Chapter 74: Xiao Yan's Method

"Furious Blood Lion!"

At this moment, the blood within Xiao Yan's body boiled, and all his blood energy surged and churned. Even though Xiao Yan had not activated the power of the Ten Thousand Beasts Spiritual Flame, after absorbing a trace of it, his body's strength had naturally improved by a great deal.

With Xiao Yan's current physical strength, executing the Furious Lion's Roar was already comparable to an ordinary Third Grade Magical Beast!

With a tremendous roar, blood-red blood energy erupted from Xiao Yan's entire body.

"What Dou Technique is this!" Mu She and all the mercenaries stared dumbfounded at Xiao Yan.

Thanks to the body-tempering ability of the Ten Thousand Beasts Spiritual Flame, Xiao Yan, who had originally only cultivated the Furious Lion's Roar to the Great Accomplishment realm, had his flesh tempered by the Ten Thousand Beasts Spiritual Flame and his blood energy strengthened. Now he had refined the Furious Lion's Roar to the Great Perfection realm!

Xiao Yan's body became incomparably burly, instantly transforming into a super-strongman over two meters tall.

"Being a giant feels pretty good." At this moment, Xiao Yan's line of sight had even changed.

Xiao Yan swept both hands across all of them, like autumn wind sweeping fallen leaves. All the mercenaries were swept away by Xiao Yan's large hands; every bone was shattered, and their internal organs ruptured.

Not a single mercenary could withstand even an ordinary sweep from Xiao Yan.

Clang clang clang!! Weapons striking Xiao Yan's body emitted crisp collision sounds, like hammering iron. Let alone cutting Xiao Yan, they couldn't even leave a white mark on his body.

One after another, shrill screams rang out. In Xiao Yan's eyes, the hundred-plus mercenaries were as weak as ants.

Even if Xiao Zhan, a Great Dou Master, came, facing the siege of over a hundred people, he wouldn't dare charge straight into the crowd like Xiao Yan and unleash a massacre. After all, a Great Dou Master is still human flesh and blood—being slashed by a blade would still cause injury.

Unless one possessed a body like Xiao Yan's and the protection of the Furious Lion's Roar, it would simply be impossible.

"T-this, this is too powerful! The Wolf Head Mercenary Corps and the Wan Yao Zhai are finished this time." At this moment, some onlookers watching from afar witnessed this massacre and were all terrified pale.

Way too fierce!

Xiao Yan is completely a humanoid Magical Beast—truly slaying gods when meeting gods, slaying Buddhas when meeting Buddhas—making one's hair stand on end!

What kind of rescue is this? This is a one-sided slaughter!

Everyone now understood why Xiao Yan had been so polite at the very beginning. He was worried about accidentally hurting Xiao Yixian!

Rumble rumble rumble! The buildings inside the estate began to collapse. Xiao Yan merely stomped one foot on the ground, and a crack appeared on the estate's floor. The trees, walls, and structures within the estate were all so fragile they couldn't withstand a single blow.

"Run!!"

"Run fast!"

"Help!!"

Seeing Xiao Yan as terrifying as a Magical Beast, the remaining mercenaries didn't dare face him as an enemy and fled in all directions.

But just as Xiao Yan had said, the mercenaries who had not run at the beginning but instead chose to attack him—he would not give them a second chance.

Roar! Xiao Yan let out a furious roar, gathered all his strength, and stomped heavily on the ground!

With a tremendous boom, a terrifying Energy Shockwave centered on Xiao Yan continuously spread out in all directions. Countless cracks appeared on the ground, and all the mercenaries had their internal organs shattered by the shockwave of the Furious Lion's Roar, dying on the spot.

The Furious Lion's Roar is a wide-area killing Dou Technique that combines physical strength with Dou Qi. Perhaps its one-on-one ability isn't as good as the Eight Extremes Collapse, but it's still very useful for clearing out small fry and grunts.

Whoosh—Xiao Yan exhaled a breath. The Furious Lion phantom vanished along with it, and even Xiao Yan, whose body had been tempered by the Ten Thousand Beasts Spiritual Flame, felt it extremely draining on his stamina.

Using an Xuan Jie High Grade Dou Ji cultivated to Perfection still places an enormous drain on Xiao Yan.

"You picked the wrong opponents." Xiao Yan looked at Mu She and Boss Yao. These two had hidden behind the mercenaries, so they weren't caught in the Dou Technique's blast.

