r18novel Chapter 417 The Struggle Between Two Families
Chapter 417 The Struggle Between Two Families
Chapter 417 The Struggle Between Two Families
Inside the intelligence station.
Gao Tu really wanted to hang a sign above the door saying that the station was closed today, tomorrow and the day after, to show that even his underground intelligence station needed to rest.
People shouldn't constantly pressure themselves to produce results; they should always have time to do things they love. For example, Gao Tu's current hope is that those two great masters, calmly sipping their treasured tea, will finish their tea and leave soon.
As usual, the shop assistant huddled under the counter, clutching his abacus, glancing at it only occasionally.
With the arrival of such a powerful figure, he automatically became the head of the underground intelligence station and turned into an accountant.
Ye Nanxiao and Yao Ling sat facing each other, with a pot of tea that Gao Tu had personally brewed on the table.
Seemingly sensing Gao Tu's resentment, Ye Nanxiao smiled faintly and said, "Boss Gao Tu, there's no need to be nervous. We're just here to sit and do nothing. We're just looking for a place to rest for now."
Gao Tu nodded as if he were aggrieved, his gaze falling on the demon spirit who was gulping down tea from his cup.
"That's top-quality Xue Shan Mao Jian tea!"
Gao Tu dared not say this aloud. Compared to being ripped off with gold soul coins or being ripped off himself, Gao Tu felt that he had actually made a profit.
The demon spirit had no idea what tea was, but he learned the word "beverage" from Ye Nanxiao.
With a hint of sweetness, Yaoling thought the Xueshan Maojian tea was quite delicious.
"If you're free, Mr. Gao, why don't we sit down and have a couple of drinks together?" Ye Nanxiao extended an invitation.
Looking at Ye Nanxiao's blurry face, Gao Tu felt that he couldn't refuse the other party's invitation, especially since he sensed two sharp lights staring at him from behind the blurry face.
After a slight hesitation, Gao Tu slowly approached and sat down, muttering, "Both of you, these are just small businesses; they can't afford to be jeopardized!"
"Don't be nervous. Aren't you even a little curious about such an exciting scene?" Ye Nanxiao pointed outside.
Gao Tu's right eyelid twitched violently a few times, and he swallowed hard. "Not curious, really not curious!"
"No, you're just curious."
"I'm really not good."
Gao Tu said this, but his eyes couldn't help but look towards the gate. Through the decorative window above the gate, he could vaguely see the fireworks blooming happily in the night sky outside.
"Why did you two suddenly decide to play a trick on our families?" Gao Tu finally couldn't suppress his curiosity and asked, forcing himself to be brave.
After asking the question, cold sweat immediately poured down Gao Tu's forehead.
What's wrong with him?
Did he actually ask it out loud?
Is it possible for someone as insignificant as myself to concern myself with the affairs of these two great deities?
"It's over, I couldn't control myself!" Gao Tu's expression froze quickly, his eyes gradually lost their light, and he leaned back in his chair with a sense of hopelessness.
Seeing this, Ye Nanxiao smiled but didn't say anything. He had only said a few words casually, but he didn't expect Gao Tu to react so strongly.
"In the world of martial arts, I won't offend others unless they offend me. You've been running an intelligence station for quite some time now, you should understand this principle."
Ye Nanxiao took the teapot and poured a cup of tea for Gao Tu, who was slumped in the chair.
The boss is perfectly fine, but he's scaring himself.
Seeing Ye Nanxiao's goodwill, Gao Tu finally felt his own body temperature, held the teacup in both hands, and followed the demon spirit's example, drinking it down in large gulps.
"The reason I got the idea to play around was because I heard that the eldest daughter of the Zhang family had a bit of a crush on my companion. I didn't expect that before I could even respond, the two families would take the initiative to do a series of things to buy us off for our own benefit. Since something fun has been delivered to our doorstep, we might as well stop and play for a bit."
Ye Nanxiao originally wanted to let the demon spirit witness the kind of events in human society where a woman chooses a husband, but before he could even take the demon spirit to respond to the girl, the Fu family and the Zhang family automatically started to imagine things and began to bribe and scheme against Ye Nanxiao and the demon spirit.
Having been inexplicably drawn into the vortex of the two families' conflict, Ye Nanxiao decided to punish them slightly, making the two families, who thought they had benefited, do what they had always wanted to do.
"I originally thought I could have a beautiful romance with the beauty, but now it seems it's all for naught." The demon spirit poured himself a full cup of tea, gulped it down, and his mood was as depressed as his heart.
Ye Nanxiao glanced at the demon spirit, who was already interested in the eldest daughter of the Zhang family. Her curiosity was growing uncontrollably.
This is not a good thing for a spirit with a strong sense of curiosity.
"Looks like I'll have to take this kid to see love and hate, but as for that young lady from the Zhang family, I'm afraid I should just forget about her."
Ye Nanxiao pondered how to overcome the demon spirit's excessive curiosity this time.
In the silence, Gao Tu seemed to have regained some confidence, or perhaps seeing Ye Nanxiao's overly friendly manner, he took the initiative to speak, saying, "My lord, there is no shortage of beautiful women in this world. There is no need to think about Miss Zhang. Besides, Miss Zhang's talent is not good. As the granddaughter of the Zhang family patriarch, she is pampered by the entire family and has countless cultivation resources at her fingertips. However, in recent years, Miss Zhang Qingling has gradually turned twenty, but she is still just an ordinary Soul King."
