A mouthful of blood was spat out.

Jia Shangshu’s aura swiftly weakened.

Shock, anger, indignance, and deep helplessness shot out from his wide eyes. In the end, all those emotions turned into despair.

“Haha, hahaha…”

Jia Shangshu laid on the ground, smiling numbly.

“Patriarch Jia, don’t die so quickly. You haven’t told me who your backer is.”

Su Jingxing paid attention to Jia Shangshu’s aura and said calmly, “Or are you still willing to be the scapegoat for the person behind you when you’re about to die?”

Given the Jia Family’s influence, they could at most affect the Dahong Prefecture.

The barbarians discovered were most likely spread all over the Yu Nation.

The faction that controlled it was definitely extraordinary. At the very least, it could influence the entire Yu Nation!

“Hehehe…”

Jia Shangshu laughed bitterly and his voice became softer and softer. “You’re right. The Jia Family is finished. There’s no need to take the blame for them. Let me tell you, my backer is…”

Swish!

A cold glint suddenly flew over from afar, sticking close to the ground as it headed straight for Jia Shangshu.

Bang!

Su Jingxing sent it flying from a distance with a palm strike, then threw a throwing dagger in the direction of the cold glint.

“The Xia Family!”

Sensing that danger had arrived and disappeared suddenly, Jia Shangshu’s face flushed red and his eyes were spewing fire. “The faction behind me is the Xia Family! It’s too late to silence me now! Hahaha… too late…”

Before he could finish his sentence, the agitated Jia Shangshu breathed his last.

In the distance, a Commissioner of Command of the Martial Suppression Office who had released a hidden weapon to silence Jia Shangshu also happened to have his head penetrated by a throwing dagger and died on the spot.

The Xia Family!

The mastermind controlling the barbarians and creating bloody crimes to bring chaos to the Yu Nation is actually the Xia Family!

As the Yu Nation’s imperial family, the Xia Family is actually putting on such a show behind the scenes. What are they up to?

What is the purpose of capturing barbarians from the Boundless Mountain Range, putting mechanical battle armor on them, and spreading them around in an attempt to cause chaos?

The Yu Nation was founded by their ancestors. Why would the Xia Family want to harm themselves?

Su Jingxing couldn’t figure it out.

However, at this moment, he recalled the last words of the founding ancestor of the Yu Nation, Xia Cangxuan.

No need to have any qualms about the Xia Family in the capital.

At that time, Su Jingxing threw it to the back of his mind after hearing him.

As long as the Xia Family did not provoke him, Su Jingxing could not be bothered with them.

Now that he thought about it, Xia Cangxuan probably already knew that the Xia Family was manipulating the barbarians to achieve some kind of goal.

It was lamentable to think about. It was already good enough that Xia Cangxuan was not angered to death that his descendants colluded with the barbarians to harm their home.

Xia Cangxuan had sacrificed and refined his physical body, the Kingdom Defending Jade Seal, and a divine weapon. Through some secret method, he managed to hold on until Su Jingxing entered the Void World.

What was his motive for not wanting and not daring to die?

It was all because of the Yu Nation!

In the end, his descendants were sabotaging him behind his back.

Su Jingxing believed that if Xia Cangxuan could leave the Void World and go to the imperial capital, he would definitely kill everyone in the Xia Family with one slap.

Unfortunately, Xia Cangxuan’s situation at that time did not allow him to do so.

Now that Su Jingxing knew the truth, he didn’t mind teaching the Xia Family a lesson on behalf of Xia Cangxuan.

Of course, before that, he had to settle the appointment with the Martial Sage tomorrow.

Then, he would forge the Kingdom Defending Jade Seal.

The Xia Family’s influence spread all over the country. Su Jingxing would not be able to handle all the barbarians scattered in the various places alone. He had to work with the cabinet or the rest of the five major martial arts families.

An operation so decentralized had to be completed in one go.

Otherwise, the future troubles would be too great.

Crippling and destroying the Xia Family in the capital had to be considered at length.

