After a thousand years of cultivation, he returns at the pinnacle!

Chapter 30 The Shocks of the Aristocratic Families

News of Liu Mingxia's death spread like wildfire.

When the news reached the Wang family in the capital, it was early morning. The Wang family mansion was located on the Dragon Vein Mountain in the northern suburbs of the capital, covering an area of ​​a thousand acres. The pavilions and towers were scattered in a well-organized manner, appearing and disappearing amidst the swirling clouds and mist.

But at this moment, the atmosphere inside the Wang family council hall was even more somber than the morning mist outside.

Wang Chongwen stood in the center of the hall, holding a thin intelligence report in his hand, his fingertips turning slightly white. His father, Wang Zhenshan, the head of the Wang family, sat upright in the main seat, his tiger-like eyes slightly closed, revealing neither joy nor anger.

"Are you sure he's dead?" Wang Zhenshan's voice was deep, like muffled thunder rolling from his chest.

"Confirmed." Wang Chongwen took a deep breath. "This is news from the Dark Night organization. Liu Mingxia was dealt with by Dark Night people last night at the North City Square. They didn't even leave a body."

The council chamber fell silent for a moment.

"Dark Night?" Wang Zhenshan opened his eyes, his gaze sharp. "Liu Mingxia hired Dark Night to kill Jiang Chen, and Dark Night not only refused the job, but instead killed her? What kind of logic is that?"

Wang Chongwen smiled wryly: "Father, it's not that Dark Night doesn't take orders. It's that they did, and then the missions failed."

"fail?"

"That's right." Wang Chongwen unfolded the intelligence report and read aloud, "Dark Night dispatched its third team, consisting of three peak A-level Awakened individuals, to carry out a sniping mission. Only Night Owl returned alive, with his right arm and left leg severed, and he suffered a mental breakdown. Mantis and Cold Cicada died on the spot."

His voice was even lower: "According to Night Owl's confession, Jiang Chen only glanced at him."

A deathly silence fell over the council chamber.

Wang Zhenshan remained silent. The Wang family elders behind him exchanged glances, all seeing shock in each other's eyes.

"Just one glance?" Second Elder Wang Zhenyue spoke first, his voice full of disbelief. "A seventeen-year-old with no abilities, crippling a peak A-rank Awakened with just one glance?"

"That's what the intelligence says," Wang Chongwen said. "Moreover, after Night Owl returned, he kept saying he couldn't think about it, and the psychiatric evaluation result was severe post-traumatic stress disorder. His symptoms don't seem faked."

Third Elder Wang Zhenhe stroked his beard and slowly said, "When the Liu family was wiped out, we judged that Jiang Chen might be hiding his strength. But being able to instantly kill a C-level demon and being able to instantly kill a peak A-level awakened being are two different things."

He paused, then looked at Wang Zhenshan: "Patriarch, Jiang Chen's strength is probably no less than ours."

Wang Zhenshan did not respond. He closed his eyes and tapped his fingers lightly on the armrest.

After a long while, he opened his eyes.

"Chongwen, how was Liu Mingxia's matter handled?"

"The night was done cleanly, leaving no trace," Wang Chongwen said.

"Just tell everyone that she went back to her parents' home to pay respects to her ancestors and had an accident on the way. Anyway, there's no one left in the Liu family, so no one will investigate further."

"What about the Wang family?"

"What Father means is..."

"Liu Mingxia has been married into the Wang family for twenty years. Although she is from a collateral branch, she still carries the Wang family name." Wang Zhenshan's voice was calm, yet carried an undeniable authority. "She is dead, and the Wang family cannot remain indifferent. Otherwise, outsiders will think the Wang family is easy to bully."

Wang Chongwen was taken aback: "Father, do you mean to take action against Jiang Chen?"

"No." Wang Zhenshan stood up and walked to the window. "Send someone to Jiangzhou to find out Jiang Chen's background. Who is he? Where did he come from? How did he acquire his skills? Once we have a clear understanding, we can decide how to deal with him."

He turned around and glanced at everyone present: "Until the truth is found out, no one is allowed to provoke him."

"Yes," everyone responded in unison.

Wang Zhenshan sat down again, picked up his teacup, but didn't drink it.

Jiang Chen.

He silently repeated the name in his mind.

It can make the darkness bow down, make the Shen family take the initiative to befriend it, and silently destroy an awakened family.

