Chapter 19: Undercurrents Surge

  The two warriors of the Shen Tu family struggled to get up from the ground, their faces ferocious and sinister as they shouted: "You dare to lay hands on us, wait till we report back to our young master, you'll be sorry."

  "If you don't get out, believe it or not, I'll break your arms and legs and throw you out the door!" Zhang Shan sneered and took a step towards them.

  The two warriors didn't dare say another word and fled out of the Zhang family's gate with their tails between their legs.

  "You'd better leave too. From now on, your sister's affairs have nothing to do with the Wu family. You'd best put away those dirty thoughts of yours, or you'll suffer the consequences."

  Zhang Shan looked at Wu Qiming with disgust as he struggled to get up from the ground.

  Wu Qiming's eyes flashed with indignation, but intimidated by Zhang Shan's prestige, he didn't dare say another word and hastily stepped out of the hall, leaving without looking back.

  Zhang Shan turned around and smiled apologetically at Wu Xueyue, saying: "In the heat of the moment, I kicked your brother, hope you don't mind."

  "I don't have such a brother who forgets righteousness for profit..." Wu Xueyue said with her lips bitten.

  She said with a nervous tone, "Madam... Xue Yue didn't make it clear that the other party was from the Shentu family..."

  Zhang Shan interrupted her and said: "No matter how big the other party is, we will protect you, don't worry."

  Xiao Su's heart pulled her hand to comfort her: "Shan Er is right, although my Zhang family has declined now, but we have never done anything to throw our own people out to avoid disaster."

  Wu Xueyue was deeply moved, her own family didn't care about her life or death for the sake of benefits, but instead, her future husband's family fearlessly wanted to protect her despite facing powerful forces.

  "However, the Shentu family is powerful after all, we must make arrangements ahead of time." Xiao Su said with a slight frown.

  "Don't worry, Mother. Yesterday, I won the championship in the academy's grand examination and now I'm the top disciple of the academy. Even if the Shentu family is powerful, they wouldn't dare to openly provoke me. As long as I'm fine, our family will be fine."

  Xiao Su's heart was delighted when she heard the news: "Shan, you've become the Chief? It's really... great! This is just over a month since you awakened your Martial Soul."

  "Haha, that's it, I was originally gifted, but was suppressed before, now it's bursting out." Zhang Shan made a small joke with a relaxed tone.

  Affected by his optimistic tone, and knowing that as the chief disciple of Xuantian Academy, he would definitely be noticed by all parties, the Shentu family should have some scruples, so Xiao Su felt a great relief and was slightly at ease.

  "Although so, but Mountain child you recently go out still need to be careful, everything is better with more attention." Xiao Su reminded.

  "I know this period of time I've been at home, nothing urgent won't go out, mom you can rest assured."

  Zhang Shan nodded in agreement, after the annual examination at the academy was over, there would be a period of vacation, and he wouldn't need to go to the academy for roll call, so it would be just right to stay home and cultivate. If anything unexpected happened, he could deal with it immediately.

  That afternoon.

  In a tastefully decorated study within the mansion of the Situ family, one of the four major families in Qingyang City.

  Miss Sito Ching-yan of the Sito family was listening attentively as her fourth uncle, Sito Ming-kong, briefed her on Zhang Shan's background.

  "So this is to say that the Zhang family is just a declining small family, and by the time of Zhang Shan's generation, there is only one male left?" Si Tu Qing said thoughtfully.

  "It's precisely because of this that Zhang Shan had never been able to awaken his martial soul, and also because his family had a history of contracting that strange illness, so there weren't many people who were willing to associate with them. You could say they basically didn't have any connections or relationships."

  "His two elder brothers did not awaken their martial souls, so they both passed away at the age of twenty. His father was a cultivator at the ninth level of the Spiritual Martial Realm before his death, but last year, at the age of forty, he also died prematurely due to being unable to break through to the True Martial Realm."

  Situ Qingwan said with a hint of sympathy: "If Zhang Shan can't awaken his martial soul, the Zhang family will probably disintegrate in four years."

  "Who says it isn't? But after this kid awakened his martial soul, his progress has been abnormally fast." said Situ Mingkong.

  "It's going smoothly, just as I had hoped. If he can cooperate with us and take the elixir we provide, it's possible that his cultivation will surpass Shentu Shengdong's by a notch, which would be troublesome for the Shentu family." Situ Qingyan smiled slightly, pursing her lips.

  "As for cooperation, I think it's almost certain."

  Just before I came, I received the latest news that his second brother's fiancée who had not yet entered the door ran to the Zhang family, and this matter is also related to Shen Tusheng.

  As he spoke, he told the story of Miss Wu Xueyue from the Wu family once again.

  Because they wanted to investigate Zhang Shan, so Situ Mingkong arranged for people to guard the entrance of the Zhang family home, and any events that occurred at the Zhang residence would be immediately reported back to him.

  After listening, Situ Qingwan revealed a smile with a hint of cleverness: "There's actually such a thing, it seems that the heavens also want to make things difficult for the Shentu family. Fourth Uncle, we shouldn't delay, this afternoon we'll go and have a talk with Zhang Shan."

  At this time, in the Shentu Mansion located in the north of the city.

  Shen Tu Sheng Dong's face was gloomy as he stared at Wu Qi Ming in front of him, with two of Zhang Shan's subordinates kneeling beside him.

  Wu Qiming caught up with two Shentu family thugs who were just about to return home and report back.

  After discussing among the three of them, they unified their tone and shifted the blame to Zhang Shan with added embellishments to downplay their own responsibility for handling things poorly.

  Wu Qiming secretly glanced at Shen Tusheng Dong and, plucking up his courage, said: "That's what happened. My sister must have been misled by the Zhang family, which is why she did such a thing. Please forgive her, Master Shengdong."

  "Hah! I thought this kid had some skills, and I was even considering recruiting him. But it turns out he's actually daring to compete with me for a woman? He must be tired of living!"

  The steward, Guan Shu, who was standing beside him, frowned and said: "In my opinion, this person is just young and arrogant, and doesn't know the power of the Shen Tu family. Why don't I go and talk to him, explain the pros and cons, and he will surely make a wise choice."

  "Uncle Cai, I know you still want to recruit this person and have him not be my enemy in the sect selection two months from now. However, for me, Shentu Wengdong, to defeat him is as easy as turning over one's hand. Moreover, with what happened just now, it's not necessary to go through all that trouble."

  Seeing that the young master of his own family had already made a decision, Uncle Cai couldn't help but secretly sigh, although he had confidence in the young master's strength, being able to reduce one powerful opponent was always good.

  Knowing the young master's temperament, once he made up his mind about something, he would absolutely not change it. So he shut his mouth and stopped speaking.

  "Wu Qiming, after lunch, you take me to that Zhang's house for a visit. Let's see if he dares to stop me. Hmph, if he doesn't know what's good for him, I'll deal with him."

  Shen Tu Sheng Dong coldly smiled and stood up, saying proudly.

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