Chapter 99: Sect of Flame Troublemakers and Black Three Lady (1/2)

Chapter 99: Sect of Flame Troublemakers and Black Three Lady

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When the fire started, it was evening.

Almost at the same time when Junior Leopard opened the windows, the fire started.

First, it was a loud piercing shout, tearing at people's eardrums. Zhonghe City's Wu's branch began to be in a mess.

The study room was on fire. Wu Yuntian lit up the study room, a billow of thick smoke came out of the study room. Within a short period of time, the whole study room became a sea of flame.

Junior Leopard heard the shocked cries outside ”It's on fire...!” He softly sighed. From his position of view, not only the Wu's, but also a lot of places of the entire Zhonghe City were billowing thick smoke.

He walked to the side of the bed, and arranged his clothes neatly. The twin silver hammers were hunging on both sides of his waist. Then he approached the big bronze mirror inside the room and arranged himself, then left out of the door.

At this moment, the Wu's branch in Zhonghe City was already in a complete mess. Servants and craftsmen were shouting and running to and fro. A group of people in servants’ clothes were carrying pails and basins, and even everything that could hold water.

The well at the courtyard already was enveloped by a group of people. There were also some people who ran to the back of the yard. There was a pond there. Junior Leopard meandered through the chaotic crowd of people. Without much time, he reached the entrance of the study room. At this time, there was already a big group of people standing at the entrance of the study room.

”Junior Zhou, you have come!” seeing Junior Leopard appear, Jin Nanqing's eyes flashed, revealing his smile.

”Senior Brother, what happened?!” Junior Leopard asked.

”I am not too sure either. It looks like it was Seneschal Wu himself setting the study room on fire. I don't know what he put inside, perhaps some form of fire catalyst. In a blink of an eye, it was burnt till it was this serious. Even if we want to douse the fire we can't!”

”So it's this case!” Junior Leopard nodded. He noticed that even though Jin Nanqing was talking to him, he somewhat did not put his heart into the conversation and his attention was focused on the other side.

The surroundings were very noisy. Once the fire started, naturally there were a lot of people. There were people who saved the fire, and there were those who saved people. Hence, when they came to the entrance of the study room, Junior Leopard's ears were filled with sounds. The only thing he could do was to pretend that he heard nothing.

However, when he realized Jin Nanqing's state was not right, and that his attention was diverted to other places, his gaze wandered around for a while. He realized there were a few women lying on the ground in front of the entrance of the study room. They were crying very miserably. Junior Leopard recognized these few women who were the family members of Wu Yuntian.

This world was just like ancient China. Men marrying three to four wives was a very common thing. With Wu Yuntian's identity, apart from the first wife, he still had several concubines, lying on the floor now.

Jin Nanqing's target naturally was not them, but a 15-16 year old young woman. Speaking of 15-16 year old women, there were many of them. Wu Yuntian's youngest concubine had married half a year ago, just reaching 15 years old.

”Wu Yuzhu?!” Junior Leopard's gaze shifted. He understood Wu Yuzhu was Wu Yuntian's only daughter. She looked pretty and was educated since young. She was a model renowned family heiress. Of course, the most important thing was that her surname was Wu.

From this period of interaction, Junior Leopard was able to tell, that Jin Nanqing was an ambitious person. However, his position in the Wu's was not considered to be very high. Even though he was an inner core disciple that was only compared to the normal Wu's inner core disciples only.

With his aptitude and cultivation, in this lifetime in the Wu Family, at most he could only take up an Elder position. Just like Xu Yong, he would wield some special power, but he would never have control of the real authority in the Wu Family.

Wu's real authority had always been in the hands and control of Wu's own descendants. Now the Wu's had a big family and big business. However, those resources which really concerned the fate of the Wu Family, the branches, those who were Seneschals, were all Wu's immediate descendants or disciples from their collateral families.

Wu Yuntian in Zhonghe City was an example.

In the Wu Family, unless you were like Lyu Yiyue, cultivation reaching the Tendon-Changing Realm, Level Seven, only then would you possess a power that was near to the Wu's Family Head. Even the Wu's Family Head would be extremely respectful towards you.

However, this kind of power could only be possessed by yourself. Maybe when you were still around, your disciples would possess some special powers that normal inner core disciples and even Wu's direct descendants would not have. However, these special powers, when you were dead, would disappear.

Unless, among your disciples, there would be another Tendon-Changing Realm expert. This was almost impossible. No one could ensure that within one vein, there would repeatedly appear Tendon-Changing Realm experts.

What Lyu Yiyue couldn't do, Jin Nanqing's teacher would not be able to do either. Jin Nanqing was a person who had an ambition and was extremely unwilling to be lonely. He naturally would not be willing, when he was done training with his teacher, to stay at the Wu's headquarters to be a high-level fighter. Or that he would be posted to an unimportant place to be a supervisor. This kind of position was yearned for by the Wu's disciples. However, to Jin Nanqing it might not amount to much in his eyes.

Hence, he needed a chance to change this situation. He needed a ladder on which he could step upon to rightfully claim the Wu's power. To do this it was not easy, but it wasn't without solutions either.

He couldn't be a descendant of the Wu's or his cultivation couldn't reach Level Seven that was fine. There was another route that was to become a son-in-law of the Wu's.

Even if it was a branch of the Wu Family, as long as the surname was Wu, then, your chances would be much more than normal Wu's disciples.

However, this was easier said than done?

This was not an easy matter. Most of Wu's daughters at birth, or even when they were not even born, they engaged. There was no chance for outsiders to intervene at all.

However now, there was a chance lying in front of Jin Nanqing.

Wu Yuzhu.

He didn't know if Wu Yuzhu engaged with another person, however, he knew, even if there was a marriage agreement, after the thing caused by Wu Yuntian, the marriage agreement would be nulled.