Skip this! Just tell me who to kill!

With each slash, a new blade fell.

Inside the Fang family's main hall, the number of breathing creatures dwindled, and the silence grew ever quieter.

At this time.

"You scoundrel, come out and fight me!"

A loud "boom" came from the floor of the Fang family's main hall, and a bloated figure covered in sores broke through the floor and flew out.

The figure reeked of a foul stench and had a ferocious and terrifying expression.

However, if members of the Fang family saw him, they would recognize him from his drastically changed face as their patriarch, Fang Chiyu!

At this moment, Fang Chiyu used the methods she had developed to transform the secret techniques passed down from her ancestors, which could only be used by martial arts cultivators, into secret techniques that could be used by immortal cultivators.

Although this modified secret technique has significant side effects for immortal cultivators.

However, the improvement in the strength of immortal cultivators is real and tangible.

Previously, Fang Chiyu had suddenly disappeared because she had sneaked into the research room beneath the main hall of the Fang family and used various immortal cultivation equipment to perform secret techniques for herself.

Fang Chiyu burst through the floor and flew out, no longer recognizable as a human, but his aura had increased by more than 20%.

It's incredibly powerful!

Fang Chiyu held a sword in one hand, while the other hand had transformed into a claw resembling that of a giant beast, his eyes revealing a look of madness.

"Where are you?! Come out here!"

He raised his scarlet eyes and scanned the area in front of him, but he could not see the blood-robed youth who had broken into his Fang family.

Not only the blood-robed youth, but also the members of the Fang family, and even the people from other aristocratic families who were invited by the Fang family, were nowhere to be seen.

All that remained were corpses scattered on the ground.

Among the pile of corpses, Fang Chiyu even saw the body of a cultivator from one of the eight great families.

"Damn it!"

Fang Chiyu was furious, for a member of one of the eight great families had died in his Fang family.

How is the Fang family supposed to explain this to the other prominent families?!

Enraged, Fang Chiyu suddenly turned around, wanting to search for the blood-robed youth's whereabouts.

however.

As he turned around, his massive, festering body froze instantly.

Simply because.

The two Foundation Establishment stage elders of the Fang family, along with the immortal cultivators from the other eight major families and a group of immortal cultivators from minor families, were all looking at him.

The only problem is...

These immortal cultivators watching him were no longer the human forms that Fang Chiyu was familiar with.

At this moment—their entire bodies were permeated with a dense aura of death; they had all turned into souls!

Endless black energy of the dead coiled and rose, enveloping the entire Fang family hall like a demonic realm of the dead.

All the dead souls stared intently at Fang Chiyu with their eyes, filled with killing intent and pain, glowing with a scarlet light.

Being watched intently by so many Foundation Establishment stage souls, Fang Chiyu's heart, which had swelled due to the use of the secret technique, was now filled with nothing but terror.

Green pus was constantly seeping from his back, and the abscess on his forehead was also oozing green pus.

Suddenly, the army of dead souls in front of them moved, clearing the middle passage.

A young man with black hair and black eyes, exuding a powerful aura, slowly emerged from the dead.

The young man was dressed in a blood-red crystal armor, and his blood-red robe was like a cloak. His body was filled with a powerful blood aura.

It even had a faint feeling of suppressing the black aura emanating from the surrounding dead souls.

"I've been waiting for you for so long."

Qin Muyuan glanced at Fang Chiyu, whose body was covered in pus, and said indifferently.

puff.

Fang Chiyu suddenly knelt down on the floor.

"S-senpai! It was all a misunderstanding!"

"This junior...this junior was blind to your greatness, please spare me!"

"This junior is willing to sign a warrior's contract with you, senior, and serve you for life!"

Fang Chiyu knelt on the ground, kowtowing repeatedly and begging for mercy.

"Oh."

This scene made Qin Muyuan laugh out loud.

The saying "arrogant at first, then obsequious, is laughable when you think about it" is quite apt.

It turns out that what the ancients called "laughter" was not feeling that something was funny, but rather laughing out loud when they broke free of their inhibitions.