Who exactly is this young man?

.....

Liu Mingxia's death caused quite a stir among the prominent families in the capital.

Although the official report stated that she "encountered an accident on her way back to her hometown to pay respects to her ancestors," anyone who has risen to the level of an aristocratic family would have their own intelligence network. The real cause of death had already spread throughout the upper echelons of the capital through various channels.

Jiang Chen was hired to be assassinated by Dark Night, but Dark Night failed and instead killed his employer.

This news was like a pebble thrown into a calm lake, creating ripples.

Shen family.

Shen Wanshan, the head of the Shen family, sat in his study, with the intelligence report sent back from Jiangzhou by Shen Qingxue spread out in front of him. He read it over and over again, his expression changing from shock to solemnity, and then from solemnity to relief.

"Our ancestor truly has discerning eyes," he muttered to himself. "This boy is not only not an enemy, but he is someone we should not provoke."

He then immediately sent a message to his beloved daughter, a very brief four-word message: "Keep on good terms."

...

Jiangzhou, the Lin family.

Lin Zhenting sat in his study, the tea in front of him had gone cold.

When he learned of Liu Mingxia's death, he was teaching Lin Feng to cultivate again. Although Lin Feng's talent was mostly ruined, his remaining spiritual power, after this period of adjustment, had barely recovered to the D-level. Although it was a far cry from his previous S-level, at least he wasn't a cripple.

"Liu Mingxia is dead too." Lin Zhenting put down the intelligence report, looked at his son, and said, "I told you, that person is not someone we can mess with."

Lin Feng lowered his head and remained silent for a long time.

"Father, I understand."

"Good that you understand." Lin Zhenting sighed. "Focus on your cultivation and don't think about those other things. Staying alive is more important than anything else."

Other prominent families in the capital also received the news.

The Zhao family, the Zhou family, and the Wu family.

For the first time, these normally aloof and superior awakened families felt apprehensive about a "powerless person".

It wasn't fear, it was apprehension.

Fear is an instinctive reaction to the unknown, while apprehension is a cautious assessment after rational analysis. They didn't know exactly how strong Jiang Chen was, but they knew one thing.

The Dark Night Organization, the strongest assassin organization in the Dragon Kingdom, chose to back down in the face of Jiang Chen.

This in itself says it all.

In no time, the name Jiang Chen quietly spread in the shadows of the capital.

Some say he is a hidden S-class Awakener, some say he has awakened an unprecedented SSS-class talent, some say he has some kind of connection with the Apostles, and some even say he is not human, but the incarnation of some ancient being.

Various speculations abound, but no one dares to verify them.

Because they all know that the price of verification could be the extermination of their entire family.

...

While the capital was in turmoil, everything was fine in Jiangzhou.

Su Ze has already applied for the highest level of authority for Jiang Chen in the Dragon Kingdom. In other words, he has completely regarded Jiang Chen as the hope for the future of humanity.

Therefore, no matter what Jiang Chen does, he will support him wholeheartedly. That's why when Jiang Chen contacted him last night, he was excited and immediately took action! Of course, in addition to giving Dark Night a warning, Su Ze also received another message from Jiang Chen last night, asking him what kind of magical beasts were lurking in the vicinity.

Su Ze naturally told him this truthfully.

As for what Jiang Chen is going to do, he neither asks nor thinks about it; he will simply give his full support.

Jiangzhou College, Class 5 classroom.

Shen Qingxue sat next to Jiang Chen, stealing glances at him every now and then.

Since what happened that night, her opinion of Jiang Chen has undergone a complete change.

Previously, she came to Jiangzhou on the orders of her ancestor, to cultivate a good relationship with Jiang Chen, and for the benefit of the Shen family. Everything she did was a mission, a transaction.

But it's different now.

That night, she stood in front of Jiang Chen, not because he was worth the Shen family's investment, but because she didn't want him to die. That impulse, that reckless feeling, was something she had never experienced in her nineteen years of life.

She couldn't quite describe the feeling. Gratitude? Admiration? Or...?

"What are you looking at?" Jiang Chen didn't even look up, continuing to look at his phone.

Shen Qingxue's face flushed slightly, and she quickly looked away, saying, "I... I wasn't looking at anything."

Jiang Chen didn't care about this. He could see through these young girls' thoughts at a glance, but... women are troublesome.

