Inheritance War?

"Xie Rong" Xiang Chu called out firmly.

"Ye… ye… yes…" Xie Rong trembled as he stuttered to respond

Xiang Chu's brow furrowed slightly but quickly put on a kind expression, "You should have seen everything with your own eyes, right?"

"Ye… yes."

"Good, then recount everything that happened, including all the details you can remember, if you dare conceal or lie about anything, you know the consequences!" Xiang Chu said lightly.

Seeing this, Hu Jiao Er smirked, "A guilty conscience makes one nervous."

"If you don't dare to speak, then this Young Lord must conclude that you are in the wrong and will kill you right now!"

Xie Rong swallowed hard, grit his teeth, and nodded. "Good."

Taking a deep breath and not daring to look in Yang Kai's direction, he spoke in a deep and aggrieved tone, "Earlier today, when we were fighting on Tai Fang Mountain our two Sects ended up chasing down a group of Ash-Grey Cloud Evil Land cultivators. After killing them, we discovered that we were not far from the camp and decided that backtracking to meet up with Young Lord Xiang wasn't necessary, so we simply returned here."

"Dog shit!" Hu Jiao Er couldn't help shouting, "Since the beginning of the fight, I never once saw anyone from your two Sects! What 'chasing down Ash-Grey Cloud Evil Land cultivators?' You clearly decided to sneak off and return to camp from the very start!"

"I swear what I've said is the truth! Young Lord Xiang, if you don't believe me, you can search the western outskirts of the camp, there should still be some fresh bodies left there."

Xiang Chu nodded slightly, "I'll definitely investigate your claims. If you were chasing down our enemies, that is something to be commended, however… failing to return to the rally point was definitely a mistake in judgment by your two Sects. I have no choice but to reprimand you in regards to such an error, I assume you have no complaints, correct?"

The Hu Sisters nearly choked on their anger as although Xiang Chu seemed to be properly handling matters, his statements and judgments so far were clearly favoring Thunder Light Sect and Soaring Rainbow Court.

"Continue!" Xiang Chu motioned casually.

"When we and our respective Elders returned to camp, we planned to send out a few of our members to report our situation to Young Lord Xiang but before we had a chance to sit down and rest, we suddenly felt an eruption of Evil Qi."

"An eruption of Evil Qi?" Xiang Chu frowned.

"Right, we had never felt this kind of wicked aura before. The Elders of our two factions thought that some incredibly powerful demons had infiltrated the camp and thus led all of us back to confront them, but when we found the source of the aura it was actually… actually…"

"What, speak up?"

"It was that person."

"What man?" Xiang Chu asked.

"The strange man the Hu Sisters brought back with them the other day!" Xie Rong replied in a horse voice.

"And then?" Xiang Chu asked, turning his eyes back to the two juniors in front of him.

"Then… then… that man madly attacked us! Our two Elders couldn't stop him and many of our fellow disciples were either killed or heavily wounded. In the end, the two elders sacrificed their own lives trying to save as many of us juniors as possible." As Xie Rong recanted this horrific tale, his voice seemed to contain infinite grievances and pain, and even his breath quickened as he mournfully said, "This humble one begs Young Lord Xiang uphold justice and exact revenge for the fallen Brothers, Sisters, and Elders of our two Sects!"

Listening to these two, the disciples from Blood Battle Gang and Storm Hall ground their teeth, and a bitter rage and hatred welled up in their hearts.

Lifting his eyes, he smiled towards Yang Kai and continued, "This friend, your situation doesn't appear to be so simply described, if you have something to say, this Young Lord will hear you out."

However, Yang Kai simply shrugged and said indifferently, "Nope!"

"Yang Kai!" Hu Jiao Er's beautiful face immediately cramped up, and she nervously seized his arm.

Xiang Chu was also quite surprised and couldn't help looking at him strangely. It seemed like he hadn't expected Yang Kai to not argue back.

Upon seeing the calm, disdainful look on his face, Xiang Chu had a faint bad premonition.

He dared not defend himself, and he didn't seem the slightest bit nervous, so obviously he wasn't afraid he would suffer any consequences from this situation. Was he simply arrogant, or was he still hiding something that gave him this sense of confidence?

His expression gradually sinking, Yang Kai sneered, "Whether I am a man or a devil, that's not for outsiders to decide."

Xiang Chu's eyes couldn't help squinting as he stared at Yang Kai fixedly.

After a long time saying, "What this friend means to say is, this young master isn't qualified to pass judgment on you?"

"You think you're worthy?" Yang Kai looked at him indifferently.

"Bold!" Fang Lao shouted, "The Xiang Family is a first-class family, and the Young Lord is the commander of this camp, yet you, a mere stray dog, dares say the Young Lord isn't worthy?"

