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Chapter 209 The Final Fate of the Wang Family

Prince Yong chatted with Wu Ming for a while longer before finally standing up and watching Wu Ming leave, leaving only Meng Huaizhen behind.

"It is a great fortune for our Yong Kingdom to have this child. Before the battle of the prodigies, Master Meng will need to take good care of him."

"rest assured."

Meng Huaizhen said with a smile, "To see such a person emerge from the Hidden Dragon Academy, I feel that my position as the academy master has not been in vain. I hope to see another outstanding figure rise in our Yong Kingdom in the future."

After all,

Meng Huaizhen seemed to remember something else and asked, "Speaking of which, have the specific details of this battle of geniuses been communicated to us?"

"There are some promising signs."

Prince Yong nodded and said, "If nothing unexpected happens, it should be in the Wangyue Mountains."

The Wangyue Mountains are hundreds of thousands of miles away from Yong Kingdom, which is considered a relatively far place. However, the location of the Hundred Kingdoms' Prodigy Battle is different every year, sometimes near and sometimes far, and the specific circumstances and rules are also different each time.

"That's a bit far. Once we've finalized the details in a few days, we'll have to set off sooner."

After hearing this, Meng Huaizhen's gaze became quite solemn.

"Yes, we'll still have to trouble Team Leader Meng then."

Prince Yong addressed Meng Huaizhen.

Meng Huaizhen naturally did not refuse and nodded in agreement. After discussing for a few more minutes, he finally turned and left the main hall.

Prince Yong stood there, watching Meng Huaizhen leave.

Then, he returned to his desk and sat down, picked up a file from the table, and began to read it carefully, word by word—

In the 1881st year of the Yong Kingdom calendar, Wu Ming was born in Wu Village, 20 li outside Jingye City.

……

In the year 1898 of the Yong Kingdom calendar, a demon came to earth and wreaked havoc. It was suppressed by the two department heads and the two sects. The demonic energy dissipated and merged into the ground, spreading around. Later, some of the remaining demons drifted to Wu Village, causing the death of a young boy in Wu Village. Later, it attacked Wu Ming, but Wu Qu, the clan chief of Wu Village, arrived in time, and Wu Ming was lucky to survive.

……

In the year 1899 of the Yong Kingdom calendar, Wu Ming successfully coagulated blood.

……

This is an intelligence file about Wu Ming. The information recorded inside is extremely detailed. Almost everything about Wu Ming is recorded. It is a file that Prince Yong specially ordered people to collect.

He sat upright behind the desk and read on until he came across the part about Wu Ming's feud with the Wang family and how he had been assassinated by the Wang family multiple times. His face suddenly turned gloomy.

Until the very end, when the head of the Wang family was transferred to the position of head of the Shenxing Division in Yulan City and fled Jingye City, and Wu Ming refrained from retaliating against the Wang family out of consideration for Liu Muyuan, the Prince of Yong couldn't help but let out a soft snort.

"Someone is coming."

He spoke calmly.

Immediately, a servant respectfully stepped forward.

"By order of the King, Wang Mingxuan, the head of the Criminal Investigation Department of Yulan City, is hereby stripped of all his official positions, his martial arts are abolished, all male members of the Wang family are exiled to the mines, and all female members are to be taken into the brothel as slaves, never to be allowed to change their household registration."

A mere sixth-rank official in the Censorate, a martial artist who had achieved four blood coagulations, would never have come into Wu Ming's sights if the records didn't show that he had a history of life-and-death feuds with Wu Ming.

As for the Wang family, they were a powerful clan with at least several thousand members including servants. To Prince Yong, they were nothing more than a speck of dust. Since they had a grudge against Wu Ming, he could simply wipe them away.

Perhaps Wu Ming doesn't care about this matter, but it's better to deal with this group of people than to have Wu Ming suddenly remember this matter one day and feel some dissatisfaction.

"Yes."

The attendant responded respectfully and then withdrew to relay the order.

His expression remained unchanged. As a close attendant of Prince Yong, he didn't even care about a small family like the Wang family. Making Wu Ming feel a little better was enough to make up for their past sins.

……

Rainy City.

Wang Mingxuan, the newly appointed head of the Censorate, is a very low-key person. After being transferred to Yulan City, he never takes the lead in anything and has little presence in the territory of Yulan City. He comes to the office quietly every day and leaves quietly. He doesn't pay much attention to the affairs of Yulan City and does not compete for power.

However, Wang Mingxuan's close attendants knew that Wang Mingxuan had only one thing he was very concerned about: a person named 'Wu Ming' in the Jingye City territory. From the very first day he arrived in Yulan City, he had been keeping track of Wu Ming's intelligence. Inside a government office...

Wang Mingxuan sat upright behind the desk, holding a newly arrived intelligence report in his hand.

"..."

He stared at the intelligence report in his hand, his expression shifting between light and dark.

Since being transferred to Yulan City and avoiding Wu Ming, he did not believe that he was completely safe. After all, Wu Ming might not have taken further revenge on the Wang family because of Liu Muyuan's reputation, but that did not mean that Wu Ming would let bygones be bygones. Perhaps one day Wu Ming would remember it and the revenge and blows against the Wang family would follow.

