Chapter 576 - 574: Running Sheep

The Jiang Family’s Infinite Sword Array had just activated.

"Slaughter them all. Spare no one."

Simultaneously, Master Yuan Hui ordered the experts he had brought with him to charge the Jiang Family.

Even his apprentice, Jue Wu, flew swiftly into the Jiang Family’s residence while wielding a Zen Staff.

A bloodthirsty light shone in their eyes. They intended to slaughter the entire Jiang Family, decapitate every last one of them, and bring their heads back to Gambling City.

Eager to claim credit for the victory, each expert vied to be the one to take the most heads from the Jiang Family. Upon their return, they were certain to receive handsome rewards.

Thus, the more heads they took, the greater their rewards would be.

Faced with such a temptation, everyone gave it their all.

"National Preceptor, I will stand guard outside the Jiang Family estate. I swear not even a fly will escape. You can all proceed with the slaughter without worry."

Cyan Silkworm smirked inwardly, but he made his request to Master Yuan Hui with the utmost respect, eager to display his sincerity.

Master Yuan Hui was becoming increasingly satisfied with Wen Quan. ’This City Lord really knows how to get things done,’ he thought.

He nodded. "Good. You wouldn’t be much help inside anyway. Just stand guard out here. The Jiang Family is being completely wiped out this time. Don’t let a single person slip away."

After giving these instructions, he prepared to lead the charge into the Jiang Family’s residence.

In truth, Master Yuan Hui didn’t even need to act personally. The experts he’d brought were more than enough to annihilate the Jiang Family.

HUMMMMM...

At that very moment, an immense Sword Intent erupted from within the Jiang Family’s residence, soaring toward the heavens.

Its power was staggering.

Master Yuan Hui was startled.

’What’s going on? How could the Jiang Family possess such an astonishing Sword Intent?’

’This Sword Intent is powerful enough to kill me.’

Horror instantly seized Master Yuan Hui, and his expression changed drastically.

He had assumed they would eliminate the Jiang Family with ease, but as he felt this Sword Intent, a terrible premonition washed over him.

This was because the Sword Intent was powerful enough to strike terror into his heart and make it pound wildly in his chest.

He instinctively started to retreat.

But just as he began to fall back, a white mist abruptly appeared within the Jiang Family’s residence and expanded outward with incredible speed.

SWOOSH!

Even with his Cultivation at the Peak of Martial Arts Nine Heavens, Master Yuan Hui was enveloped by the white mist before he could react.

Cyan Silkworm and the guards from the City Lord’s Mansion were also caught within the mist.

’Damn it, how can this be happening?’

Master Yuan Hui paled in alarm.

He felt the world around him suddenly transform.

When his vision cleared, he found himself standing on a vast grassland.

The grassland was beautiful, filled with the fragrance of fresh grass and blooming flowers.

He also saw a flock of sheep, peacefully grazing on the grass.

It was an absolutely breathtaking scene.

The grassland stretched as far as the eye could see.

As he stood on the grassland, Master Yuan Hui’s robes fluttered in the gentle breeze.

But his heart was unusually heavy.

His expression was taut.

’This... This is a grand Array.’

’How could the Jiang Family possess such a heaven-defying Array? This formation... it feels completely real.’

Master Yuan Hui was utterly shocked. As an expert at the Peak of Martial Arts Nine Heavens, his insight was naturally exceptional.

He could tell at a glance that this was an Array.

And he was trapped within it.

The sky above the grassland was a brilliant, cloudless blue.

His gaze grew sharp.

’I refuse to believe a mere Array from the Jiang Family can contain me.’

With that, he gripped his Zen Staff, shot into the air, and violently smashed it against the sky.

BOOM!

The sky boomed from the force of his blow.

The next moment, the wind suddenly picked up over the once-clear sky, and a gale began to howl.

At the same time, dark clouds began to surge across the previously blue sky.

In the blink of an eye, the black clouds blotted out the sky.

The atmosphere instantly grew heavy.

Master Yuan Hui landed back on the ground, his face ashen.

’Damn it! This Array is too powerful. I can’t break through.’

He was shocked once again.

Not only had he failed to break the Array, but he seemed to have provoked it.

Now, the wind raged, and the very color of the world seemed to change.

A torrential, gloomy rain seemed ready to pour from the sky.

He looked up at the dark clouds.

Master Yuan Hui searched for a flaw in the Array, but in the next moment, he trembled violently.

He stared fixedly at the sky.

Brilliant silver lights had begun to appear within the oppressive dark clouds.

Their appearance was sudden, yet it also seemed entirely natural, as if they had been there all along.

Then, the silver lights transformed into gleaming swords.

After the first sword appeared, more and more blades materialized, soon hanging densely packed across the entire sky.

All the swords hung inverted in the sky.

Their sharp tips pointed toward the ground.

BOOM!

Even with his vast experience, the sight shook Master Yuan Hui to his very core.

’This is a Killing Array! What a terrifying Killing Array... It can manifest countless blades of Sword Intent!’

’The Sword Intent that erupted from the Jiang Family earlier must have come from this Array.’

His body trembled slightly as he stared at the dense curtain of swords in the sky.

He felt a sliver of fear.

RUMBLE!

A muffled clap of thunder echoed, as if the sky itself had been startled awake.

The sound echoed throughout this entire world.

At that moment, the countless swords in the sky suddenly moved.

Each sword plummeted from the heavens, like individual drops in a storm.

Dense and endless.

All of them rained down upon the grassland where Master Yuan Hui stood.

As the torrent of swords descended, the once-peaceful sheep were startled into a panic, stampeding wildly across the grassland.

They were in a state of utter panic, their eyes filled with despair.

The eyes of each sheep held complex, human-like expressions.

When Master Yuan Hui noticed the panicked sheep, his expression changed once more.

’These sheep... they aren’t really sheep.’

’Could they be the core of the Array?’

In a desperate bid for survival, Master Yuan Hui lunged toward one of the fastest-running sheep and brought his Zen Staff crashing down on it.

"Master!"

A bloodcurdling scream rang out. The sheep fell to the ground, coughing up blood unceasingly.

But the cry it let out was human.

Instantly, the sheep’s form changed, transforming into a person—a monk.

Master Yuan Hui’s eyes widened in disbelief.

In the next moment, his composure completely shattered.

"My apprentice!"

It was his apprentice, Jue Wu. An Illusion Technique within the Array had turned him into a sheep, and Master Yuan Hui had just struck him down with his Zen Staff.

Now, his apprentice lay covered in blood, on the verge of death.

Master Yuan Hui cradled his apprentice, Jue Wu, and cried out in agony.

However, the blow from his Zen Staff had been too powerful. It had been a fatal strike.

Jue Wu coughed up more blood, his gaze losing focus.

Yet he still managed to speak, his words broken.

"Master..."

"I... don’t... blame... you..."

Then, Jue Wu’s head lolled to the side, and he died on the spot.

A violent tremor ran through Master Yuan Hui as a sharp pain lanced through his chest.

He had killed his own apprentice with his own hands.

"Jiang Family... You detestable Jiang Family!"

Cradling his apprentice’s corpse, he let out a roar of grief and hatred across the grassland.

SHINK SHINK SHINK...

The countless swords had already descended.

"AHHHH...!"

In an instant, the fleeing sheep were obliterated by the rain of swords, reduced to nothing more than pulverized flesh and bone.

Then, upon death, the sheep strangely reverted to their human forms.

They were the very experts Master Yuan Hui had brought with him, all of them slaughtered by the swords falling from the sky.