Chapter 251: Leaving It for the New Year?

Chapter 6: Keeping Him for New Year?

Inside the quiet courtyard, Meng You and Meng An sat, watching Young Master Wang Cong enter with his elderly guard.

"My little beauty, I'm not harming you; I'm helping you," Young Master Wang Cong said with a smile as he stepped in. "You know the Xiao family of Jiangzhou, don't you?"

"The Xiao family?" Meng You and Meng An exchanged a glance.

They certainly knew.

Xiao Yunyue, the newly elevated Marquis Godfiend from the Xiao family, had a very good relationship with their parents. When Xiao Yunyue returned to Jiangzhou, she even specially visited Meng Chuan and his wife, bringing gifts for the two children. Although Meng Chuan and his wife hadn't allowed their children to meet outsiders due to secrecy, they had still passed on Xiao Yunyue's gifts to Meng You and Meng An.

Meng You and Meng An also remembered "Auntie Xiao."

The war was brutal. Over the past decade, many elite Godfiend teams from Yuanchu Mountain had fallen in battle, but six new Marquis Godfiends had also risen, including Yan Chimu and Xiao Yunyue.

"The young master of the Xiao family has taken a liking to you," Wang Cong said with a pale smile. "If you follow him, you'll enjoy wealth and luxury from now on. Even your brother and parents will benefit from it."

"Follow him?" Meng You said coldly. "To be his plaything?"

"You're not wrong to think that way; you'd be a plaything," Wang Cong chuckled. "Many people wish to be Young Master Xiao's plaything, but they don't even get the chance."

"What if I refuse?" Meng You asked.

"Refuse?"

A cold glint appeared in Wang Cong's eyes. He said nonchalantly, "How was the last stubborn girl who refused me dealt with?"

A fierce glint flashed in the elderly guard's eyes. "She was simply made to 'accompany' over a dozen men. She died of exhaustion in the middle of the night, and then her body was fed to dogs."

"Do you want to be fed to dogs?" Wang Cong smiled as he looked at Meng You.

That smile...

Under the cover of night, it appeared so sinister, igniting boundless fury in the hearts of Meng You and Meng An.

"You deserve to die!" Meng An roared, grabbing his spear and charging forward. Meng You, her face etched with frost, also drew her sword.

They had intended to investigate Young Master Wang further before deciding on a suitable punishment.

Now, the siblings shared only one thought: Young Master Wang Cong deserved to die!

"Impudent!" the elderly guard reprimanded upon seeing this, stepping forward to protect his young master. Meanwhile, the five guards stationed outside the courtyard gate immediately rushed in, surrounding Meng You and Meng An.

Wang Cong was, after all, the grandson of Wang Fanchou, an elder of the Wang family in Yunzhou. These five ordinary guards were all at the Seamless realm. However, Meng An and Meng You possessed profound Godfiend foundations, having been meticulously taught by Meng Chuan for many years. As they wielded their spear and sharp sword, spear shadows crisscrossed and sword light flashed, astonishing the five guards.

"What formidable spear techniques!"

"This swordplay is dazzling me." The five guards found themselves unable to do anything.

Wang Cong frowned at the sight, glancing at the elderly guard beside him. The elderly guard nodded slightly and instantly stepped forward.

*Thwack.*

A sword thrust, swift as a phantom, was caught between two fingers by the elderly guard.

"What?" Meng You was shocked.

With a slight squeeze of his fingers, the elderly guard exerted pressure. *Bang!* Meng You felt a terrifying force transmit through the sword, making her unable to hold it. The sword flew from her grasp.

"Sister!" Meng An exclaimed in alarm, rushing over to protect his sister.

"Truly overestimating yourselves," the elderly guard sneered. As an old servant who accompanied the young master, he was a master of the Core Condensation realm, capable of completely overwhelming the siblings.

He moved, striking Meng An's chest with one hand. Meng An had no time to react.

Suddenly—

An invisible force enveloped the small courtyard. Young Master Wang Cong, the five ordinary guards, and the elderly guard all changed their expressions.

"What is this?" The elderly guard felt an invisible force surrounding him everywhere. His hand could no longer move forward, and he couldn't even budge, his eyes revealing terror.

The five guards and Young Master Wang Cong also felt a terrifying power encircling them, filling them with fear and dread.

A Godfiend!

This kind of power... they could only attribute it to a Godfiend! It was a force far beyond mortals.

*Whoosh.*

A colorful small bird slowly descended from mid-air.

