432: Chapter 432 Blood Rain

[The two of them cupped their fists simultaneously and bowed deeply:]

["Thank you, Senior, for saving our Heavenly Sword Sect!"]

["Thank you, Senior, for your life-saving grace!"]

[You raised your hand with a phantom gesture, signaling them that there was no need for such formality.]

["You are both too kind; it was merely a small matter."]

[You paused, your gaze sweeping over their disheveled appearances, and asked, "What exactly was the situation with that battle just now? Please tell me in detail."]

[Peak Master Huanyue took a deep breath, organized her thoughts, and began to recount—]

[This time, the group sent by the Liu Clan numbered over a hundred.]

[Ten Soul Transformation hidden guards and ninety Nascent Soul Black Armored Guards.]

[The leader was a former Protector of the Liu Clan's Blessed Land—Guardian, possessing a Void Refining cultivation.]

[They arrived suddenly, without any warning.]

[Fortunately, you had Qin Han arrive in time; otherwise, the Heavenly Sword Sect would likely be a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood today.]

["Guardian personally took action," Peak Master Huanyue said, her voice still carrying a hint of lingering fear. "He alone held back over a dozen of our Soul Transformation Peak Masters and Elders."]

["Those hidden guards and Black Armored Guards were slaughtering everywhere at the mountain gate..."]

["If Senior Qin Han hadn't arrived in time," she glanced at Qin Han squatting on your shoulder, "I'm afraid no one in the Heavenly Sword Sect would have survived today."]

[After listening, you nodded.]

[This was close to what you had guessed.]

[Liu Qingtian's scheme never intended to follow the rules from the very beginning.]

[Having the Grand Elder and Great Protector appear at the 'Hongmen Banquet' was merely a diversion.]

[The real move was outside the banquet.]

[Since the participants in the duel happened to be the Heavenly Sword Sect and the Lin family, these two families bore the brunt of it.]

[Had the Liu Clan succeeded, the consequences would have been unimaginable.]

[You gave a cold smile: "Liu Qingtian indeed had the same idea as me."]

[Then you looked at the two Peak Masters and said calmly, "They wanted to take your heads and deliver them to Ziyang Immortal City."]

["Once Sect Master Jitian and Sword Nameless saw the corpses of your entire sect, their state of mind would surely be thrown into chaos. At that time, the Liu Clan could easily win those three duels."]

[Peak Master Huanyue bit her teeth, a flash of hatred in her eyes: "What a vicious calculation."]

[You merely smiled indifferently and looked at Qin Han on your shoulder: "Qin Han, go to the Liu Clan Mountain Range. See how Torch Dragon's progress is going and give it a hand while you're at it."]

[Qin Han looked at you with a beaming smile: "Daddy, can I take that kid Xuan Tian with me?"]

[It tilted its head up and rubbed against your neck: "Fighting alongside it feels so good."]

["No, no, no, I'm not going, I'm not going!" The xuantian treasure mirror immediately escaped from your body and floated in mid-air, its main body trembling slightly.]

["I'm not good at fighting. If you make me go, aren't you sending me to my death?" Xuan Tian's voice was nervous.]

["I'm not asking you to fight; just assist me from the side." Qin Han stared at the xuantian treasure mirror with a beaming smile, then looked at you with a pleading gaze.]

[You nodded and looked at the xuantian treasure mirror: "Xuan Tian, you can just hide inside Qin Han. Just look for the right moment to assist it; it's perfectly safe."]

["No, no, no!" Xuan Tian tried hard to protest.]

[Before the xuantian treasure mirror could refuse, Qin Han swallowed it in one gulp and chuckled, "So fucking talkative."]

["Ah—! I'm not going! I'm not going!" From inside Qin Han's stomach, Xuan Tian's heart-wrenching cries could still be heard.]

[Before you could speak again, Qin Han's figure flickered and vanished.]

[The Peak Master of Starfall Peak stared at you with wide eyes: "Senior... what did you mean by those words just now?"]

[Peak Master Huanyue also looked at you with a shocked expression, her voice trembling: "Senior... could it be that you also...?"]

["Exactly," you nodded with a smile. "This seat has a friend whose hatred for the Liu Clan Immortal Family is irreconcilable."]