…

After some thought, Su Jingxing continued to extract cards. He only left after all the barbarians in the underground space were killed.

Teng Hejing and the others watched Su Jingxing disappear into the horizon.

If Su Jingxing was willing, he could take most of the assets and resources left behind after the Jia Family’s destruction. Even if he took all of them, Teng Hejing wouldn’t say anything.

However, these things could not be dealt with so quickly. Su Jingxing was not short of money either. He was not interested in pills, martial arts, or spirit weapons.

Su Jingxing had already obtained the most important thing.

Stepping on Thunderbolt, he returned to Qinghe City at his fastest speed.

Back at his small courtyard at the foot of the mountain, Su Jingxing opened his palm space and took out the cards he had extracted. He read their information one by one.

In the end, he obtained one True Essence Card, 32 True Energy Cards, 18 Skill Cards, two Memory Cards, one Deduction Card, 42 Martial Arts Practice Cards, and 56 Mighty Strength Cards.

There were 93 Internal Force Cards. The remaining Equipment Cards, Essence Energy Cards, and Strength Enhancement Cards added up to more than 200.

The Martial Arts Practice Cards and the Mighty Strength Cards mainly came from barbarian corpses.

The other cards came from members of the Jia Family.

Oh right, there was also an Invisibility Card, from the Shadow Demon Frog back at the Black Flame Caves.

The two Memory Cards contained the memories of the Jia Family’s martial artists. Su Jingxing took a look and found nothing outstanding. After unlocking them, they naturally dissipated.

The Deduction Card only contained two deduction chances, and each with one-third success rate.

The True Essence Card contained nine years of true essence cultivation.

The cultivation in the True Energy Cards varied from one to 13 years.

For now, Su Jingxing was in no hurry to unlock and absorb them. He stored them away for now.

Right now, the most important thing for him was to deal with tomorrow’s appointment with New Chu’s Martial Sage.

Before sunset, he had to appear on Giant Shark Island.

Su Jingxing was considering whether to use his Essence Soul or his main body.

The Blood Doppelganger was the most suitable, but New Chu’s Martial Sage Chu might be able to see through the structure of a pure energy body.

Exposing his doppelganger was one problem. New Chu’s Martial Sage using this as an excuse to attack the Yu Nation was another.

Therefore, the one attending had to be either the Essence Soul or main body.

However, the problem was that Su Jingxing’s main body was still in the third-grade, even though his true essence cultivation had exceeded 200 years.

However, against New Chu’s Martial Sage physical body, he probably wouldn’t be able to gain much advantage.

If New Chu’s Martial Sage managed to see through him, the consequences would be too great.

The Yu Nation’s new Martial Sage was merely a third-grade martial artist. If news of this were to spread, the morale of the Yu Nation would plummet.

Although few people would believe this,

given New Chu’s Martial Sage scheming nature, he would definitely cause trouble.

This wasn’t something that Su Jingxing could handle with just three shots of Spirit Annihilation.

Even if Spirit Annihilation was lucky and killed the physical body of New Chu’s Martial Sage, his Essence Soul would still remain.

Therefore, after much thought, Su Jingxing decided to go there with his Essence Soul.

An Essence Soul in the third class of Void Soul could temporarily withstand the roasting of the sun.

At most, Su Jingxing would arrive at Giant Shark Island a second before sunset.

Right, Giant Shark Island was located out at sea, about a hundred kilometers away from land.

The sea region was not covered in Yu Nation’s Void World area.

The Void World only overlapped the land.

To go out to sea, the Essence Soul had to leave the Void World and fly to the Giant Shark Island.

Once he left the Void World, he had to end this quickly. What if there were monsters in the Void World…

Hmm?

Suddenly, Su Jingxing’s Essence Soul in the Void World felt a chill in its heart and turned to look at the darkness in the north.

The Wandering Dragon Saber floating beside him circled around his body and emitted a glow.

In the Essence Soul’s vision, a familiar snake-like creature poked its head out of the darkness…