69: Monk Fanxiu is very vengeful, and the geniuses of the Shi family are caught in the crossfire

Fan Xiu was truly so angered by Long Aotian that he vomited blood. This brat was simply too wicked, every word stabbing at his heart, every phrase striking directly at his Soul. Fan Xiu had dominated the Western Continent for many years; when had he ever been so humiliated?

Hate!

He wished he could strangle this brat!

But he couldn't!

He hadn't yet tricked the brat's movement Martial Skill out of him!

The brat was too calm; there must be a strong Cultivator secretly protecting him where Fan Xiu couldn't detect!

This debt, he would remember.

"Whoosh!"

"..."

Watching Long Aotian's retreating figure, covering thirty li with each step, a shocking light once again bloomed in Fan Xiu's pupils.

He absolutely had to obtain this movement Martial Skill!

He, Fan Xiu, could even trick Old Ancestors and old grandmothers; tricking just one child, if he couldn't even do that, then he might as well bash his head against a block of tofu and die!

During this trip to the Eastern Barrens, tricking this movement Martial Skill was the top priority!

Thinking of this, he began to plot.

How could he trick Long Aotian's movement Martial Skill out of him?

How?

First, he wasn't familiar with Long Aotian!

How could he trick him if he wasn't familiar?

This kid was extremely cunning, and his vigilance towards strangers was very high. He was so handsome that people in the Jianghu of the Western Continent called him the 'Flower Monk', yet the first time they met, this kid treated him like a thief.

Without becoming familiar with him, trying to trick his movement Martial Skill would undoubtedly be very difficult!

So, how could he become familiar with this kid?

Fan Xiu quickly thought of the Imperial City Shi Family. Didn't this kid say he was the Young Lord of the Imperial City Shi Family?

Alright then, he would start with the Imperial City Shi Family!

How to start?

Could he first become familiar with those Genius Disciples of the Shi Family?

How to become familiar?

What could be more familiar than persuading them to join the Guiyi Sect and making himself their Senior Brother or Junior Martial Uncle?

The Shi Family members didn't know that they had inexplicably been targeted by an abominable monk who did nothing else but specifically liked to persuade their Shi Family members to become monks.

This was absolutely a great calamity!

The Long Family's troubling matters hadn't even been fully dealt with, yet upon seeing twenty to thirty bald Disciples suddenly appear in the Family, Shi Gandang was practically fuming with rage.

The high-ranking members of the Shi Family were all enraged!

What kind of Sect was that Guiyi Sect exactly? Why had he, the dignified Shi Family Clan Chief, never heard of it?

And how rich was that monk exactly? He casually offered eighth and ninth-grade Magical Artifacts and various high-grade Medicinal Pills as if they were worthless, even the Genius Disciples of the Family, the head of the Five Great Cultivation Families of the Imperial City, were bribed...

Long Aotian didn't know that during the month he spent in the Yunmeng Mountain Range practicing Tai Xu Divine Steps, the Imperial City Shi Family had been in a state of utter chaos.

First was the Long Family's problem; they clung to the Shi Family like a stubborn plaster, refusing to let go. After the Long Family's three Old Ancestors were severely injured, the Great Ancestor, Dragon War God, escaped with serious injuries, while the Second Elder, Dragon War Emperor, and the Third Ancestor, Dragon War Sovereign, were captured alive.

Originally, the Shi Family thought that this would finally make the Long Family quiet down for a bit, but instead, just a few days later, precisely when Long Aotian went to the White Emperor Mountain Range and wiped out the Shi Family's hidden stronghold, the Shi Family received accurate news:

One, the Long Family Clan Leader, Long Bubai, had achieved a Breakthrough to the Nascent Soul Realm, becoming a ten-thousand-year Prodigy who broke through to the Nascent Soul Realm before the age of thirty, and he was a Prodigy who had cultivated himself into a ten-thousand-year Prodigy using low-quality Cultivation resources.

The two peerless Prodigies of Feng Town, Feng Keqiang and Long Bubai, truly lived up to their reputation.

Well-deserved reputation, truly worthy of the name!

Two, the Long Family Clan Chief, Long Wudi, successfully achieved a Breakthrough from the Ninth Revolution Peak Stage of the Nascent Soul Realm to the Out-of-Body Realm, becoming a ten-thousand-year Prodigy who broke through to the Out-of-Body Realm before the age of fifty, also a Prodigy who had cultivated himself into a ten-thousand-year Prodigy using low-quality Cultivation resources.

Was that all?

Not yet!

The Long Family's Supreme Guardian, Long Shijie, also successfully achieved a Breakthrough from the Ninth Revolution Peak Stage of the Nascent Soul Realm to the Out-of-Body Realm, becoming a Prodigy who broke through to the Out-of-Body Realm before the age of sixty.

