I Tame Beasts by Feeding

Chapter 70: Chapter 69: Jealousy Makes One Unrecognizable

"Damn it, that old bastard!"

Tang Tu Hong’s expression was grim, his heart fraught with anxiety.

’Things have come to this... It’s going to be impossible to destroy the Yu Family now!’

Seeing Yu Taoran raise his Wooden Sword, he immediately retracted his Great Cauldron and flew toward the Chen Family’s estate. At the same time, he let out a long cry to warn the disciples still on the Yu Family grounds.

"All disciples, retreat immediately!"

Hearing this, several Tang Family disciples were stunned, while some from the Chen Family were at a complete loss.

Chen Yuanbai looked up and realized that Chen Mingze and Tang Tu Hong had been defeated. His heart sank to the depths of despair, and he yelled frantically.

"No! Fellow Daoist Tang! You can’t leave!"

However, Tang Tu Hong didn’t even turn his head. He wouldn’t even spare a thought for his own clansmen, let alone an unrelated person like Chen Yuanbai. In the end, his own life was what mattered most.

Yu Taoran’s gaze shifted downward. He didn’t pursue Tang Tu Hong, for many enemies were still slaughtering people on the Yu Family grounds. His priority was to protect his clan!

SWOOSH!

The sword fell from mid-air, cleaving straight down at Chen Yuanbai. The nearby Red Snake and Iron Carving King were so frightened they scrambled to get out of the way, terrified of being caught in the attack.

But Yu Taoran’s sword was too fast, too precise!

"AHHH!"

Chen Yuanbai roared, raising eight Flying Sabers. He tried to block the attack while simultaneously attempting to use a Body Technique to evade.

However, the sword strike sent his Flying Sabers flying hundreds of meters away, and a terrifying Sword Intent pierced his body.

SPLAT!

Chen Yuanbai spat out a mouthful of blood and slowly crumpled to his knees. His eyes were vacant. He was thoroughly dead.

In Yu Taoran’s eyes, his strength was even less than Chen Mingze’s—otherwise, he wouldn’t have been able to heavily wound him with a single strike the last time they fought.

As the corpse fell to the ground, the Red Snake King’s eyes darted about. After a quick glance at Yu Changsheng and Yu Taoran, it slithered over stealthily, opened its mouth wide, and swallowed the body in one gulp.

Ever since it had eaten Luo Lesheng, it no longer seemed to have any aversion to eating people. In fact, it was quite enthusiastic about it. It was hard to say whether it was the taste or the addictive benefits that came after digestion.

Yu Taoran landed steadily within the Yu Family compound. Gazing at his battle-scarred home, his eyes turned incomparably cold. He used his Sword Control Skill to manipulate three Wooden Swords, killing the nearest Chen Family Qi Refining Cultivators.

As for the more distant Tang Family Cultivators, they had already scattered, and he no longer had the energy to give chase.

Soon, Yu Taoran finished clearing the Yu Family grounds. The number of their surviving Cultivators had been cut in half.

Yu Chenghe, Yu Zhiguo, Yu Changao, and the other members of the Direct Lineage were all injured, but thankfully, their lives weren’t in danger.

"Grandfather." Yu Changsheng came before Yu Taoran, his expression tinged with grief. Many of the clansmen he had grown up with had died in the battle, and he would never see them again.

"You did very well."

Yu Taoran looked at him and nodded, then turned to ask Yu Chenghe.

"How are the clan members who were in the rear courtyard?"

Those clan members had been evacuated when the Defensive Array was breached. They were all mortals without any Cultivation.

But these mortals were the very foundation of the Yu Family. Every year, new clansmen with Spirit Roots were born from among them, and they helped manage the majority of the Yu Family’s businesses.

If they were all killed, the Yu Family would be as good as annihilated...

Yu Chenghe replied, "They were protected by two Qi Refining Cultivators. A Chen Family disciple discovered them en route. Thankfully, the casualties weren’t severe, but it will still take several years for our numbers to recover."

Yu Taoran nodded and planted one of the Wooden Swords in the ground. "I’m leaving the family in your hands," he said. "Take care of everyone and reactivate the Defensive Array. I’m leaving this sword for you. If any Qi Refining Peak cultivators show up, you can use it to drive them back."

