At this moment, Joshua Wang stood amidst the corpses of his Wang Family members, his emotions in turmoil, unable to form coherent words. All he could manage were guttural sounds from his throat, glaring fiercely at Terra Su, panting heavily.
After a long pause, Joshua finally forced out a sentence, “Terra Su, we had no deep-seated enmity. Why do you harbor such hatred for the Wang Family?”
In truth, this was something Joshua had never understood. While there had been some friction between Terra Su and the Wang Family, Joshua always believed it was something that could be resolved. How had things escalated to this point?
Looking back, it seemed Terra Su had never intended to reconcile with the Wang Family. He had made peace with the Ye Family, but his attitude towards the Wang Family had always been unyielding.
Now, facing death, Joshua finally asked the question that had plagued him. Before he died, he needed to understand.
“Maybe it’s because I just don’t like you,” Terra Su replied indifferently. With a casual swing of his sword, he decapitated Joshua Wang.
Joshua Wang, dead!
From this day forward, there would be no Wang Family in Clear River City!
The scene fell silent, everyone stunned by Terra Su’s ruthless methods.
“Now it’s your turn,” Terra Su said calmly, turning to the members of North Jiang Manor.
To them, Terra Su’s indifferent gaze felt like the stare of a demon from hell. Just meeting his eyes sent a chilling terror through their hearts.
They couldn’t help but start begging for mercy, “Terra Su, we never opposed you. Spare our lives.”
“Yes, the major decisions of North Jiang Manor were made by Otto Jiang and Robert Jiang. We, as collateral relatives, had no say. We never actively opposed you.”
“Please, for the sake of the time you lived with the Jiang Family, spare us.”
In fact, the collateral relatives of North Jiang Manor weren’t exactly good people, but they weren’t bad either. When South Jiang Manor and North Jiang Manor split, they didn’t have the courage to align with South Jiang Manor. However, they hadn’t done anything wrong while in North Jiang Manor.
These people, being of the Jiang surname, could help Sophia Xu manage many affairs if they were integrated into South Jiang Manor.
“Any collateral relatives of North Jiang Manor willing to join South Jiang Manor can be spared,” Terra Su said calmly. “Those unwilling, and all direct relatives of North Jiang Manor, will be executed.”
“I! I am willing to join South Jiang Manor!”
“We are also willing to serve South Jiang Manor!”
Upon hearing this, everyone scrambled to express their willingness.
“I swear by my Heart Demon to serve South Jiang Manor for life, following Lady Xu without any disloyalty!”
Some, more astute, swore by their Heart Demons, prompting others to follow suit.
Those who swore loyalty to South Jiang Manor gathered around Terra Su.
In the end, only the direct relatives of North Jiang Manor and a few of Otto Jiang and Robert Jiang’s confidants remained.
“You little bastard, you dare kill us?” Robert Jiang roared in defiance. He never imagined his end would come at Terra Su’s hands.
“Terra Su, just wait. You will die, and everyone in South Jiang Manor will meet the same fate!”
Amidst their unyielding cries, the direct relatives of North Jiang Manor met their end.
Finally, after Otto Jiang and Robert Jiang were also killed by Terra Su, everyone knew that North Jiang Manor would be erased from Clear River City.
From now on, Clear River City would have only one superpower, South Jiang Manor.
No, it should now be called the Jiang Family!
With fear in their eyes, everyone watched Terra Su enter the Wang Family’s estate to claim their assets.
As the former top family in Clear River City, the Wang Family had numerous properties. Once managed by the Jiang Family, they would quickly generate immense wealth.
Additionally, there were plenty of gold, silver, precious herbs, and materials.
Terra Su took a cursory look and decided to leave it for now, planning to send people from the Jiang Family to take over later.
“There’s still one more person,” Terra Su suddenly remembered. There was one loose end from North Jiang Manor he hadn’t dealt with yet.
That was Madam Jiang, the mother of Otto Jiang and Robert Jiang.
Terra Su had no fondness for this opportunistic old woman. Since she wasn’t Robert Jiang’s biological mother, there was no need to spare her.
With that, Terra Su swiftly headed towards North Jiang Manor.
A stick of incense later.
Terra Su arrived at North Jiang Manor and began searching the estate.
After a thorough search, he unexpectedly found Madam Jiang’s lifeless body in one of the rooms.
Madam Jiang was already dead!
This scene puzzled Terra Su greatly.
“Who killed Madam Jiang?”
Terra Su pondered as he looked at the room where Madam Jiang had lived.
“Could someone have known I was going to destroy North Jiang Manor and killed her to curry favor with me?”
“No, that’s not right! Judging by the state of the body, she has been dead for two or three hours. At that time, I had just arrived at the Wang Family’s gate. The Wang Family and North Jiang Manor hadn’t been destroyed yet.”
Terra Su shook his head. It was impossible for someone to have foreseen his ability to challenge and defeat both families and killed Madam Jiang in advance.
“If that’s not the reason, then who killed Madam Jiang?”
Terra Su examined the wound on Madam Jiang’s body. She had been killed by a single stab to the chest, a fatal blow.
There were no other clues, and the wound didn’t reveal any specific martial techniques.
Terra Su flashed outside the estate and grabbed a servant who was trying to escape. “Has Madam Jiang shown any unusual behavior recently?”
The servant, trembling, stammered, “R-replying to Young Master Su, the Madam… she met with a black-clothed person last night and had a secret conversation. Other than that, there was nothing unusual.”
“A black-clothed person?”
Terra Su frowned, “Who was it?”
“Replying to Young Master Su, I really don’t know. The black-clothed person was shrouded in black mist, looking very mysterious.”
Terra Su had no further clues.
However, he suddenly recalled that in his previous life, he had returned to Clear River City at the age of twenty-four.
At that time, the Wang Family was no longer in Clear River City. It was said that they had moved elsewhere.
“Madam Jiang was originally from a collateral branch of the Wang Family, right?” Terra Su asked.
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