Chapter 184: The Curtain Falls on Red Blood Mansion

Chapter 184: Chapter 184: The Curtain Falls on Red Blood Mansion

Yan Qi recognized most of the hundred or so people who had arrived with Chu Fan.

It wasn’t just Yan Qi; the dozen or so people slumped on the ground also recognized half of them.

If Yan Qi still couldn’t see that he’d been tricked, he wouldn’t have deserved to be the Sect Leader of the Red Blood Mansion for all these years.

He just couldn’t understand why Chu Fan was walking at the very front. Hadn’t he died on Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain?

Didn’t all the Six Sects and Eight Gates have a grudge against this Chu Fan?

Chu Fan descended from mid-air and slowly walked toward Yan Qi.

"Yan Qi, do you remember the slap and the kick you gave me more than three years ago? Do you remember sending people to the Celestial Derivation Sect with the heads of my five senior brothers just to humiliate me?"

"Insolent brat! Success has gone to your head," Yan Qi roared.

"Success? No. From the moment my master and senior brothers fell into your trap, everything I have done has been for this day. What goes around comes around. Heaven spares no one. For a sect like your Red Blood Mansion, one that has committed so many evils and incurred the wrath of all in the Eastern Domain, destruction is the only path."

The rage that had festered in Chu Fan’s chest for years was finally about to be unleashed.

Looking at the scene of devastation, with bodies and blood everywhere like a Purgatory on earth, an indescribable satisfaction welled up in his heart.

He never claimed to be a Saint. He was just a minor figure, one who could savor his vengeance.

He would pay any price for revenge.

Today, he had finally succeeded.

As for a sense of accomplishment from destroying the Red Blood Mansion—an enemy that not even one of the Six Sects and Eight Gates dared to fight with their full strength—did he feel any?

He had never even considered it.

He wanted to destroy the Red Blood Mansion simply for revenge, and, while he was at it, to bring a sliver of justice to the common people of the Eastern Domain who were still struggling to survive.

He originally had a thousand things he wanted to say to Yan Qi, to make him die filled with regret.

But now that the moment was here, he had lost the desire.

No matter how indomitable Yan Qi had once been, in the face of death, he was still just a mortal. He, too, would feel fear.

"So what? It wasn’t you, you insolent brat, who destroyed my Red Blood Mansion," Yan Qi sneered, his face contorted in a savage grin.

"Oh, you’d be surprised. Everything that’s happened recently was arranged by me. The founding of the Great Xia, for example. The stationing of Great Xia’s troops in Celestial Qi and Da Zhao. And what about your men at the foot of Taiyue Mountain? How did you know there wasn’t a predator waiting in the wings?"

As Chu Fan spoke, he crouched down and whispered a few words into Yan Qi’s ear.

It was only a few sentences, but Yan Qi’s once-mocking eyes suddenly bulged in shock. In an instant, they became so bloodshot they looked as if they might start dripping blood.

"I’ll kill you! I’ll kill you!" Yan Qi roared, clawing at Chu Fan with both hands.

Chu Fan simply took a small step back, leaving Yan Qi helpless.

Many people wanted to know what Chu Fan had whispered to make Yan Qi so crazed. For them, it was destined to remain a mystery forever.

Chu Fan had simply told him that he had impersonated members of the Red Blood Mansion to kill many from the Six Sects and Eight Gates, and had also posed as members of the Six Sects and Eight Gates to kill many from the Red Blood Mansion. That was why the Six Sects and Eight Gates had held the Tengxing Grand Assembly to unite against the Red Blood Mansion.

"And one last thing. Right now, my two Mercenary Corps and the Dark Night Envoys are wiping out the Cultivators you stationed on the borders of Da Zhao and Celestial Qi. Every sect affiliated with your Red Blood Mansion will be buried with you. So, have a safe trip!"

After he finished speaking, Chu Fan swung his Juntian Sword. The head of a titan of his generation flew into the air. With another swing, a wave of Sword Qi struck the head, blasting it into a shower of blood and gore.

Chu Fan’s viciousness gave the Sect Leaders and Elders behind him a new understanding of him.

This was a young man with a boundless future, a young man who was ruthless and cruel, and a young man who would seek revenge for the smallest slight.

In the end, they came to one conclusion: if you made an enemy of this young man, you had to either kill him in one fell swoop, leaving no chance of survival, or he would become your lifelong nightmare.

