Live-in Son-in-law

Chapter 1288 1288: Upstart

"Boom, boom...!"

Mountains collapsed and the earth cracked, the towering peak that pierced the clouds crumbled down, billowing smoke and dust surging for a thousand miles, blotting out the sky and sun.

The great mountain of the Sword Sect Branch was directly destroyed by Qin Yi.

The disciples of the Sword Sect Inner and Outer Sect had long since fled; the Squad Leader and the twelve Inner Sect Elders, not a single one survived.

The Outer Sect Elders had also left together with Zhao Jing.

On a hill not far from the Sword Sect Branch, the scenery was quite nice.

Qin Yi and Yun Mengyao buried Ran Zitong here.

Qin Yi looked at the tombstone and said softly, "Miss Ran, I, Qin, have failed you. I couldn't protect you. I'm sorry."

Yun Mengyao said quietly, "Miss Ran, just rest in peace here. Leave the rest to us."

Qin Yi and Yun Mengyao bowed deeply, then left.

The Sword Sect Branch had been destroyed, but Ran Zitong's vengeance was far from over.

Ba Nian, this one must die.

"Qin Yi, you've been fighting for so long, do you want to rest a bit?"

On the way, Yun Mengyao was worried that Qin Yi had fought for half the night and his body might not hold up.

Qin Yi slowly shook his head. His battle with Ye Qun not only hadn't made him feel strained, his Cultivation had actually improved.

Yun Mengyao said, "But speaking of which, the Ran Family's Engraving Skill is really powerful, it actually left Ye Qun with no way to fight back."

Qin Yi nodded slightly. "That's right, this Engraving Skill is indeed infinitely profound. There must be many more uses, but they'll have to be dug out slowly."

Yun Mengyao pouted unhappily. "Pity I can't learn it."

Qin Yi couldn't help but smile. Yun Mengyao didn't understand spiritual power and couldn't cultivate Engraving Skill. The stronger the Divine Thought behind this Engraving Skill, the stronger the power it unleashed.

It seemed that in the future, while cultivating, he also had to cultivate Divine Thought.

In fact, Divine Thought could be cultivated. The Divine Emperor Qin Mu had taught him this.

Qin Mu had once told him that once one reached Nascent Soul Stage, one could seal with Divine Thought, but for some reason he still couldn't form seals with Divine Thought now. Perhaps it was because his Divine Thought still wasn't strong enough.

The two of them hurried on through the night.

At dawn, when the first ray of sunlight spilled over the earth, Qin Yi and Yun Mengyao arrived at Tianming City.

The former Ran Family had already become the Ba Family.

Yun Mengyao looked at those two gilded characters on the plaque, her face full of disgust. "That surname is really disgusting."

"Who goes there? Idle riffraff are forbidden to approach here, otherwise kill without mercy."

The Guard at the gate of the residence shouted at Qin Yi and Yun Mengyao.

Yun Mengyao let out a cold laugh, and with a lift of her hand, a Feather turned into a cold gleam and shot out. With a bang, that plaque that had just been hung not long ago exploded into pieces.

"You've got a lot of nerve, daring to be so presumptuous here."

The Guards roared in anger and all drew their weapons.

Yun Mengyao stomped her foot. With a bang, the ground exploded, and a crack spread out.

The Guards at the gate were instantly so frightened they staggered backward.

"Scram!" Yun Mengyao shouted angrily.

The Guards fled in panic, rushing toward the inner residence.

Qin Yi and Yun Mengyao stepped inside.

As soon as they entered the front yard, dozens of Qi Refiners holding weapons surged out from all around, but the Cultivation of these people really wasn't worth mentioning.

"You all used to be people of the Ran Family, didn't you?"

Yun Mengyao said coldly, and then seven-colored flowing light swept out around her as dozens of Feathers turned into cold gleams and shot out like arrows.

In an instant, the scene was filled with miserable screams.

A dozen or so people were directly shot dead by the Feathers.

