Family Rise by Daily Intelligence

Chapter 82: Chapter 82: Breakthrough – The Zhang Family’s World Collapses

Fu Changsheng chanted a series of techniques, breaking the layers of restrictions on the box. Suddenly, a blinding silver light flashed from the box, and he squinted to see.

Inside the box lay a wooden flying sword.

Although the flying sword was wooden, it was surrounded by faint thunder patterns, making Fu Changsheng’s pupils contract:

”Could this be the legendary Celestial Thunder Wood?!”

Fu Changsheng’s breath suddenly became rapid.

Celestial Thunder Wood is a piece of new wood birthed from spirit wood that has undergone a thunder tribulation for hundreds of years, extremely rare and priceless:

”The gift from Ouyang Fei is too valuable.”

The Celestial Thunder Wood is already a Tier Two spirit wood.

That is to say.

The flying sword before his eyes is a Tier Two Spiritual Artifact.

To verify his suspicion.

Fu Changsheng cast a technique onto the Celestial Thunder Sword, and immediately, a strand of lightning shot out from it:

”Indeed it is Celestial Thunder Wood!”

Fu Changsheng was overjoyed.

Meanwhile,

he murmured to himself:

”The relationship between Mother and Ouyang Fei must be deep, or else he wouldn’t give me such a precious artifact.”

Unfortunately,

Ouyang Fei left too quickly.

He didn’t have the chance to inquire about his mother.

He cleared his mind of distractions, adjusted his state to the best condition, and then calmly began to refine the Cyan Jade Fruit.

...

While Fu Changsheng was in secluded cultivation.

The Zhang and Qiuo Families were stirred by the deaths of Elder Zhang and Elder Qiuo.

Nanyang County, Niushou Mountain.

At Zhang Family Tomb on the back mountain.

Clan Leader Zhang Huanzhi was muttering as he offered incense to the clansmen who died in the last Pork Spirit Beast disaster, when a sudden gust of cold wind blew by.

He shivered involuntarily.

He turned around.

Only to find Elder Zhang unexpectedly appearing behind him.

Zhang Huanzhi was stunned:

”Elder, weren’t you hunting at Ten Thousand Ghosts Abyss? Why did you return early? Did something happen in the Abyss? Oh right, Elder, did you wipe out that little bastard Fu Changsheng?”

Elder Zhang just stared at him quietly.

Without a word.

His eyes filled with disappointment, longing, regret, and remorse.

Zhang Huanzhi sensed something was amiss:

”Elder, what happened, say something!”

Zhang Huanzhi wanted to step forward.

At that moment.

Two lines of blood-tears flowed down Elder Zhang’s pale face:

”Elder, are you... injured? How serious is it, don’t stand there, go to the Spiritual Spring Well to heal, what pill do you need, I’ll go retrieve it from the private treasury immediately.”

The Elder is the strongest combat force of their Zhang Family.

The only cultivator above the Ninth Layer of Qi Cultivation, nothing must go wrong.

Zhang Huanzhi said as he reached out to support Elder Zhang, but his hand grasped nothing.

Right then.

A world-shattering shout seemed to echo from the heavens:

”Clan Leader, the sky is falling, the sky of the Zhang Family is falling!”

The voice was mournful and bleak.

Zhang Huanzhi looked around, only to find the Sixth Elder, who managed the Life Soul Plates, stumbled over, tears streaming down his face:

”Clan Leader, the sky of the Zhang Family is falling!”

At that moment, Zhang Huanzhi was frozen, a thought crept into his mind, but he didn’t want to acknowledge it, speaking coldly:

”As a Zhang Family elder, where’s your composure wailing like this, what’s this about the sky falling, explain properly!”

”Clan Leader, the Elder’s... the Elder’s Life Soul Plate is extinguished!”

”What?”

The Elder is dead?!

How is that possible?

The Elder was at the peak of Qi Cultivation, wielding the Zhang Family’s clan treasure, a Tier Two Divine Staff Spiritual Artifact, that could summon a Tier Two Silver-winged Blood Eagle when sacrificed to vanquish foes.

Even against a Foundation Establishment Cultivator,

he could still hold his ground in battle.

