Chapter 309: Master of Splitting the Family!

"Split the family? Simply nonsense!"

"It's fine for Ning Zhuo to be nonsense, but you all are so old, and you follow along to be nonsense!"

"I don't agree to split the family!"

Ning Jiufan, who heard the news, was furious and immediately called a halt.

"Splitting the family will inevitably greatly damage the vitality of our Ning clan."

"Ning Zhuo is the son of the rising family, and he cannot be split at will!"

"If a split occurs while I am taking care of the family, leading to further decline of the Ning clan, how will I, Ning Jiufan, face the ancestors in the underworld in the future?"

Ning Jiufan's attitude was very firm.

He was the only Jin Dan cultivator in the entire Ning clan, and his statement immediately overturned the entire situation.

"What, it was called off by our clan's Jin Dan ancestor?" Hearing this bad news, Ning Zhuo's face was very ugly.

The messenger who contacted him had a mournful face: "The clan has already brought your bloodline umbilical cord, as well as the plaque for splitting the family and the sacrificial tablet, but they were all intercepted by the Old Ancestor halfway and confiscated."

"The Clan Head specifically cautioned the small one to let you know, Lord, that this is not that the Ning clan's main lineage doesn't want to cooperate, but that the arm cannot twist the thigh."

Ning Zhuo pondered for a while.

He fell into deep thought, his fingers subconsciously rubbing the cup lid.

After a long silence, he said: "I already know about this matter, and I also believe in the cooperation sincerity of the main lineage."

"This is not your fault, nor is it mine, it's just an accident on the way."

"I will still follow the previous agreement, release Grandma Xiaohui, and at the same time recruit Ning Xiaoren under my command to help him perform meritorious service."

"But I hope the Ning clan's main lineage will mobilize power and join forces with me to persuade the Old Ancestor."

"Take this wish of mine back."

The messenger was half-worried and half-happy, and respectfully withdrew.

Ning Zhuo sighed deeply.

Ning Jiufan had always ignored worldly affairs; he didn't expect him to suddenly intervene.

Is it because splitting the family is a major matter, or is it because Ning Zhuo himself has been watched by Ning Jiufan at all times? Or perhaps both?

Not long after, Ning Zhuo took the initiative to visit Ning Jiufan and mentioned the matter of splitting the family.

Ning Jiufan snorted coldly, his face full of displeasure, and directly gave Ning Zhuo a chestnut: "You still have the face to mention it?!"

"Seeing you silent for a few days, I didn't expect you to make a big one for me as soon as you came up."

Ning Zhuo complained: "This time it was Grandma Xiaohui..."

Ning Jiufan interrupted directly: "I don't listen to these!"

"Since she made a mistake, then deal with it according to family rules. This is not a bargaining chip for you to seek benefits for yourself."

Ning Jiufan stared: "How did I explain to you before? I told you not to be dragged by worldly affairs and energy, and to go all out in the palace examination."

"How did you do it?"

"Or do you think your performance is excellent enough that you can relax?"

Ning Zhuo saw that the situation was not good and hurriedly said: "Old Ancestor, please calm your anger for now."

"Please forgive the boy for being bold enough to speak straight, even if you stopped me this time, can you stop my heart?"

"Regarding splitting the family, I am serious, and I am also unwavering!"

"I firmly believe: my separation from the main lineage is a parting of ways, each with its own future. On the contrary, living together is looking at each other with disgust and restraining each other. In the end, we will make a bloody mess and cause unbearable human tragedies!"

"When it really reaches that point, you, Old Ancestor, will also have a share of the responsibility."

Ning Jiufan was furious: "Good boy!"

The Jin Dan aura erupted, directly pressing Ning Zhuo to his knees on the ground.

Ning Zhuo knew this was a critical moment, so he braced his body, blood spilling from the corner of his mouth, and still stubbornly raised his head: "Old, Old Ancestor, if you don't believe me, how about we make a bet?"

Ning Jiufan's momentum stagnated: "What bet?"

With a secretly set bet, Ning Zhuo left the room.

He sighed deeply; this was already the best result he had fought for with all his might.

Having reached this point, Ning Zhuo was naturally unwilling to give up, so he simply made a bet with the Ning clan ancestor!

Splitting the family failed, but Ning Zhuo still let Grandma Xiaohui go and recruited Ning Xiaoren, which caused widespread dissatisfaction among his subordinates.

The branch lineage already hated the main lineage very much, but Ning Zhuo, as the future leader they looked up to, performed so fawningly.

And the couple Ning Ze and Wang Lan, who were suffering from the pain of losing their son, jumped up and down, spreading rumors everywhere that Ning Zhuo had changed, and secretly rumored that Ning Zhuo had reached a secret agreement with the main lineage, received huge benefits, and abandoned the entire Ning clan branch lineage.

They wanted to use this to force Ning Zhuo to prove his innocence.

And how to prove innocence?

Nothing more than pursuing the culprit's responsibility and avenging his cousin Ning Ji!

