Chapter 56 - The War Drums Are Sounded (1/2)
You sincerely acknowledged me as your Master, I sincerely accepted you as a disciple. There’s no need to say any useless rubbish in the future.
These words touched Chang Laosi, this person who’d been in the Jianghu for so many years. At the very start, it was indeed because Ren Jie’s words had opened for him a world that he’d never understood or thought of. It showed him the road for his breakthrough to the Yin Yang Realm, that was why he threw caution to the wind. But today, something else was breeding.
“Don’t worry, Master. After all, I’ve been in the Jianghu for so many years. Even if the Fang family wants to kill me, they got to think it through. Besides, I won’t easily give them the chance.” Chang Laosi was not a simple person too. Since he dared to do this, he naturally understood the stakes.
“That’s in the past. This time, you are truly getting embroiled into the fight between the five big family clans. They don’t dare to strike at me, but you are different. This time, we’ve thoroughly humiliated the Fang family by saying totally opposite things. They’ve suffered heavy losses and some people are having a hard time. Add to that the issue with the Black Nether Sword, they will absolutely stop at nothing to kill you.” Ren Jie realized that Chang Laosi still thought too simply of the matter. He himself wasn’t afraid because he had the title of Ren Family Head, no matter how he wreaked havoc and stirred trouble, they wouldn’t dare to go too far. However, Chang Laosi was different.
“But you don’t have to be too worried. For some matters, making it big is instead the way to protect yourself. Today, this Fang Yan could not hold back and jumped out, giving us this opportunity. I’ll show you what a big spectacle is in a while. Get someone to spread the news of everything that happened here today according to what I said. This way, we’d more or less be able to fight for some more time. If you can break through to the Yin Yang Realm as soon as possible, that would truly give the Fang family some scruples.” Ren Jie was very clear about some ideas and thoughts of the five big family clans. Although being at the ninth level of the Divine Power Realm made him really strong, he wasn’t untouchable. Especially someone in the Jianghu like Chang Laosi. Although he had taken him in as his disciple, how many people truly cared about that?
“Yes,” Chang Laosi responded. Not continuing to badger about the Black Nether Sword, he turned around and went to arrange the matter that Ren Jie instructed.
After Chang Laosi left, Ren Jie returned to the courtyard for a look. Fatty, that fellow had actually fallen asleep while seated by Sun Rui’s bed. Ren Jie told Fatty to join her in training and even got him to take care of her. At present, seeing that all the wounds from the forceful cultivation on Sun Rui’s body had been treated, Ren Jie showed a hint of a smile. Fatty was still pretty meticulous, except other than refining potions, he was startlingly lazy in all other aspects, wishing he could hide in the room all day long.
Ren Jie checked Sun Rui’s condition. The little girl had actually taken medication before resting. It was evident how uptight she was. That memory left too deep a print. Although Ren Jie really wanted to persuade her, he also knew that was something not any words of an outsider could make clear. They could only slowly depend on time and opportunity to do so.
Following that, Ren Jie carried Fatty to the room next door. This fellow was really heavy. After putting Fatty down on the bed, Ren Jie suddenly recalled something. Wait a minute!
He’d pulled him once when he brought him to poison Fang Qi. Previously, when it was chaotic, he’d also thrown him aside, and this time he carried him to the bed. Ren Jie suddenly thought of a problem. Weight. That’s right, it was weight. Not only was Ren Jie’s current memory extremely retentive, but even detailed feelings and memories also remained very clear in his mind. These few times, Fatty’s weight had been exactly the same. A person’s weight saw great changes throughout the day, especially a big fatty like Gao Ren.
Moreover, he’d been forced to train today. According to Tong Qiang, his perspiration would’ve been a few kilograms. How could there be not the slightest change in his weight? At this thought, Ren Jie could not help but recall the scene he had saw when he just opened his eyes. He could not help but bent and pinch Fatty’s chubby hands and face. It felt very delicate and real, they didn’t seem to be fake.
However, at the thought of this world being completely unlike Earth and things were no longer limited to simple disguise and makeup, Ren Jie’s thoughts involuntarily went to some divine power and dharma spells aspects that he had read in books.
Could it be…
“Reporting to Family Head. Fang Family Head Fang Tianen is rushing over with a large group of troops, he’ll arrive very soon.” Just as Ren Jie was pondering over Gao Ren’s weight problem, Tong Qiang’s voice sounded from outside.
What was to come would come. He made use of Fang Qi’s poison to extort the Fang family, and the Fang family wanted to swallow up Chang Le Gang and made it their own, ruining his reputation while at it. The Black Nether Sword that they had given him was also defective. Originally, in their eyes, this deal was no loss and even a gain, because the Chang Le Gang and Chang Laosi, this powerhouse at the ninth level of the Divine Power Realm, were worth tens of millions of jade coins. Moreover, they could even ruin his reputation and deal a blow to the Ren family while at it.
However, they never would’ve expected that Chang Laosi would become his own disciple and that the Black Nether Sword would be restored by him. Today, Fang Yan was being tied to a pillar at the gates on his orders. How could Fang Tianen not be anxious?
Ren Jie put down Fatty’s issue for now and ordered Tong Qiang to gather his people and rush to the main gates.
In reality, some well-informed people in Jade Capital already knew what was going on. All the initial waves of insults targeted at the Ren family and Ren Jie instantly stopped. Quite a number of people were slightly confused, not believing that this was real. Why did the dandy, wastrel Ren Jie who seized other people’s property become the victim all of a sudden, and how was it possible that Chang Laosi acknowledged him as his Master…
And he even gifted him a superior-grade spiritual artifact. This caused even more disbelief. Only, when the winds outside started to change, Fang Tianen also received news.
Fang Tianen was incredibly incensed. He’d just made that comment in the Hall of Supreme Harmony at the morning court assembly. Following that, the entire Jade Capital knew that Chang Le Gang and Chang Laosi were part of the Fangs and convicted Ren Jie to all sorts of charges. This storm would sweep through the entire Jade Capital very quickly and finally give the Ren family an invisible strike and damage.
Now that this happened, the Fang family instead became ungrateful people who seized others’ property.
What was even more detestable was that Ren Jie actually dared to injure Fang Yan, detain him in the Ren residence, and even tie him up at the main entrance of the Rens. This was already a provocation targeted at the Fang family.
At such times, he certainly could not hold back anymore. Fang Tianen resolutely came to a decision after raging.
He led two elders, about seven guests, tens of experts, two hundred guards, more than a thousand servants, and charged aggressively toward the Ren residence at once. While the matter had not been spread, he was going to salvage the situation. Once Chang Laosi was dead, everyone would definitely not believe Ren Jie then. Besides, once the mater was blown up, he didn’t believe that the Ren family would support such a dandy wastrel.
Given the Ren family’s current situation, they absolutely would not open fire against the Fang family. Chang Laosi, you actually dared to fool my Fang family. If I don’t kill you, the Fangs will not be one of Jade Capital’s five big family clans. Only, throughout the whole journey, he never figured out the issue with the Black Nether Sword. It was impossible. This Black Nether Sword had been with the Fangs for many years. Over all these years, many generations had studied it…