That place in Ten Thousand Ghosts Abyss, is merely a haunt for Tier One Ghost Soldiers, how could the Elder die there?!

Zhang Huanzhi’s body flickered.

After leaving the tomb.

He darted like the wind into the secret chamber behind the ancestral hall where the Life Soul Plates were stored.

His gaze fell upon Elder Zhang’s Life Soul Plate.

Zhang Huanzhi collapsed to his knees:

”Elder, Elder is dead?!”

So.

What he saw at the tomb was the Elder’s ghost:

”Elder, you’ve passed on, what about the Zhang Family... what will happen to us?!”

With Shangguan Hui severely wounded in seclusion,

having no peak Qi Cultivator to guard the family,

does this not spell doom for the Zhang Family?

Suddenly.

Zhang Huanzhi remembered something.

His gaze fell upon the Life Soul Plates below Elder Zhang’s third row, Zhang Huansheng, Zhang Huanrui, Zhang Huanxin, all their Soul Lamps were extinguished.

All four high-tier cultivators who entered the Ten Thousand Ghosts Abyss were completely wiped out!

”Pfft!”

Zhang Huanzhi spat out blood from his heart.

Now.

The Zhang Family had only him left in the Late Stage of Qi Cultivation, their world truly was collapsing!

At that moment.

Zhang the Sixth, who kept watch over the Life Soul Plates, returned to see this scene, fright making his voice tremble:

”Clan Leader, the Elder is gone, please don’t let anything happen to you, or else our Zhang Family will be finished!”

Zhang the Sixth’s cries jolted Zhang Huanzhi back to reality.

Elder’s gaze flashed through his mind:

”No, I cannot let the Zhang Family crumble in my hands, I cannot, I cannot.”

Zhang Huanzhi murmured, and after a while, a spark of determination glimmered in his eyes, instructing:

”Sixth Uncle, the Elder’s passing must not be publicized, pass my order, after I leave the mountain, no one from the clan is to enter or exit Niushou Mountain until I return!”

If the news leaks,

and the other four families in Anyang County attack,

it will spell the day of our clan’s annihilation.

Stumbling to his feet, he quickly returned to the private treasury to retrieve a few items, and then hurriedly rushed towards Anyang County.

Now.

The only one who can save the Zhang Family is his daughter.

...

Pingshan County.

Qiuo Family.

Unlike the Zhang Family’s tense atmosphere.

Upon the extinction of Elder Qiuo’s Soul Lamp, the Qiuo Family’s high-level members quickly gathered, there were still as many as five cultivators at the Qi Cultivation Ninth Layer, and the Qiuo Clan Leader, sitting at the head, slammed the table, his voice resonating with authority:

”Third Elder, Fourth Elder, Elder died in Ten Thousand Ghosts Abyss without clear cause, we cannot let this slide, otherwise, the other Qi Cultivation Clans in Pingshan County will think our Qiuo Family is an easy target, we must find out the real culprit and make them pay in blood, do you understand?!”

”Yes, Clan Leader, we will not let Elder suffer injustice in the nether world!”

”Good, the two of you can first journey to Nanyang County in Anyang County, since the Elder entered the abyss upon Elder Zhang’s invitation, make sure to fully understand what transpired from the Zhang Family members who returned from the abyss.”

”Yes, Clan Leader.”

Qiuo Family’s Third Elder, Qiuo Taiyun, and Fourth Elder, Qiuo Taifeng, stood up and bowed, both were at the Qi Cultivation Ninth Layer, and were twin brothers who practiced Combined Attack Skill from a young age, making their combined battle prowess comparable to a peak Qi Cultivator, even slightly superior.

.....

In Ten Thousand Ghosts Abyss.

Ten days flew by in a flash.

After Fu Changsheng refined the last trace of Cyan Jade Fruit.

He naturally broke through to the Eighth Layer of Qi Cultivation.

Feeling the mana coursing within him.

He displayed a satisfied expression; compared to before, he could now wield the Seven Treasures Umbrella without exhausting his mana within half a cup of tea’s time:

”It’s time to open the retreat.”

However,

before that,

he needed to exchange information.

To understand the situation outside.

He hoped the intelligence system could provide useful insights.

He immediately said:

”Exchange for information!”