Lingzhang

Chapter 804 Qingshan
"I'm afraid King Lingye still doesn't quite believe me when I say this."

"It is true and not true that it takes great courage to give up one's position in a prominent family in Zhenzhou."

“We have not actually been so obsessed with righteousness and empty fame that we have become demonic. Otherwise, we would not have allowed the Dao Alliance to stand on its own, nominally placing it above our families.”

"The rise and fall of a dynasty is actually within the psychological acceptance range of us who are at the helm."

"We are not bound by the situation. What we care about is whether this family can be passed down more peacefully, especially now that King Lingye's power is established and the blade of his great reform is unstoppable."

"They say as long as the green hills remain, there will always be firewood to burn."

"We don't necessarily need to leave a lot of firewood for future generations. It's meaningless. Wealth will eventually run out."

What we want to preserve is the green hills.

"So whether or not we are from a prominent family in Zhenzhou, or whether or not we have this title, is sometimes not a very meaningful thing."

“Back when Jinzhou was in a state of tripartite balance, you, King Lingye, established the Jade Capital Taoist Academy at the cost of the destruction of the Yunbo Fu family.”

"That was actually when your revolutionary cause faced the greatest resistance."

"When the Su family of Wu'an took the initiative to surrender and began the great cause of reform in Yanzhou, the promise you, King Lingye, made that all the successors of the lineage of Taoist teachings would be the Dean of Studies gave us a new hope."

"An opportunity for a noble family to form an alliance with the Dao Academy, to participate in the great cause of reform, and to perfectly integrate with the Golden Age!"

"Every three generations, a headmaster or a Saint Realm master will emerge from the Shouyang Jiang family!"

"This is the green hills I leave to the descendants of the Jiang family!"

“King Lingye believes that you and the Dao Alliance headquarters have joined forces to seize the power of Zhenzhou from my Jiang family in Shouyang, and to seize a huge amount of resources and benefits.”

"But no matter how much foundation and cultivation resources a family has, it is never enough, yet it is never enough."

"So actually, it was my Jiang family who benefited."

“It is my Jiang family that has transformed the rotation of your Beihai Tiandu lineage and the three offices of the Dao Alliance headquarters into an invisible millstone.”

"With this millstone, the Jiang family of Shouyang can maintain a constant and uninterrupted control over the overall situation in Qizhou, while also using external forces to hone their own members and external pressure to ensure long-term unity and progress within the family."

"The curse of bloatedness, expansion, and decay that was once a powerful family held power in a province, as vividly seen in ancient history, may now be broken!"

"This mountain will not collapse again! This mountain will always remain evergreen!"

"If we say that the stubborn aristocratic families are as firm as a rock, perhaps it is because the long process of their family lineage has led to their fixed mindset."

"Then our moderate family will be like flowing water."

"As long as Patriarch Sang doesn't really go mad like Wang Xiaoyu, he will definitely be able to figure this out!"

"On this point, I'm even willing to make a bet with King Lingye."

When the head of the Jiang family mentioned this...

Yue Hanzhang had already managed to suppress the rare look of surprise on his face. He not only regained his composure in the face of the proposal mentioned by the Jiang family head, but also became calm and composed again.

If what Patriarch Jiang said is true, then it would naturally be a happy thing for everyone.

Even if he misjudged the Sang family head's style of doing things, the Jiang family head's surrender today has truly opened the door to the moderate aristocratic families.

This is already a joyous occasion.

then.

Yue Hanzhang responded obediently to the Jiang family head.

"Oh? I wonder how the Jiang family will proceed with the bet?"

The old, sickly tiger smiled and pointed at Jiang Ziran beside him.

"To be selfish, in the past few decades, there have been many changes and upheavals. In order to preserve the lineage of the Jiang family in Shouyang, I have spent an extremely long time sitting in the sacred realm of Shouyang."

"Now, thanks to King Lingye's miraculous medical skills, my chronic illness has been cured, and I can continue my cultivation path."

"But as the years have passed, the soaring spirit of yesteryear is no more."

"If you want to make real progress and achieve something in your spiritual practice, you must spend more time and energy to persevere."

"Under such circumstances, it would be somewhat difficult to also assume the position of head of the Jiang family in Shouyang."

"So, if what I said comes true, the Sang family has made the same choice as my Jiang family."

"Then this child will succeed me as the new head of the Jiang family of Shouyang!"

"King Lingye and Lord of Lingdu Holy Realm, you must publicly support this matter!"

"Moreover."

"I don't care about anything else, but this child must become the first Holy Realm Master of the Zhenzhou Dao Academy, which will stand tall in the Qizhou territory in the future!"

"This old man is not asking for an exorbitant amount."

“King Lingye, he knew you when you were still a nobody. He was your comrade-in-arms in blood and fire, and you went through life and death together.”

"Whether you acknowledge it or not, according to the bloodline, he is the cousin of the Lord of the Holy Land of Lingdu."

He also called Ye Zunwang "sister".

"These are members of the Jiang family, and they are also your own people..."

Before Patriarch Jiang could finish speaking, Yue Hanzhang, standing still, patted Jiang Ziran on the shoulder and nodded with a smile.

"The bond between me and Brother Jiang cannot be explained in just a few words."

