Zhang Ruochen hesitated slightly before saying, “Vein Master, is this true?”
“Naturally true.”Chen Ji laughed.
Zhang Ruochen nodded and looked at the crowd, saying, “Alright! Since everyone wants to know what treasures are contained inside, then there is no harm for me to let everyone take a look.”
Zhang Ruochen re-removed the jade box from the Earth Fire Qilin’s back and held it in his hands, ready to open it.
Everyone’s gazes were all drawn to it.
Zhang Ruochen’s hand paused and said, “As I already said earlier, this gift was originally intended for the Chen Family. Therefore, it is not some Buddha Emperor’s Relic, but another treasure.”
Hearing Zhang Ruochen say that the jade box was not a Buddha Emperor Relic, the young martial artists of the Chen Clan all revealed disappointment.
This time, Zhang Ruochen opened the lid of the jade box, and there was no strong treasure light emanating from it, nor any visions.
Only, at the bottom of the box, there was a roll of jiao skin, which seemed to have some tiny writing on it.
“This is.”
Everyone was stunned, simply not expecting that Zhang Ruochen’s third bride price would be so bland.
Zhang Ruochen explained, “On top of this scroll of Jiao Skin, it records the cultivation technique of the fourth scroll of the Four Nine Xuan Gong.”
It was only a very calm sentence, but it caused Chen Ji to be shocked, immediately unfolding his stance and rushing to the front of the jade box.
Chen Ji had even stretched out his hand, but then hesitated and withdrew his hand, his eyes staring complexly at the scroll of auger skin in the jade box, saying, “Zhang Ruochen, you must not be joking, this this is really the fourth scroll of the Four Nine Xuan Gong?”
At this moment, the young martial artists of the Chen Clan also reacted.
“How could it be the Four Nine Xuan Gong?”
“The Four Nine Xuan Gong is our Chen Clan’s supreme secret code, only the heir to the family head and the family executives above the Ninth Transformation of the Fish Dragon are qualified to comprehend it. How could it have been circulated outside?”
“It should be a fake, it’s impossible for the fourth volume to appear in Zhang Ruochen’s hands.”
The crowd was in an uproar, all of them questioning.
The Four Nine Xuan Gong, also known as the ‘Thirty-Six Heavy Xuan Realms’, was the Chen Clan’s supreme secret code, and at the same time, it was also the root of the Chen Clan’s ability to become the Lord of the Eastern Domain.
It was precisely because of the Four Nine Xuan Gongs that the Chen Clan was able to produce many Half Saints and even Saints one after another.
No one believed that the Four Nine Xuan Gongs would be circulated to the outside world and even obtained by Zhang Ruochen.
Bu Qianfan’s eyes condensed as he said, ”Legend has it that the Chen Family’s Four Nine Xuan Gongs were crippled in the Middle Ages 100,000 years ago. Among them, the fourth volume of the Four Nine Xuan Gong has even been lost.”
“The fourth volume of the Four Nine Xuan Techniques is recorded from the 28th Xuan Realm to the 36th Xuan Realm. These nine Xuan Realms are the most subtle and profound gongfu axioms of the Four Nine Xuan Gong.”
“It is precisely because of the loss of the fourth volume of the Four Nine Xuan Techniques that after the Middle Ages, quite a few Half-Saints and Saints of the Chen Clan were indeed born. However, no one was ever able to be crowned an emperor again, and no one was ever born as a great emperor in the Sacred Dao.”
“How can one become a great emperor if one does not have a complete set of merits?”
Hearing Bu Qianfan’s words, everyone bowed their heads and pondered, could it be that the Four Nine Mysterious Feats that the Chen Clan was so proud of had really been incomplete a long time ago?
Everyone’s gazes all stared towards Chen Ji.
Chen Ji secretly grumbled, the Four Nine Xuan Gong was indeed incomplete, the fourth volume had been lost in the Middle Ages.
However, this had always been a secret of the Chen Family and had never been revealed to the outside world.
Now, what to do?
Just when Chen Ji was at a loss for words, in his ears, he heard a vast voice, “Chen Ji, since it is no longer possible to hide it, what is the harm in telling the world frankly?”
