"This... Young Master Jiang, how could our four great families dare to disregard the matters of your Jiang family? Without your Jiang family's support from the shadows, with the strength of our four great families back then, it would have been absolutely impossible to exterminate the Chu family overnight. Your Jiang family is our benefactor; we will never forget it."
The patriarch of the Qi family, sensing a great deal of dissatisfaction in Jiang Huan's words towards their four families, replied with a fawning smile.
The patriarch of the Zhao family chimed in, "Yes, if it weren't for your Jiang family backing us, manipulating things from behind the scenes, even if we four great families massacred all the Chu family members overnight and wiped them out, the forces friendly with the Chu family, as well as the official organizations in the legitimate world, would have surely investigated to the end. We would have been ruined, disgraced, and our names would have been reviled for eternity."
"Young Master Jiang, our four great families do not dare to forget the matters you, your Jiang family, have instructed. We have been trying every means to track down the whereabouts of the Chu family's ancient medical texts over the years, but ten years have passed, and we have found nothing."
The patriarch of the Lu family also spoke.
"Found nothing? Are those four words enough? Do you four mean that if you can't find that ancient medical text of the Chu family, passed down for thousands of years, the item our Jiang family wants, then that's it?"
A cold smile played on Jiang Huan's lips as he swept his gaze over the four family patriarchs and questioned them.
The four great family patriarchs all frowned, their expressions showing displeasure.
After all, they were the patriarchs of the four great families, influential figures in Dachang City who could command the skies.
Although Jiang Huan was a young master from the prestigious Jiang family in the capital, he was not the head of the family. To the four patriarchs, he was ultimately a junior. His arrogance and reprimands made them feel somewhat embarrassed.
However, Jiang Huan was no fool. Despite his extreme arrogance and tendency to bully others with his status, he possessed intelligence, otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to assist his family in so many matters.
Jiang Huan knew that the reason the four great families still feared their Jiang family, and why the patriarchs, despite their displeasure, still plastered on fawning smiles, was that the Jiang family's power far surpassed theirs.
Furthermore, when the Chu family, the foremost clan of Dachang City, was exterminated ten years ago, the Jiang family had secretly kept evidence of the four families' complicity. This evidence could be made public at any moment, plunging the four families into dire straits.
Without these assurances, the people of the four great families would not have been so subservient and obedient to the Jiang family.
More importantly, before coming to Dachang City, his father had ordered Jiang Huan to exert strong pressure on the four great families.
"Young Master Jiang, when the Chu family was wiped out ten years ago, your Jiang family also secretly sent many people from the capital. They searched every single member of the Chu family, not even sparing the infants in swaddling clothes. The Chu family's mansion was dug up three feet deep, not a single brick or tile was left unturned, yet they couldn't find that ancient medical text passed down for thousands of years..."
Before the patriarch of the Wei family could finish speaking, Jiang Huan interrupted him sternly.
Jiang Huan's face turned grim, and he said in a sharp voice, "Ten years ago, our Jiang family couldn't find that ancient medical text from the Chu family, so we ordered your four great families to continue searching with all your might in Dachang City. Now, ten years have passed, and not only have you failed to find the medical text for us, but you haven't even provided a single useful clue. It seems our Jiang family helped a bunch of useless people back then!"
Upon hearing Jiang Huan call their four families' members useless, the four great family patriarchs' faces changed. They were inwardly furious, their expressions darkening, and they remained silent.
Seeing this, Jiang Huan continued, "The four patriarchs, ten years ago, our Jiang family acted for the sake of that ancient medical text of the Chu family, passed down for thousands of years. Your four families, on the other hand, acted to divide the Chu family's assets. That's why you joined forces overnight to destroy the entire Chu family, slaughtering all their kin, leaving not a soul alive... It's not like your desires were fulfilled and your goals achieved, yet our Jiang family gets nothing in return, is it?"
"Young Master Jiang, for the past ten years, our four great families have been doing our utmost to help your Jiang family search for that ancient medical text, but we have truly found nothing. However, you can rest assured, as long as our four great families exist in this world, we will continue to search for this medical text for your Jiang family for generations to come."
The patriarch of the Lu family replied with sincerity and conviction.
"Young Master Jiang, I'd like to ask, what is so extraordinary about this ancient medical text of the Chu family, passed down for thousands of years?"
The patriarch of the Wei family couldn't help but ask.
The Jiang family was a prestigious clan in the capital, the heart of Longguo, with immeasurable power. Dachang City was thousands of miles away from the capital. While the Chu family was the foremost clan of Dachang City back then, their strength was significantly weaker compared to the Jiang family.
