Chapter 745: Chapter 744: Tong Yunshu Wakes Up
Yang Fei covered the retreat, staring intently at Duanmu Chou.
Wang Lei and Helian Rong, each leading one person, forged ahead. Although there were brave men from the Duanmu Family who tried to stop them, they could not compete with the two and were quickly slaughtered, creating a bloody path.
Duanmu Wentong, Duanmu Song, and other clan members who were willing to follow them didn’t bother to pack their belongings and followed in haste.
Among these people, perhaps some were reluctant to leave, but since Duanmu Wentong and Duanmu Song had already departed, staying behind would only implicate them. Even if the family didn’t hold them accountable, their lives within the clan would only become more difficult.
Of course, the vast majority were willing to follow because, after all, they were close relatives, and for over twenty years, their branch had been oppressed and humiliated, with many growing weary of it.
As such, the number of people following in the group quickly reached more than thirty.
Half of these were women and children, and the others, mainly young and middle-aged men, were not very strong.
Duanmu Song walked at the back. Seeing that his close relatives had followed, he glanced around and saw no one else joining. He, too, followed the group and dashed towards the outside of the villa.
Yang Fei followed behind Duanmu Song, vigilantly watching Duanmu Chou.
In the sky, Duanmu Chou was first ambushed by Xu Jian, his Sea of Consciousness heavily damaged. Afterwards, his control over a Flying Sword was disrupted by Yang Fei, leading to a backlash on his Divine Sense, further injuring his Sea of Consciousness.
Such attacks and injuries were fatal for a cultivator like him, who severely cultivated his Divine Sense Telekinesis, causing him to be dazed for a long time. By the time he stabilized his Sea of Consciousness and regained his senses, the group including Yang Fei had nearly escaped the villa and reached the foothill.
Around him, the people from the Duanmu Family looked at him anxiously, expecting him to pursue or waiting for his command.
Duanmu Chou sighed inwardly.
Among these descendants left to defend the family, although many were brave, their cultivation was too weak to detain those experts, even in greater numbers.
Especially Yang Fei.
This man not only possessed powerful Divine Soul Thought Power, but his Physical Body Realm was also incomparably strong. Even he found it difficult to kill Yang Fei, let alone the clan’s younger members who hadn’t even reached the Innate Realm?
"Ancestral Grandfather, what should we do?"
As Yang Fei and the others were about to escape the villa, a middle-aged man from the Duanmu Family bravely asked Duanmu Chou.
Duanmu Chou glanced at him faintly and shook his head, "Among them are several strong ones, and you cannot detain them. Moreover, they are also our Duanmu Family members, running in their veins the blood of our family. How could we ever truly strike them down with lethal force?"
Upon hearing this, many did not understand and felt that letting go of those who betrayed the family so easily was too naïve and overly merciful.
But some nodded secretly, thinking Duanmu Chou made sense. After all, blood is thicker than water, and they were all descendants of the Duanmu Family.
Even more, a few who considered themselves wise thought that since Duanmu Chou was Duanmu Wentong’s uncle, the traitors today were all from Duanmu Chou’s lineage; thus, letting them go was nothing but natural.
Yet no one considered that Duanmu Chou’s refusal to pursue was because he had already sustained severe injuries. With his current state, pursuing them could trouble Yang Fei and the others, but might not necessarily detain them.
Moreover, through the previous fight, Duanmu Chou had gained a certain understanding of Yang Fei’s strength and was very wary of him at this moment.
Thus, without Duanmu Chou personally pursuing, nobody in the Duanmu Family dared organize a team to chase after them, and they could only watch as Yang Fei and others rescued Tong Yunshu and took away many clan members from Duanmu Wentong’s lineage.
Not only that, soon someone discovered that Duanmu Cheng’s lineage had also left, including some who had good relations with Duanmu Cheng, or those who had been greatly supported by Duanmu Fourth Master, also disappeared.
For such an aristocratic family with a lineage of a thousand years, unity is not always possible.
