Chapter 5.3 : Killing Mercilessly
"But Little Brother Yan, four days from now, are you really going to duel Yun Qing Yan?" Yun Xuan's face expressed worry once more.
The duel between Yun Qing Yan and Yun Yang Qing that was set to be in seven days already saw three days passed.
"Of course! Although I have absolutely no interest in being the successor, but there is a reason that I have no choice but to do it." Yun Qing Yan nodded his head to say, his eyes flashing with an almost imperceptible glint of murder.
"Is….. it because of me?" Yun Xuan drew in a deep breath to ask.
"Mm!" Yun Qing Yan turned his gaze to look towards Yun Xuan. Yun Xuan could not make himself meet his eyes and he lowered his head.
"Little Brother Yan, about that….. The reason I have not told you about it is for your own good!" After remaining silent for a few seconds, Yun Xuan let out a sigh and said, his eyes filled with sorrow and also a hint of inerasable hatred.
"I know that. That is why after I become the successor, I will ask you about that matter once more." Yun Qing Yan said.
From Yun Xuan and Eldest Uncle's reactions, together with the old steward's fragmented words, Yun Qing Yan had already been able to roughly deduce, that the person who crippled Yun Xuan would either possess very powerful cultivation, or have very strong connections in his background, or was equipped with both.
And once he became the Yun Family Clan's successor, Yun Qing Yan will then be able to mobilize the family clan's might.
Eldest Uncle Yun Han had not been able to tap on the might of the family clan was in a large part mainly due to restraint from the Four Great Elders.
But it would be different for Yun Qing Yan. With his skillful manipulation, once he assumed the seat of the successor, he would be able to make a clean sweep of all those obstructions.
Of course, with Yun Qing Yan's ability, he mostly wouldn't even need to use the family clan's strength at all.
In less than half an hour, the old steward had already sent Yun Yue's body to the Grand Elder's residence.
When the Grand Elder and a beautiful looking woman saw the dead body, their faces immediately changed greatly, and the woman then broke into tears, sobbing hysterically in the next instant.
"Yun Yuan Lin. Who is the one that killed Yun Yue?" The Grand Elder's face was grim as he stared at the old steward.
"Reporting to the Grand Elder, it was Young Master Yan who killed Yun Yue….." The old steward did not try to hide it, and related the entire incident about Yun Yue going to find trouble with Yun Qing Yan earlier to the Grand Elder.
But he did omit the part about Yun Qing Yan cultivating elixirs.
"Grand Elder. This is the entire sequence of events. Young Master Yan also wanted me to pass you a message. He said: If you want to stir up trouble, then send someone a little more up to the mark."
Finishing what he came to say, the old steward then turned to leave.
The Grand Elder's face was dark, but he did not stop the old steward, allowing the man to disappear from his sight.
The woman beside him was however screaming and wailing loudly. "Yun Qing Yan! You damned beast! You dare to kill my nephew! ? I, Chen Li hereby swear, that you will pay for this with your life!"
'Piak!'
The Grand Elder suddenly lashed out with a slap, that struck the beautiful woman across the face. "Slut! Did you get Yun Yue to go look for Yun Qing Yan! ?"
The beautiful woman was stunned by that hard slap and she did not recover from it for a long while. After that, she then began to say haltingly: "Yun Qing Yan is right about to duel our son very soon. So….. so I sent Yun Yue to go test out his cultivation level a little."
"You….. You foolish woman!" After the Grand Elder finished, he was so angry he was stamping his feet on the ground, and then delivered another slap onto the beautiful woman's face.
"Men! Lock this foolish woman up! Before Yun Yan Qing comes back, no one is to let her out!" The Grand Elder's face was raging with fury, and the guards immediately moved to lock the beautiful woman up.
It was only until the beautiful woman was escorted away that the rage on the Grand Elder's face gradually calmed down.
As the Grand Elder, he was naturally clear about the Yun Family Clan's rules. No matter how viciously they fought within their own nest, it would still be a private family matter. And if anyone not of their surname stuck their hands into it, that person would have infringed their rules!
Those rules, was something even the Grand Elder would not dare to defy!
The Grand Elder walked himself towards Yun Yue's corpse and began to inspect the wounds on his body. "There are only two wounds on the body. The bones in one arm were crushed, and the other wound here is the collapse of his chest."
The Grand Elder's brows immediately turned gravely heavy.
He had been able to ascertain the cause of Yun Yue's death from the wounds. First he was defeated with just one stroke where the bones in his arm were crushed, and completely defenceless, he had been stomped upon till the rib cage in his chest had collapsed inwards, causing his death.
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