71: Chapter 71 Your son avenged you

Nannan and six Mo Family disciples supported Xiao Niuzi, coming to Mo Xiaochuan's side.

Gu Changfeng watched the few approach and took another step back.

Lying beneath the stone steps, Duan Qingfeng also dragged his crippled leg and inched backward.

Gu Changfeng hurriedly said,

"As long as you spare me, all the Spirit Stones and Cultivation Techniques in the Baihe Sect will belong to you."

Hearing this, Nannan's eyes instantly turned red.

"My godfather already agreed to give you all the Spirit Stones and medicinal herbs."

"He only begged you to spare the people of the Mo Family. Why did you still kill him?"

"I didn't kill your godfather."

Gu Changfeng pointed at Duan Qingfeng and said,

"He was the one who killed him; it has nothing to do with me."

"I only asked him to take over the Mo Family's assets, never to kill anyone."

Upon hearing this, Duan Qingfeng abruptly raised his head and looked at Gu Changfeng.

"Master, what do you mean by this?"

Gu Changfeng said with a cold face,

"If you hadn't killed people without authorization, how could the Baihe Sect have fallen to this state?"

Duan Qingfeng cursed through clenched teeth,

"You coward of an old thing!"

"You were the one who told me to take over the Mo Family."

"Now that the Baihe Sect is gone, you want to push all the blame onto me?"

Gu Changfeng shouted angrily,

"I told you to take over the assets, when did I ever tell you to kill people?"

"Mo Shoutian was killed by you; this matter never had anything to do with me!"

"It has nothing to do with you?"

Duan Qingfeng pointed at the corpses all around.

"Without your order, would I have gone to Mo Family Village?"

"Now that you know fear, you want to trade my life for your own?"

Gu Changfeng wanted to speak further, but Mo Xiaochuan had already raised the duanshui sword.

"Are you done talking?"

Gu Changfeng looked at the sword pointing at him, and his expression changed instantly.

"You can't kill me!"

"Behind my Baihe Sect stands the Qingmu Sect. If you dare to kill me, the Qingmu Sect will definitely not let..."

Before he could finish speaking, the duanshui sword had already flown out.

Gu Changfeng only saw a flash of cold light before his eyes.

The next moment, the duanshui sword pierced into his throat.

Gu Changfeng opened his mouth, but could no longer make a sound.

Mo Xiaochuan raised his hand in a summon, and the duanshui sword flew out from his throat.

Gu Changfeng clutched his neck, took two steps back, and collapsed onto the stone steps, losing all movement.

As soon as Gu Changfeng collapsed on the stone steps, Duan Qingfeng dragged his crippled leg and scrambled frantically backward, soon wetting the area beneath his trousers.

"Don't kill me..."

Mo Xiaochuan walked up to him carrying the duanshui sword.

"When my father begged you, did you spare him?"

Duan Qingfeng's lips moved a few times, but he couldn't speak.

Thinking of how Mo Shoutian had blocked in front of her, Nannan gripped her longsword and walked over.

With a single sword strike, she pierced into Duan Qingfeng's body.

"This is to repay you on behalf of my godfather."

Duan Qingfeng let out a miserable scream.

"I beg you... don't..."

Xiao Niuzi pushed away the two people supporting him, staggered close, and also stabbed Duan Qingfeng with a sword.

Mo Xiaochuan didn't speak, the duanshui sword in his hand also thrust down.

The three people thrust sword after sword.

Duan Qingfeng kept begging for mercy, but later there were only miserable screams left.

Until he lay there completely motionless did the three of them stop.

Looking at the dead Duan Qingfeng, Mo Xiaochuan spoke only after a long while,

"Father, your son has avenged you."

Right at this moment, a flurry of rapid hoofbeats suddenly came from outside the mountain gate.

Everyone turned their heads to look.

Seven people rode horses up from the foot of the mountain.

Riding at the very front were Mo Xiaozhu and Mo Xiaoman, followed by five other Mo Family disciples who had previously cultivated in the cultivation room.

The group hurried all the way to the mountain gate, and seeing the corpses littering the ground, they were all stunned.

Mo Xiaozhu jumped down from his horse and hurried over to Mo Xiaochuan.

"Brother Xiaochuan!"

Seeing the injuries on Mo Xiaochuan's waist and shoulder, he hurriedly reached out to support him.

