Iron Snow Clouds

Chapter 317 Convincing the Public

"I know this, but since Elder Nie, Elder Tian and Elder Lian all hope to determine who the 'real young clan leader' is through a competition, I have to convince them." Tie Hongyan said.

"In the past three years, you have made many outstanding achievements. Those achievements alone have directly established you as the 'real young patriarch', and no one else can say anything." Wu Xunsheng said casually with an expressionless face.

"But if I am chosen as the 'real young clan leader' without going through the competition, then when I become the clan leader in the future, it is inevitable that someone will use the fact that I have not gone through the competition as a handle. Since we can proceed step by step without leaving any trouble, then of course we should not give people a reason to talk about it." Tie Hongyan paused and continued, "You said that... Could it be that you don't want me to participate in the competition?"

"I was just saying it casually. I didn't mean that I didn't want you to compete. I guess I didn't express myself clearly."

After that, the two remained silent.

I don't know when it started, although they still get together sometimes, they are silent more often. In fact, they have been together much less than before. Many years ago, when Ao Qian Palace was renovated, Wu Xunsheng's training residence was still located in Ao Qian Palace, but the location became very remote. Unless someone went to find him, usually no one would go to his residence. After the location change, the training residence was much farther away from Tie Hongyan's room than before. If it was not late at night, even if someone sang in Tie Hongyan's room, no one in the training residence could hear it. The distance between the rooms became farther, and as they grew up, they went to see each other less and less. They only met when they needed to study and practice kung fu together. As they grew older, they were arranged to study and practice kung fu with the master less and less, and they spent more time studying and practicing on their own. If Tie Hongyan was not going to participate in the competition soon, the two would not appear in front of the master frequently during this period. When the two studied and practiced kung fu with the master, they hardly communicated. They occasionally said a few words on the way to and from the master, and the rest of the time, they were silent. They just walked forward in silence without saying a word, but they didn't feel awkward.

Although they had long been accustomed to not talking when they were together, they had once been close to each other after Tie Hongyan was seriously injured in a battle some time ago, but later, the distance between them became farther. They moved away from each other in silence, as if they had never been close. No one except the two of them knew what kind of emotional ups and downs had happened between them.

Before the two of them walked far, a man rushed forward like a madman with a long knife in his hand, and yelled at Tie Hongyan: "You are a cruel and inhumane person. Did you set the fire to death of those blue-armored people last time? And then you threw their ashes far away, so that their relatives will never be able to find their ashes in their lifetime?"

Tie Hongyan glanced at the blue nails on his hands and said nonchalantly: "Although this is not an area where blue-armored people are forbidden to enter, it is also not a place where blue-armored people can come and go as they please. Assassinate me? Well, you will be in a worse situation than those people you mentioned!"

"Even if I die, I will take you with me! To avenge those innocent people!" As he said that, he stabbed Tie Hongyan with a long knife.

Tie Hongyan easily snatched the long sword from the blue-armored man's hand with one move, and pressed his acupoints, making him unable to move or speak.

"Wu Xunsheng, you go back first! I'm going to give this guy a good beating." Tie Hongyan sneered and said casually.

Wu Xunsheng glanced at the man in blue armor and went back to the training sparring room in Ao Qian Palace.

(End of this chapter)