Master of Strange Dao

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The crowd behind listened and quickly expressed their gratitude.

"Thank you, my lord, for your generosity."

The An Family's assets left in the Capital City were too hot to hold for these people.

Even getting one-tenth of it converted was already enough for everyone to make a fortune; more than that would be too much to handle.

And as for the other families and factions, they probably wouldn't be so meticulous in the scramble.

This degree was handled just right.

The Family Head of the An Family in the Capital City spat out blood, fell to the ground, and glared angrily, wanting to say something but unable to speak.

"Lord An, don't misunderstand. I came this time for revenge. By the way, I used your An Family to make an example."

Hearing this, the Family Head of the An Family in the Capital City, who was already on his last breath, couldn't take it anymore; he breathed his last on the spot, dying with his eyes open.

"Lord An is not young anymore, so why is his temper still so big, that he actually died of anger? You all saw it, we hadn't even interrogated him yet. He couldn't figure it out himself and was guilty of angering himself to death."

The Jinyi Wei suddenly made a large-scale move, naturally causing panic.

But they retreated as quickly as they moved.

In just one arrest operation, more than half of the An Family's direct relatives died. The remaining half were captured and thrown into the Jinyi Wei's death cell. If even one-tenth came out alive, that would be considered their good fortune.

Very soon, the news spread.

The An Family colluded with the Evil Dao, and the An Family Dao Cultivators at the Langya Institute turned into traitors, stealing forbidden items and expanding a large number of Abyssal Rifts, resulting in the frequent occurrences of devil disasters in recent days.

The deans of the Langya Institute, with piercing eyes, saw through the conspiracies of the traitors and, together with the Jinyi Wei, cracked this major case.

The news was spread by the Jinyi Wei. All the good reputation was given to the Langya Institute, preserving their dignity. The dirty and tiring work was done by the Jinyi Wei, and the actual benefits obtained in secret were also first divided by the Jinyi Wei.

The various resources hidden within the An Family were certainly not in shortage.

Song Chengyue didn't take even one piece of Spirit Jade. With a wave of his pen, he recorded it as if the wealth of the An Family had been stolen and hidden by bandits.

From top to bottom, all those Jinyi Wei benefited, and naturally, the work ethic was different.

The narrative was unified and not to be questioned.

Besides, the Langya Institute remained silent, offering no response.

They couldn't possibly respond; they had no connection to us; it was the Jinyi Wei who discovered it. The Jinyi Wei blocked the door of the Langya Institute before they knew about this matter.

Would they still want to keep their face?

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More than twenty days later, Yu Ziqing, while listening to a boasting conversation in Almsgiving Town, learned of this news.

"Old Song is indeed ruthless..." Yu Ziqing sighed, recalling the scene when meeting No.1 on the Seventh Floor.

He found it difficult to distinguish which one was the real Song Chengyue or if either was the real Song Chengyue, and which was not just an act.

He truly had no intention of fanning the flames; he merely wanted to give Song Chengyue something to do and, by the way, cause some trouble for the An Family.

Yu Ziqing hadn't forgotten the events of back then and was certainly willing to stir up some trouble for the An Family.

He didn't expect Song Chengyue to actually be as the rumors said, with a cruel heart and ruthless methods.

He killed the Dao Cultivators of the An Family and destroyed the An Family's branch in the Capital City.

This naturally triggered a chain reaction, as the An Family was part of the Second Prince's faction, and the Crown Prince wouldn't let such an opportunity slip.

The Crown Prince, as the Regent, immediately issued a decree, commending the Langya Institute and subsequently definitively characterizing this incident.

Then, using this as an excuse, he attacked the Second Prince and, in the process, secured several positions left vacant by the An Family people, subsequently connecting with others and inciting several other Princes to collectively attack the Second Prince, dividing the remaining positions.

As a result, the ancestral residence of the An family's old home had already been forced to shut its doors and was sealed with a Big Array, cutting off contact with the outside world.

Yu Ziqing believed that if the An Family did not proactively isolate itself, Song Chengyue would undoubtedly pursue them relentlessly, forcing them to their deaths.

With merely one piece of intelligence, Song Chengyue took decisive action.

He essentially crippled the An Family.

Yu Ziqing estimated that he would likely use this momentum to find an excuse to purge the Jinyi Wei internally.

Such a ruthless figure, in order to preserve his bloodline descendants, had no choice but to turn a blind eye and still needed to rely on the strength of the Seventh Floor.

Yu Ziqing glanced southward, roughly understanding.

Old Song no longer trusted Emperor Qian, it seemed.

Hey, this matter became interesting, the greatest minion of Daqian was actually guarding against Emperor Qian?

Or was he being forced to guard against him by someone else?

No matter which situation it was, old Song didn't have many days left to live.

Unless he truly didn't care about anything anymore, otherwise, he had a weakness.

Having a weakness and a flaw naturally meant being manipulated by others.

Yu Ziqing didn't intend to have too much contact with old Song, at most interacting in the Seventh Floor, which was the limit.

This guy was elusive; it was hard to tell what was real and what was fake.

If it were fake, and he had been acting all his life, without anyone seeing through it, then he would be quite terrifying.

His persona was really deeply ingrained, to a point where no one doubted it.

Yu Ziqing only paid attention to the development of this matter, without intending to interfere.

He had his own matters to deal with.

His cultivation progress was decent, step by step approaching the mastery of the first Body Cultivation Secret Technique of Jinlan Mountain.

Lots of theoretical things, Yu Ziqing summed it up in four words, "strength great, bricks fly."

The hardware conditions were met, indeed making it possible.

Based on his current cultivation progress, he was now set to go to the Feng family for another visit.