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Chapter 9 - Not Everyone Is Qualified to Be the Dog of the Su Family!
Chapter 9 - Not Everyone Is Qualified to Be the Dog of the Su Family!
Chapter 9: Not Everyone Is Qualified to Be the Dog of the Su Family!
[Ding! Family mission: Exterminate the Li Family — completed!]
[Congratulations, Host! You have obtained a Heaven-grade Pill: Body Refining Elixir!]
[Congratulations, Host! You have obtained an Earth-grade cultivation method: Heaven and Earth Spring Concealment Art!]
Upon seeing the various rewards before him, Su Zhou couldn’t help but feel a rush of joy.
This signified that the Li Family, who had once come to the Su Family’s door to humiliate them, had now been completely wiped out.
Next came the task of inventorying the Li Family’s assets.
Growing a family clan was no easy feat—food, clothing, shelter, cultivation materials, heavenly treasures—all of it required money.
The rapid development of the clan needed to be supported by massive amounts of gold and silver.
At Su Zhou’s signal, the Su Family members began carrying out chest after chest of bloodstained gold, silver, and jewels, along with property deeds and land titles.
They were preparing to bring everything back to the Su Family estate.
“Su… Family Leader Su…”
At that moment, a trembling voice reached Su Zhou’s ears.
He turned to see that it came from the remaining Li Family retainers.
“Family Leader Su… now that the Li Family is no more… can we leave?”
“That damn Li Family—so ungrateful! They received the Su Family’s kindness, only to betray it in return. Absolute beasts!”
“I just now personally chopped off the head of the Li Family’s Fourth Elder. Pah! I must have been blind back then to ever join the Li Family.”
A man with Nine Apertures, Sixth stage cultivation looked at Su Zhou, trembling with fear.
His knees were nearly buckling.
It wasn’t that he lacked courage—
But the man standing before him, dressed in black robes and holding a folding fan, looked like a banished immortal from the mortal realm—
And yet was also a god of slaughter.
In what seemed like light conversation, Su Zhou had turned the Li Family into a field of corpses.
The Li Family hadn’t even had a chance to fight back.
The man feared that even a single wrong word might cost him his head.
“The retainers of the Li Family, huh…” Su Zhou gave the terrified men a sweeping look.
“Buku.”
He then called for his nephew.
Su Buku, who had been tallying up the Li Family’s assets, quickly ran over when he heard his uncle calling.
“Uncle, what’s the matter?” Su Buku asked.
At this moment, Su Buku had not only broken through to the Meridian Unblocking Realm, but had advanced three minor levels within it, reaching the Third stage.
“This Killing-Heart Bodhi Body truly grows best through killing.”
Seeing his nephew’s progress, Su Zhou nodded in satisfaction.
He then asked, “Buku, how do you think we should handle these Li Family retainers?”
Su Buku’s brow furrowed slightly at the question.
He was only eighteen, and yet from the tone of his uncle, it was clear that the lives of these dozen people now rested entirely on his judgment.
That realization made him ponder carefully.
The surviving retainers felt an immense bitterness in their hearts.
Among them were seasoned cultivators in the Nine Apertures realm, yet now their fates were held in the hands of a mere boy.
“Please, Young Lord Su, have mercy!!”
“So long as you spare our lives, we’re willing to become dogs for the Su Family!”
“Yes, yes!! As long as you let us live, we’re willing to be the Su Family’s loyal dogs!!”
One by one, the retainers groveled shamelessly for their lives, nearly falling to their knees to lick Su Buku’s boots.
However, the more Su Buku heard, the deeper his frown became, and the more disdain showed in his eyes.
“Not just anyone is worthy of being a dog for the Su Family.”
Su Buku’s voice was icy and calm—far from what one would expect of an eighteen-year-old.
“Uncle, these people were once retainers of the Li Family. Overtly and covertly, they’ve definitely struck against us Su Family members before.”
“Look at them—no loyalty whatsoever. They even killed their former masters just to survive.”
“If even one of them is pretending—enduring humiliation now only to strike us later— Then they’ll be a hidden dagger against the Su Family…”
Su Buku spoke seriously, laying out his analysis.
Su Zhou nodded in approval.
“So, what’s your decision?”
“Mercy is reserved only for our own.”
Su Buku looked up at Su Zhou.
“Good! That’s the spirit of a Su Family son!”
A faint smile appeared on Su Zhou’s face.
The Li Family retainers began to sense that something was wrong.
A few quick-witted ones began gathering their qi at their feet, planning to make a run for it.
But—
They had barely stepped out of the hall.
Whoosh~
A gust of autumn wind swept through, bringing a sudden chill.
In front of their eyes, they seemed to see withered autumn leaves fluttering down.
The falling leaves struck a strange chord in their souls—
And then, a horrifying scene unfolded.
Boom!! Boom!!
Those who had tried to run suddenly had their muscles wither and their hair turn stark white.
Their life force, like autumn leaves, decayed and fell away.
They remained frozen in their running posture, unable to move another step—turned into dried corpses drained of all vitality.
Even the retainers still inside the hall shared the same fate—dropping dead like husks.
Throughout all of this, Su Zhou had not moved a single finger.
Only an autumn wind had blown through—one that reaped all life.
“This Earth-grade technique truly is powerful.”
Looking at the corpses scattered about, Su Zhou couldn’t help but mutter in awe.
[Heaven and Earth Mourn in Autumn Technique: Heaven and Earth Mourn in Autumn, All Things Wither—]
[It drains the vitality of all, bringing death like the fall of autumn leaves.]
[Though ranked as an Earth-grade method, it can rival Low Heaven-grade techniques.]
[It is said to be part of a Saint-grade technique.]
“A part of a Saint-grade technique?”
Su Zhou pondered the description.
The cultivation method he had just received, Heaven and Earth Spring Concealment Art, also bore the name of heaven and earth.
Could there be a connection between these two techniques?