The First Venerable of All Paths

"You dare hurt me, kid?"

The triangular-eyed martial artist roared, "Not only does your Zhenyao Pavilion sell counterfeit medicine, but you also assaulted people! I will expose the true colors of your Fang family and bring you to your knees..."

"Snap!"

Fang Xuan stomped on the other man's chest, his foot pressing down hard until it crushed the man's sternum.

"Don't embarrass yourself by using such despicable framing tactics."

Fang Xuan's tone was cold and devoid of any warmth.

"Tell me, who sent you?"

Fang Xuan looked down at the other person and said, "You can choose not to speak, but I have a thousand ways to make you talk."

"I...I don't understand what you're saying."

A flicker of panic crossed the triangular-eyed martial artist's eyes.

"I'm warning you, release me right now, or else..."

Before the other person could finish speaking, Fang Xuan continued to exert force with his foot.

"Ugh!"

With his sternum broken in more places, the excruciating pain caused the triangular-eyed martial artist to let out a heart-wrenching scream. His face contorted in agony, he roared, "You little bastard, you're dead! I..."

"puff!"

Fang Xuan grinned and kicked his opponent's Qi Sea with force.

"You...you destroyed my dantian?"

The triangular-eyed martial artist stared at Fang Xuan in disbelief, his voice filled with terror.

This time, Fang Xuan ignored the other party.

He beckoned with his finger.

Fang Yong had already brought another person over.

This person was the one who claimed to have bought fake medicinal herbs from the Zhenyao Pavilion.

"Let me go!"

He twisted his body with all his might, but could not break free from Fang Yong's restraints, so he glared fiercely at Fang Xuan.

"Boy, is this how the Fang family behaves?"

He said, blustering but cowardly, "To dare to do something but not to admit it is truly an eye-opener."

His words immediately drew pointing fingers and much discussion from the onlookers.

His words were full of accusations and disdain for the other party.

Fang Xuan remained unconcerned by these rumors and simply smiled faintly.

"What...what are you laughing at?"

The man felt a chill run down his spine for no apparent reason, and his voice trembled slightly.

"I'm laughing at how stupid you all are."

Fang Xuan said, "Being used as a pawn, and you still think everyone else is a fool like you."

He walked towards the other person, but the smile on his face slowly disappeared.

"What...what are you going to do?"

The man looked flustered and said in a terrified voice, "I'm warning you, you'd better not do anything rash, otherwise, you..."

The conversation abruptly ended.

But Fang Xuan grabbed his neck.

"you......"

The man's face turned red with suffocation, and his body trembled uncontrollably.

"You don't think I'm giving you a chance just because I'm easygoing, do you?"

Fang Xuan continued to exert force with his palm, and his chilling voice, like a demon's whisper, entered the other party's ears.

"Who in the entire Qingyang Prefecture doesn't know that I, Fang Xuan, have never been a soft-hearted person!"

Upon hearing this, many people suddenly realized what was going on.

The seemingly harmless young man in white before me was, three years ago, the most renowned prodigy in Qingyang County.

He led the Fang family guards on numerous campaigns, hunting down monsters and shedding countless dropes of blood.

Among his contemporaries, no one dared to rival him.

Anyone who dares to offend him will pay a very heavy price.

It was only three years of silence.

It seems that many people have forgotten his past glory.

The martial artist frantically pounded on Fang Xuan, trying to break free, but to no avail.

"I was wrong......"

He mustered all his strength and managed to utter three words.

"It's too late."

Fang Xuan shook his head: "You don't just know you're wrong, you know you're going to die."

With that, Fang Xuan twisted his hand and snapped the other man's neck.

A clamor arose from all sides.

Everyone staring at the scene before them felt their scalp tingle.

Just like that, you killed him?

Isn't he afraid that this will bring even greater trouble to the Fang family, causing their reputation to collapse?

"Thump!"

Fang Xuan threw the other person's corpse on the ground, as casually as if he were throwing away a dead dog.

Then he walked towards another person.

This person previously claimed to have purchased counterfeit medicine and demanded that Zhenyaoge compensate him with 30,000 shi (a unit of weight).

"thump!"

Before Fang Xuan could even get close, his legs buckled and he knelt on the ground.

"Young Master Fang... I was wrong, I really know I was wrong."

His face was filled with terror, and he said in a tearful voice, "It was Niu San who ordered us to do this, just to tarnish the reputation of Zhenyao Pavilion and thereby damage the Fang family's business."

His forehead kept hitting the ground, each time making a dull thud that terrified everyone present.

"Zhao Laoliu, you idiot, you dare betray me?"

Niu San, whose dantian had been shattered, roared angrily, "You think he'll let you go if you beg for mercy? Dream on!"

"You bastard surnamed Niu, shut the hell up!"

Zhao Laoliu roared, "Didn't you say that as long as I just splashed some dirty water on the Precious Medicine Pavilion, I could get a ton of spirit stones? Now look what? I've been killed!"

"Young Master Fang!"

Zhao Laoliu continued to kowtow and beg for mercy, saying, "It was all Niu San's doing. He gave us a sum of spirit stones beforehand and told us to extort money from Zhenyao Pavilion. Please have mercy and let me go. I will never dare to do it again."

Fang Xuan waved his hand.

"puff!"

Fang Yong kicked the other man away, breaking countless bones.

His dantian (energy center) was also shattered.

"The death penalty may be avoided, but guilt cannot be escaped."

