Not only Jia Yuanchun was killing, but besides Song Yuzhi, the other six people who were dispatched from the Ruan Guange this time were also killing.
Li Xuefeng's home was relatively close to the Daxing Imperial City, and coupled with the fact that she, her master, and her servants were traveling, she returned to her old home in Kunshan County, Zhili, on the third day.
Li Xuefeng's father, Li Kuan, was an imperial physician in the Imperial Hospital.
However, at the beginning of last year, he was expelled from the Imperial Hospital due to the incident of the imperial concubine's visit on the Lantern Festival.
Li Kuan returned to Kunshan County and opened a medical clinic with his remaining money. Because of his good medical skills and his reputation as an imperial physician, his business was good.
As a result, he also offended some people.
Before, when his eldest daughter, Li Xueying, was still around, there was a first-class expert guarding their home, and no one dared to cause trouble. But after Li Xueying entered the palace, things here gradually became less peaceful.
Although he still had three sons and two daughters, they were not very capable.
They couldn't achieve anything in martial arts, nor could they save lives with medicine.
When Li Xuefeng returned home, she saw her two younger brothers at the doorstep, disheveled and looking very embarrassed.
"Eldest brother, second brother, what's wrong? Did you get into trouble again?"
Li Xuefeng called out from a distance.
"Sister? You're second sister? Second sister, you're back?"
The taller of the two youths saw Li Xuefeng and first asked uncertainly, then ran over excitedly.
"Second sister, second sister, it's really you, it's great that you're back! Now third sister and fourth sister will be saved!"
"Third sister? Fourth sister? Are they in danger? Who dares to bully my sisters?"
Upon hearing her eldest brother's words, Li Xuefeng's eyes began to burn with anger.
"Second sister, let's go quickly. I'll tell you on the way."
Li Youlai pulled Li Xuefeng and walked out.
In fact, the story was very simple and melodramatic, just a standard tale of bullying the weak.
Kunshan County was named after Kunlun Mountain behind it. There was a martial arts sect on Kunlun Mountain called the Kunlun Sect.
Being named after a mountain, the Kunlun Sect was naturally not a small sect.
In the Five Directions Dynasty, sects were divided into three grades: upper, middle, and lower.
Upper-class major sects must have Grandmasters to be called superior sects.
Among them, those major sects that had produced Heaven-Human martial artists were called top-tier sects, and they were transcendent existences that could stand on par with the imperial family of the Five Directions Dynasty.
Middle-class sects needed to have Grandmaster martial artists as their backbone. Once all the innate Grandmaster martial artists in a sect died, they would automatically be demoted to a lower-class sect.
Lower-class sects required at least one first-class expert to be their backbone.
If there were no first-class experts, then they could not be called sects, but only martial arts schools or escort agencies.
The Kunlun Sect was an upper-class sect, a superior sect that still had a Grandmaster ancestor as its backbone.
This time, Li Kuan offended the Kunlun Sect.
The reason was also very simple – a beauty was the cause of trouble.
Wu Daode, the young master of the Kunlun Sect, was a dandy with extremely high martial arts talent.
At the young age of eighteen, he already possessed peak first-class strength and was the favored candidate for the next sect leader by everyone in the Kunlun Sect.
However, this guy had a bad habit: he was lecherous from a young age.
After seeing Li Xuefeng's two younger sisters, he had been coveting them. But before, his cultivation was not high, and with their eldest sister Li Xueying around, he had no opportunity.
Now that Li Xueying had entered the palace, and he heard that the Li family had fallen from grace, and even their noble sister in the imperial palace was in danger.
Now Wu Daode had no scruples.
After a period of probing, Wu Daode finally couldn't help himself today and abducted Li Xuefeng's two younger sisters, Li Xueqin and Li Xueqiong.
"Eldest brother, you're slow, so you don't need to follow. Just point me in the direction, and I'll go faster."
"Ah? Second sister, didn't you bring any guards back? Why don't you let your guards go?"
"Hmph, I don't need guards. Stop spouting nonsense and tell me the direction."
