Chapter 190 – 161 He Family Destroyed_2
Hiss.

A streak of white light flashed.

He Guangxun’s head flew off with blood, his eyes filled with unwillingness and regret.

“Noisy.”

Chen Mu didn’t even glance at the severed head or the slowly falling corpse.

He Zhengya still had a bit of the He Family patriarch’s momentum. Compared to him, He Guangxun was simply pathetic, and He Mingxuan and his likes were not even worth mentioning. They say the Yu Family had not seen good successors for the past two generations, how could the He Family be any better?

If it weren’t for He Guangxun’s slight ability, at least being a Martial Man of the Bone Tempering Realm, Chen Mu would have felt that killing such a person was sullying his own hands.

“…”

The steward sitting collapsed nearby was now drenched in cold sweat, curled up trembling, not even daring to breathe deeply as he watched Chen Mu walk out of the main hall.

His chest heaved violently a few times, gradually revealing a trace of relief, then he struggled to his feet and tried to flee outside the main hall, seeking to escape. But before he could run a few steps, several soldiers from the Inspectorate and City Defense Division surrounded him from all directions.

“Spare my life! Spare my life!!”

The steward knelt down begging for mercy, raising his hands and shouting loudly.

However, the City Defense Division’s amor-clad soldiers were cold-faced, and with a fierce thrust of their spears, they penetrated the steward’s chest, nailing him to the ground, and shouted, “The He Family conspired and committed treason; kill all without mercy!”

The steward coughed up a mouthful of fresh blood, his hands weakly trying to cover the blood hole in his chest, but unable to stop the blood gushing out, his eyes also showing a look of despair. Eventually, his head tilted, and he fell to the ground, gradually losing his breath.

Outside.

In the open courtyard in front of the He Family’s main hall.

Chen Mu walked over, his eyes indifferent.

All around were shouts of killing, with He Family servants and family members seen fleeing in panic.

At that moment.

A City Defense Division Inner City Prefecture Chief, clad in heavy armor, led several elegantly dressed, pretty-faced women with somewhat disheveled hair and their hands and feet bound by ox tendons to Chen Mu, and forced them to kneel before him.

“My lord, what should be done with the He Family’s womenfolk?”

The Prefecture Chief bowed respectfully to Chen Mu and asked.

Chen Mu glanced at the several He Family women. They were all very young, around sixteen or seventeen years old, some with eyes full of resentment and hatred, some continually sobbing, others with lifeless eyes.

Finally.

Chen Mu waved his hand and said, “Leave none alive.”

The He Family might have innocent people, perhaps even many, including women around the same age as Chen Yue and Yu Ru, even babies and children only one or two years old.

But this was the annihilation of a family.

If the roles were reversed, had he not come to this world, and had Yu Jiujiang finally been rendered unable to maintain his Five Viscera Realm strength due to declining qi-blood, resulting in the He family breaking through, then Xu Hongyu, Xiao He, Yu Ru… none of them would have had a much better fate, possibly even suffering inhumane torments before death.

Chen Mu did not think he was particularly cruel, but having come so far after countless experiences, he was not merciful either. Now that it had come to this final step, he preferred things direct and simple, sending all of the He Family on their way.

Mercy only led to prolonged hatred.

By having more people die now, there would be fewer in the future.

“Yes.”

The City Defense Division Prefecture Chief was surprised for a moment but still immediately obeyed the command.

In his view, these He Family womenfolk could be sent to the Entertainment Bureau, squeezing some value out of them, and Chen Mu could casually select a few with good looks to torment and play with, but ultimately, Chen Mu simply ordered “kill.”

“Don’t…”

“Spare me, spare me, I can do anything…”

“So you are Chen Mu! I won’t let you go even in death!”

The women of the He Family made various sounds, some cried, some pleaded, some cursed with hatred, and then the executioner’s blade flickered, heads fell to the ground, and suddenly all became quiet.

