Chen Jingxuan naturally knew that Ling Yun was already the head of the Ling Family.
On the afternoon of the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, Ling Lie announced that Ling Yun was the new head of the Ling Family in front of the Chen Family and all the spies sent by the various forces at the entrance of the cemetery. He officially pushed Ling Yun out.
At that time, this announcement had shocked everyone in the Chen Family and those who were paying attention to the movements of the Ling Family.
However, Ling Lie had announced this because he was forced by the situation. Chen Jingtian was talking to Ling Lie, and Ling Lie couldn't handle Ling Yun's sudden appearance. Chen Jingtian found an excuse to accuse Ling Yun of not respecting his elders and not following the rules.
In order to protect his grandson, Ling Lie had no choice but to find an excuse at the last minute to push Ling Yun into the center of the whirlpool in Beijing.
After thinking about it, the various forces all felt that the Ling Family was only giving Ling Yun an empty title to push him out. It was impossible for him to truly take over the Ling Family.
The announcement was one thing, but whether or not it was the truth, whether or not Ling Yun had truly taken over the Ling Family and started managing the internal and external affairs of the Ling Family, that was another matter entirely!
Was it for convenience? Was it just an empty title? Or was it because he had actual power? The difference was like heaven and earth!
That was why Chen Jingxuan asked such a question.
"What the hell is that old man Ling Lie doing? Has he lost his mind?!"
After getting another confirmation, Chen Jingxuan's expression became even uglier. He frowned, his eyes flickering as he pondered the Ling Family's intentions.
In fact, Chen Jingxuan knew that Ling Yun's current strength was definitely the best in the Ling Family. According to his realm, he was naturally the most suitable person to be the head of the Ling Family.
However, Ling Yun was only eighteen years old after all. Furthermore, he had just returned to his family. Ling Lie couldn't wait to push him onto the position of the head of the Ling Family. This was too hasty and hasty.
This was too much of a child's play.
Even if Ling Zhen didn't become the head of the Ling Family, the Ling Family still had Ling Lie, Ling Yue, and Ling Xiao. The position of the head of the Ling Family would never be given to Ling Yun.
He was too young and a cultivation genius. His cultivation had advanced by leaps and bounds, and this was the time when he should be focusing on cultivation. How would he have the time to deal with the miscellaneous affairs of the Ling Family?
Chen Jingxuan's thoughts flashed like lightning, and he instantly understood two things.
Firstly, around the fifteenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, the Ling family must have undergone a huge change. Or rather, something unknown must have happened to the family. At the very least, it was not like what the Ling family had announced to the public. The Ling family must have been hiding something.
Otherwise, Ling Zhen would not have been able to step down from the position of Patriarch.
Secondly, the current Ling Family, from the outside to the inside, had undergone a profound change. These huge changes were something that the spies sent out by the Sun and Chen Families could not find out at all!
From these two points, it could be seen that the current Ling Family had undergone an earth-shattering change compared to the original Ling Family!
On the fifteenth of July, Chen Jingxuan rushed to the cemetery to save Chen Jingtian and Chen Haipeng. He also met all the direct descendants of the Ling Family there.
Of course, Chen Jingxuan was well aware of the things that the Ling Family had deliberately revealed. However, he felt that he could not see through the Ling Family now.
This made him feel a deep sense of fear.
"Hehehe …"
Just as Chen Jingxuan was thinking hard about the changes that had taken place in the Ling Family in the past seven days and what preparations Ling Yun had made for the battle of life and death, Tokugawa Xiongkaze, who was beside him, suddenly laughed maniacally. His laughter sounded like the cry of an owl, dry, hoarse, and extremely terrifying.
"Mr. Chen …"
Tokugawa Xiongkaze suddenly stopped laughing. His small eyes flashed with obvious disdain and mockery as he said faintly, "Mr. Chen, you Huaxia people really like to scheme and play these little tricks behind the scenes …"
He raised a hand to the tip of his nose and shook his index finger a few times. Then, he said coldly, "We East Asians are completely different. If we find someone who dares to go against us, we will always crush them …"
At that moment, Tokugawa Xiongkaze's eyes and expression were filled with pride and confidence. "Mr. Chen, don't worry. You don't have to resort to any tricks. No matter who the Ling Family sends out to fight in three days, we, the Tokugawa Family, will settle everything for you!"
Chen Jingxuan was very unhappy to be looked down upon by Tokugawa Xiongkaze. However, he was the one who invited the Tokugawa Family to help him. He could only suppress his anger and say calmly, "Then, I will have to trouble Mr. Tokugawa during the battle of life and death."
The Chen Family paid a huge price to invite the Tokugawa Family to help. Not only did Chen Jingxuan promise that the Shennong Cauldron would belong to the Tokugawa Family after Ling Yun was killed, but he also promised the Tokugawa Family huge benefits!
Chen Jingxuan did this because he not only needed the Tokugawa Family to help him kill Ling Yun in the battle of life and death, but he also needed to leave a way out for the Chen Family.
Chen Jingxuan was a genius to be able to cultivate to the peak of the first level of the Divine Power Realm. As the saying went, a cunning rabbit has three burrows. Even if Chen Jingxuan was confident of winning, he had to be prepared for failure.
