He'd rather run than be turned into a cannon fodder for the broken engagement.

In the dimly lit and empty underground chamber, a crystal coffin was placed in the center, surrounded by priceless, top-grade cold jade, and shrouded in a cold mist under the flickering lights.

The coffin was not closed, and inside lay a beautiful woman with her eyes closed and no sound. Upon closer inspection, her skin was pale and bloodless, but she still looked the same as when she was alive, as if she were asleep.

At that moment, a man dressed in black leaned against the coffin, speaking gently to the person inside: "Madam, I have finally avenged you. Those who harmed you have paid the price..."

This man was none other than Wu Shaoping! The woman in the coffin was none other than Madam Li, the young mistress who had died several years ago!

Wu Shaoping reluctantly reached out and touched the woman's cold face, his eyes filled with complex emotions of remorse, pain, sorrow, and madness. Suddenly, he burst into laughter: "Hahaha..."

"Dead... Hahaha, they're all dead... all dead... Who?!"

Hearing a slight noise, Wu Shaoping immediately shouted alertly, "Who is it?!"

Footsteps sounded, and two figures emerged from the darkness—Leng Huan and Fu Xun.

"Young Master Wu, I can't believe it really is you..."

"So it's you two." Wu Shaoping slowly stood up and looked at them.

Leng Huan also removed his mask: "Young Master, did you kill your mother and younger sister to avenge your family?"

Wu Shaoping suddenly laughed casually: "You two found out. That's right, I did it. I'll make sure the entire Wu family pays the price!"

Leng Huan couldn't understand how he could be so ruthless. "They are your closest relatives..."

"Hahaha, dearest..." Wu Shaoping laughed again, as if he had heard a joke.

"Just because they are my closest relatives, they can harm my closest relatives, hurting my wife in the name of love!" He looked at the ceiling with a gloomy expression: "They are just using my name to pursue their own selfish interests."

"Why?" Leng Huan asked, seeing that he seemed to have a desire to confide in him.

“When I first encountered problems in my cultivation, my meridians in both legs became blocked, leaving me paralyzed and bedridden. It was thanks to my wife’s unwavering devotion and tireless care that I didn’t give up on myself. I was overjoyed that we were about to have a child, but my mother insisted on mistreating her. Xinrou despised her and treated her like a servant. What’s worse, my mother even forced her to drink folk remedies and tortured her in order to have a grandson!”

"That's it? What were you doing back then? Why didn't you stop them?"

"Hahaha, of course I dare not disobey my mother's orders, and Xinrou dares not scold her either, otherwise she would only mistreat the madam even more when I don't know."

Leng Huan frowned: "Are you trying to shirk responsibility?!"

"Of course not!" Wu Shaoping suddenly shouted, a resolute smile appearing on his face. He spoke softly, "I deserve to go to hell... I, who did nothing, and my father, who stood by and secretly fueled the flames, using my wife's unborn child as a medicinal fetus, both deserve to go to hell..."

"My mother rarely leaves the house, so where did she get these secret methods and remedies? Of course, it was my good father... While I was away... my wife and unborn child died, and he actually broke through to the Golden Core stage using the medicinal embryo as a catalyst! I also..."

No one could understand the feeling of his repeated forbearance, only to be met with the death of his wife, both of them cold, bloody corpses. Unexpectedly, the mental blow caused his meridians to gradually clear, but it was already too late...

Wu Shaoping looked dazed, as if he had gone mad, and his words were intermittent, but Leng Huan and the other man understood him.

Everything became clear, but—

"So the ghosts in the mansion were all you in disguise. The lightning strike that night wasn't just lightning, but something you detonated with a magical artifact, which is why the main courtyard collapsed so badly and the floor tiles were blown off outwards."

Leng Huan raised her palm, revealing a tiny fragment of a magical artifact. It was a artifact produced by the Refining Peak, and she was very familiar with it. "This artifact is probably the one that Patriarch Wu commissioned..."

Wu Shaoping shrugged: "That's right, it's that Thunder Axe. It'll be perfect for Madam to watch her enemies die right before her eyes... cough cough!"

At this moment, after coughing a few times, a trickle of blood flowed from the corner of his mouth. He smiled and said, "As for you two, I never intended to harm you. As witnesses, you could have left after today..."

Fu Xun was slightly surprised: "You've been poisoned?"

