Like a family

The White-Bearded Elder had not yet reacted to the sudden turn of events; how could he have been in complete control just moments ago, only to have the tables turned on him now?

"Fierce Dragon Art!" Qin Ming wanted exactly that—to catch them off guard. He unleashed his ultimate move, his fierce fist whistling through the air.

"Ah!" The White-Bearded Elder had no time to block and was struck directly. A large hole was blown through his chest, and his heart had vanished.

Qin Ming was drenched in hot blood, but he did not mind. With a burst of Spiritual Qi, the blood on his body instantly vanished. He retracted his fist, and the White-Bearded Martial Venerable of the Pill Alliance plummeted toward the ground.

There was no need to look; having taken that punch, the elder was undoubtedly dead.

"The two Old Ancestors are dead? How is that possible? Why did the two Old Ancestors die so suddenly?"

"No, I don't believe it! The Old Ancestors couldn't have been defeated so easily. They aren't dead; they will definitely stand up again."

"What do we do? What do we do? With the Pill Alliance having lost its Martial Venerables, how can it survive in this world?"

"It's over, it's all over! The Pill Alliance is finished!"

Seeing the two Martial Venerables of the Pill Alliance killed, sorrowful cries rang out within Pill City.

"Th-this… what is going on?" The Martial Venerables of the Sima Family and the Zhao Family from Yan City were stunned, pointing at Old Ancestor Yang and Old Ancestor You, unable to speak.

"Why did you attack them? Weren't you supposed to be besieging Qin Ming with us?" the Zhao Family Martial Venerable asked, voicing the doubt in his heart.

"At this point, I might as well tell you. We formed an Alliance with Qin Ming long ago. When you came to us and asked us to help ambush Qin Ming, we just went along with the flow." Old Ancestor Yang pulled his long sword out of the Red-Browed Martial Venerable, ignoring the man who died with his eyes wide open.

Thinking of the Red-Browed Martial Venerable, formerly a figure like a Prodigy, a single mistake had cost him his life.

He probably never imagined that today would not be the day he took Qin Ming's life, but the day he lost his own.

"The Aura on your bodies!" The Sima Family Martial Venerable pointed at Old Ancestor Yang and Old Ancestor You, looking as if he had seen a ghost.

The few of them were all from the Five Great Families of Yan City and were allied with one another, so they were very clear about each other's strength.

How could Old Ancestor Yang and Old Ancestor You have such a strong Aura, and how had their strength suddenly increased so much?

One had to know that the Red-Browed Martial Venerable of the Pill Alliance was not so easy to kill; even with a sneak attack, one would at most heavily injure him, and the possibility of killing him with a single sword strike was extremely slim.

Now that the assassination had actually succeeded, it meant that Old Ancestor Yang's strength had improved by more than just one level.

Old Ancestor Yang and Old Ancestor You looked at each other and smiled. Both of them had consumed the Medicinal Pill refined by Qin Ming, but when Qin Ming had someone deliver the Medicinal Pill to them, they had been extremely shocked at the time.

This was a Ninth-Grade perfect stage forbidden pill, along with a Heaven-Grade Forbidden Art.

Using a Heaven-Grade Forbidden Art, how could their strength not be strong?

Killing a red-browed elder, and by surprise at that—if they couldn't even do that, then they would have lived these years in vain.

The Yang Family would have probably been wiped out by others long ago.

"Venerable Yang, our families in Yan City have always been in an Alliance, as close as Family. Please, spare our lives! Once we return to Yan City, we will obey your every command."

The Old Ancestor of the Sima Family and the Old Ancestor of the Zhao Family began to beg for mercy. Regardless of how the three of them had increased their strength, they definitely could not defeat them with this level of power.

"As close as Family?" Old Ancestor Yang sneered. "Do you think I don't know about the despicable things you did when I was injured?"

"You call us allies now, but did you think about that when you were doing those things back then?"

The faces of the Sima Family Old Ancestor and Zhao Family Old Ancestor turned pale as paper. They had not seen Old Ancestor Yang for a long time, so they suspected he was injured and ordered their Family Martial Artists to test him.

If he were truly injured, they could have completely carved up the Yang Family; if not, they wouldn't lose anything, and a simple apology would suffice.