Chapter 851 – A Sedan Chair Arrives Outside the City (2/2)

”If it's the people of the Tang clan, I naturally can't mobilize them.”

The Tang Second Master calmly added, ”Fortunately, Principal Shang sent me a group of excellent assassins.”

Just which faction on the continent possessed the best assassins? In the past, it was the Pavilion of Heavenly Secrets.

Now, the majority of the businesses that had belonged to the Pavilion of Heavenly Secrets were now part of the Tang clan, but its secret strength was now subordinate to the Imperial Court.

More accurately, this secret and terrifying strength was currently under the management of Luoyang's Monastery of Eternal Spring.

This was naturally a secret, but not one that could be hidden from the Tang Old Master and Chen Changsheng.

So they knew that the Tang Second Master was neither lying nor bluffing.

If the assassins of the Pavilion of Heavenly Secrets had availed themselves of the chaos to sneak into Wenshui City and were now inside the ancestral hall…

Chen Changsheng walked towards the door.

The Tang Second Master looked at him and said, ”It's too late.”

Chen Changsheng stopped.

The old estate was wrapped in a deathly stillness.

No one had expected for the Tang Second Master to use such a thunderous move.

Now that they thought about it, his silence and inability were naturally a feint to have the Tang clan's old estate and the Orthodoxy relax their guard.

The Tang Old Master's eyes became abnormally serene. Perhaps it was because he knew that his grandson truly might die this time.

The Tang clan's old Guardian was still in the ancestral hall.

But the Tang Second Master had not even mentioned him.

The Tang Old Master was well aware of what this meant.

The Tang Second Master looked at Chen Changsheng's back and said, ”Your Holiness, you might die today as well. Have you mentally prepared yourself?”

If Tang Thirty-Six died, Chen Changsheng would definitely think of a way to kill the Tang Second Master.

The Tang Old Master, without any other choice, could only stand at his son's side.

The Orthodoxy and the Tang clan would go to war.

What would the Tang Old Master do?

The answer was obvious.

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Wang Po had stood on Chicken Crow Mountain outside Wenshui City for three days.

A snowstorm had come, and he was an old friend1.

It was not out of timidity that the old friend did not dare enter.

Three days ago, he had entered the city and visited the old estate. He had conversed with the Tang Old Master, but failed to convince him.

He had failed to convince him, so what else could he do? Could he truly wield his blade at him over a disagreement?

The Tang Old Master had viewed this world with a cold gaze for several centuries, even regarded his own sons with a callous attitude. He was the only person to be treated very well by the Old Master, and there was nothing that could be complained about.

No matter what, he could not attack the Tang Old Master. Of course, even if he attacked, he was not necessarily a match for the Tang Old Master.

Even he still did not know how deep the well in the old estate was.

But he stood outside the city so as to support Chen Changsheng, essentially escorting him.

But even now, though he sensed the activity in the old estate and saw the faint restlessness around the ancestral hall, he still did not descend the mountain.

Because two sedan chairs were also on Chicken Crow Mountain.

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1. I suspect that this is a reference to the 1993 song 'An Old Friend Comes in the Snowstorm', '风雪故人来', sung by Julian Cheung. It could also be a reference to the fact that the author has used a variation of 'An old friend comes in the snow' twice now as a chapter title, in chapter 507 and again in chapter 786.