Chen Ji’s gaze, looking towards the depths of the Eastern Domain Sacred King’s Mansion, revealed a solemn, awe-inspiring look, and with a slightly bowed obeisance, he replied, “Yes.”
Since he had obtained the old ancestor’s permission, Chen Ji was fearless.
He stood straight again, his pale eyes, gradually becoming sharper as he said, “That’s right, the fourth volume of the Chen Clan’s Four Nine Mysteries was indeed lost during the Middle Ages.”
“Boom!”
The first to be shaken were the young martial artists of the Chen Clan, none of them could accept this fact.
The Four Nine Xuan Gong, a technique that was second only to the Six Great Wondrous Books of the Kunlun Realm, had always been the pride of the Chen Family members. Yet, it was missing 100,000 years ago.
How could it be acceptable?
“Swish!”
“Swish!”
A white-robed old man and a green-robed old man, rushed out from the gate, transforming into two residual shadows, their auras cold and stern as they rushed towards Chen Ji.
The white-robed old man, named Chen Xi Silkworm, was the Vein Master of the Snow Plains branch of the Chen Family. The green-robed old man, named Chen Tiankun, was the Vein Master of the Chen Family’s Southern Region branch.
The white-robed old man, Chen Xi Silkworm’s eyes were furious as he accused, “Chen Ji, what are you babbling about?”
Chen Ji said, “The Four Nine Xuan Gong is indeed not complete, what is there to hide? Even without the complete Four Nine Xuan Gongs, isn’t the Chen Clan still capable of shaking the Eastern Region?”
The white-robed old man was about to continue his reprimand, but, in the next moment, his ears, slightly twitched as if he had heard someone’s voice transmission.
He hurriedly turned back and glanced towards the depths of the Sacred King’s Mansion, revealing an awe-inspiring look, before ceasing to say much.
Obviously, the white-robed old man and the green-robed old man had also received the voice transmission from the Chen Clan’s old ancestor and did not continue to accuse Chen Ji.
The atmosphere at the scene became somewhat bizarre.
Everyone’s gazes were once again fixed on the jade box in Zhang Ruochen’s hands.
Since the fourth volume of the Chen Clan’s Four Nine Xuan Gong had really been lost a long time ago, and furthermore, outsiders simply didn’t know about this secret, it was naturally even more unlikely for Zhang Ruochen to know about it.
In that case, inside that one jade box, there was a real possibility that it was the fourth scroll of the Four Nine Xuan Gong that had been lost for 100,000 years.
Chen Ji’s expression was very tense as he asked, ”Zhang Ruochen, you said that on top of the auger skin in the jade box, there is the fourth volume of the Four Nine Xuan Gong recorded. Old me is curious, where did you get it from?”
Even though he was standing in front of the Half-Saint, Zhang Ruochen remained as calm as water as he said, “It was gifted to me by a senior, and that senior, in fact, had long wanted to return the fourth volume of the Four Nine Xuan Gong to the Chen Family, but, for some reason, it was inconvenient for him to personally appear.”
“He learnt that I was going to marry a woman from the Chen Family, because, by handing over the fourth volume of the Four Nine Xuan Gong transcription to senior, he intended to return it to the Chen Family with the help of senior’s hand.”
These words were naturally made up by Zhang Ruochen.
In reality, the fourth volume of the Four Nine Xuan Gong had always been stored in the Nine Heavens Book Depository of the Sacred Brightness Central Empire. Back then, Zhang Ruochen had also unintentionally read it and memorised it in passing.
However, Zhang Ruochen’s blindly made up words gave birth to different ideas in the ears of everyone else.
Some guessed that the senior that Zhang Ruochen knew of was the Xuan Gui Sword Saint. Others guessed that it could be the Buddha Emperor’s mount, the Golden Dragon.
Chen Ji’s eyes kept changing, and in the end, he asked, “Can I test its authenticity?”
Before Zhang Ruochen could open his mouth, the distant Bu Qianfan laughed first and said, “Earlier, didn’t the Chen Clan’s people claim that they only wanted to take a look at the treasures in the jade box. Could it be that after learning that the jade box contained the fourth volume of the Four Nine Xuan Gong, you guys wanted to take it for yourselves? Is the Chen family bandits? Or bandits?”
