Chapter 40: Chapter 40: Troops Surround the Luo Family, Not a Single One Spared_1
As time passed,
the Zhao Family Head, Zhao Wu, and Zhao Hong, the second in line of the Zhao Family,
along with the more than one thousand five hundred armored youths they led, grew ever closer to the Luo Family Ancestral Land.
“We’ve arrived…”
About twenty or thirty meters from the Luo Family Ancestral Land,
Zhao Wu, the current head of the Zhao Family, silently gazed at the domain that had stood for more than three hundred years.
A trace of emotion couldn’t help but surface on his face.
The Zhao and Luo families were sworn enemies.
For the Luo Family, who likewise controlled the mining and sales channels of the Qingshi ore veins,
Zhao Wu had countless times desired to eradicate the Luo Family of Qingshi Town and thus be rid of them once and for all.
But now that the moment had come…
He found himself hesitating slightly at the last minute.
It wasn’t because of a so-called womanly compassion that Zhao Wu contemplated sparing the Luo Family.
Rather, it was because opponents like the Luo Family were about to be exterminated by their Zhao Family.
Naturally, Zhao Wu had some emotional stirrings.
“Big brother, it’s time to take action…”
Outside the Luo Family Ancestral Land, beside Zhao Wu,
Zhao Hong, clad in dark red armor and with a blade at his waist, his build robust, noticed that his elder brother seemed slightly distracted.
Thus, he spoke out to remind him.
“If that’s the case, then surround the Luo Family, leave none alive!!!”
Zhao Wu, with his hands clasped behind his back and an expressionless face, spoke to Zhao Hong beside him.
To this, Zhao Hong silently took several steps forward.
He drew the blade at his waist, which shimmered with bursts of cold light and sharpness,
and bellowed to the armored youths behind him, “Surround the Luo Family, leave none alive!!!”
Following the issuance of the order,
the more than one thousand five hundred armored youths
each picked up their brand new steel sabers and completely surrounded the Luo Family Clan’s domain.
Waves of murderous aura surged towards the heavens.
The killing intent also spread towards the Luo Family Clan’s direction with the actions of the armored youths.
Finally, after the Zhao Family had made all the preliminary preparations,
the Luo family members and the elite house servants fostered by the Luo Family over the years,
finally appeared before the Zhao Family’s eyes.
“Zhao Wu, is this the confidence your Zhao Family has to act against mine?”
“More than one thousand five hundred armored youths.”
“Such a lineup, is indeed somewhat extravagant…”
Among the Luo Family, Luo Yong, the youngest, who had achieved Bone Refinement Perfection,
now quietly stepped forward from amongst his people.
His face was somewhat icy as he watched Zhao Wu, the Zhao Family Head before him.
Zhao Wu, “More than one thousand five hundred armored youths, that’s only one aspect, as for the second…”
Speaking thus, Zhao Wu silently shifted his gaze to his side,
towards Zhao Hong, clad in dark red armor and wielding a blade.
Zhao Hong, the second eldest of the Zhao Family, upon noticing his elder brother’s look,
immediately clenched his fists, raised his head and let out a shout.
Subsequently, his whole body suddenly emitted a scorching and powerful blood energy.
The muscles already bulging on his body seemed to grow even more exaggerated at this moment.
“Bone Refinement Perfection???”
Luo Yong looked in the direction of Zhao Hong, his face revealing a trace of astonishment.
“If it were simply a matter of more than one thousand five hundred armored youths, defeating the Luo Family might be difficult.”
“But with the addition of my second brother Zhao Hong, who has achieved the realm of Bone Refinement Perfection,”
“the Luo Family would be as easy as flipping one’s hand!!!”
Zhao Wu’s eyes were half-open and half-closed, his hands quietly clasped behind his back.
Looking at the faces of the Luo Family, his eyes betrayed a calmness that few outsiders could detect, tinged with a hint of mockery.
At this moment, it was as if Zhao Wu’s very demeanor stated that with more than one thousand five hundred armored youths and two cultivators who had reached Bone Refinement Perfection at his command,
the Luo Family couldn’t possibly contend with him.
