Having been given a second chance at life, I choose to join the Demonic Sect!

Chapter 240 Xiao Huohuo (Two Chapters Combined!)
"This……"

The third elder of the An family was at a loss for what to do at this moment, and dared not utter a word.

He can only hope that An Yingji and An Xiu will speak up and stop Cao Meng.

Unfortunately, he was overthinking it. An Yingji never intended to speak up. As for An Xiu, he wanted to speak, but Lan Zhi glared at him and stopped him.

"You brat, how dare you insult me ​​like this! I will not let you go!"

Before Anbo could finish speaking, Cao Meng flashed in front of him, grabbed his neck, and sent him to meet the earth in a deep kiss.

Cao Meng then lifted Anbo up and cut off his left arm, which was covered by a storage ring.

Cao Meng threw Anbo to the ground, stepped on his head, and fiddled with his storage ring.

"Old man, if there's a next time, I'll crush your physical body, your primordial spirit, and your true soul, so that you'll never be reincarnated!"

As soon as Cao Meng finished speaking, he kicked the other man hard in the dantian.

An old dog, an ant, dares to be so presumptuous in front of me. If it weren't for my vengeful senior sister here, I would have already turned her to dust.

Cao Meng extended his hand to the First Elder and the Second Elder, who immediately understood his meaning and quickly took off their storage rings.

Cao Meng then turned his gaze to the other members of the An family's upper echelons. The others were not stupid, and they all wisely took off their storage rings, after all, no one wanted to have their hands cut off!
"Hurry up and make the arrangements. I'll say it again: if I don't get to attend your wedding banquet tomorrow, the day after tomorrow will be your funeral banquet!"

Under Cao Meng's death threat, the third elder of the An family sighed helplessly and then had no choice but to bite the bullet and make the arrangements.

Although this was a great humiliation for their An family, they were even more afraid of offending Cao Meng, this fierce god!
Meanwhile, they all harbored resentment towards An Yingji, wondering why she had brought this fierce deity to bully them.

……

Cao Meng had long suspected that someone was secretly watching, so he sternly rebuked them:
"You audacious little scoundrel, how dare you spy on me!"

Cao Meng estimated that the opponent's strength was also at the first level of the Nascent Soul stage, roughly equal to An Bo's.

Seeing that they had been discovered, the other party no longer concealed themselves, appearing outside the An family's residence and bowing respectfully:

"Xiao Sen, the patriarch of the Xiao family, requests an audience with you, senior!"

Without Cao Meng's permission, Xiao Sen dared not enter and could only stay outside the An family's residence.

As Xiao Sen's voice entered the An family's hall, many of the An family's senior members felt saved upon hearing that it was a Nascent Soul stage cultivator from the Xiao family.

However, the Third Elder remained calm upon hearing this.

With such a commotion, Xiao Sen, a Nascent Soul cultivator, should have known about the situation long ago. But the fact that the other party has only shown up now shows that he has been secretly observing everything.

Moreover, the dignified head of the Xiao family still refers to himself as a junior, which shows that he already believes he is no match for Cao Meng.

"Get in here!"

Cao Meng rebuked him sternly, and even though Xiao Sen's attitude was very good, Cao Meng still did not give him any face.

After all, the An family wanted to arrange a marriage between their nemesis, Senior Sister, and Xiao Sen's grandson, Xiao Huohuo. This was a family that wanted to cuckold Cao Meng!
Xiao Sen nervously entered the An family's council hall from outside. When he saw Cao Meng sitting in a high position with anger flashing in his eyes, he felt a chill in his heart.

"I heard that your Xiao family is going to form a marriage alliance with the An family?"

Cao Meng turned his gaze to Xiao Sen. He hadn't dealt with the Xiao family because he hadn't had time, and the 'marriage' he had arranged for the Xiao family hadn't started yet.

Xiao Sen was also an old monster who had lived for over a thousand years, so he was naturally mature for his age.

Previously, when Cao Meng and the other two clashed in Anbo, he secretly observed and guessed Cao Meng's identity.

