Tianxiong Pass, undercurrents surged.
One message after another, with figures flitting through the night, rushed away.
"Report, the Li Family Master of the Eastern City has been beheaded, now the entire Li family is sealed off by numerous troops, no one is allowed to enter or exit."
"Report, just now, Fat Monk of the Vajra Sect, outside of Ten Miles Slope and fought fiercely with the guards of Tianxiong Pass, was pierced by a Three-pointed Double-edged Blade, that Colonel from Ninth Mountain made another move, and troops have already stormed into Vajra Sect."
As messages flew everywhere, beneath Washing Sword Mountain, more and more figures appeared in this forest.
Pairs of eyes, looking up the mountain, saw banners flapping wildly, rolling up earth, fire, water, wind, striking at the white light screen looming over the mountaintop, wavering as if about to fall.
With a huge long spear descending like a meteor, it struck explosively, the light screen shattered, the giant spear slammed directly into the mountaintop, like the long weapon of a Heavenly God, stirring the mountain to crumble and split.
Instantly, the troops blocked outside, like tigers and wolves, with gleaming long knives, stormed the mountain top.
Outside the mountain, looking into the distance, as the mountaintop shattered and collapsed under the mighty long spear, those onlookers felt an unstoppable tremor in their hearts.
"Washing Sword Pavilion is gone too!"
Sky Patrol Department, in one night, hunted down the three families of Tianxiong.
The thunderous force made many with dishonest intentions, secretly observing the situation, involuntarily feel a chill in their hearts.
And the one leading this hunt, wandering among them, inspired even more dread!
Seeing the giant spear pounding through the night, the people quickly dispersed, taking the news back.
This night, many were destined to be sleepless!
Blazing fires, illuminating the long night,
The past’s tender sounds and glorious scenes turned into thick smoke, dispersing.
The vast Li Residence, spanning thousands of acres, illuminated by firelight, as one armoured soldier after another broke through doors, dragged out people who were either terrified or crying, and lined them up kneeling.
In some rooms, screams emerged, followed by questioning: "Speak, who else is there?"
Some Li family members were tied to chairs, whipped until their skin split and flesh burst, screaming continuously, while the executing armored soldiers, mercilessly pulling on their heads, looked indifferent with intense killing intent, interrogating about others hidden away.
Even beautiful women were not spared by these armored soldiers; they acted without mercy, extremely coldhearted.
At this moment, in the eyes of these Li Family members, these armored soldiers were like demons, capturing Li family members everywhere, including house servants, slaves, and family martial artists.
Any resistance met with collective execution.
The scarlet blood now stained the black armor of these troops!
Before long, in a plaza at the center of Li Residence, numerous figures were escorted by armored soldiers, densely packed kneeling.
These people, like homeless dogs, some trembling, some crying and begging for mercy, not knowing what fate awaited them, filled with fear.
Formerly, these Li Family members, relying on the prestige of the Li family, were arrogant, or overbearing, or bustling like blooming flowers, especially a few days ago, taking advantage of the demon attack on the city, they joined forces with two other families to confront the Sky Patrol Department, and then took over the Eastern City, acting wilfully.
Now, everything was like a fleeting illusion, cries and pleas continued unabated.
But, it was too late!
As time passed, after a whole night, the entire Li family was almost completely raided by the Ninth Mountain Troops.
Seeing the sky slowly turning blue, as dawn was about to break, with a rushing sound through the air, a figure enveloped in golden light thunderously landed in front of the Li Residence hall!
A domineering and fierce aura swept forward.
His fiery gaze swept over the square below the steps, over the hundreds of kneeling figures!
The plaza that was once filled with wailing, instantly fell silent, all the Li Family members, with eyes filled with fear, shock, and resentment, looked at the figure intently.
It was this person, who turned the prospering Li family, in the blink of an eye, into a sea of flames.
Among them, some Li Family members, with resentment and defiance, glared at Chen Yuan, and cursed loudly:
"You massacre our Li family."
Chen Yuan, with his hands behind his back, his gaze slightly deep, just silently observed.
Then, a figure quickly approached Chen Yuan, bending over, with a small folder in hand.
It was the Leading Military Officer Liu Qing, who said:
"General, this is the inventory of the treasures and properties collected from various places of the Li family!"
"Gold, silver, elixirs, cultivation techniques, spiritual materials, all recorded in the register!"
"There’s also a room belonging to the Li Family Master, which has strong prohibitions set up, and our men couldn’t break them to enter."
Chen Yuan hummed in acknowledgment, nodded, took the folder over, and glanced through it, his eyelids twitched slightly.
He had indeed underestimated the foundation of a family, and this was just a branch.
Apart from gold and silver, the amount of spiritual materials and elixirs was even more than those of the Demon Cult’s Human Demons.
He scanned it once and put the folder away.
At this moment, Liu Qing glanced at the people in the plaza,
"General, except for a few who escaped in the chaos at the start and those who resisted and were killed, the remaining direct and collateral lines of the Li family are all here, how does your lordship wish to deal with them?"
Chen Yuan slightly closed his eyes, after a long while, he opened his eyes, his voice resolute,
"Rebellion, collusion both internally and externally, causing chaos in the locality, the entire three clans shall be exterminated, take them to the front gate..."
As the last two words were slowly uttered, a murderous aura surged all around.
Instantly, those voices that were full of hatred and curses, as if their necks were being strangled, suddenly fell silent.
Following that, the entire plaza turned uproarious, and soon after, even greater cries of wailing and pleas for mercy echoed.
They struggled desperately, but it was in vain, each one was thrust into prohibitions, and then a swarm of Armored Soldiers, following Chen Yuan’s orders, escorted the three clans of the Li family out.
A bunch of people was also detained, ready to be transferred fully to the Inner City prison.
At this time, there was a small episode.
A group of people, standing in a corner of the plaza, listening to Chen Yuan’s order, seeing the Li family being sentenced to extermination of three clans, watching the overwhelming troops, blinked apprehensively.
These were the leaders of some small factions from the Eastern City, almost each one at the Profound Body Realm, collectively a significant martial force, who had killed most of the Li Family’s martial artists in the chaos and exerted a lot of effort.
But after Chen Yuan had killed two Tianxiong and ordered the Li Residence sealed, no one could enter or leave, or they would be killed without mercy.
These people had obediently refrained from leaving.
Chen Yuan had noticed them early on and commanded his troops to bring these people over.
Seeing Chen Yuan, these faction leaders felt apprehensive and bowed respectfully.
After hearing their statements, Chen Yuan did not make it difficult for these people and let them leave.
These faction leaders, having witnessed Chen Yuan’s fierce might and originally apprehensive in their hearts, found to their surprise that this authority figure was unexpectedly reasonable and felt as if they had received some kind of reward. Each clasped their fists, thumped their chests, and said:
"If not for the lord’s intervention, we might have ended up buried here, if the lord requires anything in the future, I am at your disposal!"