Let Me Explain, Fairy
Chapter 827 - 518: The Great Purge_2

Chapter 827: Chapter 518: The Great Purge_2

This was an organization similar to the brocade-clothed guards of my previous life, but the emperor in that life, in order to control and eliminate the power of the brocade-clothed guards, had them castrated and turned into the eunuch servants. However, Xu Yinhè did not care about such things, even turning a blind eye to their private money-making channels.

His father never minded delegating power, the condition being that you had to submit your declaration of allegiance.

The blood debts caused by the Black Scale Guards had almost made all the Sects in the world hold a grudge. This was the declaration of allegiance Lou Ji gave to Xu Yinhè.

"You Long Xinling want to restore the Dragon Family? That’s fine, but where is your declaration of allegiance?"

Lou Ji, with a hint of helplessness in her voice, said softly,

"Your father has been waiting for Will for a long time, but she has been unresponsive. I am afraid she does not understand, and I even reminded her privately, but she still does not respond."

Xu Yuan looked puzzled.

"Why?"

This was already like an open-book exam. Oh no, it was more lenient than an open-book exam; it was like putting the answers in front of you for you to copy.

Even if Granny Long couldn’t bear to lay hands on her own descendants, it was still permissible to take action against the Sects.

If Granny Long was willing, with her friendship with Lou Ji, Xu Yuan believed that this older sister, even if it was not convenient for her to take action personally, would still arrange for the Black Scale Guards to provide her with some convenience in term of intelligence.

In the snowy night, Lou Ji exhaled a breath that turned into a transient white mist:

"Taking action against the Sects would implicate many old ministers of the Dragon Family, and all those old ministers are loyal to her."

"But isn’t the outcome the same?"

Xu Yuan whispered, "If she doesn’t come to do it, the Prime Minister’s Mansion will do the same after her death."

"It’s her nature; she cannot bear to hurt her own people."

Lou Ji lifted her eyelids and looked at the sword aura in the sky that was gradually dissipating, as if she saw the shy girl who used to tremble when she spoke back when they first met.

Biting her lip, Lou Ji clenched her fist gently:

"If back then I had only assisted from the sidelines and let her handle those matters herself, making her temperament a bit more cold-blooded, perhaps the outcome would be different now."

Granny Long, she died because of her gentle nature, died because of her "delusion" of restoring the Dragon Family.

Although it might not have been her true intention, she had to die.

After she said that, Lou Ji had no intention of speaking for a while, so Xu Yuan accompanied her to walk toward the outside of Xiangqin Pavilion.

The female Guest Elders of Lou Ji’s Direct Lineage had already been dealt with, and next, they would go to where the male Guest Elders were located in Xingjing Pavilion.

However, Lou Ji’s mood adjusted very quickly. By the time the two reached Xingjing Pavilion, she was chatting with Xu Yuan with a beaming smile.

She talked to him about the female Guest Elder who used to call her sister Lou Ji.

What made Xu Yuan find both funny and sad was that the reason his father ordered the death of this older sister’s sibling was because she was love-struck.

She had a husband, and aside from his looks and poetic talent, he was a good-for-nothing in other aspects.

He liked to associate with dignitaries and boasted in front of them.

Just as Xu Yuan used to steal internal files from his father’s study to sell due to lack of money, Lou Ji’s sister’s husband often leaked secret intelligence because of those "friends."

But the difference was, his wife was just a high-level member of the Black Scale Guards, while Xu Yuan’s father was the lord of the Prime Minister’s Mansion.

What he did could lead to severe consequences, while Xu Yuan could get away with it without any repercussions—if not considering being hung up and beaten by Xu Changge as a repercussion.

Before tonight, Lou Ji had warned her adopted sister picked up from the dark alley more than once, but a love-struck brain is incurable. She would forget after a few days and continue to indulge her husband.

So, she died tonight.

After reaching Xingjing Pavilion, the white snow on the ground that had been scattered by a stroke of Feng Jiuxuan’s sword had already piled up again. Xu Yuan merely strolled in Xingjing Pavilion with Lou Ji while they killed.

They all more or less knew the crimes they had committed; some chose to die with dignity on their own, while others finished with dignity with the help of Lou Ji.

But to Xu Yuan’s resignation, those undignified Guest Elders invariably directed their attacks at him when they made their move.

It was just like a Great Grandmaster roaming with flaws.

