After muttering to himself, the man seemed to feel unsafe, and the next moment he immediately burrowed into the ground to leave his current location. Then he turned into a breathless corpse and lay motionless in a more hidden place far underground.
Inside the Wei family manor, the warrior in golden armor had already stood up. The corpse demon's body had died under the two palms that contained the might of heavenly thunder. Although there was still a strong smell of corpse, it was just an ordinary corpse and would soon rot. Ji Yuan no longer cared about it and let it fall to the ground.
At this moment, Ji Yuan was thinking about the so-called "Apocalypse Alliance" in his heart. No matter how he felt about this evil creature that called itself Corpse Nine, at least the Apocalypse Alliance should really exist, otherwise there was no way to explain Corpse Nine's motives. It was impossible for him to risk showing up just to talk about something that had nothing to do with tonight.
Ji Yuan knew that Shi Jiu also understood that no matter what he, as a corpse evil, said, Ji Yuan would definitely dislike him and they were not suitable to be friends. He just bluntly expressed his mentality of mutual benefit, which made Ji Yuan believe him more.
"Corpse Nine, Apocalypse Alliance..."
Ji Yuan turned sideways, and in his peripheral vision, he saw not only the giant feet of the golden-armored warrior, but also the Wei family members who were hit by the immobilization spell. Most of them had been blown to the ground by the hurricane. In the distance ahead was a residential area of the Wei family. The people there were furious, and there were also various gas phases changing, indicating the anxiety or excitement in people's hearts.
"these people… "
Ji Yuan didn't know what to say. Most of those who were hit by the immobilization spell were probably beyond saving, but there were actually some people hiding in the residential area over there. The situation of these people was naturally not as bad as the dozens of people who besieged them at night, but they were definitely not innocent either. At most, they had not yet developed into the direction of corpse refining.
"It's a pity that Luping City no longer has a City God..."
Back then, Ji Yuan and Niu Batian had already confirmed the situation in Luping City and knew that the City God had long since died. They also drove out a wolf demon in the city and killed it outside the city. The wolf-hair brush in Ji Yuan's hand came from this. Now it seems that the wolf demon was probably unable to deal with the City God at that time, and it is possible that it was Shi Jiu who did it.
Ji Yuan really couldn't find where Shi Jiu's true body was. All traces of the other party were cut off very cleanly. He must have made sufficient preparations to dare to show up. "Dream in the Clouds" and his translation must be on the other party. Ji Yuan certainly wanted to take it back, but he also knew that he couldn't for the time being. Moreover, even if an evil creature could understand this kind of book, it would not be of much help. The difference between the immortal way and the evil way is too great. Being able to see the immortal's spirit is just to appreciate the scenery in the distance. Ji Yuan didn't think that the other party could really turn over a new leaf. It would be good if he really did.
…
The next morning, outside the Luping City government office, several officers were yawning as they came to stand guard. Suddenly, one of them saw the situation in front of the government office gate: a lot of people were gathered in front.
"What's going on? Get out of the way, everyone!"
Several officers walked quickly forward, passing through the crowd that was talking at once, and saw that in an open space on the street outside the yamen, there were at least forty or fifty people kneeling there, both men and women, young and old, with their heads lowered and not daring to raise them. It didn't look like anyone was tied up or anything, so the situation was a bit strange.
"What's wrong? What are you doing kneeling in the government office? If there is a case, why don't you beat the drum to appeal? You are disturbing the public..."
The leading officer was originally very majestic, and his loud shouting made the people around him dare not make a sound and they all moved to the outside to avoid him. But suddenly he saw some familiar faces among the kneeling people, and the shouting stopped abruptly. He quickly walked up to one of the middle-aged men.
"Hey, isn't this Master Wei Qianfeng, and the Second and Third Madams Wei! Master Wei, you, what are you doing, please get up quickly, please get up quickly, if there is anything, just send someone to summon them..."
The officer hurriedly and diligently tried to support the "Master Wei" he was talking about, but the latter struggled and staggered a few times, and almost fell down, refusing to get up.
"Sir, I am guilty and dare not stand up. Please judge me."
"This, this, what crime has Lord Wei committed?"
While the leading officer was wondering, the other officers nearby also gathered together. They found that all those kneeling were members of the Wei family. It went without saying that something big must have happened to the Wei family.
More than an hour later, the news spread to all parts of Luping City. People were shocked when they heard it. It was said that these people from the Wei family came to surrender, and each of them was weak and had lost all their martial arts skills. What they confessed was even more horrifying.
All of these Wei clan members confessed what they had done over the years, practicing evil skills that harmed the heavens and harmed a large number of people in the underworld and ordinary people, and they were more demonic than human...
Finally, last night the immortal was enraged and he destroyed the Wei family overnight. Some of the most senior people in the Wei family were directly killed, and the remaining equally unclean people were deposed. He ordered them to surrender in Luping City and let the laws of the world judge them.
