Thirty-Eight Kills

Gu Yang was a bit puzzled.

"What do you mean 'probably'?"

"What exactly happened?"

Gu Chen sighed again before speaking slowly,

"We couldn't kill Chen Feng with our own hands."

"He just fell into the White Tiger Abyss again."

Fell into the White Tiger Abyss again.

Gu Yang felt there was something fishy about this.

The last time, Chen Feng also fell into the White Tiger Abyss.

After more than nine years, he suddenly popped up today.

Catching the Gu clan completely off guard.

Now, God knows if Chen Feng will come out of the White Tiger Abyss again.

Of course, Gu Yang had always believed that the reason Chen Feng survived the White Tiger Abyss last time...

...must have been because the Qilin saved him.

Especially since Chen Feng was covered in scales identical to the Qilin's.

This made Gu Yang even more convinced that the Qilin must have used some unknown method to save Chen Feng after he fell into the abyss.

He also nodded and said,

"This time, without the Qilin to save him, he should be dead."

"The White Tiger Abyss is a natural chasm; even a Half-step Martial God would find certain death if they entered."

"Leave twenty people to keep watch for now, and have the rest come back."

"I'll spread the news first, so those with ulterior motives will know their hero has been wiped out by our Gu clan."

Just as Gu Yang was about to hang up,

unexpected bad news came from the other end of the line.

"Thirty-seven clan members also... also fell into the White Tiger Abyss."

Gu Chen stammered, his voice somewhat hoarse.

"What!"

Gu Yang was shocked!

He was so agitated he nearly crushed his phone.

He simply couldn't accept this fact.

"How could this happen!"

"Did Chen Feng knock them into the White Tiger Abyss?"

"With so many of you, how could such a thing happen!"

"Did Chen Feng set up an ambush with the help of those hidden Martial Sages?"

Losing thirty-seven Gu clan elders all at once.

Gu Yang felt his heart bleeding.

Ever since he became the clan leader,

the younger generation had become increasingly disappointing.

The older generation kept dying off.

And now, they were dying in even greater numbers.

He really didn't know how to explain this to the clan.

Just today alone,

the Gu clan had lost nearly a hundred people.

And this Gu Clan Tournament was something he had single-handedly pushed for.

Gu Chen said with grief and indignation,

"That kid was too cunning. He used himself as bait."

"He led us all the way, sprinting toward the White Tiger Abyss at top speed."

"We all thought we could trap him at the edge of the abyss."

"Who knew the kid would just dive straight in? We didn't react in time."

"As a result, the thirty-seven clan members with the best movement techniques accidentally crossed the edge right after him."

Gu Yang listened blankly.

The two nearly four-hundred-year-old elders on either end of the phone gripped their devices in a long silence.

Finally, as if all his energy had been drained, Gu Yang said despondently,

"Leave fifty people to guard the entire White Tiger Abyss."

"Whether Chen Feng is dead or not, this man must never appear again."

"At the same time, I will tell everyone that thirty-seven Gu clan Martial Sages died in battle, successfully slaying Chen Feng at the White Tiger Abyss once again."

"Our clan members must have a dignified sacrifice. We absolutely cannot let outsiders know they died because Chen Feng tricked them."

"Tell everyone not to disclose the true cause of their deaths."

Hanging up, Gu Yang slumped into his chair.

He stared blankly at the casualty list in front of him, as well as the list of the critically injured who needed Vermilion Fruits to save their lives.

He hadn't even finished dealing with the dead and injured from the stadium, and now he had received more bad news.

This sudden blow was too much for Gu Yang to handle all at once.

Just then, a clan member rushed in without even knocking.

"Clan Leader, bad news!"

"Clan members are killing each other at the stadium."

Gu Yang stared wide-eyed at the man.

He wondered if there was something wrong with his ears.

Why would clan members kill each other?

Could it be that the traitor Qianqian had returned?

Why was all the news he heard today nothing but tragedies!

Gu Yang clutched his forehead in agony.

His head was splitting with pain, and his vision was darkening.

He took a deep breath before asking anxiously,

"What exactly is going on?"

The man immediately explained the whole situation.

"We originally sent people to carry back the bodies of our clan members."

"But they discovered some clan members defiling Gu Changqing's widow."

"We stepped forward to stop them, and they tried to kill us to silence the witnesses."

Defiling a clan member's widow!

