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Chapter 58 Liu Family
Are they all dead?

Liu Shuyue frowned and immediately ran quickly in the direction the beggar had indicated.

Before she had run two miles, she heard the clanging of weapons and the shouts of people in the distance. These sounds coming from the city were clearly not normal, so she took out a Wind Riding Talisman and soared into the sky on the wind.

The entire Nine Peaks City below was immediately laid out before us.

She did see a large mansion to the northwest, with at least a dozen houses inside the walls, complete with gardens, ponds, and stables—very much in line with the status of the Liu family, a wealthy household. However, the mansion's gate was packed with yamen runners, blocking half the street completely.

The front yard, which is adjacent to the main gate, is in a rather appalling state.

There were about a dozen corpses lying haphazardly on the ground. Judging from their clothing, they should all be servants of the Liu family. The blood that had flowed out stained a large area of ​​the white stone ground red.

A man and a woman are still holding on in the hospital.

Two other cultivators launched the attack. One of them wielded a whip, sweeping left and slashing right to restrain them. Each lash crackled with purple lightning, sparks flew from the ground, and bricks shattered. If such a whip were to strike an ordinary person, their bones would likely be broken instantly!

Another man sat atop the eaves of the gate, waving a whisk in his hand. Under his control, paper-thin figures leaped down from the roof, their light steps aimed at the young couple. Although the paper figures were easily destroyed, shattering into pieces upon being struck by a sword, they were inexhaustible, while human strength was limited. A moment's carelessness could result in a deep, bone-revealing wound from a paper sword piercing the body. The two already bore numerous such injuries.

Without a doubt, these two unorthodox cultivators were sent by the government to suppress the Liu family. Once the Liu family's resistance was broken, the yamen runners outside would swarm in.

Liu Shuyue couldn't help but sigh.

Things have progressed to this point, and the Liu family is beyond saving.

They fabricated their relationship with the immortal master and enjoyed all the benefits of the mortal world, but now they are suffering a backlash, which can be considered a kind of retribution.

But just then, she saw the young man who had been struggling to resist roar and, ignoring the whip sweeping from the side, charge fiercely at the cultivator who was restraining them. The sword in his hand emitted a pure white light, as if it were enveloped in spiritual energy!
Liu Shuyue's gaze sharpened.

What else could it be but the Spirit Sword Technique?
The whip lashed the man's waist, instantly creating a cloud of blood mist. However, the rogue cultivator did not choose to fight to the death. Instead, he dropped the whip and jumped back. The blade of his spiritual sword could barely reach the man's clothes.

"Brother You!"

Seeing the young man fall to the ground, the girl let out a mournful cry. In her panic, she threw out two talisman armors to protect her companion—talismanic techniques also belonging to the Lotus Cloud Sect. Unfortunately, the user was not skilled enough, and while protecting others, she forgot to protect herself. The surrounding paper figures seized the opportunity to swarm in, and it looked like the girl was about to be splattered with blood.

A beam of white light suddenly pierced down from the sky—

Liu Shuyue moved.

She fell with the wind, crashing down directly above the Liu family's gate with lightning speed, her feet landing precisely on the shoulders of the rogue cultivator who controlled the paper figures.

The opponent's flesh and blood body disintegrated instantly under the impact of the enormous force, turning into a bloody mess of mud, and the gate collapsed with a crash!

To everyone's astonishment, the once aggressive paper figures suddenly went limp and turned back into pieces of yellow paper fluttering in the wind.

The remaining rogue cultivator's expression changed drastically. Ignoring the whip he had dropped, he leaped over the courtyard wall.

"Certainly!"

Liu Shuyue emerged from the ruins of the gate, pointed her finger, and the other person fell to the ground.

However, even a rogue cultivator is still a practitioner, and the immobilization spell could not completely control him. Less than two seconds after landing, his hands and feet began to twitch, and he was about to recover from the spell.

Unfortunately, in a battle between masters, a two-second opening can be enough to decide life or death.

Liu Shuyue had already walked up to him with her long sword, turned the hilt upside down and struck the man's neck hard. The rogue cultivator fainted without uttering a sound.

Only then did she dust herself off and turn to look at the couple.

The latter was also looking at her in shock.