Three generations of grandfather and grandsons all achieved significant Cultivation Breakthroughs.

The Long Family suddenly went from having one Out-of-Body Realm strong Cultivator to three. Not only were they not severely impacted, but they became even more formidable. The Shi Family's businesses in several royal cities were severely damaged by Long Shijie and Long Wudi, the father and son.

Shi Gandang was absolutely furious!

However, what made him even more furious was yet to come.

Shi Tianjing and the others returned to the Imperial City in a sorry state. Only a few people returned: the Third Ancestor who escaped, the Second Elder and Fourth Ancestor who returned in disarray, and the Seventh Ancestor and Clan Chief Shi Tianjing who returned with a severed arm and severe injuries.

The Family Guardian, Shi Xiaodan, who narrowly escaped.

Everyone else had perished!

This included his second son, Shi Jing!

The Shi Family's second ancestral stronghold was wiped out!

Shi Gandang, the Clan Chief, was not the only one fuming; so were the three Mahayana Realm Clan Gods of the Shi Family:

Shi Rufeng, Shi Rulin, and Shi Ruhuo.

They hadn't been this angry in a very long time. The last time they were so enraged was during the war with the Lei Family, which established the Shi Family as the head of the Five Great Cultivation Families of the Eternal Leaf Imperial Dynasty.

At that time, they were six brothers:

As swift as the wind!

As orderly as the forest!

As aggressive as fire!

As unmoving as a mountain!

As unfathomable as the shadows!

As sudden as thunder!

As a result of that battle, Shi Rushan, Shi Ruyin, and Shi Rulei all perished.

Now, thousands of years had passed.

If the Imperial Family of the Eternal Leaf Imperial Dynasty hadn't intervened back then, the Shi Family would have fought to the death with the Lei Family.

Currently, this was the second time the three Clan Gods were so enraged. Someone had actually taken advantage of their absence from the second ancestral stronghold to wipe out their Shi Family's second ancestral stronghold.

The Shi Family directly lost as many as ninety-eight Out-of-Body Realm strong Family Guardians, six of the ten Spirit Division Realm Family Old Ancestors perished, and all thirty Family Elders with outstanding Martial Arts Talent also perished.

The losses were so severe that the three great Clan Gods' hearts bled; they were like madmen, utterly enraged!

On that day, the three great Shi Family Clan Gods, upon receiving the news, rushed to the White Emperor Mountain Range with monstrous anger and hatred, appearing there at the fastest possible speed.

However, the culprit, Long Aotian, had long since fled.

Seeing the Fire Spirit Spring in the Fire Spirit Pool, once full, now completely empty, and even the nirvana rock taken by the other party, the three great Shi Family Clan Gods were so enraged that they spat out a mouthful of old blood.

"Shi Tianjing deserves to die!"

"Don't be impulsive, Third Brother!"

"That's right, now that the Family has lost so many Out-of-Body Realm Family Guardians, and even six Spirit Division Realm Family Old Ancestors have perished, our Shi Family cannot afford to continue losing its core strength!"

"Hmph, he can be spared the death penalty, but not the living one. He is no longer suitable to hold the position of Clan Chief. What do you two think, Eldest Brother and Second Brother?"

"...Who does Third Brother think is suitable?"

Shi Rufeng and Shi Rulin did not directly express their stance.

But their attitude clearly showed no objection to this.

"Shi Youse!"

"...Good! I have no objection!"

"I have no objection either!"

Abolish the father, let the son take over.

They all had no objections.

It is worth mentioning that Shi Tianjing was Shi Rufeng's grandson. He originally thought Shi Ruhuo would take the opportunity to arrange for someone from his own lineage to take the position, but he didn't expect him to propose his great-grandson.

Given this, what reason did he have to disagree?

Not to mention, the second ancestral stronghold was wiped out, and Shi Tianjing, who was stationed there, indeed bore inescapable responsibility. Furthermore, he was now severely injured with a severed arm, and serving as Clan Chief would indeed damage the Shi Family's image.

This was also what made Shi Gandang furious: the Clan Chief was abolished, but he wasn't promoted to Clan Chief. Instead, that brat Shi Youse took advantage of the situation, unfairly surpassing him by two ranks and one generation.

What followed, causing him continuous vexation, was that a monk named Fan Xiu had made twenty to thirty of their Shi Family's Genius Disciples bald. Because of this, the Shi Family was ridiculed by many in the Imperial City.

That scoundrel Shi Youse actually, in his capacity as Clan Chief, angrily rebuked him, saying if he couldn't manage the Family well, he shouldn't be the Clan Chief, and if the number of bald heads in the Shi Family continued to increase, he should be careful not to be abolished.

He was truly, his lungs were about to explode from anger!