Chapter 390

Chapter 390: Taking Action

“Aunt Mu, is everything you said true?”

Ye Jian could hardly believe it.

The Ye family already knew that the Lei family would take action against them and had sent away some elite members in advance.

This matter had remained unknown to Ye Jian; if Mu Xingyu hadn’t mentioned it, she would still be in the dark.

“Yes,” Mu Xingyu nodded.

She said to Ye Jian, “A group of people from your Ye family with strong spirit root talents were almost all sent away early.”

After a pause, she asked Ye Jian, “But I don’t understand. You were able to cultivate to the Tribulation stage in less than a thousand years, which means your spirit root talent should be excellent. Why weren’t you sent away in advance?”

Hearing Mu Xingyu’s words, Ye Jian felt a mix of emotions.

“Aunt Mu, my mother told me from a young age never to reveal my talent to anyone, so aside from my mother, no one knows about my talent, not even my clan members,” Ye Jian explained.

Ye Jian knew she had a yin-yang soul, which could allow her to reach the great emperor realm.

But if her spirit root were exposed, many forces with grudges against the Ye family would not allow her to grow strong.

Thus, her mother had advised her from a young age to conceal her spirit root talent.

When she was with the Ye family, she had not noticed anything unusual about the family’s evacuation of elite members.

Until the Lei family suddenly attacked the Ye family, her mother was killed, and her clan members were also killed.

In the end, she had managed to escape, albeit narrowly, under Mu Xingyu’s protection.

She had not expected that the Ye family had made preparations long ago, sending away some clan members, and among them, she was not included, and as a result, she had unwittingly become a sacrifice of the Ye family.

At that moment, upon hearing that there were other clan members of the Ye family, Ye Jian felt no joy; she suddenly felt no blood relation or connection to them.

She had thought all her kin had been killed by their enemies, and her greatest mission was revenge, yet the truth was so different.

Now, while Ye Jian would still seek revenge for her clan, she would not accept this new batch of Ye family members in the future.

Seeing Ye Jian’s expression, Mu Xingyu looked a bit somber.

“Ye Jian, you…” She wanted to comfort her but didn’t know what to say.

“Aunt Mu, I understand. I’m leaving now.”

Ye Jian waved to Mu Xingyu and then vanished from the spot.

When Ye Jian reappeared, she found herself in the Imperial City of Zhongzhou.

The royal family of Zhongzhou belonged to the Immortal dynasty established by Old Ghost Lei Mie.

Upon arriving at the royal city, Ye Jian directly used a barrier-breaking talisman on the palace’s powerful formations.

In the next moment, a crack appeared in the formations, and Ye Jian swiftly slipped inside.

Once inside the formations, Ye Jian threw out several array disks, and soon, an even more powerful formation enveloped the original one.

A moment later, Ye Jian appeared in a palace.

Inside the palace, a middle-aged man wearing an imperial crown was reviewing official documents.

In the next moment, Ye Jian’s figure appeared right beside him.

Before everyone could react, Ye Jian directly grabbed the middle-aged man and began soul searching.

Moments later, the restriction in the middle-aged man’s sea of souls was activated, instantly shattering his primordial spirit.

Ye Jian quickly absorbed the man’s memories, but unfortunately, his primordial spirit broke too fast, and she scarcely gathered any information.

However, that was not a problem; Ye Jian discovered many cultivators at or above the Transformation stage.

Casually throwing the middle-aged man, who bled from all seven orifices, to the ground, Ye Jian glanced at the stunned eunuchs and palace maids around her.

After a moment’s thought, she waved her hand, causing several eunuchs and palace maids to faint, while she effortlessly erased parts of their memories.

Ye Jian’s figure vanished once more.

When she reappeared, she had arrived at an underground formation in the royal palace.

Puff!

Ye Jian lightly pointed, and the formation shattered.

In the next moment, she slipped into the cave, capturing an elder who was a Transformation stage cultivator.

Moments later, the elder died, bleeding from all seven orifices.

A few seconds later, Ye Jian appeared beside another Transformation stage cultivator, and soon enough, this one also met his end.

Days passed.

Ye Jian had soul searched over a dozen cultivators at or above the Transformation stage and dozens of those below the Nascent Soul stage.

In addition, Ye Jian had also soul searched many ordinary people from the Lei family.

After several days of soul searching, Ye Jian finally extracted enough information about the Lei family, including the location of Old Monster Lei.

Now that she knew sufficient details about the Lei family, Ye Jian was no longer polite.

She unleashed her divine sense and began searching for all Lei family members on Sky Blue Star.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

In the next moment, countless streams of sword energy shot from Ye Jian’s hands.

These sword energies were mainly aimed at the Lei family’s cultivators.

Moreover, she did not spare the ordinary people of the Lei family.

Old Monster Lei had wiped out over a hundred thousand ordinary people from the Ye family, and Ye Jian would not show mercy.

As long as someone possessed Lei blood and bore the surname Lei, Ye Jian would not let them go.

As for the children who were born from Lei daughters marrying others, she would not involve the innocent.

Thus, when Ye Jian decided to take action against the ordinary people of the Lei family, across the entire Sky Blue Star, one could see rocks suddenly flying up to smash someone dead.

Or a stone would shoot up, instantly turning an ordinary person’s head to mush.

There was even a family of the Lei family sitting down for food when suddenly their house collapsed, killing everyone inside.

Years ago, Old Monster Lei had hunted down all the ordinary people of the Ye family, leaving not even infants alive.

Thus, Ye Jian would not spare the infants of the Lei family either.

Within a few days, as Ye Jian continued her attacks, the vast majority of the Lei family people disappeared from Sky Blue Star.

Anyone she discovered through soul searching in the Lei family was almost completely killed.

Perhaps some members of the Lei family remained undiscovered by Ye Jian, but that no longer mattered.

Days later, Ye Jian used the interstellar teleportation arrays to leave Sky Blue Star.

…

As Ye Jian continued to kill Lei family members, many people in Zhongzhou noticed something unusual.

The Kun family of Zhongzhou was originally related by marriage to the Lei family, with several of their daughters married into the Lei family.

However, in recent days, those Lei daughters had been killed one after another.

Moreover, the Kun family found that any direct member of the Lei family would inexplicably be killed by something.

Seeing such a situation, the Kun family understood that a super powerhouse must have targeted the Lei family, perhaps even the Tribulation stage great emperor himself.

Therefore, throughout this process, everyone in the Kun family was extremely cautious, fearful of angering that powerful being.

Aside from the Kun family, many other families in Zhongzhou also noticed this situation; they all trembled in fear, not daring to meddle in the matter.

Aside from the families in Zhongzhou noticing the Lei family members being continuously killed, Mu Xingyu also became aware of this situation.

Upon learning that Lei family members were being slaughtered, she simply sighed.

She understood it was Ye Jian taking action.

A few hundred years ago, the Lei family had annihilated the Ye family, violating the unwritten rule in the cultivation world against attacking ordinary people.

So today, the Lei family faced their retribution, and she felt no sympathy.

Old Monster Lei might still be unaware that his stronghold was under attack, and if he knew, he would surely be furious.

However, now that Ye Jian rashly acted, it was certain that Old Monster Lei would chase her relentlessly. She hoped to kill and escape, hiding away so Old Monster Lei would never find her.