Chapter 4

Translator: Atlas Studios  Editor: Atlas Studios

Ren Hanlin and Ren Wenxu took turns voicing their opinions. They had endured Ren Jie for so long. Therefore, they stepped forward and spewed the words that they had brewed for a month.

“Humph!” Wan Hong secretly snorted in his heart. He lifted the teacup slowly and took a sip. That was not the first time he saw this scene. Those old fellows seemed to enjoy the moment too. The next process that followed would be Ren Jie continuously apologizing and sucking up to them.

Even though there was nothing wrong with Ren Jie, who was a junior, to compromise and admit his wrongdoings to these family clan elders, he was ultimately still the family head.

Every time he thought about that, Wan Hong would feel shame for Ren Jie. He remembered how impressive Ren Jie’s father was in the past. Ren Tianxing had succeeded to the family head position at the age of sixteen; he could lead the family clan soldiers to battle the evil cult at eighteen; he commanded troops at war at twenty and defeated fifteen small nations in three years. The huge battles he consecutively started had shocked the world. At twenty-five, he had reached the Yin Yang Realm and became a part of the strongest martial artists in the Jade Capital. He was the strongest martial artist amongst the younger practitioners. Afterward, he brought the Ren family to the pinnacle of its glory.

At thirty, he resigned from the bestowed title as a duke with an external surname. After he was thirty-five, his power was too deep to be measured. In nineteen years, he had led the Ren family from the weakest of the five biggest family clans to the second strongest, right after the imperial family of the Clear Jade Dynasty. The family clan was so strong that it could almost compete with the imperial family.

Despite the resistance that was present, it was his son who forcefully succeeded to the position as the family head in the end due to his eminence. That made Ren Jie the first person at the Body Refinement Realm who succeeded to the position as family head throughout the years. Moreover, he was a pile of rubbish who was only at the fifth level of the Body Refinement Realm at seventeen. Nevertheless, he was still the family head.

Wan Hong sneered and was prepared to enjoy the show while the three big elders Ren Hanlin, Ren Wenxu and Ren Junyang continued taking turns to express their opinions. Concurrently, Ren Jie’s expression turned darker and darker.

He was initially listening humbly to the words of these elders. Since he was clueless, the best thing to do was to listen. However, the more he heard, the weirder he felt. He became increasingly annoyed with each comment. What the f*ck is this?

More importantly, he found no relevant information in the brain of the original Ren Jie. This r*scal! He was really optimistic. It is obvious that this is not the first time that this kind of incident happened, yet he managed to throw it to the back of his mind and did not have any strong memories of such incidents.

Ren Jie quickly gathered the little information that he had. He then realized that the original Ren Jie’s father, or rather, his father, was that incredible. He led the Ren family to the prime of its glory. Ren Jie discovered some useful information somehow. When Ren Tianxing was the family head, the only thing that the elders needed to do was to listen to instructions.

There was no such thing as the Elders’ Union. The elders did not have any authority. You would receive authority once you had the capabilities. Your contributions to the family clan would grant you the equivalent authority. Otherwise, you would be told to know your place and wait for the most basic resources allocated to you for cultivation.

Afterward, it was only when Ren Jie became the family head that Ren Tianxing created the Elders’ Union, which comprised of seven people, including these three elders, Ren Jie’s sixth uncle Ren Tianzong, second uncle Ren Tianheng, fifth uncle Ren Tianqi and the first elder Ren Hongtu, who was constantly in secluded cultivation.

F*ck. Aren’t they f*cking regents?

Ren Jie immediately thought of the existence of regents such as Oboi in historical novels and television shows.

Compared to the Earth that he knew, the Ren family was even more impressive than the imperial families in those eras.

Looking at those people talking excessively, Ren Jie felt more and more upset. He was already unhappy that he came to this universe. Now that he was faced with such a situation, he became even more annoyed.

It was obvious that these old guys were throwing out orders once they had power in their hands. They were assuming unwarranted authority by using a made-up directive to order people around.

They had the authority to do so, but they were going overboard by restricting minor things such as his allowance and expenses. Ren Jie was the esteemed family head, after all. Although Ren Jie bought the high-quality spring water and fire cloud sparrow tongues under the influence of that guy Gao Ren, he remembered how delightful they were.

Furthermore, ten thousand taels of gold might sound like a lot of money, but it was nothing to the Ren family. Silver was the basic currency used in the Clear Jade Dynasty, then there were gold and jade coins. Ten taels of silver were equivalent to one tael of gold while ten taels of gold were equivalent to one jade coin. Ten thousand taels of gold was merely a thousand jade coins. That was a few years of income for an ordinary person, but not for the Ren family.

The crux of the problem was not regarding his spending. Those guys were merely trying to find fault in him. Originally, there were no restrictions for the family head, but when it came to him, not only was there the Elders’ Union, the allowance was reduced from a hundred thousand taels of gold each month, which was equivalent to ten thousand jade coins, to five thousand jade coins. Now they wanted to cut it even further.

He was the one and only family head in the Ren family. Even the family heads of family clans ten times smaller than the Ren family could use the gold freely.

They are not f*cking treating me as the family head. They are controlling me like a young emperor and are ordering me around.

Ren Jie did not care about how he was before, but the situation he heard now made him increasingly angry.