Yet, the Jiang family, unhesitatingly traveling thousands of miles, bullying the weak, attacking from the shadows, and even slaughtering the entire Chu family to create an earth-shattering tragedy, all in pursuit of an ancient medical text, must mean this text held extraordinary significance.
"I don't know either. I only heard my grandfather say that this ancient medical text of the Chu family, passed down for thousands of years, should originate from ancient times. It not only records miraculous medical techniques like regenerating flesh and reviving the dead, but more importantly, it contains ancient cultivation methods. It can be said that everything recorded in the book surpasses the cognitive scope of modern people, yet it is truly existent."
As Jiang Huan spoke, his face was filled with longing.
"What! Ancient cultivation methods? Heavens!"
"To wield the sun and moon, pluck stars, and tread upon mountains and rivers with unmatched dominance. Legend has it that those who cultivate ancient methods can attain terrifying, transcendent power, flying through the heavens and burrowing through the earth, moving mountains and filling seas, capable of anything, even methods for achieving immortality..."
"But ancient cultivation methods completely disappeared at the end of ancient times. Therefore, in modern times, except for some top forces in high society who possess residual fragments of ancient cultivation methods and are aware of their existence, the general populace and ordinary people, through generations of indoctrination, only believe in so-called science and not that humans can possess divine power to rival heaven and earth through cultivation."
"This cannot be blamed on the ordinary masses. They live at the bottom of society and are unaware of much true information. What they know and see is what the upper echelons want them to know and see. In fact, if people just think about why there are so many things and phenomena that science cannot explain or explains away with great difficulty, they will understand that the world is not as simple and shallow as what they see, believe, and accept."
"Indeed, ordinary people, in their lifetime, may understand less than one in a million of the world. They cannot even come into contact with some advanced things and matters in reality, let alone ancient cultivation techniques that far exceed their cognitive scope."
Upon hearing Jiang Huan mention that the Chu family's ancient medical text, passed down for thousands of years, not only contained miraculous medical techniques for regenerating flesh and reviving the dead but also ancient cultivation methods, the four great family patriarchs were all shocked and began to discuss amongst themselves involuntarily.
Jiang Huan noticed the desire and greed in the eyes of the four great family patriarchs, realizing he had said too much. He immediately said coldly,
"Even if ordinary people were fortunate enough to obtain ancient cultivation methods, without abundant cultivation resources to fuel them and exceptionally high comprehension, they would be useless. Furthermore, I warn you all, if any of your families obtain this ancient medical text from the Chu family and do not hand it over to our Jiang family, our Jiang family will ensure that your family suffers the same fate as the Chu family – annihilation, leaving not a soul alive."
"Young Master Jiang, there is still one person from the Chu family, who is neither seen alive nor found dead to this day..."
The patriarch of the Lu family said in a deep voice.
Jiang Huan sneered dismissively and asked, "Are you referring to Chu Feng of the Chu family?"
"Ten years ago, when we massacred the entire Chu family and burned down their mansion with a great fire, we didn't deal with Chu Feng, who had just turned eighteen and joined the army. Later, our four great families mobilized their forces to investigate within the army, wanting to thoroughly eliminate all threats. However, we couldn't find any soldier named Chu Feng," the patriarch of the Lu family replied with a deep frown.
"Actually, our Jiang family also worried about leaving loose ends and used our connections in the army to search for this Chu Feng, but we couldn't find him either. Therefore, there are only two possibilities. One is that this Chu Feng died while executing a mission assigned by the army, but because the mission was highly classified, the army couldn't announce his death. The other is that this Chu Feng is still alive. After learning of his family's tragic demise, he feared he would also die, so he went into hiding like a coward, living a life of shame and never daring to appear again."
"And you don't need to be afraid. With the current strength of your four great families, and with us Jiang family here, even if this Chu Feng is alive, should he dare to appear, he will surely die. For us five powerful forces to kill him would be easier than crushing an ant."
Jiang Huan's words were arrogant and overbearing, his tone extremely presumptuous.
However, he was unaware that Chu Feng was not dead, and he had just met Chu Feng.
Enemies often cross paths. Perhaps guided by the vengeful spirits of the Chu family's fallen, Chu Feng was precisely Chu Lingtian, the one who had dared to defy Jiang Huan in public at the abandoned factory!
(ps: Please rest assured, my dear readers, the exciting, thrilling, face-slapping, and sensual content you wish to see, I will deliver one by one. The story will undoubtedly become even more wonderful later on. Hehe.)