novelraw Chapter 39 Next time, I'll kill all of the Cheng family for you.
Chapter 39 Next time, I'll kill all of the Cheng family for you.
After dealing with the henchman, Long Yingxue twisted her body and lay back down on the bed.
She was scolded all night again last night and hasn't had enough sleep yet.
They didn't know why this blind creature had to come and cause trouble for them, disturbing her sleep.
Long Yingxue had just curled up and hadn't even closed her eyes when Cheng Xiao patted her again.
The warm palm patted her, making her tremble.
Could it be that she didn't perform well just now, and she needs to practice extra during the day?
No!
Didn't she already kill that little thing with one blow?
After spending the past six months together, Long Yingxue discovered that this human was truly perverted, cruel not only to others but also to himself.
"Wake up, we should go," Cheng Xiao reminded him.
Seeing that it wasn't extra practice, Long Yingxue was in a good mood, but she was also a little confused and asked curiously, "Go? Where are we going?"
The revenge hasn't been taken, and the spirit bone hasn't been retrieved yet, so why are you leaving already?
"Go out for a stroll. Staying here won't improve your strength much. We've already taken what we could get. Besides, I just killed Cheng Xian's lackeys. We can't stay here any longer. You can think of it as running away," Cheng Xiao explained.
"Shearing sheep? Are there still sheep in the Spirit Beast Garden? How come I didn't know?" Long Yingxue swayed her body and jumped directly to the ground, transforming back into the form of a little girl.
She was wearing a light green dress, which Cheng Xiao had bought for her at the market.
Although the material is average, it is still a robe.
Cheng Xiao was too lazy to explain. He started rummaging through the room on his own. In fact, apart from a few pieces of clothing, he didn't have anything else to take.
A few pieces of silver, a few pieces of linen clothing, and simple daily necessities were the last things the original owner left him.
Everything he once owned, including that piece of spiritual bone, became someone else's.
After tidying up quickly, he left the hut with Long Yingxue.
Zhao Chen was still embedded in the wall, lifeless, his head drooping as if it would fall off at any moment.
Cheng Xiao lived in a very remote place, and few people passed by, so much so that no one had discovered the body until now.
Just as he was considering whether to make it more obvious, a cool, soft little hand reached into his.
Long Yingxue tugged at him and said, "Don't be sad. When you come back next time, I will definitely help you kill all the Cheng family members and take back the spirit bone."
Cheng Xiao was clearly thinking about how to attract the Cheng family's attention.
But in Long Yingxue's view, this was simply a case of being moved by the scenery.
Although starting a family is a painful experience, it's still a place he's lived in for over ten years, and leaving it would definitely be heartbreaking.
Cheng Xiao also knew that Long Yingxue was probably imagining something again.
He stepped forward, grabbed Zhao Chen's body, and threw it in a conspicuous place, saying, "You should break through to the Nascent Soul stage first. The Cheng family patriarch is at the Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul stage, and below him are two elders at the early Nascent Soul stage, and countless Golden Core experts. If you go now, you'll just be throwing your life away."
Cheng Xiao had been calculating Long Yingxue's strength.
The dragon bloodline is incredibly powerful; a Nascent Soul cultivator could easily defeat a human at the peak of the Nascent Soul stage.
These people were insignificant in his eyes, and they couldn't even withstand the pressure released by his divine soul. But he was just an "ordinary cultivator" at the Great Perfection of the Foundation Establishment stage.
These matters should still be handled by Long Yingxue.
"Alright, I know, I know, I'll start cultivating faster." Long Yingxue grabbed Cheng Xiao's hands with both of her small hands and drew circles in his palms.
She had long since grown accustomed to this aloof and awkward boy.
For children, indifference is just a protective shield.
How could a dragon who has lived for thousands of years possibly argue with a child?
After placing Zhao Chen's body in a conspicuous place, Cheng Xiao led Long Yingxue away via a side path, the path they usually took to cultivate.
"Let's run away! Let's run away!" Long Yingxue was actually quite excited.
Once, her heart was filled with hatred.
But ever since she met this human who shared her plight, she felt that having someone to keep her company wasn't so bad.
They grew stronger together and sought revenge together.
There is nothing in this world that can rival them!
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It wasn't until evening that Zhao Chen's body was discovered by his servants.
Everyone was busy preparing for the hunting festival in the front yard, and no one noticed the strange occurrence here.
When they found him, Zhao Chen was already dead, and his death was extremely gruesome. He had been slapped to death, and his spine had been broken.
Upon hearing the news, the entire Zhao family rushed to the Cheng family, crying and begging for an explanation.
How could their people have died so inexplicably?
The Zhao family is the maternal family of the current head of the Cheng family, the third concubine, and also Chengxian's maternal maternal family.
Because the third concubine was favored, they had more say.
Upon learning of Zhao Chen's death, Cheng Wanshan, the current head of the Cheng family, led several elders to the Spirit Beast Garden immediately.
"What exactly happened?" Cheng Wanshan looked at Zhao Chen's miserable corpse, his face ashen.
Although he was just an insignificant person, he did die during their wedding season, and at the very time of the New Year, which was not a good omen.
Aunt Zhao and her family members stood by, wailing and lamenting.
"Master, Chen'er was slapped to death! Within the Cheng family, who would dare to lay such a heavy hand on him!"
The elder stepped forward to examine Zhao Chen's injuries, his brows furrowing.
"A single, fatal blow, without any fluctuation of spiritual energy, relying solely on terrifying physical strength—could it be that some high-level spirit beast in the garden has broken free of its restraints and gone berserk?"
