Ye Ling’Er’s large eyes blinked repeatedly.
“Xuan, I think I understand,” she said thoughtfully.
Ye Xuan nodded.
“If you understand, then do it.”
With that said, he threw the child at Ye Ling’Er’s feet.
Ye Ling’Er understood his intention.
She raised her sword again, but she still couldn’t bring herself to strike.
Ye Xuan shook his head.
Just as he was about to speak, the child’s face suddenly twisted into a ferocious scowl.
“You little bitch, you’re dragging your feet!
Either kill me right now and get it over with, or wait for the day I make you backstabbing dogs pay a bitter price!
You’ll all die a miserable death!”
This tone didn’t sound like a child at all.
At the very least, it didn’t sound like a child from an ordinary family.
A normal kid would only be paralyzed by fear.
“You!” Ye Ling’Er bit her lip.
Steeling her resolve at last, she thrust her sword straight through the child’s heart.
“Ling’Er, I know you feel awful right now, but you must pull weeds out by their roots,” Ye Xuan consoled her.
“In this world, kind people rarely meet a good end.”
As Ye Xuan said this, Meng Dieyi’s figure subconsciously surfaced in his mind.
Wasn’t he also a kind person in his youth?
Even though he knew that saving Meng Dieyi would turn him into a mortal, he had pressed forward without hesitation, silently dedicating himself to protecting her for ten years!
After all, how many decades did a person have in their lifetime?
However, Meng Dieyi’s betrayal had made him realize the truth.
A person could be kind, provided they could bear the consequences of that kindness!
Ye Xuan hadn’t been able to bear those consequences back then.
If he hadn’t received his ancestor’s protection, he would already be dead.
A person who had died once always saw things more clearly than others.
“Xuan…” Ye Ling’Er looked up at him.
She didn’t know if his words were right, but she could tell that he had seemingly been through a lot over the past thirteen years.
“Ling’Er, I know you aren’t used to this.
To be honest, neither am I.
If I told you that this is my first time killing the elderly and children, and my first time killing so many people, would you believe me?”
Ye Ling’Er’s eyes widened, clearly showing her disbelief.
Ye Xuan didn’t mind her reaction.
“Our Ye Family doesn’t go out of our way to cause trouble, but if anyone provokes us, there is only one response—kill!”
Time ticked away, and the slaughter continued.
At first, it was only the Ye Family hunting down the Fang Family.
Soon after, the surrounding spectators charged in as well.
The resentment they harbored toward the Fang Family over the years was just as great, if not greater, than that of the Ye Family!
This day was destined to go down in the history books of Hongtu Town.
Just half an hour later, the town’s major teahouses and taverns were packed to the brim.
Everyone was discussing how Ye Xuan had annihilated the Fang Family.
“Have you all heard?
The Ye Family’s Ye Xuan is like a reincarnated War God!
He wiped out the Fang Family all by himself!”
“Is…
is the Fang Family really gone?
That can’t be!”
“It’s absolutely true.
I even killed a member of the Fang Family with my own hands.
I’m telling you, from today onward, Hongtu Town no longer belongs to the Fangs—it belongs to the Yes.
The Fang Family’s former subordinate factions have already pledged their allegiance to the Ye Family.”
“That’s a good thing!
With the Ye Family acting as the Commander of Hongtu Town, they shouldn’t be as ruthless as the Fang Family, right?”
“Hard to say…
I just hope the Ye Family isn’t as overbearing as the Fang Family.
But is the Fang Family really completely wiped out and a thing of the past?
Why do I get the feeling they wouldn’t all die off so easily?”
Meanwhile, the Fang Family’s courtyard was entirely littered with the corpses of their members.
The bodies were piled up like a small hill.
Ye Xuan held a torch and personally set the corpses on fire.
This was the kindness in Ye Xuan’s heart.
He didn’t toss the Fang Family’s bodies into the wilderness to feed the wolves and tigers, but instead cremated them in a blaze.
While it was true that Ye Xuan showed no mercy to his enemies, he believed that a person could be seventy percent wicked as long as they retained thirty percent of their roots in goodness.