Fang Xuan said calmly, "I'll cripple your cultivation as a consequence of slandering my Fang family. Do you accept that?"

"I... give up!"

Even though he had a thousand grievances in his heart, Zhao Laoliu could only swallow his anger and resentment.

Fang Xuan said, "From now on, I don't want to see you in Qingyang County. Get out!"

"Thank you, Young Master Xie, for sparing my life!"

Zhao Laoliu struggled to his knees, kowtowed three times to Fang Xuan, and then scrambled away.

"Young Master Fang, spare my life!"

Seeing this, the other troublemakers also knelt down and kowtowed, begging Fang Xuan to spare their lives.

"We were all brought here by Niu San; he's the mastermind."

"Young Master Fang, please be magnanimous and spare our lives."

Faced with the crowd's pleas, Fang Xuan said indifferently, "If you want to live, then cripple your cultivation and get out of Qingyang County."

"this......."

Upon hearing this, the group hesitated, their faces full of resistance.

For martial artists, losing their cultivation is even more painful than being killed outright.

"You don't want to?"

Fang Xuan said, "Fang Yong, help them."

"Yes, young master!"

Fang Yong's face hardened, and he rubbed his hands together as he walked toward the group.

"Bang bang bang!"

Fang Yong acted decisively and ruthlessly, directly destroying the dantian of all these people.

In an instant, the onlookers were so frightened that they retreated one after another.

Too bad!

"Young Master, what should we do with this?"

Fang Yong looked at Niu San and said, "Should we just kill him?"

"You dare!"

Niu San's face changed upon hearing this.

His eyes were bloodshot as he roared, "Fang Xuan, aren't you afraid of retribution for your cruelty?"

"Calling you stupid is really giving you too much credit."

Upon hearing this, Fang Xuan shook his head and chuckled, "If you hadn't targeted the Precious Medicine Pavilion, would we have ended up like this?"

"Exactly, do you really think the Fang family is a pushover, that we can let you filthy bastards bully us?"

Fang Yong said, "Young Master, in my opinion, we should just kill this kind of person."

"To die would be too easy for him."

Fang Xuan said, "Sell him to the slave market."

"No!"

Upon hearing this, Niu San felt as if the sky had fallen.

"Young Master Fang, I know I was wrong."

Niu San said, "I said, the Qian family sent me. They told me to throw dirty water on the Fang family and frame them. I was forced into it, Young Master Fang."

Niu San burst into tears as he spoke.

"It really was them."

Fang Xuan showed no surprise upon hearing this.

Few powers dare to target the Fang family in this way.

It's just those few companies.

Fang Xuan's eyes flashed with a cold light: "I haven't even gone looking for trouble with them yet, but they've come to me on their own initiative."

"Young Master Fang, I've told you everything I know."

Niu San pleaded, "Please let me go. I'll leave Qingyang County right now and never appear before you again."

Compared to death, being sold into the slave market was truly unbearable pain, a fate worse than death.

"Let you go?"

Fang Xuan smiled calmly, revealing his teeth in a grin: "Wouldn't that tell everyone that any Tom, Dick, or Harry can offend the Fang family at will? Take them away!"

Soon, Niu San was taken away and sold to the slave market.

"I've made a fool of myself in front of you all today."

After dealing with Niu San and the others, Fang Xuan looked at everyone and smiled slightly.

Seeing the smile on Fang Xuan's face, many people felt a chill run down their spines.

This guy may seem harmless, but he's actually quite ruthless.

It could even be described as cruel.

"To express my apology, I, in my capacity as the young master of the Fang family, hereby announce that anyone who purchases anything from the Precious Medicine Pavilion..."

Fang Xuan slowly said, "A 30% discount on all offers, for three days!"

Upon hearing this, the crowd was stunned for a moment, then erupted in thunderous cheers.

"Young Master Fang is so magnanimous!"

"Thank you, Young Master Fang. I'll go buy a bottle of pills right away!"

"I'll immediately call all my friends to support the Fang family's business!"

Although they also felt that Fang Xuan's methods were somewhat cruel, they had to admit that the quality of the products from Zhenyao Pavilion was guaranteed.

Not taking advantage of a good deal is the act of a bastard.

Some even felt that Fang Xuan was ruthless and decisive enough.

Only in this way can one be a qualified young master of a family.

Fang Xuan easily resolved a crisis of confidence.

His act of making an example of someone to deter others also intimidated many people, making them afraid to have any more crooked thoughts.

Zhenyao Pavilion.

In the backyard.

"We owe our success to the young master today; otherwise, the reputation of our Fang family would have been completely ruined."

Fang Li said, "But young master, when did the items in our Treasure Medicine Pavilion start bearing the clan emblem? How come I didn't know?"

"It was Zhongye's idea."

Fang Xuan said, "He was worried that someone would use this to cause trouble and suppress the Fang family, so he secretly marked all these things with the clan emblem, but he didn't have time to tell you."

"I see."

Fang Li said with lingering fear, "We really have to thank Master Zhong, otherwise the reputation we worked so hard to build would have been ruined."

Noticing Fang Xuan's thoughtful expression, he asked, "Young Master, what should we do about the Qian family?"

Upon hearing this, Fang Xuan's lips curled into a sinister smile.

"They dare to use such methods against us; it's time to teach them a lesson."

Fang Xuan stood up and said, "Alright, you guys go ahead with your work. I'll handle this personally."