Who among them, including Yun Xi who was closest to Chu Fan, could have ever imagined three years ago that this day would come?

The Red Blood Mansion!

Lingyun Sect’s Supreme Elder Ling Zhexing and his five beloved disciples were tragically killed by the Red Blood Mansion’s schemes. And what did the Lingyun Sect do? Forget about seeking revenge; they didn’t even dare to ask for the bodies back. Instead, they expelled the prodigious talent who had contributed so much to their cause from the sect.

The Celestial Derivation Sect suffered immense humiliation at the hands of the Red Blood Mansion, not to mention their Medicine Valley was destroyed. But what did they dare to do about it?

And yet, this behemoth had been destroyed in just three short years.

Moreover, the young man who destroyed this behemoth did so through scheming, even causing several enemy sects to fall along with it.

He didn’t just kill with a borrowed knife; he broke the knife he borrowed in the process.

The Celestial Sect, the Wuji Sect, the Celestial Derivation Sect... what place would these three sects have in the future of the Eastern Domain Cultivation Realm?

The few remaining Elders and Stewards from those three sects now understood everything.

"Chu Fan, you’ll die a dog’s death! And all of you sanctimonious rats!" one of the Celestial Derivation Sect’s Elders spat, his eyes practically splitting with rage.

"I’ll die a dog’s death?" Chu Fan chuckled and shook his head.

"It seems the Celestial Derivation Sect has forgotten how you treated me more than three years ago. Don’t you believe that the strong reign supreme? Back then, I was an ant, so your Celestial Derivation Sect could completely disregard the thoughts of an ant like me. Today, the roles are simply reversed. Besides, if your sect hadn’t reached this point, if I were still as I was before, would you people from the Celestial Derivation Sect have shown me any mercy if you saw me?"

"You..."

The man from the Celestial Derivation Sect was rendered speechless by Chu Fan’s words.

"What about our Celestial Sect? When did we ever offend you?"

"The Celestial Sect? For that, you can only blame your stubborn and unyielding Sect Leader. While I had some minor grievances with your Celestial Sect, it was never a matter of life and death. The blame lies with your Sect Leader’s selfishness. Anyone who stands in the way of the Eastern Domain’s unification is an enemy of mine, Chu Fan."

Chu Fan normally wouldn’t deign to explain himself to a dying man. He said all this merely as a warning to the sects behind him who might be outwardly agreeable but secretly plotting trouble.

Riding the momentum of this great victory, a time when his influence was unparalleled, he certainly wasn’t going to miss such a good opportunity to put them in their place.

"To lessen their suffering, kill them all," Chu Fan said, waving a hand at Jing’an.

"You... you..." The dozen or so people never expected Chu Fan to order their deaths so casually.

Some people behind Chu Fan even wanted to intervene, but after a moment’s thought, they held back.

Jing’an’s sword rose and fell. Ignoring the pleas for mercy, he cut down the dozen or so people in a matter of moments.

"Ji Bufan, notify Liu Yisheng, Qi Biao, and Zhou Yi. Conduct a domain-wide hunt for everyone associated with the Red Blood Mansion in the Eastern Domain."

"What should be done with the remaining members of the Celestial Sect, the Celestial Derivation Sect, and the Wuji Sect?"

The one who asked was Li Qingyuan. In the end, he didn’t wish for the slaughter to be too excessive.

"I’ve already made arrangements for those three sects. This land will not fall into chaos," Chu Fan said, his gaze hardening as he swept it across the crowd.

That single sentence, that single glance, made many hearts tremble.

Who present could have ever imagined that a single sentence from Chu Fan would plunge the entire Eastern Domain into a storm of blood and violence that would last for more than half a year?

"I have already fulfilled more than half of my promise to you all. The Red Blood Mansion is no more, and its remaining dregs won’t survive much longer. The unification of the Eastern Domain is inevitable. Everyone, return to your sects and make arrangements. In one month, the Sect Leaders will all gather in Shuoyue City to discuss the laws of Cultivation and establish a Cultivation Government Office," Chu Fan said, clasping his hands in a salute to the Sect Leaders and Elders.

"Rest assured. Since we have already agreed to all of this, we will absolutely not go back on our word or feign compliance," Li Qingyuan was the first to promise, as always.

The others all gave their assurances one by one.

Then, everyone prepared to take their leave.

"The people from the Lingyun Sect, wait a moment. We still have a score to settle. You haven’t forgotten, have you?"