“Bang… Smash!” There was specially brewed tea beside Ren Jie’s huge seat. It was the type of high-quality spiritual tea that money could not buy. However, the teacup and the table were swept away by Ren Jie. They landed in the middle of the conference hall and smashed apart in between Ren Junyang and the other three people.

“Ah…”

“Huh?”

The elders had been through ups and downs throughout their lives, but they were all stunned by the situation and they looked at the broken table and teacup before them in disbelief.

Even Wan Hong, who was watching the drama from the sidelines, was stunned and froze while holding the teacup in the air. He looked above in shock.

“Come here…” Ren Jie was already pretty upset because of the transmigration. He jumped up from the huge chair and pointed at Ren Junyang and the rest. Afterward, he shifted his finger towards his huge chair and said,” Come and seat here. You can be the family head instead.

“Didn’t you want to sanction the family head? Since all of you so impressive, why don’t you just take this position for yourself instead? And the bunch of you have the cheek to say that I have embarrassed the family. Haven’t you heard the saying that the subordinates should be embarrassed if their leader has to worry, and they would choose to die if their leader has been humiliated?

“Tell me! Am I the family head of the Ren family?” Ren Jie shouted at Ren Junyang and the others in a raging outburst.

They were all shocked by Ren Jie’s outburst, the young master they had always perceived as a good-for-nothing. That little family head who was only at level five of the Body Refinement Realm used to be afraid once they mentioned cutting his expenses and controlling his allowance. He would then compromise, beg for mercy, apologize and make all sorts of promises.

That had really given the elders, who did not actually have any real authority, a sense of satisfaction. No matter what, Ren Jie was the family head. After twenty years of suppression under the management of Ren Tianxing, the fact that the family head compromised and begged them made them really comforted and consoled.

They had never expected that this pampered family head actually… exploded today with such wrath and rage.

“Why are all of you not answering my question? Let me ask you, then. Since I am the rightful family head, what do I represent? I represent the reputation of the Ren family. I am the family head of the entire family clan. If someone was to beat me or say disrespectful words to me, that means that they look down on the Ren family. Beating me means that they plan on attacking the Ren family. Now that the family head has been hit, why are you not lightening the burden and doing things for the family clan and the family head myself, but are instead here saying all this bullsh*t?”

Ren Jie used that opportunity to vent the depression and unhappiness felt after the transmigration and after leaving Earth.

Even if he risked losing the position as the family head, Ren Jie did not want to be bossed around by these old people, like a young emperor that was controlled by the regents. He had nothing to lose. Coincidentally, the original owner of the body was a huge good-for-nothing who was only obedient in front of these old guys as they controlled the allowance which he valued. However, Ren Jie did not care about that.

“Do all of you find satisfaction in that? Is it because you have been oppressed by my father for twenty years that bullying me can comfort your little weak hearts?” Ren Jie stood above them and pointed at the three elders. “Fart. You guys are just farts that have no use. Wherever you guys go, that place will become smelly beyond control. All you guys do is to haggle over such small things. What have you done for the family clan?

“You spend all day monitoring me. Who do you guys think you are? My grandmother? Do I have to tell you how much I pee and poop? Do you know the operating costs for this huge Ren family every hour and every fifteen minutes? After you have claimed the position as elders, have you devised any strategies for the family clan to raise its revenue? If you have spent the time monitoring me on raising the family income by ten percent, how long could that sustain my spendings?” In reality, Ren Jie did not know the answers to some of his questions too. But that did not prevent him from posing the questions at them. Anyways, he guessed that those old guys probably did not have many contributions to the family clan.

The Ren family had been at its prime for twenty years. After a sprint for twenty years under the leadership of his father, it was actually difficult for Ren Jie to attain significant improvements in a short period of time. Thus, there was nothing wrong with those words.

Most importantly, disregarding if his words were right or wrong, Ren Jie’s ultimate purpose was to vent his emotions and have an outburst.

“Every single one of you does not spend your time on the important things every day. You speak for the other party when your family head has been beaten. Do you know that beating me equates to attacking the Ren family? Are you only going to be concerned when they storm to our doorsteps?”

The thunderstorm-like outburst, venting, and shouting stunned the second elder Ren Junyang, the third elder Ren Hanlin and the fourth elder Ren Wenxu. Their minds blanked.

At the same time, Ren Wenxu was so angered by Ren Jie that his mouth was parched and his tongue was scorched. Hands trembling, he stood up and pointed a finger at Ren Jie. He opened his mouth a few times, but he was submerged and blocked by Ren Jie’s words before they could come out of his mouth.

Wan Hong sat there like a statue, his hand holding the teacup.

Is there something wrong with my ears? Am I hearing things? Is that really the Ren Jie who would be shameless, meek and obsequious once you mention controlling his money?

Is this the little family head who is merely at the Body Refinement Realm and is like a young emperor?

What’s wrong with him? Is he out of his mind?

“Ren… Ren Jie… Are you crazy? Do… do you know what are you saying?” Ren Junyang stood up as well. He almost could not control the energy in his body. The power of someone at the peak of the Divine Power Realm was not to be joked with. He was a half step away from reaching the Yin Yang Realm and had the opportunity to condense the yin soul.

“What did you call me?” Ren Jie asked while pointing to himself. “You are not even calling me Family Head. Do you know what is written in the family rules? Do you want to beat me? Wasn’t my position as the family head a common decision agreed by all of you? Come on. Try touching me.”