Chapter 2007
by“Great-grandmother, don’t listen to his nonsense. If it wasn’t for Lu Baichuan asking him, why would he come to my Zhang family at this time！”
Before the old woman could speak, the fat martial artist who had been imprisoned by Yang Kai suddenly shouted angrily.
Yang Kai couldn’t help but smile bitterly.
The old woman, however, glared at the fat martial artist and said sternly, “Do I need you to tell me what to do?”
The fat martial artist was shocked and repeatedly said he didn’t dare.
Only then did the old woman turn her gaze back to Yang Kai and swept her spiritual sense. When she noticed that Yang Kai’s cultivation was much higher than hers, her expression changed slightly and she said, “Your Excellency has profound cultivation. If you were really invited by Lu Baichuan, I’m afraid you wouldn’t waste so much time talking to us. Alright, I believe you. But I don’t know why Your Excellency has come to my Zhang family？”
“I came here on someone else’s behalf. Madam, please take a look.” As Yang Kai spoke, he threw a spatial ring towards the old woman.
The old woman reached out and caught it, gave Yang Kai a deep look, and then poured her spiritual sense into the spatial ring.
The next moment, the old woman’s face turned pale, her body swayed violently, as if she had suffered a severe injury. She opened her mouth and spat out a mouthful of blood, and her already old face became even older.
“How dare you launch a surprise attack？” the fat martial artist shouted angrily.
No wonder he would have such a misunderstanding. After all, the old woman suddenly had such a change after catching that Space Ring. Anyone would think that Yang Kai had done something to the Space Ring and attacked the old woman by surprise.
The remaining women also became fierce in expression. They all looked at Yang Kai indignantly. The power within their bodies fluctuated, and some of the impatient ones had already sacrificed their secret treasures and were about to take action against Yang Kai.
Facing such a group of women soldiers, Yang Kai couldn’t help but feel a little scalp numbing. He tapped his foot and drifted back, pulling away from them.
“Stop！” The old woman suddenly shouted.
These women were quite obedient. Although they were angry at Yang Kai’s behavior and actions, under the old woman’s order, none of them took action anymore.
“Great-grandmother, how are you? Are you okay?” At this time, the young girl who had been supporting the old woman asked with a worried expression on her face. She kept stroking the old woman’s back.
The old woman shook her head, raised her eyes, and the gaze looking at Yang Kai no longer had hostility, but was full of grief and desolation. She said, “May I ask, little brother, from whom did you get this Space Ring?
Yang Kai’s mouth moved, and he transmitted his voice into the old woman’s ear.
The old woman was stunned for a moment, and the whole person staggered again. Then she smiled bitterly and said： “Fate！ Although the old woman had expected it for a long time, I didn’t expect that things would really be like this.”
“Mother, what happened？” A middle-aged beautiful woman with the cultivation level of Void King 1-layer asked.
“Take a look at this.” The old woman handed the ring in her hand to the middle-aged beautiful woman.
The middle-aged beautiful woman took it and after carefully looking it over, her pretty face suddenly turned pale. When she probed the internal space with her spiritual thoughts, tears immediately streamed down.
As Zhang Gaoxuan’s family member, she naturally recognized the things in the space ring. Now that Zhang Gaoxuan’s space ring was here but the person was nowhere to be seen, anyone could guess what had happened to him.
Yang Kai watched this scene and couldn’t help but feel touched. He didn’t open his mouth to urge either, but just stood there quietly waiting for the Zhang family to digest the news that Zhang Gaoxuan had died.
Although the others didn’t know the specific inside story, seeing the expressions of the old woman and the middle-aged beautiful woman, they naturally had their own guesses. Immediately, their expressions became gloomy one by one.
After a long time, the old woman took a deep breath and looked at Yang Kai and said, “A distinguished guest has come to the door. I’m being rude. Please come in and have a chat.”
“Alright, I still have some things to give you.” Yang Kai nodded.
Immediately, under the leadership of the old woman and the middle-aged beautiful woman, Yang Kai came to a great hall in this manor.
At this moment, the others were all waiting outside the door. Only the old woman, the middle-aged beautiful woman, and the young girl entered. The young girl seemed to be dedicated to serving the old woman so she didn’t leave for a moment and was now standing behind the old woman, looking at Yang Kai curiously with a pair of beautiful eyes.
After ordering someone to serve tea, the old woman said, “Little brother, there was a misunderstanding before. I hope little brother will not mind considering that my Zhang family has suddenly suffered a great change.”
“It’s okay. Madam, please also restrain your grief and accept the change.” Yang Kai nodded.
“You just said that there is something to hand over to us. I wonder what it is？” The old woman asked.
“This.” Yang Kai took out another jade slip and handed it to the old woman, saying, “Before Patriarch Zhang’s death, he left some information inside with his spiritual thoughts. Madam will know after reading it.”
The old woman thanked and took it, released her spiritual thoughts to investigate, and after a while, quietly handed it to the middle-aged beautiful woman.
After the middle-aged beautiful woman finished investigating, she gritted her teeth and said, “Sure enough, it was that old thief Lu Baichuan who poisoned my husband！ Mother, I want to avenge my husband！”
Hearing her say this, Yang Kai then knew that this middle-aged beautiful woman was actually Zhang Gaoxuan’s wife, and it seemed that this old woman was actually Zhang Gaoxuan’s mother.
Losing a son in old age, a white-haired person sending off a black-haired one, how grief-stricken the mood should be. But this old woman was able to adjust in a very short time, which made Yang Kai couldn’t help but admire a little.
