Chapter 346: Grand Ancestor Arrives! Grand Ancestor Exposed! (Happy New Year’s Eve)_1
 

Dust waves stirred up everywhere as the gate crashed to the ground, gushing like a torrential flood.

The outside sunlight, with this surge of wind, aggressively rushed into the room… For a moment, those who had been in the dim meeting room for too long found it difficult to adapt to the onslaught of bright light, and they all raised their hands to shield themselves.

The expressions of Gongsun Family’s upper echelons at this moment were like seeing a ghost, the kind of absolute shock that comes with the target they’ve been discussing appearing boldly before them.

The next moment.

Gongsun Xuancang, Gongsun Xuantian, and Gongsun Xuanhai, the three brothers, were all simultaneously furious.

“Courting death!”

“Pei Jinye! You killed my son, and you still have the guts to come to our Gongsun Family! Do you really think the Gongsun Family is without people!!!”

As soon as the words fell.

Pei Jinye held his sword in one hand, splitting the ten-meter-long table in front of him into two halves with a single strike.

The enormous roar and the airflow spreading outwards in all directions plainly spelled out the dominance and ferocity of this unwelcome guest.

“Isn’t it your Gongsun Family who forced me to come?”

Pei Jinye’s gaze was calm, “You all don’t need to go to such lengths to scheme against me. I’m here, so let’s just get on with the killing. If I die, I have only myself to blame. Sister, when you go back, tell Master that not one of the Gongsun Family can be left alive!”

“Okay.”

Lin Xiawei’s figure appeared behind Pei Jinye.

The brother and sister’s conversation infuriated the people of the Gongsun Family.

“You are going too far!”

“I’m going too far?” Pei Jinye snorted with a laugh, “If anyone in the Gongsun Family has the guts, then stop speaking such petty words. Since the order has been given from above, I don’t feel like playing games with you. You all want me and my sister dead, right? Now that we’ve come to you personally, let’s cut the crap.”

Gazing around the room.

Pei Jinye scoffed, “Since no one is coming forward, then I’ll make the first move.”

Grasping his sword, he suddenly launched an attack.

Just as Gongsun Xuancang narrowed his eyes preparing to make a covert move, suddenly Lin Xiawei’s gaze fell on him, “My junior brother is challenging the younger generation of the Gongsun Family alone. As for you old turnips, stand back, all of you.”

As the words fell.

An invisible Sword Intent coalesced in mid-air, and the stirred-up dust quickly formed a huge longsword.

Gongsun Xuancang’s expression turned gloomy in an instant.

“Lin Xiawei, do you really think you can bully the Gongsun Family with no one to defend it? The Old Ancestor is just in the back mountain, should I ask him to come out?”

“Don’t threaten me with your Old Ancestor,” Lin Xiawei said indifferently. “If the Gongsun Family is not satisfied, let my junior brother fight until you acknowledge him!”

“Go invite the Old Ancestor!” demanded Gongsun Xuanhai angrily.

Lin Xiawei, looking at him, took out her phone, “Master, I’m in Nagano. The Gongsun Family wants to resort to their Old Ancestor. I can only ask you to call for a few Ninth Rank Predecessors to support me.”

Before Lin Xiawei could finish.

Gongsun Xuancang spoke in a grave tone, “The matter between juniors doesn’t need to disturb the Old Ancestor’s peaceful cultivation.”

He raised his head to look at Lin Xiawei.

Before he could say anything.

Outside, a voice from the younger generation of the Gongsun Family said loudly, “Gongsun Muqun, here to—ptui!”

Sword Light flashed.

A headless body thunderously flew backwards.

The room went silent in an instant.

Only Pei Jinye spoke with nonchalance, “Next.”

For a moment, the younger generation of the Gongsun Family dared not step forward.

This infuriated Gongsun Xuanhai, who had just lost his son, “Has the Gongsun Family run out of successors? Is there no one who can deal with him? He’s just one man, what are you afraid of?”