As Lou Ji killed, she also told Xu Yuan the reasons for killing these people.

Some were direct traitors, while others compromised with the Sects in private, and still others died due to their complacency after securing power and authority.

In addition, while accompanying Lou Ji in her killings, Xu Yuan encountered two old acquaintances.

Jiang He and Hua Hong, those two old men.

After the great formation of Prime Minister’s Mansion was activated, those without soul keys would fall into the Chaotic Inheritance Formation and could not use their divine senses to explore the outside world.

The two old men, each accompanied by two black-robed people with unfathomable aura, knocked on doors one by one.

Hesitating whether to greet them, the two old men had already snorted coldly and passed by.

They didn’t seem to be in a good mood.

Killing one’s own Direct Lineage certainly wouldn’t make anyone happy.

Xu Yuan felt this was probably a kind of declaration of allegiance.

After coming out from the last courtyard, Xu Yuan sighed softly:

"This is really quite a purge..."

Tonight, Xu Yuan and Lou Ji had killed a total of eleven people.

A rough count yielded one suspected to have achieved Mortal Transcendence, three at the Primordial level, four suspected Great Grandmasters, and four mortals.

If one were to include those key figures from the Prime Minister’s Mansion that were handled by Hua Hong and Jiang He, that number would likely multiply several times over.

And when the aftermath of this cleaning spread beyond the Prime Minister’s Mansion, the number of people involved would probably multiply a hundredfold.

"Removing a tumor can be very painful, but it’s only by doing this that we can continue on our path."

Lou Ji handled the corpses with Spirit Dissolving Powder and spoke softly, "Don’t worry, for each person killed tonight, your father had contingency plans in place. Tonight marks both the beginning and the end; there will be no major turmoil within the Prime Minister’s Mansion."

Xu Yuan smiled slightly,

"I hope so."

Lou Ji’s beautiful eyes curved, and she patted off the remaining Spirit Dissolving Powder from her hands, chuckling lightly,

"All taken care of. Will Changtian return to the inner courtyard tonight, or stay here and have a heart-to-heart with big sister?"

Xu Yuan glanced at Lou Ji’s smiling face and gently shook his head,

"I think rather than talking, what you want right now is some quiet time alone."

Lou Ji raised her hand to touch Xu Yuan’s head,

"Changtian, you really do understand me."

Xu Yuan raised his hand to fend off Lou Ji’s touch, turned around, and made to head in the direction of the inner courtyard,

"I’ll head back first. With so much happening tonight, and Xinyao completely unaware, she must be very worried, being alone in the inner courtyard."

"I’ll walk you back."

"No need."

"You’re thinking of going past Ran Jianli right under his nose?"

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"Creak—"

When Xu Yuan returned to the inner courtyard and pushed open the main hall door, as expected, he saw the pacing figure amidst the family dining in the main hall.

The sky, which seemed as if the brilliant aurora of sword light had completely dissipated, reverted to darkness. Amidst the flickering snow, the Inscription Lamp illuminated the main hall brightly, casting the anxious expression on the young girl’s face.

The moment she heard noise at the entrance, a hint of surprise flashed in the girl’s eyes, and she hurried over, asking eagerly,

"Third brother, what happened outside?"

Xu Yuan smiled gently at her and, as he walked into the main hall, he said softly,

"One good piece of news, one bad, which would you like to hear first?"

Xu Xinyao was taken aback by the question, then somewhat annoyed, she stamped her foot,

"Brother! Stop playing games with me!"

As he entered the main hall, Xu Yuan pulled out a chair to sit down and looked at his fourth sister, who clung like glue, and said with a leisurely smile,

"The good news is, we’ve found a Boundary Void Stone."

"What?"

Xu Xinyao blinked in surprise, her reaction swift.

As a master of Formation Patterns, she was all too clear about the value of a Boundary Void Stone capable of being inscribed for a Transmission Formation.

She ventured to ask,

"Is the commotion outside because of the Boundary Void Stone?"

"You could say that."

Xu Yuan nodded his head, speaking in a low voice, "But the bad news is, we’ve failed, the cooked Boundary Void Stone has flown away..."

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Xu Yuan did not disclose the full story of the night to Xu Xinyao but gave a trimmed and straightforward account of the night’s events, intending to make a few jokes to lighten the mood when his gaze suddenly caught a figure in the courtyard outside the main hall.

A figure, holding a severed head.

It was Feng Jiuxuan returning.