[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-i-subdue-the-immortals-with-strength":3,"chapter-i-subdue-the-immortals-with-strength-i-subdue-the-immortals-with-strength-chapter-76":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","I Subdue the Immortals with Strength",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2295378,4490,"Chapter 76: How Do You Know?","i-subdue-the-immortals-with-strength-chapter-76",76,"\u003Cp>The members of the three-family alliance, terrified and stripped of all will to fight, were like docile lambs before the bloodied Ji family youths; Xia Daoming casually killed three or four of them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The remaining members of the three-family alliance were cut down one by one by the grief-stricken Ji family youths.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some were so brutally hacked that not an inch of their skin remained intact.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the rain, each Ji family youth collapsed to their knees, tears mingling with the rain as they streamed down their faces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Many…” Ji Yuanzhen struggled forward, his body weakened beyond endurance, toward Xia Daoming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But before Ji Yuanzhen could finish his words, Xia Daoming rushed forward and caught him, blaming himself: “Old sir, I’m sorry—I came too late.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You…” Ji Yuanzhen’s frail body trembled slightly, his cloudy old eyes fixed on Xia Daoming in shock and suspicion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Grandfather, he’s my Xia Big Brother—he was away on a long journey when we left Li City.” At that moment, Ji Wenyue stepped forward, supporting Ji Yuanzhen’s other arm, whispering softly into his ear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What?” Ji Yuanzhen shuddered again, then suddenly burst into loud laughter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hah! Good, good, good!” Ji Yuanzhen wept openly, his whole body swaying violently; had it not been for Ji Wenyue and Xia Daoming holding him up, he would have collapsed to the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, the massive stone weighing on Ji Yuanzhen’s heart, the taut breath he had held so long, finally released.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His entire body suddenly became utterly weak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Grandfather, the rain is heavy outside—let me help you inside.” Ji Wenyue looked at Ji Yuanzhen, who seemed on the brink of death, deeply worried.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No! I still have words to say to Elder Ding Bangning!” Ji Yuanzhen shook off Ji Wenyue’s hand, turned to Xia Daoming, and patted his hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Savior, from now on, the lives of the entire Ji family belong to you—I won’t waste words thanking you for such a great grace; I just want to speak a few words with that old man.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Old sir, you flatter me too much,” Xia Daoming hurriedly said, releasing his grip, his gaze solemn with reverence as he watched Ji Yuanzhen lean on his long sword and step slowly toward Ding Bangning, who lay bleeding in the puddles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Brother Bangning, don’t be utterly ruthless! If you had spared the Ji family a path to survival, it would never have come to this!” Ji Yuanzhen gazed at Ding Bangning, tears streaming down his face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes, regret is useless now. But fate is unpredictable, Brother Yuanzhen—don’t get too smug. Tonight, all four groups sent to hunt your Ji family failed to return. None of our four families will let this go!” Ding Bangning’s eyes turned cruel as he spoke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Smug? With so many youths dead, what is there to be smug about?” Ji Yuanzhen shook his head, face filled with sorrow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hmph, you’re the kind of man who deserves to die a thousand deaths!” Xia Daoming, seeing one elder mourning his fallen kin with no trace of victory, while the other, responsible for so many deaths, still plotted revenge and more bloodshed, couldn’t help but speak coldly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You’re strong—but you’re not a Master. One hand can’t fight two fists, and the Xu family has a Master. Your Ding family… they’ll kill you!” Ding Bangning stared at Xia Daoming with bitter hatred.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What does your Ding family have? Do you think I don’t know?” Xia Daoming’s heart surged, but his lips curled into a knowing, cold smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ding Bangning gazed sidelong at Xia Daoming, sneering with contempt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Die!” Impulsive Ji Wennan charged forward, raising his blade to cut down Ding Bangning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Wait,” Xia Daoming raised a hand. “Take him back to the ancestral hall—I have things to say to him.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes!” Ji Wennan immediately lowered his blade, grabbed Ding Bangning’s leg, and dragged him like a dead dog toward the ancestral hall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Let go of me, you coward—have the guts to kill me outright!” Ding Bangning, dragged along the ground, felt every bone ache as if shattered, and the rain soaking into his wounds made his facial muscles twist in agony.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Old bastard, you killed so many of our Ji family—do you think you can die easily? Dream on!” Ji Wennan turned with a cruel grin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ji Yuanzhen, you always prided yourself on honorable conduct—so now you’ll sink to cruel, petty tricks?” Ding Bangning shouted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ji Yuanzhen, supported by Ji Wenyue, walked silently toward the ancestral hall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They entered the ancestral hall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia Daoming summoned Ji Shouli, the head of the Ji family, and whispered a few words into his ear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ji Shouli’s eyes widened in shock, but after a moment, he nodded and left the hall, heading straight for the back mountain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Ji Shouli left, Xia Daoming asked Ji Wenyue to bring a brow pencil and a sheet of paper from the women’s quarters, and ordered the Ji family to prepare a separate room in the rear hall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though the ancestral hall was dilapidated, its layout still vaguely preserved the traditional three-court structure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was the front hall, the main hall, and the rear hall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, Xia Daoming dragged Ding Bangning into a solitary, broken room in the rear hall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only Ji Yuanzhen and Ji Wenyue followed him inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Elder Bangning, you were about to say something just now—were you thinking of this person in your Ding family? He’s no ordinary man!” After dragging Ding Bangning into the broken room, Xia Daoming recalled, then swiftly sketched a rough portrait.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A kidney-shaped face, a bulbous nose, narrow eyes—so ugly, yet dressed in white robes and riding a white horse, and daring to stare at his Lian’er—how could Xia Daoming forget him?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His aura had also left a deep impression on Xia Daoming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially after the Gengyun Mountain incident, Xia Daoming had grown more suspicious of this white-robed, white-horse, ugly man.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Earlier, he hadn’t killed Ding Bangning immediately—he’d severed his tendons, kept him alive—and at first, he didn’t know why.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only when Ding Bangning carelessly slipped up just now did Xia Daoming suddenly realize: he had never forgotten that white-robed, ugly man.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Keeping Ding Bangning alive had been an unconscious act.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because Ding Bangning, too, had a kidney-shaped face—and in his bearing, there was an elusive, faint resemblance to that white-robed man.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You—you how do you know?” Ding Bangning’s face turned ashen, his eyes fixed on Xia Daoming as if he’d seen a demon, and at last, deep fear surfaced.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ding Chushan had entered the Spirit Blade Sect to cultivate, entering the Immortal Path—this secret, even as an Elder, Ding Bangning had never known. Only when Ding Chushan returned and the three families formally joined forces did Ding Bangning, as a core Elder and Ding Chushan’s own great-uncle, learn this most vital family secret.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Ding Bangning’s shock and terror, Xia Daoming was also stunned—but outwardly, he remained calm, saying softly: “Guess.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Could you also be a cultivator…? Impossible!” Ding Bangning blurted out, then cut himself off mid-sentence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Why impossible?” Xia Daoming’s heart stirred, asking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He knew too little about cultivators.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now that a cultivator had emerged from the Ding family, he naturally wanted to learn more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>PS: Another update will come this afternoon.\u003C\u002Fp>",1201,"2026-06-20T05:15:29.288Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","2a8aa3bb2e5427af49bdaf9f06c97bd28f409989b36a50c6bc98b73b466f31ae","i-subdue-the-immortals-with-strength-chapter-77","i-subdue-the-immortals-with-strength-chapter-75",484,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-subdue-the-immortals-with-strength-cover.jpg"]