Chapter 682: Chapter 287: Cyan Python Becomes a Jiao, Two Golden Core Favors, Joys and Sorrows of the Mortal World

Wanning Marketplace.

After the World Suppression Bureau seized control of the Defense Array, the entire marketplace was sealed tight like a drum, making it virtually impossible for the Southern Barbarians to escape.

Less than an hour.

The entire marketplace was already a river of blood.

There was not a single Southern Barbarian left hidden; all had been slaughtered.

Loose cultivators joyfully carried blood-soaked heads, forming a long queue in front of the World Suppression Bureau, waiting to claim their rewards.

This turmoil.

The greatest losses were suffered by the major Noble Families.

Not only were the shops looted.

Even the clansmen guarding the shops were mostly massacred by the Southern Barbarians.

At this moment, the major families began to clean and rearrange the shops, taking stock of the losses, and the Nangong Family next to the Fu Family first hung a white lantern.

The Nangong Family’s shop array was destroyed.

Half of the entire shop was also blown up.

Several corpses covered with white cloth were placed in the main hall.

Only Shopkeeper Nangong’s youngest son, Nangong Yu, who was hidden in the secret chamber, survived. He presented a storage bag at his waist with both hands to the Grand Elder Nangong sitting in the main hall, choking with emotion:

"Grand Elder, when the Southern Barbarians attacked the marketplace, their primary target was our major shops. Although Father and Third Uncle fought desperately to protect the shop, they still..."

At the end of the sentence.

Nangong Yu was already sobbing uncontrollably.

He had come to the marketplace intending to inform his father that he was about to become a grandfather, unexpectedly turning good news into bad news, and this meeting became the last one between father and son.

The Grand Elder Nangong took a deep breath:

"The dead cannot come back to life. Little Feather, you must restrain your grief."

Father’s corpse lay right in front of him.

How could Nangong Yu not be heartbroken? His mother had died shortly after giving birth to him, and his father had never remarried, raising him with care and attention, saving his monthly salary for him. He had hoped that after reaching Foundation Establishment, he could share some of his father’s burdens, allowing his father to enjoy his later years, but unexpectedly faced an invasion by the Southern Barbarians.

Thinking of this.

The sorrow in Nangong Yu’s eyes turned into immense hatred.

He would surely make the Yinan Tribe pay for the blood-debt of his father’s murder!

.....

The Gongsun Family’s shop opposite.

Unlike the mournful atmosphere of the Nangong Family.

The entire shop’s main hall was filled with an air of tense murder, with Gongsun Wen from the clan sitting at the head.

The surviving clan members from this catastrophe trembled as they knelt on the ground, stammering:

"Reporting to Elder Wen, at the beginning of the turmoil, I followed the Patriarch out of the Wanning Commerce Association, but the Patriarch turned around and rushed into the Fu Family’s shop. At that time, everyone in the marketplace was chaotic like mad, and I did not dare to linger outside, thinking I must at least save the clan’s treasury, so I hid in the secret chamber and closed the array."

"However"

"The Patriarch did indeed bid on ten Foundation Establishment Pills, and the quality was superior."

The more he spoke.

The more Gongsun Wen’s expression darkened.

Because Gongsun Run’s Life Soul Lamp had already extinguished.

Which meant.

Not only did they lose their ancestral relic, the Phoenix Blood Wood, but also the hundreds of thousands of Spirit Stones they had saved up over a decade by living frugally vanished without a trace.

Added to the shop’s losses.

The only Half-Step Purple Mansion in the clan also fell.

When these three losses were combined, they were more devastating to the Gongsun Family than losses from a Beast Tide.

Gongsun Wen thought of this and felt a chill in his bones.

What comes next.

The Gongsun Family is likely to live in fear.

The clansmen below were still unaware, indignantly saying:

"Elder Wen, the Foundation Establishment Pills most likely fell into the Fu Family’s hands. The Fu Family dared to kill our Patriarch in the marketplace; they have shown no regard for our Gongsun Family. Elder Wen, we must have the World Suppression Bureau uphold justice, force the Fu Family to return the Foundation Establishment Pills, and seek justice for our deceased Patriarch!"

Fool!

Gongsun Wen held back over and over.

Only then did he refrain from kicking this idiot away.

The Patriarch, eager to seek revenge against the Fu Family after making a breakthrough to Half-Step Purple Mansion, was unexpectedly killed instead. This matter is something they cannot hide quickly enough, let alone dare to petition the World Suppression Bureau, which would be courting death.

Moreover, the Patriarch is dead.

The Gongsun Family’s days must be more cautious.

In the future, whenever they see someone from the Fu Family, they must avoid them, no longer daring to provoke them.

The Gongsun Family is already in decline.

What he can do is to prevent the Gongsun Family from being swallowed by other Noble Families and wait for another day:

"Enough, stop howling. Go outside and hang up the Soul Summoning Banner, then immediately organize manpower to repair the shop, striving to reopen as soon as possible."

....

With the Nangong Family’s shop hanging white lanterns and the Gongsun Family’s Soul Banner, the entire marketplace quickly turned white.

The World Suppression Bureau ordered.

Mourning for three days, during which all family shops in the marketplace must cease operations. 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖

Unlike the sorrow of other Noble Families.

The atmosphere at the Fu Family’s shop remained relatively relaxed.

Fu Yongshang cupped his hands and addressed Patriarch Fu Changsheng sitting at the top of the hall:

"Patriarch, this turmoil, our Fu Family’s greatest loss is the shop’s defense array. However, the Central Array Plate is unscathed, only the Eight-sided Array Plate has some cracks, which can be repaired by getting the Eleventh Sister to help."

"Besides, there is the damage to the shop’s buildings."

"However, the Court has already agreed that due to this turmoil, this year’s shop tax needs only be paid half, which means our losses can be directly offset."

After pausing for a moment.

Fu Yongshang presented a storage bag again with both hands:

"Patriarch, these are the heads of Southern Barbarians we have slain; according to the Court’s calculations, we can exchange for nearly a thousand Court Merit Points."