"I agree to the old patriarch's request!"

Even if you lose the bet.

"I still agree to your request to support Brother Jiang as the head of the family!" "However... the Jiang family will not be eligible to become the first master of the Dao Academy's Holy Realm."

Upon hearing this, the sickly tiger of the Jiang family simply burst into a hearty, weathered laugh.

"I, an old man, will not lose this bet!"
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Things soon came to fruition.

Within just a few days, an extremely fierce friction and clash erupted between the Sang family and the die-hard aristocratic families.

From the very first moment that meeting broke down.

Without disrupting the battle lines between the two clans, the Sang family initiated a well-organized overall retreat.

The ancestors and kings of a prominent family in a certain town were withdrawing from the ancient battlefield in droves!

This step is nothing compared to what's to come.

However, during the retreat, the Sang family's cultivators displayed extraordinary sensitivity and responsiveness.

As soon as any of the ancestral kings of the die-hard aristocratic families appear in a seemingly suspicious manner on their retreat route or in their vicinity.

What awaited the stubborn ancestors and kings of the powerful families was the Sang family's ruthless and fierce attack!

and.

Previously, some members of the Shi Sang family had perished.

However, some of those people either haven't yet donned the protective robes and don't want to go through the guarantee process, but want to fight for the purchase quota themselves. This is why they later clashed with the stubborn aristocratic family cultivators over the competition for the demon beasts, resulting in bloodshed.

Alternatively, those members of the Brown Lotus Palace whom Yue Hanzhang secretly eliminated were cultivators who dared not reveal their physical form, spirit, and Daoist origins to Yue Hanzhang.

But apart from these people.

The remaining Sang family cultivators, thanks to Sang Mingqiong's presence, smoothly joined the guarantee chain.

These people are all clad in six-dragon robes and possess extraordinary abilities!

On the contrary, among those stubborn aristocratic cultivators, only a few who acted swiftly and possessed outstanding combat strength had exchanged the Six Dragons Gauze Robe from Yue Hanzhang in the previous ten months.

Those still lingering in the ancient battlefield are cultivators who have not yet accumulated sufficient foundation.

With this increase and decrease, the difference in combat power has become apparent.

Not to mention.

The Sang family acted with genuine resentment, and with six dragons surrounding them, they showed absolutely no mercy.

As a result, numerous bloodshed incidents broke out!

Many of them were merely acting suspiciously, doing nothing at all, yet they died unjustly near the Sang family.

of course.

Similarly, some truly malicious individuals, including stubborn aristocratic cultivators with both courage and strength, also took advantage of the chaos to launch extremely effective attacks on the retreating Sang family cultivators.

It's come to this.

This was no longer a fight over the monster's cover; it had completely abandoned any semblance of fighting!
It didn't even happen within the borders of the Dao Alliance, but rather it broke out in the ancient battlefield!
In the ancient battlefield where the ancestral holy kings of the demon race have already reacted and are constantly mobilizing troops!
This situation appears to be even worse than the madness that once gripped the Wang family of Xiguan.

And on the other side.

At this moment, the head of the Tao family and several other family heads also demonstrated extremely strong restraint.

By strategically adjusting the battle lines of the Human Alliance, they diverted those die-hard cultivators who had previously targeted the Sang family cultivators and harbored genuine blood feuds from the Sang family's retreat route.

It's just unclear whether the control has truly slipped out of control.

During this process, the Tao family head and his companions seemed to completely ignore those stubborn cultivators who were still eager to make their move.

Furthermore, several powerful families, from top to bottom, completely broke away from the control of the Tao family head. Like the powerful families of the four states in the past, they became bloodthirsty and relentlessly pursued the Sang family even as they were constantly retreating.

They seemed to be pursuing the fleeing enemy relentlessly.

It can only be said that the Tao family head and his group only ensured that the situation did not collapse completely like it did with the Wang family in the past, but they completely ignored the intensity of the friction and let it develop at its own pace.

But fortunately.

The Sang family is not taking the initiative to attack.

From beginning to end, the Sang family was gathering troops and consolidating their forces. All frictions erupted during the process of inward contraction. Naturally, the originally intense frictions would come to an end as the contraction was completed.

However, contraction is not the end.

Upon closer inspection.

As the Sang family completed its retreat, and as the Tao family head and others made arrangements for troop deployment, the other stubborn aristocratic families also completed their retreat on the front lines during this process.

and.

These die-hard families did not unite in one place, but were scattered throughout the various parts of the entire front.

If the Sang family is conserving their strength, it's so they can unleash their full power more effectively.

If they were to truly engage in a bloody internal conflict as a powerful clan...

Whether the Dao Alliance will collapse or not is unclear, but before that, the first thing that will happen is that the two races' battle lines on the ancient battlefield will completely collapse!
The Tao family leader shifted the responsibility for the safety and well-being of the two clans' conflict onto the friction with the Sang family.

In the face of the greater good of the Dao Alliance, any action that is reasonable becomes unreasonable!
Just when the atmosphere had reached its most somber point.

Suddenly.

This was unexpected by some of the more conservative monks.

The head of the Sang family actually stood near the Heavenly Capital Sacred Realm!
(End of this chapter)