Chapter 278 - 38: 2 Years Later, Another Class Change

Chapter 278: Chapter 38: 2 Years Later, Another Class Change

Du Wei was stunned, his face a mask of confusion and bewilderment.

’What Chen Ye? What is he talking about?’

But in the next second, a will so powerful it was irresistible, like a red-hot branding iron, fiercely pierced his mind!

"AHH—!"

Du Wei let out a blood-curdling scream, feeling as if his very soul was being torn apart.

Countless memories that weren’t his own were forcibly crammed into his head.

He was Chen Ye, a Swordsman from Yu Huo County, hunted across the land for killing someone from Celestial Sword Manor...

These memories were so real, and so painful.

Du Wei’s expression shifted from fear to struggle, then to confusion, before finally becoming vacant and numb.

Jian Wuchen saw his state and knew the alteration via his Divine Thought had succeeded.

To make this "Chen Ye" look more convincing, he walked over and casually carved several deep gashes into the man’s bloodless, fear-stricken face with the longsword in his hand.

Fresh blood streamed from the wounds, making the face ferocious and terrifying.

"These are the wounds you sustained when I captured you," Jian Wuchen said coldly.

Then, he took a long saber from his Storage Pouch and threw it at Du Wei’s feet.

"This is your saber."

Having done all this, Jian Wuchen straightened up. He looked at the murderer he had created with his own hands, a satisfied smile gracing his lips. He then turned to the four disciples and announced loudly, "The criminal, Chen Ye, has been apprehended by me on the spot!"

The four disciples, ever so quick-witted, immediately congratulated him in unison. "Congratulations, Young Manor Master, on capturing the scoundrel."

Jian Wuchen laughed heartily and waved his hand. "Let’s go. Back to the city."

「One day later, in Qingzhou City.」

"Have you heard? The Young Manor Master of Celestial Sword Manor personally went out and captured that criminal, Chen Ye!"

"For real? Didn’t they say that guy hid in the Southern Wilderness Mountain Range? That place is forbidden ground!"

"Hah! Forbidden ground or not, it’s nothing to our Young Master Jian! I heard the Young Manor Master went into the deep mountains all by himself, with just his sword, and brought the man back alive!"

"Heavens, the Young Manor Master is incredible!"

News of Jian Wuchen capturing Chen Ye spread through Qingzhou Prefecture City as if it had grown wings, covering the entire city in a single day.

For a time, in every teahouse and tavern, on every street corner and back alley, everyone was discussing the matter.

The malicious rumors that had been spreading due to Celestial Sword Manor’s previous failure to capture the fugitive vanished like smoke, replaced by overwhelming praise and flattery for Jian Wuchen.

All of this, of course, was the result of Celestial Sword Manor’s deliberate manipulation from behind the scenes.

Meanwhile, outside the Celestial Sword Manor’s residence in the west of the city, Xiao Hongye stood at the gate with a dazed expression.

She no longer possessed the high spirits she’d had back in Yu Huo County; she looked as if she had aged a great deal.

After all, she had spent nearly every day of this period with her face awash in tears, barely sleeping a wink. The moment she closed her eyes, the image of her sister, decapitated, would flash before them.

So when she heard the news that the murderer had been captured, it was as if a ray of light had finally pierced the world of sorrow and hatred that filled her heart.

She had then rushed over, heedless of everything, wanting to see the demon who killed her sister with her own eyes and ask him personally why he had been so vicious!

However, she was stopped.

Two Celestial Sword Manor disciples guarding the gate stood before her like a pair of iron towers, their faces expressionless.

"I’m sorry, Miss Xiao. The Young Manor Master has given an order that no one is to visit the criminal."

Xiao Hongye was stunned. She couldn’t believe her ears.

"Why?" she demanded, her voice trembling. "I am Xiao Zhanbai’s sister! I’m the victim’s family! Why can’t I see him?"

"It is the Young Manor Master’s order. We are only carrying it out." The guard’s reply was cold and mechanical.

"I want to see Jian Wuchen! Let me see him!" Xiao Hongye was practically screaming.

"The Young Manor Master is in secluded Cultivation and is not seeing visitors."

’Secluded Cultivation?’

Xiao Hongye’s heart sank.

’That excuse is far too clumsy.’

’He clearly just doesn’t want to see me!’

’Why?’

’Why can’t even I, the most aggrieved party, see the murderer?’

But there was no point in saying anything more now. In the end, Xiao Hongye could only leave, completely crestfallen.

Three days later, Celestial Sword Manor formally announced that at Noon that day, on the execution platform in the center of Qingzhou Prefecture City, the murderer Chen Ye would be publicly executed as a warning to others.

The moment the news broke, the entire city was in an uproar.

On this day, it felt as if the entire population of Qingzhou Prefecture City had turned out for the event.

The great plaza in the city center was packed early on with a dense, impenetrable crowd. There were local mortals, but even more numerous were the Cultivators from all corners of the land.

They had all come to watch the spectacle.

To see how Celestial Sword Manor would use its thunderous methods to display its authority as the hegemon of Qingzhou.

And in a tavern across from the execution ground, a burly man carrying a broadsword on his back was drinking silently.

It was none other than the Mad Swordsman, Xue Shan.

At this moment, he watched the distant, high-raised execution platform with a complicated expression.

He and Chen Ye had hit it off immediately when they first met on the second floor of the trading hall. Xue Shan had been astounded by Chen Ye’s Talent in the Saber Technique and believed the man was destined for great things. As he had expected, it wasn’t long before Chen Ye caused several major incidents.

Unfortunately, the final result was so tragic.

Xue Shan wanted to save Chen Ye, but facing a behemoth like Celestial Sword Manor, all he could do was sigh in helplessness. He could only come early to see Chen Ye off on his final journey.