"Mother!"
"Qi Oliver! You beast! You actually killed my mother!"
Having witnessed her mother being split in two by a sword strike, Meng Sophia stared at Qi Oliver in terror, screaming at him hysterically.
After Meng Christopher's wail, his eyes were also filled with boundless fear! If Qi Oliver dared to kill Liu Mia, he would truly dare to kill everyone in the Meng family! This kid really didn't care about being hunted down by the Spirit Martial Sect!
"Qi Oliver! What do we have to do for you to spare us!" Meng Christopher gritted his teeth and asked angrily. Having returned with gains from the Spirit Abyss Secret Realm, Meng Christopher was full of ambition—he didn't want to die!
Qi Oliver's expression was cold as he said in a frigid voice: "Finally feeling desperate? Then answer me a few questions honestly!"
"When did you start colluding with Wei David of the Spirit Martial Sect?"
Meng Christopher's eyes flickered: "Since you already know about Wei David, does it still matter when we started collaborating with him?"
Swish!
Qi Oliver tilted his long sword upward. A streak of sword aura sliced across the ground, and with a "puchi" sound, it passed by Meng Christopher's left shoulder, severing his left arm at the shoulder!
"Ah!"
Meng Christopher let out a miserable howl and cried out in pain: "We've known Wei David for a long time! Back then, you hadn't even become a live-in son-in-law of the Meng family yet!"
Qi Oliver's cruel and ruthless methods made Meng Christopher dare not waste any more words.
Qi Oliver narrowed his eyes: "In that case, Wei David also had a part in plotting against me! Otherwise, as the Young Sect Master of the Spirit Martial Sect, why would he allow me to marry Meng Sophia?"
Meng Christopher trembled: "Y-Yes... Wei David knew about our plan. We promised him that we wouldn't let Sophia lose her virginity to you, and we also pledged that after we mastered the location of the Spirit Abyss Secret Realm and explored it once, we would offer both the secret realm's location and the Spirit Key to the Spirit Martial Sect!"
"In return, Wei David promised to take the Meng family as a subordinate clan of the Spirit Martial Sect and let Nathan become an inner disciple of the sect!"
Qi Oliver glanced at Meng Sophia and asked: "What about Meng Sophia?"
Meng Christopher's eyes trembled: "After your death, Sophia would publicly announce that she would remain widowed for her late husband for life. In reality, she would become a cauldron kept secretly by Wei David."
Qi Oliver narrowed his eyes: "Why keep her secretly?"
Meng Christopher said in a low voice: "Because Wei David is engaged to Lu Ella, the daughter of the leader of the Black Spear Sect! Lu Ella has made it clear that if Wei David wants to marry her, he must not take concubines or keep cauldrons! So the relationship between Sophia and Wei David must not be known to others."
Qi Oliver suddenly understood. No wonder Meng Sophia hadn't brought up Wei David to threaten him even after suffering so much humiliation—she didn't dare to expose this relationship! And the reason the Meng family wanted to kill him was not only to "cut the grass and eliminate the roots" but also to facilitate the improper relationship between Wei David and Meng Sophia! What a venomous plot this family had!
He turned to Meng Sophia and sneered: "You're really ridiculous and pitiful! Even when reduced to being someone's cauldron, you have to hide in the shadows like this!"
Meng Sophia's face turned pale, and she bit her red lips: "I did all this for the Meng family! You, someone rejected by your own clan, will never understand my sacrifice!"
Qi Oliver said indifferently: "I really can't understand this kind of foolishness. But it doesn't matter anymore—I've got my answers. The three of you should be on your way to the afterlife now."
Meng Christopher's pupils contracted sharply, and he shouted in shock and anger: "Qi Oliver! Since you've narrowly escaped death, don't court death again! If you dare to kill us, Young Sect Master Wei will never let you off!"
Qi Oliver sneered: "I said, none of the four members of the Meng family can leave this courtyard alive today! I should keep my word, shouldn't I?"
"You!"
"Puchi!"
Before Meng Christopher could finish his angry retort, Qi Oliver casually sent a streak of sword aura, severing his head.
"Someone help me! I don't want to die, wuwu..."
Meng Nathan screamed in terror, his crotch soaked with urine...
Puchi!