Cheng Wanshan was getting a headache from the incessant crying.
He roared, "Whether it's a human or a beast, find out the truth! Drag that good-for-nothing Cheng Xiao, who lives in the Spirit Beast Garden, out for questioning! Outsiders can't get in; he's here every day, there's no way he didn't see anything!"
Several guards immediately obeyed the order and kicked open the door of Cheng Xiao's dilapidated villa.
A moment later, the guard ran back in a panic: "Master! There's no one inside, Cheng Xiao has escaped!"
"They ran away?" Cheng Wanshan was taken aback at first, then laughed angrily.
He quickly understood the whole story.
My good son, even after having his spirit bones removed, was able to recover.
Zhao Chen and Cheng Xian are cousins and were very close. It's obvious that Zhao Chen was killed by Cheng Xiao.
"Good, this little piece of trash actually dared to kill someone and flee? Conduct a city-wide manhunt..."
Before he could finish speaking, the steward in charge of the Spirit Beast Garden scrambled out from the depths of the garden.
The steward knelt down in front of Cheng Wanshan with a thud, holding a thick account book in his hand, trembling like a sieve.
"Master, it's a small matter that Cheng Xiao has escaped, but you must go inside and check! He's eaten our entire Spirit Beast Garden!"
"Eaten it all? What do you mean?" Cheng Wanshan frowned, a sense of foreboding suddenly rising in his heart.
The group followed the steward to the edge of the Ten Thousand Snake Cave.
Looking down, Cheng Wanshan and several elders gasped in shock, and even the Zhao family members who were still wiping away tears were stunned.
The once densely packed venomous snakes are all gone!
At the bottom of the pit, only a thick layer of snake skin and shriveled snake bones remained.
The demon king that was originally used to suppress evil spirits is now nothing but a skeleton.
The steward opened the ledger and began to read aloud while weeping.
"Not just the Serpent's Den! In the past six months, in Area A, the three second-tier Bloodthirsty Wind Wolves have had their life force drained; in Area B, the most precious venomous spiders have had their venom glands completely emptied; and in Area C, all kinds of herbs have been uprooted, and even two layers of soil have been eaten away! And, and..."
The steward read for a long time before finally finishing recounting the losses suffered by the Spirit Beast Garden.
Even with the Cheng family's large and prosperous business, it couldn't withstand such a huge loss, suffering a severe blow to its vitality.
As the manager recounted the specific losses one by one, Cheng Wanshan completely lost his composure.
That's all the foundation that Cheng Jia built with real money and massive resources!
It is the capital that enables a family to establish itself in this region.
After hearing the manager's report, everyone thought it was absurd.
No one could have imagined that Cheng Xiao would use so many resources, and that it would take so long to be discovered.
If Zhao Chen hadn't died, we don't know when we would have been able to find him.
I don't know if this kid fled to avoid punishment, or if there's really nothing in the Spirit Beast Garden that he finds appealing.
After all, he had already taken everything he wanted.
"No wonder the food expenses reported by the Spirit Beast Garden have tripled in the past two weeks! I thought it was because the spirit beasts were in their breeding season and had big appetites, but it turns out they've all gone into their bellies! They're using our family's resources to feed their own tamed beasts!"
The elder was so angry that he trembled all over and pointed at the empty snake pit, cursing loudly.
Compared to Zhao Chen's death, these economic losses are what truly bleed Cheng Wanshan's heart.
How much is Zhao Chen's life worth?
The high-level demonic beasts and herbs that fill this garden are the lifeblood of Chengjia!
"Useless! A bunch of useless trash! Half a year! He's been causing trouble right under our noses for half a year, and you only just discovered it today?" Cheng Wanshan angrily slammed his palm down on a nearby stone pillar, shattering it instantly.
The head of the Cheng family had a bad reputation, and his influence extended to those below him. In fact, the entire Cheng family was already riddled with problems.
Those in charge don't do their jobs, and those who do the work don't do their jobs; they're all thinking about how to benefit themselves.
But in Cheng Wanshan's eyes, this was not his fault at all. How could he be wrong?
His eyes were bloodshot as he roared, "Issue my patriarch's order! Immediately gather all the elite inner sect assassins! Bring that little beast back to me! I want to tear his tendons out, drink his blood, and stew him to make up for my losses!"
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"When do you think the Cheng family will realize how badly we've ruined their spirit beast garden?" Long Yingxue asked curiously as they walked.
In the past six months, they have used quite a few things inside to cultivate.
It's like eating at a buffet.
"It should be tonight," Cheng Xiao replied.
He estimated that he had left a loophole in the Cheng family's defenses, and that the pursuers would catch up soon. These pursuers were the whetstones he had prepared for Long Yingxue.
Since the Cheng family had taken the original owner's supreme spiritual bone, he didn't mind making them pay some interest before the Cheng family was destroyed.
"Luckily we ran away, otherwise they would have found out sooner." Long Yingxue said gloatingly.
She only regretted that she hadn't eaten fast enough or enough, and hadn't eaten back everything that Chengjia owed Chengxiao.
After leaving their home, the two went to an inn together.
The waiter greeted them warmly: "Two guests are checking in?"
After asking the question, he didn't forget to flatter her: "Guest, your daughter is so lovely. How about I prepare a superior room for you? Don't let your daughter suffer."
The waiter also promoted the products.
Upon hearing this, Long Yingxue was somewhat displeased. She tilted her head back and said to the waiter in her childish, adorable voice, "What daughter? I'm not his daughter! I'm his mother!"