Clan were ten experts in the Saint King Realm; they were the trump card the Wu Clan prided itself on.

They had never been exposed to the outside world.

The Heaven-Swallowing, Earth-Devouring Star Annihilation Array, formed by these ten Saint King Realm experts, had once slain a Quasi-Emperor.

Originally, he had intended for the Ten Elders to remain hidden.

However, now that Prince Zijing had prepared sufficient provisions and his troops were already on the move.

The Mingyue Dynasty was about to undergo a change of power.

It was time to reveal a glimpse of the Wu Clan's true strength!

"It's bad, it's bad!" Outside the ancestral hall, a swarm of direct descendants of the Wu Clan rushed in, panicked and distraught.

Before the Patriarch of the Wu Clan could roar in anger, he heard these direct descendants stammering in terror, "Patriarch, of our clan's Ten Elders, six of the ten are already dead."

The Patriarch of the Wu Clan's tiger-like eyes widened, and the aura of the Saint King Realm spread out, overturning the entire ancestral hall, "Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"

"The Ten Elders of the Wu Clan are the true trump card of our Wu Clan. Even I, the Patriarch, would absolutely not last ten moves against the combined force of the Ten Elders."

"Wu Bingqing is merely at the Peak of the Saint Realm; what capability does she have to slay six of the Ten Elders?"

Boom! The Patriarch of the Wu Clan shot into the sky.

In less than a hundred breaths of time, the Wu Clan's clan grounds, which had previously been filled with birdsong and fragrant flowers, were now like a city under siege by black clouds, on the verge of destruction.

The vast territory was now stained with filthy black mist.

The Wu Clan's clan grounds resembled a desolate wasteland where not a blade of grass grew, filled everywhere with rotting corpses and blood-drenched severed limbs.

Amidst the thick fog that churned up towering black clouds and carried overwhelming evil thoughts.

Wu Bingqing, like a demon god, summoned the domain-suppressing cauldron.

With the force of a thunderbolt, right in front of the Patriarch of the Wu Clan, she suppressed three of the remaining four Elders, shattering their Divine Souls completely!

"Attempting to harm Qin Xuan!"

"All must die!"

"You all must die!"

"The Wu Clan must all die!!"

With evil thoughts clinging to her body, Wu Bingqing's mind was no longer rational.

Fallen into a state of slaughter, any member of the Wu Clan she laid eyes on, regardless of gender or age, was shattered into a mist of blood with a single palm strike.

Root out the weeds, eliminate the source!

Evil thoughts surged endlessly toward the Soul-Devouring Body, and that heaven-shaking evil aura, like a giant cocoon, wrapped Wu Bingqing tightly inside.

She was like a slaughter machine that only knew how to kill, controlled by evil thoughts.

The Patriarch of the Wu Clan witnessed the towering evil thoughts enveloping Wu Bingqing and trembled violently. He backhanded Wu Shan, sending him spinning in the air, and roared furiously, "You rebellious son, what kind of freak have you provoked!?"

He never dared to dream that the Wu Clan's clan grounds would be destroyed at the hands of a woman in the Saint Realm!

If Wu Bingqing continued to slaughter, the entire Wu Clan clan grounds would turn into a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.

Wu Shan clutched his swollen face, shaking his head, and mumbled in terror, "I don't know, I really don't know anything."

He only wanted to kill Qin Xuan and take revenge.

How could he have imagined that he would bring a catastrophic disaster upon the Wu Clan?

"Father, let's run away quickly. We are no match for that god of slaughter. If we don't run now, everyone will die."

Wu Shan tugged at his father's arm, pleading aloud.

He had already lost the will to resist.

The experts of the Wu Clan threw themselves forward one after another, yet in front of Wu Bingqing, they were like lambs lining up to be slaughtered.

They were all shredded into blood mist by Wu Bingqing, and even their Divine Soul fragments turned into visible halos of light, which were then absorbed into her body.

Crucially, having absorbed these Divine Soul fragments, Wu Bingqing was still growing stronger.

Her killing intent grew increasingly dense.

The Patriarch of the Wu Clan's face was as dark as water; he even had the thought of slapping Wu Shan to death.

But he only had this one single seedling left. If he killed Wu Shan, it would be equivalent to his lineage becoming extinct within the Wu Clan.

He could only grit his teeth and roar, "Where is Lord Left Commander Zuo Yao of Prince Zijing?"

"My Wu Clan has suffered such a great disaster, all because that Qin Xuan and Empress Mingyue deliberately allowed it to happen!"

