Chapter 103: Red Blood Mansion and Wuji Sect

Chapter 103: Chapter 103: Red Blood Mansion and Wuji Sect

The Mixed Element Sect had been in seclusion for several months, so they were unaware of recent events in the Eastern Domain. Otherwise, they would have arranged for at least one or two Elders to follow along.

This area was, after all, part of the Yandang Mountain region. If something were to happen, it would only take a Martial Artist at the Nascent Soul Realm or higher half an hour to get here from the Mixed Element Sect.

How could they have imagined that someone would kill their Mixed Element Sect members right on their doorstep and even steal their supplies?

With Lin Shumin, a Saint Heir at Golden Core Realm Tier Five, leading the team, what did they have to worry about?

And so, disaster struck Lin Shumin.

A total of nineteen Mixed Element Sect Disciples, including Lin Shumin, were all slaughtered.

Actually, one could say Lin Shumin was lucky. Chu Fan’s Sword had gone just slightly astray, piercing him right at the edge of his heart. Although he too collapsed in a pool of blood, he didn’t die.

As for the laborers transporting the grain, Chu Fan had knocked them all unconscious.

Afterward, Chu Fan stored all the grain in the Juntian Mirror World, and he and Yun Xi made their escape.

By sunset, the Mixed Element Sect noticed the Saint Heir’s grain transport team had not returned. The Great Elder, Lin Kangbo, went to search for them himself and, along the way, discovered the Mixed Element Sect Disciples lying dead in pools of blood.

In a fit of rage, Lin Kangbo let out a long, mournful cry that shook the valley.

"Who was it? Who could have done this? I will tear you to a million pieces!"

As Lin Kangbo was collecting the bodies, he discovered that his son, astonishingly, still had a breath left in him. He hurriedly circulated his energy to transfer True Qi into him.

It was fortunate that Lin Shumin had been delayed at the tailor shop for over two hours. Otherwise, if they had started their return journey two hours earlier, by the time Lin Kangbo came searching, Lin Shumin would have long since bled to death.

Of course, since Chu Fan had intended to spare Lin Shumin’s life, he surely had other methods to ensure it.

Lin Kangbo managed to save Lin Shumin. Through Lin Shumin’s weak, tearful account, Lin Kangbo learned that this was the work of the Red Blood Mansion.

Moreover, when Lin Kangbo heard his son say it was people from the Red Blood Mansion, not only did he not have the slightest doubt, he was utterly convinced.

After all, the Six Sects and Eight Gates were all too preoccupied to fend for themselves right now. Who else could have done such a thing?

And even if some minor sect had dared to do this, they wouldn’t have dared to frame the Red Blood Mansion.

’Two people could never have taken that much grain. Either they have a Storage Ring, or they had other people providing support.’

’In either case, those two must hold a high status within the Red Blood Mansion.’

After thinking this through, Lin Kangbo ignored the unconscious laborers and dead Mixed Element Sect Disciples on the ground. He fed Lin Shumin a healing Elixir, helped him up, and flew into the air.

After a fruitless search in the city, he returned directly to the Sect.

Having suffered such a massive loss, the Mixed Element Sect naturally had to discuss how they were going to settle the score with the Red Blood Mansion.

If word of this got out, wouldn’t the Mixed Element Sect lose all face?

And just as the Mixed Element Sect was arguing endlessly over how to deal with the Red Blood Mansion, thousands of miles away, the Wuji Sect was already on high alert.

Red Blood Mansion’s Sect Leader, Yan Qi, and Supreme Elder, Qiao Tai, had personally led over three thousand of their sect’s disciples to the gates of the Wuji Sect.

In the end, Yan Qi couldn’t overrule Qiao Tai and could only compromise. As long as the Wuji Sect handed over Bao Zhishuang, Zhu Zishu, and anyone else who had killed Red Blood Mansion Disciples, and compensated them with two Spirit Stone Veins, the Red Blood Mansion would let the matter rest.

Otherwise, even if it meant mutual destruction, the Red Blood Mansion would drag the Wuji Sect down with them.

Therefore, these three thousand people were all elite Disciples of the Red Blood Mansion, and fifteen of their Elders and Stewards had come as well.

With such a formidable lineup, Yan Qi believed the Wuji Sect would know what choice to make.

When Wuji Sect’s Sect Leader, Yu Haiyuan, saw the Red Blood Mansion arrive with such a massive, mobilized force, he simultaneously ordered his Sect’s Disciples to assemble to face the enemy while flying to the gates to demand an explanation.

