I died young at the start, but I'm reincarnated with unlimited skill points!

The front hall of Lingcao Pavilion.

The heavy spirit wood gate was blasted into pieces by the violent spell, and wood chips mixed with blood flew through the air.

"Retreat! Retreat into the inner courtyard!"

Su Tie was covered in blood, and the rusty iron sword in his hand was full of chips.

He led a dozen or so collateral relatives, all wounded and looking desperate, and was forced back to the inner courtyard of the Spirit Herb Pavilion.

Ahead of them, a steward from the Zhao family, accompanied by two cultivators of the same level and a dozen subordinates, stepped over a pile of corpses and grinned as he entered the inner courtyard.

Three people at the seventh level of Qi Refining, plus more than a dozen people at the middle level of Qi Refining.

This force was simply beyond the ability of Su Tie and his collateral relatives, who were farmers at the bottom of society and didn't even have magical artifacts, to resist.

"Run! Why did you stop running?"

The Zhao family steward casually flicked the blood off his sword, his gaze sweeping over Su Tie and the others as if he were eyeing pigs and sheep to be slaughtered, before finally settling on Su Yu, who was slowly walking out of the inner hall.

Looking at Su Yu, who was dressed in a brocade robe and had a calm expression, the Zhao family steward couldn't help but burst into laughter.

"Who do we have here? It's Su Hao's notorious vicious dog."

"Manager Su, your master used his own father as a human shield and ran away, leaving you, a spineless dog, here to guard the house."

"What, still not clear on the situation?"

The Zhao family steward stepped forward, unleashing the full force of his seventh-level Qi Refining cultivation, which pressed down on everyone present.

"Hand over the storeroom array symbols of the Spirit Herb Pavilion, and then have your delicate wives and concubines come out and serve the masters."

"If you serve me well, I'll take the liberty of giving you a quick death, you piece of trash!"

Su Tie and the others gritted their teeth and closed their eyes in despair.

It’s over.

Expecting Su Yu, a spineless coward who is only at the fifth level of Qi Refining and who is greedy for money, lustful, and opportunistic, to fight desperately.

He'll probably kneel down and beg for mercy any second now.

However, to everyone's surprise, Su Yu did not kneel down.

He simply looked calmly at the three Qi Refining Stage 7 cultivators in front of him, and suddenly formed an extremely complex array hand seal with one hand under his sleeve.

"The warehouse is underground, go get it yourself."

The moment the words fell.

"Buzz—!"

Underground, the nodes that Su Yu had buried with the thousands of spirit stones he had embezzled over five years suddenly burst forth with a dazzling golden light.

Second-tier ultimate killing formation, Gengjin Sword Thunder Formation!

The violent metal-elemental spiritual energy transformed into dozens of tangible sword-like lightning bolts, which exploded violently within the narrow courtyard.

"A second-tier grand formation?! Not good, retreat!"

The Zhao family steward's expression changed drastically; he never expected that such a grand formation would be hidden beneath a dilapidated shop.

However, under the suppression and dizziness of this thunderous power, their movements still froze fatally.

In that brief moment of stillness, Su Yu made a move.

"Clang!"

A streak of green light emerged from his waist, and the low-grade magic weapon, the Azure Edge Sword, transformed into a cold, soaring dragon.

In the world of cultivation, a cultivator in the Qi Refining stage is as fragile as paper if they are approached without a protective magic weapon.

Su Yu's movement technique was extremely fast, carrying the absolute killing instinct honed in his previous life amidst mountains of corpses and seas of blood, and he instantly closed in on the first Qi Refining Level 7 cultivator who was stunned by the formation.

With a swift turn of the sword, it sliced ​​open the opponent's throat without any resistance.

Immediately afterwards, he shifted his feet and, using the terrifying explosive force of his waist and abdomen, slammed into the arms of the second cultivator.

Su Yu formed his left hand into a claw, unleashing a torrent of violent true energy that struck straight at the heart of the enemy, crushing his dantian.

"you--!"

The Zhao family steward finally broke free from the dizziness of the formation, his eyes bloodshot as he erected a spiritual energy shield, about to unleash his magical artifact.

But Su Yu's Qingfeng sword, imbued with an indomitable and domineering sword intent, pierced through the hastily formed shield and went straight through his heart.

The sword is drawn, and the man dies.

From the moment the formation was activated to the fall of the three Qi Refining Stage 7 experts, the entire process took only two or three breaths.

A deathly silence fell over the courtyard once more.

All that remained was the sound of rain washing over the bloodstains on the ground.

Su Tie and the dozen or so surviving members of the collateral branches stood frozen in place, as if their souls had been drained, their minds completely blank.

What did they see?

That deputy steward, whom they once cursed, despised, and ridiculed as a spineless coward and a piece of trash, not only possessed a second-tier array capable of annihilating those of the same level, but his own cultivation was also unfathomable!

This is a clean, efficient, and decisive close-quarters combat style, like that of a god of death.

Let alone them, even Su Hao, that so-called prodigy, absolutely could not do it!

Su Yu remained calm and skillfully tore off the storage bags from the waists of the three Qi Refining Stage 7 cultivators.

He then sheathed his sword and shut down the second-tier formation that consumed a great deal of spirit stones.

The formation's fluctuations are too great; if it attracts powerful cultivators from outside, it would be tantamount to suicide.

"What are you standing there for? If you want to live, get on board."

Su Yu neither offered an explanation nor attempted to act heroically by killing all the enemies outside.

He glanced at Su Tie and the others with extreme composure, left a single sentence, and then turned and walked back into the inner hall.

On his long escape, he needed people to scout ahead and do odd jobs.

These lower-level collateral relatives, abandoned by the main branch and utterly intimidated by his absolute military prowess, happened to be the most obedient tools.

The basement of Lingcao Pavilion.

A wide, extremely hidden tunnel, several meters deep, had been dug out at some unknown time, leading directly to a stretch of barren mountains a hundred miles outside the market town.

Inside a sealed room.

Su Tie and a dozen or so surviving members of the collateral branches, looking at their already packed families, piled-up supplies, and this secluded escape route, finally understood everything.

It turns out that this Manager Su had been waiting for this day for a long time.

It started with him attaching himself to Su Hao.

All the fear of death and all the sycophancy are nothing more than a perfectly disguised act.

Without anyone noticing, Su Yu had prepared an escape route for himself.

The group silently traversed the tunnel for a full three hours.

As dawn broke, the giant rock covered with withered trees and weeds was pushed aside at the exit.

The autumn rain has just stopped.

Su Yu stood atop the desolate mountain, facing the cold morning wind, and looked back into the distance.

A hundred miles away, the once bustling and prosperous Qingmufang market has now been turned into a sea of ​​fire.

Thick smoke billowed into the sky, announcing the complete end of a cultivation family.

The main lineage was destroyed, and the foundation was plundered.

Only a very small number of people like them survived this catastrophe.