"You dog scum who betray your master and destroy your ancestors, treacherous and faithless. I, Miss, only came to find Ba Nian and don't have time to bother with trash like you. Anyone who doesn't want to die, get lost."

With a casual wave killing over a dozen people, these people were nearly scared pissless. Hearing Yun Mengyao's words, they immediately scattered like birds and beasts, fleeing for their lives. They had betrayed the Ran Family and followed Ba Nian back then for profit. But no matter how great the profit, it couldn't compare to their lives.

Since they could betray the Ran Family, they could also betray Ba Nian.

Yun Mengyao rose into the air and shouted sternly, "Ba Nian, get out here!"

Her voice, driven by her Cultivation, spread throughout the entire residence, shaking the buildings until they trembled.

In the inner courtyard, in a spacious and luxurious room, a lean middle-aged man was startled and suddenly sat up from the bed, the quilt flipping aside and revealing the snow-white delicate body next to him.

This man was Ba Nian.

He had plotted against his own benefactor, slaughtered the entire Ran Family, become the master of this Tianming City himself, and taken a concubine. He was right in the middle of his springtime of smug success.

However, he'd had plenty of worries lately. The Ran Family remnant Ran Zitong had been rescued. The Engraving Skill needed by the person supporting him from behind hadn't been obtained.

Yesterday, someone from the Sword Sect Branch had come to investigate the destruction of the Ran Family, and he'd spent great effort to temporarily placate that person.

He'd finally managed to sleep with his concubine for a night, only for someone to be yelling and shouting in his residence, which filled Ba Nian's gut with fire.

Ba Nian got up, put on his clothes, grabbed the long saber lying horizontally on the weapon rack, and rushed out.

"Who dares to shout and scream on my turf?" Ba Nian's face was full of killing intent as he roared loudly.

Ba Nian had suddenly become the master of Tianming City, and for a while he didn't know how to show off, so he could only use arrogant roaring to flaunt his status. Yet he didn't have a shred of the aura of someone in power; instead he looked like a little thug who had just climbed up.

This was like the difference between nobility and a nouveau riche. Nobles took three generations to produce one; nobility came from the bones. As for a nouveau riche, he might have slept under the overpass and become rich overnight, but in his bones he was still that beggar under the overpass.

Ba Nian was a textbook nouveau riche.

Hearing Ba Nian's roar, Qin Yi and Yun Mengyao walked straight to the inner courtyard and saw Ba Nian.

"Who are you people? You dare break into my residence—are you tired of living?" Ba Nian roared at the sight of Qin Yi and Yun Mengyao. But when he saw Yun Mengyao's peerless beauty, his face instantly took on a lecherous look. "This little lady is quite pretty. How about becoming my concubine? I'll let your trespass slide. If you don't agree, both of you will die here."

Yun Mengyao's pretty face was filled with killing intent. "I thought you might be some big shot, but it turns out you're just a disgusting piece of trash. Shifty-eyed and rat-faced—one look and I know you're no good. Ba Nian, have you thought about how you want to die?"

Ba Nian's face twisted viciously, and he was just about to speak when several figures flashed over like lightning.

Among them was someone Qin Yi and Yun Mengyao knew—Wu Zihua, who had come to investigate the destruction of the Ran Family.

As for the others, their Cultivation was mediocre, and from the way they behaved toward Ba Nian, they were obviously all the same kind of scum.

These people were the outside help Ba Nian had invited. Without their help, he really couldn't have wiped out the Ran Family.

When Ba Nian saw Wu Zihua, he hurriedly bowed. Even swollen with pride as he was, he didn't dare show disrespect to Wu Zihua. In the entire Southern Middle State, anyone who dared disrespect the Sword Sect was courting death.

However, Wu Zihua looked toward Qin Yi and Yun Mengyao and asked in puzzlement, "Why are you two here?"

Yun Mengyao sneered. "Old man, you've been here so long. Have you figured out the truth behind the Ran Family's destruction?"