Now that Chen Jianwei was finished, he was nowhere to be seen. The Chen Family of the Blood Clan couldn't be counted on, so he could only rely on the Tokugawa Family in the East.
While the Chen Family was making all sorts of preparations for the battle of life and death, they had also arranged for some important figures and outstanding juniors to go to the East to seek protection from the Tokugawa Family.
Of course, due to the country's restrictions, the Chen Family couldn't transfer such a huge amount of wealth overseas in such a short time.
This was the Chen Family's way out. Therefore, Tokugawa Xiongkaze could only choose to endure before the outcome of the battle of life and death was revealed.
Naturally, the Sun Family was the same. However, the Sun Family's way out was the East Ocean Itinerant Cultivators Alliance, which was the Baili Family.
This way, the Sun Family and the Chen Family were already at a disadvantage compared to the Ling Family. Ling Yun didn't think of any way out at all. He was prepared to fight with all his might. Ling Yun firmly believed that he would win!
Chen Jingxuan knew that the first step of the plan against the Ling Family had completely failed due to the news brought by Chen Haiming. They had been dealt a heavy blow by Ling Yun, so they no longer had the mood to continue the conversation.
After a few more casual words, Chen Jingxuan got up to send the guests off. He asked the servants to bring the Tokugawa Family to the guest room to rest and instructed them to take good care of them.
On Sun Zhenwu's side, Sun Jue brought the Baili Family back to the Sun Family to rest.
In the end, only Chen Jingxuan, Chen Haipeng, Sun Zhenwu, and Sun Tianluo were left in the living room. They still had to discuss in secret.
Of course, Chen Haipeng and Sun Tianluo had no right to interrupt with Chen Jingxuan and Sun Zhenwu around. They could only listen.
"Zhenwu, I've met Master Lu Mingju from the Heaven Group of Huaxia once or twice, so we can be considered acquaintances."
Lu Mingju was a direct disciple of the Arhat Hall of the Shaolin Temple. His cultivation base was in the middle of the First Stage of the Divine Realm. He had nine of the Shaolin Seventy-Two Ultimate Techniques and was born with extraordinary strength. His weapon of choice was a Luohan Spade.
The Heaven Group of Huaxia only had a few hundred people. Apart from the younger generation that was still being nurtured, the rest had basically reached the Divine Realm.
However, these people only joined the Heaven Group to protect the country. They would only be summoned together to fight for the country when the country was facing a huge disaster, including natural and man-made disasters or foreign invasions.
Usually, these people were very free. They all had their own sects or families, and they also had their own cultivation grounds. They wouldn't see each other for eight to ten years, sometimes even twenty to thirty years.
For example, although Chen Jingxuan belonged to the Heaven Group, he hadn't carried out a mission for the Heaven Group for more than ten years.
Even if they occasionally carried out secret missions, they would only travel in groups of three to five people. Now that the country was prosperous and the world was at peace, there was nothing too big for these people to move together.
The internal members of the Huaxia Heaven Group might become mortal enemies because of the conflicts between sects and clans. This kind of thing was very normal. If there was a personal grudge or a family grudge between them, as long as the situation was not too big, the country would not interfere.
However, the interests of the country were paramount. Once the country was in trouble and these people were summoned together, all personal grudges and family feuds must be put aside. Otherwise, if anyone didn't listen, the old men of the Heaven Group would personally suppress them.
This was the management method of the Heaven Group. When it was necessary to fight for the country, everything else must be put aside.
However, when the country didn't summon them, as long as they didn't harm the country, it didn't matter if their members were friends or enemies. Even if they were crippled, no one would care.
It was precisely because of this that the life-and-death battle between the Chen and Ling Families was a family matter. The Chen Family could invite the Tokugawa Clan to help.
This was the solution to the mixing of the secular world and the ancient martial arts world.
Private affairs, family affairs, and national affairs were clearly separated, clearly and clearly.
Of course, there were many benefits to joining the Heaven Group. First of all, the members of the Heaven Group would have terrifying privileges. Another was that they could receive the cultivation resources they needed at fixed intervals.
Terrifying privileges and the ability to receive cultivation resources at fixed intervals.
Just these two reasons alone caused many people who had reached the requirements to be very willing to join the Huaxia Heaven Group.
The Master Lu Mingju that Chen Jingxuan mentioned was naturally the person whom the Sun Family had invited to help in the life-and-death battle against Ling Yun with the protection of their ancestors.
That was why Chen Jingxuan said that he and Master Lu Mingju had only met once or twice.
The Heaven Group wasn't a military unit. People in a company or a squad were as close as real brothers.
Sun Zhenwu was the head of one of the eight big families in Huaxia. He was able to invite Lu Mingju, so he naturally understood the situation of the Heaven Group very well. That was why he nodded.
Chen Jingxuan simply used telepathy to say, "Due to my status and duty, I didn't say much in front of the Baili Family and the Tokugawa Clan."
Sun Zhenwu nodded solemnly again to express his understanding.
Chen Jingxuan said, "Zhenwu, now that things have come to this, I can tell you the truth. I am confident that if Ling Lie from the Ling Family were to fight, with Master Lu Mingju's cultivation, he would definitely be able to defeat him easily!"
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