Chapter 3103 — Issuing a Challenge
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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.