Years ago, upon learning that Wu Ming had entered the Hidden Dragon Academy, Wang Mingxuan was extremely uneasy. After all, with Wu Ming's talent, he would be a master-level figure with five levels of cultivation and five levels of blood upon his graduation. Although he was appointed by the court as the head of the Censorate, Wu Ming, even as the head of the academy, could not openly attack him. However, for a master-level figure to deal with the Wang family would be far too easy; he could easily crush him.

But he was powerless to do anything about it.

Long ago, he was already unable to deal with Wu Ming, let alone after Wu Ming entered the Hidden Dragon Academy. Not to mention him, even the royal family and top noble families of Yong Kingdom would find it difficult to interfere in the affairs of the Hidden Dragon Academy.

Moreover, the Wang family is large and powerful. Being able to evacuate Jingye City is already the limit of what they can do. Even if they know that Wu Ming may come to retaliate, where can the Wang family escape to?

Escape the city and become a bandit in the mountains?
Meaningless.

To escape Yong Kingdom and go to a neighboring country?

For Yong Kingdom, doing this would be considered treason. What would be the point of a mere fourth-stage blood coagulation martial artist defecting to other countries? He would still be living in constant fear. Besides, he might have a chance to escape alone, but it would be impossible for him to take his family and the entire Wang family out of Yong Kingdom.

Therefore, the only thing he has been doing all these years is to send and spread the direct descendants and children of the Wang family to various places, hiding some in Jingye City, Yulan City and many other cities.

If Wu Ming ever decides to settle scores with the Wang family, the Wang family will have a chance to preserve some of their bloodline.

now,

The intelligence in Wang Mingxuan's hands contained some information about the Hidden Dragon Academy, including information about Wu Ming. For some time now, there has been no movement from him; he has seemingly vanished without a trace.

With the Hundred Kingdoms Prodigies Battle approaching, Wu Ming remained silent. Wang Mingxuan, not without malice, hoped that Wu Ming would suffer a setback in his cultivation and then become completely despondent.

Although he hoped so in his heart, Wang Mingxuan had experienced Wu Ming's methods many times in Jingye City and knew that Wu Ming was no ordinary person. The fact that there had been no news for so long gave him a vague sense of foreboding.

"..."

Finally, Wang Mingxuan sighed, tore the intelligence report in his hand to shreds, and threw it into the stove.

Even with a bad feeling, there was nothing he could do now. He had done everything he could. All he could do now was to leave the rest to fate. Who would have thought that a lowly patrolman who was not taken seriously by the Wang family would grow into such a terrifying figure in just a few years and become the most outstanding genius in Yong Kingdom?

I tidied up.
Wang Mingxuan stood up and strode out of the yamen.

Hey.

Just as Wang Mingxuan stepped out of the yamen and took a step forward, a hand suddenly and silently pressed down on his shoulder. The hand seemed soft and weak, but at the moment of contact, an immense force pressed down on him.

Wang Mingxuan's body jolted violently, and he instinctively tried to unleash his blood energy to resist, but the blood energy he unleashed vanished without a trace, like a mud ox sinking into the sea. Then, he collapsed, all his strength drained away, and he staggered to the ground, panting heavily, his eyes filled with horror.

Approaching silently, with a gentle touch, he shattered all the meridians in his body, even cracking his dantian and destroying his dantian blood and qi. Such a brutal method, yet it left his internal organs completely intact, without being affected in the slightest. Such a calm and effortless move is something even a master who has achieved five levels of blood condensation cannot do.

"By imperial decree, Wang Mingxuan, the head of the Criminal Investigation Department of Yulan City, is hereby dismissed from his post. All male members of the Wang family are to be exiled to the mines, and all female members are to be sent to the brothel as slaves, never to be allowed to change their household registration."

The standing figure spoke slowly, his voice carrying a hint of femininity and shrillness, but the pure yang blood energy within his body was extremely thick, far exceeding that of a fifth-level blood condensation expert. He was clearly a sixth-level blood condensation expert, a palace eunuch!
“…Huh, huh.”

Wang Mingxuan collapsed to the ground, panting heavily, all his strength drained away like water.

He had anticipated that one day he would face retaliation from Wu Ming, but he never expected that the verdict against the Wang family would be personally ordered by the King of Yong, who even appointed a palace eunuch who had achieved six blood clottings to carry it out!

Although he didn't know why, he instinctively thought it was related to Wu Ming. After all, no matter how much trouble the Wang family caused, it wouldn't alarm the king to personally pronounce judgment.

"Your Excellency, I wonder if you could allow me to die knowing why..."

Wang Mingxuan forced himself to stand up and looked at the palace eunuch, his voice trembling as he spoke.

"Hey, you really should understand this. If you mess with the wrong person, you should pay the price... Lord Wu Ming of the Hidden Dragon Academy passed the ninth level of the Hidden Dragon Tower the other day and will soon participate in the Hundred Kingdoms Prodigies Battle and enter the Great Jin's sacred cultivation ground."

"Your Wang family once persecuted Lord Wu, so isn't it only right that you deserve this fate?"

The palace eunuch sneered twice, then stepped forward, picked up Wang Mingxuan as if he were a tattered sack, and walked straight out.

(End of this chapter)