"A first-class family, how awe-inspiring!" Yang Kai laughed rampantly.

"So be it! This Young Lord will let you understand the power of a first-class family today!" Xiang Chu was also angered by Yang Kai's slights, and he coldly snorted, "Fang Lao, Xu Lao, capture this demon."

"Yes!" The two Immortal Ascension Boundary masters responded firmly.

"You dare!" The Hu Sisters flew out, placing themselves in front of Yang Kai.

"Such great prestige!" Guan Chi Le took a step forward and sneered, "Young Master Xiang, is this how your Xiang Family handles its affairs?"

Xiang Chu's expression became gloomy, "This how I, Xiang Chu, handle affairs! If this demon isn't punished, how could our people feel at ease!"

At that moment.

Suddenly, a bright and crisp Eagle's cry resounded.

This cry was extremely piercing and seemed to contain a kind of inexplicable and mysterious power, even the two Immortal Ascension Boundary masters couldn't help pausing as they hurriedly looked up.

High up in the sky, more than a thousand meters up, a little golden light flickered.

As this golden light circled in the sky high above everyone's heads, a series of eagle cries continued to ring out.

Seeing this, Yang Kai's face suddenly cramped up, and his expression constantly fluctuated as he stared at the circling golden light but then regain the calm.

The originally explosive scene had been thoroughly disturbed by the sudden appearance of this golden eagle.

Although the golden eagle was over a thousand meters above them, no one here was an ordinary person, with the eyesight of a cultivator they were all easily able to clearly make out this bird of prey's appearance.

"This golden eagle…" The Xiang Family's Xu Lao suddenly frowned, trying to recall something from his distant memory.

Xu Lao frowned and thought hard but couldn't recall just where he had learned of this beast.

High up in the sky, the cries of the golden eagle suddenly became more hurried and intense, as if it had found something that caught it's attention. Immediately afterwards, like a streak of golden light, it dove down to where the crowd below was gathered.

A moment later, the golden eagle had already approached the crowd. When the golden eagle's wings were fully spread, they stretched more than a meter in length. Its claws were like steel, extremely hard and sharp, probably more so than ordinary forged weapons.

On top of this, it seemed to possess some naturally special abilities; the golden light it was able to freely radiate contained extraordinary power.

Xu Lao's expression quickly became solemn and swept his eyes across the Blood Battle Gang and the Storm Hall disciples, except this time when he stared at these juniors his expression contained none of its previous contempt and disdain, but instead was extremely serious, even somewhat fearful.

It was a Silver Blood Golden Feathered Eagle!

"But… but how can that be? Isn't there still a few years left before…I'm afraid… something extremely important has happened inside the Yang Family, so the Silver Blood Golden Feathered Eagles were sent out ahead of time!" Xu Lao boldly speculated.

"Uncle Le, do you know?" Hu Jiao Er turned towards Guan Chi Le and asked curiously.

Guan Chi Le looked thoughtfully at Yang Kai before grinning and nodded slightly as he said, "Anyone from the older generation should be able to understand."

"Please explain to us then." Hu Jiao Er couldn't understand how a trivial Fifth-Order Monster Beast had suddenly made the Xiang Family's people suddenly become so serious.

"Good," Guan Chi Le knew that there was no reason to conceal anything now. Since this golden eagle had appeared, it meant that in the coming period of time, the entire Great Han Dynasty would be swept up into a period of unrest, unhurriedly explaining, "All of you have heard of the Yang Family, right?"

To this, everyone nodded, the cuckoo bird Yang Family, the head of the Eight Great Families, who hadn't heard of them?

The Yang Family's Silver Blood Golden Feather Eagle! At a young age, these flying Monster Beasts had been nurtured with Blood Essence from the Yang Family, so they are particularly sėnsɨtɨvė to the Yang Family's bloodline. As long as a member of the Yang Family's direct descendants are within a certain range, they can accurately be found."

After listening to this explanation, everyone present suddenly understood.

Since a Yang Family Silver Blood Golden Feather Eagle appeared here, didn't that mean that one of these scattered direct descendants of the Yang Family was here? But, who exactly was it?

Guan Chi Le glanced back at Yang Kai quickly before continuing, "There are only a dozen or so Silver Blood Golden Feather Eagles in this world, all of which belong to the Yang Family. The Yang Family treats each of these beasts as a rare treasure. Besides when they need to seek out their direct descendants, they will essentially never be released, but once the Silver Blood Golden Feather Eagles appear, it means that the Yang Family is recalling these scattered disciples, which also means that… the Yang Family's Inheritance War is about to begin!"

"The Yang Family's Inheritance War?"