Chapter 665: Chapter 665 Hope is More Precious than Gold (1st Update)
Zhongdu.
Tianyuan Company headquarters.
At this moment, Tianyuan had already moved away from the previous high-rise building.
Because the Zhongdu Temporary Management Committee had regulations.
All high-rises, due to their large targets, were easily subject to attacks by gods and demons and had become hazardous buildings.
Thus, Tianyuan’s headquarters also relocated to a cluster of low-rise bungalows.
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At this moment, inside the meeting room.
Sitting in the principal seat was a middle-aged man with a sullen face and a corpulent body.
He swept his eyes over everyone in the room with his heavy bags, then said in a cold voice, “The committee has just sent a notice, starting next month, all sales of the Heaven’s Fate Elixir will be fully managed by the committee.”
Upon hearing these words, Qiao Le, Zhao Xuehui, and others all showed expressions of discontent, while Chen Xiuhe, who sat directly opposite the man, also grew visibly darker in countenance.
“Jin Zhong, is this the Jin Family’s idea, or is it the committee’s?”
Jin Zhong sneered, “Old Chen, please understand the current situation before you speak. The Zhongdu of today is no longer dominated by the Chen Family alone, everyone must obey the committee’s orders!”
“I’m afraid it’s your Jin Family that’s pulling strings behind the scenes!” Chen Rushi, who stood behind her grandfather, said coldly.
“Chen Xiuhe, I hope you can control your descendants. This is a critical period, and talking nonsense could lead to facing a military tribunal,” Jin Zhong said icily.
Just as Chen Xiuhe was about to speak, someone suddenly pushed the door open and entered—it was Yuan Mengying, the chief secretary of Tianyuan headquarters.
“What are you doing, can’t you see we are in a meeting? Get out!” Jin Zhong bellowed.
But Yuan Mengying seemed as if she hadn’t heard anything, walking straight to Chen Xiuhe, took a deep breath, and placed a document she was holding onto the table.
“Old Chen, there’s the latest news from the front line, please take a look!” Yuan Mengying’s voice trembled.
At this, Jin Zhong was completely enraged, “Yuan Mengying, good, from now on you’re no longer a part of Tianyuan. Get out, immediately!”
Ever since he had parachuted into Tianyuan Company as director, no one had dared to ignore his words like this, naturally infuriating Jin Zhong.
Yet Yuan Mengying acted as though she hadn’t heard him at all, not even deigning to give Jin Zhong a glance.
After Chen Xiuhe briefly looked over the document, he first paused, then suddenly burst into hearty laughter.
This laughter halted Jin Zhong, who was about to erupt with anger.
Meanwhile, Qiao Le and others also saw the document and their faces all showed relief and excitement.
At that point Jin Zhong said coldly, “What are you scheming? Wanting to rebel?”
Normally at such words, everyone would bow their heads, but not this time.
Chen Xiuhe gave Jin Zhong a cold glance, then slowly stood up and said lightly, “Jin Zhong, I’d advise you and your Jin Family to quickly wash your necks clean and buy a good coffin, or else… haha!”
Having said that, Chen Xiuhe turned and left, the crowd sneered at Jin Zhong a few times, and likewise filed out of the meeting room.
When only Jin Zhong was left in the room.
He first stood dumbfounded for a moment, then frantically ran to the table, where the document that Chen Xiuhe had either forgotten or intentionally left behind lay.
With trembling hands, Jin Zhong picked it up and saw there was only a simple message.
Xue An returns, with a single sword strike, annihilates all the demons and monsters of the Southeastern Half-Territory.
Seeing this message, the previously arrogant Jin Zhong felt as though he had fallen into an ice cellar, and cold sweat instantly soaked through his clothing.
Xue An.
This name was simply too glaring for him.
That’s because his sister, who had married into the An Family and was honorably known as a Princess of Qianqing, had been killed by Xue An.
Indeed, that Jin Xiurong, who once presided over the An Family, oppressed An Yan in various ways, and was eventually exterminated by Xue An, was this Jin Zhong’s sister.
After Jin Xiurong’s death, the Jin Family had not reacted at all to the affair.
It wasn’t until the upheaval of heaven and earth and the subsequent great changes in the situation in Zhongdu that the Jin Family finally seized the chaos to rise, then entered the Temporary Management Committee and gained immense power.
Later, the Jin Family revealed their fangs and began to covet everything that had once surrounded Xue An.
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This Tianyuan Company was one of their key targets.
Jin Zhong parachuted in with the intent to take full control.
After all, Tianyuan Company was a money tree that many coveted.
But all these premises were based on the assumption that Xue An had disappeared.
Yet, who could have expected that Xue An would return with such formidable strength?
Just as Jin Zhong was hurrying back home to discuss countermeasures,
the news had already spread far and wide.
Since the descent of gods and demons, all people had seen and heard were all sorts of bad news.
Today, this city fell, and tomorrow, that country was destroyed.
Living day to day in such despair, many people had become numb.
Very few still harbored hope for the future.
Even the most optimistic could only hope that humanity could cling to the last strongholds and manage to survive.
In this scenario, the news of Xue An reappearing and killing gods and demons spread like a hurricane around the entire world.
Countless people were exhilarated.
After all, in an era of despair, hope is more precious than gold.
Moreover, in this crucial matter of human survival, Xue An’s appearance made countless people see hope.
Before this, the god-demon army had rampaged through the world nearly invincibly, and humans barely held their ground, but at a tremendous cost.
Therefore, many subconsciously believed that the gods and demons were unbeatable.
It was only Xue An’s emergence that shattered this myth.
At the same time, the once quiet Martial Arts World forum grew lively again.
Xue An’s previous deeds were being brought up by those with vested interests.
From initially obliterating Senior Finger Sky to later eradicating the Blood Clan and destroying the Holy Nation of Light.
Each of these incidences could be considered earth-shattering events.
But all these were done by Xue An alone.
This invisibly added even more luster to Xue An’s legend.
Martial artists have always been the proudest, but in front of Xue An, they all bowed their heads, sincerely acknowledging him as,
the Supreme of the present age.
And soon, this news spread from the Martial Arts World to all sectors of society.
Many people who may not have known who Xue An was before,
now, after this wave of public opinion, nearly everyone remembered the name Xue An,
Remembered the title, the Supreme of the present age!
World countries were shaken by this.
After all, Xue An was a true and formidable personage of Hua Country.
Now that he had returned with an incomparably powerful force, what kind of impact it would have, nobody dared to say.
M Country.
The President hid in an underground shelter, staring blankly at the documents in his hands, then asked bitterly,
“Gentlemen, with the return of Xue An and the unstoppable rise of Hua Country, do we have any acceptable solutions?”
The self-proclaimed chosen ones all lowered their once arrogant heads at that moment.
After a while, it was Edward, the head of the intelligence agency sitting at the very end, who finally spoke in a trembling voice,
“Your Excellency Mr. President, I think, no matter the solutions, we must not oppose this Xue An, otherwise, he may truly send us to meet God!”
If Edward had said this before, many would have sneered, but now they could only bow their heads in helpless silence.
The President was silent for a moment, then said with a bitter smile, “Let’s just wait and see for now! See how other countries react.”