"How are your injuries?"

"I won't die."

Mo Xiaochuan glanced at the few people following behind.

"Why did you all come here?"

Mo Xiaozhu said,

"After you left the village last night, Uncle Changlin had people go into the mountain and call us down."

"He also had people prepare fast horses, telling us to rush over overnight to help you."

Mo Xiaoman also walked over.

"Uncle Changlin said, if you were still alive when we arrived, the few of us would have to protect you even if it cost us our lives."

Speaking to this point, he glanced at the surrounding corpses.

"If you were already dead by the time we arrived, even if we had to risk the lives of all few of us, we had to bring your corpse back to Mo Family Village."

After hearing this, Mo Xiaochuan glanced at the seven people.

They had ridden horses overnight to get here, their eyes were filled with bloodshot veins, and their clothes were covered in mud.

"You've all worked hard."

Mo Xiaochuan paused for a moment, then continued,

"You've come just in time. I still have a few matters to entrust to you."

He raised his hand and pointed at the six injured Mo Family disciples.

"First, leave two people behind to help them tend to their wounds."

"Divide another two people to search the Baihe Sect from front to back and see if there are any survivors left."

Mo Xiaozhu nodded.

"What if we find people from the Baihe Sect?"

"Leave none alive."

Hearing this, their expressions all changed somewhat.

Mo Xiaochuan said again,

"As long as they are people from the Baihe Sect, not a single living soul can be left."

"Yes."

Mo Xiaochuan glanced around.

"The remaining people go find the Baihe Sect's treasury. Spirit Stones, Medicinal Pills, Cultivation Techniques, and weapons—bring everything that can be carried back to Mo Family Village."

Mo Xiaoman asked,

"What about those assets outside?"

"Xianren Valley, as well as the former shops of the Xuanyang Sect and Baihe Sect—send people to take them over."

"If manpower is insufficient, go back to the village to call for people."

Mo Xiaozhu and Mo Xiaoman looked at each other.

"We'll go handle it right away."

The seven people quickly dispersed.

Two stayed behind to look after the injured, two went to search various parts of the Baihe Sect, and Mo Xiaozhu and Mo Xiaoman took the remaining person to find the Baihe Sect's treasury.

Mo Xiaochuan took out a bottle of Medicinal Pills from his bosom, poured out three, and handed the medicine bottle to the Mo Family disciple closest to him.

"The six of you share and take these."

He swallowed one himself, and gave Nannan and Xiao Niuzi one each.

"Take the Medicinal Pills first."

Nannan and Xiao Niuzi took the Medicinal Pills and put them in their mouths.

Mo Xiaochuan looked at Nannan.

"Can you still fly on a sword?"

Nannan moved her arm.

"I can."

She walked over to Gu Changfeng's corpse and picked up his longsword.

Mo Xiaochuan stepped onto the duanshui sword and reached out to pull Xiao Niuzi behind him.

Because Xiao Niuzi was too heavily injured, he could only use one hand to grab Mo Xiaochuan's clothes.

Nannan also stepped onto Gu Changfeng's longsword.

The two swords rose one after another, flying in the direction of Mo Family Village.

At this time, Mo Family Village was extremely quiet.

The accumulated snow at the village entrance was cleared to both sides. A dozen heavy crossbows were divided into two rows, some aimed at the road entering the village, and a few crossbow mouths slanted diagonally toward the sky.

Beside each heavy crossbow were placed ten crossbow bolts.

Heavy crossbows were also set up at the intersections on both sides and at the back of the village.

Strong and vigorous men guarded various places; some carried hunting bows, while others held machetes and long spears. The older hunters had not gone home either, all standing among the crowd holding hunting knives.

Mo Qingshi supported Mo Changlin as they stood at the village entrance, staring at the distant road.

Mo Xiaochuan had said before leaving that if he didn't return before dawn, everyone should leave Mo Family Village.

Yet dawn had already broken, and not a single family in the village was packing their things.

Mo Shouyi tightened his grip on the machete in his hand.

"Xiaochuan hasn't returned yet."

Mo Changlin stared outside the village.

"Wait a bit longer, he will definitely come back."

The dozen heavy crossbows had long since been drawn.

While waiting for Mo Xiaochuan, the crowd guarded against people from the Baihe Sect slaughtering their way into the village.