Therefore, they guessed that the other party's actions against Anbo and the other two were to stand up for An Yingji.

Honestly, at this moment, Xiao Sen hated the An family for their incompetence. The marriage between the An and Xiao families was supposed to be a joyous occasion, but the An family had brought in this monstrous figure.

"Senior Cao Meng, these are all rumors. It is the An family that wants to take the initiative to form a marriage alliance with the Xiao family, but my Xiao family is still hesitating, so this matter is still far from being settled!"

Xiao Sen chose to distance himself from the An family immediately to avoid being retaliated against.

"Since the An family has agreed to the marriage alliance with the Xiao family, the marriage alliance should naturally continue!"

Cao Meng made the decision himself, choosing a marriage partner for the An family. Now the Xiao family doesn't want the marriage anymore? Dream on!

Cao Meng stopped the third elder of the An family and his group, pointed at An Bo and his entourage whom they were about to drag away, and sneered at Xiao Sen:
"These people are all being sent to your Xiao family for marriage alliances. Now, shouldn't we talk about the betrothal gifts?"

Cao Meng felt that the betrothal gifts had to be agreed upon.

Now that all the Nascent Soul cultivators in the An family have been injured by the mysterious powerful figure, Cao Meng, as a helpful cultivator, feels it is his duty to temporarily hold onto the betrothal gifts for the An family.
As for the dowry, it has nothing to do with him. After all, it's someone from the An family getting married, and the An family should pay for it themselves!

"Ah~"

Xiao Sen looked in the direction Cao Meng was pointing, and was immediately startled. Then, he asked nervously:
"Senior, are you suggesting that they form a marriage alliance with my Xiao family?"

You should know that Cao Meng was referring to none other than the old guys in the upper echelons of the Xiao family!
What does this mean? What are they trying to do?
"Do you have any opinion?"

Cao Meng's eyes turned cold, and then he rebuked:
"I, Cao Meng, love to reason with people and win them over with virtue, provided that you can accept my reasoning!"

As Cao Meng's True Sun Fire burned, Xiao Sen immediately realized that Cao Meng's principle was none other than the True Sun Fire.

As for the consequences of trying to reason with Cao Meng, it was undoubtedly the same for Anbo and the others.

"Hand over the storage ring you have first, as part of the betrothal gifts!"

Cao Meng stretched out his hand to Xiao Sen, demanding the betrothal gifts.

"This……"

Xiao Sen hesitated, after all, the storage ring in his hand contained his wealth accumulated over a thousand years.

Seeing that Xiao Sen hesitated, Cao Meng said:

"Don't say I didn't take care of you. You can choose any of those people. If you see someone you like, just take them with you!"

Xiao Sen's face turned awkward, and he felt extremely embarrassed.

Because the group of people Cao Meng was pointing to were all elderly women, not to mention that there were also men among them!

Is this caring? This is clearly disgusting!
"Senior, you come from my Hehuan Sect. My Xiao family is an affiliated force of the Star Pavilion. Please, senior, spare us for the sake of the Star Pavilion!"

Xiao Sen was unwilling to hand over his wealth, so in order to protect himself, he had no choice but to bring out the Xiao family's backing.

"Looks like you'd rather lose your life than your money. Perfect timing, Shishi must be hungry too!"

Cao Meng already knew that Shishi was hungry, but he couldn't very well feed Shishi the An family members in front of his illegitimate senior sister.

However, Xiao Sen was not a member of the An family. Originally, Cao Meng had planned to let him drink the wedding wine and then feed him to Shishi.

Now that the other party is courting death, Cao Meng will grant his wish.

As for the Xiao family's backer, the Star Pavilion, a top-tier righteous sect, Cao Meng wasn't afraid at all.

Previously, in the secret realm of the Longevity Sword Sect, he had even killed the personal disciples of the Star Pavilion, let alone now that he was going to kill the dogs raised by the Star Pavilion.

After receiving Cao Meng's signal, Shi Shi immediately took action.