“I will!”

A brawny youth with a formidable stature walked forward, his arms radiating flames.

Without a word, he launched his attack.

Pei Jinye’s gaze was steady as he thrust forth with his sword.

But suddenly, his figure paused, as if caught in a quagmire.

Someone had made a covert move!

The brawny youth clutched the sword with both hands, a vicious smile on his face, “Show your arrogance now! Without your sword, let’s see how you—”

However—

He didn’t even get to finish his sentence before a dazzling Sword Light devoured everything in his view.

“ptui!”

A head fell to the ground.

“So much for trash talk.” Pei Jinye shoved the headless body in front of him aside, turned, and said, “The one who just made a covert move, where are you?”

“If you don’t speak up, I’ll just kill you one by one. Eventually, I’ll get to you.”

Pei Jinye advanced with his sword in hand.

Gongsun Xuancang exclaimed in shock and anger, “Utterly lawless!”

He glared at Lin Xiawei, “Is this you declaring war on our Gongsun Family?”

Lin Xiawei looked back with raised eyebrows, “Isn’t that obvious?”

Gongsun Xuancang said coldly, “Then let me see what you’ve got.”

No sooner had the words left his mouth than the three brothers unscrupulously struck at the same time.

Pei Jinye looked on, but heard Lin Xiawei calmly say, “Don’t worry about me, keep honing your sword.”

Pei Jinye focused his attention and then, like a tiger among sheep, began a massacre.

Awaiting the chaos to start devouring.

…

In Central Continent Dawn City.

Mr. Han had just finished a meeting and returned to his office, massaging his brow.

Suddenly, he received a message from Xing Tian.

This report was without any issue, fully in accordance with Han Sen’s authorization rights, and the conversation between it and Pei Jinye seemed as though it had never existed.

Mr. Han raised an eyebrow slightly, “Went directly to the Gongsun Family? Such boldness is not something ordinary people possess.”

Xing Tian remained silent.

Mr. Han mused, “Lin Xiawei went along too?”

“Yes.”

“Interesting,” said Mr. Han as he picked up his personal phone, “Keep an eye on things in Nagano for me, and do your best to seal the news.”

After hanging up the phone.

He nodded slightly, deep in thought, then made a phone call.

“Is Elder Cui available today…”

He paused.

The figure from Central State who wielded the power of life and death instinctively straightened up, respectfully speaking, “Elder Cui, he and that member of the Knight Order have gone to Nagano… Yes, I have already had the news sealed, they won’t get the message for a while… Yes, Pei Jinye still hasn’t let us down. I presume, Elder Cui, that this time, you might have to say goodbye to your affections for him.”

A hearty laugh came from the other end of the phone.

“If it must be sent, then send it. The young man indeed has courage. His future achievements won’t be modest.”

Han Sen modestly spoke on behalf of Pei Jinye, “Well, he’s just a bit too impetuous at his age. There’s still a long road ahead of him.”

“How could a youth favored by the Old Dragon King be just anyone? When you have time, you should advise him more, so he isn’t blinded by worldly affairs. To have an independent character and the ability to think for oneself is what makes a true powerhouse…”

“Yes, Elder Cui.”

“Also, arrange a team to escort them out as soon as they take care of the Gongsun Family.”

“Understood.”

…

Blood flowed from the Jiang family’s Meeting Room out into the outside world.

Droplets of blood fell incessantly from the sword embedded in the wall.

What was once an opulent meeting hall, now lay in ruin, riddled with holes, resembling a human purgatory.

“Don’t kill me… don’t kill me…”

A young member of the Gongsun Family was wailing, scrambling and rolling away through the pool of blood.

“Enough.”

A sigh emerged.

An elder with white hair, dressed in simple and loose robes, appeared at the entrance of the corridor.

The frantic young man caught sight of him and immediately relaxed, wailing louder, “Old Ancestor, save me—”

“Puchi.”

The tip of the sword pierced through the young man’s chest.

