Inside the Jiang family’s mansion, it was the middle of the night, yet the lights were blazing. Nearly half of the Jiang family’s senior members had gathered.
Half the room was packed, and the atmosphere was exceptionally oppressive. Clearly, something major had happened to the Jiang family.
The future third generation helmsman of the Jiang family had been murdered!
And it had been done by one of their own.
Jiang Yihong stood motionless, his gaze vacant. He could not hear a single word of what was being said around him. His mind was in a daze, filled with nothing but blood, the blood from the beating his uncle had given him.
But he knew very well that he had caused a major disaster. Regardless of whether he could clear his name, he had already caused a major disaster.
However, there was one thing he did not understand. He had only wanted to kill that person who annoyed him, only wanted to kill the person who might threaten his pursuit of Li Meizi.
Why had things turned out like this?
Why had it become a situation where the entire Jiang family was on the verge of upheaval?
The consequences were actually this severe!
If he had just held back at the time, if he had not sent someone to kill that young man.
Would none of this have happened?
Would that uncle who doted on him still dote on him?
Would that cousin who looked after him still be standing before him, full of life?
Unfortunately, he only understood now that, regardless of anything, he had provoked a terrifying person, a person he could not afford to provoke!
This person, with just a single move, could leave him unable to crawl out of the mud.
“Qingguo, what exactly is going on?”
“Tell me, what on earth happened?” Outside the door, an elderly man over sixty years old, with white hair and beard, wearing a training uniform, was roaring as he entered.
His grandson was dead?
In Yanjing, who would dare to do such a thing?
This was a feud that could only end with one side’s destruction!
They would have to endure the Jiang family’s thunderous wrath!
“Dad, ask this little bastard, this beast!” Jiang Qingguo’s face was filled with fury. If Tang Yun had not been holding him back, he would have already killed Jiang Yihong.
“No, it was not me, I did not kill him.”
“Really, it really was not me.” Jiang Yihong was pulled back to reality by this roar.
“Uncle, it really was not me.” Jiang Yihong dropped to his knees and grabbed Jiang Dong’s trousers.
“And you say it was not you?” Jiang Qingguo roared in anger.
“I was nearly killed by the assassin you hired!” Jiang Qingguo snorted coldly.
Hearing this, Jiang Dong’s face instantly showed an expression of disbelief, even shock to the extreme.
He then turned his gaze to Tang Yun. He needed to confirm whether what Jiang Qingguo said was true.
Tang Yun sighed helplessly, nodded, and then recounted everything he had witnessed at the time.
Everyone in the room instantly turned pale with shock.
“No, it is not like that, listen to me explain, listen to me…”
“I will kill you, you little beast!” Jiang Dong picked up an ashtray and was about to hurl it at Jiang Yihong.
“Brother, what are you doing?” Another old man appeared at the door.
Jiang Nan, the former second in command of the Jiang family!
“Grandfather, grandfather, you have to believe me, it really was not me.” Jiang Yihong seemed to have found his backbone.
“Second brother, you still want to protect him even now?”
“He not only killed Yifei, he even planned to kill Qingguo!” Jiang Dong snorted coldly.
“Protect him?”
“Brother, this is my only descendant. I have already lost my son. Do you now want me to lose my grandson as well?”
“Is my grandson not a person? Does he deserve to die?”
The two old brothers instantly began to argue. No matter how good their relationship had been, encountering such a matter would cause them to tear off all pretence.
“The matter has not yet been clarified, and you are being so rash?” Jiang Nan snorted coldly.
But as soon as his words fell.
“The forensic results are here.” Suddenly, someone rushed in from outside.
Jiang Dong snatched the forensic report, then let out a furious roar.
“Look at it yourself. Do you still want to quibble?”
Jiang Nan took the forensic report. Indeed, only Jiang Yihong’s fingerprints were on the gun.
“I just…”
“Bang!”
A gunshot rang out. The person who had just entered was carrying a gun, clearly arranged in advance.