Before Xiao Sen, a dignified cultivator at the first level of the Nascent Soul stage, could react, he was crushed into a blood mist by an invisible hand and swallowed whole by Shi Shi.

The An family's high-ranking members were stunned by what they saw. This was Xiao Sen, the patriarch of the Xiao family, a Nascent Soul stage cultivator, and he was dead just like that?
Wasn't the death a bit too outrageous?

"Cao Meng, here you go!"

Shishi was very sensible and handed Xiao Sen's storage ring to Cao Meng.

"So good!"

Cao Meng pinched Shishi's cheek and praised her.

"Shishi, after the wedding banquet, I will lead you to refine the entire Xiao family with blood."

Cao Meng never intended to let the Xiao family go. He brought Shishi out on this trip just to have her come along for a meal.

The Xiao family wants to cuckold Cao Meng, and Cao Meng would be doing them a disservice if he didn't send their whole family to their deaths.

More importantly, that grandson of the Xiao family was actually named Xiao Huohuo. Cao Meng disliked this name because it sounded too much like the name of a chosen one, so it was better if he were dead!

Cao Meng and Shi Shi's conversation was not kept secret from everyone, so everyone present heard it.

"Uh~"

The An family's higher-ups couldn't help but swallow hard. Preparing to bloodbath the Xiao family was just too ruthless!

As expected of a direct disciple trained by a top-tier demonic sect, he truly kills without blinking an eye!

To avoid his group being subjected to blood refinement, the Third Elder quickly went down to do what Cao Meng had previously instructed him to do.

……

The next day, without contacting the Xiao family, the An family began sending off the bride.

Whether the Xiao family agrees or not is unimportant; Cao Meng simply feels that he has already agreed.

If the Xiao family refuses to accept the bride I'm offering them, they shouldn't blame me for being impolite!
The three Nascent Soul stage cultivators of the An family, the female elders of the An family, and the wives and daughters of some others were all bound to the wedding carriage at this moment.

The people who came to help with the wedding procession were all crying and recounting their stories with such genuine emotion!

How could their tears not be genuine? Their ancestor was sent to marry into another family, and their future settlement would surely become a laughing stock on Qianyu Island!

Some people's grandmothers, mothers, wives, and daughters were forced into arranged marriages. How could they possibly accept this?
If these Anjia people weren't so weak, they would have rebelled against Cao Meng's tyranny long ago.

"Hehehe!"

Cao Meng looked at the weeping of the brides and couldn't help but sneer.

These people who settled here wanted to make Cao Meng cuckolded, but now that he has made them suffer and become a laughingstock, who can he blame but himself?

At Cao Meng's instruction, the An family's wedding procession moved at a leisurely pace, just so that everyone could clearly see who the people to be married off were!

???

what's the situation?
The onlookers were immediately stunned when they saw the elderly man and woman in red at the very front of the wedding procession.

"Among those people, some seem to be elders of the An family!"

"What do you mean 'seems like'? It's definitely true!"

"Among those young women, one is the wife of An Zuohang, the acting head of the An family, and the future wife of the head of the An family!"

"They were bound with talismans; they were clearly forced."

The onlookers started discussing it, which made those who came to see Anjia off even more upset.

Cao Meng and his group were on the flying boat, keeping watch from above. Anyone who dared to run away would be annihilated by a single burst of Solar True Fire.

The Xiao family...

The eldest and second elders of the Xiao family, along with Xiao Senzhi's only son, Xiao Yuanzheng, were discussing matters in the council hall.

"Ugh!"

The eldest elder of the Xiao family sighed and said helplessly, as an elder:
"Yuanzheng, I'm afraid something has happened to your father!"

In fact, the Grand Elder could have removed the word "perhaps," but that would have been too direct.

"What happened to the Grand Elder?"

Upon hearing that his father was in trouble, Xiao Yuanzheng immediately began to ask him questions.

“Something unusual happened at the An family yesterday. The clan leader went to check on them but hasn’t returned yet. We can’t contact them with the communication jade talisman either.”

