usatvline Chapter 409 The Young Singer's Journey 78
Chapter 409 The Young Singer's Journey 78
While countless martial arts practitioners were heading to the border, no one knew that Anhe, who was the first to reach the border, had quietly returned to the martial arts world.
In the north, they practiced swordsmanship; in the south, they mastered the art of the knife.
They took up the swords that Nan Jue was good at, and under the guise of the Nan Jue martial arts faction, they carried out a bloody purge of those martial arts sects that had not yet gone to the border.
The sects to be focused on include: the Tang Sect, which is currently being vilified by the martial arts world; Wushuang City, which is allied with the White King; the Wen Family, a long-established family in Lingnan; and Lei Family Fort, which has just suffered heavy losses.
Compared to the Tang Clan and Wushuang City, which were allied with the White King, Xiao Yu found Lei Family Fortress the most intolerable.
Lei Men's training: Seal off swords and knives. All members are forbidden from using swords or knives and must focus solely on the training of gunpowder, fist techniques, and finger techniques. They are also forbidden from entering the imperial court or the military.
He focused on researching gunpowder, but never entered the imperial court or joined the military.
Based on these two points alone, Xiao Yu absolutely could not tolerate them.
He knows the importance of gunpowder. The Lei Men are researching it every day, but they refuse to cooperate with the court and forbid their members from serving the court. What are their true intentions?
In his previous life, with Lei Mengsha around, Xiao Yu merely confiscated Lei Men's research results and secretly suppressed them to ensure they wouldn't develop large-scale dangerous weapons.
But in this lifetime?
Ha ha!
The fact that Lei Family Fort could raise someone like Lei Hong, who fell in love with his own niece, shows just how rotten the education of its disciples had become.
Lei Hong and Lei Mengsha both belong to the Lei Men clan and are of the same generation. Although they are not direct blood relatives, they are still related by blood, even if their relationship is distant.
However, Lei Hong still secretly developed feelings for Li Hanyi even though he knew her true identity.
In order to win her favor, he even defied the ancestral teachings of the Lei Clan, began practicing swordsmanship, and vowed not to leave the mountain until he became a sword immortal.
Does he think his actions are touching?
He actually dared to defy ancestral teachings and give up his position in the family for the sake of his beloved.
Pooh!
If Lei Mengsha knew this in the afterlife, seeing that his brother had such filthy thoughts about his daughter, he would probably turn to dust in his coffin.
What's even more astonishing is that in this unethical and twisted relationship, Lei Hong, knowing full well that Li Hanyi is Lei Wujie's older sister, still chose to conceal the truth.
For more than a decade, she has been constantly telling Lei Wujie about her infatuation with the Snow Moon Sword Immortal.
This absurd behavior eventually aroused Lei Wujie's curiosity, leading him to secretly go to Snow Moon City to invite Li Hanyi to the Thunder Gate, wanting to give his master a surprise.
Xiao Yu believed that he had already reached a very high level of tolerance for these worlds.
After all, he had put the love-obsessed type of person he used to despise to good use and discovered new value in them.
But to his utter surprise, these worlds kept pushing his limits.
If the forbidden master-disciple relationship between Yin Luoxia and Luo Mingxuan in Snow Moon City had already disgusted Xiao Yu, then...
Lei Hong's abnormal unrequited love for his niece, which lasted for more than ten years, completely disgusted Xiao Yu.
The uncle fell in love with his niece.
Xiao Yu was afraid to even mention this unethical and perverse relationship, lest he soil his own mouth.
If Lei Hong were standing in front of Xiao Yu right now, Xiao Yu would not hesitate to order Su Muyu to kill him.
As for why Xiao Yu didn't do it himself?
Do not ask!
Because he didn't want to dirty his hands with the filth of such a despicable person.
The Dark River has finally returned to its original mission as entrusted by the imperial court—to eradicate those Jianghu sects that the court cannot openly deal with.
After the meticulous task of controlling public opinion, Anhe, returning to his old ways, felt like he was back in his comfort zone and picked up the butcher's knife to kill to his heart's content.
Unfortunately, since the death of the previous Dark River patriarch, Mu Mingce, the Dark River has experienced severe internal strife, and its strength has been greatly weakened, making it difficult to simultaneously eliminate many Jianghu sects such as the Tang Clan, Wushuang City, Wen Family, and Lei Clan.
However, it is still more than enough to severely injure the opponent when they are completely unprepared.
Although Xiao Yu intended to weaken the martial arts world by starting this war between the two countries, it was also the final test for these martial arts sects.
He ordered Anhe to deliberately exaggerate Beili's predicament in the war, in an attempt to test whether these martial arts practitioners still harbored patriotism.
Those江湖人士 (jianghu figures) who headed to the border, whether out of helplessness due to moral coercion or a desire not to fall behind, all harbored, to varying degrees, a sense of patriotism deep within their hearts.
In contrast, those sects that, in such a critical moment, still only care about their own interests or cling to their ancestral precepts and refuse to serve the country, truly have no patriotism in their hearts.
In the end, Anhe used every means to defeat all the sects in the martial arts world. Those who went to the border naturally escaped the calamity, while those who stayed in their sects and refused to move were all sacrificed.
As for the sects that Xiao Yu is focusing on—
The two major forces, Tangmen and Wushuang City, had already suffered heavy losses in the last ambush of Xiao Se and attack on Leimen. After the news reached Tianqi City, Emperor Mingde sent Jin Xuan and other imperial guards to secretly deal with them severely.
Now, with the added purge by the Dark River, the two major sects were wiped out and completely disappeared from the martial arts world.
The Wen family was no different. As a long-established family in the martial arts world, every member of the family was proficient in poisons. Dark River knew how powerful they were and dared not launch a direct attack. Instead, they disguised themselves as a martial arts sect of Southern Secrets, infiltrated the family, and carried out assassinations.
The current head of the Wen family, Wen Hujiu, once had the feat of poisoning an entire city single-handedly.
His skill in using poisons was so exquisite that it was truly astonishing.
After his clan was attacked, he angrily led his clansmen to Nanjue and poisoned all the members of the sect that the Dark River was impersonating.
Upon learning this news, Xiao Yu immediately sent someone to deliver the warm wine to the recipient.
For Xiao Yu, a powerful, fearless person like Wen Hujiu, who acts entirely on his own whims, is undoubtedly a huge hidden danger.
Xiao Yu was unsure whether anyone would try to provoke him into attacking the entire city's population again.
In his previous life, he was able to use the Wen family because he employed Baili Chengfeng. But in this life, he crippled Baili Dongjun, so the Wen family will naturally no longer be of use to him.
Some things, you either don't do, or you do them thoroughly.
If you don't cut the weeds at the root, they'll grow back in the spring when the wind blows.
Lei Men was severely injured by Tang Men and has not yet recovered. Even though they did their best to resist the attack of Dark River, they still escaped the fate of destruction.
The gunpowder meticulously developed by the sect eventually fell into the hands of the Dark River and was quietly transported to the border.
Xiao Yu examined the gunpowder one by one, secretly tampered with it, and then sent it to Nanjue without anyone noticing.