Chen Ji looked over towards Bu Qianfan, his eyes sank, revealing a full cold colour.
It was a pity that the aura of a half-saint could not suppress Bu Qianfan.
Bu Qianfan still wore a smile on his face, revealing a sneering and mocking expression.
Zhang Ruochen ignored Bu Qianfan and said to Chen Ji, ”In fact, senior doesn’t know its authenticity. If Senior Chen Ji wants to test it, Senior certainly has no problem with it. Please go ahead.”
Chen Ji was not polite, and he hurriedly took the auger skin out of the jade box, cupped it in his hands, and looked at it carefully.
Although, Chen Ji had never seen the fourth volume of the Four Nine Xuan Gong, he had, however, comprehended the first volume. Therefore, he still knew quite a bit about the Four Nine Xuan Gong, and could tell if it was true or false with a single glance.
Chen Ji had only looked at it for a moment before his body immediately shook violently, and the pupils in his eyes gradually dilated, clearly stunned by the contents on the auger skin.
When the crowd saw Chen Ji’s expression, they could roughly guess that the content recorded on that volume of auger skin was probably really the fourth volume of the Four Nine Xuan Gong.
The Chen Clan was already able to shake the Eastern Region just by possessing the crippled technique, wouldn’t it be even more impressive if the Four Nine Xuan Gongs were made up?
In the audience, many people began to get worried, they didn’t want the Chen Family to become even more powerful.
Among them, there was Bu Qianfan.
The eyes of Bu Qianfan were very cold, as if he had suddenly changed into a different person.
Everyone else, all of them were focusing on, the fourth volume of the Four Nine Xuan Gong in Chen Ji’s hands, and no one had even noticed the bizarre change in Bu Qianfan.
Only Zhang Ruochen was the only one who glanced towards Bu Qianfan, and the doubts in his heart became even stronger.
Suddenly, Zhang Ruochen gave birth to a bold conjecture, secretly saying, ”The eyes of Bu Qianfan at this moment, how come they are so similar to Emperor Yi’s eyes, the auras of the two people seem to overlap. Could it be could it be the legendary Heavenly Demon Shadow”
“Haha!”
Bu Qianfan laughed out loud, “The Chen Family is also considered a medieval family, but I didn’t realise that they are snobs who go back on their word. Zhang Ruochen, that volume of the Four Nine Xuan Gong was your treasure, and now, the Chen Family is trying to forcefully take it over, so you are able to hold your breath?”
“Junior of the Bu Family, don’t you dare to sow discord, Zhang Ruochen is our Chen Family’s son-in-law, and he is our Chen Family’s greatest merit for returning the Four Nine Xuan Gongs back to the Chen Family.”The white-robed old man, Chen Xi Silkworm, said in a cold voice.
The green-robed old man, Chen Tiankun, also revealed an angry expression as he said in a deep voice, “Our Chen Family’s family affairs do not need outsiders to talk too much.”
Bu Qianfan laughed, “To be able to bring you benefits is to be the son-in-law of the Chen Family. However, earlier, your Chen Family clansmen all looked down on Zhang Ruochen when they saw that he only sent ten carts of bride price? ”
“Zhang Ruochen, you’d better hurry up and take back the fourth volume of the Four Nine Xuan Gong, don’t be a friend of this group of snobs. If you hand over the fourth scroll of the Four Nine Xuan Gong to me, I’ll give you a hundred women like Huang Yichen, and surely every one of them will be more beautiful than her.”
Zhang Ruochen just smiled faintly and stared at Bu Qianfan across the table, saying, “Are you finally going to show your true colours?”
Zhang Ruochen’s sending the fourth volume of the Four Nine Xuan Techniques back to the Chen Family certainly had a certain deep meaning.
When the Chen Family obtained the complete Four Nine Xuan Techniques, they would definitely increase their strength greatly and even inflate themselves. When the Chen Family’s strength reached a certain level, would they still be willing to follow Chi Yao’s orders?
Only if they were not strong enough would they be willing to be vassals.
After being powerful, who wouldn’t want to be an emperor?
