Chapter 261: The Nine Great Clans Heed the Command, Mu Xiong in Dire Straits

At Viyar Port, the sea breeze was bitingly cold.

Staring at the shattered corpses of the person and the beast, Mu Xiong fell silent for a moment before bursting into wild, unrestrained laughter.

After laughing maniacally for more than ten seconds, Mu Xiong finally spoke, his voice low and deep.

"Yuan’Er, your father has avenged you."

He took a step forward, preparing to grab Gu Yuexi’s head.

However, just as he reached out, the shattered limbs of Gu Yuexi on the ground suddenly dissolved into a red mist and vanished.

Immediately after, Chu Sheng’s "corpse" flickered and vanished into thin air.

Mu Xiong stopped in his tracks, his expression freezing instantly.

"What’s going on?"

Beside him, the other Elders saw this as well, their faces filled with stunned disbelief.

Mu Xiong seemed to realize something and muttered to himself.

’Impossible?’

"Impossible!"

"This Gu Yuexi and this mosquito... they can’t possibly be fake!"

The sheer ecstasy of his successful revenge came to a screeching halt, replaced by stunned disbelief!

Mu Xiong shook his head frantically, looking as if he were going mad.

If.

’If that person and that beast were fake, then isn’t everything we’ve done tonight a complete joke?’

"Fake?"

The other Mu Family Elders also realized what was happening.

"How is that possible!"

"I saw them explode and die with my own two eyes."

None of them could accept it. Tonight, all the Elders of the Mu Family had gathered here and laid multiple Grand Arrays, all to ambush a single Fourth-Grade Realm Contracted Beast.

’And in the end, they were just played like clowns?’

"This is no time for anger."

Just then, a more senior Elder spoke up.

"Patriarch, what do we do now?"

"Gu Yuexi didn’t show up. Should we continue to lie in wait?"

A palpable killing intent erupted from Mu Xiong as he spoke, his voice trembling.

"Impossible. With a personality as arrogant as Gu Yuexi’s, how could she not come?"

He gritted his teeth and finally said with resignation:

"Everyone, prepare to withdraw as planned."

"Yes!"

The Mu Family Elders were all seething with frustration and indignation.

Just as they were about to leave, Mu Xiong suddenly barked an order and halted.

"Wait!"

"Everyone, silence!"

Mu Xiong held his breath, straining his ears.

He heard the faint buzzing of a mosquito...

BZZZZZ... BZZZZZ...

Mu Xiong’s gaze narrowed, and he instantly spotted a very ordinary-looking White-striped Aedes Mosquito flying leisurely and erratically through the air.

"Damn it!"

"This must be that damned mosquito! Still trying to trick me!"

Overcome with fury, Mu Xiong lashed out. His immense Mental Power surged directly toward the ordinary-looking mosquito!

SPLAT!

The mosquito’s fragile body exploded on the spot.

But it was just an ordinary mosquito.

Mu Xiong’s expression stiffened once more, and he let out a cold snort.

"Move out!"

However, he had barely taken two steps when another buzz echoed through the air.

Mu Xiong flinched but didn’t stop this time.

But just then, the buzzing was followed by a disdainful laugh.

Gu Yuexi’s cold voice rang out.

"Well, well, Patriarch Mu."

"Weren’t you the one who invited me? Why are you leaving so soon?"

As her voice faded,

Mu Xiong and the Mu Family Elders froze in their tracks once more.

They whipped around to see Gu Yuexi and Chu Sheng, clad in Battle Armor, floating in mid-air and looking down at them mockingly.

...

"Gu Yuexi!"

Unable to contain his rage any longer, Mu Xiong bellowed her name and charged, throwing all caution to the wind.

However, after charging forward only a few meters,

he came to an abrupt halt.

He saw them now: figure after figure materializing behind Gu Yuexi and the mosquito!

Every single one of them was a Seventh-Grade or Eighth-Grade master!

"These people are..."

Mu Xiong’s pupils contracted violently.

He recognized every single one of them!

