Chapter 114 Her adoptive father’s enemies blamed her for being ungrateful!
In the beginning, when the death toll was still small, the people in Mingjian Villa thought that it was the peerless master hiding in the dark who was killing people randomly, but as the death toll increased, some people who knew about the raid on Sunset Sect suddenly realized that those dead were all the confidants of Villa Master Wan, who had participated in the raid on Sunset Sect.
This battle royale atmosphere was extremely torturous. Those who discovered Si Yuan's killing pattern were all people who had participated in the raid on Sunset Cult. They knew very well that they were also one of the targets to be killed. They did not want to be killed like their dead companions, and they were so scared that they shouted for mercy: "Master, please spare us! Master, please spare us! The raid on Sunset Cult was ordered by the owner of the manor. We were just following orders. We were all forced!"
Originally, Si Yuan did not intend to make public the reason for his revenge. Just like Mingjian Villa secretly attacked the Sunset Faction, Si Yuan also secretly retaliated against Mingjian Villa. After all, he did not have solid evidence that Master Wan led people to raid the Sunset Faction.
But now that the people from Mingjian Villa have taken the initiative to tell the truth of the matter, there is no need for evidence. Si Yuan pondered for a moment, but continued to reap the lives of those who participated in the raid on Sunset Sect.
For those who survived, Si Yuan was chasing them with the scythe of the god of death in hand. Those who knew the inside story dared to tell everything in order to save their lives. Anyway, Master Wan was already dead and most of his confidants were killed. They were not afraid of retaliation from Mingjian Villa if they told the truth. Of course, they had to confess their mistakes and beg for mercy as soon as possible, just to have a chance of survival.
Mingjian Villa is a top-notch and upright sect, so it is impossible for the entire villa to harbor corruption. At the very least, the slogans shouted out in public should be just and correct. After all, those who go along with Master Wan are a minority.
So when the unaware people of Mingjian Villa suddenly heard Manor Master Wan's trusted subordinates reveal that Manor Master Wan was plotting to wipe out the Sunset Sect in order to seize the Sunset Sect's magical skills, they were horrified and couldn't believe it.
But the enemies had come to their door, and it was Master Wan's confidant who took the initiative to admit it, so they had no way to refute it even if they wanted to.
Si Yuan kept those people who took the initiative to speak out the truth. He did not show up, but deliberately changed his voice. His cold and stern voice spread over a radius of more than ten miles: "I have a history with the former leader of the Sunset Sect. Now I know that the Sunset Sect has suffered such a disaster. I wanted to wipe out Mingjian Villa to avenge it. Since you are willing to make the truth public, I will spare your lives for now. If you dare to continue to whitewash the situation or confuse right and wrong, don't blame me for being ruthless!"
Of course Si Yuan would not admit that he was the leader of the Sunset Sect. Otherwise, wouldn't that be equivalent to announcing to the public that the Sunset Sect really had some secret manual that could enable them to practice the best martial arts in the world?
The Sunset Faction still needs time to develop and cannot be too ostentatious. It is just right to forge a peerless master who is friendly with the Sunset Faction but does not belong to the Faction to avenge them.
Not only does the faction have someone backing them up, making other forces afraid to deal with it, but it also makes people feel that the peerless master who supports the faction does not belong to it, and that taking the risk of offending the peerless master to deal with the faction will do more harm than good.
As soon as Si Yuan finished speaking, the people who were fleeing for their lives in Mingjian Villa were immediately overjoyed. Regardless of whether they had participated in the raid on Sunset Sect or not, they all responded in succession: "Yes, yes, what you said is absolutely right, I will definitely do it!"
Those who were loyal to Master Wan and unwilling to reveal the truth have died at the hands of Si Yuan. The rest saw that Master Wan was dead, so they decided to betray him and uncover the truth in order to protect themselves.
Those who were unaware of the raid on Sunset Sect either had a bad relationship with Manor Master Wan and did not have his trust, or they had been educated to be very upright and just, and were still immersed in shock and resentment as to "how could the owner of Mingjian Villa be such a despicable and shameless person". They could not say anything to ask the victims not to seek justice for the sake of Mingjian Villa's reputation.
So Si Yuan happily reached a consensus with the survivors of the Mingjian Villa Battle Royale.
In order to prevent the survivors of Mingjian Villa from slacking off, Si Yuan deliberately amplified his voice so that people within a radius of ten miles could hear it.
No matter how large the area of Mingjian Villa is, Si Yuan's voice transmission range is too wide. There are too many people from the martial arts world and ordinary people outside Mingjian Villa who heard what Si Yuan said.
The news spread quickly.
In this situation, even if Mingjian Villa came out to refute the rumors themselves, it might not be effective. What's more, the people from Mingjian Villa who had been threatened by Si Yuan did not dare to come out to confuse right and wrong and "refute the rumors."
After all, this is not a rumor, but a fact.