"I can forgive you."

Qin Muyuan's calm voice brought a glimmer of hope to Fang Chiyu's ugly, distorted face.

"Thank you, senior."

"But they are unwilling."

Qin Muyuan interrupted, pointing with his finger to the dead souls beside him, their eyes filled with ferocity and hatred.

These souls, having been baptized by the Emperor's Banner, have lost most of their intelligence and become souls that only obey commands.

But a faint memory remains in their minds.

These memories clearly tell them—who caused them to be transformed into undead and suffer such torment!

"Go ahead and thank him properly."

Qin Muyuan casually tossed out a sentence, then turned around and flew out of the Fang family's main hall using his Wind Riding Technique.

Behind them came the furious roars and shrieks of the dead, as well as Fang Chiyu's miserable screams and wails.

Before long, the wailing stopped.

One by one, the dead dragged Fang Chiyu's corpse to Qin Muyuan's front.

On Qin Muyuan's left hand, the [Wriggling Hunger] opened its sharp teeth and swallowed Fang Chiyu's corpse, replacing Yuheng's herding.

At the same time, the Emperor's Banner fluttered, and Fang Chiyu's soul was quickly absorbed into the banner and refined.

Another general has been added to the army of the dead.

Qin Muyuan exited the [Blood Calamity] state, and the blood-red crystal armor on his body gradually disappeared.

He gazed at the Emperor's Banner, its purple aura growing ever more intense, and shook his head with a sigh:

"Sigh, my art style... why does it feel like it's getting further and further away from justice?"

He's clearly a good man.

"Senior Qin."

At this moment, Fang Yuan, along with Fang Congming and a few other surviving members of the Fang family, stepped forward.

"Quickly, call him Senior Qin!"

"Senior Qin!"

The two surviving members of the Fang family quickly rubbed their trembling legs, knelt down with a thud, and bowed to Qin Muyuan.

Qin Muyuan glanced at their foreheads and then looked away without any interest.

"Fang Yuan".

"This junior is here!"

Fang Yuan, who had already refined countless clansmen and whose cultivation had soared to the peak of Foundation Establishment, still maintained a respectful expression and bowed to Qin Muyuan.

after all.

Her current cultivation level is all thanks to Qin Muyuan's kindness in refining her clansmen!

This kindness, coupled with Qin Muyuan's demonstrated strength, filled Fang Yuan with gratitude and deep respect.

If Qin Muyuan weren't so indifferent to matters of love and sex, Fang Yuan would have loved to have a passionate encounter with him right away!

"What will you do now?" Qin Muyuan asked, glancing at Fang Yuan.

"I'll leave it all to your arrangements, senior," Fang Yuan replied respectfully.

"Hmm." Qin Muyuan glanced at Fang Yuan again and said:

"Now, among the eight great families of the Great Liang Kingdom, apart from the Fang family, the other families are probably all eyeing us."

"If I leave, your Fang family will probably have a hard time establishing itself in the Great Liang Kingdom."

Upon hearing this, Fang Yuan's heart stirred, and she asked, "Then... what does Senior mean?"

"I think," Qin Muyuan said, glancing at the golden exclamation mark that had suddenly appeared on Fang Yuan's forehead.

"It's not good for the Great Liang Kingdom to have too many powerful families."

"So... how many of the eight great families should be eliminated?" Fang Yuan asked.

"Hmm." Qin Muyuan revealed a look of 'this child is teachable' and said:

"So, how many do you think should be eliminated?"

"Um... three..."

"Um?"

"Four?"

"Um?!"

"Six...no, seven! Seven!"

Fang Yuan quickly said:

"In my opinion, there are too many aristocratic families; they are difficult to remember."

"It would be better for my Fang family to suffer, and let my Fang family bear the infamy of being talked about by the people."

"Let the other powerful families... take their leave for now."

Upon hearing this, Qin Muyuan nodded in satisfaction.

He opened the panel.

[Fang Yuan, the clan leader of the Fang family in the Great Liang Kingdom, has been instructed by you and has issued you a task.]