Chapter 65 0067: This child may not survive!

The four clan heads who were restrained all turned pale at once after hearing Kurt’s words, and the experts behind them—also firmly held in place—broke out in beads of sweat as large as beans on their foreheads.

At this moment, Chu Yun stepped forward. That single step made the head of the Cao family’s heart skip violently.

“City Lord, save me!” The Cao family head, knowing he was now utterly immobile and had become prey for this mysterious figure, rolled his terrified eyes toward City Lord Guo and cried out, “City Lord!”

City Lord Guo saw clearly that this mysterious man was determined to kill everyone present. He grew anxious.

“Sir—!” he had just opened his mouth.

“I’ve already said, no one can save the Cao family today!” Chu Yun suddenly turned with a low, thunderous shout. The blood-red eyes beneath his mask made City Lord Guo’s hair stand on end; his very soul was shaken by that roar.

“Even if your lord arrives today, it will be of no use!”

With that, Chu Yun strode up to the trembling, deathly pale Cao family head, reached out, and picked him up as easily as if he weighed nothing.

“That’s an eighth-rank warrior!”

“My god, this binding technique is terrifying. Three eighth-rank warriors can’t move a muscle!”

“No wonder our planet suffered such a crushing defeat back then, ushering in the age of universal martial cultivation!”

“So there’s been such a peerless expert hiding in Watchtower City all along—even the City Lord fears him.”

“Look at the once-aloof, arrogant Cao family head, an eighth-rank master whose mere stomp would make the whole city tremble. Now he’s dangling like a helpless dog, unable to do anything.”

“Senior!” City Lord Guo tried again, “Could you show some mercy?”

Before he finished, Chu Yun flung a palm strike through the air toward City Lord Guo.

A powerful surge of energy swept toward him. City Lord Guo closed his eyes, a red battle aura shielding his body, yet he was still forced off the platform by the force of Chu Yun’s strike.

Everyone was dumbfounded.

To think that the City Lord, also an eighth-rank master, was sent flying by a strike from afar! Clearly, even if the four of them had attacked together earlier, it would have been nothing more than a brief exchange easily handled.

“Se—senior!” At last, the Cao family head truly felt the insurmountable difference in strength. He looked at Chu Yun in terror. “Spare my life, I beg you.”

“Spare your life?” Chu Yun arched an eyebrow. “If I hadn’t come today, would you have shown any mercy to the Ye family? To spare you would be to ignore the suffering you inflicted on them.”

With those words, Chu Yun, before everyone’s eyes, snapped the Cao family head’s neck.

A crisp crack resounded across the platform—the same method by which the first Cao, Cao Zheng, had been killed moments earlier. Now, the last head of the Cao family died the same way.

No one dared utter a word.

Chu Yun tossed the body aside, letting it fall atop the other Cao family corpses, then swept his gaze over to the Cui, Jin, and Duanmu families.

“Senior!” City Lord Guo, seeing Chu Yun approach the other families, was appalled. He knew that if all four clans perished today, Watchtower City’s strength would be drastically diminished. When the day came that other forces invaded, where would he find enough experts to resist them?

Gritting his teeth, he stepped onto the platform. “Please, show mercy. They never laid hands on the Ye family. All the wounds on the Ye family were inflicted by the Caos alone. You have already slain every Cao expert—they have paid dearly for their crimes. If you seek justice, surely it is enough! Cultivation is hard for us all; in light of our shared heritage as sons and daughters of Earth, could you grant the other families a chance?”

“Are you teaching me?” Chu Yun’s eyes swept coldly over City Lord Guo.

“I wouldn’t dare!” City Lord Guo immediately lowered his head, but persisted, “It’s only that I believe you, senior, are a man of great wisdom and righteousness. I do not plead for the guilty, only for those who have erred without causing true harm.”

With that, City Lord Guo bowed deeply to Chu Yun.

At the same time, he signaled his confidant to hurry and untie the five members of the Ye family.

To the onlookers below, this scene was deeply shocking.

If you have strength, you will be respected—even by the City Lord, even by the great families!

In a corner, Yi Tianxing, filming all of this, was trembling from head to toe. He spoke into his recording, voice choked with tears, “Uncle… I’m so scared!”

On the other end of the video, Yi Jifeng stared at the feed, momentarily speechless, his own face as pale as Yi Tianxing’s.

“This child, I fear, cannot be saved,” Hou Yaodong murmured, both shocked and a little schadenfreude as he turned to the dazed Yi Jifeng. “If the other families want to survive, they’ll surely investigate this incident and will likely expose Yi Tianxing. And if this senior comes to River City to find your Yi family, I wonder if your City Lord can stop him?”

Yi Jifeng shuddered from head to toe.

Meanwhile, on the platform—a loud thud!

The heads of the Jin, Duanmu, and Cui families all dropped to their knees. While their feet could not move, their knees could bend, and they knelt before Chu Yun.

“Senior, we failed to recognize your greatness—please, spare our lives!”

“Senior, we truly did nothing against the Ye family or Chu Yun!” the Cui family head pleaded. “You can ask them, if you don’t believe us.”

At that moment, the five Ye family members, now unbound, hurried over and bowed to Chu Yun. “Thank you, senior, for saving us.”

“Senior, they truly did us no harm,” Ye Zhenhuan dared to add. “It was only the Cao family who abused us.”

“But they joined in as bystanders, if not direct participants. Had they not pressured the City Lord, the Caos would never have dared torture you so openly.” Chu Yun turned to the Ye family. “Do you not hate them?”

The three families instantly fixed their gazes on Ye Zhenhuan, their eyes filled with anxiety and desperate pleading.

Ye Zhenhuan glanced at them, saw the fear and hope in their eyes, and felt a deep tremor in his heart.

This is the world where strength reigns supreme. With a powerful protector, one can indeed do as they please.

“I do hate,” Ye Zhenhuan said through gritted teeth.

The three clans trembled.

“But the Chu family once served as this planet’s guardians. If you, senior, slaughter them for our sake today, it might stain the Chu family’s reputation.”

Chu Yun pondered briefly, then waved his hand. “Rise.”

At once, he lifted the binding spell on the three families, and all those in their ranks finally relaxed.

The heads of the Duanmu, Cui, and Jin families all stepped forward, cupped their fists, and bowed deeply to Ye Zhenhuan.

(So few votes of recommendation, ah.)