75: Plundering entries! Beheading at Caishikou! The momentum reaches its peak!

“What a touching mother-son bond!”

Li Shengyuan sighed, yet his face showed no emotion.

He was truly a Child of Fortune!

[Host detected a bad deed: using Xus mother to lure out the Child of Fortune, Xu Bingying, causing Xus mother immense guilt. Do you wish to exchange for a chance to plunder a trait?]

I really did a bad deed!

'Exchange!'

Ding!

[Congratulations, Host, you have received a chance to exchange for a blue trait.]

[Congratulations, Host, you have received the reward of a medium-grade martial art, "Pure Yang Finger" (Mastery).]

The reward was just mediocre, so Li Shengyuan didn't pay too much attention to it.

A medium-grade martial art was only at the level of the middle third-rank, which wasn't a significant improvement for him currently.

It was only useful for bullying those with lower cultivation than him.

Then, Li Shengyuan investigated the traits on Xu Bingying.

Currently, he could plunder all three levels of traits except for golden traits.

Xu Bingying: [Blue Trait: Extraordinary Fortune] [Blue Trait: Fourth-Grade Soul Protection Pearl]

[Purple Trait: Extremely Easy to Enlighten]

Xu Bingying was currently only in a soul state; perhaps after his soul and body merged, there might be other traits.

But for Li Shengyuan, [Extremely Easy to Enlighten] and [Extraordinary Fortune] were very good!

Xu Bingying's fortune value was not particularly high, so his ability to turn misfortune into blessings and acquire opportunities might be relatively weaker.

However, the [Extremely Easy to Enlighten] trait would greatly enhance him, ensuring his potential would not be low.

On the other hand, the Fourth-Grade Soul Protection Pearl was not very useful to Li Shengyuan; he already had two third-grade soul protection artifacts.

After a brief thought, Li Shengyuan made a decision: 'Plunder Xu Bingying's [Blue Trait: Extraordinary Fortune] and [Purple Trait: Extremely Easy to Enlighten].'

Ding!

[Plunder successful. Host can view it in the System Treasury.]

Xu Bingying, who was glaring at Li Shengyuan with full of anger but unable to utter a word, suddenly felt that he had lost something extremely important.

His agile mind instantly became much duller, and the escape methods he had been contemplating in his mind immediately became stuck in a quagmire, not knowing how to escape. His hope of survival dwindled significantly.

This made him panic. In his eighteen years of life, this was the first time he had felt such fear and despair.

Li Shengyuan also noticed the change in Xu Bingying's expression, nodded with satisfaction, and summoned Xu Bingying's confined soul closer.

Looking at Xus mother, who was weeping uncontrollably, he said indifferently:

“Stop crying. When you enjoyed the privileges brought by Xu Mingzhi, you should have anticipated this day. Some people persecuted by Xu Mingzhi are even more miserable than you!”

“Instead of fantasizing that your son will one day soar to the sky and avenge you, it's better to let him suffer less, have less hatred, and find liberation sooner with the rest of the Xu Family. As for the Xu Family members who are scattered outside, they were all brought under control at the same time as our operation.”

“As for you… just obediently go to the Jiaofang Division!”

Xus mother seemed to not hear him, still crying with her head bowed.

She was either wailing for her own miserable life ahead or because her only hope, her son, had also been caught…

After a moment of psychological torment, Li Shengyuan calmly confined the sorrowful and weeping Xus mother, and taking Xu Bingying with him, left the place and headed to the front courtyard.

Li Shengyuan's arrival also attracted everyone's attention.

Looking at the body lying before the crowd, Li Shengyuan was calm, but the confined soul of Xu Bingying trembled violently, and despair spread throughout his entire soul.

As for Xus mother, she had long since cried until her eyes were vacant, falling into a daze.

Li Shengyuan said indifferently: “This soul is indeed Xu Bingying. He used a magical artifact to protect his soul and hide it in an old willow tree, but I discovered him. I've confined him and brought him back. We'll execute him publicly at the marketplace later!”

“Yes, Lord Li.”

A Silver-Robed Demon Suppression Envoy respectfully took the soul from Li Shengyuan's hand.

The Xu Family members, who had held a glimmer of hope, instantly fell into despair upon seeing Xu Bingying's soul.

Unlike the wailing Xu Family, the members of the Demon Suppression Division looked at Li Shengyuan with awe.

If Lord Li hadn't been here, Xu Bingying almost would have escaped!

The few Black Uniform Zhen Mo Shis who had initially softened their hearts upon hearing Xu Bingying's pitiful story now felt deeply ashamed.

As Demon Suppression Envoys, to actually believe the slanders of a criminal, it was truly a sin…

It seems there is still much to learn from the seniors!

Shen Xinrong came to Li Shengyuan's side and said with some surprise:

“These Xu Family members are truly cunning. They actually separated their bodies and souls to evade the search, and then had the soul return to the body. We almost fell for their trick.”

“What's so special about that? It's just a cicada shedding its shell trick. Demon Suppression Envoys have seen it countless times; it's just an old trick!” Li Shengyuan pouted.

Then a cold glint flashed in his eyes, and he said coldly:

“However, the Xu Family alone certainly couldn't have done it in such a short time. A Fourth-Grade Soul Protection Pearl alone is not an ordinary item!”

“You mean someone helped them?” Shen Xinrong asked in surprise, then frowned slightly, “Could it be…”

Li Shengyuan smiled without speaking, then waved his hand and said:

“Take everyone back. There's no time like the present. At noon, all male members of the Xu Family will be publicly beheaded at the marketplace to give justice to the people of Yanwang City!”

“As for the female dependents, they will all be branded with slave marks and sent to the Jiaofang Division, never to be redeemed!”

“As you command!”

Everyone responded in unison, escorting all the weeping Xu Family members away.

As for the collected wealth, it was all confiscated and, after being sent onto the suspended giant airship, was escorted back to the capital and deposited into the national treasury.

Since Li Shengyuan and his team had taken action, it was naturally not for Yanwang City to receive it locally.

Finally, they split into two groups: one escorted the female dependents back, and the other took the male members to the marketplace.

Along the way, pedestrians turned their heads, applauded, and cheered, throwing rotten eggs and vegetables at the Xu Family members.

And Liu Zhen's three armies were also converging at the marketplace.

They captured the people and immediately beheaded them, giving no opportunity for anyone to rescue them or find scapegoats.

However, there were quite a lot of people; dozens of members in one family, and four families combined made several hundred. The guillotine at the marketplace was a bit insufficient, and beheadings had to be queued…

Shen Xinrong and Princess Pingyang felt it was a bit too cruel and did not follow along.

As heads fell one by one, the cheers of “Long live the upright officials of Yanwang City!” echoed through the sky.

Today was a carnival for the common people, and also a day for corrupt officials to tremble in fear.

What people hated was not corrupt officials, but those who were corrupt yet did nothing or even trampled on the common people.

Liu Zhen stood beside Li Shengyuan and sighed:

“Once we finish this, our prestige in Yanwang City will probably reach its peak, and there will be no resistance to anything we want to do!”

The common people trusted them. Even if they were to investigate the Yan King, the Northern Border War God in their eyes, no one would stand out and cause trouble; they would only suspect whether the Yan King had also done something against the common people…

“Shengyuan, what should we do next!” Liu Zhen looked at Li Shengyuan with fervent eyes.

“Next…” Li Shengyuan's lips curved into a slight smile as he looked towards the location of the Prince Yans Mansion.

“Naturally, we should ask His Royal Highness the Yan King to widely issue hero invitations to conquer the Giant Spirit Hall!”