Martial Arts: I Have a Wilderness World

Chapter 517: Chapter 278: Submission; A Sudden Change in the Su Family

The Celestial Break Gang began taking over the eastern, northern, and southern districts, establishing branches in the remaining urban areas to manage the entire county town.

Meanwhile, the Qiu, Xu, and Ding Families quickly withdrew their influence, reverting to the status of ordinary Martial Arts Families.

Li Mingxin, along with the members of the Li Courtyard, moved into a mansion in the northern part of the city.

With that, the Li Family’s branch in Jade Peak County was dismantled. However, Li Mingxin raised no objections.

One night, however, he paid a solitary visit to the Cheng Mansion, leaving with a smile on his face.

As the days passed, the county town quickly stabilized.

「Meanwhile, far away in Yangzhou Prefecture of Da Liang, at the Su Mansion.」

The rear courtyard of the Su Mansion was heavily fortified, with sentries posted every few steps. Guard teams composed entirely of Upper Three Grades Martial Artists patrolled and stood watch.

Just then, two figures emerged from the front courtyard. Leading them was the dashingly handsome Su Ze. He was followed by a middle-aged man carrying a tray with three Pill Bottles.

"Lor—"

All the guards, upon seeing him, started to bow and greet him, but Su Ze waved them off. He walked to a room’s entrance, took the tray from the butler with one hand, and pushed the door open with the other.

He went inside, intending to place the tray on a table. The elixirs were for his second uncle, meant to replenish his True Qi and stave off hunger.

A delivery was made once a month, and his second uncle would emerge from the underground chamber to retrieve it.

However, his expression faltered when he saw that the three Pill Bottles from the previous delivery were still on the table. He rushed over to inspect them.

When he saw that the beeswax seals were still intact—that they hadn’t been used at all—his expression changed drastically.

Forgetting the elixirs, he immediately activated the mechanism and descended into the basement.

The vast underground space opened into a wide passage. He hurried through it and soon arrived before a stone wall.

The stone door was closed. Su Ze immediately went to a bell mechanism at the side and gave it a pull.

This was how one signaled the person inside about an urgent matter.

After waiting a moment with no response, Su Ze’s expression darkened, and he moved to open the stone door himself.

Just as Su Ze was about to open the door, his face contorted in alarm. He snatched his hand back, his body blurring as he retreated with the speed of the wind!

The moment after Su Ze shot back, cracks spiderwebbed across the stone door. The ceiling and walls began to fracture, the fissures spreading rapidly. In the blink of an eye, rubble began to rain down.

The ground itself seemed unable to bear the force of the immense Energy, and it began to tremble violently. A web of deep fissures spread outward from within the chamber.

’What in the world is happening?!’ Su Ze was horrified.

Nothing like this had ever happened, not even when his father was refining a Demon Core.

An instant later, he keenly sensed an overwhelming sense of danger. He immediately unleashed his True Qi, forming his Protective Gang Qi, then scrambled to get out!

Just then, he felt the air in the stone chamber become instantly scorching, as if it had been set ablaze.

The rampaging, fiery Energy grew more ferocious, turning the entire stone chamber into what felt like an erupting volcano. Scalding hot air blasted out from the cracks!

BOOM!!!

Suddenly, a deafening explosion ripped through the air as an incomparably powerful firestorm erupted from the stone chamber! The wave of fiery Energy surged in all directions like a tidal wave.

The stone door instantly disintegrated, and massive chunks of rock were blasted high into the air, crashing down in every direction!

Above ground, everyone in the Su Mansion felt the terrifying Power. Faces etched with horror, they scattered and fled for their lives.

The entire estate trembled from the force of the blast. Nearly all the buildings in the rear courtyard collapsed with a deafening roar, kicking up a sky-blotting cloud of dust and debris.

As the fiery Energy erupted from below, everything in its path was incinerated. The estate’s flowers and trees withered in an instant, turning to fine ash.

The Upper Three Grades Martial Artists desperately released their True Qi to shield themselves, fleeing outward with looks of utter horror!

In the span of just seven or eight breaths, the Su Mansion’s entire, isolated rear courtyard was engulfed in a raging inferno. A massive, sunken crater had also appeared where the chamber had been!

BANG!

A figure, tightly enveloped in Protective Gang Qi, shot out from the remains of the underground passage like an arrow loosed from a bow. He then drifted down like a leaf, landing gracefully on a relatively undamaged rooftop.

Despite the protection of his Protective Gang Qi, the horrifying explosion had left Su Ze looking disheveled, his face pale. He had clearly expended a massive amount of True Qi to survive the blast.

His eyes swept over the surroundings, taking in the devastation.

The weaker Martial Artists in the Su Mansion, or those who reacted too slowly, lacked adequate defenses and suffered heavy casualties in the sudden blast.

Many civilians living near the Su Mansion were also killed.

Of those who were lucky enough to survive, some lay grievously wounded, groaning in agony on the ground. Others were still in shock, staring blankly at the devastation.

Cries of pain and desperate shouts mingled in the air above the Su Mansion’s rear courtyard.

The buildings in the rear courtyard had been almost entirely obliterated, leaving behind nothing but rubble and scorched earth. The former grandeur of the estate was gone, replaced by a scene of utter desolation.

’Seeing the devastation, Su Ze felt a surge of relief. He was grateful for his foresight in decisively moving all the family members who had lived in the rear courtyard to another estate. That decision had been made to guarantee absolute security and quiet for his second uncle’s seclusion.’