193: Bloodline Shadow Silk Gu

Beside them, City Lord Xiao Muchu's brow furrowed. "Little Palace Master, aren't you a bit too bloodthirsty at such a young age? Since your clansmen are unharmed, accepting some treasures as compensation should suffice. Why do you still wish to slaughter them all here in my Zhiyao County?"

City Lord Xiao Muchu's words caused the Clan Chiefs and elders of several Noble Families to snap back to their senses. They quietly shifted their positions to stand behind City Lord Xiao Muchu.

Rather than offering treasures to this Little Palace Master to seek his forgiveness, it was better to offer equivalent treasures to City Lord Xiao Muchu to gain his protection.

Hearing City Lord Xiao Muchu's blunt words, Wu Yuan's expression instantly darkened. Even the Palace Master had never spoken so harshly to the Little Palace Master, yet today, a mere lowly County Magistrate dared to reprimand him.

The laws unique to a Domain instantly expanded across this world, and space became incredibly stagnant in an instant.

The Void-Splitting Thunder Domain Bird on his shoulder instantly took flight, its body rapidly expanding until its wings seemed to blot out the sky.

At a certain moment, space became extremely unstable. Dense spatial rifts hung down from the sky; these were not the stable spatial tunnels used for travel, but the kind with terrifying cutting power.

"Who do you think you are, daring to reprimand my Little Palace Master?"

Amidst Wu Yuan's cold voice, all the rifts acted like wandering snakes converging from different directions, swarming and coiling upward in a dense mass.

City Lord Xiao Muchu clearly hadn't expected Wu Yuan to suddenly launch an attack.

Only when these attacks were close at hand did he hurriedly condense his own 'Domain' to temporarily hold the assault at bay.

The next moment, a Source Beast shaped like a lizard but colored yellow and white appeared beside him. Golden light flickered upon its body, and as the golden light spread, those closing spatial rifts seemed to be repaired and sealed.

"Your Excellency, do not be too arrogant. I am the County Magistrate of Zhiyao County. If you dare to attack this official, do you view the Jingyuan Dynasty as nothing?"

"Heh, feel free to report it. I'd like to see if, in the eyes of the Royal Family, a mere County Magistrate is more important or if the Little Palace Master of my Qinghan Palace is more noble."

"For your disrespect toward my Little Palace Master, I fear even the Royal Family will not treat you lightly."

Wu Yuan's confident words caused City Lord Xiao Muchu's heart to tighten. Was this Qinghan Palace truly so extraordinary that even the Royal Family held them in such high regard?

Seeing City Lord Xiao Muchu still resisting, Wu Yuan let out a cold snort. A second, entirely different Domain expanded within this space. In an instant, the world seemed to enter the depths of winter, and snow from the white mountains drifted down from the sky without cause.

Under the intrusion of the cold Qi, the golden light around City Lord Xiao Muchu instantly dimmed, and a faint frost covered the Source Beast by his side.

"A double Domain..."

City Lord Xiao Muchu gritted his teeth, knowing he could not defeat the man before him no matter what. He withdrew his Source Beast.

"Fine, I was wrong."

Seeing this, Wu Yuan snorted coldly. In the end, he didn't let all the attacks fall upon him, but he still allowed the cold Qi to flood into City Lord Xiao Muchu's Bloodline, turning his face pale.

Disrespecting the Little Palace Master deserved a small punishment as a warning.

"You can punish them, but you absolutely cannot wipe out these three families. The deaths of so many Spirit Rank Contract Masters will inevitably destabilize the barrier between the Border and Beyond the Border. After what happened following the Huo Family disaster..."

"Our Zhiyao County cannot go through that again."

With a wave of Wu Yuan's hand, the massive Void-Splitting Thunder Domain Bird in the sky rapidly shrank and returned to his shoulder.

"It's just a small county town. So what if it's gone? At worst, we can just build a new one."

In Wu Yuan's mouth, building a small county town seemed like an incredibly easy task.

Hearing his words, City Lord Xiao Muchu's face darkened. His fate was now firmly tied to Zhiyao County; he couldn't just sit back and watch it be destroyed.

Thus, he could only look toward Chu Shengfan. "Little Palace Master, your Family is also in Zhiyao County. You surely wouldn't want to see your hometown vanish from the world."

"Any punishment is fine, except for clan extermination."

Seeing Chu Shengfan remain silent, Wu Yuan quickly spoke up. "I can open a rift and directly move the mountain where the Chu Family resides. Wouldn't it be better for the entire Family to move to Qianling Prefecture City?"

City Lord Xiao Muchu's hands clenched inside his sleeves. This man was so annoying; he really wanted to fight him, but unfortunately, he couldn't win.

Moving to Qianling Prefecture City was a good suggestion, but the city was entangled with various forces, making it difficult to keep Ancestor Chu's secrets. Their Chu Family's Foundation was too weak; currently, it was better for the Chu Family to slowly accumulate strength here.

Hearing the conversation outside the palace, Chu Jingyu couldn't help but float out and speak softly, "Xiao Fan, the Family has spent immense effort on construction; it must not be easily destroyed."

Chu Shengfan gave Chu Jingyu a reassuring look, then turned to Wu Yuan.

"Uncle Wu, do you have any items that can make these three families obey my father and the others' orders?"

Hearing this, Wu Yuan's eyes suddenly lit up. "If you're talking about that, I actually do have something. It was a little trinket Xinyue gave me."

As he spoke, he opened his hand to reveal three fingernail-sized, bright red worms.

"bloodline shading silk gu. These are Gu insects that can live within the Bloodline of a Contract Master. No contract is needed; you only need to let them drink the blood of someone from your Chu Family."

"Then, once they are parasitic within the Bloodlines of those three families, the members of those families will treat anyone with Chu Family blood as their lord. They won't dare to resist or disobey orders."

Hearing his words, both Chu Shengfan's and Chu Jingyu's eyes brightened instantly.

"Impossible! How can we, a dignified Eighth-Rank Noble Family, serve as slaves to your Ninth-Rank Chu Family?"

The speaker was another younger man behind City Lord Xiao Muchu. Wu Yuan glanced at him. "Noisy."

A spatial rift passed through his body. Instantly, he silently drifted down from the sky. The excellent physical constitution of a Spirit Rank Contract Master prevented him from turning into a pile of mangled meat,

but a rift through which the ground could be seen appeared from his chest to his abdomen. His eyes were wide open; he was as dead as could be.

The others behind City Lord Xiao Muchu nearly held their breath. Killing an Upper Spirit Rank Contract Master with a single glance—one must know that he was the Shen Family's most promising Genius to ascend to the Domain Rank in nearly a hundred years.

Wu Yuan's gaze fell upon the slightly frowning City Lord Xiao Muchu. "County Magistrate Xiao, it's not that we are bloodthirsty. Since he refused to accept the other punishment, he could only accept the original arrangement."

City Lord Xiao Muchu sighed helplessly, then turned back to the leaders of the other families. "I hope you all can cooperate properly. Otherwise, I wouldn't mind personally taking action to make you cooperate."

The remaining few, faces either filled with resentment, teeth gritted, or eyes darkened, bowed and complied.

The bloodline shading silk gu in Wu Yuan's hand had already consumed the mixed blood of Chu Shengfan and Chu Jingyu, their bodies growing a size larger.

Wu Yuan's palm lifted gently, and the three of them floated toward three people of different Bloodlines, crawling in through their foreheads.