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Chapter 4089: Dealing with It

"The Heaven's Will people used improved elixirs to cultivate a batch of skeletal flying beasts."

Looking at the prototypes of these little creatures, they appear to be a type of hummingbird-like flying beast.

However, their flesh had already withered, leaving only a stark, white skeleton.

"Grandfather, you see now, I contacted the Heaven's Will people solely to investigate more information for everyone." Mu Erxue took a deep breath, touching his head to the ground, giving a resounding kowtow. "I approached them for the sake of the family..."

"Don't talk nonsense," Qiao Mu coldly interrupted him.

A faint, cold gleam flashed in Mu Erxue's downcast eyes.

"You originally intended to release these little creatures to cause unexpected chaos, and then seize the opportunity to escape, didn't you?"

"Why do you say that, Crown Princess?"

"No matter how eloquent you are, you cannot clear yourself of the crime of destroying the talisman array at the Mu family's mountain gate with Mu Jingxing."

"You and Mu Jingxing went to the Mu family's mountain gate together to welcome the group of Heaven's Will disciples brought by Mu Jingfeng, who then broke into the Mu family and killed many clan relatives and disciples. That... is absolutely a fact, isn't it?"

"Beasts," Mu Jinglao shouted angrily, pointing at Mu Erxue. "Father, Elders, the Second Branch family definitely cannot stay."

Mu Cang sighed softly, looking at Mu Jingxing and the others, shaking his head. "Then the Second Branch family shall be removed from the Mu clan genealogy and exiled from the capital."

"Father," Mu Jinglao called out, dissatisfied, seemingly silently blaming his father for not being decisive enough in handling the matter.

Such a betrayal of the clan, yet the punishment was merely a light touch after a big show. It was far too lenient.

But he couldn't understand the heart of Mu Cang as a father.

Even a tiger, though ferocious, does not eat its cubs. How could he personally order the killing of the Second Branch family? Mu Cang honestly felt he couldn't do it.

Since the Second Branch harbored ill intentions towards the Mu family, they could no longer remain in the family. Exiling them far away meant that whether they prospered or lived in poverty afterward, it would no longer concern the family.

"No, Grandfather, Grandfather, you can't kick me out of the house!" Mu Rouyi cried out, her face showing some terror. "Grandfather, I'm your biological granddaughter, Grandfather."

Mu Cang waved his hand, instructing several Mu family disciples to drag the entire Second Branch family out.

Mu Rouyi tried to shriek again, but a Mu family disciple, with an impatient expression, found a piece of rotten cloth and directly stuffed it into her mouth.

Mu Jingxing was led out, shouting with a face full of anger, "I refuse! I will never accept this!"

"Old Family Head," the First Elder frowned, and couldn't help but say, "Will the Second Branch of the Mu family cause more trouble?"

After all, from the look of their family, it seemed they were unwilling to let the matter rest.

Mu Cang shook his head with a look of disappointment and exhaustion. "Send people to watch them. Just let them pack their things and leave the city."

After speaking, he turned to look at the Crown Prince and Qiao Mu, his face full of apology. "Your Highnesses, you've witnessed something embarrassing."

Crown Prince Mo gently shook his head, saying nothing more.

Qiao Mu glanced at the group of skeletal hummingbirds, trapped within her water spirit shield, darting left and right but unable to break free. After a moment of thought, she first tossed them into a storage purple talisman.

These little creatures, when she had leisure, could be taken out for research.

She could tell that within the half-fist-sized bone heads of these little creatures, a black crystal the size of a grain of rice was suspended.