"Oh~ Over there, to the northeast, the highest peak of Kunlun Mountain."
"Got it."
Before she finished speaking, Li Xuefeng and her two maids, Piaoxue and Xuejing, disappeared from Li Youliang's sight and then vanished from his vision.
"When did second sister become so powerful?
And her maids seem very powerful too?"
Li Youliang was still wondering, then he came to his senses and rushed home to report the good news to his younger brother and father.
Kunlun Mountain was not very high, only over 400 zhang.
But it was not small either, spanning over a hundred li in circumference.
Li Xuefeng and her two maids drank the Tiger Blood Wine specially brought out by Yang Hong, and it still took them over an hour to reach the mountain gate of the Kunlun Sect.
"Stop right there. This is the Kunlun Sect's territory and is private property of the Kunlun Sect."
Upon reaching the mountain gate, the three were stopped by four Kunlun Sect disciples guarding the gate.
"Alright, I won't go in. Please inform your esteemed sect leader, Mr. Wu Liang, that a member of Imperial Physician Li Kuan's family is here to see him."
Li Xuefeng was here to rescue people, not to fight, so she suppressed the anxiety in her heart and said as calmly as possible.
"Heh~ You, a little girl, want to see our sect leader? Are you not awake?"
A young man with a handsome appearance but a somewhat pale complexion said contemptuously.
He looked like he had a weak kidney.
And at this moment, he looked at Li Xuefeng with a playful glint in his eyes, as if appraising prey.
"My name is Li Xuefeng. I believe your sect leader knows my name. Hurry up and inform him."
Li Xuefeng still suppressed her disgust and anger, trying to remain calm.
"Li Xuefeng? Oh~ You're that so-called empress from the Li family, right?"
"Why aren't you serving the old emperor and ran back home?"
"Why don't you come and serve me? I guarantee it'll be an experience beyond your wildest dreams."
"Yes, yes, and me~ And us too."
The Kunlun Sect disciples guarding the gate did not take Li Xuefeng seriously at all. They basically all knew that Li Xuefeng had been banished to the cold palace.
After all, Li Kuan's return to Kunshan County had caused quite a stir.
As for these Kunlun Sect disciples, they knew about Li Xuefeng because the Li sisters were all beauties. Even their eldest sister, Li Xueying, although robust, was also an undeniable beauty.
Otherwise, she would not have qualified to enter the imperial palace.
Li Xuefeng's two younger sisters were also very beautiful and might not be inferior to Li Xuefeng before she started cultivating.
And Li Xuefeng, who was hailed as the most beautiful of the Li family, was the object of fantasy for many Kunlun Sect disciples.
Therefore, these disciples, who knew a lot of information about Li Xuefeng, began to tease her without any reservation.
"I am saying this for the last time. I, Li Xuefeng, request an audience with the Kunlun Sect leader, Wu Liang. Inform him immediately."
Li Xuefeng's face sank, and her voice gradually turned cold.
"Hahaha~ Miss Li, you don't need to inform our sect leader. Just come in with us."
The fair-faced handsome disciple smiled and turned around.
However, his smile looked rather lewd.
"Pull yourselves together."
Li Xuefeng instructed the two maids beside her, then directly led them to follow.
After a stretch of blue stone steps over two li long, followed by a gravel path of over five li, and then crossing a huge square two li wide, the four arrived in front of a magnificent mansion and stopped.
The disciples guarding the gate only said a few words to the disciples in front of the mansion, and they were allowed to enter.
"Hehe, this is our sect leader's residence. Ladies, please."
"Hmph~"
Li Xuefeng snorted coldly but did not move.
Because she could hear the sounds of intense combat between a man and a woman.
These Kunlun Sect disciples were not only ill-intentioned but also extremely disgusting!
Just as Li Xuefeng was about to question them, a triumphant laugh came.
"Hahaha~ I've heard for a long time that Miss Li Xuefeng is unparalleled in beauty, and seeing you today, it is indeed well-deserved!"