The Sword God of the Universe

When the adventurer saw the situation inside the courtyard, his gaze suddenly froze!

He saw the Team Leader of the Flame Adventure Team, Li Yong, and others, unharmed and clearing away several corpses.

His eyes naturally fell upon those corpses.

"Song... Elder Song Li? Song Family elders?" The adventurer's body shook violently!

Elder Song Li and the other Song Family elders were obviously dead; they were motionless. Moreover, the bloodstains on the ground around them had yet to be cleaned up.

"What exactly happened inside?"

Someone at the far end, seeing the adventurer motionless for a long time, couldn't help but urge him on.

"Why don't you come over and see for yourself?" the adventurer turned and yelled.

Then, he directly walked in.

The crowd of onlookers from afar exchanged confused glances, filled with doubts. However, one thing they could be certain of was that there was no danger inside, otherwise the adventurer would not dare swagger in.

A group of people approached one after another, their confusion growing.

"The Song Family... are they dead?"

"That... Did Elder Song Li and the others all die?"

"What on earth happened here?"

Many people entered the courtyard.

They feared being killed by the Song Family elders but were not afraid of the people from the Flame Adventure Team. Of course, those who dared to walk in so freely were those who considered themselves somewhat acquainted with the Flame Adventure Team.

The Flame Adventure Team was widespread with numerous acquaintances. However, when they had a fall-out with the Song Family, these people stayed as far away as possible, absolutely not daring to take sides with the Flame.

"Team Leader Li Yong, what is this..." someone with bulging eyes greeted Li Yong.

"Hehe... nothing major, nothing major!" Li Yong waved his hand.

Hearing Li Yong's words, everyone's eyes bulged even more. The Song Family elders die here, and you, Li Yong, say it's nothing? Isn't this blatant nonsense?

The minds of the crowd reacted quickly, connecting this to the sight of a Dao Spirit Realm Martial Artist soaring away they had just witnessed. They suddenly understood that the Dao Spirit Realm Martial Artist must have been a formidable fighter hired by the Flame Adventure Team. The Song Family were slain by that Dao Spirit Realm powerhouse.

The question was, where exactly had the Flame Adventure Team found a Dao Spirit Realm powerhouse, and what had they used to invite them over.

People asked, but Li Yong was not interested in elaborating.

Inside the Zhang Family Mansion, Zhang Yibing and many elders of the Zhang Family were gathered together.

Suddenly, Zhang Yu barged in from outside.

"Dad, Clan Leader, why aren't you helping the Flame Adventure Team?" Zhang Yu's little face was covered in anger.

"Zhang Yu, what nonsense are you spouting?" the Ninth Elder glared and scolded.

"Dad! Brother Jing Yan is in danger, how can you just stand by and watch him die? Brother Jing Yan has done such a big favor for our Zhang Family and given us so many resources. You... can you really just watch Brother Jing Yan die?" Zhang Yu said loudly.

"Don't be disrespectful! Get back, this is not your place to interject!" the Ninth Elder scolded with a dark face.

"Zhang Yu," Zhang Yibing said with a bitter smile, "it's not that our Zhang Family isn't willing to take action, it's that we can't. Do you think our Zhang Family can contend with the Song Family? If our Zhang Family steps in, it would be like drawing fire upon ourselves!"

Zhang Yibing sighed.

"But... can't the clan say something? Or, we could ask the Liu Family to intervene!" Zhang Yu understood that what Zhang Yibing said was the reality. However, if the Liu Family were willing to intervene, the Song Family would have to give them face.

The Zhang Family was a clan that relied on the Liu Family, and like the Song Family, the Liu Family was one of Haofeng City's top clans.

"Zhang Yu, do you think our Zhang Family has such influence that we could make the Liu Family take action? Besides, it's too late to say anything now. The four elders of the Song Family have already gone to the Flame Adventure Team's base, and both sides have started fighting. By now, it might all be over," Zhang Yibing shook his head.

Just now, a Zhang Family guard brought the news that the battle had begun.

Zhang Yibing was clear that once a battle started, the Flame Adventure Team wouldn't last the time it took for a cup of tea to brew, they would be completely annihilated. And Jing Yan would undoubtedly die.

"Zhang Yu, I advised Jing Yan not to go when he joined the Flame, but he simply wouldn't listen, acting recklessly, and there was nothing I could do," Zhang Yibing said, shaking his head again.

"Alright, now that the Clan Leader has explained it to you, leave this place quickly," the Ninth Elder said sternly.

Zhang Yu pouted, looking at the Clan Leader Zhang Yibing, then at her father and the other elders. Hearing the Clan Leader say that the Song Family elders and Flame were fighting and that it was very likely that everyone from the Flame Adventure Team, including Jing Yan, had been killed made her incredibly anxious. If she could, she really wanted to go and help the Flame herself.

At that moment, a black-clad guard walked in briskly from outside.

Seeing the guard enter, Zhang Yibing's gaze hardened, and he sighed softly. This guard was one of the people he had sent out to gather information.

The other elders also shook their heads, most of them wearing expressions of regret.

"Clan Leader, the fight between the Song Family elders and the Flame Adventure Team is over," the guard said to Zhang Yibing with a bow.

"Hmm! Are any members of the Flame still alive?" Zhang Yibing nodded and asked.

Hearing this, the guard was momentarily startled.

He quickly understood the implication; their Zhang Family Clan Leader obviously believed the Flame had been wiped out.

"With the nature of the Song Family, it's unlikely that any members of the Flame survived. However, Song Ming is extremely lecherous, so it's possible he might have spared Gao Feng," an elder said somberly.

"It's truly a pity that the Flame Adventure Team, which has been established in Haofeng City for over a decade, has been destroyed. They should have offended any other major clan instead of the Song Family," another elder lamented.

"It was Flame's own doing that led to their demise; as for Jing Yan, that's truly tragic. I really don't understand what he was thinking! He would intervene where he could, and even in matters where he shouldn't, he still got involved. This time, he has thrown his life away for nothing," an elder, who had never been fond of Jing Yan, scoffed.

"Enough! The man is dead now; let's see if there's a way to arrange a decent burial for the people of Flame," Zhang Yibing gestured with his hand.

Even organizing a burial for the bodies of the Flame members couldn't be done arbitrarily. They needed to first see the Song Family's attitude. If the Song Family didn't mind, then they could proceed. But if the Song Family objected, the Zhang Family couldn't do it.

"Clan Leader!"

"Elders!" the guard waited for a moment without interrupting, then finally spoke up during a pause.

"The people of Flame are all very much alive. On the contrary, the Song Family's Elder Song Li, including the Song Family Patriarch's son, Song Zhongshan, have all been killed," the guard said, taking a deep breath, quickly informing them.

He couldn't help but feel a chill thinking back to the scene he had witnessed at the Flame Adventure Team's base.