Soon Mingjian Villa was hit by a storm of public opinion. Even a greenhorn in the martial arts world heard about it. Master Wan of Mingjian Villa secretly led people to attack the Sunset Sect in order to obtain the martial arts secrets of the Sunset Sect, and almost wiped out the Sunset Sect. As a result, he was killed by a peerless master who was friends with the former leader of the Sunset Sect. If Master Wan's confidant had not knelt down and confessed his guilt quickly enough, Mingjian Villa would have been almost wiped out.
The world of martial arts has its own grudges. The mysterious peerless master came to the door to avenge his friend's sect. Revenge is a natural right, so no one in the world blames him. On the contrary, the act of killing people and stealing treasures by the owner of Mingjian Villa, Wan, is despicable and has been criticized.
As a top-notch and prestigious sect, Mingjian Villa’s reputation and credibility are extremely important. Now Mingjian Villa’s reputation is so bad that its credibility has also fallen to the bottom.
With a manor owner who secretly kills people to steal treasures and wipes out entire families, is Mingjian Villa really trustworthy? Anyone who was asked would think that Mingjian Villa was not trustworthy, so all industries of Mingjian Villa suffered a huge blow, especially the pawnshops, auction houses, money houses and other industries that made a lot of money every day. They were directly abandoned by customers who lost their trust in them and went bankrupt completely.
A single move can affect the entire body. The financial losses of Mingjian Villa's industries were too great. Other forces that once shared interests with them did not want to be treated as the same crows by getting too close to them, so they consciously drew a line between themselves and Mingjian Villa. Having lost this network of contacts, Mingjian Villa could only look around in confusion without any help.
The most important value of a martial arts sect is its martial arts strength. Because most of the masters were killed by Si Yuan and Master Wan, the remaining masters with good strength all have grudges against Master Wan. In this critical moment, they are not thinking about helping the dead Master Wan to protect his wife and children, but taking their own forces to divide up the remaining resources of Mingjian Villa, and each of them will separate and set up their own mountains. No one wants to stay and sink with the infamous Mingjian Villa.
So in the end, Mingjian Villa, which seemed to be just an empty shell, fell into the hands of Wan Buyin, the son of the owner of the villa.
Wan Buyin is ten years old this year and is already considered a sensible young boy. He realizes the current desperate situation of Mingjian Villa, but he still wants to revive Mingjian Villa.
His mother also kept educating him in his ears, reciting the past glory of Mingjian Villa, and teaching him to practice martial arts well to defeat his enemies and restore the former glory of Mingjian Villa.
But the Wan Buyin of today is no longer the glorious young master of Mingjian Villa in the original plot. Not only was his father, Master Wan, unable to protect him while alive, he also left him a huge mess after his death.
Most of the trusted subordinates left behind by Master Wan were dealt with by Si Yuan, and the rest directly betrayed him. As traitors, they hoped more than anyone else that Wan Buyin would not amount to anything, so that they would not be accused of treason and would not be held accountable. Therefore, these people would not only not become Wan Buyin's helpers, but would also be one of his biggest enemies.
Mingjian Villa's notorious reputation and the independent uncles and senior brothers could not help Wan Buyin at all. After all, Mingjian Villa was now a ruined place where anyone who came into contact with it would suffer.
If Madam Wan had not been obsessed with asking her son to revive Mingjian Villa, Wan Buyin would have wanted to give up.
However, Wan Buyin was fortunate that the Sunset Sect, which was not far from Mingjian Villa, did not send anyone to add insult to injury.
Now, they are the only orphan and widow left in Mingjian Villa. If someone from Luori came to seek revenge, they, mother and son, with just a few servants and guards, would definitely not be a match for them and might even die.
But Madam Wan and her son Wan Buyin were not the kind of people who pinned their hopes on the kindness of their enemies. They felt that if it were them, they would definitely take this opportunity to kill their enemy's wife, children and the elderly. So they moved away quietly in fear and their whereabouts were unknown.
In fact, the people of Sunset Faction had no intention of seeking revenge on the mother and son.
The Sunset Sect is also a righteous sect and would not do such a thing as killing even the wife and children who are unaware of the situation just for revenge.
Moreover, the unknown peerless master who had avenged the Sunset Sect had also said that as long as Mingjian Villa made the truth public, he would not attack the remaining people.
The people of Sunset Sect were extremely grateful to the unknown peerless master, and strictly followed the master's decision. After Mingjian Villa revealed the truth, they did not seek revenge on the people of Mingjian Villa.
Anyway, those people from Mingjian Villa who participated in the raid on Sunset Sect had been mostly dealt with by the mysterious senior master, so there was no need for the Sunset Sect to do it themselves, and they didn't need to bear the bad reputation of bullying orphans and widows for no reason.
After Wan Buyin and his mother disappeared, the Sunset Faction finally became too lazy to continue paying attention to Mingjian Villa. After all, the Sunset Faction was now busy expanding outward and occupying the sphere of influence vacated after the fall of Mingjian Villa.
After the fall of Mingjian Villa, there were other forces that coveted the nutrients in its corpse, but they were all afraid of the mysterious master behind the Sunset Sect and did not dare to take action. They could only watch as the Sunset Sect, a medium-sized sect, swallowed up the greatest benefits, while they could only get a little bit of the spoils.
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