Chapter 36

Translator: Atlas Studios  Editor: Atlas Studios

Ren Jie and that worthless, cheap, darn Fatso, just you two wait.

A voice roared madly in Fang Yan’s heart. Even if he had the intention to use this and make a show for Fang Tianen, Seventh Princess and even His Majesty, but at the thought of Ren Jie’s disregard, his verbal humiliation and those words that Fatty said to him, the flames in his heart were still difficult to restrain.

Family Head, just a puppet Family Head like you have the nerve to clamor. One day, sooner or later, I will let you know, what is a Family Head that truly controls the five largest family clans.

Fang Qi, Gao Peng, and Ren Jie, how am I inferior to all of you? We are all direct descendants of the five largest family clans, just because I didn’t manage to become the Family Head, I have to be more inferior than you people? No. I, Fang Yan, am not inferior to anyone. I am going to trample over all of you.

Seventh Princess, Fang Qi, Fang Tianen are merely stepping stones on the path to my peak.

If it wasn’t because all of you have fortunate lives… If I had the right to succession too, would I be willing to be a bullsh*t prince consort to play up to some princess?

Fang Yan glared at Ren Jie and Gao Ren who had left, wiping the blood at the corner of his lips. Then he left on quick steps.

“He spat… he spat. Wow, he really spat blood!” Fatty had been secretly watching behind them, and seeing that Fang Yan finally spat blood after they’d left, Fatty cried out excitedly.

Although he’d been infuriating this Fang Yan the whole time, logically, Fang Yan knew that too. Earlier on, he would either flare up from time to time or seal off his hearing. It was difficult to guess if he was really angered. Seeing him being so enraged that he spat blood, Fatty could finally confirm one thing—this fellow was seriously irate.

“The gentleman is magnanimous, the villain has good tolerance. In reality, even a true villain might not be this petty. That he could spit blood just like that, if he wasn’t putting up a show intentionally, it can only confirm one thing—he is a true villain.” Ren Jie couldn’t even bother to turn back for a look. His current level of divine sense wasn’t too far from Fang Yan who’d just reached the first level of the Divine Power Realm. Besides, this was the Ren residence. Hence, he could use his divine sense to probe any movement by Fang Yan.

“He was the firmest in supporting Fang Qi amongst the Fangs, and also the first who suggested making Fang Qi, a woman, the family head. Fang Qi sees him as a capable assistant. It is said that he was able to achieve second place at the martial arts examinations last year also because Fang Qi played a very big part in it. With the help from the time before the previous, he then managed to break through to the Divine Power Realm. Judging by his stance with Second Prince, it seems they’ve also ganged up together. I reckon he didn’t woo Seventh Princess out of true fondness too.”

“Forget it, let him be.” Fatty was abruptly reminded of other matters after his long comment. He quickly looked to Ren Jie and said, “Meal Ticket Big Brother, I have something to tell you. Although they’re not stopping me from entering the apothecary room, they are divided into many kinds. The slightly more secretive places have all gone under their control. So we’d better quickly think of another source of income. After we clash with the Elders’ Union, they will definitely watch the place even more tightly. With what we did with the Fangs, could we really have made them give up?”

“He’s the Fang’s family head while I am the Ren’s family head. Firstly, he won’t feel that there’s any obstacle. He has to grab onto the last straw to save his daughter, so he will definitely come.” Ren Jie explained very confidently. As for the Elders’ Union, he didn’t plan on bothering with them for now. He’d get his first bucket of gold from the Fang family then progressively think of a solution.

As the rightful Ren family head, Ren Jie totally wasn’t worried about being unable to get money. If it wasn’t because he knew himself that he had to continue watching the video in his consciousness, that the amount of energy needed to read the Sage’s preaching was a terrifying number, the first thing that he would have thought of would probably be to have some fun with the Elders’ Union. However, even if he defeated them, the funds that he could truly draw on would still be limited, because too big a move and hurting the Ren family’s power was an act that was digging at his own foundation. Since he was the Ren family head, this Ren family would completely come under his control sooner or later.

Hence, while staying away from being noticed by others, he had to think of a way to scoop in even more money.

After returning to his quarters, Ren Jie entered his consciousness once more. The laptop that had followed him here was still in there, there wasn’t any change. It had come to this world with him, after all, it was still very friendly every time it saw Ren Jie. Only, the video clearly couldn’t be opened without enough energy.

Hence, Ren Jie left his consciousness after making a round. Yesterday, as he had finally had a breakthrough thanks to the smiley old man and his mental state was at its best, Ren Jie decided to start cultivating the fourth level of the Jade Emperor Refinement Technique. Circulation technique, condense the vigor rings. Today, the number of vigor rings had doubled once more, and he needed 288 of them.

Fortunately, Ren Jie’s control over his body’s energy had strengthened significantly, and his speed had also increased. Initially, he cultivated the Jade Emperor Refinement Technique while also having the intention of waiting for the smiley old man. In the end, a night passed. Ren Jie condensed 193 vigor rings in his fourth level of the Jade Emperor Refinement Technique but never saw the smiley old man appear even till dawn.

This rascal couldn’t have run away from being angered by me, could he, Ren Jie thought wickedly. However, what was more possible was he’d prepared something for him to cultivate for one to three months, and he’d completed it in a night. It’d probably messed up his plan completely.

Or, he was intending to come after deciding on a name.

Instead of the smiley old man, it was news of Fang Tianen that came early the next morning.

