Chapter 66: The Guo Family's Destruction, A Great Harvest!

"Ah!"

"Save me~!"

"It's the Zhenwu Division! Run…"

"……"

Shouts of battle, screams, cries of alarm, roars of fury…

All manner of sounds rose almost in an instant, mingling together, shattering the quiet night.

"It's finally begun!"

Chen Mu exhaled, his brows lifting.

The next moment, he donned a human-skin mask, his body flashed, and he raced across the rooftops toward the inner city.

But halfway there he turned north again, because fighting had also broken out in the north district!

By the time Chen Mu reached the spot where the sounds of combat had come from, the Guo family's forces in the north district had already been slaughtered to the last man.

【Corpse detected. Pick up?】

"Yes!"

……

Twenty-three cards obtained in a row.

Chen Mu continued on toward the inner city; just as he vaulted over the city wall…

Hum~!

The air trembled and the night curtain tore.

A ghastly-pale blade-light suddenly bloomed, piercing the darkness, stretching over seventy meters long!

Whoosh~!

The instant the blade-light rose, a cyan spear-shadow shot skyward almost at the same time, piercing the night, fierce and dazzling, its glow thick and sturdy, stretching over fifty meters long!

Boom~!!

The air exploded. A giant axe silhouette with clear outlines, following right behind the cyan spear-shadow, split the darkness and leapt into the high sky, wreathed in burning flame-light, stretching over forty meters long!

"Thud~ thud~"

"Rumble~!!"

The blade-light, spear-shadow, and giant axe clashed fiercely in the air.

The ghastly-pale blade-light fought two at once, taking on the cyan spear-shadow and the flaming giant axe head-on.

Terrifying energy ripples swept and spread through the air, triggering dull thunderous booms, drowning out the screams and roars on the ground.

Innate!

The ghastly-pale blade-light was clearly unleashed by the Guo family's previous generation head—an old Innate powerhouse, the strongest of them.

The cyan spear-shadow and flaming giant axe were Innate experts of the Zhenwu Division.

But even fighting two against one, they couldn't take him down right away.

The cultivation of this Guo family elder could be called…

"Shred~!"

A platinum-white sword-light, a hundred meters long, suddenly surged up from the ground, shot straight into the sky, forcibly plunged into the three-way clash, and slammed into the ghastly-pale blade-light.

In a single exchange, the ghastly-pale blade-light collapsed on the spot, bursting apart with a thunderous boom, dissolving into motes of flowing light that scattered across the sky.

"Zhao! Fu! Zhou!"

A hoarse, aged roar rang out from behind the Guo family estate.

A figure wreathed in intertwined cyan-and-white light shot up into the sky.

Whoosh!

The sword-light, wrapped in platinum-white flame, came cleaving down from above.

The figure that had just shot skyward had no choice but to throw a punch upward to block, and then the ghastly-pale blade-light once again tore open the night.

"Boom~"

Rumble!

A dull, thunderous roar shook half the sky.

Under the gaze of countless onlookers, the ghastly-pale blade-light crumbled, and the figure wreathed in cyan-and-white light split in two, blood staining the night.

Dead!

One sword broke his technique, one sword slew the Guo family elder!

Zhao Fuzhou's might, in this moment, awed every person in the city.

The Pan family, Zheng family, Tang family, Li family, Hero Tower, Hundred Flowers Tower…

Every power, great and small, in the inner city fell utterly silent.

"Innate…"

"What realm of Innate is that?"

Chen Mu's heartbeat quickened slightly, awe still lingering in his eyes.

A battle between Innate martial artists—he had truly witnessed it now.

"The Guo family trafficked in Carefree Pills, bribed officers of the Zhenwu Division, and for their own selfish interests destroyed the Falling Cloud Martial Hall, Red Willow Manor, and many other powers, treating human life as grass—sins beyond measure."

"Today, the Zhenwu Division, in faithful obedience to His Majesty's decree, punishes the wicked and eradicates the evil, wiping out the Guo family—kill without mercy!"

A clear, unhurried male voice, bolstered by true qi, rang out across the entire city.