Before Liu Shuyue could finish her question, the woman reacted first—

"Elder sister...is that you!?" She stumbled over and opened her arms to hug Liu Shuyue.

Liu Shuyue looked disgusted and wanted to push her away, but seeing her battered and bruised appearance, she ultimately did not move.

"It's a Celestial Master!"

Someone exclaimed in delight, "Lord Liu is back!"

"The Immortal Master has finally come to save us!"

More and more people cheered, rushing out of the courtyard to surround Liu Shuyue, their eyes filled with reverence and gratitude. In contrast, the yamen runners outside the courtyard were terrified the moment they heard the name of Master Liu, dropping their weapons and scattering in all directions.

Liu Shuyue sighed inwardly. This was somewhat different from her plan. Once the troops outside the city knew she had appeared in Jiufeng City, the news would probably reach the capital faster than Zhang Wei's messenger. By going to the Liu family in Yunzhou instead of the capital, she was essentially rejecting the King of Qi's warning with her actions.

But there's no going back now, so we just have to hurry.

Looking at the Liu family members cheering around her, Liu Shuyue felt a little incredulous. They had fallen to this point, why were they still insisting on deceiving her?

“This is medicine for external injuries. Take it and give it to him.” She took out two blood oranges, pointed them at the young man whose waist was bleeding profusely, and then said to the girl who was holding onto her tightly, “Nonsense! Call your family head out. I am not your sister.”

Everyone was stunned.

"Don't you remember me? I'm Liu Qing!" the girl said, sounding aggrieved.

Liu Shuyue frowned. She was certain she didn't have a so-called younger sister, and the Lianyun Sect never recruited disciples outside the mountains, much less taught its sect's magic to the world. She simply wanted to know where these people had stolen their magic from.

"Shuyue...is that you?" The crowd suddenly parted, and a middle-aged man slowly walked out. He looked quite weak, with thick bandages wrapped around his arm.

"father!"

The girl finally let go of her hands.

This is Liu Qing's biological father? Liu Shuyue felt slightly annoyed. If she was the eldest sister, then wouldn't he also be her father? This farce was simply going to go on and on.

“You look exactly like the portrait…” the middle-aged man said with delight. “I knew the Prince of Qi couldn’t do anything to you. He wants to make the Liu family your weakness, but we would rather die than let him have his way!”

"Yes, what nonsense about the Immortal Master betraying the Wang family! Without Immortal Master Liu, could the kingdom have enjoyed such good weather for so long?"

"The demons of Qi dare not show their faces, all because the sons and daughters of the Liu family are guarding the four directions!"

The crowd excitedly echoed.

"Now that the immortal master has returned, we don't need to be afraid anymore!"

"That's right, he's rebelled!"

Looking at the bustling crowd, Liu Shuyue realized that she might have misunderstood something... These members of the Liu family were determined to associate her with the Lotus Cloud Sect and the Immortal Master, probably not entirely for personal gain. Otherwise, when their lives and fortunes were threatened, they should have scattered like leaves in the wind.

But the more she thought about it, the more she found it hard to understand. It was one thing for someone to be so immersed in a role that they couldn't distinguish between reality and fiction, but to get hundreds or thousands of people to believe it was something that couldn't be achieved with just a few words of promotion.

Where does the Liu family's belief come from?

And those spells that clearly originated from the Lotus Cloud Sect...

"Why didn't you come back sooner?" A discordant question suddenly broke through the indignant accusations.

Liu Shuyue looked in the direction of the voice and found that the speaker was the young man who had fought desperately with the rogue cultivator. The wound on his waist had already scabbed over, but the large amount of blood was still shocking.

"You'er, shut up!" the middle-aged man snapped.

The girl quickly grabbed him, "Brother You, your elder sister saved your life!"

"If she had come back sooner, my mother, Aunt Shen, and Ah Hu wouldn't have died!" He gritted his teeth, his eyes filled with grief and confusion. "Since she could save me, why didn't she save more people?! She's a Celestial Master!"

Liu Shuyue remained silent.

She realized that this matter was far beyond what could be resolved with just a few words of persuasion. She probably didn't know as much about the Liu family of Yunzhou as she thought.

“Let’s talk,” Liu Shuyue said to Liu Qing’s father.

(End of this chapter)