novelraw Chapter 167 The Arrival of the Void Slayer, Attitudes from All Sides
Chapter 167 The Arrival of the Void Slayer, Attitudes from All Sides
Chapter 167 The Arrival of the Void Slayer, Attitudes from All Sides
"Mo Fan, we've finally found you all. Are you alright?" Zhan Kong asked as he walked over.
Mo Fan scratched his head and said with a smile, "It's alright, but during the training, we encountered a group of mage guards. The two leaders said that Jiang Han and I were the best test subjects, and that I should cooperate with them and kill the other training team members."
"You ran into Lu Nian and the others? Hey, by the way, where's Jiang Han?" Zhan Kong said, scanning the crowd but not finding Jiang Han.
Mo Fan then recounted his encounter with Lu Nian and Li Mingxuan to Zhan Kong, concluding, "Jiang Han's fate is currently unknown. If possible, I hope Instructor Zhan can go and find Jiang Han."
"A commander-level giant lizard pseudo-dragon? This is a bit troublesome," Zhan Kong said, frowning.
He hadn't expected that after Jiang Han and Mo Fan encountered Lu Nian and the others, they would also run into the giant lizard pseudo-dragon that led the Dongting Lake lizard-headed giant demon clan. Back in Bo City, he and Jiang Kun had paid a heavy price to kill the commander-level Winged Azure Wolf, and this giant lizard pseudo-dragon was even stronger than the Winged Azure Wolf. Even if he, Zhan Kong, encountered it, he would only be able to run away.
Jiang Han, who single-handedly fought the giant lizard pseudo-dragon, is now very likely...
If that kid has hidden a powerful trump card, he can still escape. Zhan Kong thought for a moment and said, "I'll send you back to the nearest city first, and then go deeper into Jinlin Wasteland to find Jiang Han."
"Then I'll leave it to Instructor Zhan." Mo Fan said, giving Zhan Kong a salute unique to mage guards.
He and Jiang Han had been friends since childhood, and if something happened to Jiang Han during this training, Mo Fan wouldn't feel good about it. Most importantly, he wouldn't know how to answer when Xin Xia asked about Jiang Han.
Under Zhan Kong's escort, Mu Ningxue, Mu Nujiao, Ai Tutu, Mo Fan, Zhao Manyan, and others successfully arrived at Anjie, the closest city to Jinlin Wasteland. They then took the high-speed rail back to the capital from Anjie. Meanwhile, news of the training team members from Mingzhu Academy and Imperial Academy being attacked by evil magicians spread among the major families in the capital.
The Mu family also received news of the attack on the trainees, but the intelligence they gathered was more detailed and accurate.
Inside the Mu Clan Council Hall, two elderly men with gray hair sat in high positions, while six middle-aged men sat in two rows of chairs below. The current leaders of the Mu Clan had all come here.
Bang! A middle-aged man sitting below slammed his hand on the solid wood armrest next to him, almost breaking the armrest.
"Father, Second Uncle, the Li family from Xingcheng has gone too far this time," Mu Qingfeng said angrily.
An elderly man sitting in a high position glanced at the furious Mu Qingfeng and said coldly, "Sit down. It's best to mind your own business and not worry about other people's affairs all day long. If you don't cultivate properly, you'll never catch up with her in this lifetime."
"That kid is still my nephew, and your grandson, no matter what. How am I meddling in other people's business?" Mu Qingfeng retorted.
"Shut up! From the moment she secretly left with that Jiang guy, she was no longer my daughter!" the old man roared.
The old man's name was Mu Tianrong. He was not only the previous head of the Mu family in the capital, but also the father of Mu Qinghan and the current head of the family, Mu Qingfeng. The reason why Mu Tianrong was unwilling to acknowledge Mu Qinghan as his daughter was mainly because Mu Qinghan broke the marriage agreement he had made with Jiang Kun and secretly ran away from the capital. To put it bluntly, she ran away from the arranged marriage with Jiang Kun.
Living in a large family and enjoying special benefits certainly comes with its own set of responsibilities.
Despite their seemingly glamorous lives, the young masters and ladies of wealthy families do not have the right to choose their own spouses; they are mostly arranged by their families to enter into marriages for mutual benefit.