The next instant, shouts of battle, screams, and roars of fury rose once more, filling half the sky with clamor.

Zhao Fuzhou recited the Guo family's crimes aloud, dead set on killing without mercy; the Guo family people, in despair, fought back with everything they had.

Unfortunately, before absolute strength, any resistance was futile.

A quarter-hour later, the fighting stopped.

The thick stench of blood drifted about on the night wind.

"It's over."

Chen Mu exhaled a breath, steadying his state of mind.

Bribing a guard of the Town Martial Bureau!

No wonder Zhao Fuzhou waited three days before moving against the Guo family.

Chen Mu also recalled that earlier, when Guo Jinnian had been searching for the hiding Luo Zhaoyu, the Town Martial Bureau had helped — a bronze-badge guard named Chen Kang had led a tracking hound in pursuit of Luo Zhaoyu.

Looking at it now, the Town Martial Bureau's action at the time had been Chen Kang's personal behavior!

The Guo family's trafficking of Carefree Pills behind the scenes had been exposed, and Chen Kang, this bribed guard, had clearly already been dealt with.

……

Whoosh~

Tapping his toes, Chen Mu's figure flew, slipping in near each battlefield.

【Corpse discovered. Pick up?】

"Yes!"

【Corpse discovered. Pick up?】

"Yes!"

……

Card after card was picked up.

Everyone in the Guo family who resisted was killed outright; the old and weak were seized.

The dead numbered nearly three hundred.

Avoiding the Town Martial Bureau's people, Chen Mu picked up two hundred and fifty-six cards from afar.

Returning to the East District, he took out these cards and checked them one by one.

Stamina cards, energy cards, power cards, internal force cards, stamina cards…

Mostly stamina cards and energy cards.

Even so, the number of internal force cards set a new record — forty-seven! The lowest was half a month, the highest seven months!

Then came twenty-three power cards, twelve cultivation cards, eight equipment cards, fourteen skill cards, three memory cards, and one experience card.

The experience card was used first, granting Chen Mu, in a breath's span, rich experience in moving stealthily by night.

The equipment cards were unsealed in turn, yielding three vials of Peiyuan Pills, one dagger that could slice through iron like mud, one unknown jade tablet, and four Willowleaf Darts!

The remaining Willowleaf Dart from Red Willow Manor had all been taken by the Guo family — and in the end, these Willowleaf Dart fell into Chen Mu's hands.

One could only say the Town Martial Bureau's people were too slow in clearing the battlefield, and the Willowleaf Dart were too small to be easily noticed.

Three pieces plus four pieces — seven Willowleaf Dart assembled. Examining them carefully, Chen Mu discovered that these seven Willowleaf Dart could actually be combined into one!

"What a fine treasure…"

A complete set of spirit weapons — its power could hardly be small.

However, the best way to drive a spirit weapon was with true Qi, so for now these seven Willowleaf Dart were set aside.

He took up the skill cards and used them one by one.

Chen Mu obtained several acquired-stage Wu Gong, as well as one non-special skill — carving.

Of course, the most important were two innate-stage Wu Gong.

*Azure Origin Single Qi Art*

*Reverse Fate Blade*

The former was an inner-gong method for condensing true Qi and Breaking Through Realm, six layers in total.

The latter was a martial technique — a powerful one that touched upon the spiritual level!

Complete Mastery realm.

Chen Mu used it without hesitation, and in a breath's span mastered this innate-stage martial technique. He had not yet delved deeply into it, but the essence of *Reverse Fate Blade* was already familiar to his heart.

Once this blade art was cultivated to the Pinnacle realm, one could condense spiritual force — using the spirit as a blade to strike the foe!

With the spirit as a blade, invisible to the eye, silent and soundless, anyone who had not cultivated a spiritual Wu Gong, or whose spiritual will was not strong, could only be slaughtered at will.

This kind of Wu Gong — he had to master it no matter what.

Chen Mu immediately used the cultivation cards, training after training against *Reverse Fate Blade*, one card after another.

All the cultivation cards were used up, just enough to raise the blade art to the Pinnacle realm!

"One more trump card!"