"Haha, it's alright." Wu Shaoping said to himself, "But now that you've stepped into this place, you two will come with us and sink into hell!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a jade slip suddenly appeared in his hand. "Oh no!" Leng Huan's intuition told her that there was danger. She took a step back, but Fu Xun was even faster than her. With a whooshing sound, a sword blade reached Wu Shaoping's chest. His strength, which he usually concealed, was exposed. He raised his sword to block, and "clang!" The two swords clashed, one black and one white. In an instant, dozens of moves had already been exchanged!

Leng Huan's shout got stuck in his throat.

Although it appeared that the two were fighting, in reality, Fu Xun was suppressing Wu Shaoping. Not to mention that Fu Xun's cultivation level was higher than his, Wu Shaoping had also taken a deadly poison that damaged his internal organs. In just a moment, Wu Shaoping spat out a mouthful of blood and was then struck by Fu Xun's palm, which sent him crashing into the wall.

If Fu Xun hadn't been mindful of the jade slip in his hand, Wu Shaoping would have been killed long ago. Even after being thrown, he didn't let go, gripping the jade slip tightly. Suddenly, he glanced at the coffin and resolutely activated the jade slip...

"No..." Leng Huan rushed forward, but it was too late. Fu Xun slashed down with his sword. The sword light and the white light suddenly emitted by the jade slip occurred almost simultaneously. After a crisp sound, the jade slip shattered.

but!

The jade slip had been activated, and several blue arcs of light burst forth from its center in an instant. The jade slip was actually a key to an array, equivalent to the array eye. The array eye was destroyed and the array was activated. This was an irreversible and deadly array!

Oops!

Instantly, a barrage of lightning connected the array base, and the entire underground chamber, including the main courtyard, was enveloped in a pale blue array. The space began to tremble, and this area would collapse and sink into the ground in no time!

"run!"

Wu Shaoping intended to drag them down with him. Without a second thought, Fu Xun rushed over, grabbed Leng Huan, and ran towards the exit.

But the exit was blocked. Without time to find a mechanism, Leng Huan pulled out three marbles and blasted them towards the exit.

boom--

She felt the shockwave from the pebbles hitting the frying pan. Luckily, Fu Xun held her up, or she would have been thrown out!

Fu Xun grabbed Leng Huan and headed straight for the blasted exit. Just as the two of them leaped out, a loud bang came from behind them. Boom! A blast of air blasted the two of them, who hadn't been able to stand properly, and they were thrown heavily into the not-yet-cleared ruins.

The ground shook.

"withdraw!"

Cough—Leng Huan coughed repeatedly, feeling dizzy and lightheaded, as Fu Xun grabbed him and dragged him out until they stopped on a rockery outside the main courtyard.

"Boom—"

The main courtyard has completely collapsed.

The relatively intact side rooms and annexes, along with the ruins, all fell into a giant, underground pit, completely submerging the top!

-

"Does the head butler already know what the young master has done?"

Leng Huan and Fu Xun stood outside the mourning hall, covered in dust and dirt. After using a cleansing spell to tidy up the area, she looked at the housekeeper who had rushed over.

"The young master has already instructed me to handle the funeral arrangements; the city lord's mansion will take care of the rest."

The Wu family has now been wiped out, and everything belonging to the aristocratic families will be taken over by the City Lord's Mansion.

Leng Huan was momentarily speechless, unable to articulate her feelings. When she discovered the fragment, she only wanted to confirm its authenticity before seeking Wu Shaoping's jade talisman and leaving. She never expected him to be so reckless.

After offering incense and bidding farewell to the steward, the two left the Wu family home.

With such a commotion, it's impossible for people to be completely unaware; they even heard people talking about it while walking down the street.

"I say, this Wu family... a few years ago, when the young mistress passed away, her family came but couldn't find their daughter. Instead, they were thrown out by the Wu family's servants. It seems they're getting their just desserts now..."

"Who says otherwise? They've been wiped out; there's no Wu family clan left in our city..."

In the teahouse, on the second floor by the window, four young people sat listening to the conversation of the guests separated by a screen next door.

"Fellow Daoist Leng, is what they said true?" Qi Ruxing quietly pulled her hand and asked in a low voice.

"it is true."

Seeing Qi Ruxing's curiosity, Leng Huan leaned closer and whispered to her about how the former mama's boy, Young Master Wu, killed his entire family to avenge his wife. It was indeed too unbelievable.

Qi Ruxing and Fang Shendu were stunned.

"Such a thing could actually happen in the world..."

Fu Xun sat silently, watching Leng Huan secretly pinch Qi Ruxing's fingertips. He glanced at Fang Shendu, who seemed oblivious, and couldn't help but sigh.

……