"A bird?" Wang Cong, the elderly guard, and the five ordinary guards all felt a suffocating power permeating the surroundings, yet the small bird seemed completely unaware, landing effortlessly. As it neared the ground, they watched dumbfounded as the colorful bird transformed directly into an old man with graying hair.

The gray-haired old man coldly swept his gaze over Wang Cong and the others, then lightly flicked his sleeve.

A terrifying force swept past.

All seven of them were sent flying backward, landing in the corners, utterly powerless to resist.

"Demon... Demon... Demon King!" Wang Cong stammered in disbelief.

"It's a Demon King," the elderly guard and the other six guards gasped in terror. Mortals could not resist a Demon King.

The gray-haired old man, hunched back, respectfully approached Meng You and Meng An. "Young Master, Young Lady."

Meng You said, "Thank you, Uncle Hua."

"It's what an old servant ought to do," Uncle Hua said with a chuckle. He was absolutely loyal to Meng Chuan and his wife, and naturally, he had always loyally protected Meng You and Meng An.

*Crack.* Wang Cong reacted, quietly crushing a jade talisman he held to call for help. At the same time, he lowered his voice to the elderly guard beside him. "Is that the Uncle Hua you mentioned?"

The elderly guard was also incredulous, whispering, "All the information gathered by our subordinates said he was just an ordinary old servant."

Uncle Hua glanced at Wang Cong but paid him no mind.

"A Demon King as a servant? This Demon King's aura is even more terrifying than my grandfather's." Wang Cong's face turned pale; his grandfather was an Indestructible Godfiend.

"A Demon King serving as a servant, living in seclusion within our human world... there must be a huge scheme. We've actually discovered their whereabouts." Wang Cong's heart pounded with panic. "It's over, it's over."

Uncle Hua glanced at Wang Cong, then continued respectfully, "Young Master, Young Lady, your identities cannot be exposed. They saw this old servant take action, so none of them can be spared. In this old servant's opinion, we should first capture them all and let the Master and Mistress decide their fate."

"Hmph."

However, Meng An suddenly lunged forward, spear in hand, thrusting it directly at Wang Cong.

Just as Wang Cong was about to dodge, Uncle Hua's eyelids lifted, and he gave Wang Cong a cold look. An invisible force instantly bound Wang Cong, rendering him utterly immobile.

*Pfft.* Wang Cong could only watch, wide-eyed, as a spear shadow flashed and pierced through his chest. He stared at his own wound.

Then Meng An abruptly pulled the spear out.

Blood spurted.

"You—" Wang Cong clutched his chest as blood continuously poured out. He weakly collapsed to the ground, staring at Meng An in despair and disbelief.

All he wanted was to capture a little beauty.

How did it come to this?

Wang Cong's breath ceased.

"Scum like this should just be killed cleanly. Why keep him around until the New Year?" Meng An's eyes blazed with fury.

"Good riddance," Meng You exclaimed, startled at first, then cheering. She also looked at Wang Cong's corpse with seething anger.

"The remaining six are also accomplices; get rid of them directly." Meng An turned to the six guards, who, along with the elderly guard, panicked.

Several miles away, a large mansion stood.

This was the Jiangzhou residence of a branch of the Wang family, a Marquis Godfiend clan. The mansion was brightly lit, teeming with maidservants, and patrolled by guards.

Inside a quiet chamber.

Wang Fanchou, an elder of the Wang family Godfiends, sat cross-legged. Although he was only an Indestructible Godfiend and could only serve as the head of a branch family, his status as a Wang family elder ensured no one dared to slight him.

"Hmm?"

Wang Fanchou suddenly opened his eyes, looking in one direction with shock. "Cong'er is calling for help? In his private courtyard?"

Wang Fanchou instantly rushed out of the quiet chamber.

As an Indestructible Godfiend, his movement technique was naturally extremely fast. Under the night sky, he flitted like a phantom across rooftops and treetops, quickly reaching the private courtyard several miles away.

He landed at the entrance of the small courtyard and immediately saw seven bodies lying inside, their blood staining the courtyard crimson. Among these seven bodies... six were guards, and one, of course, was his grandson, Wang Cong. Wang Cong lay there, eyes wide, with a penetrating bloodied hole in his chest.

"Cong'er!" Wang Fanchou was both shocked and enraged. He also saw the three figures standing within the courtyard.

Meng You and Meng An, along with the old servant Uncle Hua standing beside them.

"A Godfiend has arrived?" The old servant Uncle Hua frowned slightly upon seeing Wang Fanchou approach. He immediately sent a request for aid to Meng Chuan and Liu Qiyue via his token.

As a bird Demon King, he was not suitable for handling internal human affairs. It was naturally best to leave such matters to his masters.