Wu Xian pulled out the sword and the man fell on his knees before falling forward to the ground.
He flicked his sword to wipe off the blood on it and put it back into the sheath beside his waist as he calmly stares at the man.
"You lived only because I let you." The icy voice reached Shao Qigang's ears before the man closed his eyes.
The elders gasped as they saw the strange sword movement had stabbed directly into Shao Qigang's heart.
The elder that came with Qigang rushed forward and brought Qigang back into the Shao Clan.
Wu Xian let them escape without chasing and ride Xiao Mu to return to Wu Clan.
If Wu Xian used the first art, Ethereal Strike, undoubtedly Shao Qigang will perish into ash but his intention wasn't to turn the man into ash. He needed the man to stay alive so that people of the Shao Clan knew that he, Wu Xian is strong enough to destroy the Shao Clan as a whole.
For this sake, he deployed the Twelve Heaven Crashing third art, Gargantuan Leer that will never miss its target and always evade everything else for the sake of pursuing one thing.
If Wu Xian wanted to pursue Shao Qigang's left kidney, his sword will never pursue other parts of the organs even the right kidney. It will only stab on the left kidney and nothing else.
What made Wu Xian frustrated was aside from fourth art, sinful parry and sixth art, Void Tear, other ten arts of Twelve Heaven Crashing could only be used once and after using them, he will have to learn the sword art from the very beginning.
It is caused by his lack of understanding and his sword could not withstand the real strength of the sword art. That is especially true for the eighth to the twelfth art of the Twelve Heaven Crashing technique, he could never use them unless in a desperate situation.
Even Tian Xuan has not mastered the technique fully.
Although the boy doesn't need to learn from the beginning again if he ever used the rest sword art, he could only deploy the first to seventh art few times but still not unlimited. As for the rest, he will have to become an immortal or he will be destroying his own cultivation since they required a huge amount of spiritual energy.
This is because his sword is not a spiritual item.
Although Tian Qiu possessing the sword will make it stronger than many spiritual weapons, it can never be a true spiritual weapon.
That's why, since the sword art is so precious Wu Xian didn't waste the sword art on Shao Xinyue and used his bare hand to pull his zhenqi out of the girl body. The one that made the girl exploded would be Li Yiyuan because Wu Xian put the man's formation crystal piece inside the girl body when he stabbed into her stomach.
Unless the Shao Clan get a sixth tier formation master to check on Xinyue, no one will know that it was a formation that explodes the girl's body.
The reason they did this because Tian Xuan told them to.
In Li Yiyuan's hand right now is soul jade that has Shao Xinyue's soul. Later, Tian Xuan will decide whether to use the soul to thoroughly destroy the Shao Clan or to spare the Shao Clan.
It will depend on whether the Head patriarch of Shao Clan smart enough to realize that something is wrong with the whole set up of killing and revenge.
"The debt has been settled, for now." He said nonchalantly before leaving with Li Yiyuan behind him.
As soon as Li Yiyuan left, the formation also dispersed. The elders either tightened their fist or shaking their head helplessly.
Among the crowd, there are already some that fainted when they saw the gory sight of Shao Xinyue's body exploded. The rest were shocked to know that the matter ends just like that.
However, right at this moment, they were contemplating on who exactly is Wu Xian.
How did he become so powerful and who saved him?
They remembered that the man said that he has Ethereal Demonic Black Cloud sect behind him and the other man said that Lord Tian the leader of the sect saved them.
Such a powerful sect, how come they have never heard of it before? They also haven't heard of this Lord Tian before. Just when did such a prominent figure arrive in low tier kingdom? Why have they not heard of anything?
While others are contemplating, an elderly man sitting at the top of a sole seat is deep in thought as he stares at Shao Qigang that currently being healed by the elder that brought him away from Wu Xian.
The elderly man pinched the skin between his eyebrows as he listened to the report. These old fellows have done nothing good but keep giving him more problems that need him to solve them.
The other elders that previously were trapped inside Li Yiyuan's formation also at the main hall retell everything that they see and think of the two youths.
"Head patriarch… My daughter, she…"
The elderly man sitting in the top seat is looking somber as he heard the hoarse voice. He waved his hand and spoke in deep low voice.
"Enough, if you had just takes her immediately after she was injured, would she be dead by now? It because you gave them the chance to kill her that she died."
Shao Qigang obviously thought the same but being told by someone else, he couldn't help but frustratingly gritted his teeth. After all, it was him that lost his daughter. She was his daughter, not just other people so the incident certainly gave him a huge impact on his heart.
The Shao Head patriarch just shook his head and continued to speak his thought.
"What matters now is not her death but the fact that this whole matter about killing and revenge might be leading to another plot because why would that lad, Wu Xian let you off after he just killed your daughter?"
When Shao Qigang heard this, he couldn't help but widened his eyes in realization.
The elderly man continued, "Knowing you, he surely knows that you will chase after him and tried to kill him. Why did he just let you escape? Surely he has other intention than killing your daughter."
The other elders also had the ghastly expression on their face. They could not think that further but when they think of it carefully, it is as the head patriarch said.
"I will send someone to invite that leader of Ethereal Demonic Black Cloud sect over to Shao Clan and see if he dares to come.
If he comes and not make any trouble, I as the head patriarch of Shao Clan will try to discuss with him but if he dares to make a trouble in our territory, Shao Clan will fight against the Ethereal Demonic Black Cloud sect no matter how strong the sect is."
"Head Patriarch is wise! We listen to Head Patriarch!" The elders cupped their fists and bowed toward the elderly man.