Chapter 1209

One mountain cannot hold two tigers. There are only one or two top-tier families in Xuzhou. If there is one more, they will divide the benefits and resources of Xuzhou.

Someone is definitely unwilling.

The Mi family is like this, and the Zhuge family is naturally like this. Every force that impacts the peak has been tested by countless blood and fire.

The waves set off by the Zhuge family in Xuzhou have exploded to the extreme in the last three years.

That was a year ago, when that Zhuge Qilin child went out and was assassinated by dead soldiers. A full four Golden Core level martial artists launched an assassination against him.

Such an assassination can be said to be the highest one in Xuzhou in these hundreds of years, and they sent four dead soldiers with Golden Core power to assassinate him at once.

Such a hand is too big.

You must know that Golden Core level power, if placed in the northern imperial army, could already command an army of one hundred thousand.

A true commander of one side, now they are just used as assassins.

The foundation of the Central Plains families is indeed much stronger than that of the northern families.

However, this assassination shocked Xuzhou, and even the families in the southeast region. Those four dead soldiers with Golden Core power not only failed in the assassination.

Even three died, and one was captured.

And it was not the old guys of the Zhuge family who took action, but that Qilin child himself. Such a battle record shocked many people.

Four Golden Core level dead soldiers, even facing a Spirit Refining Realm expert, even if they couldn't beat him, I am afraid they could still leave. However, in the end, not only did the assassination fail, but they all fell.

That Qilin child is less than forty years old, yet he possesses power comparable to the Spirit Refining Realm.

Such means indeed shocked many families, and even made them afraid.

Such talent is simply terrifying to the extreme. No one knows what level this child's cultivation has reached, but at least, he has power comparable to the Spirit Refining Realm.

It has only been so long; once he continues to cultivate, then he really has a chance to impact the Immortal Realm.

It can be said that anyone with a discerning eye can see that the families in Xuzhou can no longer suppress the Zhuge family.

After all, the dispatch of Golden Core level dead soldiers is already the final power. If they move again, it will be the Spirit Refining Realm. The Spirit Refining Realm is the pillar of every family and cannot be moved easily.

And the heaven-defying aptitude shown by this child, the Celestial Master Dao cannot remain indifferent. If they continue to take action, it will be going against the Celestial Master Dao.

Even the Chen family in Xuzhou probably does not have this confidence.

The Zhuge family has already become a climate. If they want to suppress it, they can only use other means. Such intense means as assassination are probably impossible.

Unless both sides tear their faces directly and fight on the surface.

But such fighting is already rare. After all, the world is about to be in chaos. People with lofty ideals can see that the Liu Han dynasty has already embarked on the end of the dynasty.

Next, I am afraid it will be the arrival of troubled times, heroes competing for hegemony, and finally someone will unify the world again and establish a new dynasty.

And at this time, if the families want to protect their own interests, or want to go further, they will naturally not easily consume their own strength at this time.

Troubled times, how terrifying.

Many scholar-official families have also experienced the last troubled times, the Great War between Humans and Gods of Great Qin, which destroyed countless nobles.

The current families, in fact, were not powerful in Great Qin, and even many families did not exist in Great Qin at all.

There were also some who were considered scholar-official families, who were preserved, and then rose during the competition for hegemony, found the True Dragon, and thus suddenly became top-tier families.

Liu Han has entered the end of the road, naturally many families also saw the opportunity, the opportunity for them to go further.

Without troubled times, in a peaceful era, it is too difficult for a family to advance.

After all, the resources and benefits in various places were almost divided up by major families long ago. If you want to divide them up, unless your own strength suddenly advances by leaps and bounds.

For example, the Zhuge family in Xuzhou, the Zhang family in Yanmen, the Lv family in Jiuyuan, such families that have powerhouses advancing to the Spirit Refining Realm within a short hundred years.

In this way, they can maximize the competition for partial resources and benefits.

However, this is too difficult.

Originally just a second-rate scholar-official family, wanting to advance, I don't know how difficult it is. There are hundreds or thousands of second-rate families in the Nine Provinces, but in these nearly a thousand years, there are almost no families that have given birth to Spirit Refining Realm experts.

Two palms can count them.

Spirit Refining Realm itself, whether it is practicing Daoist Qi Refining or taking the Martial Dao, is very difficult and requires strong inheritance and resources.

Second-rate scholar-official families mostly do not have too deep a foundation; otherwise, as the Liu Han imperial court stepped into its peak, they could also have advanced by relying on luck.

The current top-tier families almost all stepped in at the beginning of Liu Han's establishment of a new dynasty or during the Martial Emperor period.

At that time, Liu Han was at its peak, luck was booming, and those families all reached the top by relying on this.

Those who advanced later are very few.

Breaking the class is too difficult. Their own problems, the problems of the surrounding areas, and all kinds of shackles—wanting to break through all of this in a peaceful era is very difficult.

But it is different in troubled times.

Once in troubled times, the army becomes like a steel giant beast. Even top-tier families sometimes feel powerless when facing these steel giant beasts.

In troubled times, those families, once they choose the wrong side, will also be exterminated.

Most families are now starting to seize the time to improve their strength, or keep a low profile, shrinking and tightening their power to face the troubled times.

Regardless of which choice, at least now there will be no families fighting against other families with great fanfare.

In this way, the reputation of the Langya Zhuge family has been raised to another level. Regardless of how other families choose to respond, in the eyes of the outside world, this is the Zhuge family winning.

And they won very cleanly and beautifully.

In this way, the Zhuge family advanced from a second-rate family to a first-class level in just a few decades, even more powerful than the Zhang family in Yanmen.

After all, with the same strength, the influence of the Zhuge family, especially the influence in the imperial court, is not comparable to the Zhang family.

The Zhuge family's influence could not go out of Xuzhou much before, but at least in the past thousand years, the Zhuge family had many disciples serving as officials.

The highest even served as the Minister of Works among the Three Excellencies.

Even now, the Zhuge family has several Prefects, but they are not in Xuzhou.

Before, the Zhuge family could not give too much assistance to these clansmen serving as officials outside, but now it is different. The Zhuge family has given birth to power comparable to the Spirit Refining Realm.

Then the confidence of these clansmen serving as officials outside has become much greater. Many local scholar-official families want to disobey in public but comply in private, and they have to carefully consider it.

In this way, the power of these Zhuge disciples serving as officials outside will be greatly improved, and the influence of the Zhuge family will only become larger and larger. ===== CHAPTER 1210 =====