However, after Zhao Wu revealed all of his trump cards,
the plot seemed to have taken some unexpected turns.
He had thought that after exposing the Zhao Family’s trump cards,
the faces of those from the Luo Family should be filled with despair, confusion, bafflement, cluelessness, and various expressions of fear and unease.
But now, on the faces of those from the Luo Family, all he could see was calmness and indifference.
Beyond that, there were no other emotional fluctuations.
The situation… seemed to have become a bit off.
“Let’s just fight!”
Zhao Wu silently glanced at his second brother, Zhao Hong, beside him.
Then he swiftly moved toward Luo Yong’s location.
He had no intention of wasting more words with these people from the Luo Family.
He wanted to annihilate the Luo Family of Qingshi Town as quickly as possible, leaving none alive.
Indeed, a family like the Luo Family
should not exist in this world.
“Eradicate the Luo Family, spare none!!!” After receiving the command from his older brother,
Zhao Hong gave an order to the lieutenants behind him.
He then followed Zhao Wu’s lead without hesitation.
Currently, the most formidable threat from the Luo Family was only that third brother with Bone Refinement Perfection, Luo Yong.
Whether it was Zhao Wu or Zhao Hong,
they always believed that as long as Luo Yong, who had attained Bone Refinement Perfection, was dead,
the vast Luo Family would collapse instantly.
As Zhao Hong, Zhao Wu, and the more than fifteen hundred armored youths brought by the Zhao Family began to move,
the Zhao Family and the Luo Family,
the two great top-tier families of Qingshi Town, commenced a thorough fight.
Due to the advantage of the terrain, the house servants trained by the Luo Family could handle the more than fifteen hundred armored youths brought by the Zhao Family in the short term without much problem.
Although Zhao Hong and Zhao Wu, both at Bone Refinement Perfection, teamed up to attack Luo Yong, who was also of Bone Refinement Perfection,
neither Zhao Hong nor Zhao Wu wanted to exchange life-for-life with Luo Yong at their limit.
Therefore, to take out Luo Yong in a short period was nearly impossible.
And as the battle between the two great families, the Luo Family and the Zhao Family, gradually reached a fever pitch,
within the Luo Family Ancestral Land, in a yard that appeared ancient and simple from afar,
Patriarch Changfeng, Ancestor of the Luo Family, Luo Changfeng, was sitting quietly under a Stone Pavilion, silently flipping through a book titled “Introduction to Alchemy.”
In front of him sat a young man with an extremely calm demeanor, Luo Chuan.
However, as time passed,
and as the battle between the two great families intensified,
the young Luo Chuan could finally sit still no longer.
“Patriarch Changfeng, are you… not going to take action yet?”
Luo Chuan, looking at the figure in front of him, hesitated for a moment before asking in a low voice.
“The time has not yet come…”
Luo Changfeng glanced at Luo Chuan in front of him and responded calmly.
Luo Chuan bowed his head slightly, pondered for a moment, and then asked, “Patriarch Changfeng, the reason you gathered all the old and weak in the family’s central courtyard last night…”
“Is it to use the Zhao Family’s hand to enhance the overall strength of our family?”
Luo Chuan’s words slowly echoed near the Stone Pavilion.
Luo Changfeng, engrossed in studying the art of Alchemy,
could not help but put down the book in his hands.
He looked up at this descendant of the Luo Family before him,
his eyes narrowing slightly, a glint of light flickering through them.
Always having one’s thoughts read by others was indeed not a pleasant matter.
However, if the person deducing the thoughts of Luo Changfeng was the next mainstay of the Luo Family,
then things were slightly different.
“For the Luo Family to grow strong, it’s impossible with just me alone.”
“Flowers that grow in a greenhouse, though beautiful, cannot withstand the harsh weather of the outside world.”
“Rather than solving all the problems myself, it is better to train those youngsters a bit while the situation is still under my control.”
“What do you think about my idea?”
Luo Chuan bowed his head slightly, and his emotions once again returned to their initial calmness, “What Patriarch Changfeng thinks is naturally the best for our Luo Family…”