"Yan Qi, has your Red Blood Mansion brought such a force to the gates of my Wuji Sect today just to show off your might?"

"Show off my ass! Yu Haiyuan, let’s not play games. Your Wuji Sect has been quite something this past month! Your Disciples have been ambushing and killing my Red Blood Mansion’s people all over the place," Yan Qi roared.

Yu Haiyuan immediately cursed back, "Bullshit! For over three months, not a single one of our Wuji Sect Disciples has taken a single step outside our gates! Do you think the Wuji Sect has the ability to kill people from a thousand miles away? Yan Qi, let’s not play games. If your Red Blood Mansion truly intends to destroy our Wuji Sect, then let’s settle it with our Swords! Why bother making up these excuses?"

Yan Qi flared up in anger at Yu Haiyuan’s words. He had come with the intention of settling the matter peacefully. As long as the Wuji Sect handed over the culprits and offered some compensation, he could quell Supreme Elder Qiao Tai’s anger, and the whole affair would be over.

’Who would have thought this old bastard Yu Haiyuan would be so shameless, telling bare-faced lies and refusing to admit a thing?’

’If it were just one or two people from the Wuji Sect, it could be overlooked. But over the past month, in many different counties, more than ten people from the Wuji Sect have been involved. There are eyewitnesses for all of this.’

’Even if someone were trying to frame them and incite conflict between the Red Blood Mansion and the Wuji Sect, who could possibly have such ability? Who could find more than ten people who just so happen to look exactly like Wuji Sect members? And with such high Cultivation levels, no less?’

"Yu Haiyuan, you sound so certain. Do you dare bring out the dozen or so individuals I’m about to name for a face-to-face confrontation?"

"If we did it, we did it; if we didn’t, we didn’t. When have I, Yu Haiyuan, ever shirked my responsibility? It’s just a face-to-face confrontation. What’s there to fear?" Yu Haiyuan declared.

"Zhu Zishu, Bao Zhishuang, Li Xinnian, Qi Dagui... Call all of them here!" Yan Qi said, reading off the names one by one.

Yu Haiyuan put on a brave front, but how could he not be afraid of a genuine war breaking out with the Red Blood Mansion?

Although the Wuji Sect would be fighting on their home ground, they had lost several Elders on the eighth day of the twelfth month last year. Even if the Wuji Sect could win today, it would undoubtedly be a pyrrhic victory.

"Fine. You just wait!"

Yu Haiyuan immediately sent someone to summon the dozen or so individuals Yan Qi had named.

The moment Qiao Tai saw Zhu Zishu and Bao Zhishuang, his eyes instantly turned red. If not for his prior agreement with Yan Qi, he would have flayed them alive and torn out their tendons right then and there.

"Bao Zhishuang, do you know the Pavilion Master of Hanxuan Pavilion?" Yan Qi demanded.

"Hanxuan Pavilion... I have heard of it, but as for their Pavilion Master, I have never had the pleasure of meeting him. I wonder why Sect Leader Yan asks this?" Bao Zhishuang said, looking very confused.

Hearing this, Qiao Tai roared, "His name is Qiao Haishan, and he was my only son! Bao Zhishuang, you killed my child, and now you dare to stand there with your clever words and deny it?"

"Senior, I truly don’t know what you’re talking about. The last time I left the Sect was for the Tengxing Grand Assembly the year before last. Since then, I have been within the sect gates, training Disciples. When could I have possibly killed anyone?" Bao Zhishuang hurriedly explained.

At these words, Qiao Tai flew into a rage and was about to strike, but Yan Qi stopped him.

Next, Yan Qi questioned the others.

Since no one from the Wuji Sect had actually done these things, they naturally denied everything, each of them wearing an expression of shock and confusion.

But in the eyes of the Red Blood Mansion members, their expressions were just an act of feigning ignorance and refusing to confess.

"Heh heh!" Yan Qi laughed, his anger turning to ridicule. "The Wuji Sect is, at the very least, one of the Six Sects and Eight Gates, one of the top powers in the Eastern Domain Cultivation Realm. I never thought the Wuji Sect was full of spineless cowards. You dare to do it, but not dare to admit it?"

"If you don’t dare to admit it, then how did you dare to provoke my Red Blood Mansion in the first place? How did you dare to slaughter hundreds of my Red Blood Mansion’s Disciples?"

"Yu Haiyuan, since you all stubbornly refuse to admit it, fine! Then we, the Red Blood Mansion, will collect this debt ourselves! A blood debt must be paid in blood!"