Chapter 40: City Lord! Punish the Xu Clan Severely!

Li Wanbao felt as if a blade was scraping over his spine, his entire body turning cold. He looked up and saw the murderous gazes of three people. Remembering his escape, he quickly lowered his head guiltily.

Li Wanpeng was also extremely frustrated. During the pre-battle meeting, he had said that whichever clan let the Monster Beasts break through from their defended area would be punished. But now, the Monster Beasts had broken through from his own defended area. What was he supposed to do?

Just as Li Wanpeng was frustrated, Xu Haoran, Xiao Rugui, and Wu Meng were furious, and the atmosphere on the city wall became tense, a shrill cry for help came from outside the city. Everyone suddenly turned their heads and looked outside the city. In the sky above Zhongdu City, a dozen figures were flying clumsily on their swords.

These dozen people were the disciples of the Wu Family. Being able to break out from the Monster Beast encirclement, they were naturally people with high Cultivation Levels, certainly not comparable to the mixed group of over a hundred from the City Lord’s Manor. So these dozen people flew frantically toward Zhongdu City on their swords.

As they approached Zhongdu City, the dozen people saw their Clan Leader standing on the city wall. Immediately, like wronged children seeing their mother, they let out shrill cries.

When they flew up to the city wall, their True Essence was almost completely depleted. One by one, they fell from their swords and crashed to the ground. Clambering up awkwardly, Wu Yue scrambled over to Wu Meng, grabbed his leg, and cried out hoarsely,

“Big brother! We were attacked by Monster Beasts! All the clan’s disciples are dead! Only we dozen or so are left!”

Hearing Wu Yue’s cries, Wu Meng staggered, his vision went dark, and he nearly fainted. He bit the tip of his tongue hard to regain his senses. Seeing his younger brother’s miserable state, he pulled Wu Yue up from the ground and asked urgently,

“What exactly happened?”

“Big brother!” Wu Yue was now weeping bitterly. He glared hatefully at Xu Haoran, who was standing nearby, and then said through his tears,

“Big brother, we were defending Luofeng Ridge and hadn’t let a single Monster Beast pass through. But suddenly, around noon today, a huge number of Monster Beasts rushed at us from behind. There were so many Monster Beasts, it was an endless sea. Almost all the clan’s disciples died tragically in the Monster Beast attack. Only we dozen or so escaped.”

After saying this, he glared fiercely at Xu Haoran again. Xu Haoran was baffled by Wu Yue’s glare. After all, he was the Clan Leader of one of the Four Great Families of the Northern Region. How dare a mere member of the Wu Family, and not even the Clan Leader, glare at him repeatedly? Xu Haoran’s face darkened, and he coldly shouted at Wu Yue,

“Why are you glaring at me? Do you want me to dig your eyes out?”

Xu Haoran’s Foundation Building Stage aura was something Wu Yue, at the Tenth Layer of Qi Refining Stage, could not withstand. Wu Yue shrank back toward the ground. But thinking of the deaths of his clan’s disciples, he mustered some courage, looked up again, and glared at Xu Haoran, saying,

“If your Xu Clan hadn’t failed to defend Tongyou Valley, how could those Monster Beasts have attacked us from behind? Your Xu Clan’s poor defense caused our Wu Family to lose a thousand disciples. How will you account for this?”

Wu Yue spoke righteously, because in his heart, he firmly believed that the Xu Clan defending Tongyou Valley must have failed, allowing the Monster Beasts to pass through Tongyou Valley and attack them from behind, causing his clan to suffer heavy losses. But he didn’t know that the Monster Beasts hadn’t come from Tongyou Valley at all, but had charged over from the Imperial Highway. At that moment, there wasn’t even a single Monster Beast hair in Tongyou Valley.

So, as soon as Wu Yue finished speaking, Xu Haoran’s expression became very strange, and Xiao Rugui’s expression also turned peculiar. Wu Meng looked extremely embarrassed, while only Li Wanpeng’s face had turned pale, with dark energy rising from his forehead. But Wu Meng didn’t notice this. Instead, he turned to Li Wanpeng and shouted loudly,

“City Lord! Before we left the city, you said that the clan that lost their defended area would be severely punished. Now, the Xu Clan not only lost their defended area, Tongyou Valley, but because of their failure, our clan suffered heavy losses. City Lord, please uphold justice! Punish the Xu Clan severely! They must compensate our Wu Family for all our losses! No! Just compensation isn’t enough! They must pay double!”

After saying what he wanted, Wu Yue looked up at City Lord Li Wanpeng, but suddenly noticed the City Lord’s face was ashen, and heavy breathing came from beside him. Wu Yue followed the sound of the heavy breathing and immediately saw Li Wanbao and the over hundred people kneeling on the ground. Wu Yue was stunned and blurted out,

“Wanbao brother, were you also attacked by Monster Beasts from Tongyou Valley?”

After saying this, Wu Yue felt a surge of joy in his heart. He thought, “It seems not only our Wu Family suffered heavy losses, but even the City Lord’s men were hit hard. Now we can really make the Xu Clan pay dearly. It would be best if the Xu Clan compensated until they are bankrupt. That way, we won’t have to fight the Xu Clan, and we can get the Xu Clan’s thousand-year legacy. Hmm, I’ll add more fuel to the fire and drag the Xiao Family into this too.”

Thinking this, Wu Yue turned to Xiao Rugui and said tearfully, “Family Head Xiao, I don’t know if the disciples from your clan have returned yet. I’m afraid they also suffered from the Monster Beast encirclement. All of this was caused by the Xu Clan! We cannot let the Xu Clan off!”

Hearing Wu Yue’s words, Xiao Rugui’s heart trembled. Thinking of his own clan’s disciples, he could no longer stay calm. Full of anxiety, he turned to look at the sky outside the city.

Perhaps Heaven knew Xiao Rugui’s feelings. The moment he turned his head, he saw over a dozen figures flying from the distant sky. As they drew closer, Xiao Rugui immediately recognized them as the disciples from his clan. Flying at the front was his younger brother, Xiao Ruxing. What made Xiao Rugui’s heart bleed the most was that behind Xiao Ruxing and the dozen others, there were no more clan disciples. He understood that probably only these dozen or so remained from the thousand disciples in his clan.

Everyone now saw Xiao Ruxing and the dozen others. Wu Yue, in particular, clenched his fists, his face flushed red. As soon as Xiao Ruxing and the others landed on the city wall, he immediately stepped forward and shouted loudly,

“Ruxing brother, were you also attacked by Monster Beasts from Tongyou Valley?”