Family Cultivation: My entire family are Villains

Chapter 266: 154. The Stunning Fifth Master Hou_2

"This Eagle Demon's speed is even faster than the Wolf Demon's. Escaping from its grasp is nearly impossible. Xiao Die, I'm useless and can't protect you anymore!"

Cheng Yun Ye looked disheartenedly at Cheng Yun Die, his tone diminished and his face full of guilt. Recalling the annihilation of their family, ever since fleeing Longxiang County, although he was the elder brother, he was not as composed as his sister during a crisis. Often, it was Cheng Yun Die who had to guide him, hardly fulfilling his duties as an elder brother.

Lacking strength, and now at a life-and-death moment, he wanted to protect Cheng Yun Die and fulfill his duty as an elder brother one last time, but it was merely a vain hope...

"Brother, don't say that. The night our family was destroyed, if not for you fighting desperately, I would have died alongside our parents in Longxiang County. It's just death; we'll go and be reunited with our parents, completing our family once again!"

Hearing the guilt in her brother's voice, Cheng Yun Die's nose tingled, and her fear subsided somewhat. Since the Cheng Family was wiped out, the only relative she had left in this world was her brother, Cheng Yun Ye. Dying together didn't seem such an unacceptable outcome.

Cheng Yun Ye clenched his fists and nodded lightly, though his eyes still held a trace of unwillingness as he took out the Qinglong Token and said in a low voice, "It's just a pity, just as hope for revenge was within sight..."

He was not afraid of death, but the deep-seated vengeance of the Cheng Family was destined to vanish with his and his sister's deaths.

For the past half year, the siblings had lived solely on the thought of vengeance. It wasn't that they feared death particularly, but the thought that the beasts who destroyed their family could continue to live proudly filled him with resentment.

Although a myriad of thoughts ran through their minds, hardly a moment had passed in the outside world.

In the cellar, more than half of the two thousand people had been quickly wounded or killed under the torture of demons.

The Eagle Demon hovered aloft, his eyes mocking as he watched below. He had just used a technique to blow back a group of fleeing people, clearly enjoying the slow torture.

Although both knew death was certain, they were unwilling to sit and await their fate. Seeing another demon, with the body of a man and the head of an elephant set upon a group, they both raised their longswords and charged forward. Death was inevitable; they might as well fight the demons.

Unfortunately, their cultivation was still too weak. Before they could get close, the demon sensed them. Without even turning its body, it swung its thick trunk backward. The powerful demonic power emitted instantly intimidated them, immobilizing their bodies and leaving them to stand there waiting for death.

As death loomed, the siblings exchanged a glance, their eyes filled with resignation, and of course, a thick sense of unwillingness and despair.

However, at the critical moment...

"Evil beast, stop right there!"

A furious shout, accompanied by a streak of azure Sword Qi, suddenly flew in from the east.

It was a sword energy more than ten meters long. Ahead of the Sword Qi, there seemed to be a streak of white light. That white light, dignified and imposing, instantly subdued the elephant-headed demon.

With the white light restraining the demon, the Sword Qi instantly arrived...

The azure Sword Qi was fiercely unstoppable, slicing through the air and directly cutting the thick trunk of the demon as easily as cutting tofu.

A thick trunk fell to the ground beside them, making a loud noise that stunned everyone. It also intimidated all the demons still making their moves, as all eyes now gathered on the figure slowly emerging behind the azure sword light, a figure clad in white robes.

The newcomer appeared to be in his early twenties, handsome, dressed in white, with an upright stature and surrounded by a layer of white light, holding an azure longsword and carrying a water-blue precious sword at his waist.

In that moment, as he observed the limbs and broken bodies around him, his expression gradually turned angry. His handsome face also became somewhat somber due to the anger.

"Hou Yuduan?"

"It's Fifth Master Hou from the Hou Family!"

"How can his strength be so powerful?"

"Fifth Master Hou, save us, save us!"

...

Hearing the voices around them, Cheng Yun Ye and his sister lifted their heads to look at Hou Yuduan. A glimmer of hope suddenly rose on their faces...

"Hou Yuduan, I think I've heard of him before, he's the younger brother of Master Hou of the Hou Clan of Zhaoyang, Hou Yuxiao. Isn't the Hou Clan of Zhaoyang considered a third-rate force? How can his strength be so formidable?"