Without those roots of goodness, what difference would there be between the future Ye Family and the Fang Family?
“It’s over, it’s finally over!
Our Ye Family can finally sleep peacefully.” Watching the roaring flames, the Ye Family members breathed a massive sigh of relief.
Over the past few days, let alone sleeping, they hadn’t even had the appetite to eat.
But everything was fine now.
The Ye Family had replaced the Fang Family as the overlords of Hongtu Town.
They no longer had to worry about being bullied in their own neck of the woods.
“Ye Xuan, thank you.
This is all your doing!”
“Ye Xuan, you are the hero of our Ye Family.
It turns out the heavens brought you back so suddenly just to save us.”
All the Ye Family members looked at Ye Xuan, their eyes filled with respect and adoration.
Ye Xuan simply offered a faint smile before turning to Ye Zeyun.
“Grandpa, have you verified the bodies?
Are you sure all the Fang Family’s powerful Cultivators are dead?”
Ye Zeyun nodded.
“Yes, all the experts are here.”
“Is that so?
But didn’t the Fang Family have eight Elders?”
“Yes, eight Elders.”
Ye Xuan frowned, his eyes turning solemn.
“But I only killed seven.”
“HAHAHA, Ye Xuan, that’s something you wouldn’t know.
The Fang Family’s First Elder died of old age a long time ago.
At any rate, I haven’t seen him in ten years.”
“Died of old age?
No wonder,” Ye Xuan nodded, then continued.
“Grandpa, you all go ahead and inventory the spoils of war.
Oh, right, when rebuilding the houses, I’d like a separate courtyard and a larger, sturdy underground training room.
Is that alright?”
“Absolutely.
I’ll have people prepare the materials shortly.
We’ll aim to rebuild these destroyed residences within seven days.”
“Grandpa, I’ll leave you to your work, then.
I’m going to find a place to rest; there are some things I need to sort through in my head.”
After Ye Xuan’s return to the Ye Family, everything had happened too fast, too frantically.
He actually still had many lingering questions in his mind.
The biggest question was undoubtedly the dream he had that day.
That dream was clearly the future.
So, why was he able to see the future?
What exactly was going on?
Having made his excuses, Ye Xuan went to a side courtyard, found a room, and sat cross-legged on the bed.
Not long after, his consciousness appeared above a black ocean.
This was the Sea of Consciousness.
It was also the place where his ancestor had given him the legacy.
The Sea of Consciousness could only be opened by Cultivators with immense power.
His Sea of Consciousness must have been forcibly opened for him by his ancestor using residual Soul Power.
“It really is the Sea of Consciousness.
My mind can actually enter this place,” Ye Xuan noted with pleasant surprise.
“That means I can use my Divine Sense!”
Opening the Sea of Consciousness meant that a Cultivator could utilize their Divine Sense.
Through Divine Sense Projection, one could see their surroundings clearly without even using their eyes.
Most importantly, Divine Sense ignored obstacles.
Even through a door or a solid wall, one could clearly observe the situation inside.
Unfortunately, even after trying for a good while, Ye Xuan couldn’t succeed.
It seemed that even though his Sea of Consciousness had been prematurely opened by his ancestor, it didn’t mean his Divine Sense had been strengthened.
In his current state, he still couldn’t achieve Divine Sense Projection.
What a shame!
Shaking his head, Ye Xuan carefully examined his Sea of Consciousness.
Ninety-nine point nine-nine-nine percent of his Sea of Consciousness was filled with dense mist.
Only a space of about a thousand cubic meters was clearly visible.
This was because his Divine Sense was still too weak.
The stronger a Cultivator’s Divine Sense, the clearer their Sea of Consciousness would become.
“Is that…
the Dragon Capturing Cauldron!” Ye Xuan’s eyes suddenly lit up.
He spotted the Dragon Capturing Cauldron within the clear space.
This meant that his ancestor had left the Dragon Capturing Cauldron in his Sea of Consciousness.
But could the Sea of Consciousness actually store physical objects?
It was simply unbelievable.