The Duanmu Family has so knowledge of most of the cultivation techniques of the Taixu Sect.
The Illusion Shatter Hand is a basic technique, not considered obscure, and many people learn it, but few ever enhance it to beco the Silvershade Weaver.
Duanmu GuZhu knows the difficulty of practicing the Silvershade Weaver and understands the sect’s secretive attitude towards this technique. It seems that no one pays attention to this technique, but in fact, soone is always secretly watching. Now that Liu Xingyu has successfully cultivated the Silvershade Weaver, he can easily enter the upper court’s line of sight.
If he can quickly advance to the Nascent Soul Middle Phase, entry into the upper court is almost certain.
That ans Liu Xingyu has already changed half of his destiny through his efforts. Once he enters the upper court, his relationship with the Duanmu Family will be reversed—being a direct disciple of the sect gives him ample justification to make things difficult for the Duanmu Family Clan.
At that ti, Taixu Sect will not strongly oppose him. It’s important to understand that the overall attitude of the Tianqin Seven Gates towards clans is predominantly suppressive.
Recognizing this, Duanmu GuZhu has no choice but to comply, allowing Liu Xingyu to impose restrictions on him.
Duanmu Zhenghong, seeing the situation turning unfavorable, tries to escape but is blocked by a refined scholar who speaks with a smile, "Fight honestly, I wouldn’t want to bully the weaker, understand?"
What’s the point of fighting then! Duanmu Zhenghong knows that Master Moran will definitely not let him off, and he definitely won’t be able to fight one-on-one against him—Tianqin values individual combat strength highly, but Master Moran is first and foremost the Eastern City Defender.
Therefore, he decisively detonates his Golden Core, leaving the small courtyard in chaos.
Upon seeing him self-destruct, Master Moran is a bit taken aback; this guy is ruthless not only to others but to himself as well.
In truth, based on his understanding of Duanmu Zhenghong, he knows this man is not the type to act impulsively; those skilled in scheming are often fearful of death. It’s unfortunate that this ti he failed to fra soone, and in attempting to kill Feng Jun, he got counterattacked, and eventually attracted the attention of the Spirit Plant Path.
Under such circumstances, Liu Xingyu suddenly erged, clearly supporting him, and even subdued Duanmu GuZhu. Such a major plot reversal, he wouldn’t be able to accept it, so, with a crumbling ntality, he decisively self-destructed.
Therefore, Master Moran is rather troubled, as soone’s death conveniently allows the bla to be shifted.
Liu Xingyu glances at the nearby Duanmu GuZhu and speaks expressionlessly, "Such an excellent and decisive junior, what a pity."
"No pity at all," Duanmu GuZhu’s expression remains calm as water; his thoughts are unclear, but there’s no trace of sorrow on his face, as he speaks slowly, "Since he did wrong, he must bear the responsibility he deserves..."
After a pause, he lightly sighs, "However, he is also a seed of my Duanmu Family, knowing not to implicate the family."
This is precisely what troubles Master Moran the most and is considered the moral standard advocated by the Tianqin Plane: each person bears their own actions, and if the offender shows sufficient responsibility, others shouldn’t excessively target their family.
In other words, his actions earned positive impression points for the family.
This is sothing Master Moran dislikes; he was contemplating involving the Duanmu Family Clan, making a well-executed move to thoroughly purge the Duanmu Family Clan’s influence in East City, but encountered this situation instead?
Liu Xingyu also disliked this unexpected incident, thus he provocatively sighed, yet Duanmu GuZhu remained composed, showing no resentful emotions.
Truthfully, he doesn’t like how composed the other is, and deepens his wariness internally, though his face remains unchanged.
Duanmu Zhenghong’s self-destruction brought great chaos into the courtyard; fortunately, Shou Zhong, the True Immortal, intervened in ti to confine the explosion’s range, or else the entire courtyard would be ruined, affecting passersby.
Seeing so cultivators from the Duanmu Family show a resolute expression, Liu Xingyu speaks expressionlessly, "If anyone else commits suicide, don’t bla for killing everyone present!"
But fate has a way of complicating matters; with his warning, the Duanmu Family’s cultivators should have refrained from drastic actions to protect their tribe. Yet during the arrest, a seventeen or eighteen-year-old maid unexpectedly slit her throat on the spot.
The maid was only at Qi Refining Initial Stage; at her age with such cultivation in Tianqin, she hardly counts as a genius, rely barely decent.
She not only cut open her throat but pierced her heart, truly determined to die. She left behind a suicide note, stating she was a descendant of a small family wiped out by the Duanmu Family.
Massacres aren’t common nor rare in Tianqin; her family was particularly small, only four to five hundred mbers, with ancestors once belonging to a large clan, but expelled for committing misconduct.
In Tianqin, any appropriate family can easily reach tens of thousands; larger ones might split, yet generally stay connected by blood, helping each other as needed.
Families with only a few hundred people truly can’t withstand much turmoil; even a small mishap could capsize them. The maid’s family was likewise, obtaining an undeserved opportunity, and thereby annihilated by the Duanmu Family.