After Mu Qinghan eloped, Mu Tianrong, the head of the family at the time, was furious. He dispatched a large number of people to search for Mu Qinghan's whereabouts. The search lasted for three years. When they finally found Mu Qinghan, she had already married someone else, so the marriage was no longer possible. Mu Tianrong then sent people to bring her back from Bocheng and put her under house arrest in a manor in the capital.
Who would have thought that a while ago, that guy surnamed Jiang actually brought a king-level totem beast to his door and made him lose face.
The old man sitting to Mu Tianrong's right chuckled and said, "Tianrong, don't get so angry. Jiang Han is still a member of the Qinghan family, with the blood of the Mu family flowing through his veins. For the Li family to lay a hand on that kid is to slap the Mu family in the face. If we don't make them pay a price, won't everyone think that anyone can shit on the Mu family's head?"
Mu Tianrong raised his eyelids and glanced at Mu Tianxing, and sneered inwardly, "Mu Tianxing, do you really think I don't know what you're up to? You just want to use Jiang Han's accident as an excuse to extort resources from the Li family to cultivate your lineage's disciples. And do you really think I still don't know who leaked that incident from back then?"
"Just a bastard child born of a rebellious woman. What price do you think the Li family can pay? Let's just forget about it. The patriarch isn't home; it's better to avoid trouble." Mu Tianrong waved his hand and said.
"Don't worry, the Li family will definitely help," Mu Tianxing said with a smile.
"Suit yourself, I have other things to attend to and will be leaving now." Mu Tianrong said, then turned and left.
After Mu Tianrong left, Mu Qingfeng followed. Despite being the current head of the family, he didn't wield much power. Many matters required the approval of the two elders. Mu Tianrong and Mu Tianxing had already discussed Jiang Han's matter, so there was no need for him to stay any longer. He really wanted to ask his father why he refused to forgive Mu Qinghan for what she had done back then.
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After sending Mo Fan, Mu Ningxue, and the others back to Anjie, Zhan Kong reported the ordeal of the students in Jinlin Wasteland City in the Southern Guard District. The Southern Guard District then reported the matter to the headquarters leadership. The headquarters was furious upon learning of this and severely reprimanded the person in charge of the Northern Guard District, where Lu Nian and the others were located. In addition to the headquarters' pursuit of accountability, there was also pressure from the old leaders of the North China Guard Department.
Finally, the Northern Guard District dispatched several high-level mages and a Sky Eagle Legion to Jinlin Wasteland City to assist Zhan Kong in the search and rescue of Jiang Han.
The search lasted for two whole months, but Jiang Han was never found. The strangest thing was that the lizard-headed giant demon clan that occupied Jinlin Wasteland City also disappeared, and the leader-level giant lizard pseudo-dragon was never found.
After the Northern Guard District withdrew its search and rescue order for Jiang Han, a major battle broke out between the Jiang and Li families in Xingcheng. The battle ended with the Li family surrendering. In this battle, the Jiang family lost two super-level mages, more than a dozen high-level mages, and more than fifty people were seriously injured. The Li family fared even worse, losing three super-level mages, more than twenty high-level mages, and nearly a hundred people were seriously injured. Most importantly, an elder who was about to step into the semi-forbidden spell realm was also seriously injured in this battle.
Actually, it's not that the Li family is weak; rather, the Jiang family launched this great battle with a desperate, all-out attack on the Li family members like madmen, with some even using forbidden techniques to self-destruct and take several Li family members with them before they died.
It's said that the ruthless are afraid of the stubborn, and the stubborn are afraid of the reckless. The Li family has never seen anyone so reckless.
What angered the Li family the most was that the Mu family in the capital took advantage of the situation and plundered a lot of resources from the Li family.
P.S.: This chapter is a bit poorly written. It mainly explains the situation of the Mu family in the capital, so that we won't be accused of being inhumane when we take action against some members of the Mu family later. The Jiang family only learned about Jiang Han's identity after Jiang Kun took away the Kui Niu. I won't reveal the rest.
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(End of this chapter)