Chapter 1701 — The Opening Salvo
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"I owe you an accounting?" Chen Kuanglan clenched his fists and glared at Yu Shuixing, a wave of sorrow rising in his heart! He was plainly the victim, yet it was made to seem as though the Yu family had suffered some great loss!
"What, does Old Master Chen not wish to abide by the rules of the great clans?" Yu Shuixing asked mildly.
"Patriarch Chen, to recover my face, I intend to challenge your Chen Yuxuan. Of course, anyone in your Chen family may take his place, and you may step into the ring yourself, Old Master Chen — I won't say you're bullying the young with your age! Ha ha!" Yu Feng followed right on Yu Shuixing's words, laughing as he spoke.
"You—" Chen Kuanglan's heart was filled with humiliation. He rose abruptly to his feet, eyes bloodshot as he looked at Yu Shuixing and Yu Feng: "Yu family, do not push people too far! Putting on the airs of the victim — have you no shame? Do you think I, Chen, don't know what you're after?"
"What do you mean by that, Old Master Chen? Everything now is being done according to the rules of the great clans. If you feel our Yu family has wronged you, then you may bring it up as well — challenge our Yu family!" Yu Shuixing said mildly. "Challenge me, or challenge Yu Feng — either is acceptable!"
"You..." Chen Kuanglan clutched at his chest in fury, nearly spitting blood! Their Chen family had no cultivators — how could they be a match for the Yu family's cultivators? To challenge them would be no different from walking to their deaths!
Though Chen Kuanglan had come prepared to be struck from the ranks of the great clans, to be humiliated like this by the Yu family, he still could not keep his composure. The Yu family had truly gone too far — taking the advantage and then playing innocent, even putting on the airs of the victim!
"Don't think I don't know what you're after. You just want me to withdraw from the ranks of the great clans, don't you? Fine, I'll withdraw — you needn't say another word! This was supposed to be an assembly of nine great clans, and now there's an extra Kang family. Yu Shuixing, do you think I can't see what you're scheming? The two of you singing in harmony to squeeze me out — do you think I can't tell? This time I'll propose withdrawing from the great clans myself, so you needn't trouble yourselves!" Chen Kuanglan laughed bitterly and swept his gaze over everyone present, yet not one spoke up for him. Though everyone knew the Yu family was twisting right and wrong, calling a stag a horse, who at this moment dared speak for the Chen family?
Chen Kuanglan's gaze finally came to rest on Old Master Song Xiangwen of the Song family. After all, Chen Yuxuan had been wounded for Qiu Lingshan's sake. If Song Xiangwen did not say a word now, that would be too *** despicable!
But Song Xiangwen was barely able to protect himself at this moment. Though he felt deeply apologetic, he dared not speak rashly now either, and merely tried to smooth things over: "Old friend, don't get so worked up. Let us all sit down and talk it over slowly..."
"Indeed. Or does Old Master Chen think that by withdrawing from the great clans, the matter is settled?" Yu Shuixing pressed on. "Before you withdraw from the great clans, you owe me an accounting, do you not?"
"You— you—" Chen Kuanglan trembled all over with rage!
He had never imagined Yu Shuixing could be so shameless. He had already made such an enormous concession, yet Yu Shuixing was still pressing him relentlessly, closing in step by step! Old Master Chen was so furious that his chest heaved, and even his breathing grew uneven...