Throughout the millennia, overt and covert struggles for power were constant, and with some ascending, others inevitably fell. As Duanmu Cheng was once a person with a high status within the family, naturally, he had many close followers; now that he had betrayed the family, those related or associated with him had also made their choices.
Of course, not all associated with Duanmu Cheng had betrayed the Duanmu Family; just a part of them had.
Mu Sujing was a very clever person; she realized something was different when her husband returned after disappearing, but the current Duanmu Cheng was good to her, and moreover, being his wife was an unchangeable fact. Now that Duanmu Cheng had betrayed the family, not following him would only result in her being judged by the clan. Rather than facing such an ordeal, it was better to follow this man and sink or swim together.
Thus, under her secret arrangements, many clan members followed her and took the chaos as an opportunity to leave the villa.
However, the departure of these people was not considered a significant loss for the vast Duanmu Family, as none of them were experts above the Innate Realm.
By dawn, Yang Fei and the others had already fled more than two hundred li in the southwest direction.
The team was too large and, coupled with some elderly and children, they couldn’t speed up.
Fortunately, there were no pursuers attacking as they had feared.
Moreover, some people had taken horses with them during the escape, which helped care for some of the elderly and children.
Xu Jian no longer needed Wang Lei to carry him; instead, his ’son’ was carrying him.
The group led by Mu Sujing was even larger than that of Duanmu Wentong’s clan, numbering more than sixty people. This was understandable since Duanmu Cheng, a previous authority in the Duanmu Family, had access to more resources, and his lineage was more prolific.
They caught up with Yang Fei and his group while they were circumventing Muyun City.
With no pursuers behind and having fled through the night for more than two hundred li, the majority of the people in the group were extremely tired, so Yang Fei decided to rest on the spot.
Wang Lei voluntarily went to the rear to guard against any pursuers.
Helian Rong took this opportunity to remove toxins similar to Soft Muscle Powder from Yun Shu’s body and discovered, besides being poisoned, she had several major acupoints sealed with a profound technique, which Helian could not undo, so she informed Yang Fei.
Upon checking, Yang Fei found that several crucial acupoints in Yun Shu’s Martial Meridians had indeed been sealed with domineering True Qi, rendering her cultivation useless and even inducing a comatose state. Such methods severely damaged the foundation of a martial artist, and could even destroy someone’s cultivation over time.
It was indeed malicious.
A chill flashed through Yang Fei’s eyes.
The only ones capable of such tactics were the three brothers, Duanmu Wugou, and no others.
He vowed to personally take their heads one day.
Though angry, Yang Fei quickly adjusted his emotions and used Qi-guided Needle with his powerful True Essence Cultivation to unseal those blocked acupoints for Yun Shu.
This process lasted for an entire hour.
When those acupoints in Yun Shu were cleared, she finally awoke slowly.
Upon opening her eyes and seeing Yang Fei, she was stunned for a moment and rubbed her eyes.
Seeing her incredulous, thinking she was still dreaming, Yang Fei felt a pang of heartache and said softly, "It’s me, you’re safe now."
Hearing this familiar voice, Yun Shu’s eyes instantly reddened, and she threw herself into Yang Fei’s arms, sobbing uncontrollably.
She had experienced a lot in her life, and since Third Grandpa Tong Yan’s death, Yang Fei had been her greatest support.
The last time she had willingly joined the Hidden Sect was because she wanted to do something significant, to strengthen herself through her own efforts, to help Yang Fei build a force in the Hidden Sect World, and to have some leverage in her future competition with Qin Yanyang.
But what she didn’t expect was that upon entering the Hidden Sect World, she would have her acupoints sealed by Duanmu Wugou and be drugged, remaining unconscious, confined in a dismal underground cell.
Seeing Yang Fei again, she felt both the joy of a narrow escape and a deep sense of self-blame and guilt in her heart.
Yun Shu, from beginning to end, had never been able to help the man she loved; instead, she had repeatedly become his burden, making him come to rescue her again and again.
Compared to Qin Yanyang, she was always far too lacking.