Chen Mu did not take another look, merely continued walking forward, stepping over one corpse after another, leaving the courtyard.

Then.

He saw an old man approaching him, who was Yu Zuting, the man who had previously provided him with a silver mine, enabling him to help the Yu Family secure a channel for acquiring black iron.

Now, City Defense Division was largely depleted, with all personnel from the Intelligence Office, Demon-Slaying Office, and City Defense Division mobilized, they still struggled to surround the entire residence of the He Family.

After all, the He Family was too large; with dozens of thousands including various servants, and many of them were not ordinary people. There were plenty skilled in martial arts, well-versed in Skin Toughening and Body Refinement.

Therefore.

The forces of the Yu Family were mostly mobilized here.

In fact, upon hearing the news, almost everyone from the Yu Family rushed over excitedly, having suffered oppression from the He Family not just once or twice over the years, but now the tables had turned, clearing the clouds to see the blue sky.

“The matter with the black iron mine of the Yu Family shouldn’t be a problem, should it?”

Chen Mu turned to Yu Zuting and asked. He hadn’t paid much attention to these matters since that day. “When Inspector Yan returns, some of the officials in Yu City will be reshuffled. The Smelting Bureau might not be entirely handed over to the Yu Family, but you might gain more positions. There will be many other trivial matters too; we might need to bother you and the other elders for a long time.”

The He Family was not a minor clan, involved in every aspect of Yu City, each Yamen.

Now, in a single day having fallen completely, many positions will become vacant, and soon the Xue Family and Xie Family will reach out, and even the Four Great Sects will seize this opportunity to steal a burning chestnut from the fire.

Yan Jingqing had always suppressed the He Family, not allowing him to directly annihilate them with the Yu Family, precisely for this reason. Before the issue with the Heavenly Corpse Sect was resolved, he did not want to trigger too much turbulence.

But now, between dying sooner or later, the He Family had actively chosen the nearest path.

“No problem! No problem at all! Leave it to me, old man; no matter how much there is to handle, I can manage it… Hahaha, Chen Mu, you’re getting married to Hongyu in spring, are you really not considering making my two granddaughters your concubines…”

“The He Family still has some capable members; I need to deal with them one by one to avoid too many casualties. You just control the main hall here. You’ll know how much the He Family spent on building this hall once you go inside and see for yourself.”

Chen Mu said to Yu Zuting, then walked away towards the distance, quickly disappearing in the chaos.

Yu Zuting watched Chen Mu’s retreating figure, not being able to help but laugh and shake his head.

“Really…”

He looked at the spacious courtyard in front of him, and at the opulent He Family main hall in the distance, its doors wide open, and a flood of emotions rose in his heart.

He didn’t notice at the time he gave Chen Mu the silver mine, thinking Chen Mu would come back to trade it later, but in just a few days, Chen Mu had secured a position in the He Family’s Smelting Bureau, forcibly seizing a share of authority from the He Family.

He thought that was the end of it.

But not much later, just after the new year, on the ninth day of the first lunar month, while he was still dozing off, he was suddenly informed by the rushed reports that the main forces of the He Family had attempted to kill Chen Mu but were annihilated by him.

He had mobilized the forces of the three divisions to encircle the He Family residence and had issued the order to obliterate the He Family.

At that time, he sprang up as quickly as a carp leaping up from water, feeling an unprecedented vigor despite his old bones. Grabbing the sword he hadn’t used for many years, he rushed towards the He Family. Upon arriving, he indeed witnessed the entire He Family being surrounded and conquered level by level.

The mighty He Family.

Once upon a time, they were even stronger than their own Yu Family.

Yet within a few short years, their fortunes had plummeted until today, coming directly to the final step of eradication.

At its core.

It was Xu Hongyu who found Chen Mu in a remote part of the Outer City–it was the Yu Family who encountered Chen Mu!

Who would have thought from that time that today would come?