Chapter 229: Martial Sovereign's Fury!

"Just who is it?"

The Martial Sovereign's pressure spread outwards.

That nearly substantive pressure squeezed everyone in the surrounding streets and alleys until they could barely breathe!

Since Gu Han ruthlessly slaughtered the strongmen from all sides who were looking forward to the show.

Already, no one from any faction dared to venture too near this trouble spot of the He Manor.

But even so, merely those passing by the surrounding streets and alleys still suffered an undeserved disaster!

But He Qintian was one of the few strongest individuals in all of Han Shan Cheng.

Everyone, however, dared to be angry but not to speak, only able to be hunched over by the pressure, not daring to speak rashly.

"The Wang and Zhang families—this is all your doing!"

He Qintian, upon recalling what happened yesterday and today, felt his anger surge to the heavens!

His reason for not being in the He Manor was precisely because he had accepted an invitation from the heads of the Wang and Zhang families to go explore a perilous place.

That perilous place cut off ordinary means of communication, making it impossible for him to receive any news from within the family.

When he left that perilous place and rushed back at the first opportunity.

All he saw was that the family's interior had been burned to a scorched earth by calamity!

Thus He Qintian immediately bore a grudge against the heads of the Wang and Zhang families.

At the same time, several sharp breaking-wind sounds came from afar.

He Qintian immediately turned his head and saw that it was several elders of the He Family.

He Qintian's face instantly darkened, and he bellowed in a low voice:

"Such a major event has occurred in the clan; why are you not inside the clan, doing your utmost to protect the family?"

Several He Family elders, after hurrying back and forth, finally returned to the He Family at this moment.

Before they could even salute the family head, they were subjected to this questioning, immediately breaking out in a sweat and panicking.

"It is indeed the Gu Family's bandits who set fire to my He Family's banquet hall, then caused a ruckus in the He Manor, leading a squad to slaughter their way out of Han Shan Cheng."

"We had no choice but to pursue and kill those bandits all the way; after receiving the news, we rushed back at the first opportunity—please, family head, see clearly…"

Everyone chatted back and forth, and soon they roughly explained the course of events.

But upon hearing that the He Manor had actually been set ablaze by a few junior members of the Gu Family,

He Qintian flew into a rage even more,

"My He Manor is strictly guarded; even a Martial Ancestor would find it hard to break in—how could it be burned down by a few junior members of the Gu Family?"

Upon hearing this, the five elders stared at each other in shock.

One elder swallowed, his voice trembling as he said:

"I heard… I heard that He Qing, the young master, intended to scheme against the Gu Family's young lady…"

"Huh?"

His words had barely been spoken halfway when He Qintian's glare forced them back down.

"What did you just say?"

Faced with He Qintian's questioning, this elder immediately broke out in a cold sweat and dared not utter a sound.

The elder beside, seeing this, turned his eyes and stood up to explain in his place:

"Reporting to the family head, it is that Gu Family's young lady Gu Pan who had an appointment with He Qing, the young master, to come to our He Family's banquet hall to keep the date."

"She even proposed to marry into my He Family, to become the future mistress of our He Family!"

"He Qing, the young master, momentarily could not contain his anger and thus got into an argument with her."

"But who would have thought that Gu Pan actually possessed many precious spirit treasures, to the point that even several elders were injured by her spirit treasures!"

"We were each doing our own duties; no one expected such great chaos to erupt within the clan, and thus, caught off guard, the bandits escaped."

He understood the family head He Qintian's temperament.

For someone of He Qintian's stature, face can be said to be more important than anything else!

If one were to tell the family head that all of this was because of He Qing,

Even if it were true, He Qintian would certainly blame them for falsifying the situation in order to shirk responsibility!

It would be better to simply throw the blame onto the Gu Family from the start.

This would both excuse them of their responsibility for not being in the clan and comply with the family head's wishes!

As expected, upon hearing him say that, the powerful aura emanating from He Qintian's body formed a fierce gale.

It blew the already-charred beams and pillars of the He Manor completely away.

It even smashed the houses along the nearby streets into utter ruin, leaving only broken walls and remnants!

"Gu Family, how ruthless the Gu Family!"

He Qintian's roar spread in all directions,

"My He Family has spared no effort in nurturing you Gu Family, clearing all obstacles for you to set up shops in Han Shan Cheng."

"I never expected you Gu Family to repay my He Family in this way!"

"If I do not exterminate you Gu Family, what face would I, He Qintian, have to serve as head of any family?"

That thunderous roar made the passersby on the surrounding streets change color in shock.

Even the members of the other great families far away heard He Qintian's roar.

The heads of the Wang and Zhang families, upon hearing that roar, moreover let out schadenfreude-laden laughter:

"I never expected our lucky strike to instead bring upon the He Family a calamity that threatens to overturn heaven!"

They naturally did not intentionally lure He Qintian away.

Going together with He Qintian to the perilous place was certainly not because they were on good terms with the He Family.

They just wanted to find a capable enforcer.

But a mishap caused the He family, aside from the family head and a few elders, to suffer near-total extermination!

Of course, for the He family this might be an extremely dire situation.

But for them, it was a tremendous joy!

From today onward, even if He Qintian still lives, the He family will inevitably never return to its former prosperity as one of the Six Great Families of Han Shan Cheng!

The resources freed up from the He family will inevitably end up in the pockets of the Five Great Families!

Thus, the other Five Great Families could hardly be happier about the He family's current plight!

He Qintian naturally knows as well that the people of the Five Great Families might very well be lying in wait in the dark, ready to laugh at his misfortune.

He was merely waiting for the He family's main line to emerge from the underground passage; after settling those people, he would head to Wu Shan Cheng to settle scores with the Gu family!

However, he waited left and right, but no one from the main line ever came out of the underground passage.

Until, he finally saw a dozen or so strangers walk out from inside.

"Who are you, and why did you come out of my He Manor's underground passage?"

He Qintian furrowed his brows and shouted the question like a thunderclap.

The remaining elders exchanged bewildered glances, not knowing where these people had come from.

From the very start, they had followed He Qinyun in chasing down the fleeing personnel of the two major escort bureaus and the Gu family.

They had never seen these people present before.

But Gu Han's eyes darted, and he hurriedly spoke in an urgent tone,

"Sir, you must be the family head, right? We were originally entrusted with protecting the safety of the He family's direct line as they entered the underground passage."

"But we never expected that bandits would infiltrate the passage; now the He family members inside have suffered heavy losses, so we had no choice but to wait for an opportunity to come out and seek aid."

"Seeing the family head return, the clanspeople finally have hope to survive!"