Chapter 269 - The Fall of the Zheng Family (2/2)

Despite the sorrow and sadness in everyone’s heart, no one spoke a word. After all, they valued their lives more than half of their family a.s.sets on any given day.

“That’s not enough.”

To everyone’s surprise, Chen Fan refused.

Zheng Zhongming didn’t seem to be surprised by Chen Fan’s answer. He let out an ugly grin and then asked: “So, you are not going to let any of us live?”

The other people looked to Chen Fan with fear. Although the stakes of the bet were set in place before many witnesses, when the moment of life and death really came, no one could easily come to terms with the outcome in which all the members of the mighty Zheng family were going to perish.

Chen Fan took a step forward and said: “I, Chen Beixuan have killed many people in my life, but none of them were innocent.”

“Zheng Anqi had prolonged your life using my medicine; that was a debt you and Zheng Anqi owed me. It had nothing to do with anyone else in the family.”

Chen Fan raised his hand and grabbed hold of Zheng Zhongming’s collar.

“Your life belongs to me, and I am taking it back now.”

After he had said that, life suddenly ebbed away from Zheng Zhongming’s face. In a blink, his legs gave in and he collapsed into the chair, body trembling lifelessly. His skin became wrinkled and blotchy and other than the faint wince, he could not form a word. After a while, he finally closed his eyes and stopped breathing.

A tyc.o.o.n of Hong Kong was dead after Chen Fan had taken his life away.

After that, Chen Fan turned around to Zheng Anqi and met the girl’s terrified stare. He folded his hands and formed an array.

“You shouldn’t have lied to me. Today, I am going to take fifty years of your life as a punishment.”

As a gust of energy blew through Zheng Anqi’s flowy dress, her dark silky hair turned grey and white. Her tender and porcelain-like face quickly lost its youthful appearance as wrinkles started to crawl all over it. Her statuesque body shriveled until her back was bent forward. In a blink, she had transformed it a coughing, white-haired crone.

In disbelief of what she had become, she let out a terrified shriek. She covered her face and stumbled down the path. Everyone watched the development with fear and sadness. It was crueler to turn an attractive young girl into an ugly hag than outright killing her.

After a while, Chen Fan turned to face the other members of the Zheng family.

“Zheng family owes me ten billion, and attacked me, hoping to get away with the debt. Now I am going to claim all the family a.s.sets of the Zheng family. Do you think its fair?”

No one protested Chen Fan’s decision no matter how indignant they felt. Chen Fan had killed Zhou Daoji, so he had the ability to slaughter the entire Zheng family if he wanted to. Not even the Hong Kong government would say a thing about his ma.s.s slaughter since Chen Fan was simply fulfilling the terms of the bet. In the end, Zheng Haochang nodded his consent on behalf of the family with tears in his eyes.

All the other spectators were shocked by the development.

Chen Fan had toppled the Zheng family with three deadly blows.

Zheng Zhongming got to prolong his life using Chen Fan’s elixirs, so Chen Fan simply “reclaimed” his life.

Zheng Anqi prided herself on her beauty and youth. Chen Fan had taken fifty years of her life, having her take the bitterness of aging.

The other members of the Zheng family were born with a silver spoon in their mouth and never had to live a day of hards.h.i.+p. Chen Fan had taken away their fortune and turn them into ordinary citizens.

After everyone had understood Chen Fan’s methods, they were terrified by Chen Fan’s viciousness and cruelness. Instead of killing them, Chen Fan simply took away the things they loved the most and made them feel that even death was sweeter. Such as it was, Chen Fan had punished the Zheng family without killing all of them.

The Zheng family eventually signed the doc.u.ment of transferring the owners.h.i.+p of the company to Chen Fan. Chen Fan gave them three days to move out of their mansions. He was not at all worried that some members of the family would ignore him, he was looking for some target practice for his new arts anyways.

The development shocked everyone in Hong Kong. From then on, there would be no more Zheng family. The foundation of the Zheng family’s power was their wealth, without it, they were just ordinary people.

After Chen Fan signed the doc.u.ment, he looked to the spellcasters.

Zhou Daoji and Huang Wenze were terrified by Chen Fan’s gaze. They wondered if Chen Fan was going to punish everyone related to Zhou Daoji as well. Zhang Ziru cranked up his energy and was ready to battle.

To his surprise, Chen Fan said calmly to them: “I came to Hong Kong not only to collect my debt but also to gather material for my array formation. If you have any material that you think would be useful for me, I would exchange them with supreme-grade elixirs, martial arts techniques, or even the method of casting an array formation.”

By now, the Jiu Long Mountain was packed with spellcasters, Feng Shui masters and scholars of Chinese Esotericism. If Chen Fan had made the same announcement before the fight, these masters would simply brush Chen Fan off and tell him this.

“Who the h.e.l.l are you? Why would we exchange items with you?”

However, Everyone was stunned by his power and skills after watching him killing Zhou Daoji and toppled the Zheng family. The spell he used to take youth out of Zheng Anqi spoke loudly of Chen Fan’s power. There was no doubt that he was a Transcendent State Grandmaster as well as a mighty Spellcaster.

The crowd boiled over after hearing Chen Fan’s words. Chen Fan must have possessed some incredible martial arts techniques or elixirs to help him achieve such a high level of attainment at a young age. These spellcasters would be more than satisfied if they could so much as catch a glimpse of his secret arts. They were not Chen Fan’s enemy and would be more than happy to befriend this young Grandmaster through business.

“Cast Array formations? Are you planning to cast an Array formation somewhere? And you said you can teach us to do the same?”

Someone exclaimed as Chen Fan’s words finally set in.