“Revenge, of course it must be avenged. But do you have the ability？” The old woman coldly glanced at the middle-aged beautiful woman.
“I’m indeed not the match of that old thief, but even if I die, I have to bite off a piece of that old thief’s flesh！” The middle-aged beautiful woman gritted her silver teeth tightly, and her beautiful eyes were full of hatred.
“Well said.” The old woman sneered again and again. “I’m afraid that when the time comes, you won’t even be able to die, and you’ll still be insulted！”
As soon as these words came out, the middle-aged beautiful woman couldn’t help but turn pale.
“Hurry up and sit back for me!” The old woman viciously stabbed her cane and shouted majestically.
The middle-aged beautiful woman didn’t dare to disobey and weakly fell back onto the seat, and her beautiful eyes seemed to have lost a bit of charm.
Seeing this, Yang Kai sighed and said, “Old Madam, dare I ask if in addition to Brother Zhang’s misfortune in the Five-Colored Pagoda, is there anything else？”
Hearing this, the old woman’s face darkened and she nodded. “Little brother has seen through it. It’s really a misfortune for the family.”
After a moment of silence, the old woman tells what had happened to the family in the recent period of time.
In the area of Fenglin City, the Zhang family and the Lu family have always had a good relationship. Because the ancestors of the two families came to Fenglin City together and worked hard to build their foundation together. After hundreds of years of inheritance, they can be regarded as several generations of family friends.
This time when the Five-Color Pagoda was opened, the heads of the two families, Zhang Gaoxuan and Lu Baichuan, even entered it together.
And just after the opening of the Five-Color Pagoda, the juniors in the two families even made an appointment to go to a place for training.
But unexpectedly, all of this turned out to be a conspiracy of the Lu family.
In that dangerous place, the descendants of the Zhang family were almost all dead and injured, while the people of the Lu family safely retreated. This is what created the current situation of the Zhang family being all women. The two male warriors, one fat and one thin, were also fortunate to survive because they were in seclusion and cultivation at that time. Otherwise, I’m afraid there would not be a single male in the Zhang family.
When the Five-Color Pagoda was closed, only Lu Baichuan returned alone, and Zhang Gaoxuan was nowhere to be seen.
And Lu Baichuan also changed his previous attitude. After returning, he frequently pressured the Zhang family, Youdaoplaceholder0 one of his sons to marry a girl named Zhang Ruoxi in this generation of the Zhang family as his wife.
The head of the Zhang family suddenly disappeared, and the people in the family were worried. How could they agree to such a request at this time？ Moreover, the old woman herself also had doubts about the Lu family and felt that there was a big problem with the previous training, so she immediately rejected it.
Who knew that Lu Baichuan would directly tear off the mask of friendliness and attempt to forcefully take away that Zhang Ruoxi, even going so far as to start a fight in the Zhang family.
Lu Baichuan, like Zhang Gaoxuan, was also at the Void King 3-layer realm of cultivation. The Zhang family was now filled with widows and orphans. How could they be his match? If it weren’t for the old woman borrowing the family’s secret techniques and taking some forbidden drugs to increase her strength, and coordinating with the remaining power of the family to temporarily repel Lu Baichuan, I’m afraid the Zhang family would no longer exist by now.
Now that she had received the jade slip brought back by Yang Kai, which contained the message left by Zhang Gaoxuan before his death, the old woman knew that her son’s death was indeed at the hands of Lu Baichuan.
All the previous doubts also became clear at once.
The grief and hatred in the old woman’s heart could be imagined.
After hearing this, Yang Kai was silent for a while.
He thought to himself that this should be the common means for one family to annex another. With so few male descendants left in the family, how could it be passed on？ As long as they took the opportunity to form a marriage alliance, then in the future, the Zhang family would slowly be annexed by the Lu family. From then on, there would be no more Zhang family in Fenglin City.
However, he also had some doubts in his heart.
As the saying goes, birds die for food and people die for wealth. The Zhang and Lu families had been on good terms for hundreds of years. Why did they suddenly turn against each other in this generation? Was there something else involved in this? He didn’t know and didn’t have the heart to ask more questions.
“Madam, since you have read the information in the jade slip, you should also know the agreement between me and Patriarch Zhang.” Yang Kai suddenly said.
The old woman nodded. “Gao Xuan has said it very clearly in the jade slip. It is said that as long as the little brother still lives in Fenglin City, he can promise three requests of my Zhang family within his ability, and… when the Dao Source Fruit is refined into a pill, he will give my Zhang family a Dao Source Pill！”
“Dao Source Fruit？” The middle-aged beautiful woman was shocked when she heard this and asked doubtfully, “Did my husband obtain the Dao Source Fruit？”
“That’s right.” Yang Kai nodded and had no intention of hiding. “Patriarch Zhang indeed obtained a Dao Source Fruit in the Five-Colored Pagoda. Now it is in my hands. This is also one of the agreements between me and Patriarch Zhang.”
The old woman glanced at the middle-aged beautiful woman and snorted coldly. “An innocent man is guilty because of his possession of a jade. My Zhang family doesn’t have the ability to protect a precious treasure like the Dao Source Fruit now. Moreover, it is now the thing of this little brother.”
The middle-aged beautiful woman’s face changed in surprise and she said solemnly, “Mother is right. Gong’e understands.”
The old woman turned her head and looked at Yang Kai, saying, “Little brother, don’t worry. Regarding the matter of the Dao Source Fruit, only the four of us in this world know about it, and no one else will know. The little brother was able to come to the Zhang family to fulfill the agreement. I am very grateful, and I also quite admire the little brother’s character and reputation. Naturally, I won’t cause you any more trouble.”
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