Ding Yun’s intention was clear. If her husband wanted to pledge loyalty and be a loyal subject, then let him be.
Wouldn't it be better if he died for the heir himself?
As for using their son's life to exchange for his loyalty.
He could dream of it in the underworld.
"This… how is this possible?"
Seeing the guards in front of him gradually become identical to himself, Su Yong, the heir of Zhenbei Hou, truly found it unbelievable. He had seen people who could disguise themselves, and he had seen people who could perform bone shrinking techniques. He had seen countless people who could disguise themselves as others.
But those disguise masters could only disguise themselves.
Or rather, even the most skilled disguise masters could only achieve perfection when disguising themselves. Using their own methods to disguise others would leave many flaws.
Moreover, no matter how powerful a disguise master was, at most, they could make two people look identical. Their inner strength, martial arts, and the like could not be changed at all!
But this woman in front of him.
Had completely shattered his preconceived notions right before his eyes.
Not only did her personal guard become identical to him, but even his martial arts realm and the characteristics of his martial arts were exactly the same as his. But he practiced their family's ancestral secret manual, the kind that was not passed down to non-direct descendants, and the manual had always been passed down orally, never written. This was simply impossible.
Yet the aura on the other side was so real.
A realness that was identical to his.
At this moment, the heir of Zhenbei Hou's mind was in chaos. He had many questions he wanted to ask, but he didn't know where to start, nor did he know if he should ask.
However, Ding Yun ignored him and did not kindly explain anything. She simply reached out as before and first struck Ge Jun's dantian, crippling his martial arts.
Then she struck at his heart.
How the original body died, he would die the same way.
Not long after, Ge Jun's initially enraged and terrified eyes, due to the severe injuries of severed heart meridians and damaged internal organs, finally dimmed with great unwillingness.
In layman's terms, he was dead.
"Heir of Zhenbei Hou, your family's guards and retainers probably won't be able to hold on for much longer. This beast's corpse is for you. Making use of a waste is also a good choice.
As for us, our grievances are settled for now.
I'm too lazy to hold grudges against you for his mistake. Da Feng Novel Network.
I wish you good luck in the future, heh…"
After leaving these words, Ding Yun, ignoring the desperate pleas of the Zhenbei Hou's wife, immediately held her child and fled rapidly like a streak of light.
Generally speaking, the strongest individuals who were at the Martial Saint level and still active were mostly at the Grandmaster realm. The group that came to encircle and suppress the Zhenbei Hou's mansion this time didn't even have a Grandmaster. It was only about ten Masters working together, otherwise, the Zhenbei Hou's mansion would not have been able to hold on until now.
Therefore, Ding Yun's departure was unstoppable.
Even the Masters who were positioned around to prevent anyone from escaping didn't have any reaction. Ding Yun successfully left.
And as Ding Yun drifted away, the heir's wife, who had just been desperately pleading with Ding Yun to stay, offering any price, hoping Ding Yun could disguise the maids and other children in the mansion as herself and her child, so that she and her son could escape.
She immediately roared with anger and unwillingness:
"Why didn't you stop her just now? Why didn't you beg her with me? She clearly had the ability to help us. She must not have believed how much I was willing to pay, so she left. But if you had begged her with me just now, maybe she would have been willing to help.
Are you going to watch us mother and son die?
You were hesitating just now. You were hesitating when Ge Jun said he would replace our son with his son!"
People are sometimes not afraid of despair, but they are afraid of comparison.
Even more so, they are afraid of falling into despair after seeing hope.
The heir's wife was in this situation. Originally, her son had a chance to live, but then hope was lost due to a moment of hesitation. Then, Ding Yun's appearance and actions gave her a glimmer of hope, but Ding Yun didn't listen to her pleas at all and turned to leave.
This extinguished her hope once again.
And now, the corpse beside them, identical to the heir of Zhenbei Hou, was undoubtedly enough to ensure the heir of Zhenbei Hou's survival, and even to avoid pursuit, because with this corpse, who could still doubt that he was dead?
But she and her son had no hope.
At this moment, her sorrow welled up, and she spoke without thinking:
"Yes, you don't have to worry about your own life now. After you escape successfully, you can still have as many sons as you want. You are so heartless."
On the verge of death, what need was there for dignity and virtue?
If she didn't vent, she would feel like she died in vain.
The heir of Zhenbei Hou did not argue. He stood in place and remained silent for a long time. Finally, he gritted his teeth, stamped his foot, struck his wife, the heir's wife, who was still chattering incessantly, to death with a palm, and then hurried to drag the corpses of Ge Jun and his wife into the house to change clothes and disguise himself.
He exchanged his clothes with Ge Jun and appropriately disguised Ge Jun's injuries to make it look like suicide, severing his own meridians, rather than being beaten to death.
This way, the scene in the house would look like the heir of Zhenbei Hou, knowing he couldn't survive, first killed his wife with a palm, and then severed his own meridians to commit suicide.
Since he was going to die anyway, it was better to be killed by him than to be captured and tortured in prison, and then beheaded publicly.
After consoling himself in this way,
The heir of Zhenbei Hou also disguised himself, pretending to be an ordinary servant, and hid among the corpses, feigning death with the Turtle Breath technique. After all, their main target was the direct lineage of Zhenbei Hou.
He just had to wait for the imperial court officials to discover "his" corpse.
The Masters surrounding them should then withdraw, leaving only a few to clean up. At that time, with his strength, whether he continued to feign death or took the opportunity to escape would not be difficult.
And what happened next was indeed as he expected.
After the imperial court's several Masters jointly killed several strong Masters who had sworn to protect Zhenbei Hou, they successfully entered the backyard of the Hou's mansion and found the corpses of the heir of Zhenbei Hou and his wife, as well as the child beside their corpses. After verification by several Masters, everyone was absolutely certain that the ones dead inside were indeed the heir of Zhenbei Hou and his wife.
After all, the appearance of that corpse was not fake, the strength of the Master realm was not fake, and the residual true essence within the body was the same as the true essence cultivated by the direct lineage of Zhenbei Hou's inherited techniques. So many matching points.
How could a person be fake?
Although they didn't understand why the heir of Zhenbei Hou would kill his wife and then commit suicide, instead of thinking of taking his few remaining children with him before dying, the current situation was clearly better. After all, they didn't want to engage in a life-and-death battle with a martial artist at the peak of the Master realm.
Next, of course, was to collect the corpses and take back the remaining surviving members of the Zhenbei Hou's mansion for interrogation.
A few more people were left behind to clean up and sweep the Hou's mansion.
Confiscate property and seal the mansion, and so on.
The heir of Zhenbei Hou took the opportunity to escape. With one less servant's corpse, no one would pay attention. Moreover, they didn't even know how many servants Zhenbei Hou's mansion had, so one less would be even less noticeable.
The imperial court did not believe that such terrifying disguise techniques as Ding Yun's existed in the world, so they were very confident that the heir of Zhenbei Hou and his wife and other direct descendants had all been killed. Therefore, they immediately announced the matter to the outside world.
Formally proclaiming to the world.
The Zhenbei Hou's mansion was annihilated for treason.