"I observe that your cultivation is unfathomable, but you may not actually be that old. Compared to your talent, Miss Zhang's talent is like a firefly compared to the bright moon. Such a pairing, though pleasing to the eye, would likely not be able to keep up with your pace and would only bring regret."
As Gao Tu spoke, Ye Nanxiao became increasingly engrossed in listening.
Here's the reason to persuade the demon spirit!
Although demons have access to knowledge of human society, their subconscious thinking is still based on the mindset of the jungle.
The law of respecting the strong.
Powerful spirit beasts generally do not seek out spirit beasts much weaker than themselves as mates, because doing so would be tantamount to creating a weakness for themselves.
Of course, this excludes those with ulterior motives.
As the king of the stars, the demon spirits have this law deeply ingrained in their hearts.
As expected, after Gao Tu finished speaking, the curiosity on the demon's face gradually dissipated.
"A Soul King? That means he can't even defeat a ten-thousand-year-old Soul Beast from the Star Dou Sect? How weak!"
A look of disdain appeared on the demon's face. "The one who has taken a liking to me is actually a newbie?"
Ye Nanxiao was delighted. He hadn't expected that all the methods he had tried to use to dissuade the demon spirit from crossing that line would be resolved by Gao Tu with just a few words.
"Alright, let's go, the show's about to begin."
Seeing Ye Nanxiao's posture of tilting his head and crossing his arms to watch the show, the demon spirit could imagine Ye Nanxiao's expression at this moment, and was immediately furious.
Ye Nanxiao then tossed another storage soul tool given to him by Fu Zhong to Gao Tu as a thank-you gift for the two words that made the demon spirit realize its mistakes.
Gao Tu caught the storage soul tool, completely bewildered, and watched helplessly as the two great gods sank into the ground once more.
"Did I say something I shouldn't have?" Gao Tu muttered to himself, feeling frustrated.
The demon spirit led Ye Nanxiao to a tall building in the city, where they watched the fireworks from two directions.
The fireworks quickly burned out, but the flashes of various soul skills became increasingly brilliant.
Although there were no residents living near either of the workshops, the sheer scale of the commotion was overwhelming. The residents, who were fast asleep, were quickly awakened and locked their doors and windows upon discovering that the two sides were at war.
Panic quickly gripped the city, and squads of government troops began appearing on the streets.
The city lord of Kunshan looked at the closed doors and windows on both sides and the various panicked sounds behind them, and a smile appeared on his face.
"Just as it's written on the paper, at this moment, only I, the city lord, am the one the residents can truly rely on! As long as I take action, control the fight between the Fu and Zhang families, and secretly spread messages to control the public's voice, my position will not only be secure, but I can also use this to get rid of the Zhang family's threat!"
The thought that he was the lord of a city, yet he was threatened by a merchant family and rendered powerless, made the lord of Kunshan City feel a burning rage in his heart.
"Hmph! Hear my command! Someone in Kunshan City is disregarding the law! Engaging in unauthorized fighting! Endangering the safety of my people! I now order you to charge with me! Swear to protect the safety of the people to the death!"
The Lord of Kunshan City summoned his martial spirit, let out a long roar, and charged ahead of the pack.
Before the soldiers arrived, they had received a notice from the Kunshan City Lord that the death benefits had been tripled. In addition, the Kunshan City Lord had changed his dejected state tonight and rushed to the front wall, which ignited their fighting spirit.
The resentment he had felt for being treated like a human being by the Zhang family for many years was all bottled up inside him, and he released it all with a desperate roar.
The doors and windows that were originally tightly closed on the street began to open one crack after another, and pairs of expectant eyes watched the soldiers and the city lord of Kunshan charge forward.
Someone in the shadows shouted, "Go, City Lord! Down with the landlords! Give Kunshan City justice!"
The residents hiding in the shadows began to respond to this slogan.
Households responded, hundreds of people on a street responded, and eventually half of Kunshan City responded.
The deafening shouts made the two people who were locked in a fierce battle in each other's workshop area suddenly look up.
Fu Zhong heard the distress signal from the head of the Fu family, while the Zhang family's supreme token was trembling in Zhang Shen's arms.
Looking around at the only one-third of the usual number of members from rival families, and seeing the signal coming from their own family, Fu Zhong and Zhang Shen exclaimed in alarm, "We've been tricked!"
At the same time, two massive black shadows collided in the sky above Kunshan City, creating a huge shockwave.
Zhang Shen and Fu Zhong realized at the same time that the other side had hired a master to help them, and their own reinforcements were being held back!
"Damn it! Those Zhang family bastards actually tricked me! Come back with me to reinforce them! Follow the family's reinforcements!"
"That scoundrel from the Fu family actually launched a sneak attack! Send reinforcements! Send reinforcements to that black figure on the left in the air! That's an expert from our Zhang family!"
Both groups of people, carrying their prisoners, rushed back to their respective families as quickly as possible.
Before the spies from various sects who were secretly watching the scene could report the news, the two groups of people, under Ye Nanxiao's special control, collided at the street corner in a straight line.
Enemies meeting are bound to be extremely hostile.
The moment Fu Zhong and Zhang Shen locked eyes, the two figures in the air were simultaneously struck by each other's palms and plummeted in two different directions outside the city.
Seeing their hired help and the opposing family's expert both severely injured, Fu Zhong and Zhang Shen could no longer remain calm. They both understood that tonight, either the other side would fall, or they themselves would become ashes in history.
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