“So, up to now, the Hengjiang family hasn’t made any moves, right?” Kawashima Ichiro said with a broad smile.
“You… you’re right. The Hengjiang family hasn’t done anything. I’ve tried to provoke them by sending people, but they’ve ignored it all. It’s strange!” Xu Fei replied.
Xu Fei suspected that the Hengjiang family’s patriarch, whom he’d never met, was a cunning old fox who must have sensed something and chosen to stay put.
“That’s because your provocation wasn’t big enough, and you didn’t slap their faces hard enough!”
“Go send this guy’s body over. It has traces of being killed by Lightning Release. Let’s see if the Hengjiang family gets anxious now!” Xu Fei said.
Kawashima Ichiro’s eyes lit up, and he slapped his forehead, exclaiming, “Right! Why didn’t I think of that? I’ll get someone on it right away!”
On that sunny day, the Hengjiang family patriarch, Hengjiang Chuan, was playing chess with one of his clan’s elders.
The old patriarch, a master of calculation throughout his life, maintained a calm demeanor, as serene as still water. Almost nothing could rattle him.
As the two were engrossed in their chess match, they failed to notice anything unusual around them.
“Hahaha, looks like you’re one move short in the end!”
The old patriarch played the decisive move, checkmating the elder, who shook his head humbly.
But then, the elder glanced aside, suddenly exclaiming, “Patriarch! When did that person appear over there?”
Hearing this, the old patriarch turned. The two slowly approached the motionless figure lying on the ground.
Upon closer inspection, the elder was horrified. “This… this is the captain of our guard team sent to the ancestral land! Who did this?”
Compared to the elder’s fury, the old patriarch remained calm.
Suppressing his inner anger, he examined the body and said, “He was killed by Lightning Release. That’s odd. Didn’t Old Man Qiushan Ming agree to ally with us?”
Feeling something was off, Patriarch Hengjiang immediately used secret means to contact Qiushan Ming.
What puzzled him more was that Qiushan Ming wasn’t responding to any of his messages!
“Damn it! What’s that old man playing at? Has he betrayed us and joined the Kawashima family?”
Hengjiang Chuan’s expression finally shifted as a thought struck him.
“No! Could it be…?”
“Patriarch, what did you figure out? Speak!” the elder urged anxiously.
But Hengjiang Chuan said nothing more, instead issuing an immediate order: “Send my command: recall all Hengjiang family disciples abroad. The skies are about to change!”
“The skies are changing?”
The elder got no clear answer but didn’t dare delay the patriarch’s order, quickly passing it down.
