At first, the martial artists and sects of Huaxia, seeing the Long family in trouble, secretly spent a huge price to build a spirit gathering array, only to be struck by lightning themselves. Many people watched it as a joke.
People have a psychology of resenting the rich, especially when a powerful family like the Long family, which could cover the sky with one hand, fell into misfortune. On the surface, no one said anything, but in their hearts, they were overjoyed.
However, when they saw the content about Long Yaozu later, they were all enraged. The reason was simple: they could empathize!
In the Chinese martial arts world, stealing martial arts without permission was a major taboo. Since ancient times, there had been countless bloody incidents and even massacres of entire sects caused by stealing martial arts.
Yet, this Long family, a thousand-year-old aristocratic family with inexhaustible wealth, various rare treasures, and martial arts manuals, still engaged in the wicked act of stealing martial arts.
It would have been one thing if you just stole martial arts, but who would have thought you would resort to such despicable tricks as a cuckoo taking over a magpie's nest.
This behavior was like birds such as cuckoos laying their eggs in the nests of other birds.
These birds would often hatch first. After the young cuckoos hatched, in order to get more food, they would secretly push all the other eggs in the nest to the ground and smash them.
The Long family did exactly this wicked deed. In order to allow Long Yaozu to receive the true inheritance, they even went so far as to send people to kill all of Chen Guotong's direct descendants. This act was no different from a massacre!
After Long Yaozu learned all of Chen Guotong's skills, he immediately disappeared and returned to build up the Long family's stronghold.
Unexpectedly, he encountered Ling Tian and his masters, and then Ling Tian came up with such a malicious plan.
Ling Tian, on the outskirts of Canglong Valley, set up another array with jade. This array cleverly utilized the original array of Canglong Valley, transforming a giant spirit array into a lightning-attracting array!
However, Ling Tian also made a mistake. He did not expect that the Long family's spirit gathering array had already accumulated so much energy. In the end, rolling thunder fell like rain, almost wiping out the Long family!
Although Ling Tian did not know how many people in the Long family had died, he knew that the Long family's losses were astonishing. However, Ling Tian felt no guilt; the Long family had made the first move!
The Long family members clearly knew that the Tianshan Sword Sect was colluding with evil cults, yet they still went to form an alliance with them and, as a result, attempted to assassinate Ling Tian. Ling Tian would not tolerate such a thing!
Moreover, the Long family was a behemoth. If one were to act against such a family, one must go all out and seize the opportunity to launch a thunderous strike!
Not long after, the Long family took action. They used various means to control and delete a large number of posts. Within a few hours, content related to the Long family had completely disappeared from the internet. Da Feng Novel Network.
However, the matter had already spread too quickly. Almost the entire martial arts world knew about it now, and they all became extremely vigilant.
All the martial arts sects began to conduct self-examinations, especially orphans who had joined the sects at a very young age, who became the subjects of scrutiny.
It was a very common phenomenon in Huaxia for martial arts sects to adopt orphans from a young age.
These children were adopted from childhood, raised in the sects, and had a strong sense of belonging to the sects. Moreover, children born to orphans were very resilient and had significant advantages in practicing martial arts.
Many orphans had even grown to become the backbone of their respective sects. But now, with this incident, these orphans were all severely suspected!
Sects that had unique skills in certain areas were particularly concerned about this matter. The methods these sects used to investigate internal spies were very simple and crude: drawing blood and performing DNA tests!
These sects even reached a point of madness. Several disciples of the Long family were even attacked, knocked unconscious, and had their blood forcibly drawn.
Like the Long family, a large aristocratic family, they placed great importance on the inheritance of bloodlines. Even some collateral disciples had the blood of the Long family.
By comparing the DNA extracted from the blood samples of these individuals, they could determine the core bloodline of the Long family.
Then, these comparison results were matched with the blood samples of the orphans, ultimately identifying over a dozen disciples with the Long family bloodline!
The sects that discovered these infiltrators were mostly those with unique skills in medicine, martial arts, and cultivation!
The results of this investigation enraged these sects immensely, and they immediately went to the righteous alliance to file a complaint!
The actions of the Long family had touched the bottom line of these martial arts sects, and their methods.
Over a dozen sects had encountered similar situations in the past. Although there was no evidence, these sects believed that the Long family was responsible for this matter and also filed complaints with the righteous alliance, demanding a thorough investigation of the Long family!
Therefore, that evening, the senior leadership of the righteous alliance convened an emergency meeting. They immediately made a decision to suspend all positions of Long family members within the righteous alliance. Long family members working in the righteous alliance were also subjected to review, and all their actions were to be checked for any wrongdoing and held accountable.
Although the Long family had great influence and considerable power within the righteous alliance, this matter was passed almost unanimously. Even those who were usually close to the Long family now wished to quickly distance themselves from the Long family. Who would dare to speak up for the Long family?
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In the Bijiashan Primitive Forest Nature Reserve in Beihu Province, there is a secret manor. This secret manor also belongs to the Long family, who have had a presence there for hundreds of years.
The main reason for choosing this location was the very dense spiritual energy of heaven and earth, which was suitable for cultivation.
Furthermore, this place was relatively secluded, allowing for focused cultivation without being disturbed by the outside world.
In the past few days, this manor suddenly became lively. Dozens of people moved here, and these people were members of the Long family.
The head of the Long family, Long Yaotian, moved to this manor with the surviving high-ranking members of the Long family.
They had originally planned to move to the capital and reside in the Long family's villa there. However, the news that suddenly broke out online made the Long family the target of public criticism.
Many martial arts sects and prominent families clamored to cause trouble for the Long family, and the righteous alliance also announced a comprehensive investigation into the Bai family. Under duress, the Bai family had no choice but to move here because the actions of the Bai family truly could not withstand scrutiny!
In fact, which of these thousand-year-old aristocratic families had not done those unsavory things? It was just that as long as no one reported it, the officials would not investigate. Everyone understood this tacitly.
But once the Long family lost power, it was inevitable that they would face the fate of being pushed down when they stumbled and kicked when they were down!