Chapter 2086: Chapter 2091: One-on-One
Qi Bai fell silent as well.
This time, the Qi Family was destined to fall behind the Cultivation Alliance.
However, Qi Bai still had a greater trump card, something the Alliance didn’t have!
Xia Liu and the fourth Young Master of the Qi Family, Qi Zheng, were on quite good terms as Daoist Fellows!
Just on that basis alone, Xia Liu and the Qi Family already shared a bond that couldn’t be clearly explained away!
Thinking of this, Qi Bai relaxed.
Let everything go with the flow.
Whether the Alliance or the Qi Family, both were members of the Northern Realm.
As long as Xia Liu remained in the Northern Realm, as long as he was one of them, it didn’t matter which side he represented.
In the final analysis, he still represented the Northern Realm!
"Family Head Qi, the time looks about right. Let’s head to Luodong City together."
Su Mu suggested.
"That depends on what little friend Xia Liu intends to do."
Qi Bai looked toward Xia Liu as he spoke.
As Qi Zheng’s father, he had come today in the capacity of Family Head of Qi Family.
His purpose was to boost Xia Liu’s status, so that the Qi Family would leave a good impression in his heart.
"Cough, cough. Since our goals are pretty much the same today, let’s go together then and see how the Zhuang Family plans to explain themselves!"
Xia Liu couldn’t dodge this, and could only brace himself to take command in front of this bunch of old monsters.
"That’s right! All these years the Zhuang Family has been borrowing the Qi Family’s name, who knows how many heinous deeds they’ve committed. Today, we’ll settle all of it at once!"
Qi Bai had also heard some rumors over the years.
It was just that the Zhuang Family had been shining ever brighter.
If he struck rashly, he might incur resentment that could never be resolved.
If the Zhuang Family truly rose to become a first-rate force, it would bring no small upheaval to the Qi Family.
So he had watched and waited all this time.
This time, he came in cooperation with the Cultivation Alliance, in cooperation with Xia Liu.
The Zhuang Family was only a few days away from decline!
Without further ado, a hundred-odd Nascent Soul Experts surged forth, flying through the air in grand formation.
The army pressed right up to Luodong City.
They dared to make half the Firmament dim as night!
On the wasteland before Luodong City.
The cultivators stood in neat ranks, and an invisible pressure directly crushed down on the Zhuang Family like world-toppling intimidation!
The previously arrogant Zhuang Family now didn’t even dare utter a single word.
They all hid inside the City Defense Array.
On the city gate, Zhuang An sat calmly on a Taishi Chair.
Decorated with tiger skin and mink fur, it gave off an ostentatious, alien sense of luxury.
"Old Ancestor! Is the Zhuang Family finished this time..."
Zhuang Zhen had never felt so powerless.
Everything had come far too suddenly.
Earlier, he had thought that as long as they killed Xia Liu, the Alliance and the Qi Family would turn a blind eye.
Now it seemed his thinking had been far too naive.
Not only had they failed to kill Xia Liu, they had completely enraged him because of it.
They had enraged the Alliance and the Qi Family.
After today, the Zhuang Family might fall so far that there wouldn’t even be a corner left for them.
All of this, everything, had been caused by one unfilial son! One so‑called family genius Nascent Soul cultivator.
Zhuang An did not speak, his Divine Sense quietly sweeping over every cultivator of the Zhuang Family.
To say he didn’t regret it would be a lie.
But was it still in time to regret now?
Su Mu had read out the Zhuang Family’s crimes in front of countless cultivators; the Alliance had clearly been investigating them in secret for a long time.
They had only been waiting for the right moment to uproot the Zhuang Family in one stroke.
Today was a perfect opportunity.
They could not only deal with the Zhuang Family, but also gain Xia Liu’s favor.
Killing two birds with one stone.
No matter how they tried to explain, the Zhuang Family could not escape calamity today.
But!
Even in death, Zhuang An was unwilling to accept it!
What virtue and ability did this Xia Liu have, that he could wipe out a Zhuang Family with thousands of years of inheritance!
What the hell was he to them!
"Zhuang An, at a time like this, don’t cower inside the Formation like some animal."