Because of the internal traitor Ning Xiangguo and others, the City Lord's Mansion saw the flaw and quickly seized this opportunity, secretly cooperating with Ning Ze and Wang Lan, and set off a wave of crusade against Ning Zhuo in the Ning clan branch lineage, hoping that Ning Zhuo would stand up and explain the ins and outs.

Ning Zhuo did not come forward.

He knew very well that if he came forward, he would inevitably have to make concessions.

And once he made concessions and eliminated Grandma Xiaohui, he would lose the most important reason. How could the many clan elders of the Ning clan recognize his topic of splitting the family?

At the very least, he should maintain the hope of splitting the family and not let this hope shrink.

And the progress of the second round of the palace examination had also reached a critical node, making Ning Zhuo have to invest his main energy into the palace examination.

The eighteenth question.

The content of the question was undergoing small changes—the arena was open, the preparation stage was shielded, and cultivators were allowed to cast spells to assist.

Ning Zhuo and Sun Lingtong started a war.

Sun Lingtong released the Golden Blood Battle Ape · Da Sheng, shouting and persuading Ning Zhuo to admit defeat directly.

Who knew that after Ning Zhuo finished his preparations, he did not build any mechanism puppets, but simply forged more than twenty flying floating hand mechanisms!

"The one who should admit defeat is you, Sun Lingtong!"

"I want to get back all the humiliation I've suffered from your coercion and inducement, your secret control and bullying over these years, in this battle today!"

Ning Zhuo shouted, his fighting spirit quite vigorous.

The next moment, more than twenty flying floating hands flew into mid-air and cast spells on the Golden Blood Battle Ape · Da Sheng together.

The explosion of spells was extremely fierce, and more than twenty flying floating hands, such an extreme configuration, pushed the attack power to the limit.

The Golden Blood Battle Ape · Da Sheng was submerged in a gorgeous wave of spells.

It struggled to resist, knocking down nearly ten flying floating hands, but in the end, it fell down, its body riddled with holes, miserable to look at.

"No, my mechanism battle ape! You brat, you're dead!!" Sun Lingtong shouted, his eyes spitting fire, staring at Ning Zhuo, wishing he could eat him.

Sun Lingtong, who had been mixing in the black market for a long time and had been cultivated by his master since childhood, had acting skills no weaker than anyone else's.

Ning Zhuo sneered without fear, shouting excitedly: "Sun Lingtong, do you know how long I've waited for this day? You think I don't know, but I've actually secretly scouted and studied your mechanism ape many times!"

The cultivators watching the battle saw this result and shouted in surprise, cheering one after another!

During this period, Sun Lingtong could be called invincible, truly too strong.

Didn't expect that this time, Ning Zhuo actually won by luck.

That's right, in the eyes of the cultivators, Ning Zhuo just adopted an extreme arena competition strategy, did not build conventional mechanism puppets, but went all out to build more than twenty floating hand spell-casting mechanisms.

However, those with a heart secretly noted that Ning Zhuo had just "excitedly" shouted that he had secretly studied the mechanism ape many times.

Since he had studied it, why didn't Ning Zhuo say the precious information he knew when the Golden Blood Battle Ape · Da Sheng first appeared and share it with everyone?

If he had said it, maybe they could also have defeated Sun Lingtong!

This undoubtedly made everyone realize that even if Ning Zhuo had confessed his guilt before, he had hidden a lot of information.

This information could bring him some convenience.

Like this arena victory, there was help from information. It was precisely because Ning Zhuo had an unusual understanding of the Golden Blood Battle Ape · Da Sheng that he could determine the advantage in the early bombing and finalize the victory.

Thus, after the palace examination that day, messengers came to buy information from Ning Zhuo.

Ning Zhuo pushed them all away.

By the second day of the palace examination, people were pleasantly surprised to find that Sun Lingtong did not use the Golden Blood Battle Ape · Da Sheng again.

Sun Lingtong had a gloomy face, always staring at Ning Zhuo, the hatred and anger in his eyes overflowing.

Thus, everyone guessed that Ning Zhuo had severely damaged the mechanism ape in yesterday's battle, making it impossible to repair it in the short term.

Ning Zhuo therefore gained more appreciation, and at the same time, without the Golden Blood Battle Ape · Da Sheng, everyone didn't value the little information he had as much.

In the subsequent palace examination, Sun Lingtong did not use the Golden Blood Battle Ape · Da Sheng again.

This was to obtain a record of defeat and be close to Ning Zhuo's performance. In this way, the "Ning Zhuo" and "Entry Standard" on the performance ranking list would not have huge differences.

Once there was a difference, and it didn't match the performance of Ning Zhuo and Sun Lingtong, then the cultivators would naturally easily guess the truth that the name and the person didn't match.

The twentieth question.

A Five Elements Spirit Turning Plate was placed on the table.

Besides that, there were several other mechanism parts.

Whoever could design a perfect plan and utilize these mechanism parts would not have a bad performance.

