I bought a secret manual of the Hehuan Sect for ten yuan.

"Stop showing off, what time is it and you still have the mind to talk about this!"

Jiang Xianjue kept his eyes fixed on Yu Jinxiao and Jiang Zhuoqing. "Those two are evenly matched, and it seems that they won't be able to determine a winner for a while. This is an opportunity for us."

"Jiang Yi, give the things to Chao Ning!"

"Chao Ning, take our Jiang family's core secrets to Qin Ge and negotiate with him. If he agrees to protect you, then give him the information!"

"You absolutely must find a way to make him agree, otherwise you won't be able to protect the items once they're in your hands!"

"I don't want to!" Jiang Chaoning exclaimed, bewildered. "Grandpa, since they can't decide a winner right now, they can't worry about us. Why don't we go together?"

Jiang Xianjue sighed softly, "Silly girl, those two people came with a clear goal. As long as Jiang Yi and I are still here, they might not care if you leave alone."

"If we all leave and they haven't decided who's winning, won't they temporarily stop fighting?"

"Listen to Grandpa, or none of us will survive!"

Jiang Yi hesitated for a moment, then said, "Patriarch, didn't you just say that with the methods of those two Grandmasters, it's impossible for any of us to escape right under their noses?"

Jiang Xianjue nodded slightly. "Normally that would be true, but aren't there the two of us here now?"

"If anyone tries to escape, they will definitely kill them, but we can use our bodies to shield Chao Ning from the attack!"

"Don't worry, they won't let us die until they get the goods."

His expression turned unusually serious. "Chao Ning, listen to me. Now is not the time for hesitation. Once this opportunity is missed, it will be gone forever!"

"Yu Jinxiao is indeed enraged now. Even if we hand over what he wants, he won't let us go if he wins. So you have to leave!"

"But don't worry too much. Even if you leave, we might not die. If Jiang Zhuoqing wins, we still have a chance to live!"

"It's all my fault, it's all my fault!" Jiang Chaoning cried, tears streaming down her face. "Qin Ge is the most capable person I've ever met. I thought he was amazing, I thought that as long as we could stall until he arrived, we would be saved!"

"If I hadn't misjudged the situation and angered Yu Jinxiao, we might not be dead..."

"But Grandpa, if I really manage to escape, shouldn't I seek refuge with the police station or the Shadow Martial Arts Hall? Why would I go to Qin Ge?"

Jiang Xianjue said, "The Shadow Martial Hall can protect you for a while, but not forever, but Qin Ge can!"

"Also, remember this: if anything happens to us today, you cannot trust any of the Jiang family's relatives and friends from the past. Remember that!"

"Chao Ning, do you think those two grandmasters are too powerful, and even if Qin Ge came, he wouldn't be able to deal with them?"

"That's not necessarily true. Qin Ge is also a Grandmaster!"

Qin Ge defeated two deputy hall masters, Feng Shuofang and Qiu Ang, in a one-against-two battle at the Shadow Martial Hall headquarters. Although Han Che instructed that this matter should not be spread, how could it be kept from the Jiang family? They had plenty of ways to find out!

To defeat two experts at the peak of the Innate Realm, Qin Ge must be a Grandmaster. Otherwise, Feng Shuofang and the others are just putting on an act for Qin Ge, but the latter is unlikely.

Jiang Chaoning froze, wiping away her tears. "He's a grandmaster too?!"

"Stop talking nonsense and get out of here!" Jiang Xianjue's tone was filled with anger. "If even you can't survive, then the entire Jiang family will die with their eyes wide open in disbelief!"

Jiang Chaoning gritted her teeth, "Grandpa, then take care!"

After she finished speaking, she took off running.

Yu Jinxiao had been watching Jiang Xianjue and his group's every move. Seeing Jiang Chaoning trying to escape, he sneered, "Trying to escape?"

He then forced Jiang Zhuoqing back with a single move, raised his hand, and sent a pebble hurtling towards Jiang Chaoning with pinpoint accuracy.

However, the next moment he felt a chill, his fingers curled into a claw, his power was pushed to its limit, and with a suck and a flick, the pebbles were deflected in an instant, narrowly missing Jiang Xianjue's shoulder.

"Old bastard!" Yu Jinxiao cursed, while Jiang Zhuoqing also struck his right shoulder with a sword.

His anger surged, and despite his injured shoulder, his momentum only increased. He exuded a ghostly aura, and his attacks became increasingly ferocious.

"You're an old geezer too, a hypocrite who takes advantage of others in their vulnerable state!"

The two clashed again, and the battle became even more intense.

"Master, are you alright?" Jiang Yi stepped forward to inquire about Jiang Xianjue's condition, but his eyes were fixed on the direction Jiang Chaoning had left in.

He genuinely admired Jiang Xianjue. When he saw Yu Jinxiao make his move, he instinctively hesitated for a moment. In that instant, Jiang Xianjue had already taken action, using his body to block the attack for Jiang Chaoning.

His words and actions were consistent, and he remained unfazed!

"Jiang Yi, I'm so sorry you've suffered all these years!"

Jiang Xianjue's words came out abruptly, "My sons died young, and given your abilities, I should have handed over the Jiang family to you long ago."

"Do you feel that I acted this way because you're not from my lineage, and that this is why you harbor resentment?"

Jiang Yi replied in a panic, "Jiang Yi dares not, and will not."

"All my skills were taught to me by you, the head of the family. My brothers, including Jiang Xun, also treat me like a brother and have helped and taken care of me a lot."

"By both moral and logical standpoint, the Jiang family should be inherited by Chao Ning. Jiang Yi dares not have the slightest hope, nor has he ever harbored any improper thoughts!"

Jiang Xianjue glanced at Jiang Yi. "What are you so nervous about?"

"We're both nearing the end of our lives, and you've already died once. What is there that can't be said?"

"Do you really think the position of head of the Jiang family is some kind of coveted prize?"

"Times have changed. People are becoming increasingly unruly, and their ambitions are growing ever larger. Today there's a Zhao family, tomorrow there will be a Qian family and a Sun family!"

"With the Jiang family's current capabilities, there's no way they can protect this family business. I realized this when Jiang Xun and the others kept getting into trouble."

"Taking over the Jiang family is like taking on danger, whether it's you or Chao Ning."

"So my indecision and inability to make a decision is not because I look down on you."

Jiang Yi was slightly moved. "I understand the patriarch's good intentions!"

"Master, there's a question I've been wanting to ask you."

"You don't even trust the Jiang family's relatives and friends, so why do you believe Qin Ge?"

"What if he's also an ambitious person? Sending Chao Ning to find him would be like sending a lamb to the slaughter."

"You're right to worry, I'm taking a gamble!" Jiang Xianjue said with a helpless expression. "I don't know Qin Ge very well, but I know my relatives and friends in the Jiang family very well."

"Qin Ge may not be reliable, but those people are absolutely unreliable!"

"Most importantly, Qin Ge gives me a feeling, a feeling of looking down on others. It's not that he's arrogant, but rather that it's something he reveals unintentionally..."

Before he could finish speaking, a voice drifted from behind him, "Old man, that's not fair of you!"

"We're supposed to be allies, don't you even have basic trust in me?"