Chapter 234: 234 - How could anyone be so unnecessarily cruel?

Qingyi suddenly stopped, closing his eyes and controlling the anger burning in his heart.

He didn’t want to be a hypocrite. He had done cruel things before, he had tortured men to the point of madness.

But he had never intentionally hurt anyone who hadn’t put his life or the lives of his wives at risk.

He had never killed an innocent by choice.

But for Xue Mo, killing those innocent people was little different from crushing an insect.

How could anyone be so unnecessarily cruel?

"Oh... he’s hesitating! Looks like your servant isn’t so good, hahaha!" The voluptuous woman laughed, approaching Qingyi and ignoring Xue Mo’s bitter face.

She reached out her hand, trying to grab him, but her movement stopped at the last moment.

Her eyes widened and a splash of blood hit her face.

Her other siblings had the exact same look of shock as their sister’s severed hand fell to the ground.

That had been a surprise attack and she hadn’t even had time to defend herself with her Qi, but even so, it shouldn’t have happened.

The sword of any other cultivator of Qingyi’s level would have bounced off her skin or, in the worst case, stopped before it even reached the bone.

How sharp was that blade?

"AH! You son of a bitch! I will-" The voluptuous woman’s words were interrupted when the heaven-defying thunder sword tore through her lips and jaw, surrounded by a thunderous aura covered in silver threads of sword Qi.

The blade broke through the inside of her throat, coming out the back of her head with a spray of crimson blood.

Qingyi had expected a lot of reactions from Xue Mo, but not the one she got.

"Ugh... killed by a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator. Trash." The young lord spat on the corpse, waving to his brothers still in shock. "What are you waiting for, get rid of that little shit."

The two exchanged glances, hesitating for a brief moment before advancing towards Qingyi.

’Good... that makes things a lot easier.’ Qingyi smiled as he took a defensive stance, watching the two advance towards him.

As children of the demon lord, they naturally had access to better techniques, something that became very clear when they activated their movement techniques.

Qingyi briefly lost sight of them, only being able to see them clearly when he activated his draconic eyes.

At that moment, they were already upon him, their weapons covered in demonic Qi as they sliced through the air.

The handsome young man barely managed to dodge as the two blades passed inches from his face.

He activated the lightning steps, retreating more than a hundred meters in the blink of an eye.

The shockwave from the brothers’ joint attack reached him immediately afterwards, causing his clothes to flutter.

"I’ll kill you for touching our sister, you insolent worm!" The burly brother roared, his great sword filled with a demonic aura as he raised it over his head.

"Don’t let your guard down, idiot, this is no simple enemy!" The smallest of the brothers spoke, but his words were unnecessary.

Deciding it was time to put an end to it, Qingyi touched his draconic Qi, using his lineage projection.

Xue Mo seemed uninterested in the battle, being more annoyed at having to change his personal servant again than at the fact that his sister had just died.

Even the fact that that servant had lightning sword Qi along with fire and ice Qi caused him little shock.

But all that disinterest vanished the moment he noticed the change in Qingyi’s body, his blood-red eyes focused on the black figure that appeared behind the handsome young man’s body.

It was a dragon; or rather, the head of a dragon. Big enough to swallow a small house, each sharp fang easily the size of a man.

Xue Mo trembled under the penetrating gaze of that purple-eyed beast, something that immediately filled him with shock.

’I-I’m afraid?’ Xue Mo looked at his own hands, feeling the lineage of the celestial demon inside him.

No... It wasn’t just him who was trembling.

His bloodline was trembling!

It was being suppressed!

The thought immediately made his heart sink.

How could that be possible?

Qingyi was completely oblivious to Xue Mo’s thoughts, focused on the other two brothers who had been completely suppressed by the image of the black dragon on their backs.

"Ready to die?" Qingyi flashed a broad, strangely gentle smile, as if he were meeting old friends, not preparing for a massacre.

Out of the corner of his eye, he could see the merchants fleeing.

From the distance they were already, he could fight at full strength without the danger of them falling into the crossfire.

"You bastard!" The burly man finally mustered the strength to bring his blade down in a descending attack, a sea of demonic flames flying towards Qingyi, consuming everything around him.

The handsome young man was undeterred, readying his sword.

With a soft sigh, he activated the lightning steps, using the first form of the Tempest Monarch’s sword art.

The corpulent man’s already unstable Qi shattered under Qingyi’s attack, his eyes filling with terror as the handsome young man’s blade tore through his chest.

Without wasting a single moment, Qingyi struck again, using the second form of the Tempest Monarch sword art against the other brother, whose decapitated body soon fell to the ground with a deafening thud.

Soon, only Qingyi and Xue Mo remained.

’Ruxue, are you sure your fragment is with him?’ Qingyi asked, just to confirm.

"Yes," Ruxue replied.

"You..." Xue Mo took a step forward while gripping the handle of his sword.

A sharp hiss echoed as the crimson blade was revealed, shimmering softly.

"Who the hell are you?" Xue Mo growled, his eyes filled with murderous intent.

"I..." Qingyi seemed to think for a brief moment before grabbing his mask and pulling it off.

His face of transcendental beauty soon revealed itself, the strands of demonic Qi in his Qi disappearing completely.

"I’m Long Qingyi, your sister’s man. She asked me to deal with a disgusting, incestuous pig."