The loose cultivators delayed for some time, and Leader Yang had also caught up. His spear gleamed with golden light as he pierced through the left shoulder of the Kong Family Master.
The other loose cultivators, as if fighting with lives on the line, threw themselves at him, hacking away with one blade after another.
The Kong Family Master, a cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Stage, was thus hacked to death alive.
With the death of the Kong Family Master, the situation momentarily spiraled out of control.
Fury-filled loose cultivators stormed into the Kong Family residence, slaughtering anyone they encountered.
It took Leader Yang and the Taoist Soldiers a long while to regain control of the situation.
By then, the Kong Family residence had been reduced to rubble and ruin.
Almost all of the young and strong cultivators in the Kong Family were killed or injured, leaving only some elderly, women, and children, who were protected by the Taoist Soldiers, thus sparing their lives.
The loose cultivators who slaughtered the cultivators of the Kong Family gradually calmed down, but there was no trace of satisfaction from revenge on their faces, only numbness and painful tears.
Blood stained the white walls, and corpses littered the ground.
Seeing this scene, Leader Yang felt deeply shaken.
How many sins had the Kong Family committed to meet such a fate...
...
Mo Hua also felt a bitter taste upon hearing these events.
"How will this matter be handled?"
Mo Hua was somewhat worried for the loose cultivators of Qingxuan City.
"What else can be done?" Leader Yang sighed, "The law doesn’t punish the masses. Besides, such an incident is somewhat understandable. The Kong Family’s fate is deserved for their sins."
"The Taoist Court won’t make it hard for them anymore?"
The Taoist Court in Qingxuan City had colluded with the Kong Family, forming a clandestine alliance which allowed the Kong Family to act so recklessly.
Now that the Kong Family was gone, it wasn’t certain that the Taoist Court of Qingxuan City would let the matter rest.
"The Taoist Court?" Leader Yang scoffed, "They are in trouble themselves now."
Mo Hua’s eyes lit up, "The Taoist Court will investigate?"
Leader Yang nodded, "With the Kong Family’s defiance and the loose cultivators’ riot, adding on the account of the Kong Family’s collusion with Black Mountain Stronghold... Producing so much turmoil on their watch, the Taoist Court of Qingxuan City won’t escape unscathed."
"What will be their fate?" Mo Hua was curious and asked persistently.
Leader Yang said, "Generally speaking, if held accountable from above, the positions of Qingxuan City’s Court Leaders are surely untenable. If corruption and bribery, the abuse of law for personal gain are also uncovered, their lives might not even be spared."
"As for Supervisors or Enforcement Leaders below, their hands are inevitably dirty. More or less, they’ll have to face imprisonment."
Mo Hua nodded, now he felt more at ease. He then asked, "Have all the people in the Kong Family been killed?"
Leader Yang shook his head, "The young and able-bodied cultivators, and those with higher cultivation have all been killed. The loose cultivators bore too much resentment for the Taoist Soldiers to hold them back. Those who remain are just some of the old, the young, and women."
"They can no longer stay in Qingxuan City, so the Taoist Soldiers will arrange for them to make a living elsewhere. However, they will be stripped of the ’Kong’ surname, so the Kong Family is truly finished..."
Listening to this, Mo Hua felt an inexplicable sense of solemnity yet found it to be as it should be.
The greater the oppression, the more profound the backlash.
Clans that grow powerful by draining the blood of loose cultivators can collapse in a mere instant.
...
The Taoist Soldiers seized the Kong Family’s assets, and most of the spirit stones were transported to Tongxian City, prepared for the construction of the Large Formation.
The remaining spirit stones were distributed among the loose cultivators of Qingxuan City, so that their lives would not be so hard.
Mo Hua thought that would be the end of the matter, but a few days later, Ji Qingbai, along with Ji Li and Fu Lan, came knocking.
After seeing Mo Hua, Ji Qingbai expressed his gratitude:
"All the loose cultivators of Qingxuan City have asked me to extend their thanks to you."
Mo Hua quickly waved his hands, "I didn’t do much..."
Ji Qingbai shook his head and, calling Ji Li and Fu Lan over, they all gave a deep bow to Mo Hua.
Fu Lan’s eyes were red. Her father had died at the hands of the Kong Family when she was young, and she, with her mother, struggled to survive. Just as she had grown up, her mother was also driven to death by the Kong Family.
The Kong Family’s destruction now meant she had finally avenged them, albeit she regretted not being the one to exact vengeance personally.
Mo Hua could only sigh inwardly.
He hoped that from now on, whether in Tongxian City or Qingxuan City, such enmity and suffering would no longer exist.
Enough spirit stones were probably collected, and the only thing left was to find a Formation Master to help with the Drawing Formation.
As for the Formation Pivot of the Large Formation, Mo Hua could paint it himself, but for the numerous Single Formations under the control of the Formation Pivot, other Formation Masters would be needed to help.
Otherwise, building the Large Formation in two months’ time would be impossible.
Thinking of this, Mo Hua sighed.
Building a Large Formation was truly troublesome.
Gathering resources, recruiting manpower, coordinating various tasks... it all was time-consuming, labor-intensive, and challenging.