"The clan leader is in bad shape!"

The eldest and second elders of the Xiao family each spoke up, estimating that Xiao Sen currently only had three possibilities.

One possibility is that he is already dead; another is that he was captured alive; and a third possibility is that he escaped by chance but was seriously injured and unable to use the communication jade talisman.

In fact, they both felt that the third possibility could be basically ruled out.

After all, if the sound transmission jade talisman is no longer usable due to the injury, then the injury is probably beyond saving.

Upon learning of his father's condition, Xiao Yuanzheng trembled and questioned him sharply:

"Elder, Second Elder, why didn't you stop my father?"

Xiao Yuanzheng now suspects that the First Elder and Second Elder of the Xiao family are plotting against his father, whose cultivation level is higher than theirs and who can suppress them.

If something were to happen to their father, they would be the biggest beneficiaries.

"Yuanzheng, with your father's temper, do you think we can stop him?"

The second elder of the Xiao family looked completely innocent, but only they themselves knew whether he was truly innocent.

"What should the two elders do now?"

Xiao Yuanzheng suppressed his anger and questioned the two of them.

Although he suspected the First Elder and the Second Elder, they were both at the Nascent Soul stage, while he only had the cultivation of a half-step Nascent Soul cultivator.

A complete breakdown in relations would be detrimental to him, so he chose to remain accommodating for the time being.

"Yuanzheng, what are you afraid of? Our Xiao family is not like the An family, who are traitors who have served three masters. Our Xiao family has the Star Pavilion backing us up!"

"Yuanzheng, you should first order martial law in the clan, and we can talk about the rest later."

After the First Elder and Second Elder of the Xiao family finished speaking, they signaled that Xiao Yuanzheng could leave.

Xiao Yuanzheng didn't say much, and then decisively left.

"Xiao Yuanzheng, I hope you'll be sensible and smart."

The eldest elder of the Xiao family watched Xiao Yuanzheng leave and muttered something to himself.

Yesterday, it was indeed they who suggested that Xiao Sen go and investigate the situation, but the problem is that they didn't expect things to turn out this way.

Now that things have come to this, they will naturally make new decisions.

"You two old dogs, I, Xiao Yuanzheng, am not finished with you!"

After Xiao Yuanzheng left, he cursed the First Elder and the Second Elder in his heart. He now realized that he had pinned all the blame for Xiao Sen's accident on the two of them.

However, he was too busy to settle accounts with the two of them at the moment. He had something else to do so that he could focus on settling accounts with them without any distractions.

……

In the East Garden of the Xiao Family, Xiao Huohuo was cultivating in his own courtyard.

Although outsiders say he is only at the third level of Qi Refining, he has actually reached the sixth level of Golden Core.

Xiao Huohuo was also a genius of the Xiao family back then. He reached the half-step Foundation Establishment realm at the age of thirteen and was known as the number one genius of the Xiao family.

However, after the age of thirteen, Xiao Huohuo's cultivation level not only failed to advance further, but instead began to regress, until he fell to the third level of Qi Refining.

It wasn't until he was twenty that he awakened his master in his storage ring. Under the master's guidance, he cultivated from the third level of Qi Refining to the sixth level of Golden Core in three years.

Because he obtained a low-grade fifth-order spiritual artifact, and that artifact had the ability to conceal one's cultivation level, his cultivation level remained undiscovered.

In addition, his master told him that one should learn to conceal one's abilities and play dumb to outsmart others, so he never revealed his cultivation level.

Therefore, everyone thought he was still a useless person at the third level of Qi Refining.

"My disciple, your father has arrived!"

After receiving a reminder from his master, Xiao Huohuo quickly stopped cultivating. His cultivation level of the sixth level of the Golden Core stage was reduced to the third level of the Qi Refining stage under the concealment of the spiritual artifact.

Xiao Huohuo didn't intentionally hide it from Xiao Yuanzheng, but she was afraid that after he found out about her recovery, he might accidentally reveal her cultivation level to others.

(End of this chapter)