Chapter 151: Chapter 149: I’ll Annihilate Your Sect As Well

An atmosphere of grief enveloped Bu Tong’s home.

Five bodies, each in its own coffin, were arranged in the Bu Family’s courtyard. Bu Jingfeng had been terrified, with only a few of his teeth left intact and his mouth almost completely mangled. Thankfully, it wouldn’t take long to heal, though he would need false teeth. The most difficult part, however, was his spirit. It had suffered a severe shock. It was likely that even after he recovered, his strength would forever be capped at the Earth Level. Worse, if he didn’t cultivate for a long time, his power would even regress.

Bu Tong’s face was ashen, like he’d lost his own parents. He had taken every precaution, yet he couldn’t stop his son from seeking revenge on Qin Li. The fact that his son wasn’t dead was already a huge show of mercy from the ruthless Marquis Qin!

’Damn it, why did you let him come back? Do you want his sect to come and slaughter my entire family? You might as well have just killed him!’ But deep down, Bu Tong hated Qin Li even more.

It wasn’t that Bu Tong was vicious enough to want his own son dead. Rather, he knew exactly what kind of devils his son’s sect was filled with!

Years ago, when Bu Tong first arrived in the Imperial Capital, he had used his handsome looks and considerable strength to win the heart of a girl from a noble family. Although she was headstrong, willful, and incredibly fierce, she was still very good to her husband, Bu Tong. It was even his wife’s family that had arranged for him to attend the Imperial Advanced Academy.

A few years later, when their son was about seven or eight years old, they discovered he had good aptitude, and Bu Tong began to train him. In his heart, he had long forgotten the woman in Yellow Sand City who was still waiting foolishly for him. He didn’t even know he had a daughter, but even if he had, he never would have returned to acknowledge her.

This was because Bu Tong’s wife was an incredibly jealous woman. Other men could have three wives and four concubines and still carouse outside, but in his home, there was, and always would be, only one mistress!

Even the servants were astonishingly ugly...

This wasn’t much of a secret in the upper circles of Cyan Dragon City. Everyone knew Bu Tong was afraid of his wife.

Back when Bu Tong was roaming the Martial World, he had unintentionally saved a Martial Artist. When Bu Jingfeng was ten, that man came to his door, claiming to be from a powerful sect in the Mysterious Land. To repay Bu Tong’s kindness, he offered to take his son to the Mysterious Land, where after eight or ten years, he could cultivate to a very high realm.

An offer like this was more than Bu Tong could have hoped for. He was ecstatic and immediately agreed. The Martial Artist then took up residence in Bu Tong’s home.

It was because of this that Bu Tong gradually came to understand just how evil that Martial Artist’s sect was.

Once, the Martial Artist got drunk and accidentally let slip that their sect was scorned by those of the righteous path because they cultivated all sorts of unorthodox and wicked techniques!

’Women practiced Yang Absorption and Yin Compensation, while men practiced Absorbing Yin to Nourish Yang! This wasn’t a dual cultivation technique; it was a pure, extremely evil absorption! After a Tripod Furnace was completely drained, they were basically crippled. Even if they didn’t die, they were not far from it.’

At the time, Bu Tong had been horrified. ’If my son goes to a place like that, can any good come of it?’ he thought.

When the Martial Artist sobered up, Bu Tong tactfully tried to refuse the offer.

But who would have thought? The Martial Artist just let out a long laugh, snatched up the young Bu Jingfeng, and left, leaving a few words behind: "Our sect may be evil, but we don’t kill our own. The Tripod Furnaces we use are all outsiders. What are you afraid of?"

After his son was taken, Bu Tong and his wife worried for many years. It was only when their son returned a while ago that they saw he was completely unharmed and had even brought a group of senior brothers with him for training.

Bu Tong could finally relax. As for the virgins his son needed for his cultivation, that was even simpler. With the Bu Family’s current power, finding virgins to supply his son’s training was ridiculously easy!

Bu Tong was no saint to begin with. He was ruthless and vicious. Back when he roamed the Martial World, he had done all sorts of things and felt no guilt whatsoever when bullying others.

The only one who worried him was Qin Li. That was why he had warned his son, Bu Jingfeng, to never provoke him. That man was a killer who wouldn’t bat an eye; provoking him was basically a death sentence.

Who would have thought that his warning would backfire? The young and impetuous Bu Jingfeng couldn’t stand it. Why should some worldly Martial Artist be allowed to act so outrageously?

He had forgotten that he himself, along with all his senior brothers, were also from the secular world!

In the end, they overestimated their abilities and provoked Qin Li. What’s more, they discovered that Yunyan was actually a Top-Grade Tripod Furnace! The cultivation technique they practiced allowed them to tell with a single glance that Yunyan was not only a virgin, but a Top-Grade one at that! How could they possibly let such an opportunity slip by?

When Bu Tong saw his son flee back in such a wretched state, and when the authorities delivered the five bodies, he already understood what had happened. His mind was now a tangled mess.

He couldn’t afford to provoke Qin Li, but he could afford to provoke his son’s sect even less!

If Bu Jingfeng had died at Qin Li’s hands, it would have been manageable. His sect couldn’t have blamed him. But now, everyone else was dead, and only his son had survived...

’Qin Li, oh, Qin Li, you must have done this on purpose!’ Bu Tong ground his teeth. Just then, his wife came in from outside, her eyes swollen like peaches from crying. The fierce young beauty of the past had now completely become a middle-aged shrew.