A streak of sword aura brushed past Meng Nathan's neck. As his head fell to the ground, Meng Nathan fell silent forever.
Meng Sophia collapsed to the ground, trembling violently, her pupils filled with nothing but fear. All her backers had now become ghosts. She tremblingly lifted her eyes, looked at Qi Oliver, and begged in a weak voice: "Qi Oliver... Are you really going to kill me too? You used to treat me so well... As long as you spare me, I..."
Before Meng Sophia could finish speaking, a flash of sword light swept across her snow-white neck!
Meng Sophia clutched her neck in terror. Blood gushed out between her fingers, quickly staining the front of her clothes bright red!
"You really disgust me!" Qi Oliver said indifferently.
Thud!
Meng Sophia fell backward to the ground. Her blood-stained body twitched violently, and her eyes—filled with fear—stared up at the sky, gradually losing their luster...
Crash!
At this moment, chaotic footsteps finally came from outside the courtyard. It hadn't actually taken Qi Oliver long to finish off the four members of the Meng family. Moreover, in order to kill Qi Oliver secretly, Meng Christopher had specifically dismissed the Meng family's guards nearby before coming... If it weren't for Meng Nathan's scream for help before his death, no one might have known that Meng Christopher and the others were dead even after Qi Oliver left.
"This...!"
A group of Meng family experts rushed to the courtyard gate, and when they saw the scene inside, they were all stunned! Their patriarch's body and head were separated; the matriarch was split in two. The eldest young master's headless body was nailed to the courtyard wall! The young lady lay on the ground, clutching her bleeding neck! All four members of the Meng family were gone! Even the four guest elders who had come with Meng Christopher lay on the ground, their bodies and heads separated... Only Qi Oliver stood there, holding a sword, his expression cold!
This bizarre scene left the Meng family elders and guards who had rushed over afraid to make a move!
The Meng family was different from other clans in Yuan Spirit City. It had been founded by Meng Christopher alone, so its foundation was much weaker than that of other families. That was why Meng Christopher had been frantically expanding his power and accumulating resources, hoping to make the Meng family stronger—even willing to "sell" his daughter to curry favor with the Young Sect Master of the Spirit Martial Sect! If Qi Oliver hadn't awakened the memories of his previous life when he was on the verge of death, Meng Christopher might have truly become a ruthless tycoon in Yuan Spirit City within a few years with the gains from the Spirit Abyss Secret Realm! But fate had favored Qi Oliver—he was not meant to die! Meng Christopher's greed and ruthlessness had ultimately cost the four members of the Meng family their lives!
Qi Oliver raised his eyes, glanced at the crowd standing frozen outside the courtyard—their eyes flickering with calculation—and said indifferently: "I'm sure you all know something about how the Mengs stood by and watched me die from poison. Unfortunately, they didn't get what they wanted! Now that I've killed these four members of the Meng family, this place no longer belongs to the Mengs!"
"So—do you want to avenge the Mengs, pledge your loyalty to me, or leave?"
With the Mengs gone, their assets remained—and Qi Oliver certainly wouldn't let those assets be wasted on others. So he would stay in Yuan Spirit City for a while longer, converting all the Meng family's assets into resources for his own cultivation!
The eyes of the crowd flickered. In fact, they had already been calculating this before Qi Oliver asked the question. Qi Oliver had been poisoned by the Black Viper but not only survived—he had even killed Meng Christopher, who was at the peak of Master Realm Ninth Rank. His powerful strength was beyond doubt! Besides, Qi Oliver had stayed in the Meng family for three years, and these elders and guards all knew his character well. Although Qi Oliver had killed fiercely this time, it was the Mengs who had tried to kill him first! None of them had ever thought of avenging the Mengs—first, they lacked the strength, and second, it was unnecessary... With all the Mengs dead, who would they show their loyalty to? What they were considering was only whether to stay or leave.
One of the guest elders' eyes flickered, and he cupped his hands with a smile: "Dare I ask Qi Oliver—if we choose to pledge our loyalty to you, what benefits can we get?"
The others' eyes lit up—this was the question they cared about most.
Qi Oliver curled the corner of his mouth and said indifferently: "You can get lost."
The guest elder's face changed. He was about to fly into a rage and retort, but when a smell of blood wafted over, he was suddenly shocked into silence. He turned around and fled in disgrace.