Chapter 56 Chen Dandan (1/2)

The Li family household.

As one of the preeminent families in Yunfeng county, the Li family had yet to recover from the loss of Second Young Master Li Pingyun.

“Is it confirmed?” Li family chief, Li Jingyu, asked as he looked at the Li family elder before him.

“Chief, it’s been confirmed… it’s true,” the Li family elder smiled sadly.

“I knew it. No wonder Lu Qinghu and Fang Tianyi didn’t avenge their son. They even went all the way to Qingshan town to be at Zhou Donghuang’s beck at call… Zhou Donghuang is actually so powerful?” Li Jingyu’s eyes glinted. “Looks like the death of the former Ma family chief, Ma Tianba probably had something to do with him as well.”

“Chief, Zhou Donghuang appears to be a level-five adept… our Li family cannot afford to offend him,” said the Li family elder.

“We have never done anything to him before, and especially not now… we’ll wait for my eldest daughter to return from Guangling prefecture first. If there is really nothing we can do, I don’t want to avenge my son either, in case we fail and even end up losing our whole family.” Though Li Jingyu said this calmly, his fists were clenched so tightly that they had started bleeding. It was clear that he was furious!

For now, he could only plant his hopes on his eldest daughter who had married the junior governor of the intermediate-level Guangling prefecture. Although she was just a concubine, she was the most loved amongst the many wives and concubines of the junior governor.

“In my letter to her, I told her to come back with the junior governor of Guangling prefecture… who knows if she’ll be coming back alone this time, or with him. If the junior governor comes back with her, perhaps we can avenge my son!”

Guangling county was an intermediate-level prefecture. The Wu family, the household that controlled Guangling prefecture, was a grand family with many level-six adepts. Wherever his son-in-law went, he would be accompanied by at least two level-five adepts.

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At this time, on the other side of the Li family household.

“Impossible… Impossible… Zhou Donghuang is a martial invalid, how could he possibly become a level-five adept? Furthermore, he… he’s only seventeen years old!” Li Rui shook her head continuously as she refused to believe this was true. But the more she asked, the more hopeless she felt.

Now, even though she said that she did not believe it, deep within her heart, she still knew that it was true. She just could not be resigned to the fact. Back then, outside the main door of the Qingyun guild in Ningping county, her mother Li Yun had told her, “Rui’er, you’re wrong. Zhou Donghuang is a dragon amongst men. You will regret giving him up.”

Li Rui was regretting it now. She had always wanted to find a man of high status so that she too could enjoy the prestige, but now, she had given up on her best chance. That Zhou Donghuang whom she had looked down upon was truly a dragon amongst men, as her mother had said.

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The Hong family was also one of the preeminent families in the capital of Yunfeng county. By then, someone in the Hong family had also heard the news that was spreading outside like wildfire.

“Zhou Donghuang killed a level-four adept, Lin Tianzheng, the head elder of the Lin family?” A young lady with a slim figure clad in a pale yellow shirt had an incredulous expression on her youthful face. “How could that useless piece of trash have such power?” Her eyes were filled with disbelief.

“Uncle Hong, is that true?” The young lady turned to the man who had told her the news, a middle-aged man dressed in a flowing green gown and a stern look on his face.

The man was none other than Hong Wei, chief of the preeminent Hong family.

“Dandan, it’s true.” Hong Wei nodded his head solemnly. “I sent someone to find out. Zhou Donghuang had indeed killed Lin Tianzheng. That day, Lin Tianzheng even used the Lin family fist motion technique, ‘Crazy Python Punch, but after one round with Zhou Donghuang, his whole body flew backward and his arm was broken. The power that Zhou Donghuang showed that day is hardly inferior to a level-five adept.” Although this was not the first time he had known about this, Hong Wei’s face was still full of shock.

The young lady was none other than Chen Dandan, Lin Lan’s adopted daughter and step-sister of Zhou Donghuang when he was younger. Because she had betrayed Lin Lan and released the Lin family medicine formulas to the Hong family, she had totally broken off contact with Lin Lan and Zhou Donghuang. After leaving Qingshan town, she had come to the preeminent Hong family.