Family Cultivation: My entire family are Villains

Chapter 432: 213. What does the Shen Clan count for?_2

However, just as the two were preparing to stand up and flee, a dark arrow whistled through the air, heading straight for their faces.

After all, they were both Grandmasters, avoiding an ordinary crossbow arrow was not a difficult task. Without even moving their bodies, they simply released a layer of True Qi shield. Though the crossbow arrow was powerful, it was still easily deflected by their shields.

"Ten-stone crossbow strength!"

Realizing the tremendous force behind the arrow, their brows furrowed slightly, and they simultaneously thought to themselves, without bothering to investigate who had fired the arrow, they continued to try and flee westward without a second thought.

Whiz... Whiz... Whiz... Whiz... Whiz...

However, when a dense sound of arrows piercing flesh reached their ears, and they turned their heads to look, their faces immediately changed:

Black arrows covered the sky like a dense downpour heading swiftly towards them at a speed nearly identical to the first, reaching their faces in almost an instant.

"The Hou Clan... has an ambush force too!"

With so many arrows, it obviously wasn't the work of one person. Their faces showed a trace of horror, and even as they dodged the arrows, they looked down at the ground. Their eyes instantly filled with fear, and their complexions turned ghastly pale.

Thud, thud, thud, thud...

The ground shook. The flowers and trees around Golden House Mountain trembled violently. Not only were the two Zhu Clan Grandmasters alarmed, but so were onlookers like Shen Gufan, Zhou Hong, and Ling Yanyun, and even Zhu Wuzhen, who was engaged in battle with Hou Yuduan, felt a strange sense of alarm. They all turned and looked toward the west, the source of the commotion.

With that look, the expressions on their faces turned ashen, identical to that of the two Zhu Clan Grandmasters.

Not far away, hundreds of Hou Family Warriors riding strong horses were rushing toward their location, enveloped with an ominous and ferocious blood aura.

The blood aura emanating from them converged into a torrential flood, reflecting in the sky like a swiftly moving blood-red longsword, with a momentum as overwhelming as it was fearsome.

"How is this possible? The aura of a few hundred men is stronger than that of a three-thousand-strong army; my strength... it's completely suppressed!"

"Those horses, ignoring our blood vitality and True Qi, how can this be?"

In their panic, the two Grandmasters realized they could not mobilize their True Qi and could only watch helplessly as more than five hundred cavalry charged toward them, leaving them utterly speechless.

They had narrowly avoided the first batch of arrows by swaying left and right, but when the five hundred cavalry charged at them with overwhelming blood vitality, their inability to channel True Qi left them with no way out.

These five hundred were currently the most elite warriors of the Hou Clan, with the lowest Cultivation at the Body Opening Ninth Level. Not to mention, among them were hundreds at the Ten Layers of Body Openings, and even at the peak of that level. They were also riding warhorses recently purchased from the Prefectural City. As iron hooves and swords passed over, the two Grandmasters didn't even have time to let out a scream before they were crushed into pulp...

"War Horses, what a move by the Hou Clan, what a Hou Clan!"

Witnessing the brutal death of the two Zhu Clan Grandmasters, Shen Gufan nearly gritted these words through his teeth. His fists clenched tightly under his sleeves, his gaze on Hou Yujie and Hou Yuduan almost venomous.

However, it was as if the two of them didn't notice him at all. The five hundred cavalry didn't consider him worth their attention either. After killing the two Grandmasters, they immediately turned toward Zhu Wuzhen, who was entangled with Hou Yuduan.

The turbulent, violent blood vitality rolled in from behind. With Zhu Wuzhen's strength already suppressed by the large army, it shrank by half again to barely the Grandmaster Realm. Facing Hou Yuduan's Vast Righteous Qi, he could no longer resist and his eyes filled with despair.

"If only I had known this day would come, why did I ever begin?"

Hou Yuduan looked at Zhu Wuzhen's despairing face with a tinge of pity in his eyes, but however sympathetic he felt, his Vast Righteous Qi showed no sign of easing against Zhu Wuzhen. Drawing his Blood Shadow Sword with Righteous Qi attached, a sweep of the sword across Zhu Wuzhen's neck immediately sprayed a blood arrow, spattering more than ten feet away...

At this moment, Golden House Mountain was filled with the thick stench of blood. As everyone looked around, they discovered at least a thousand corpses lying on the ground, sending shivers down their spines — the entire Zhu Clan was wiped out without a single survivor!

From the time Shen Gufan received the news until now, barely more than an hour had passed. Those who came to watch had arrived just half an hour before Shen Gufan, meaning the fall of the Zhu Clan only took about two hours from start to finish.

In the entire Xingnan Prefectural City, there were only two famous assassin organizations: the Silver Blade Society of the Prefectural City, and the Zhu Clan they witnessed at present. The Zhu Clan had been established in Jinling County for at least a hundred years.

A century-old foundation, in the hands of the Hou Clan, couldn't even last two hours...

"What is the Shen family, daring to threaten my Hou Clan? Calling you Family Head Shen is a courtesy from the Hou Clan. Do you actually think you're some sort of big shot?"

While everyone was still shocked by the actions of the Hou Clan, Hou Yujie's scornful and contemptuous remarks directly attacked the soul of Shen Gufan, resounding throughout the crowd.

Within two miles of Golden House Mountain, it was as if even the wind had been scared still. Everyone looked up at the regrouped Hou Clan army, or more precisely, at the two in the front, Hou Yuduan and Hou Yujie, their eyes filled with shock.

To humiliate Shen Gufan and the Shen Clan in front of so many people, and to annihilate the Zhu Family, which had ties with the Shen Clan, were two different things.