“Fang Tianen is already at the main entrance. As it is an official visit, Second Elder, Third Elder, Fourth Elder, all three elders have arrived at the conference. They are asking that Family Head also rush over swiftly to receive him according to the conventions. The messenger also said that the elders have specially advised telling Family Head that he cannot lose his etiquette as the family head.” Ever since the personal guards returned to Ren Jie’s quarters, Ren Jie had gotten Tong Qiang to guard over all the surroundings. Usually, even if someone were to send a message in, he’d have to go through Tong Qiang too.

And Tong Qiang had faithfully completed this task. Even if the messages didn’t sound too pleasant or held other meanings, he would pass it on without missing a single word.

Pulling this stuff again. Ren Jie knew what tricks they were trying to play once he heard that. It wasn’t the first or second time either. As the family head of the Rens, when there were important events, important guests to be received, there were set rules.

For example, with the Fang’s family head, Fang Tianen, making an official visit, Ren Jie had to receive him with ceremony accompanied by the elders. By then, he would just be a piece of decoration. Of course, the Ren Jie these days was different from before, he would not spare the useless effort to get entangled with the elders in such matter that didn’t have any benefits for him.

“Tell Fang Tianen, seeing that he’s anxious to save his daughter, I will rush to the Fang residence now. Get Fatty and have Uncle Beast get ready,” Ren Jie said and was already up and walking out.

“I will gather the people now.” Tong Qiang replied and prepared to go gather the personal guards.

“There’s no need.” Ren Jie stopped him and said, “You people are uncomfortable wearing those armors too, and if you don’t wear it, your mental state could be observed even more easily by people with motives, and it’s difficult to avoid slip-ups. It’s better if all of you remain at home and continue working hard in cultivation. Besides, it’s not like I’m going to some dragon’s lair and tiger’s cave. You can supervise everyone in cultivation, no slacking off.”

At the entrance of the Ren’s Conference Hall, the guards around were commanding. Ren Junyang led Ren Hanlin and Ren Wenxu as they stood at the entrance. Looking right out, several miles ahead was the main gates. From afar, they could faintly see the entourage of the Fang’s family head steadily approaching.

“Hmph, the person’s about to arrive and he’s actually still not here.” Ren Hanlin commented with extreme displeasure.

Ren Wenxu watched Fang Tianen’s entourage that was coming from afar. “It seems Fang Tianen is also a drowning man clutching at a straw, he has really run out of ideas and is in a disarray. Previously, that side had sent Fang Yan over. He spat blood and left after being humiliated by that great family head of ours. Today, he’s actually here personally, we really don’t know how this will end. A poison that the entire Fang family can do nothing about, the imperial physicians are at a loss, and even a middle-grade Life-preserving Panacea cannot save from, he actually said he had a solution for it. If he fails to deal with this, the Fang family might become the next Gao family.”

“It’s coming to the end of the year. I think there’s a need to convene a full Elders’ Meeting to discipline him. If we allow him to continue wreaking havoc like this, by then, everyone in Jade Capital will become enemies of the Ren family.”

Even if it was back when Ren Tianxing was the family head, it was impossible that he wouldn’t give them this bit of respect and dignity. If there was an issue, it could be settled internally. But he actually made it so big.

This wasn’t only about Ren Qiancheng’s issue, but that he, Ren Hanlin, had been thoroughly embarrassed too.

“We’ll see. In a short while, we better have him make it clear, exactly what ultimate treasure of an antidote the old family head left behind. If it can really remedy the poison that Fang Qi is suffering from, then this treasure is very important to the entire Ren family.” Ren Junyang refrained from commenting, more of it was pondering over this matter.

Ren Hanlin and Ren Wenxu immediately understood what Ren Junyang meant once they listened to him. The two quickly nodded.

“Hmm, why has the entourage stopped. Who is that?” All of a sudden, they saw that the entourage only three, four hundred meters from them came to an abrupt stop. Ren Hanlin was slightly stunned.

“Tong Qiang, what is he doing here?” Ren Junyang was also frowning.

“Let’s go.” Unexpectedly, the entourage of the Fang family head that was not far from them suddenly turned around, the last team became the front team, then they sped up and disappeared in the blink of an eye, spurring away from the main gate.

What… what was going on?

Leaving behind Ren Junyang and the two other elders in a daze, utterly embarrassed, unsure of what had happened.

They were waiting to receive him, now the person had actually suddenly turned around and left. What was this?

When they’d wanted to stop Tong Qiang, they realized that he’d also left after giving them the message. At last, Ren Hanlin could only give orders for the guards beside them to come over. Fortunately, Tong Qiang hadn’t whispered or used any voice transmission earlier, so the guards at the side knew what had happened.

He’d gone directly to the Fang’s residence, it was no wonder Fang Tianen had instantly turned around and left.

“Boom… Detestable, isn’t he fooling us?” Ren Hanlin was already really furious. Knowing that he had been fooled, he stomped and the thick stone beneath his feet was reduced to powder.

“What is he becoming, virtually… virtually absurd.” Ren Wenxu looked to Ren Junyang and said, “Second Elder, we’ve got to properly discipline this family head of ours. If he goes out like this, the Ren family will be destroyed by him.”

“This is his personal matter, how are we to interfere. We will just guard the Ren residence and prevent him from acting recklessly. Everything will wait until the full Elders’ Meeting.” Ren Junyang’s expression was dark. He left directly after replying.