After speaking, Yu Taoran imbued the Wooden Sword with a trace of his Sword Intent. His face instantly paled, and he seemed to age several years in that moment.

"Yes, Father," Yu Chenghe replied with conviction.

Yu Taoran turned around. His body was that of an old man, but his eyes were unchanging as they stared toward the distant Chen Family estate, a murderous intent kindling within him.

"Let’s go. Grandfather is taking you to do some killing."

Yu Taoran said to Yu Changsheng, who was beside him, "Today, the Chen Family will be erased from Bright Moon City. As for the Tang Family, we’ll settle that score later. First, we will kill the one who plotted against you!"

Yu Changsheng nodded, his feelings complex. He recalled the Red Snake King into his Inner Realm, mounted the Iron Carving King, and followed Yu Taoran as they flew toward the Chen Family estate.

The Sword Flight of a Sword Cultivator was truly fast. This was especially true for Yu Taoran, whose Realm was several levels higher than Yu Changsheng’s. Even with the Iron Carving King flapping its wings with all its might, it couldn’t keep up.

"Uncle! You’re back!"

"It looks like the Yu Family is finished. That man must be dead at your hands by now, right, Uncle?"

A smile spread across Tang Xing’s face as he saw his uncle return. But as he went to greet him, he saw his uncle’s dark expression and couldn’t help but ask in surprise.

"Uncle, why the long face?"

"No time to explain! Come with me, quickly!"

Tang Tu Hong grabbed Tang Xing and started running, not even daring to take a breath.

"What? What is it? Don’t tell me something went wrong with the Yu Family?"

’Even if that Yu Taoran is strong,’ he thought, ’can he really take on all of us by himself?’

"The Xi Family got involved! We didn’t kill Yu Taoran. By now, the Chen Family’s Qi Refining Peak experts have likely all been killed at the Yu estate."

Tang Tu Hong’s words made Tang Xing’s face turn deathly pale.

At that moment, the other Qi Refining Cultivators still stationed at the Chen Family estate swarmed over, asking about their Patriarch.

"Get out of my way!" Tang Tu Hong roared. He sent a Qi Refining Cultivator flying with his Great Cauldron, then grabbed Tang Xing and flew out of the Chen estate.

However, that brief delay was all it took for them to run right into Yu Taoran.

"And where might you two be off to?"

"Allow me to see you off."

Yu Taoran’s figure landed before them, his Wooden Sword stabbing downward.

Facing the force of the sword, Tang Tu Hong immediately threw out his Great Cauldron, which whistled through the air.

BANG!

Amid the deafening crash, the ground buckled. The impact forced Tang Tu Hong back several steps. "Xing, run!" he screamed in terror.

’This Yu Taoran... how is he so strong!’

Tang Xing was scared senseless. Tang Tu Hong’s roar snapped him out of it, and he bolted down another path. But just as the wind currents began to gather at his feet, he froze.

The Iron Carving King was flying toward him, and standing upon its back was a familiar figure.

"S-Senior Brother!" Tang Xing’s eyes went wide.

Yu Changsheng watched him with a complicated gaze. "There was never any grudge between us," he said. "Why did you target me?"

Tang Xing stopped in his tracks and took a step back. A smile slowly crept across his face, growing more and more savage until he finally roared in fury.

"Why? You ask me why!"

"If it weren’t for you, I would have been the Direct Disciple! Do you have any idea how much I sacrificed to become the direct disciple of the Three-coin Fire Refining Technique?!"

"If you really want to know, it’s because your talent made me jealous! So jealous I wanted you dead."

Yu Changsheng looked at Tang Xing’s cold, sinister face and said calmly, "Is that so."

"Then let’s end it all here. Iron Carving King."

With that, Yu Changsheng dropped from the Iron Carving King’s back, letting it pounce on its target and unleash a Black Wind Slash.

"I was here first! Why should you get all the good things?!"

As if his mind had been clouded by rage, Tang Xing summoned a Great Cauldron and sent it crashing forward.

"Die!"