The light of hope in his eyes slowly dimmed… With a mouthful of blood, he let out an unwilling roar, “Old Ancestor… avenge me!”

In an instant, the white-haired elder stood before Pei Jinye.

A terrifying force sent Pei Jinye flying over ten meters away.

A large hole was smashed into the wall behind him.

Fortunately, Pei Jinye had just lifted his sword to block and was not injured, but the feeling the other party gave him… was like a tiger in its twilight years, still making his heart skip a beat.

“What’s the point?”

The white-haired elder turned around, gently closing the young man’s eyes.

Pei Jinye, with his sword in hand, stared fiercely, “There’s no need for so many supposed ‘truths’. Predecessor is also an old hand in the ways of the world, surely you understand these principles?”

“When will the cycle of vengeance ever end?” the white-haired elder said softly.

Pei Jinye’s gaze was calm, “It is your Gongsun family that didn’t want to let me go.”

“Qian Feng was killed by you, wasn’t he?” the white-haired elder maintained his unconcerned demeanor, “I saw the wounds on Qian Feng’s body before the cremation. Your swordsmanship really is extraordinary… It’s rare to see such a young swordsman in Central State after so many years. If this were thirty years ago, you wouldn’t even have the chance to speak in my Gongsun Family’s house. Pity now, as I’ve grown old, I start to babble on about trivial matters. You might as well listen, you won’t be able to hear them for much longer.”

Pei Jinye squinted, staying silent as he quickly recovered vitality by clenching the Bloodthirsty Bead.

“With your talent, it might not even take ten years for you to shine in Central State, and perhaps in twenty years, your family may become the new noble of Central State…” the white-haired elder spoke softly, “Such a bright future indeed. I once said the same to the Qian brothers. Pity…”

The white-haired elder let out a soft sigh.

“I truly did not want to kill you…”

Before he even finished speaking, he vanished from his original place.

The next second.

Pei Jinye’s form burst into flight.

The three walls behind him collapsed one after another.

What was more terrifying was that the white-haired elder, like a clinging curse, remained glued in front of Pei Jinye, his arms continuously unleashing afterimages in the air that joined together in a scarlet display.

But Pei Jinye was no weaker.

As the blood energy vibrated like a furnace, the sword light in front of him emitted an even more dazzling luster than before.

“Bang!”

The two separated upon contact.

A brief exchange of over a hundred strikes occurred in an instant.

Before they could act again… “Old Ancestor, save me.”

The miserable call for help from Gongsun Xuanhai rang out. The white-haired elder’s face flushed with anger as he turned and rushed over.

But before he could take that step.

Clang clang clang clang!

In the resounding noise that echoed like agitated steel strings, Pei Jinye’s muscles bulged and twitched on his body. There was no sign of the golden Blood Lotus, but he still invoked the power of the golden Blood Lotus.

To the naked eye, Pei Jinye’s body violently compressed the air in front of him, and the seventh strike of “Sword Thirteen”, long in the making, came crashing down!

“Zzzt!”

A thunderous shock in clear skies!

This strike’s momentum was so strong that even the air seemed to decompose, with the sword light instantly shrouding all of the white-haired elder’s vision.

In the midst of this terrifying force, time itself seemed to freeze.

Lin Xiawei, not far away, suddenly looked up.

“This strike…”

“Has Junior Brother’s swordsmanship broken through again?”

In the blink of an eye.

Pei Jinye’s calm, unyielding face appeared in the white-haired elder’s vision, and at the moment the latter’s shock registered, the real force of a mountain collapsing and a tsunami erupting finally burst forth!

“A killer acts unrestrained! It doesn’t matter who you are!”

“Bang!”

The white-haired elder’s hunched body was instantly sent flying by a single slash, midair drenched in a shower of blood, leaving behind the side of a white wall stained crimson.

“Old… Old Ancestor…”

As blood mist exploded outward.

At this moment, the three brothers of the Gongsun Family cried out in unison!