Qu Li wept bitterly before the young man, hoping his acting skills could deceive someone so young.
"I don't know if you were forced, nor do I care. But... you were the one who told me to go home and drink milk earlier!" Chu Xiuran's expression suddenly turned icy as he pointed forward, sending a golden lightning bolt that instantly pierced through Qu Li's forehead.
"You..." Qu Li's eyes widened in disbelief at the youth before him. How could someone so young be so decisive? Deep in his mind, he felt a twinge of regret - had he known the Chu family would be so troublesome, he wouldn't have been so eager in their destruction!
"The Martial Emperor's inheritance clouded my judgment!" With these final words, he collapsed, lifeless.
"Hmph! Daring to show off such petty tricks before me? Did they think my time in the Heart Refining Pagoda was for leisure?" Chu Xiuran snorted coldly. Having endured a lifetime's worth of trials within the pagoda, what cunning schemes hadn't he witnessed? To think mere acting could make him show mercy? Preposterous!
With the two Martial Emperors of Heaven's Gate dead, the remaining thousand followers were exterminated without even being given a chance to surrender.
As Chu Tianyang battled Indra, the terrifying energy fluctuations were sensed by other Martial Venerables.
"That's the aura of Heaven's Gate's ancestor Indra! He's fighting another Martial Venerable?"
"It must be Chu Tianyang - the Chu family only has one Martial Venerable after all."
Xia Mu and Jiang Lou, elders of the Beast Taming Sect, had just annihilated a four-star sect with tens of thousands of members when they sensed the clashing auras. With Chu Tianyang as hostage, the Chu family would have no choice but to comply!
As the two hurried towards Qingyun Sect, other Martial Venerables from Beast Taming's subordinate sects converged on the same destination, all sharing the same thought. Meanwhile, affiliated forces with only Martial Emperors continued slaughtering sects bearing Chu family battle flags under Beast Taming's orders.
"Hahaha, kill! With the saint-grade Beast Taming Sect backing us, why fear the Chu family?"
"Valley of a Hundred Flowers, here comes our Harmony Sect! Though we were both Beast Taming affiliates before, we couldn't openly attack you then. But now that you've betrayed Beast Taming for the Chu family, this ancestor won't hold back today!"
"Hahaha, Valley of a Hundred Flowers' ancestor, as a Martial Emperor yourself, becoming my cultivation cauldron could help me break through to Martial Ancestor realm!" The wrinkled Harmony Sect ancestor licked his lips lecherously at the Valley's matriarch, his lust undisguised.
Though they'd cultivated for similar durations, why did she maintain the appearance of a woman in her forties? Not that he minded - no need to turn off the lights!
"Betray Beast Taming? If I could, I'd have slaughtered them all long ago!" Valley Matriarch Qiu Min trembled with rage. "Every year we had to offer hundreds of our finest female disciples to those beasts, even our former sect leader was violated to death by that animal Zuo Cangmu!"
That night, the entire sect had heard their leader's agonized screams. Since then, Qiu Min's cultivation had stagnated due to damaged mental state.
"I'd gladly feast on their flesh and marrow!" Had Beast Taming not been so monstrous, her valley wouldn't have sought another faction's protection.
Not just Qiu Min - the current sect leader and all female disciples glared hatefully at the Harmony Sect members.
"Hahaha, why so hostile? Many would kill for a night with Sect Leader Zuo! Your leader was fortunate!" The Harmony ancestor sneered. "And now you serve the Chu family - still offering your women, what's the difference?"
"If it's so wonderful, why not gift your own mother to Zuo Cangmu?" Qiu Min retorted. Though some disciples had married into the Chu family, it was with consent through proper courtship - nothing like Beast Taming's atrocities.
"Since you refuse grace, we'll take by force! Harmony disciples, today you may plunder freely - whatever woman you grab is yours!" The ancestor laughed maniacally.
"Fight! Even if we perish, we won't let these beasts succeed!" Qiu Min roared. After months under Chu family's protection tasting true freedom, they'd rather die resisting. Moreover, many Chu clansmen had married into their valley - they wouldn't stand idly by!
The battle erupted instantly. Sword beams crisscrossed as energies collided, screams mingling with blood spray.
"Hahaha, my beauties, I'll take ten this time!"
"I've learned new dual cultivation positions - who wants to reach the clouds with me?"
"My 'Licking Technique' is perfected - mating with me would be your greatest fortune!"
The Harmony disciples drooled obscenely, having coveted the valley's women for years. The valley's unique cultivation method preserved youth and enhanced beauty with advancement - throughout Qian Region, what man didn't dream of wedding a valley disciple?
"Better broken jade than intact tile!" Sect Leader Wen Ruyu's veiled face revealed only stunning eyes as she clashed with the Harmony leader. Latest content published on novel{f}ire.net
"Would the leader share my bed?" the Harmony leader mocked, tearing off her veil mid-fight - only to recoil at the crisscrossed scars marring her beauty.
"Damn, you scared me! What an ugly monster!"
"Courtesy of Beast Taming's beasts!" Wen Ruyu's sword strokes grew fiercer. Since that tragedy, every succeeding leader had disfigured themselves before taking office to avoid Beast Taming's notice.
"Hehe, Qiu Min, your stagnant cultivation can't match mine! Submit and I'll show you a woman's pleasures!" The Harmony ancestor landed a non-lethal palm strike on Qiu Min, then laughed lewdly at her firm physique.