Elder Ouyang Qing of the Ouyang Family! Elder Lei Tianhe of the Lei Family!

The Ye Family, the Sun Family, the Wang Family...

These were all Elders and powerful experts from the other Nine Great Clans.

And now,

they floated behind Gu Yuexi and Chu Sheng, staring coldly at the members of the Mu Family as if they were lambs to the slaughter.

"You..."

Mu Xiong’s voice was filled with utter disbelief.

"You’ve all joined forces?"

It wasn’t that Mu Xiong had never considered the other Nine Great Clans might move against him.

However, he had calculated that conflicts over dividing the spoils would prevent them from uniting against the Mu Family, at least not yet.

Therefore, even if Gu Yuexi managed to secure help from one of the clans, the Mu Family would have nothing to fear.

’In any case, as long as they killed Gu Yuexi, they could retreat safely.’

This was why most of the Mu Family’s Elders were here—to ambush Gu Yuexi, who was merely Fourth-Grade!

It didn’t take this many people to kill Gu Yuexi.

But.

What Mu Xiong had never expected was that Gu Yuexi could somehow persuade all Nine Great Clans to act at once?!

In reality,

Gu Yuexi had merely made a very simple deal with the Nine Great Clans.

If each of the Nine Great Clans provided two Elders to follow her commands tonight,

then she, Gu Yuexi, would owe each of those families a favor.

Without exception, all Nine Great Clans had agreed to the deal.

Yes, Gu Yuexi was arrogant, but she wasn’t a fool.

The Mu Family had to be annihilated.

But at her current realm, facing an ambush from the massed Elders of the Mu Family alone would be suicide.

So, as soon as Chu Sheng informed her of the Mu Family’s plans, she had struck this deal with the Nine Great Clans.

While she and Chu Sheng were off hunting down the Mu Family’s Direct Lineage disciples, the Elders from the Nine Great Clans had, under her direction, already laid their own ambush nearby.

The outcome had been decided from the very beginning.

The Direct Lineage disciples of the Mu Family would not escape.

And not a single one of these Mu Family Elders would escape, either!

...

「Viyar Port.」

Clad in their Battle Armor, Gu Yuexi and Chu Sheng looked like supreme commanders surveying all before them.

Gu Yuexi gave the order.

The experts from the Nine Great Clans instantly fanned out, completely surrounding the members of the Mu Family.

Kill!

Without giving Mu Xiong any chance for last words, the Elders of the other Nine Great Clans launched their assault on the Mu Family!

Plunged into despair, the members of the Mu Family fought back with everything they had.

However, the sheer disparity in numbers made their resistance futile.

Mu Xiong fought like a maddened lion, charging and slaughtering relentlessly, but even with his powerful Eighth-Grade Mental Power, he gradually began to falter.

The entire port roiled with the terrifying Power of Heaven and Earth!

This time, Gu Yuexi and Chu Sheng didn’t even have to lift a finger. They floated high above, watching the scene below with cold indifference.

’After tonight, the Mu Family will be wiped from existence!’

Finally.

Half an hour later, the Mu Family’s Elders were either dead or wounded, completely backed into a corner.

Only Mu Xiong, at the Peak of Eighth-Grade, was still desperately holding on.

But he knew in his heart.

’It’s over for us.’

Looking at the experts surrounding them on all sides, Mu Xiong gritted his teeth and suddenly broke into a maniacal laugh.

"Hahaha!"

"Go on, kill us! What does it matter?!"

"How pathetic! All of you from the Nine Great Clans, willingly taking orders from a mere Fourth-Grade girl!"

"I’ll have you know, all of the Mu Family’s assets and every single one of our Direct Lineage disciples have already been secretly moved off Hong Kong Island!"

"Even if you kill me, you’ll get nothing!"

"And when the time comes, my Mu Family’s descendants will return to slaughter you all and avenge us!"

As he finished shouting, Mu Xiong’s hateful gaze locked onto Gu Yuexi and Chu Sheng.

However, he only saw Gu Yuexi let out a disdainful scoff.

"Is that so?"