Chapter 508: Chapter 506: Xiao Qingyin’s Doubts—Is the Old Lu Family Really This Terrifying? Visiting the Yuan Family in Shangyuan City

At this moment, Lu Ye was casually picking up those people’s Storage Rings, three in total.

Hearing Xiao Qingyin’s question, he fell silent for a moment, then nodded and said, "I do know him, but we don’t have any grudges. On the contrary, he and I... can be considered friends."

"Then if you do this, aren’t you making things awkward for your friend? The clan under his protection had its people killed by you." Xiao Qingyin asked curiously.

In Xiao Qingyin’s view, since they were friends, wouldn’t Lu Ye’s actions damage his friend’s face?

When the time comes, will that Lu Yan really be able to swallow this?

After all, at their level, there are very few who don’t care about their own reputation.

Everyone wants to leave deeds in a region that will be sung of for hundreds, thousands, even tens of thousands of years...

"Doesn’t matter. He never protected this clan to begin with. It’s entirely this clan using his name, waving his tiger skin around." Lu Ye shook his head.

"Ah? No wonder I was wondering why you suddenly changed your mind." Hearing this, Xiao Qingyin finally understood and came to a sudden realization.

So someone was using that person’s name to swagger around and bluff?

It’s just... is the Lu Family that terrifying? In Xuanzhou there’s Lu Ye, first on the East Cang Stele List, and in Yuan Province there’s actually a Lu Yan...

Also first?!

Isn’t the feng shui a bit too good there?

But, these two are both surnamed Lu, and according to what Lu Ye said, they’re friends. To Xiao Qingyin’s ears... something just felt off.

And he’d never mentioned this to her before.

But thinking about it, she’d only met him a handful of times altogether. She did know a bit about him, but not much, which was normal.

Thinking so, Xiao Qingyin suppressed that faint sense of oddness in her heart and didn’t pursue it further.

Yet what happened next made Xiao Qingyin feel again that something wasn’t right, only to see Lu Ye say:

"Since we’ve run into this mess, we might as well make a trip to this Yuan Family. For them to act like this, using Lu Yan’s name to swagger and cheat outside, is really inappropriate. We’ll go give them a warning, and if there are still fools who don’t know what’s good for them..."

Lu Ye’s eyes turned sharp; in that case, this so-called Yuan Family no longer needed to exist.

Xiao Qingyin: "?"

Is this right?

Are you two really that close?

You’re actually going personally to the Yuan Family just to knock on their heads?

"Alright, I’ll listen to you." Though puzzled inside, Xiao Qingyin still nodded.

After all, they’d said before that on this trip she’d follow Lu Ye’s lead.

A short while later, after they’d handled the corpses in one go, two figures stepped into the night and headed straight for the city where the Yuan Family resided.

Shangyuan City.

...

Within Shangyuan City, there was an extremely powerful clan.

The clan even had two Mortal Realm Grandmasters sitting in town. Because of this, the Yuan Family’s name spread far and wide; it was a powerful clan famed within nearly a hundred thousand li around.

In the past, within Shangyuan City, the Yuan Family was already like a local tyrant emperor.

And recently, rumors had begun to spread that the Yuan Family had found that very man who once stirred up a series of great waves in Yuan Province—the first on the Stone Monument, Lu Yan—as their backing.

Their momentum had climbed another step.

Yet at this moment, something was oddly wrong within the Yuan Family.

A clan junior who was guarding the ancestral shrine came rushing over, face like he was at a funeral.

"Patriarch, something terrible has happened, something terrible has happened!" That clan junior almost tumbled and crawled his way into the main hall, speaking in extreme anxiety: "Patriarch, Second Ancestor’s Soul Token... just now, without any warning, suddenly shattered!"

To these clan juniors, they naturally knew very well what a Soul Token shattering represented.

Only when someone falls would such a thing occur.

And who was Second Ancestor? A Mortal Realm Grandmaster!

He was also one of the clan’s two Stabilizing Needles... one of them!

Now that his Soul Token had suddenly shattered, it meant that half of the Yuan Family’s sky had collapsed.

So how could this clan junior not panic?

"What did you say?!" In the main hall, the Yuan Family’s Patriarch, Yuan Jing, suddenly jumped up from his seat: "What nonsense are you spouting? Second Ancestor is a Mortal Realm Grandmaster, a figure in his own right even in all of Yuan Province. How could his Soul Token shatter?"

"What’s more, my Yuan Family now has Lu Yan as our tiger skin. Who would dare provoke us lightly?"

"Patriarch, everything I said is true. If you don’t believe me, you can come see for yourself. Second Ancestor’s token really has broken."

Looking at the clan junior’s face full of terror, an ominous premonition suddenly rose in the Patriarch’s heart.

No one would dare joke about this in front of him.

At once, the Yuan Family Patriarch said in a deep voice, "Lead the way. I’ll go see what’s going on."

A short while later, when the Yuan Family’s members arrived at the ancestral shrine and saw that among the several tablets for the clan’s important figures beneath the incense table, one had indeed shattered...

That spot represented Second Ancestor’s tablet. His mind immediately swam.

The Second Ancestor, who possessed Mortal Realm strength—his tablet had really shattered?!

The reason the Patriarch had been in the main hall at this hour was that not long ago, his second son Yuan Junhua, who’d been out, had just returned.

At the same time, he’d brought back Uncle Liu, already injured.

The entire Yuan Family had been shocked on the spot, then after asking what had happened, Second Ancestor happened to emerge from seclusion.

Hearing that there were still people who gave the Yuan Family no face, telling the Yuan Family’s Direct Lineage to get lost and injuring the Yuan Family’s Martial Arts Grandmaster...

Second Ancestor had always been hot-tempered and immediately decided to go demand an explanation.

Who would have thought that in less than the time it takes to burn a stick of incense, even Second Ancestor’s Soul Token would completely shatter...

Just how vicious and ruthless was the other party?!

Just as the members of the Yuan Family were shocked and enraged, there was suddenly movement from the sky outside...

"People of the Yuan Family, come out!"

The voice was female. For something like this, Xiao Qingyin took it upon herself to speak in Lu Ye’s stead.

Hearing this voice, the Yuan Family Patriarch frowned. Who dared to come make trouble at his Yuan Family at a time like this?

But suddenly, remembering Second Ancestor’s fall just now, the Yuan Family Patriarch was shocked.

Could it be... those vicious and ruthless cultivators had come to the door?!

If that was really the case, was there still any justice, any law left?!

With such thoughts, the Yuan Family Patriarch quickly rushed out of the shrine and into the main courtyard. Looking up at the sky, he saw under the night two figures standing.

A man and a woman.

The speaker just now was that woman.

Suppressing the faint fear in his heart, the Yuan Family Patriarch asked, "Who might the two of you be? Coming to my Yuan Family so late at night, what important business do you have?"

At the same time, in Shangyuan City, many cultivators who had not yet gone to sleep were drawn by the commotion here and looked over.

They too were very curious; the Yuan Family’s momentum these days was no small thing.