["Some time ago, I sent that friend to the Liu Clan Mountain Range. By now, they should have almost succeeded."]

[It turned out that when you proposed the three duels to Sword Nameless, you had already sent Torch Dragon to the Liu Clan Mountain Range to raid their home.]

[Torch Dragon was naturally looking forward to this immensely.]

[You looked toward the direction of the Liu Clan Mountain Range, a cold smile playing on the corners of your mouth.]

[At the same time,]

[In the City Lord's Mansion of Ziyang Immortal City.]

[Your Clone sat in an elegant seat, and the curve at the corner of his mouth could finally no longer be suppressed.]

[The three duels were still deadlocked, with both sides evenly matched.]

[In the square, people from various major forces watched without blinking, occasionally letting out low whispers.]

["I didn't expect that any random Nascent Soul Elder from the Liu Clan could fight Sect Master Lin Haotian to such a state..."]

["Yeah, I thought our Ziyang Star had the victory in hand, but now... it looks uncertain."]

["The Old Ancestor of the Heavenly Sword Sect is the number one person on our Ziyang Star, yet he's only trading blows evenly with a Void Refining cultivator from the Liu family. The Liu Clan's foundation is much deeper than we thought."]

[Some sighed, some shook their heads, and some clenched their fists.]

[No one knew what the result would be.]

[It was precisely this unknown that was the most agonizing.]

[However—]

[At this very moment.]

[Above the firmament, a sudden disturbance appeared.]

[Countless black dots, dense and packed, fell from the sky.]

[At first, they were just tiny shadows, but as those black dots drew closer and clearer, everyone's pupils contracted sharply at the same instant.]

[Those were corpses.]

[Corpse after corpse fell from the high altitude, like a torrential downpour, covering the sky and blotting out the sun.]

[Blood oozed and spilled from those broken bodies, weaving into a crimson web of blood in mid-air.]

[A rain of blood fell from the sky.]

[It fell on the square, on the elegant seats, and on everyone's faces and bodies.]

[In the air, a thick, nauseating smell of blood instantly permeated.]

[Liu Xuanyin stood up abruptly, a look of wild joy appearing on his face. He opened his mouth to laugh mockingly—]

["Hahaha, Sect Master Lin Haotian, Sect Master Jitian, Sword Nameless, your..."]

[He stopped halfway.]

[Everything came to a screeching halt.]

[He touched a drop of blood that had landed on his cheek, and his expression changed drastically as his whole body couldn't stop trembling.]

[How could he not be familiar with the aura of this drop of blood?]

[Because those falling corpses, those corpses wearing clothing he was all too familiar with—]

[Were members of the Liu Clan.]

[They were people of his Liu family.]

[Thud!]

[A corpse smashed into the center of the square.]

[Thud!]

[Thud!]

[Thud!]

[One after another, more and more.]

[The entire square seemed to be shrouded in a shadow of death.]

[A deathly silence.]

[Then—]

["Father—!"]

[A heart-wrenching cry tore through this dead silence.]

[Liu Yunge lunged toward a corpse and knelt on the ground, holding the body that had long since lost its breath, trembling all over and crying hoarsely:]

["Father! Father! Who... which god-damned scoundrel did this!"]

[His voice was shrill, echoing over the square.]

[Not far away, Liu Chenfeng stumbled toward a severed corpse.]

[The corpse only had its upper half left, and blood was still seeping from its facial features, but he was all too familiar with that face.]

[He fell to his knees with a thud, holding that half-corpse and wailing loudly: "Mother... Mother! You died such a miserable death!"]

[Cries rose one after another.]

[More and more Liu Clan Disciples recognized the corpses of their own relatives.]

["Big Brother! Big Brother, wake up!"]

["Little Sister! Little Sister!"]

["Who did it! Who on earth did it!"]

["I will tear him into ten thousand pieces!"]

[Some rushed over to hold the corpses and weep in pain, some knelt on the ground trembling all over, and some bit their teeth hard while tears couldn't stop flowing down.]

[Mournful cries, roars of anger, and sobbing mixed together, echoing over the square for a long time.]

[The rain of blood was still falling.]