The moment she entered, she started screaming at Bu Tong, "Bu Tong, you useless coward! Our son has been bullied into this state, and instead of thinking about revenge, you’re hiding here looking like your parents just died! Are you really that scared of that little bastard? If you’re scared, then I’ll go to the emperor and demand justice! I refuse to believe that this Cyan Dragon City belongs to his Qin Family!"

"You! Shut your mouth!" Bu Tong, who was already at his wit’s end, suddenly roared.

The woman, who had never been yelled at by her husband like this, froze for a moment, then burst into tears. "Bu Tong, you bastard, you coward! You don’t dare to challenge an outsider, so you take your anger out on your own wife! Your son was nearly beaten to death, and you only dare to act tough at home! I was blind back then to have fallen for a good-for-nothing like you..."

SLAP!

Bu Tong viciously slapped his wife across the face. After he did it, even he was stunned. But seeing the explosive look on her face, he immediately cursed maliciously, "You don’t know a damn thing! Before long, none of us will be left alive!"

The woman stood there, stunned. She covered her cheek with her hand, looking at Bu Tong as if for the first time, and mumbled, "You hit me... Bu Tong, you actually hit me... I never thought you would ever bring yourself to hit me!"

After hitting his wife, Bu Tong was filled with regret. He couldn’t help but pull her over and explain the whole critical situation to her.

Bu Tong’s wife came from a noble family, so she understood such matters immediately. After listening, she finally realized the danger they were facing. Forgetting about settling the score with Bu Tong, she asked with a pale face, "Then... then what do we do? He’s our only son... we can’t just strangle him to death, can we? Even if you wanted to, I would never agree!"

"Strangle him? My ass! Are you stupid?" Bu Tong shot his wife an irritated glare and said, "The only thing we can do now is figure out how to push all the blame for this onto Qin Li, so our son’s sect has no reason to blame us!"

"Then how do we do that?"

"Let me think. There must be a way!" Bu Tong said.

"No need to think. I’ll take my senior brothers’ bodies back to the sect right now. I’ll beg the Sect Elders to kill Qin Li and avenge them! As for me... Father, Mother, just pretend you never had me. You’re still relatively young, so you can just have a few more children!" Bu Jingfeng’s voice was muffled as he emerged from the shadows, his mouth tightly bandaged.

"No!" Bu Tong and his wife refused in unison. Bu Tong looked at his son. "Why are you out here instead of resting and healing your wounds!"

Bu Jingfeng gave a bitter laugh. "My injuries aren’t serious at all. What’s there to heal? If I go back and explain everything myself, there might be a slim chance of survival. At worst, I’ll just die. If possible, I could even cultivate the Brahma Heaven Demon King Combat Skill and become a generational Demon... But then, I... wouldn’t be me anymore! Regardless, this punishment is unavoidable. Don’t worry, I will absolutely not let this disaster fall upon you, Father and Mother."

Hearing this, Bu Tong and his wife held each other and wept.

That night, Bu Tong entered the palace for an audience with the emperor, demanding severe punishment for the murderer, Qin Li. Bu Tong even revealed that his son’s sect was from the Mysterious Land, warning that if Qin Li wasn’t killed, his son’s sect would surely retaliate against the entire Cyan Dragon Kingdom!

But Zhao Yuanli was a very clear-headed man. Besides, while the Mysterious Land might scare ordinary people, the Royal Family of the Cyan Dragon Kingdom was not without its own backers from the Mysterious Land.

They couldn’t afford to offend a behemoth like the Xiahou Family of Profound Island, but as for Bu Tong’s son’s so-called sect from the Mysterious Land, the Royal Family wasn’t necessarily afraid of them!

What’s more, this matter had nothing to do with the Royal Family at all. Zhao Yuanli didn’t know how terrifying the Mysterious Land was, but he knew very well how terrifying Qin Li was!

Therefore, even when Crown Prince Zhao Xinghe stood beside Bu Tong and laid out the stakes, he couldn’t sway Zhao Yuanli’s resolve. His attitude was simply: ’This has nothing to do with me.’

In the end, Bu Tong could only resign himself to his fate. Meanwhile, his wife returned to her maiden family to ask for help, as they had several old ancestors with Celestial Level strength hidden away.

But the moment they heard it involved Qin Li, they refused. A married daughter is like spilt water. She had caused a monumental disaster and now wanted to drag her maiden family down with her?

Bu Tong’s wife was immediately thrown out.

In the end, with nowhere left to turn, the couple could only place their hopes in their son’s sect, praying they would be just, not vent their anger on their family, and not punish their son too harshly.

At the same time, they both desperately hoped that someone from their son’s sect would arrive soon and tear that Qin Li to shreds!

...

Qin Li was dressed in tight-fitting clothes, disguised as a burly man in his thirties with a full beard, bronze skin, and a ferocious expression.

Yunyan, Leng Yao, and Hu gathered around Qin Li. Yunyan asked, "Are you really going to follow him? It’s too dangerous!"

Leng Yao and Hu also nodded in agreement. They strongly disapproved of Qin Li’s crazy idea to annihilate Bu Jingfeng’s entire sect.

"Don’t worry. Looking like this, they won’t recognize me at all!" Qin Li grinned, which made his disguised face look even more menacing. "I’d be more worried if I *didn’t* wipe them all out! Besides, I’ll act according to the situation. I’m not going to throw my life away."