426: Chapter 426 Cang Songzi: Leave? Their Hehuan Sect can't leave.

Xu Ruyu took a deep breath and turned around to face the angry, sorrowful, and unwilling Disciples.

"Leave."

His voice was not loud, yet it clearly reached everyone's ears.

"The Disciples of my Hehuan Sect shall not be slaves under someone else's roof."

Zhou Daniu looked up, his eyes red as he said, "Sect Master, our things..."

"Leave them," Xu Ruyu's voice was frighteningly calm. "What we lose today, I will have you take back tenfold, a hundredfold in the future."

He paused, his gaze sweeping over every Disciple, and said word by word, "I, Xu Ruyu, swear to the heavens that everything the Taihu Clan has seized today, I shall return in kind twofold in the future."

"No, tenfold."

His voice was very calm, as calm as if he were speaking about something that had nothing to do with him.

But for some reason, everyone who heard these words felt a chill rush from the soles of their feet straight to the crowns of their heads.

The members of the Taihu Clan were still clamoring and hurling insults.

But Xu Ruyu no longer looked at them.

He turned around and strode toward the mountain gate.

Behind him, the group of over three hundred people followed in silence.

No one looked back; no one spoke.

Only the sound of footsteps echoed before the mountain gate, heavy and resolute.

Xiao Nianyin walked behind Xu Ruyu, her head lowered, without saying a word.

In her heart, waves of shock were currently surging.

She thought back to when they were in the Hehuan Sect's ancestral land, and the youth she had regarded as an ant.

Now, he had become the pillar of the entire Sect, the backbone of over three hundred people.

And she herself had gone from being the high and mighty Sect Master to being the Bed-warming maid behind him.

But at this moment, there was no resentment in her heart, only an indescribable emotion.

She looked up at Xu Ruyu's back.

That back was still upright and composed, as if the humiliation and anger from just now hadn't affected him at all.

But Xiao Nianyin knew he wasn't without anger.

He had simply hidden his anger in his heart, hidden within those calm words—'What we lose today, I will have you take back tenfold, a hundredfold in the future.'

She suddenly remembered how she had grown from an ordinary Disciple to a Saint Realm Sect Master step by step back in the Hehuan Sect.

At that time, she had also endured, retreated, and hidden her anger in her heart as she climbed up step by step.

But Xu Ruyu was different.

He wasn't climbing; he was flying.

From his Transmigration until now, in just a few short months, he had grown from a Mortal who couldn't even draw Qi into his body to an existence capable of blasting away a Half-step Saint Realm expert with one shot.

In another few months, to what level would he grow? What about in a few years?

Xiao Nianyin didn't dare to imagine it. But she knew that Xu Ruyu would definitely remember what the Taihu Clan did today. And what he remembered, he would surely act upon.

If he said he would return it tenfold, he would definitely return it tenfold.

She lowered her head and silently followed behind Xu Ruyu, her steps even more resolute than before.

Before the mountain gate, the people of the Hehuan Sect gradually drifted further away.

The Taihu Clan members were still clamoring and insulting them, and some even picked up stones to throw at them.

But no one looked back, and no one stopped.

They simply walked in silence, step by step, out of Tianyin Mountain, out of this place where they had suffered utter humiliation.

Cang Songzi stood before the mountain gate, watching the departing backs of the Hehuan Sect group with a complex gaze.

Cang Bozi walked to his side and whispered, "Eldest Brother, are we really letting them leave?"

Cang Songzi didn't answer, merely watching those receding figures in silence.

Cang Yunzi also leaned in and whispered, "Eldest Brother, that Xu Ruyu cannot be allowed to stay. "

"You saw the power of that shot; in time, he will surely become a great threat."

Cang Songzi finally spoke, his voice cold. "Leave? I'm afraid they won't be getting far."

Cang Bozi was taken aback. "What do you mean, Eldest Brother?"

Cang Songzi sneered, a cold glint flashing in his eyes. "Situ E and the others have already been waiting outside with their men for a long time."

"The moment these people from the Hehuan Sect step out of Tianyin Mountain, they will fall into their encirclement."

Cang Bozi suddenly understood, excitement flashing in his eyes. "Eldest Brother is brilliant! Killing with a borrowed knife, hitting two birds with one stone!"

"We don't have to do it ourselves, yet we can get rid of that nuisance Xu Ruyu."

Cang Yunzi also smiled, a smile full of malice. "When the time comes, even if the Clan Chief comes out of seclusion and asks, she won't be able to blame us."

"The people were killed by the Jile Sect outside; what does that have to do with our Taihu Clan?"

Cang Songzi stroked his beard and said indifferently, "This man Xu Ruyu is too dangerous."

"Allowing him to live is the greatest threat to the Taihu Clan."

"But we cannot act personally; we wouldn't be able to explain it to the Clan Chief."

"Letting Situ E and the others do the killing is perfect."

He paused, looking in the direction where the Hehuan Sect group had disappeared, a cold smile curling on his lips. "A mere kid at the Qi Refinement Stage dares to act wildly on the Taihu Clan's territory."

"Did he really think that with the Clan Chief backing him, he could do whatever he wanted? Sadly, young people are still too green."

Cang Bozi laughed. "Eldest Brother is right. This Xu Ruyu is as good as dead."

Cang Yunzi also laughed. "It's a pity for that beauty Xiao Nianyin; falling into Situ E's hands, she'll likely be tortured until she's neither dead nor alive."

"However, she brought that upon herself."

The three of them looked at each other and laughed, their laughter echoing before the mountain gate, cold and triumphant.

Behind them, the Taihu Clan members were still clamoring and celebrating, as if they already saw the end where the Hehuan Sect was annihilated.

They did not know that their actions today had already planted a massive seed of disaster for the Taihu Clan.

They knew even less what kind of price the youth they had driven away would make the entire Taihu Clan pay in the future.

The sun set in the west, dyeing the edge of the sky a blood-red color.

The silhouettes of the Hehuan Sect group gradually disappeared into the vast twilight.

No one looked back; no one stopped.

They simply walked in silence, step by step, out of Tianyin Mountain and toward the unknown ahead.

And Xu Ruyu walked at the very front, his gaze resolute and his expression calm.

In his heart, there was only one thought at this moment—

"Once my Hehuan Sect grows strong, the humiliation of today shall be returned twofold."

"No, tenfold."