Chapter 296: Kneel Down And Beg For Mercy
“You gave quite a scare to the elders of my family just now.” Murong Feiye came out, still holding a wine gla.s.s in his hand. Seeing the extraordinarily brutal Peace Squad, he held his tongue after saying that.
He had thought the elders wouldn’t get any benefits, with the way they had marched, but he didn’t expect them to not only get nothing, but it looked like they would also be doubting their life the moment they went back.
Murong Feiye let out a sigh at this.
Gu Xiqiao glanced at him when he spoke, and she said, “I remember… isn’t your family part of England’s supernatural world?”
Murong Feiye smiled. “That relations.h.i.+p has been severed.”
“Does that mean… you’ll be staying in the ancient martial arts world?” Gu Xiqiao asked, rubbing her chin thoughtfully. “You’ve been in England since you were a child. Coming back so suddenly, have those people in the Murong family accepted you?”
Gu Xiqiao naturally understood what he had meant, but for him to return so suddenly, though he had the strength, how could the juniors of the Murong family accept him just like that?
“I know.” Murong Feiye sighed. Just like this time, when the Murong elders had wanted to make trouble at the Peace Manor, he had already mentioned that they shouldn’t mess with them. However, his words fell on deaf ears, which made him realize that although he was powerful, he held no prestige. Don’t mention Jiang Shuxuan, he couldn’t even compare to Gu Xiqiao in that area. “I didn’t want to bother about the Murong family at first, but the patriarch trusts me, and I don’t want to see the Murong family decline, like…”
He stopped talking immediately, but his gaze silently s.h.i.+fted to Baili Bin.
Baili Bin merely smiled, waving his hand dismissively. “It’s fine. The Baili family has fallen indeed.” Fortunately, it had begun to rise up once again.
He glanced at Gu Xiqiao with that thought in mind, the other was fiddling with her phone, her head lowered.
Under the reddish-orange sunset, you could only see her side profile, but you could clearly see the relaxed way she held herself. With her eyes looking downwards, you could see the thin shadows cast by the sunset on her long eyelashes.
“It’s not that easy to take control of the Murong family.” Gu Xiqiao pursed her lips, keeping her phone in her pocket. She tilted her head to the side slightly, looking at Murong Feiye. “You were trained in England to be the successor, so it wouldn’t be difficult for you to manage the Murong family, right?”
Astonishment appeared on Murong Feiye’s face. “How did you know that?”
The family of England’s supernatural world had indeed secretly brought him up and trained him to be the successor, so he was disheartened when he first severed ties with England.
But, this was someone only a few in England knew, how did she find out?
“Fortune reading.” Gu Xiqiao stretched out her hand, counting the five fingers. “Okay, I’ll head back first.”
Saying that, she exchanged a few words with Luo Wenlang and a few others before leaving the place.
She spared one last glance at Murong Feiye before she left. The current elder of the Murong family was quite stupid, seemed like a good idea to change the heir?
After she left, the surprise on Murong Feiye’s face was still present. He turned his head to Baili Bin. “Can she really count and foretell?” Mother, it wasn’t like she was a descendant of the Zhuge family?! Even descendants of the Zhuge family couldn’t predict and count such secretive matters, right?
“I don’t know,” Baili Bin replied, glancing sideways at him. “Some formations are indeed able to dig out secrets, but this kind of thing shouldn’t be possible to count.” Well, he couldn’t do it.
“I should go too. Mr. Luo, I’ll visit again next time.” Baili Bin turned to Luo Wenlang bidding him farewell. After watching the Peace Manor at work, he had already fallen into a deep state of shock, especially when those ten Chi Induction level men had dominated the entire fight with the Murong elder.
Baili Bin had always felt that Gu Xiqiao was a force that shouldn’t be underestimated, but he didn’t expect the people who surrounded her would also be as abnormal as her.
Watching as Baili Bin stood to leave, Murong Feiye didn’t intend to stay long either. He followed Baili Bin out, and when they reached the outside, he sighed again. “Baili, do you think the ancient martial arts world will be changing?”
At the moment, the Jiang family was sitting at the top, followed by the Tang and the Murong family, which made up the Big Three of the ancient martial arts world.
But now there was a new force, the Peace Manor. On the surface, it was a new force, with only about a hundred people. However, every single one of them was elites, and their strengths were not any weaker than those in the ancient martial arts world. Would it soon change into the Big Four instead?