Murdering to silence witnesses!

Gu Yang's eyes instantly turned bloodshot, his breathing growing heavy.

Overcome by sheer rage, he felt a sweet taste in his throat and spat out a mouthful of blood.

He didn't know why,

but for a moment, Gu Yang felt that the Gu clan was beyond saving.

Ten minutes ago.

Xiao Ruohan and five Gu clan youths were busy with their illicit affairs.

They were caught red-handed by the Gu clan members who had come to transport the bodies.

"What are you doing?"

"How could you do such a beastly thing to Brother Changqing's wife!"

Being caught in such a shameful act made the five hot-blooded youths feel as if they had been plunged into an icy abyss.

However, Xiao Ruohan showed no signs of panic.

She said softly,

"They aren't as strong as you. Kill them immediately!"

The five, already panicking from being caught, grew even more frantic.

"What are you saying!"

"Killing our own clan members will mark us as traitors to the clan."

But Xiao Ruohan sneered,

"Do you want the entire clan to find out about this?"

"What will your parents and relatives think?"

"What will your wives and children think?"

"What face will you have left to live in this world?"

"But if you kill them and frame someone else—like saying Chen Feng's disciple came back to kill them—"

"No one will ever know about this."

The five looked at each other, their hearts pounding with guilt and panic, completely at a loss for what to do.

They felt that Xiao Ruohan's method could work.

If it were outsiders, they wouldn't have hesitated to strike.

But killing their own clan members was something they couldn't immediately bring themselves to do.

However, at that moment, the other clan members charged over, cursing furiously.

"Damn it! You animals!"

"Let's tie them up and take them to the Clan Leader."

"Let their parents see what kind of shameless scumbags they raised."

"Grab them! Let the whole clan see these beasts in human clothing!"

...

These words instantly filled the five youths with terror.

They couldn't bear to imagine the scene of being interrogated in front of the entire clan for this behavior.

They would rather die right here than face the clan and the disgusted glares of their families.

Fear drove them into madness.

It broke their spirits.

It made them gradually lose their minds.

Soon, the first person was crushed by the fear, entirely unable to withstand the psychological pressure.

He roared madly,

"All of you, go to hell!"

"Once you're all dead, no one will ever know!"

With that, he channeled his cultivation technique and delivered a fatal kick to the clan member who had stepped forward to grab him.

The other four also revealed savage expressions.

They made the same choice.

If they wanted to keep living their lives, their only option was to kill these meddlesome fools.

The people who had come to search for the clan members' bodies consisted of both men and women.

There were fully forty of them.

Most were ordinary young people of average strength within the Gu clan.

Their cultivation levels were absolutely no match for these five.

Only the two leaders had decent strength, having already reached the Grandmaster level.

However, the five men caught red-handed were all top-tier experts capable of participating in the tournament.

One of them even possessed the cultivation base of a Grandmaster.

Like tigers unleashed upon a flock of sheep, the five instantly began a frantic slaughter.

To protect themselves, the other forty people had no choice but to fight back desperately.

A chaotic melee broke out in a flash.

In just a few short breaths, over a dozen weaker youths from the ancient clans perished on the spot.

With no point of return, the five men gave into the madness and killed with reckless abandon.

Gradually, both sides became completely blinded by bloodlust.

Among the five men.

The Martial Arts Master was the first who could no longer hold on; his head was smashed to pieces on the spot.

It was not until both sides had nearly fought to a standstill.

That Xiao Ruohan finally circulated her cultivation technique. With the power of a peak Grandmaster, she suddenly unleashed four consecutive palm strikes.

Four phantom black dragons viciously blasted into the backs of the remaining four men.

The four were already injured from the chaotic battle. Caught completely off guard.

Two were instantly killed by the strikes.

The other two collapsed to the ground, severely wounded.

They looked back at Xiao Ruohan in sheer disbelief.

They never expected to be ambushed by this woman.

Before they died, all they saw was Xiao Ruohan covering her face and weeping bitterly.

"Someone, please help me! My stomach hurts so much."

"These five beasts are trying to kill Changqing's child!"

The hot-blooded youths of the ancient clans, still seeing red from the slaughter, seized the opportunity.

They immediately finished off the two heavily injured men on the ground.

With this.

Of the forty people who had originally come to carry away the corpses.

Only seven remained.

The five men who had defiled Xiao Ruohan were all dead.