Chapter 534: Completely Wiped Out
Before entering the Great Empress mystic realm, the Shen Tu family clan had already formed an alliance with the other factions by signing a soul contract.
Now however, with the Shen Tu family clan’s juniors murdered, the Elders from the other factions felt a sense of schadenfreude. Firstly, this was because all the large factions in the Tian Yuan world were at odds against each other, be it openly or secretly. No one wanted the other to succeed. Secondly, back when the Shen Tu family clan sold the information to the Great Empress mystic realm, they had ripped off all of the other family clans, so there was some resentment in many of the family clans.
Up to now, it was still unknown if the value of the Great Empress mystic realm was worth what they paid.
Hence, with the Shen Tu family clan now in such a dire state, the other factions began to mock them as well as make sarcastic remarks. No one stood forward to show any empathy.
This made many Elders from the Shen Tu family clan become even angrier. They were on the brink of exploding.
At this moment, amongst the Shen Tu Elders, Thousand Hand Granny suddenly screamed. She pointed at the Lin family and viciously said, “It is them. It must be the little bastards from the Lin family who killed our people!”
There was no need to mention the vendetta between the Lin family and the Shen Tu family clan. In the Great Empress mystic realm, the faction that was most likely to target the Shen Tu family clan was the Lin family.
Although the other family clans did not have good relations with the Shen Tu family clan, they were still bound by the contract between them and the Shen Tu family clan. If they violated the contract, they would be punished by the soul contract. As such, it was unlikely that anyone of them would risk it to massacre the Shen Tu family clan’s disciples.
The most likely people to have done such a thing was the Lin family.
The four consecutive corpses, especially Shen Tu Ya’s death, were completely unacceptable for the Shen Tu family clan.
Upon hearing the Thousand Hand Granny’s words, the green-clothed elder, who had caught the corpse, looked coldly at the Lin family and said in a deep voice, “Lin Fengxian, my great grandson died in the mystic realm today, I want you to answer for it!”
Immediately, the atmosphere became tense. The Shen Tu family clan and the Lin family had been guarding against each other for the ten months they were near to the eternal whirlpool. The hostility accrued between them was too much. At this moment, it had reached an extremum and was about to break out at any moment.
When that happened, the clash between the two family clans in the Tian Yuan world was something the other factions would greatly desire.
On the Lin family side, Elder Tianzhu had already silently placed his hand on his sword’s hilt.
Matriarch Lin slowly scanned the faces of the Shen Tu family clan, and sneered, “Answer for it? You are speaking without any proof. To accuse my Lin family’s disciples of killing your disciples, yet you want me to answer for it?”
“Accuse? Hmph!” The Thousand Hand Granny’s shrill voice was ear-piercing. Her thin and old body was trembling from anger, “Other than the Lin family, who else could it be!?”
Thousand Hand Granny pointed to the arrow wound on one of the corpses. The corpse previously had a cultivation level at the peak of the Yuan foundation realm, and was about to break into the Dao Seed realm. The Thousand Hand Granny had previously favored this junior, and wanted to nurture him to aid Shen Tu Nantian, but now, with him shot dead with an arrow, this hope had crumbled.
Matriarch Lin roared with laughter, “Why? Just because of a fatal arrow wound, you are suspecting us? Who knows if that underachieving disciple’s strength was so lacking that he could not withstand the difficulty in the Great Empress mystic realm, so he was killed by bow and arrow puppets! Furthermore, even if he was killed by someone with a bow and arrow, how can you be sure that it was done by my Lin family?”