Seeing the Wolf Head Mercenary Corps he had painstakingly built over an entire lifetime—with all its mercenaries killed by Xiao Yan—Mu She was already stupefied. His eyes stared at Xiao Yan with venomous resentment and hatred.

His palm slowly picked up the refined steel spear. He knew he had lost, that he could not possibly be Xiao Yan's match, but Mu She did not choose to flee. Since the Wolf Head Mercenary Corps no longer existed, he had nothing left to cling to.

In an ice-cold, bone-chilling voice brimming with killing intent: "Even if I die, I'll take you with me!"

A layer of wind-attribute Dou Qi Gauze Garment wrapped around Mu She's refined steel spear.

"Phoenix Soaring Steps! Gale Thrust!!"

The spear in Mu She's hand suddenly spun, accompanied by a low shout. The spear tip was instantly wrapped in a faint cyan wind spiral. As the wind spiral swept past, the surrounding air seemed to be torn apart, aiming straight for Xiao Yan's head.

"Commendable courage. In your next life, remember to be a good father—put in some effort to teach your son properly, and don't get into the dirty business of kidnapping and extortion. It won't end well."

"Eight Extremes Collapse!"

Facing the refined steel spear, Xiao Yan raised his hand and punched the spear's tip.

Crack crack crack!!! The refined steel spear shattered like an ice pop, breaking into segments. A hidden force beyond Mu She's imagination traveled from the spear into his body, instantly sending him flying backward.

With a bang, during his flight backward the hidden force erupted, and blood-red fresh blood splattered everywhere.

At this point, the Wolf Head Mercenary Corps of Qingshan Town became history.

A breeze blew through the estate, the dust gradually dispersed, and Xiao Yan's figure standing with his hands behind his back slowly emerged.

Looking down at the unharmed youth below, Xiao Yixian in the Sky above wore a face full of astonishment. Xiao Yan had grown several times stronger than half a year ago!

A Second-Star Dou Master couldn't even last one move against Xiao Yan using Dou Techniques! Over a hundred mercenaries couldn't even inflict a single scratch!

Absurdly strong!

Decisive in killing, cutting the grass and digging up the roots! Not a single mercenary who raised a hand against him survived.

The only survivors were some female attendants, maids, and odd-job workers inside the Wan Yao Zhai estate.

Xiao Yan turned his head to look at the other side. Boss Yao had picked up the ancient prescription Xiao Yan had discarded, realized something was wrong, and long ago fled into an underground passage within the estate.

Seeing Boss Yao fleeing, Xiao Yan's eyes narrowed slightly, and a meaningful smile appeared on his face.

"Monsters! Those two are both monsters!" Boss Yao emerged from the underground passage and headed straight for Mo Shou Shan Mai.

His strength was even less than Mu She's.

"Slander behind someone's back is very impolite." Suddenly, Xiao Yan's voice came from above Boss Yao's head.

Boss Yao looked up in terror. Xiao Yan, who had deployed the Purple Cloud Wings, was standing above his head, looking down at him with a smile.

"Don't kill me! I can give you the Wan Yao Zhai—everything is yours!" Boss Yao dropped to his knees, kowtowing repeatedly.

Xiao Yan's gaze was calm, his tone even, as he said: "When you framed Xiao Yixian back then, trying to force her to hand over the Treasure, you should have expected this day."

"No! I didn't wrong her! This plague really was caused by Xiao Yixian! I only—I only wanted to get the medicine compendium!"

Xiao Yan, with a smile, stepped closer to Boss Yao step by step and said softly: "What the truth is no longer matters. After you die, the townspeople will find poison and an ancient prescription for making poison on your body. They will believe that you, in order to obtain the medicine compendium, colluded with the Wolf Head Mercenary Corps to frame Xiao Yixian."

!!!!!!!!!

With a sharp crack, before Boss Yao's face could register disbelief, Xiao Yan twisted Boss Yao's neck until it snapped.

The truth holds no meaning whatsoever; in this world where the strong are revered, the strong are the truth. As the Young Clan Leader of the Xiao Clan, Xiao Yan understood this principle long ago.

If Xiao Yan were not here, then regardless of what the truth actually was, under the coercion of the Wolf Head Mercenary Corps and the Myriad Medicine Hall, the entirety of Qingshan Town would have come to believe that Xiao Yixian was the one who caused the residents' mysterious deaths.

It's simply that Xiao Yan is stronger now, that's all.