While others were preparing and trying the functions of the mechanism parts, Ning Zhuo picked up the Five Elements Spirit Turning Plate and used it, extremely skillfully.

This scene was discovered by many cultivators who were in the spectator seats.

Starting from the twenty-first question, the questions examined large mechanisms, allowing cultivators to choose an outsider to act as an assistant in forging mechanisms and participate in the palace examination.

The twenty-second question.

The question provided another mechanism part, a blood path circuit board!

Ning Zhuo easily got the hang of it again, almost using it as soon as he picked it up.

Ning Xiaoren was chosen by him to act as an assistant.

He ordered Ning Xiaoren to provide essence blood. Ning Zhuo then used this essence blood to cast the Demon Dyeing Blood Tendon Art to make the blood path circuit board.

"Not enough, not enough."

"More!"

"I want more!!"

Under Ning Zhuo's ruthless demand, Ning Xiaoren's expression quickly turned pale.

He showed a look of terror: "A person's essence blood is limited. Ning Zhuo, if you let me continue to dedicate, I will die!"

Ning Zhuo's gaze was indifferent: "Ning Xiaoren, don't you want to perform meritorious service? Didn't you repent to me and swear to atone for your sins? Since that's the case, now is the best opportunity for you to redeem yourself!"

Ning Xiaoren was shocked: "You want me to die?!"

"Obey my orders!" Ning Zhuo shouted.

"No, no!" Ning Xiaoren retreated in panic, but being on the arena, there was nowhere to retreat.

Ning Zhuo sneered: "You don't want to die, but it's not up to you."

He suddenly cast his gaze toward another arena, where Ning Jiufan and the Ning Clan Head were standing.

"Clan Head, Ning Xiaoren is your son, do you think he should dedicate himself to the clan?" Ning Zhuo shouted.

Many cultivators looked sideways.

This scene was very interesting.

The Ning Clan Head's face was livid, struggling quite a bit, and finally said painfully: "My son, it is indeed time for you to sacrifice for the clan! Don't smear the main lineage!"

Ning Zhuo laughed out loud.

"Dad!" Ning Xiaoren shouted in disbelief, extremely terrified and flustered.

However, contrary to the Ning Clan Head's expectations, Ning Zhuo did not really kill Ning Xiaoren, just drained him until he was half-dead.

When the palace examination ended that day, Ning Zhuo led the unconscious Ning Xiaoren to visit Ning Jiufan.

Beside Ning Jiufan, the Ning Clan Head was trying his best to explain, stuttering, his head full of cold sweat.

Seeing Ning Zhuo come over, the Ning Clan Head finally couldn't help it, glaring and scolding: "Ning Zhuo, you dare to plot against me!"

It turned out that Ning Zhuo had already known through the Dragon Turtle Fire Spirit's hint that Ning Xiaoren was involved in the kidnapping case.

He had quietly collected enough evidence and secretly threatened the Ning Clan Head.

Only then did the Ning Clan Head know that Ning Xiaoren had colluded with outsiders to harm his own clansmen, a crime that could not be forgiven!

Therefore, during the day, Ning Zhuo wanted to drain Ning Xiaoren to death, and he acted strangely; although his expression was quite hesitant and struggling, he finally opened his mouth to persuade Ning Xiaoren to dedicate his life.

As a result, after the palace examination ended, he was carried by Ning Jiufan and criticized fiercely.

Only then did the Ning Clan Head know that Ning Jiufan had long understood the evil of Ning Xiaoren colluding with outsiders.

Ning Zhuo bowed deeply and visited Ning Jiufan, only saying: "Old Ancestor, I won this bet."

Ning Jiufan glanced at the pale Ning Clan Head, his tone extremely indifferent: "For the sake of your own power, sacrificing your own son, having a clan head like you is truly the fortune of my Ning clan!"

Plop.

The Ning Clan Head fell to the ground, his eyes dull with fright.

"My Ning clan is a cultivation family, maintained by family affection and bloodline. You don't think about helping your son, letting him get rid of control and return to the light, but only care about your power and status."

"You really disappointed me too much!"

After criticizing the Ning Clan Head, Ning Jiufan looked at Ning Zhuo, his expression appearing quite complicated.

He wanted to persuade him, but in Ning Zhuo's firm gaze, he still opened his storage belt and took out the bloodline umbilical cord, the Ning clan plaque, and the sacrificial tablet.

"Take it, my split family clan head."

Ning Zhuo was overjoyed, hurriedly took it, checked it on the spot, and bowed to Ning Jiufan: "The palace examination is not over, I will not immediately establish a split family, so as not to cause turmoil in the clan."

"Old Ancestor, after the split family is newly built, I still have to rely on your protection."

Ning Jiufan snorted coldly: "Get down, you brat, you don't let people worry for a moment."

"Lord Zhu has already arrived outside your room, he is here specifically to see you."

"You can say what you want, or you can not say it. Remember, you are already the clan head of my Ning clan's split family."

Ning Zhuo hurriedly thanked him and respectfully withdrew.