Sister-in-law: I’m really not a fool anymore

Southwest of Ancheng, fifty miles away.

There is an abandoned mining area among the rolling hills.

This place is extremely remote, with only one road leading to Ancheng, and even the nearest village is several kilometers away.

Inside the mining area, around a relatively hidden mine pit, more than two hundred figures were dragging hundreds of tightly tied birds and beasts of various kinds, throwing them to the edge of the pit and then directly cutting open their stomachs and draining their blood.

In the open area dozens of meters away from the edge of the pit, there were still tens of thousands of carcasses of various animals piled up like a mountain.

"Hooho..."

"Woo..."

For a moment, above the huge mining area, the low roars of beasts and the mournful calls of birds intertwined and converged into a terrifying and eerie sound that was frightening and creepy to the ears.

At the bottom of the pit, the blood of tens of thousands of birds and beasts had gathered into a pool of blood, and the fishy smell was overwhelming.

This pool of blood seemed to have been corroded by some evil force. Not only was it bubbling with bubbles, but from time to time there were also puffs of black gas emanating from it...

It is said that this mining area was haunted in the past, and miners often went insane for unknown reasons, and eventually died with their bodies turning black and bleeding from all their orifices.

Even several monks and Taoists who were invited to perform rituals were frightened to death.

The mine has been abandoned since then.

But half a year ago, this group of people suddenly entered the mining area, claiming to be an exploration team. Since then, they have been entrenched here and have never left.

What the outside world does not know is that the more than 200 people who entered the mining area under the banner of an exploration team are actually all elite backbones of the eight major families.

The eight Martial Emperor-level warriors who led the team were all elders of the clan.

The reason why the eight major families targeted this abandoned mine and secretly sent a large number of elite troops to garrison there was that they discovered some abnormalities by chance.

But after half a year of investigation and exploration, they had determined half a month ago that the truth hidden under the mining area was actually an evil sealed place.

Although this sealed place is evil and dangerous, it also represents a huge opportunity.

When the heads of the eight major families thought about the high probability of the existence of soul bones and fragments of gods under the mining area, their eyes turned red. They finally decided to block the news and start digging in private.

They didn't even report to Prince Jin's Palace.

This was the reason why Ye Fan didn't know there was a big evil spirit underground in Ancheng until he met the know-it-all little evil spirit.

Over the past half month, more than 200 strong men from the eight major families stationed here have dug some distance downwards.

They even captured a large number of birds and beasts in the mountains and forests and kept them all in the warehouse in the mining area.

This is the preparation for the final step of blood sacrifice to the evil spirits.

According to the original progress, it would take at least half a month to dig out the underground seal, but today the eight major families suddenly encountered a disaster, unexpected changes occurred, and the situation took a sharp turn for the worse.

After receiving the news, the eight clan elders who stayed behind immediately contacted the newly elected acting clan leader via encrypted satellite phone.

Finally, all parties reached a consensus, and eight acting family heads pretended to surrender.

On the one hand, he was stalling for time, and on the other hand, he was detaining the Hui people by detaining them while hundreds of elites were kneeling outside the gate of the Lu family to rescue them.

The eight elders stationed in the mining area led more than 200 elite soldiers to immediately kill the birds and beasts in the warehouse, perform a blood sacrifice in advance, break the seal, and release the evil spirits.

All of this is currently being carried out in a tense but orderly manner...

Once the seal is broken and the evil spirit is revealed, Ancheng will be in chaos. The power of Ye Fan, Fan Meng, and the Lu family will be completely restrained.

At that time, it would be the best time for the eight major families to flee and move to the capital to join Prince Jin.

Even if this evil spirit is powerful enough, it can seriously injure Ye Fan and others.

It is not impossible for the eight major families to make a desperate attempt, risk staying, and fight back with all their strength to reverse the situation in one fell swoop...

Lu family compound.

The eight acting family heads knelt in a row in front of Lu Zhongting, Wei Zhengyang, Lu Xue and other high-ranking members of the Lu family.

She was wiping her tears and begging desperately.

"Master Lu, Elder Wei, we know we were wrong..."

"It's all because of the previous family heads' arrogance and arrogance, but now they have all committed suicide to apologize."

"Now that we have been elected to temporarily take over the position of the head of the family, we are willing to offer all the resources in the family treasury to the Lu family as a token of our sincerity."

"I hope Lord Lu will forgive us and give our eight families a chance to mend our ways."

"We swear an oath to heaven here. From now on, the eight major families must follow the Lu family's lead, follow and support them from generation to generation, and allow them to be driven by us."

"If you break this oath, you will be punished by heaven. Your family will be destroyed, all your people will die, and your bloodline will be cut off..."

The eight old fellows spoke earnestly and with a sincere attitude, even the people of Ancheng who were watching around them felt a little uncomfortable and whispered to each other.

Most people tend to hope to see the Lu family be magnanimous and make peace with the eight major families.

This made Lu Zhongting and others feel embarrassed.

The Lu family suffered too much humiliation today. Even in the past, the eight major families had looted the military supplies supplied by the Lu family to the Tianlong Army more than once or twice.

If they were to let them go like this, everyone in the Lu family would feel unwilling.

But this is the current situation.

Not only did the eight major families use up all their family treasury resources to pay compensation, but even the head of the family and the executor of the assassination of Ye Fan committed suicide in the Lu family compound to apologize.

In addition, the eight acting family heads swore a poisonous oath to the Heavenly Alliance in public, and all the people in Ancheng present were witnesses...

Adding all of this together, if the Lu family still insists on going on a killing spree, they will kill all the members of the eight major families.

Once this matter gets out, not only the Lu family, but also Ye Fan, who is currently in the backyard of the Lu family, will probably be criticized.

Just when they were in a dilemma, there was a sudden noise in the corner of the courtyard behind them.

"Cruel..."

"Crash!"

Du Laogui, who had been standing there practicing the Golden Rooster Stand for a long time, suddenly raised his head and let out a fierce roar with a ferocious and terrifying expression.

This was clearly a last gasp of energy, and a long roar completely drained the last bit of his remaining vitality.

The icy cold air that had originally stopped at his neck immediately surged up, freezing his head in just half a moment.

Then, only half of Du Laogui's body remained and fell forward. After hitting the ground, it shattered into countless frozen fragments. With a crashing sound, it turned into nothingness...

This scene was so tragic that even Lu Zhongting's eyelids twitched and he couldn't bear to look at it.

The conflicted thoughts in my heart seemed to be shaken by this scene.

Just as he was about to speak and reluctantly agreed to the eight acting family heads' request for surrender, Ye Fan's extremely cold voice suddenly came from the direction of the Lu family's backyard.

"Eight major families, you dare to pretend to obey but secretly disobey, and disregard the lives of millions of people in Ancheng. You deserve to die!"

"Guo Li, Yu Qiang, take action immediately. No one from the eight major families should be spared..." (End of this chapter)