The Hou Clan also had a reputation in Tongling, and having spent some time in the prefectural city, Cheng Yunye had naturally heard of them. At this moment, he couldn't help but whisper his doubts to his sister, but he received no response from Cheng Yundie. When he turned his head, he saw a somewhat peculiar expression on her face.

Cheng Yundie was staring intently at Hou Yuduan, dressed in white, with admiration and worship in her eyes, which made her brother somewhat uncomfortable.

Is the charm of a handsome man that significant?

Just now, they were only half a step away from death...

Looking at Hou Yuduan's refined and handsome face, Cheng Yunye shook his head and decided to focus his attention on the demons instead.

The elephant-headed demon, even if not at the peak karmic position of Ninth Grade, was probably not far off, at least equivalent to a human martial artist in the Dan Embracing Phase. Yet, Hou Yuduan had seriously wounded it with a single sword strike. How strong was the strength of Fifth Master Hou?

For a moment, everyone, like the Cheng siblings, felt a surge of hope.

Hou Yuduan looked at the limbs and severed arms on the ground, and anger had already reached its peak on his face. A surge of Confucian righteous qi slowly gathered on his Qingyu Peak sword.

Originally, all the demons' attention was focused on him. As soon as this righteous qi appeared, all of them suddenly shrank their pupils, and a trace of fear appeared on their faces...

Confucian righteous qi, to the demons, was like a deadly poison!

"To harm innocent people, if I don't slaughter you evil beasts today, then all my years of studying the Sages' Book would have been in vain..."

With a roar, the vast righteous qi from the Eighth Orifice within Hou Yuduan surged overwhelmingly. His Gathering Evil Phase cultivation erupted violently, and Gangsha flowed into his Qingyu Peak, bringing forth a dense trail of azure Sword Qi, plunging into the midst of the demons, with its first target being the elephant-headed demon he had just wounded!

Already severely injured, the demon was unable to react in time to Hou Yuduan's fast movements and was struck in the throat by the Qingyu Peak, infused with vast righteous qi.

The death of a demon was not like that of a human. Ordinary Sword Qi entering a demon's body would at most cause physical damage. However, since a demon's strength resided in its body, killing them from within was extremely difficult.

However, Hou Yuduan's Sword Qi was extraordinary...

Vast righteous qi surged into the elephant-headed demon's body, and though it initially tried desperately to flee despite the pain, it hadn't taken more than two steps when its body suddenly stiffened, and then a look of terror appeared on its face. White light continuously infiltrated through its wound, and the demon qi around its body seemed to be purified, transforming into trails of white smoke that soared into the sky.

In no time, the elephant-headed demon's body completely vanished from this world.

This unsettling scene brought fear and astonishment to the pupils of the other demons, including the leading Eagle Demon...

The demons, who had been haughty just moments before, were now overwhelmingly subdued by Hou Yuduan alone. The hope on everyone's faces below became more intense, looking at Hou Yuduan with admiration and respect!

Before the demons could react, Hou Yuduan's fierce Sword Qi gathered again, rushing into their midst.

This time, Hou Yuduan did not merely employ ordinary Sword Qi. His Qingyu Peak transformed into trails of Swan Shadow in the air, slashing at all the demons like a fierce storm, and in an instant, the surroundings of the cellar seemed to be experiencing a heavy rainstorm, only that the dense raindrops were swathes of lethal Sword Qi...

A breathtakingly brilliant slaughter was displayed before everyone, Cheng Yunye's face gradually turning dull, and like him, the expressions of everyone else shifted from adoration and respect to gradually becoming fanatical, then more and more astonished, until they were finally speechless, looking at Hou Yuduan, unable to utter a word.

These are demons?

These are the demons causing boundless slaughter in Tongling City?

How come these demons, in front of Hou Yuduan, seemed like lambs to the slaughter? They even felt that these demons were like the villagers who had just hidden in the cellar, and now the roles seemed reversed with Hou Yuduan...

Is Fifth Master Hou that powerful?

As this thought flashed through Cheng Yunye's mind, he turned his head and saw the expression on his sister Cheng Yundie's face had moved from adoration to obsession; he shook his head.

Done for, there's no saving this sister now...