Two simple sentences, yet each word cut like a knife, striking right to the heart.
Tang Tai was rendered speechless.
"Speak!" Chen Yang commanded.
HISS!
"I, I..."
Tang Tai tried to defend himself, but he couldn't formulate a proper excuse. With a hardening of his heart, he lashed out angrily, "You need to be clear about one thing: we are rely the tip of the iceberg of the Antarctic Royal Family! It's not too late to back down now. Otherwise, it won't just be you; your entire nine clans will be implicated. We will slaughter everyone around you until you are utterly alone."
A royal family becos a royal family through strength, wealth, and historical heritage—not a single one can be lacking. It is precisely because they possess these things that they stand above all others. It's commonplace for royalty to kill, but if anyone else dares to lay a hand on a mber of a royal family, it is an unforgivable capital offense. For a royal family, this double standard is a matter of course. Because of this, they brazenly enjoy all manner of preferential treatnt and place themselves in a position transcendent over all living beings. They are the gods who rule everything, and they are inviolable. Let alone killing a mber of the royal family, even insulting one was an unpardonable cri punishable by beheading.
SMACK.
As soon as Tang Tai finished speaking, Chen Yang's open palm slapped him across the face.
Tang Tai's vision went dark. When he ca to his senses, Chen Yang had hurled him forcefully to the ground. At the sa ti, thunderous roars erupted from the crowd, all directed at the Antarctic Royal Family—or more precisely, at Tang Tai and Tang Yunxing.
"Damn royal trash! You love putting on airs, don't you? You've t your match today, haven't you? Supre Martial Commander, kill them!"
"You must kill them! Keeping them alive would be a nace."
The clamor rose wave after wave, bristling with murderous intent.
Tang Tai struggled to get up. He tried several tis but couldn't manage it. Propping himself up with his hands on the ground, his expression was one of horror, his pupils beginning to dilate. At this point, not only had his Antarctic Royal Family completely lost face, but the reputation they had built over a century had been utterly destroyed. More crucially, they might be completely annihilated today. And all of this was because of Chen Yang.
Tang Tai raised his head, his blood-red eyes staring fixedly at Chen Yang as he gritted his teeth. "Believe , before long, you'll die without a burial ground."
"That includes everyone associated with you, without exception," Tang Tai seethed, his body trembling with each word. His ferocious expression made it seem as if he wanted to flay Chen Yang alive.
Chen Yang just smiled nonchalantly, looking down on Tang Tai with disdain.
"Aside from making threats and blustering with borrowed power, what else can you do? In front of the Supre Martial Commander, you old dog are nothing but a clay chicken and a pottery dog. Why are you even barking? It's a disgrace."
"Utterly disgusting. Like a stone in a latrine: stinking and hard."
PTUI!
The tide of public opinion on the field had completely turned. After witnessing what had just transpired, the masses truly saw how this Antarctic Royal Family, which had always touted its grand imperial authority, acted in such a despicable and shaless manner. The murmurs of discussion were continuous, every word reaching Tang Tai's ears. An unnad rage exploded in his heart. He glared at the crowd and sneered, "A bunch of worthless maggots, you'd best rember your place. Is my Antarctic Royal Family soone you can profane?"
No one spoke up. But on every face was a look of utter mockery and derision.
Tang Tai was so furious he nearly crushed his own teeth.
「anwhile.」
The news that Tang Yunxing had been defeated in a single move and that the royal family's subordinates and agents had all been annihilated swept through Cangyun City like a whirlwind, rapidly spreading to other cities. Countless people were left shell-shocked.
Wiped out? The entire group? This… this isn't how the script was supposed to go!
「In a vacation villa belonging to the Chen Clan.」
Chen Xiao stood on a covered bridge over a man-made lake. Holding a box of fish food, he slowly sprinkled it into the water for the multicolored koi, a signature confident smile on his lips.
STOMP. STOMP. STOMP.