When this news came out, many people did not believe it at first, but it was difficult to explain what the Wei family was doing. It was impossible for so many people to go crazy. But later, some servants from the Wei family manor also fled into the city and told the story of the golden armored general as big as a mountain who appeared last night. One or two people said so, and ten or a hundred people said so, making people more and more inclined to believe it was the fact.
That morning, the Luping City government and some prominent and powerful people in the city sent people to the Wei family manor to check it out.
As a result, the Wei family manor seemed empty and quiet, with no one to be seen anywhere. Even the servants had all fled into Luping City. Traces of fighting could be seen in some places, and in some places even huge and exaggerated footprints could be seen.
Jiang Tong and the masters of the family stood on the roof of a guest hall of the Wei family, looking in the direction of various parts of the manor. People came to report to him one after another.
"Sir, apart from the people who came to investigate, there is not even a single servant left at the Wei family. I guess they are either dead or have fled."
"Sir, is this possible? Could it be that what those people from the Wei family who surrendered themselves said was true?"
Jiang Tong's scalp felt slightly numb. He recalled that he was drinking tea at the Wei family manor yesterday and was thinking about finding a chance to stay overnight.
"If it's true, how many people has the Wei family eaten over the years?"
"My lord, it could also be a vendetta or someone else's trick. You forgot that Iron Curtain stayed at the Wei family last night. This man is good at using iron punishment and his martial arts are unfathomable. It is very likely that someone from the Dazhen martial arts world took action and killed the Wei family overnight. Now that Dazhen is becoming more and more powerful, there will be a war with our ancestral Yue Kingdom sooner or later. Perhaps they have already started preparing in advance..."
"Maybe, but how do we explain those people from the Wei family who were kneeling at the gate of the government office? Were they all frightened out of their wits? Alas..."
In his heart, Jiang Tong was still more willing to believe the words of the Wei family's servants. Their mental state of excitement mixed with fear did not sound like nonsense, and the rest of the Wei family had absolutely no desire to resist.
As for Dazhen, who had an old grudge with the Zuyue Kingdom, Jiang Tong did not think too much about it. It would be too bold for him to think too much. Many knowledgeable people in the Zuyue Kingdom were extremely pessimistic about this.
The Wei family's affairs became a strange case in Luping City, but since the Wei family admitted that they had harmed so many people, many of whom were of high status in the underworld, there was no doubt that it would cause an uproar.
The Wei family has already fallen. As the news spreads, the reputation that the Wei family had previously built up in the martial arts world will only become even worse after its collapse. Some relatives and friends of the missing people in the martial arts world, especially those who can be confirmed to be on the list of victims, are furious when they hear about this.
The Luping City government office was still under tremendous pressure when trying the case. In the end, out of consideration for old friendship, only a very small number of the Wei family members who surrendered who were of lower status were directly sentenced to death. Most of the rest were exiled to distant places, but this path was likely to be a dead end, and might even be worse than those who were directly executed.
…
Ji Yuan had left long before dawn. He did not wipe out the Wei family himself, but left it to the human justice of Luping City and the martial arts world to judge. At this moment, he was flying away in the wind, relying on the vague sense of the chess pieces, heading in the direction of Lu Shanjun.
Around noon of the next day, Ji Yuan landed deep in a mountain whose name he did not know. Beside a stream in the mountain, Lu Shanjun was sitting cross-legged on a rock with his eyes closed in meditation. Spiritual energy surrounded him with a gentle breeze, and under the sunlight, the power of the sun gathered into tiny points of light floating in front of him.
While Lu Shanjun was practicing, small fish and loaches were swimming around in the stream beside him, pine trees were dancing not far away, wild rabbits were eating wild vegetables on the ground, and small birds were dancing on the branches.
"Hu...hiss..."
During the long breaths, a faint whistling sound was heard, and spiritual energy and light spots flowed into Lu Shanjun's body. Then he slowly opened his eyes. The moment his sight opened, Lu Shanjun's heart skipped a beat, and then a look of surprise appeared on his face, because he saw Ji Yuan walking towards him in the distance.
Lu Shanjun quickly stood up, took a few quick steps forward, and then bowed deeply.
"Mr. Lu Shan pays respect to the Master!"
There was no one around here, but Lu Shanjun still dared to call him that directly.
Ji Yuan walked closer and said with a smile.
"Your practice is good. I thought you would be with that old cow."
When Lu Shanjun heard Ji Yuan mention Lao Niu, he couldn't help but twitch his lips.
"That old man is too good at spending money and has too many things to do. I really don't understand how he has cultivated to such a high level. He spends more time on women than on cultivation. If I were next to him, I would be his money bag and he would bother me all day long."
"Haha, that's right, but now I have something to ask you, come with me to find that old cow."