84: Chapter 84 Just because you're building a foundation doesn't mean you're all that awesome.

On the other side, at Lingzhu Market, Yu Family Manor.

Yu Xuan lay leisurely in his chair, gazing at the laborers farming in the spiritual field below, his heart filled with satisfaction.

Ever since Clan Chief Yu Heng successfully refined and ingested the qinghe spirit-infusing pill three days ago, breaking straight through to the Foundation Establishment Realm and becoming a Foundation Establishment cultivator, the situation of the Yu Family had taken a sudden turn for the better.

The Chen Family, which had formerly opposed the Yu Family, was wiped out entirely by Clan Chief Yu Heng overnight.

That tragic state could be described as utterly miserable and wretched.

Yu Xuan, who accompanied Yu Heng by his side, finally achieved his revenge against the Chen Family elder.

Thinking back to his youth, that Chen Family elder had relied on being born a few years earlier, his cultivation always suppressing Yu Xuan by a head, and he had even once competed with him for a cultivation Cauldron!

At that time, Yu Xuan was inferior to him, and even upon reaching middle age and old age, he was still suppressed by that Chen Family elder.

But so what?

The Dao of cultivation fundamentally contests the thickness of Opportunity, the length of lifespan, and whether one can assess the situation and attach oneself to the strong.

No matter how majestic and arrogant that Chen Family elder was in the past, without achieving Foundation Establishment, he was ultimately just trash.

When the Foundation Establishment cultivator of the Yu Family came knocking on their door that day, he was merely kicked over like a dead dog, left to be humiliated at Yu Xuan's will.

"Humph! No matter how formidable you are, if you cannot stay alive, aren't you still inferior to me, Yu Xuan!"

Yu Xuan let out a soft hum, feeling that from this moment on, everything would go smoothly for him.

As the saying goes, early Foundation Establishment drives later Foundation Establishment.

After Yu Heng broke through to Foundation Establishment, he had already promised him that he would later acquire a Spirit Pill to help him leap straight from the Middle Stage of Qi Condensation to the Foundation Establishment Realm.

"Although Yu Heng said that completing Foundation Establishment through this method would result in the loss of some memories, as long as I can achieve Foundation Establishment, anything goes..."

Yu Xuan thought to himself.

Losing memories was nothing major.

As long as it allowed him to directly advance to Foundation Establishment from the Middle Stage of Qi Condensation, let alone losing memories, even if it meant changing his appearance and getting a completely new body to live as a person, he would be willing!

Just as Yu Xuan was daydreaming about the future, a burst of urgent shouts and cries suddenly came from outside his manor.

"Who is that? What kind of commotion are they making?"

Yu Xuan frowned. He was daydreaming right now; who was disturbing him outside?

Didn't they know that within Lingzhu Market, his Yu Family had already ascended from a Qi Family to a Foundation Establishment Family?

To think someone still dared to act so presumptuously?

"All of you, continue working, no stopping!"

Giving an instruction to the laborers farming in the spiritual field below, Yu Xuan slowly stood up and flew toward the front gate of the Yu Family Manor.

As soon as he flew closer, he saw a youth stained with blood, with black hair and black eyes, holding a strange bloody saber as he walked into his Yu Family Manor.

"Halt! Who goes there, how dare you trespass into the Lingzhu Yu Family?!"

Yu Xuan plunged downward fiercely, gazing at the youth and shouting sternly.

After shouting, he placed his hands behind his back, standing with his hands clasped behind him while staring arrogantly at the youth.

He expected to see fear and apprehension on the youth's face.

But... he did not see any.

He only heard the youth look around and say:

"This is the Yu Family, right?"

"That is correct!" Yu Xuan let out a cold hum, saying with an arrogant expression:

"This place is the manor of the Foundation Establishment Family, the Yu Family of Lingzhu Market!"

"Who are you, why are you stained with blood, and what happened outside? Tell me quickly!"

"If you are slow by even a word... I will definitely make you suffer!"

In the past, Yu Xuan naturally would not have dared to be so arrogant.

However... once one achieves Foundation Establishment, it is a world of difference!

A Foundation Establishment Family was even more extraordinary.

Therefore, this arrogance was not for Yu Xuan himself, but for his identity as a member of the Yu Family.

"Since it is the Yu Family, then I haven't found the wrong place."

Qin Muyuan nodded slightly.

Immediately, blood qi... surged violently out of his body.

This terrifying blood qi, as deep as an abyss and as terrifying as a prison, carried the purest Killing Intent, as if he had slaughtered thousands upon thousands of living beings.

Yu Xuan's originally arrogant expression suddenly turned startled.

But before the astonishment on his face could subside, he saw the youth stamp his foot, gripping a bloody long saber, and transform into a rainbow light as he charged straight at him.

