Chapter 496 (1/2)

Chapter 496

Hearing that voice, the Elders behind Long Chen were startled . They were targeting them so quickly, and not concealing their hostility at all .

Long Chen looked in the direction of the voice and saw the speaker came from the last place seat . It was one of original experts from the first monastery .

He recognized him as an Elder who had stood behind Sha Qitian back then . He looked to be in his fifties . His eyes were filled with an icy ridicule as he glared straight at Long Chen .

Although he hadn’t said Long Chen’s name, it was obvious to everyone present that he was targeting him .

He had originally been an Elder, but once Sha Qitian had died, he had smoothly succeeded his sect leader position . However, it seemed he wasn’t satisfied with being the 108th monastery’s sect leader .

Originally, the monastery had been split into two camps, one lead by Sha Qitian, and one lead by the second monastery’s Zhao Yongchang . The two camps had fought covertly for countless years .

But of the two camps, it was always Sha Qitian who had suppressed Zhao Yongchang . As for Zhao Yongchang, he had constantly been working to usurp Sha Qitian and gain the position of the first monastery .

Other than those two camps, there were also some neutral monasteries that were ranked near the bottom . Because they were too weak, they weren’t even worth the two camps’ attention . They had all just been useless extras all those years .

But before the two camps’ struggles had reached a conclusion, Long Chen had appeared, and Sha Qitian had been killed, flabbergasting everyone .

Although it wasn’t Long Chen who had personally slain him, Sha Qitian had definitely died because of him . That development was out of anyone’s expectations .

However, despite that, the resources the first monastery possessed were too lucrative, and it caused the various sect leaders to turn red-eyed from greed . The glory of the first monastery practically drove them crazy .

The original first monastery had gone from being emperors to being beggars . That kind of drop was almost enough for them to kill themselves from sullenness .

Of their disciples, over half of them had directly left, and as for the Elders, they also felt as if the first monastery had declined, and unable to accept the facts, they went to go find a better job .

The current 108th monastery’s sect leader was Sha Tonghai . He was Sha Qitian’s younger cousin . When he had been appointed sect leader, he had furiously clenched his teeth, but he had been helpless about it .

If everyone else hadn’t practically pushed that position onto him, then seeing the 108th monastery’s broken down state, he himself would have packed his things and left .

But he hadn’t given up . Although the first monastery had Long Chen, that didn’t mean there wouldn’t be chances in the future .

Just as they were waiting for such an opportunity, they heard Ling Yun-zi had given up his sect leader position and left, and even Cang Ming had left, throwing the mess onto Tu Fang .

As a result, Sha Tonghai and Zhao Yongchang had actually united all the various monasteries’ sect leaders, wanting to erase any of Tu Fang’s prestige, putting so much pressure on the first monastery that they would voluntarily give up their position .

Tu Fang could also count as an old fox, and he had long since seen some clues . He asked himself, could he really scheme better than these sect leaders who seemingly only schemed all day? That really wasn’t the area he specialized in . And so he had had Long Chen go instead . There was an excellent expression for this: wicked people are best handled by wicked people .

“Sect leader Sha’s words are reasonable . After all, sect leaders have to embody the prestige of the monasteries . Not only do they need integrity, talent, and a combat ability that can convince the ma.s.ses, but they also need rich management experience . For some people, who have only just gotten a bit of fame, to think they can sit on the same level as true sect leaders truly makes a person despise them,” sneered the seventh monastery’s sect leader .

“He hasn’t even grown any hair on his chin, yet he dares take the sect leader position . At such a young age, his skin really is thick . I suppose that’s what it means for a calf to not know to fear the tiger . ” Another sect leader also tossed in some words .

These people’s words caused the hearts of the Elders behind Long Chen to sink .

Under Sha Tonghai and Zhao Yongchang’s pressure, all the sect leaders were standing together . Although Sha Tonghai wasn’t as powerful as Sha Qitian had been, he was still extremely strong .

“My hair hasn’t grown out? Makes sense, makes sense . You’ve grown out so much hair, but does that have the slightest use? Could it be that by growing out your hair, you can become a sect leader?

“Then according to your theory, why don’t you go raise some pigs? They have plenty of hair, so I suppose they would be even more suited to be sect leaders than you?” Long Chen disdainfully looked at them . They wanted to play a game of tongues? Then he would play them to death .

As soon as he had arrived here, he had sensed the atmosphere was wrong . All of them were glaring at him, but most of them were people he had never even had any interactions with . If Long Chen couldn’t see through the truth from that, then he wouldn’t be Long Chen .

“Ignorant brat, what I was talking about was having integrity and experience, the experience to manage a sect . Don’t twist my words,” sneered Sha Tonghai .

Long Chen glanced sideways at him . Well, more accurately, he couldn’t see him all the way at the end without looking sideways .

“Experience? Does that kind of plaything have a use? Oh, I see, your experiences tells you to teach your disciples how to use insidious schemes to hurt other people .

“Did you think that if they spent all day scheming against their own people, then they would be able to become experts?

“ Did you think that just because you’re older, you’re wiser? You spend all day caring only about your status, doing inhuman things because of jealousy and for your own profit, all with no sense of shame . But now you still have the face to take about integrity with me?

“How could the word integrity be used to describe the slightest part of a piece of s.h.i.+t like you? Did you think that just because you’re sitting here and wearing clothes that you’re better than a dog?” retorted Long Chen . His words made Sha Tonghai tremble with rage .

“You… you’re just spouting obscenities! You’re lacking decorum!” Sha Tonghai pointed furiously at Long Chen, not knowing what to say .