Baili Bin thought about it for a while. “I’m more looking forward to the day those in the Peace Squad head into the Trial Tower.” The ancient martial arts world would be in for a shock then.
The most terrifying was still Gu Xiqiao.
“Yeah, that’s right. All of them could clear those challenges in a breeze.” Murong Feiye guessed that the people in the ancient martial arts world would go nuts from it. “Huh? Why did you stop?”
Baili Bin had indeed halted in his tracks, his eyes in one direction. Murong Feiye followed his gaze, seeing two elegant figures not too far away from them.
One of the two seemed to feel their eyes on them, and he turned his head, nodding slightly before moving away.
“What did that Dubhe come to say, Brother Jiang?” Gu Xiqiao pulled her ears, disbelief in her eyes. Her bright eyes were looking at the man in front of her.
Jiang Shuxuan lowered his head to see her face better, and replied with disinterest, “He said that Jiang Tong is the turning point, and has asked to allocate more protection for her.”
“It’s not Jiang Tong.” Gu Xiqiao thought about the information that she had found, narrowing her eyes. “Even Murong Miaoxue is more a possibility than her.”
Jiang Shuxuan didn’t give two sh*t who the turning point was. As long as it took Dubhe’s attention away from Gu Xiqiao, he wouldn’t say anything even if Dubhe wanted to turn the entire ancient martial arts world upside down. He didn’t expect Gu Xiqiao to be concerned about the matter though. “Murong Miaoxue?”
He suddenly recalled that Gu Xiqiao had fought against Murong Miaoxue back when they were in N City.
Unexpectedly, she still remembered her. Jiang Shuxuan frowned when he thought about it, she had been chased off by Murong Miaoxue in her anger, and he had made quite a scene back then too.
“Brother Jiang.” Gu Xiqiao didn’t know how to continue the line of topic at Jiang Shuxuan’s words. He was focusing on the wrong thing, she wanted to emphasize that Dubhe had the wrong a.s.sumption. “But what did you do to Murong Miaoxue at that time?”
She thought that Murong Miaoxue would come looking for her once she came to the Imperial Capital, but the other only looked at her from the distance.
“Nothing.” Jiang Shuxuan didn’t want to discuss this topic. “I’ll accompany you to the qualifying matches tomorrow.”
“What about the Heaven and Earth Ranking?” Gu Xiqiao asked, raising her head to look at him. Wasn’t the Youth Ranking and Heaven and Earth Ranking held at the same time? And he was going to accompany her?
Jiang Shuxuan explained patiently, “The Heaven and Earth Ranking matches consisted of masters from all over the world. It’s hard to gather them together, so the ranking for this is based on challengers. For those masters who want to challenge others, they need only send out a notification to whichever masters they want to challenge. Once the match is done, the ranking will be updated accordingly.”
“The reward for the Youth Ranking List this time is very lucrative.” His elegant profile s.h.i.+fted slightly, laughter in his eyes. “The one who gets top is eligible to enter the Jiang family’s legacy base.”
Gu Xiqiao had seen topics about the Jiang family legacy base in The Forum before, and it was said to be a mysterious place. People who have entered it throughout history could be counted on one hand, and it seemed that even Tang Qinghong was aiming for this goal.
Gu Xiqiao rubbed her chin thoughtfully, legacy base, huh? This was worth looking forward to.
The two of them walked slowly, their clothes flapping in the wind. When they pa.s.sed the Elders a.s.sociation, they b.u.mped into two people. Jiang Shuxuan reached out to hold Gu Xiqiao, his jet-black eyes looking at the two persons with a cold, hard look on his face.
“Master Dubhe.” He said the words slowly.
Dubhe had also stopped, looking at the two opposite him. Jiang Shuxuan’s face was cold as usual, even his eyes were chilly. Because of Gu Xiqiao, Jiang Shuxuan was completely hostile towards him. Dubhe was well aware of this matter, and so he wasn’t overly concerned about it. He turned his eyes to her.
Her face was calm, and she didn’t avert her eyes when he looked at her. Her big, bright eyes met his, and she greeted, “Good evening, Master Dubhe.”
Those eyes of her were bright and clear, free of any impurities, and it felt like she could see into the depths of your soul with just a glance. Dubhe was startled, this was the first time the two had met on… friendly terms. “Good evening.”
He was suddenly doubting his judgment. He could feel the protection that most elders in the ancient martial arts world had bestowed upon her, the kind that really came from the heart. How could a calamity like her gain such favors from the people around her? He would doubt more, but the aura of her being an outsider was too obvious to ignore.