"Audacious!"

This action caused Yu Xuan's heart to rage with anger:

"I am an elder of the Foundation Establishment Yu Family! How dare you actively attack me? You simply do not know whether you are living or dying!"

Yu Xuan mobilized the spiritual power within his body, filled with intense rage, and slammed a palm fiercely toward Qin Muyuan.

The next second, the long saber made contact with the palm.

As blood qi and muscular force erupted violently, the Spiritual Qi wrapped around Yu Xuan's palm was instantly shattered and dispersed.

With a sound of "puchi", the palm he slapped toward Qin Muyuan was cleanly severed by the long saber!

The protective Spiritual Qi could not play any role at all!

On the severed limb, gleaming white bones were glaringly exposed to the outside.

At the same time, a strong suction force erupted from the severed wrist.

Yu Xuan's entire body's blood qi poured out as if from a cracked wooden barrel, continuously flowing away.

"Ah—!"

Hearing only a miserable muffled groan, Yu Xuan almost died on the spot under this single saber strike.

"You, you, you—you're dead!"

Yu Xuan's face twisted into a ball due to the intense pain, and he roared and screamed:

"You dare hurt me! You dare hurt me! I am from the Yu Family! An elder of the Foundation Establishment Yu Family of Lingzhu Market, you dare hurt me—"

Before he could finish speaking, Qin Muyuan had already swung out his second saber strike.

Chi chi!

This saber strike hit right at Yu Xuan's neck.

In an instant, a distorted, roaring head was severed from the body, and the voice abruptly stopped.

Patta.

The head and the headless corpse fell back to the ground along with Qin Muyuan.

"Small temples have strong winds, and shallow waters have many turtles."

Qin Muyuan calmly withdrew his gaze and continued walking upward toward the manor.

He really couldn't understand—someone else achieved Foundation Establishment, it wasn't even that old man who achieved Foundation Establishment, what on earth was he acting so arrogant about?

Besides, it was just Foundation Establishment, who knows why they kept bringing it up all day long?

Mouthful of Foundation Establishment Family, mouthful of Foundation Establishment cultivator, making it seem like achieving Foundation Establishment was some kind of extremely badass thing.

Walking up the steps, what presented itself before Qin Muyuan was an extremely vast manor.

Inside the manor, there were dozens of acres of spiritual fields, as well as a spiritual river and a gathering spirit array emitting Heaven And Earth Spiritual Essence, and so on.

Qin Muyuan followed the arrows in his field of vision all the way forward, lifting his long saber along the way, cutting vegetables and melons.

Within this Yu Family, not all of them were Immortal Cultivators.

Or rather, only a minority of the Yu Family members could refine Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi and embark on the path of Immortal Cultivators.

Most of them were merely Alchemists who could utilize a sliver of Spiritual Essence, along with ordinary Martial Artists and Martial Masters.

Without a second word, Qin Muyuan charged straight into the manor, attacking anyone he encountered alive, hacking his way all the way from the entrance steps of the manor into the estate's mansion.

"Your Excellency, quite the methods!"

When he hacked his way into a certain mansion courtyard, a figure dressed in a white heavy coat was already waiting inside.

This figure initially had their back to Qin Muyuan, then slightly glanced sideways, sweeping a glance at Qin Muyuan out of the corner of their eye.

After that, this figure slowly turned around, looked at Qin Muyuan, and said in an extremely calm tone:

"Your Excellency, do you harbor a grudge against the people of this Yu Family?"

Qin Muyuan, holding the sea of corpses and blood that was still dripping with fresh blood, stepped into the courtyard and replied:

"A grudge."

The figure draped in plain white heavy coat nodded slightly upon hearing this, and calmly spoke, "What kind of grudge—"

Before the words could finish, Qin Muyuan did not say another word, taking a step forward as his figure rushed forth like lightning.

The saber light swept horizontally forward with the momentum of the sea of corpses and blood, instantly slicing off a head.

Patta.

The figure in white collapsed listlessly to the ground.

The rolling head had its lips and teeth slightly parted, still freezing the shape and sound of its last sentence.

Meanwhile, within Qin Muyuan's field of vision.

A quest guide representing [Yu Family Yu Linfeng] instantly dissipated.

"What kind of outsider are you acting like?"

Qin Muyuan stomped Yu Linfeng's head to pieces with one foot.

If not for Qin Muyuan's extremely sharp eyesight, seeing Yu Linfeng's slightly trembling legs hidden beneath the heavy coat.

Perhaps he really could have been fooled by this Yu Linfeng, thinking Yu Linfeng was a guest invited by the Yu Family... As if.

Because.

An identity could be concealed, but the genealogy's guide on the panel pointing to the Yu Family members could not be concealed!