Thinking back to his years in the cultivation world, Jiang Chen suffered a lot because of women, but those are all things of the past.

After school, Jiang Chen took Wang Kai to an abandoned factory area in the south of the city.

This is the "gray area" of Jiangzhou, with no surveillance, no patrols, only some homeless people and the occasional low-level monster.

"Brother Chen, what are we doing here?" Wang Kai shrank his neck, looking around at the dark factory buildings, feeling uneasy.

"A real battle," Jiang Chen said calmly. "You've been cultivating for so many days, it's time to test your results."

Wang Kai swallowed hard: "Real combat? With whom? With you?"

"You can't even withstand one of my moves if you fight me." Jiang Chen glanced at him. "Find another opponent."

He raised his right hand, put his index and middle fingers together, and pointed gently at an abandoned factory in the distance.

boom!

The factory door was blasted open by an invisible force, and a rustling sound came from inside.

A moment later, three gray-black shadows darted out of the factory.

They are Shadow Wolves. E-rank monsters. Unlike the tamed ones in the training grounds, these three are wild, larger in size, with fiercer eyes, and bits of meat from some unknown animal hanging from their fangs.

Wang Kai's legs began to feel weak.

"Chen, Brother Chen... Is this an E-rank monster? It doesn't look like it..."

"Wild and domesticated are of course different." Jiang Chen took a step back. "Go ahead, three-headed shadow wolf, you can handle it."

"I... I'm not even an Awakened! I'm just a C-level life skill user..."

"You are now a cultivator," Jiang Chen interrupted him. "Although you've only just begun, you're more than capable of dealing with a three-headed E-rank demon."

Wang Kai wanted to say something, but Shadow Wolf didn't give him the chance.

The lead shadow wolf let out a low growl and pounced on Wang Kai.

Wang Kai instinctively rolled to the side, narrowly avoiding the first lunge. His school uniform was torn by shards of glass on the ground, leaving a bloody gash on his arm.

"Brother Chen! It really bites!"

"Otherwise what? You think I'm just messing around?" Jiang Chen leaned against the wall, arms crossed, showing no intention of making a move.

The second shadow wolf pounced.

This time, Wang Kai didn't dodge. He gritted his teeth, channeled the meager spiritual energy within his body, and threw a punch at the Shadow Wolf.

The fist slammed into the Shadow Wolf's head, producing a dull thud.

The shadow wolf howled in pain, was sent flying by the impact, crashed into the wall, slid to the ground, twitched a few times, and then stopped moving.

Wang Kai was stunned.

He looked down at his fist, which was stained with the Shadow Wolf's blood and still steaming.

"I... I killed an E-rank monster with one punch?" His voice trembled with excitement.

"Otherwise what?" Jiang Chen said calmly, "Do you think cultivating immortality is a joke?"

Wang Kai froze for two seconds, then suddenly jumped up.

"Holy crap! Brother Chen! I killed an E-rank monster with one punch! One punch!"

His excitement lasted only three seconds, as the remaining two shadow wolves pounced on him at the same time.

Wang Kai wasn't flustered this time.

He took a deep breath, circulated his spiritual energy, and kicked the shadow wolf on his left. At the same time, he gathered spiritual energy in his right hand and punched the shadow wolf on his right.

boom!boom!

Both shadow wolves were sent flying backwards at the same time, landing on the ground and never getting up again.

The three shadow wolves were all killed in three moves.

Wang Kai stood there, panting heavily. His school uniform was torn in several places, and he had wounds on his arms and legs, but his eyes shone with excitement.

"Brother Chen! I did it! I did it!"

Jiang Chen walked over and glanced at him.

"Not bad. But the timing of your punches was wrong. You threw the first punch too early. If that shadow wolf had dodged it, you would have been in danger. As for the second kick, you had enough power, but the angle was off. If it were a D-rank monster, your own leg would have broken first."

Wang Kai's excitement was dampened considerably, but he still chuckled and said, "Okay, Brother Chen, I'll go back and practice."

"Okay." Jiang Chen nodded. "Let's go back."

The two walked out of the abandoned factory area side by side.

Under the moonlight, Wang Kai's shadow stretched long. His steps were light, and an irrepressible smile played on his lips.

He's a cultivator.

He's not a C-level life skill awakener, but a cultivator who can kill an E-level monster with a single punch.

All of this is because of Jiang Chen!