Chapter 79: Hundreds Slaughtered in One Day
"Who... who exactly are you?!"
Lord Zhao's voice trembled.
He had ruled Tianxing City for decades and killed countless people.
But he never imagined that one day he would become a lamb to the slaughter.
However, Su Mo did not answer.
He walked towards Lord Zhao with a blank expression.
"You... you stay away!"
Lord Zhao kept retreating.
At this moment, he had no intention of resisting. Even Elder Chen had been killed with a single sword strike, so how could he possibly be a match for him?
Just as he was retreating in panic, he suddenly stumbled and fell to the ground.
He could only move backward using both his hands and feet, looking extremely disheveled, his former imposing manner completely gone.
A moment later, he retreated to the edge of the steps, where he could no longer move.
He quickly got up, knelt down, and kowtowed repeatedly, leaving bloodstains on the ground.
At the same time, he kept begging for mercy. "Sir... please spare me!"
"I can give you anything you want—money, power, beautiful women—anything I have, I'll give you. Just please spare my life!"
At this moment, he only hoped that Su Mo would take a liking to these things and let him off the hook.
Su Mo walked up to him, stopped, and looked down at him.
"When you killed those innocent people, they begged for mercy," Su Mo said coldly. "Did you ever spare them?"
"Someone like you should go down and repent."
As soon as Su Mo finished speaking, a blood-red sword aura suddenly swept past.
Lord Zhao's head flew up, tumbled twice in the air, and then rolled a few times on the ground.
His eyes were wide open and remained that way until his death.
The city lord of Tianxing City died.
But Su Mo did not leave. Instead, he continued walking deeper into the mansion.
The Zhao family had been entrenched in this city for decades and had long since become a large and powerful clan.
The direct descendants and collateral branches, in total, numbered over a hundred people.
As long as they were members of the Zhao family, regardless of age or gender, Su Mo would eliminate them completely, no matter whether they had committed any evil deeds.
In just a short while, the huge city lord's mansion was completely empty.
After massacring the Zhao family, Su Mo arrived at the treasure vault.
He blasted the heavy door open with a single palm strike.
A spacious room was filled with boxes stacked one next to another, reaching the height of two people.
Su Mo casually opened one of them.
The moment the lid was lifted, golden light shone on his face.
It turned out to be a whole chest of gold and silver jewelry.
Su Mo opened several more boxes, which contained either gold soul coins or various treasures.
The lord of a small town was so wealthy.
It was evident how much wealth the Zhao family had plundered from the people over the years.
With a wave of his hand, Su Mo put all these items into his soul tool.
After doing all this, Su Mo did not leave the Zhao family residence.
Because there was one person who had not yet returned, and that was the young master of the Zhao family.
Time passed second by second.
About half an hour later.
Under Su Mo's spiritual perception, a large number of people, numbering in the hundreds, surrounded the Zhao family residence.
Those men were city defense soldiers, clad in iron armor, wielding long spears, and arrayed in neat formation.
The person in the lead was dressed in fine clothes. He was none other than the young master of the Zhao family whom they had seen on the street before.
Although he knew that several powerful figures, including Elder Chen, were stationed in the manor, the situation was still unclear. To be on the safe side, after learning that a battle had broken out in the city lord's mansion, he urgently dispatched the city defense troops to the scene.
"Damn it! Who is it that dares to cause trouble at the Zhao family's residence!"
Looking at the mess at the gate, the young master of the Zhao family was filled with rage, his face twisted with fury.
At that moment, Su Mo's figure suddenly appeared in the sky above the city lord's mansion.
His wings fluttered behind him, and his black hair danced in the wind.
His white clothes were mostly stained red with blood, which looked particularly glaring in the sunlight.
"Boy, who are you? Did you do all this? Where is my father?"
The young master of the Zhao family pointed at Su Mo and shouted sternly.
"He's dead," Su Mo said calmly. "I'll send you down to see him right away."
As soon as he finished speaking, the Asura Sword Domain unfolded once again.
A terrifying aura suddenly spread out from him.
In an instant, countless blood-red light swords condensed above Su Mo, one after another appearing out of thin air, densely covering the entire sky.
This time, there were over a thousand of them.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh...
The sky was filled with blood-red light swords that rained down on the crowd below.
"Damn it!" The young master of the Zhao family hurriedly released his Spirit in an attempt to defend himself.
However, he was only a level 29 Great Soul Master. How could he possibly withstand Su Mo's attack?
As the rain of swords fell, his defenses were instantly pierced, and dozens of light swords pierced through his body, riddling him with holes on the spot.
Although the ordinary soldiers wore armor, that armor was as fragile as tofu in front of the blood-red light swords.
A flash of sword light, a splatter of blood, and screams echoed throughout the street.
In the blink of an eye, hundreds of people outside the city lord's mansion had all died, and blood flowed like a river.
After killing these people, Su Mo's progress in the divine test advanced significantly.
However, although he killed hundreds of people, not every one of them was counted in the assessment.
Most of those soldiers were just ordinary people who were usually arrogant and domineering, simply trying to make a living under the Zhao family. They were not particularly wicked or evil, so they were not included.
Those truly included in the progress of the divine examination were mostly members of the Zhao family.
At this moment, Su Mo withdrew his Sword Domain, and the crimson sky vanished without a trace.
People in the distance, whose doors had been tightly shut, cautiously pushed them open and peered out.
When they saw the figure in mid-air and then the corpses scattered all over the ground in front of the city lord's mansion, they all showed expressions of disbelief.
How could such a powerful family as the Zhao family be wiped out by a young man?
At that moment, someone stepped forward and knelt down first.
Immediately afterwards, the dark mass of people bowed down like waves of wheat in the wind, one after another kneeling.
"Heaven has eyes! Heaven has eyes!"
"My child was killed by that beast from the Zhao family. It's been three years, and finally someone has avenged her!" An elderly woman with white hair knelt on the ground, tears streaming down her face. "Thank you, sir! Thank you, sir!"
At this moment, Su Mo landed in the street.
"Everyone, please rise."
As he spoke, he took out more than a dozen boxes from his soul tool.
"The Zhao family has been running rampant for years, and every penny here is stained with your blood and sweat.
"This should belong to you. Line up and come forward one by one to receive it."
Su Mo only took out a small portion. It was not because he coveted the mountain of wealth.
He knew all too well that for an ordinary person, getting rich overnight was not a good thing.
This money was enough to improve the livelihoods of these people.
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