"My Wu Clan is willing to pledge the entire clan to Prince Zijing and rebel against this Empress Mingyue!"

During these days, Prince Zijing's people had been secretly recruiting various Aristocratic Families.

His Wu Clan was naturally no exception and had been offered an olive branch.

It was just that his Wu Clan, like those other Aristocratic Families, had been watching from the sidelines and had not made a final decision.

Now, the calamity of clan extinction was right before his eyes.

If he did not express his intentions now, the Wu Clan would be destroyed at the hands of this female god of slaughter, Wu Bingqing!

His Wu Clan had no choice but to betray!

He hoped to be the first one to eat the crab.

Whoosh—as the Patriarch of the Wu Clan's words fell, he saw a white light tear open a gap in the thick clouds.

Dressed in white, dignified and imposing, the Left Commander held a long spear.

He threw it violently.

The majestic heavenly might shook the mountains and rivers.

The long spear was dazzling and bright; a point of white light, like the light of world destruction, shot toward the domain-suppressing cauldron.

Bang—at the moment the long spear collided with the domain-suppressing cauldron, heaven and earth changed color, and the clouds churned.

The Wu Clan's clan grounds were like the heavens collapsing; from the point of collision, the ground split into two.

A great chasm, having swallowed tens of thousands of Wu Clan Bloodlines, continued to extend deep into the earth.

One could see the surging, scorching magma at the bottom of the Wu Clan grounds.

Wu Bingqing, caught in the surprise attack, turned into a streak of light and was knocked back into a mountain Peak.

Her delicate body smashed that mountain Peak into smithereens.

The white-clad Commander summoned with a wave of his hand, and the long spear returned to his palm.

He pointed the tip of his spear directly at Wu Bingqing in the ruins and solemnly declared, "Empress Zhou Wu is cruel and devoid of Dao, inciting her personal guards to destroy people and clans. I, the Commander, acting under the orders of Prince Zijing, am here to suppress and kill you!"

"Zuo Yao!"

Ning Waner, who was watching from not far away, saw the Prince Zijing Commander appear and trembled with rage, "He has rebelled, Prince Zijing has rebelled!"

"He dares to send a Commander to kill Wu Bingqing in the Imperial City!"

At this moment, countless thoughts swarmed into her mind.

For Zuo Yao to dare act this way, it was likely that Prince Zijing was not far from the Imperial City, or had already secretly made a move.

Her Majesty the Empress is in danger!

"Zuo Yao, you have a big mouth. Today, I will kill you on behalf of Her Majesty the Empress!"

Ning Waner could no longer care about the injuries within her body.

She shot into the sky, intending to fight Zuo Yao to the death!

Qin Xuan stood in front of Ning Waner and shook his head, "This matter has nothing to do with you; don't meddle."

"With your current injuries, it's already fortunate that you can exchange blows with a Quasi-Emperor. If you keep acting recklessly, you will die."

Ning Waner looked anxious, "This Zuo Yao is a Commander under Prince Zijing, a great general with cultivation at the Middle Stage of the Quasi-Emperor Realm!"

"No matter how Heaven-Defying Wu Bingqing is, at the Peak of the Saint Realm, she is no match for someone at the Middle Stage of the Quasi-Emperor Realm!"

Qin Xuan glanced at the thick smoke in the ruins, upholding the law of "no smoke, no damage," and chuckled, "That's not necessarily true!"

The white-clad Commander looked toward where Qin Xuan was, golden light bursting forth, "Qin Xuan, Ning Waner, you two destroyed the Wangqing Palace, causing the precious body of the Dowager Concubine to be imprisoned deep within the inner court!"

"Scheming to harm the King's mother, your crimes are unforgivable!"

"You two will surely die today!"

Qin Xuan was calm and composed. Looking at the nervous Ning Waner and the others, he shook his head, "Set your hearts at ease; he is simply desperate to die!"

Gurgle! Gurgle!

The towering evil thoughts, at the place where the mountain Peak had been shattered, turned a hundred-mile radius into an endless, dark swamp.

Like churning biogas, hot white bubbles constantly emerged from the black mud.

The bubbles became increasingly dense, as if boiling.

From within the boiling black pool, Wu Bingqing, with the afterimages of evil thoughts rising behind her, shot into the sky.

In her cold eyes, killing intent, thick enough to be tangible, was erupting.

In her mind, the words about Zuo Yao wanting to kill Qin Xuan echoed continuously. She laughed maniacally, "Hehehe, wanting to kill Qin Xuan, you want to kill Qin Xuan, you must also die, you must also die!!!"