The sound of rapid footsteps shattered the tranquil atmosphere, startling many of the koi away. Chen Xiao raised an eyebrow, a hint of displeasure on his face.
"Third Young Master, terrible news!" A middle-aged man in a black long-sleeved robe ran over, holding up the hem of his garnt. "There's been an incident at Qingyuan River Plaza!"
Chen Xiao's gaze shifted slightly. "What happened?" He handed the food box to a nearby servant, unhurriedly lit a cigarette, then leaned back against the bridge railing and asked calmly.
"Tang Yunxing… was defeated," the middle-aged man said, standing before Chen Xiao while wiping cold sweat from his forehead. "And Tang Tai was seriously injured."
"All the subordinates and agents they brought were slain by Chen Yang's spear in just three strikes."
Chen Xiao, who had just been taking a drag from his cigarette, suddenly froze.
So many people couldn't kill him, and he even killed them in return? It seems I still underestimated him.
Chen Xiao muttered to himself. He had initially thought to kill Chen Yang with a borrowed knife, getting rid of him as quickly as possible. In the end, it was the Antarctic Royal Family that suffered grievous losses and an utter defeat.
"Now, of the dozens of people from the Antarctic Royal Family, only Tang Tai and Tang Yunxing remain alive," the middle-aged man said.
Chen Xiao had mixed feelings.
Are the people of this direct lineage always so formidable? It seems not a single one has ever been diocre.
Chen Yang's father, Chen Jinnan, had swept through all his enemies with a single iron sword. Twenty-eight years ago, despite being drugged beforehand, he still managed to cut down more than half of the dozen top experts who had surrounded him. Then there was Chen Hua, known as a Demon Monarch of his generation. When Chen Hua returned from his travels and learned of the tragedy that had befallen Chen Jinnan's family, he took up a single war spear and sent the experts of the Inner Court fleeing in terror. If the Old Sovereign hadn't personally intervened and seized his war spear, he might have torn a hole in the very heavens.
With his war spear in hand, Chen Hua was terrifying, invincible. He was truly worthy of the title "Demon Monarch."
Tis had changed. Twenty-eight years had passed in the blink of an eye. Now, another figure like that had erged?
"Hmph!"
Jealousy stirring in his heart, Chen Xiao snorted heavily. "It's only because the Bloodline Power of our Chen Clan is unparalleled. Otherwise, how could he act so arrogantly? Moreover, to bear the Chen Family na while rampaging about outside… isn't he disgracing our entire Chen Family?"
Chen Xiao paced back and forth with his hands behind his back, feeling deeply unsettled. He had thought his opponent was a stray dog from a fallen house, soon to be a corpse without a burial ground. But looking at things now… This sudden reversal and the facts before him were infuriating.
The middle-aged man beside him silently shook his head.
Chen Yang is a mber of the Chen Family, after all, and of the direct bloodline. If anyone is disgracing the family na, it's your branch, Chen Xiao. How many of their own clan mbers did you people kill twenty-eight years ago? Alas…
Though he thought this, the middle-aged man didn't dare show a hint of it on his face.
"Let's go. To Qingyuan River Plaza," Chen Xiao declared with a grand wave of his hand, taking the lead. This concerned the Ancestral Sword. Furthermore, this matter had to be resolved before Chen Hua erged from his seclusion.
A group of the Chen Clan's experts, already prepared, set out at the sa ti, rushing toward Qingyuan River.
The deaths of several dozen mbers of the Antarctic Royal Family did nothing to ease the tension. On the contrary, the situation was growing ever more complex. It was no longer just about the Chen Clan. The near-annihilation of the Antarctic Royal Family had also caught the attention of the West Sea Royal Family and the Dugu Royal Family, and so of their people were already making their move.
As soon as this news broke, the atmosphere instantly grew heavy, and countless people beca deeply uneasy.
Perhaps, this was only the true beginning?
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