She was young then, survived by luck, but her parents and siblings were all executed. The Duanmu Family felt a baby girl posed no threat and left her to work as a maid.
However, this little baby girl has always rembered the deep blood feud of her parents. Unfortunately, as things developed, she had no chance for revenge. Now, hearing Liu Xingyu say that if soone else commits suicide, he would kill everyone present, she finally seized this opportunity.
In her suicide note, she explained the cause and effect, and hoped that Xingyu True Immortal would keep his word—being the Taixu Gate Eastern City Defender, he absolutely should not break his promise!
As soon as she acted, Liu Xingyu noticed, but her determination to die was too strong, and others simply couldn’t save her in ti.
Liu Xingyu rushed over, scanned the suicide note with his divine sense, and imdiately understood the situation. He shook his head, crying and laughing at the sa ti, "This is simply... how could it be such a coincidence?"
His threat earlier wasn’t false, but his main purpose was to prevent the Duanmu Family’s seven or eight Golden Cores from exploding one after another—if such a thing really happened during the case investigation, it would also be his negligence.
Who would have thought that the Duanmu Family’s enemy would take advantage of this opportunity, making it so that he simply... knew not how to end it.
Duanmu GuZhu was startled by the turn of events. He had been placed under restriction, but his divine sense hadn’t been completely sealed. Upon sensing the happening, he hastily shouted out, "Injustice, she’s not from my Duanmu Family, just a servant we adopted from a young age!"
Not unjust at all! Liu Xingyu coldly snorted in his heart, a little girl willing to die just to drag you down with her, isn’t it because your Duanmu Family has done too many vile deeds?
But he couldn’t say this reason out loud. Was it wrong for the Duanmu Family to exterminate a family? Of course, it was wrong, but on the Tianqin Plane, weakness is the original sin—actually, it’s similar on other planes as well.
Liu Xingyu wouldn’t uphold justice for a servant—the matter didn’t happen in the East City, and he didn’t even know whose reason was more valid in the extermination case. What he’s considering now is: how did she die just like that?
Yet it was the scholarly gentleman, known for being well-versed, who spoke out with a hint, "If you don’t want her to die, then hurry and save her."
Indeed, this is the Tianqin Plane, not a lower world, much less Earth. Many injuries which seem fatal are actually salvageable.
Like Duanmu Zhenghong’s self-detonating Golden Core—which is completely unsalvageable—but the servant’s cultivation level is too shallow, lacking the capacity to self-detonate. Despite the blood she’s spitting, as long as there’s still one breath, she can be saved.
Liu Xingyu shook his head in frustration, "Forget it, I’m quite poor, I don’t have such dicine."
He was speaking the truth, such a treasure dicine to save the life of a Qi-Refinent Realm cultivator, even if not extrely expensive, wouldn’t be cheap. As a loose cultivator, having stayed in Yiyao for over two hundred years, he had accumulated so wealth, but couldn’t afford such luxurious dicine.
Being the East City Defender, albeit extrely discreet, he could still handle certain issues for people, occasionally receiving so gifts—but having already reached Nascent Soul True Immortal, who would gift him treasures to heal minor Qi cultivators?
Liu Xingyu didn’t have dicine, but Master Moran did—his position was much more lucrative than Xingyu True Immortal’s, yet at this mont, he wouldn’t bring out the dicine, truly wishing to kill all these people.
So he remained silent, pretending to busy himself with capturing the remaining people.
Seeing the servant won’t last more than a few seconds—if it wasn’t for Liu Xingyu’s intervention, she might be dead already—Duanmu GuZhu shouted, "We have the dicine at our house, we do..."
The Duanmu Family deserving of plotting against the East City’s authoritative figures, even in such a small court, they had such treasure dicine hidden.
A female disciple of Taixu stepped forward to administer aid, and the servant was quickly revived, then began to silently sob.
She wanted to cry out loud, saying "Why did you save ," but truly lacked the courage. Having just died once, wanting to die a second ti actually requires great bravery, not to ntion forcing Taixu disciples to commit murder would be a waste.
However, Yi Jue True Immortal sowhat appreciated her fierceness and finally spoke, "Stay with from now on."
Actually, she wasn’t so benevolent person, but felt that keeping this woman would eventually lead to her death by the Duanmu Family, intervening personally would certainly prevent the Duanmu Family from daring further actions.
As for whether Duanmu GuZhu would bear resentnt toward her? She wouldn’t consider such, having strength naturally grants confidence.
Soon, all the cultivators in the courtyard were subjected to restriction, escorted away in grand procession.
Arriving at Master Moran’s office, he inford several key figures, beginning the interrogation of the Duanmu family mbers.
Among these key figures were allies of the Duanmu Family: the Gongye Family and the Xiong Family; being the main constituents of Taixu’s side quarters, they were entitled to attend the interrogation and raise objections.
However, everyone now understood that Master Moran had gained the support of the town’s True Immortal Liu Xingyu, and no one dared stand up recklessly to provoke—a sudden burst from Xingyu True Immortal also made everyone feel uneasy.
Master Moran didn’t have the authority to interrogate Duanmu GuZhu but had no issue interrogating others, swiftly uncovering the truth.
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