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Chapter 7 - Overthrowing the Li Family, the Plot of the Ma and Wang Families!!!!
Chapter 7 - Overthrowing the Li Family, the Plot of the Ma and Wang Families!!!!
Chapter 7: Overthrowing the Li Family, the Plot of the Ma and Wang Families!!!!
Inside the Wang Family Council Hall.
An elderly man with a tall and imposing frame sat boldly in the main seat. His left eye was covered with an eye patch, giving him a vicious and ruthless aura.
This man was none other than the Wang Family Patriarch, Wang Hu.
“Su Zhou has emerged from seclusion and has broken through to the External Manifestation Realm.” Wang Hu twisted the thumb ring on his finger, his voice calm and distant.
Seated across from him was a thin and sickly-looking man, his entire being exuding a chilling coldness.
If Wang Hu was a ferocious beast that devoured people, this man was a venomous snake lurking in the dark.
“I can’t believe he’s still alive. Ten years without a word, how could he have survived…”
His voice was hoarse to the extreme.
“Ma Xiao, think of a way. You know his temper.”
“With what we’ve done over the years, we can’t expect to hide it from him. The Li Family won’t be enough to satisfy his appetite.”
Perhaps remembering Su Zhou’s old methods, Wang Hu felt a phantom pain in his blind eye.
That eye had been gouged out by Su Zhou himself in front of everyone during a battle over a mineral vein between the two families.
When Su Zhou was still around, who in Tianwu City didn’t know of his domineering and fiercely protective nature?
He even once declared publicly that every disciple of the Su family was more noble than anyone from another family!
Once, for the sake of a mere branch family member, he personally visited the Ma family, one of the three great families, and right in front of the Ma elders, killed a Ma family elder on the spot.
It was precisely Su Zhou’s overbearing loyalty that forged deep unity within the Su family.
And after his disappearance, other families dared not act too brazenly— they chose instead to nibble away at the Su family bit by bit. Some didn’t even change the names on the land deeds, fearing that one day, Su Zhou would return to settle accounts.
“The Li family is finished. Knowing Su Zhou’s character, even if they were egg yolks, he’d shake them to pieces.”
Ma Xiao picked up a teacup and spoke with emotionless detachment.
“I really don’t know how you convinced the Li family—willing to march to their death, tsk tsk tsk.”
“They knew Su Zhou had already stepped into the External Manifestation Realm, yet still dared to lay hands on the Su family.”
“I’m really curious—what kind of trick did you pull?”
Wang Hu stared intently at Ma Xiao with his only remaining eye, trying to read something from his expression.
“Nothing much. If the Li family couldn’t afford to offend the Su family, could they afford to offend the Ma family?”
“I promised them: obey me, and their direct descendants would be protected by my Ma family.”
“Besides, our Tianlang Ancestor woke from his deathly seclusion just three days ago!”
A smile played across Ma Xiao’s lips.
“Ma Family Ancestor—Ma Tianlang!!!” Upon hearing this, Wang Hu’s pupil shrank violently.
Back when Wang Hu was just a child, Ma Tianlang was already Tianwu City’s number one expert.
Seventy years ago, he had already reached the seventh level of External Manifestation Realm.
It was rumored that he had mastered a top-tier Xuan-grade technique, making him unrivaled in the same realm.
Who would have thought such a figure was still alive?!
“No… something’s off!” Wang Hu’s thoughts stirred again.
If Ma Tianlang was already at the seventh level of External Manifestation Realm seventy years ago, then after coming out of seclusion now, his strength would have surely grown even more.
If Ma Xiao’s words were true, with his ancestor’s power, crushing a newly advanced External Manifestation Realm cultivator like Su Zhou should be effortless.
So why send the already-subordinate Li family as cannon fodder? Wouldn’t that be a needless waste of power?
“What’s Ma Xiao really scheming?!”
As the head of a family, Wang Hu was no fool. In such power games, who could deceive whom so easily?
Even though his heart was full of doubts, his expression didn’t betray the slightest reaction.
“Then I must congratulate you, Clan Master Ma.”
“It seems the title of Tianwu City’s number one family is soon to fall into the Ma family’s hands!”
“Since Tianlang Ancestor has returned, naturally there’s no need to fear Su Zhou. How about our two families join forces to suppress the Su family? My Wang family is willing to follow the Ma family’s lead!”
Wang Hu’s tone was extremely sincere, though whether it was heartfelt or a test was unclear.
Ma Xiao took another sip of tea, eyes narrowing slightly.
“No rush, no rush. Let’s allow the Li family to serve as a sacrifice to cool Su Zhou’s temper first.”
“It’s just a small Li family—if the Su family swallows it, so be it. The real show has yet to begin.”
He deflected lightly, his eyes gleaming like a venomous snake watching its prey.
Wang Hu, seeing Ma Xiao dodge the question, turned his gaze toward the sky outside the hall.
In the distant sky, black smoke was billowing.
“The Li family… is probably already—”
Crimson blood flowed like a stream.
The Li Family plaque was broken in half like trash and casually tossed on the ground.
Su family disciples, armed with sharp blades, slaughtered the Li family like chickens and ducks, cutting them down like livestock.
Su Zhou sat in the Li family’s grand hall, idly fanning himself with a folding fan.
“Keep your eyes wide open and watch carefully…” he said indifferently.
On the floor of the hall knelt the Li family’s elders and enshrined cultivators.
Listening to the screams of their family members and watching their juniors die horribly, the elders felt as if their hearts were bleeding.
One elder tried to shut his eyes, unable to watch any longer—
Puchi!!
A terrifying blast of true essence formed a wind blade that directly decapitated him, his blood gushing like a fountain!
“I told you, watch carefully!”
Su Zhou’s voice was soft, but in the ears of those present, it was like a devil’s whisper, making their skin crawl and hair stand on end.
“Su Zhou!! You devil!!”
“Even though our Li family annexed some of the Su family’s property, we never butchered your people like this!”
“Your Su ancestors built their legacy on alchemy, healing and kindness. Yet you, the current patriarch, act like an executioner—how can you face your ancestors—”
An old man with white hair and beard couldn’t contain his rage and yelled.
But before he could finish—
A burst of violent true essence erupted, instantly sucking the air from the room.
Under the crushing pressure, blood oozed from all five of the old man’s senses as he collapsed lifelessly.
Seeing this, the remaining Li family members trembled in terror.
The might of an External Manifestation Realm cultivator was truly beyond imagination!
The old man who had just died was the Li family’s Grand Elder, a cultivator of the eighth level of Nine Apertures realm— yet before Su Zhou, he was as helpless as livestock, killed with a mere flick of the hand.
“Do you still remember why the Li family even exists to this day?”
“Thirty years ago, the Li family was targeted by rival families. All your top members were poisoned with corpse toxin.”
“It was my Su family who risked everything to save you.”
“From then on, your Li family vowed to be our vassals, to follow the Su family’s lead.”
“But… what have you done all these years?” Su Zhou spoke slowly, his voice void of emotion, as though recounting a trivial story.
“Heh~ You led the rebellion, swallowed my family’s properties, and insulted the Su family…”
“Mercy? Heh… mercy and kindness are for our own people…”
He stood up as he spoke, folding his fan with a snap.
Bang!
A Li elder’s head exploded like a watermelon.
“As for enemies… there is only one response—slaughter!!!”