“I’m bringing Jiang Tong to the Elders a.s.sociation.” Dubhe s.h.i.+fted his gaze to Jiang Shuxuan. “If you could come along with us, it would be even better.”
From the last incident, he could already tell that Jiang Shuxuan’s influence and prestige were too strong in the ancient martial arts world. Even if he was a descendant of Dubhe and had supreme strength, he couldn’t change the ancient martial arts world’s view of Jiang Shuxuan.
So this time, he hoped that Jiang Shuxuan would come along with them.
However, when he thought of Jiang Shuxuan’s att.i.tude towards Jiang Tong, he didn’t hold out much hope.
“No, I’m taking her back for dinner.” As expected, Jiang Shuxuan merely spared a glance at Dubhe, before taking Gu Xiqiao away.
From start to end, he hadn’t given Jiang Tong a single look nor acknowledgment. She had been looking at Gu Xiqiao with a venomous look, mixed with hatred and fear. Even though she hated to admit it, Gu Xiqiao was really too terrifying.
Dubhe glanced at her, furrowing his brows before turning to continue their walk towards the Elders a.s.sociation.
Jiang Tong followed behind Dubhe closely. She didn’t know Dubhe’s ident.i.ty, but she had seen several elders bowing to him in respect, and she could also feel the chilling function of his aura. The aura that he exuded was even scarier than Jiang Shuxuan.
How could she not notice that he was someone of high status, with all of that? She clenched her fist, a glimmer of hope flooding into her eyes.
“Stay a bit further from me.” Dubhe’s eyes were light, like clouds and mist swirling in them. “I don’t like being too close to people.”
Jiang Tong couldn’t help but take a step back at his words, and when she looked up at him, there was a trace of fear in her eyes.
She gritted her teeth, don’t like being too close to people? Then why did you look so close when talking to Jiang Shuxuan and Gu Xiqiao just now?!
Dubhe ignored Jiang Tong’s reaction, walking directly to the great elder. “Let Jiang Tong’s family move back to the central area.”
The central area of the ancient martial arts world had the most energy and chi in the air, and it was also the home of the main branch Jiang family. It would be more of a relief for him for Jiang Tong to be situated there.
The great elder couldn’t help but look at Jiang Tong in surprise. He didn’t know what Dubhe had seen in her, but the surprise just kept getting bigger and bigger. He nodded his head humbly. “Yes, Master Dubhe.”
Hearing the conversation between the two, Jiang Tong suppressed the glee that burst from her heart.
Finally, she was going back!
Dubhe looked back at Jiang Tong, his eyebrows still furrowed. There was a familiar aura on Jiang Tong, and he could indeed feel that it was his master’s energy, but it was vastly different from what he had felt from the Trial Tower the other day.
When he returned to his residence, Dubhe pulled out a thin paper from his sleeves.
The paper was unnaturally white, and it glowed slightly. There were only eight golden characters written on it, the calligraphy beautiful and bold. The words flicker under the light.
He muttered in a low voice. “Outsiders of the world, calamity, turning point.[1]”
After looking for it for a long time, he finally let out a long sigh, leaving the room in a flash.
***
Not far away, in the Jiang household, Jiji brought out a piece of paper and placed it in front of Gu Xiqiao. She focused on it, her eyes unblinking.
“What are you looking at?” Jiang Shuxuan walked over. Seeing that it was a schedule, he narrowed his eyes, his voice pitched a bit higher than usual.
It was Chu Ziheng’s schedule.
“There are some things that you can’t get no matter how strong you are.” Gu Xiqiao picked up the paper, flicking the paper with her fingers, her mood obviously bright. “But, technology is omnipotent~”
Jiang Shuxuan felt relieved when he heard her words. “Jiang Tong?”
Gu Xiqiao was surprised. “You can even guess that?”
“What are you going to play?” Jiang Shuxuan smiled lightly, he finally understood why she had been in such a good mood when they had b.u.mped into Dubhe that afternoon.
Gu Xiqiao didn’t reply, but Jiji raised its head, saying in a serious tone, “We’re going to make Dubhe kneel down and beg for mercy.”
It didn’t know what Gu Xiqiao wanted to play with this time, but it knew that Jiang Tong would definitely wish for death once she was done with her. As for Dubhe… Jiji didn’t want to think about that stupid idiot at all. It wasn’t sure why, but the more it looked at him, the angrier Jiji got.
[1] T/N: In Chinese, the eight characters are 世外之人,劫难,转机