Chapter 3103 — Issuing a Challenge

Only, Dongfang Jinxing was sometimes wary of the old man Dongfang Badao, and did not dare discipline Dongfang Bushu and Dongfang Buruo too severely!

And so it was that Dongfang Bushu went out to throw his weight around and was beaten to death, while Dongfang Buruo went out looking for women, and Elder Dongfang Cha, who accompanied him, was beaten to death by someone.

"On what grounds?" Dongfang Badao frowned. "Jinxing, you had better be telling me the truth—are you hiding anything?"

"Father, we are all family here—what would I have to hide?" Dongfang Jinxing said with a bitter smile. "I have the video of what happened at the time. Take a look, all of you!"

Dongfang Badao nodded. Shocked as he was, he found it hard to understand why the Grand Elder of the Dark Night Palace would strike at Dongfang Cha. There was simply no reason for it.

Yet after watching the video, Dongfang Badao was baffled all the same—how had it come to Dongfang Cha being beaten to death? It seemed, apparently, that the Dark Night Elder had been standing up for those two captured girls?

But who were those two girls? Dongfang Badao did not believe that anyone from the ancient-tier level would still be studying in the secular world; the hidden-tier level, perhaps, but the ancient tier was all but impossible. So Dongfang Badao ruled out the possibility that the two girls were disciples of the Dark Night Palace—but if not disciples, could they be relatives of the Dark Night Elder?

"Tomorrow, send out a challenge. Our Eastern Family declares war on the Dark Night Palace, and the reason is Dongfang Cha!" Dongfang Badao said coldly. "The Tomorrow-again-Tomorrow Sect, we dare not provoke for the time being—but the Dark Night Palace, heh heh..."

Of late the Eastern Family had suffered death after death, and Dongfang Badao could bear it no longer. This time he would vent all the fury in his heart upon the Dark Night Palace. Dongfang Bushu was dead, and they dared not seek revenge; Dongfang Jian was dead, and no one knew how; only over Dongfang Cha's death did the Eastern Family dare to strike!

"Yes, Father. Then tomorrow morning, on what grounds shall I issue the challenge to the Dark Night Palace?" Dongfang Jinxing asked.

"Just tell the truth. This cannot be concealed—if the truth turns out to differ from our account and the Dark Night Palace spreads it abroad, it will go badly for us. We must tell the truth!" Dongfang Badao pondered a moment, then said: "It was only going to the secular world to seize two schoolgirls—hardly a great matter. No one can say the Eastern Family was in the wrong!"

"Very well, I understand!" Dongfang Jinxing nodded. Indeed, absurd as the affair sounded, what ancient sect did not have its share of filth? Dongfang Jinxing knew that some ancient sects even backed secular merchants in smuggling and robbery, and many people knew it well enough. So bullying men and seizing women was really no great matter at all.

Dongfang Jinxing did not sleep that night. He kept turning over how to deal with the Dark Night Palace—after all, war would be declared at dawn, and he needed a first step in the plan; otherwise, all talk and no action would make them a laughingstock.

In fact, the other ancient sects all had fax machines as well; they were simply unaccustomed to using them.

Dongfang Jinxing's letter of declaration shocked many ancient sects. For how many years had there been no strife between ancient sects? And now it had come to pass—and moreover, the powerful Eastern Family against the weak Dark Night Palace?

Of course, after reading the contents of the letter, no one felt the Eastern Family was bullying the Dark Night Palace. After all, the Eastern Family had stated plainly that it was the Grand Elder of the Dark Night Palace who had first slain the Eastern Family's Elder Dongfang Cha.

The cause was nothing more than Dongfang Cha having seized two schoolgirls! At once the opinion of the ancient-tier level swung entirely to the Eastern Family's side. What ancient sect did not have its share of filth? In everyone's eyes, what the Eastern Family had done was really no great matter; this Grand Elder was simply a meddler, and it served her right to have trouble sought out and a challenge issued against her!

Had you not gone back and forth into the secular world before, Dark Night Elder, saying you were going to seek out an inheritor? So how was it that no inheritor was found, and you went meddling instead? You had nothing better to do—though of course, she had no balls to ache.

Otherwise, if every family's quiet dirty work behind closed doors had to be interfered with by other ancient sects, how would anyone live? So no one spoke up for the Dark Night Palace. Of course, they also knew that a declaration of war would only cost the Dark Night Palace some casualties and some price; the Dark Night Palace could not be exterminated, and the Eastern Family would not dare exterminate it.

Yet scarcely had the news of the Eastern Family's impending declaration of war spread than the carrier-pigeon messages of the Dark Night Palace's Elder in Black arrived one after another upon the desks of the various ancient sects' heads!

The Eastern Family had actually captured the inheritor the Dark Night Palace was seeking?!

This news rang out across the ancient-tier level like a thunderclap. This time no one said the Dark Night Palace was in the wrong; instead, they all began accusing the Eastern Family's Elder Dongfang Cha of not knowing his place! To dare seize the Dark Night Palace's inheritor—what was that but seeking death?

It was fortunate you were discovered by the Dark Night Elder, who promptly made an end of Dongfang Cha and rescued the inheritor!

Had that inheritor truly been ruined by your Eastern Family's Dongfang Buruo, the result would have been... heh heh. I reckon that if the Five Luminaries Sect learned of it, they could exterminate your Eastern Family! At this level of the ancient tier, the various heads all knew a thing or two about the Five Luminaries Sect.

And most of these people were masters at the peak of the late Heaven Tier, or at the great perfection of the peak of the late Heaven Tier; all of them looked forward to the opening of the Cloud-Tier Island plan, and hoped that one day they might successfully set foot upon the Heavenly Dao!

Thus these inheritors had become the key to opening the Cloud-Tier Island plan. The Dark Night Palace had only just found an inheritor, and it had nearly been ruined by the Eastern Family's Dongfang Buruo. This affected not merely the interests of one sect, but the interests of the entire ancient-tier level!

And so the wind turned at once—from support for the Eastern Family to the Eastern Family having brought it on itself and deserved to die. A single death was letting them off cheap; why not the whole family? (To be continued)