Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
With the successful killing of Song Maoxun, the Song Clan was truly done for. While there might be other remnants of the clan at large out there, the last bit of the clan’s foundation had essentially been uprooted.
The remaining members of the clan were hardly considered a threat by that point.
Furthermore, those who managed to run would probably need to live their days in fear from then on out, like a dog who’d lost its master, and there was also the fact that they were being hunted by the Special Task Force to deal with.
Any other force would probably get rid of them on sight as soon as they were found, especially the other clans comprising the Holy Dragon Corporation. All of them would probably eliminate any remnants of the Song Clan without any hesitation.
They were out to gobble up the wealth of the Song Clan whole, and those remnants of the Song Clan posed a huge obstacle to doing so.
While the remnants of the Song Clan were hardly considered a threat to any party by then, the others would not be able to take what once belonged to the Song Clan without first making sure that the remnants were dealt with. Otherwise, they would make themselves look really bad.
Lu Xuan knew all there was to know about how those large cultivation forces worked, so he was not worried about anything at all.
Lu Xuan began to loot the Song Clan’s compound after killing Song Maoxun. Due to the fact that the place the clan’s ancestral estate, there was no doubt that many treasures were to be found within.
He paid no heed to common luxuries, but he was able to find over 2000 pieces of spirit stone in the estate. Such stones were still considered very precious cultivation resources at the current stage.
The stones served well to boost cultivation progress, after all.
Other than factors such as lineage and talent, an abundance of spirit stone resources was also the reason that cultivators hailing from huge forces were able to surpass lone cultivators easily.
One could only collect such stones bit by bit at the current stage, as even rich people would find it difficult to purchase large quantities of spirit stones.
It was only possible to make such purchases on the dark web, and the prices were staggering, far higher than what the stones should have cost under normal circumstances.
The other lesser power items would be able to fetch a good price as well, but given that Lu Xuan had limited space to spare in his Coiling Dragon Ring, and that there needed to be room for all four bronze pillars, he had no choice but to take only the best ones.
It did not take long for the waiting agents of the Han City Special Task Force to notice that the barrier in the sky was being dispelled.
Then, they saw Lu Xuan put all four Sacred Beast Bronze Pillars back into his Coiling Dragon Ring.
Lu Xuan came to the agent in charge of the Han City Special Task Force before they were able to say anything.
“Good day, Mr. Lu.”
The Chief of the local branch of the agency cupped his hands and greeted Lu Xuan. Shock was evident in his eyes. The very fact that Lu Xuan was able to emerge from the Song Clan’s ancestral estate meant that the entire clan had been wiped out.
The whole assault took less than an hour to complete.
The thought of it alone proved harrowing, for it served as a testament to the fact that Lu Xuan was indeed a walking killing machine.
Common folks had no way of being able to tell just how influential the Song Clan was in Han City, due to the gap between the two parties being much too wide, but the Han City Special Task Force knew all there was to know in that regard.
Half of the tasks assigned to the local branch of the agency were to deal with criminal cultivators, and the other half were to keep a close eye on cultivation forces like the Song Clan. This was especially important in the case of the Song Clan, as they were a high priority on the agency’s watch list and a very difficult clan to deal with.
They knew very well the extent of the Song Clan’s powers. Even without the other clans in the Holy Dragon Corporation, the Song Clan’s powers were already much greater than the Han City Special Task Force was able to handle. The clan was so powerful that they could only be taken out with the resources of all other agency branches in the province mobilized. Even with all that, they might still have suffered severe casualties and even needed to request backup from headquarters before they could accomplish the task.
That was why Lu Xuan’s feat of single-handedly wiping out the entire Song Clan in less than an hour looked so terrifying to them.
The more one knew about what the clan was capable of, the more shaken one would be at this turn of events.
Numbers really did not matter among cultivators. A lone powerful combatant was easily able to slaughter hundreds single-handedly,
“I have annihilated the Song Clan. What remains here are all considered my spoils of war, but given how I won’t be able to take them all with me, I plan to sell the rest of them to you folks. All I need from you is to give me reasonable prices for the goods,” Lu Xuan said, not bothering to beat around the bush.
The local Chief was totally baffled by how direct Lu Xuan was.
Sh*t, the man sure shoots straight.
“No problem.” The Chief nodded right away. Whatever was left back in the ancestral estate of the clan would surely be considered quite a find to the Special Task Force. after all.
Lu Xuan might not be thinking much about those things, but that did not mean the officers from the agency weren’t. There were simply too many people in the agency. Given that it was impossible to arm every single one of them with a power item, they were indeed in no position to be picky. Even a very common piece would serve as a great boost to their combat capacity.
The local agency quickly hired a specialist in assessing prices for such items, who went on to assess the value of the spoils of war that Lu Xuan left behind on the Song Clan’s estate.
Lu Xuan had taken the most valuable pieces with him, but the remaining pieces were nonetheless able to fetch a good piece. The total amount derived from the assessment was two billion yuan.
But ultimately, the most valuable assets of the clan, which were also the most important to them, were the companies that the Song Clan controlled behind the scenes. With the land and all their holdings factored in, their value would be over 100 times the value of the items found in the clan’s ancestral estate. Lu Xuan had no way of bagging all those assets, and one could easily foresee a war breaking out soon just to carve up the remaining pieces of the cake.
Lu Xuan decided that none of that had anything to do with him, as he was certain that he had already taken the most valuable pieces with him.
As such, he naturally paid no heed to any of the remaining assets.
The news of the Song Clan’s annihilation at the hands of Lu Xuan spread throughout the world of cultivators the very next day.
Common folks were entirely oblivious to what happened, but the news felt like a nuclear bomb had gone off in the world of cultivators.
The powers commanded by the Song Clan were not all that different from the Soul-snatcher Sect that Lu Xuan had annihilated a while ago. In fact, the Song Clan was probably the superior cultivation force of the two.
The key difference between the two forces was that the Soul-snatcher Sect had no backing. No one would weep over the annihilation of the Soul-snatcher Sect.
In contrast, behind the Song Clan was the Holy Dragon Corporation, a corporation that was very influential at international levels. Annihilating the Song Clan was thus seen to be an act akin to poking at a hornet’s nest.
The Taichu Group and many other companies of similar caliber would grieve the loss of that esteemed clan.
In the eyes of many, taking out the Song Clan had done more harm than good.
Lu Xuan had probably made himself enemy number one to many people.
What surprised the cultivators even more, however, was how the Special Task Force became the ones to eventually maintain the peace, as well as the ones who took the heat of any retributive actions the Holy Dragon Corporation might possibly take.
To put it simply, the Big Boss of the Special Task Force summoned the Patriarchs of the clans that comprised the Holy Dragon Corporation and did what he had to with them.
No one knew what kind of deal was made between the clans and the agency, but the Holy Dragon Corporation eventually settled without doing anything rash.
The Special Task Force also allowed the clans comprising the corporation to divide all assets that once belonged to the Song Clan among them.
Before the other cultivation forces had a chance to react, the clans within the corporation were already done dividing the assets among themselves.
The remnants of the Song Clan were, more or less as Lu Xuan had speculated, handled without raising any alarms within the next several days. None of them were ever seen again.
After that, the Song Clan was effectively erased from the world, taken out without a trace.