“Really, it was not…”
Jiang Yihong collapsed on the floor, his face still showing grievance and disbelief.
But he would never have another chance to argue. The gun in Jiang Qingguo’s hand had just spat fire, and the bullet struck directly at his heart.
At this moment, he died with his eyes wide open, unwilling to accept his fate!
“Jiang, Qing, Guo!”
Jiang Nan’s roar echoed through the entire hall.
“He killed my son!” Jiang Qingguo said coldly. He had never been a merciful person. Whoever harmed him, he would repay tenfold.
Even if they were blood relatives!
“Good, very good.” Jiang Nan gave a cold laugh.
“Do you think the Jiang family is yours and your son’s to command?” Jiang Nan had completely lost control, his roar nearly shaking the ceiling down.
That was his only grandson.
And he had been killed right before his eyes!
No one who had reached their position was not ruthless.
That night, the Jiang family fell into complete chaos, and this chaos was only the beginning!
When the news spread, the entire city of Yanjing was in an uproar and stunned.
The perfectly fine Jiang family, overnight, had lost its entire third generation.
Jiang Yifei and Jiang Yihong were actually both dead, and now there was even major turmoil within the family.
Jiang Nan was prepared to fight to the death. He had no children of his own, and his only grandson was dead. Even if he lived on, there was no hope left for him.
Therefore, he intended to take the entire Jiang family down with him.
And Jiang Dong and his son would naturally not allow such a thing to happen.
Clearly, the Jiang family was about to begin a bloody internal struggle.
This news landed in Yanjing like a heavyweight bomb.
After all, this was the Jiang family, and overnight it had turned into this!
When Shen Junze learned of this news, he was also somewhat stunned. Was not the plan to kill Luo Chen?
They had been waiting for news of Luo Chen’s death. How had things suddenly turned out like this?
The night passed without incident. Early in the morning, Luo Chen went for a walk in the park with Shen Yuelan.
Li Yingying brought a large group of people as well. After all, the two families did not live too far apart. This time, another member of the Shen family’s third generation had come along.
Li Jiayi looked at Luo Chen in shock. She had naturally come to see whether Luo Chen was in trouble. Clearly, Luo Chen was perfectly fine.
She now felt that Luo Chen’s luck was perhaps a bit too good.
According to their speculation, Jiang Yihong might have been preparing to kill Luo Chen the previous day, but something had happened to the Jiang family.
Therefore, Luo Chen had narrowly escaped death.
Moreover, if it were not for hearing that Jiang Yihong had been killed by Jiang Qingguo, Li Jiayi would have suspected whether this matter was related to Luo Chen.
However, regarding these matters, everyone very tactfully avoided mentioning them, not bringing them up in front of Shen Yuelan.
After walking around for a while, the group sat down in a pavilion.
Shen Yuelan looked at a group of elderly people practising tai chi under the willow trees and said.
“Yingying, when we get a bit older, let us also go and learn tai chi.”
“Mum, if you really want to learn, I will teach you some good moves later.” Luo Chen smiled.
“Are not these quite good?” Li Jiayi picked up the conversation.
“Moreover, legend has it that when these martial arts are practised to perfection, one can essentially stand at the pinnacle of humanity.”
“The pinnacle of humanity?” Luo Chen shook his head.
“How can mere martial artists be considered the pinnacle?”
Once one stepped onto the path of cultivation, that was when one could truly speak of the pinnacle of humanity. At most, martial artists could reach the peak of the transformation realm. If they wished to break through further, they still needed to cultivate internal spiritual energy and step onto the path of cultivation.
Just as no matter how much a person practised martial arts, they could not train their physical body to become steel and gold. At most, they could rely on internal energy to make themselves impervious to blades and bullets. But once that energy was broken, their physical body would still be damaged.
Not to mention spells like commanding wind and rain, summoning soldiers from beans, or slicing through the heavens with a single sword.
And the other young man beside them suddenly gave a cold laugh. “Do you even understand what a martial artist is?”