Chapter 186: The Fires
In the darkness of the night over Sheng Province, the Yuan family estate had already become a sea of fire. Towering flames roared into the sky, and from within that inferno Murong Xiaoya's figure walked slowly out.
Of the entire Yuan family, not one person remained. Their bodies were consumed by the fire, leaving not a bone behind.
Murong Xiaoya did not look back once. Her figure shifted, and she was gone from the long street before the estate without a trace.
The common people and martial world wanderers of the nearby streets had all been stirred by the commotion at the Yuan estate, and many of them crouched hidden in the shadows watching from a distance.
At the sudden sight of the Yuan estate now burning, one and all were filled with shock and bewilderment.
None of them could understand how the Yuan family, who had just wiped out the Murong family in such triumphant fashion, had come to such a turn of events in the blink of an eye.
Murong Xiaoya did not pause in her path of vengeance. In less than half an hour she had gone on to destroy the Zhu and Cen families, the remaining two of the city's four great martial households, one after the other.
The family heads, patriarchs, and every clansman and disciple of both families were killed to the last. No one could stop Murong Xiaoya, and not one of them could withstand even a single move against her.
Every place she passed was left as mountains of corpses and seas of fire.