If it weren’t for the countless cultivators watching from outside, the hot‑tempered Southern Protector would already have shattered this City Defense Formation with several palm strikes!
"It’s over, it’s over!"
"Are we really just going to sit here and wait for death?"
"Xia Liu! All of this was caused by that Xia Liu! If I survive this tribulation, I’ll definitely behead Xia Liu in the future!"
"I have the same thought!"
The cultivators of the Zhuang Family roared in their hearts.
As long as they didn’t die today, once they grew strong in the future, they would definitely demand Xia Liu’s head!
If not for him, the Zhuang Family would never have ended up in such a state.
In a certain corner atop the city wall.
The wooden wheelchair was no longer being pushed, and Zhuang Bifan, sitting on it, had red‑rimmed eyes.
He no longer had any desire for revenge.
At this moment, he only felt regret for everything he had done and said in the past.
If, in the Extreme Cold Secret Realm, he hadn’t set his sights on Xia Liu.
Then today, the Zhuang Family definitely wouldn’t have any conflict with him.
If he had been a bit smarter back then, and befriended Xia Liu as a Daoist Fellow, would the Zhuang Family be rising to a higher level today instead?
Too many ifs, too many buts; Zhuang Bifan’s pain had reached the extreme.
This was sin.
Because of him alone, the entire family had fallen to such a point.
He had failed the ancestors; he had failed those who came before.
At this moment, he didn’t even have the ability to kill himself.
Powerless, he silently watched everything unfold.
Just as Xia Liu had promised, he wanted Zhuang Bifan to personally witness the Zhuang Family’s decline!
While everyone in the Zhuang Family was lamenting, Zhuang An took out a command token, opened a rift in the Formation, and faced the cultivators of the Alliance and the Qi Family alone!
"Old guy, what are you strutting around for? Would it kill you to just cultivate properly and improve your cultivation?"
Once Zhuang An appeared, the Southern Protector couldn’t help his disdain.
He didn’t return to the Myriad Realms often.
The last time had been a hundred years ago, when he had seen Zhuang An at a meeting.
Back then, this guy had already been Nascent Soul Mid-Stage.
A hundred years later, he was still stuck at Nascent Soul Mid-Stage Realm.
And now he had done something so childish.
He really was living backwards the longer he lived.
"Southern Protector, your rebuke is justified—but how are you any different from I, Zhuang? You rely on him being your relative and deploy a large number of experts to shield him. In that case, how are you any different from I, Zhuang?"
Zhuang An looked arrogantly at Qi Bai and Su Mu.
These two were among the absolute top experts in this realm.
Yet now, for the sake of a young man, they had both shown up in this bitter Borderlands.
It really made one want to laugh.
"Relative?"
Qi Bai and Su Mu immediately took issue with that.
If Xia Liu really were a relative, then when the Zhuang Family first went crazy and issued those wanted notices, some expert would have shown up to warn them long ago!
There’d have been no need to wait until today.
However, neither of them spoke up.
In their eyes, Zhuang An right now wasn’t even worth them lifting their eyes to look at!
"Mr. Zhuang, you’ve come out alone. You want to settle things face to face with me, is that it?"
Xia Liu asked.
"That’s right! If you have any guts today, then step out and settle this with me one-on-one! As for the other matters, I, Zhuang, will settle accounts with them later!"
"Fine. How do you want to handle this one-on-one?"
Xia Liu didn’t hesitate at all and stepped forward.
This scene left Su Mu and Qi Bai both shocked.
Xia Liu’s Energy Body was only at Golden Pill Late Stage.
No matter how limitless his potential, in the face of a true Nascent Soul Mid-Stage cultivator, there was no way he could contend, right...
"You bestowed this calamity upon my Zhuang Family. I hope you’ll repay it with your life!"
"Presumptuous!"
The Southern Protector really couldn’t stand this kind of old man swaggering on seniority.
For Zhuang An to still have the face to say such things now showed exactly what kind of heart he had!
"Mr. Zhuang, why don’t you ask yourself whether the reason the Zhuang Family became like this was really bestowed by I, Xia? Or was it your Zhuang Family’s own arrogance that brought this upon yourselves?"
