Chapter 716: Chapter 276: Such a Person Must Be a Friend, Never an Enemy

Another burly cultivator replied, "These guys are a tough nut to crack. They don’t feel like Loose Cultivators."

"Stop running your damn mouth and get over here and help me!"

The Bronze Masked Cultivator glanced inside and sneered. "You blockheads. All you know is how to use brute force."

He lowered his voice. "What did His Highness order us to do? Lure the female cultivators out first."

"They’ll make perfect sacrifices for the Sea Venerable."

But the burly man retorted, "I already tried what His Highness told us to. It didn’t work."

They had all learned the lines for coaxing a surrender, but not everyone was willing to live a dishonorable life.

"Hmph. I called you stupid, and you still won’t admit it."

The Bronze Masked Cultivator sneered, then channeled his Spiritual Power and shouted into the cave, "Listen up in there! You have nowhere to run."

"But I’m giving you one last chance to live!"

"If you’re willing to hand over those two female cultivators to serve His Highness, we’ll let the rest of you go."

"If you keep being stubborn, then you’ll all die here today."

The burly man frowned. The orders he’d received were to kill every last one of the male cultivators.

Capture any female cultivators they could, and kill those who resisted.

Just as he was about to protest, he heard the Bronze Masked Cultivator whisper an explanation, "We lure them out first, then we pick them off one by one!"

Hearing the shouts from outside, the people in the cave began to have second thoughts.

All eyes fell on their leader, Sun Haoran.

They had held out for so long not just because of the advantageous terrain, but also because they were all either Sun Clan Members or Honored Guest Elders hired by the Sun Family.

They knew each other well, allowing them to coordinate effectively during Magical Combat.

Now, however, they were at the end of their rope.

"Sun Haoran, make a decision!"

"Haoran, it’s come to this. You have to decide."

"Haoran, our Talismans are almost gone. We can’t hold out much longer."

Several of the Honored Guest Elders glanced toward Sun Haoyi and Sun Haowan, their words full of insinuation.

Feeling the pressure in their words, Sun Haoran carefully weighed the pros and cons.

His nails dug into his palms. He looked at Sun Haoyi. "Third Sister, Seventh Sister, what do you think?"

He had passed the buck.

He had shifted the choice, and all the pressure that came with it, onto Sun Haoyi.

"I won’t allow it!"

Sun Haize spoke up at once. "Second Brother, what is there to even ask? If it comes to it, we’ll fight them to the bitter end!"

But his words clearly held little weight.

A moment of silence passed.

Outside the cave, the shouts resumed, this time an ultimatum.

Sun Haowan bit her lip. "I’ll follow Third Sister’s lead."

SWISH. All eyes fell upon Sun Haoyi.

"I..."

Sun Haoyi’s gaze swept over her fellow clan members, her voice trembling. "If... if it can save everyone, I’m willing to go."

Hearing her give in, the Honored Guest Elders were secretly overjoyed.

For them, any opportunity at a time like this was priceless. freⅇ

Sun Haoyi took Sun Haowan’s hand and was about to speak.

"Wait!"

Sun Haize took a deep breath, images from the stories he’d read—tales of fearless, unrelenting Swordsmen—flashing before his eyes.

’Maybe I don’t have their strength, but I have a spirit that would rather break than bend.’ "If you want to take my sister, you’ll have to do it over my dead body!"

With that, he gripped his Flying Sword and charged out of the cave.

"Fifth Brother, don’t be reckless!"

Sun Haoran yelled, but he was too late to stop him.

’Damn it, Fifth Brother is always so reckless and impulsive!’

’He’s always been like this!’

"Then let’s fight them to the death! If we die, we die together! We’ll still be family in the next life!"

In the heat of the moment, Sun Haoran shouted to rally them and charged after him. "We’re all rushing out!"

Hearing this, the hearts of the other Sun Clan Members warmed, and they followed close behind him.

Of course, the Honored Guest Elders weren’t moved by slogans about family.

But now that all the Sun Clan Members had charged out...

...swept up in the momentum, they knew if they didn’t join them, they would just be picked off one by one.

Several of the Honored Guest Elders’ faces paled, but they wordlessly drew their Flying Swords and followed.

Only the Honored Guest Elder who had been advocating for the sacrifice was left, gritting his teeth in fury. "What a goddamn idiot!" he cursed.

But he had no choice. He followed the others, hoping he might find a chance to break through the encirclement.

Yet when he emerged from the cave, he wasn’t met with the brutal scene he’d imagined.

The Sun Clan Members were all standing there, dumbfounded.

At the very front was Sun Haize, the first to have charged out.

Across from him, a young man in a Feather Robe stood with one foot on a rock.

In his left and right hands, he held the burly man and the Bronze Masked Cultivator by the scruffs of their necks, lifting them into the air.

His expression was casual; from a distance, it looked as if he were holding a pair of housecats.

The man was now sizing them up with curiosity. "Well, what a coincidence. You’re all here too?"

The newcomer was, of course, Xiao Chen.

Seeing the Sun Family cultivators appear, he didn’t forget to first finish off the two Evil Cultivators in his grasp and take their Storage Rings.

Only then did he ask, "These two Storage Rings are my spoils of war. No objections, right?"

The members of the Sun Family all nodded in unison. Of course, they had no objections.

With the bodies lying strewn about behind the rock, they wouldn’t have dared to object anyway.

Many of the Sun Family cultivators who had never seen Xiao Chen before were so frightened they immediately lowered their heads, not daring to meet his gaze.

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