Cao Feng said, "Those bastards actually colluded with the Moon Worship Sect. They spent imnse resources cultivating people to the Blood Nourishing Realm, only to turn around and send them to the Moon Worship Sect as dicinal ingredients."
"What!?"
"The Moon Worship Sect?!"
"dicinal ingredients?!"
These words struck like a thunderclap, sending a chill down the spines of the Cao and Li family mbers.
Using living people as dicinal ingredients—what a monstrous and insane thod!
Cao Feng continued, "In return, they obtained so kind of Demon Technique from the Moon Worship Sect. They use children to cultivate it, deluding themselves into thinking they can reach a level originally beyond their grasp!"
His voice was laced with suppressed rage.
"So, what we need to do now isn’t to launch a frontal assault on Seven Stars Castle. We just need to secure this North City Sub-Branch."
Cao Feng laid out his plan. "Imdiately send people to write down the details: about the Seven Stars Gang using children to practice Demon Techniques and sending Blood Nourishing Realm disciples to the Moon Worship Sect as dicinal ingredients. Send one copy to Constable Lu at the County Magistrate’s Office. Blow this wide open so the Governnt Office can’t feign ignorance!"
"Disseminate the other copy, and make sure it gets inside Seven Stars Castle!"
"The Governnt Office might not be able to do anything about the Moon Worship Sect, but as long as the information is solid, the Demon Suppression Bureau will absolutely not stand by and watch!"
"When that ti cos, the Demon Suppression Bureau itself will deal with that cancer, the Moon Worship Sect."
"As for the disciples inside Seven Stars Castle, once they learn that all their desperate cultivation is just paving the way for others to turn them into dicinal ingredients, panic is sure to spread. The castle will crumble from within without us even needing to attack!"
"We just need to hold the Sub-Branch, send soone to retrieve Cao Yan who is out on a mission, and keep an eye on Seven Stars Castle."
"If Lin Luoxue and her people dare to co out, we’ll concentrate our forces and hunt them down one by one!"
"Once we’ve dealt with these few at the Mortal Transformation level, the overall situation will be decided!"
The analysis was logical and clear, laying out all the pros and cons. The upper echelons of the Cao and Li Families listened with surging emotions, secretly admiring Cao Feng’s strategic foresight.
But Li Qingxue couldn’t help but glance again at Chu Fan, who stood silently to the side.
Her uncle’s speech, or rather, his plan, had all been arranged by Chu Fan.
’This really is the safest thod...’
The Cao and Li Families wouldn’t have to throw their lives away.
Plan before acting, then strike at the heart of the matter!
The Seven Stars Gang might just collapse even faster than the Blood Saber Sect did!
An image of Chu Fan on the day he first ca to the Seven Stars Gang suddenly appeared in Li Qingxue’s mind—
Back then, Chu Fan had been painfully thin.
Her uncle had discovered he’d already been there once before and, annoyed that he was wasting ti, had told her to throw him out.
At that mont, she had grabbed Chu Fan’s shoulder, and he had grimaced in pain...
Thinking of this, a faint smile suddenly appeared on Li Qingxue’s cold face.
But right then, everyone’s attention was on Cao Feng’s plan. No one noticed the subtle change in her expression.
The plan was quickly put into action.
That night, inside the Seven Stars Gang Sub-Branch, Li Qingxue personally led a team to purge the die-hard Incense Masters loyal to Xiao Tianyuan and Wu Quan.
Those who resisted were killed without question.
Those who surrendered were temporarily imprisoned.
The Sub-Branch was brightly lit. Shouts of battle and the clash of weapons rang out briefly before quickly falling silent.
All exits of the Seven Stars Gang’s North City Sub-Branch were tightly secured by experts from the Cao and Li Families. No one could escape.
Chu Fan and Zhao Tianxing, in their capacity as ordinary disciples, followed behind Li Qingxue, "Corpse Handling" and reaping quite a few benefits.
The disciples of the Cao and Li Families were so angry they gritted their teeth.
A few of them went to argue with Chu Fan and Zhao Tianxing, only to be held down and beaten by Chu Fan.
They then went to reason with Li Qingxue, only to be held down and beaten by her as well.
Furious and frustrated, the group went to Cao Feng to complain.
Unsurprisingly, the initially smiling Cao Feng flew into a rage... and beat them up too.
Finally...
There was peace and quiet.
By then, everyone knew that Cao Feng treated these two disciples even better than his own children.
With Cao Feng and Li Qingxue protecting them, anyone who went looking for trouble was simply courting death.
When dawn arrived and the bloody night was over, the Sub-Branch finally returned to a state of surface-level peace.
But another, smokeless battlefield had just begun...
「The next day.」
A horrifying piece of news spread like a plague through the Seven Stars Gang Sub-Branch and Seven Stars Castle—
The news said that the Seven Stars Gang’s upper managent was actually treating disciples as "dicinal ingredients." Once they reached the Blood Nourishing Realm, they were to be sent to the Moon Worship Sect for its mbers to use in cultivating Evil Techniques!
At first, so were skeptical.
But as more details and evidence erged, panic spread like wildfire!
Inside Seven Stars Castle, where the disciples had once been united, it was now every man for himself.
The way they looked at each other and at their superiors was filled with suspicion and fear!
Their drive to cultivate vanished, replaced by bellies full of apprehension and rage...
If the Gang Leader and the Right Guardian hadn’t personally stepped in to suppress the unrest, Seven Stars Castle would have been torn apart by chaos long ago!
In the North City Sub-Branch, hundreds of handyn and low-ranked disciples, having survived the initial chaos, felt a sense of relief like survivors of a disaster.
Most of them were refugees who had risked everything to break through to the Blood Nourishing Realm, just to earn a living and change their fate.
Who would have thought it was actually a shortcut to death!
In an instant, everyone was eternally grateful to Cao Feng for exposing the plot and saving them.
"It was Instructor Cao! He learned of this heinous plot and, in his fury, cleaned house, killing Xiao Tianyuan and Wu Quan last night!"
"Instructor Cao is righteous and benevolent!"
"We are willing to follow Instructor Cao!"
"Anything less than razing Seven Stars Castle to the ground won’t quench the hatred in my heart!"
Overnight, Cao Feng’s prestige in the Sub-Branch soared to its peak, and he was hailed as a savior.
Yet amid this storm, Chu Fan was like an invisible ghost.
Aside from the very few—Li Qingxue, Zhao Tianxing, and Cao Feng—no one else knew that this seemingly ordinary Cyan Wood Hall disciple was the true mastermind who had stirred up this tempest.
Even the upper echelons of the Cao and Li Families just assud it was Cao Feng masterminding the strategy, never suspecting otherwise.
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