Chapter 165 – Line (2/2)
Lu Zhong’s sister, Lu Rong, was one of the elders and one of the strongest cultivators in the family. She was the reason Lu Zhong was bold, crazy but uncontested by the council of the well established family. She was also the person who vouched for him to be in charge of the operation around North Hill Bay, the area which the Lu’s intel told the council the Drakehead was likely to be.
Lu Rong wanted the council to trust her brother. Thus, if he was successful in locating the Drakehead, he would gain a better, more solid reputation.
‘This time I might be able to get him on my side. I will wait for a good opportunity to reveal myself and help him when he gets in trouble!’ Lu Feng concluded while he watched the Ye’s.
“Wipe out Ye family?!” Ye Wei’s eyes filled with burning rage. Nonetheless, he reminded himself that he must be patient for now. He must handle this situation without causing any casualties to occur. He could always make Lu Zhong pay for those disrespectful words once he became stronger.
“Mister, please be reasonable and listen to what I have to say before reacting hastefully. There is no reason for the Ye’s to slow the Lu’s operation down. We were trying to carry out the search carefully at our ancestor’s resting place! I promise you, the Du’s are trying to frame us on the spot.” Ye Wei said calmly.
“Is it so?” Lu Zhong gloomy face slowly turned towards Du Ji, who was laying on the ground in a pool of his own blood.
“This lone hill is my family’s burial ground. The Du’s always kept a grudge against my family due to some recent dispute. They took the chance to make a mess at our ancestor’s graves while they were up there, so we asked them down to talk it out peacefully!”
“There would be no way we let them on our sacred grounds just to watch them destroy everything as they do a rough job! Besides, he almost killed my cousin when my cousin was trying to reason with him. I was then lucky enough to stop him right before my innocent cousin would have lost his life!” Said Ye Wei, doing a great job to sound shakened.
Hearing Ye Wei’s speech, Ye Zhong’s face lit up. The situation wasn’t so bad presented the way his young cousin did. ‘Maybe our ancestral grounds won’t be tainted after all.’
Ye Zhong bowed before Lu Zhong saying “Please, Mister. We just wanted to do a thorough job the most respectful way, for the Lu family’s and for the Ye family’s honor. We had to stand against the Du’s and their unreasonable claims!”
“Please, give us justice!” The rest of the Ye’s joined in.
“The Du family clearly wants to take advantage of the Lu’s. You should remove the black sheep from the herd.” Ye Zhong was trying to sound as indignified as he could, playing along with Ye Wei’s speech. “You don’t want innocent blood on your family’s name right? You have to make an example or people like the Du’s will just bring shame and injustice to our doorsteps!”
“Nonsense!”
“We didn’t even touch the hill because you didn’t let us! Don’t let them fool you!” The Du’s replied, angered by the lies.
Lu Zhong cautiously looked over the two families’ squad standing opposite to each other. He sensed that something strange was going on and though one of the sides wanted to fool him, he did not have any useful evidence to make a fair decision.
Peeking from the side, Lu Feng was amused by this whole situation, ‘This Ye Wei is quite a character. Lu Zhong usually isn’t easily deceived.’
“I will not interfere with the dispute between you! Our task must be completed, so stop wasting my precious time! All of you, come up the hill with me to search this area once more!” Lu Zhong pondered for just a moment then gave his orders, “I want every inch of the bay area dug three feet deep!”
Lu Zhong decided to stay out of the argument, he did not care who was buried under the ground if it was not the Supreme who died around the region centuries ago.
“Yes! That’s a wise decision, Mister!” The Du’s were ecstatic. With the Lu’s backing their cause, they marched up the hill while scornfully looking down on the Ye’s.
Ye Wei, Ye Zhong and the rest were looking somber.
“This hill belongs to the Ye’s, our history and pride were buried on this hill!” Ye Wei said furiously, paused and ground his teeth after saying each word.
Lu Zhong cried out, “I do not care who is buried here. How dare you blocking my way?! He is interrupting a Lu family operation! Kill him!”
Du’s were waiting for this moment, excited to see the Ye family getting destroyed by the Lu’s.
The Ye squad’s eyes went bloodshot, Ye Wei in particular was ready to charge forth. Knowing that their ancestral burial grounds will be stepped on by the enemies, none of them could remain calm.
The Ye’s did not take a move, they all stood still and looked towards Ye Wei.
Although Ye Wei was seldom home, they were all aware that throughout the years Ye Wei had become the family’s soul, a person they all admired.
To everyone on the squad, Ye Wei was as influential as the Ye Patriarch.
Ye Wei extended his fingers, with his Qi Sword he drew a three feet wide line on the dirt between the Du’s and the hill. “Who crosses this line, will be dead!” He shouted.