"Hold on, Miaoyu!" Su Feng, the Head of the Su Family, sternly interjected. "I agree with Elder Long Tian. Patriarch Long Hen should be the one to go down!"
Suddenly, Su Kun, the Great Elder of the Su Family, coldly chimed in, "Indeed! Long Hen himself should go down and get him!"
Su Kun was the father of Su Jun and Su Xun. At this moment, no one was more furious or worried than him. First, his second son, Su Xun, had his leg pierced by Long Chen's spear. Then, his eldest son, Su Jun, had gone silent inside the secret chamber.
"You all..." Long Hen looked panicked. Since Long Dou was also in the secret chamber, he dared not rashly venture down.
Su Kun sneered. "Don't forget, Long Hen, the only reason we allowed you to become Patriarch of the Long Family is that you offered your daughter to my son! If you hadn't personally delivered your daughter to my son, Su Jun, Long Tian would be the patriarch now. Your cultivation is no match for his!"
For a moment, Long Hen was caught in a dilemma. He did not want to go down into the secret chamber, but he also dared not refuse Su Feng, the Head of the Su Family.
What a Long Hen, what a Long Yu...
Inside the secret chamber, Long Chen trembled with uncontrollable rage.
One sold his own daughter for the position of patriarch! The other groveled before the Su Family and betrayed his own cousin! They're both beasts!
"Young Master, it seems Su Miaoyu is unlikely to come down," Xia Duoduo said. "She even brought up Shangguan Pojun to push you into a dead end!"
Long Chen nodded with a cold expression. He had intended to lure Su Miaoyu down, hoping to capture her to buy time, only to be stopped by Su Feng. Moreover, Su Miaoyu had publicly invoked Shangguan Pojun's name to force Long Chen into a hopeless situation. After all, no matter how Long Chen explained, and regardless of whether anyone believed him, he was now destined to provoke Shangguan Pojun.
Shangguan Pojun was the foremost senior brother of the Martial Ancestor Ground Institute. In terms of personal strength and backing, he was completely beyond Long Chen's league. If Long Chen told everyone that Shangguan Pojun and Su Miaoyu were having an affair, it would undoubtedly ruin Shangguan Pojun's reputation, turning them into sworn enemies.
That bitch set a trap to have Shangguan Pojun seriously injure me, all to make me a sworn enemy of the Martial Ancestor Ground Institute!
Cold light flashed in Long Chen's eyes. He had to admire Su Miaoyu's viciousness and ruthless planning, which she had laid out from the very beginning.
Now, she's not only the victim but also plans to use Shangguan Pojun to silence me! Explaining means death, and not explaining still means death!
"Su Miaoyu! Do you really think that I, Long Chen, am afraid of Shangguan Pojun?"
Long Chen looked up and laughed in a fit of rage. "The Martial Ancestor Sect is a hundred miles from Dragon City, yet you claim Shangguan Pojun just happened to be passing by when he saved you?
"Even if he happened to pass through Dragon City, he couldn't have possibly passed through your boudoir, could he?
"The truth is you were having a nightly rendezvous, and you deliberately set a trap for me to come to your room!
"You did it to use Shangguan Pojun to injure me, which helped you steal my Emperor Meridians and made me his enemy!
"Now you've gotten everything you wanted. You have my Emperor Meridians, and you've successfully made Shangguan Pojun, and even the entire Martial Ancestor Ground Institute, see me as a thorn in their side!
"I bet you're very happy now, aren't you? But your joy won't last! As long as I draw breath, I will find a way to kill you!
"I won't stop until I've dug the Emperor Meridians from your body and ground your bones to ash! And as for the score with Shangguan Pojun, I will pay him back double for what he did to me!"
In an instant, the expressions of the hundreds of people from the Su and Long Families changed, each revealing different emotions. They had all originally thought everything was Long Chen's fault and that Su Miaoyu was merely the victim. Yet now, Long Chen dared to publicly threaten revenge against Shangguan Pojun, unafraid of making an enemy of the Martial Ancestor Ground Institute. He was acting like a man with nothing to lose. Could words spoken with such abandon be false?
A desperate, final struggle.
Su Miaoyu observed the crowd's shifting expressions without a trace of worry. Her plan had already succeeded.
Now that Long Chen has explained himself publicly, he's become a target for Shangguan Pojun and the entire Martial Ancestor Ground Institute. If he'd kept his mouth shut, he would have only faced the Su Family and, at most, a steward from the institute. But no, he just had to explain himself, willingly walking a path that will lead to a far more miserable death.
"Long Chen, you beast! You know you're facing certain death, yet you still try to tarnish my reputation and Shangguan Pojun's on your way out!" Su Miaoyu said, feigning grief and disappointment. "I am truly fortunate to have seen your true colors so early! How could a deranged, treacherous beast like you be fit to be my husband?"
As her words fell, Su Miaoyu turned and walked coldly toward the secret chamber. "Only by killing you with my own hands can I finally dispel the hatred in my heart!"
"Miaoyu, don't!" Su Feng stepped forward to stop her. "Su Jun still hasn't responded. Long Chen is deliberately provoking you to go down there; he must have some kind of backup! Besides, his father Long Dou's whereabouts are unknown. I suspect he's also in the secret chamber. For your safety, it's better to let Long Hen go down!"
Hearing this, Su Miaoyu's eyes flickered.
Long Chen's father, Long Dou, is at the Nine Heavens of the War Sect Realm. If he's still alive and in that secret chamber...
Su Miaoyu knew she was no match for a master of that level.
"Someone, return to the manor and bring Steward Shangguan Ming here!" Su Miaoyu commanded coldly, then turned her gaze to Long Hen. "Patriarch Long Hen, go down and capture that beast, Long Chen!"
"Miss Su, I..." Before Long Hen could finish, he saw the murderous intent filling Su Miaoyu's eyes. Terrified, he had no choice but to grit his teeth and agree.