Chapter 60: The Heng Family's Fine Tradition

Uh...

Wang Qing's fairly handsome face instantly turned bright red, "Auntie, what does this mean? Are you looking down on Wang Qing?"

Heng Yueruo pondered for a moment: "It's not that I look down on you; mainly, you really can't beat him—you have not even a sliver of hope!"

Wang Qing stared blankly.

"What do you mean?" Wang Shengchun said coldly: "Qing'er is from Muqing City, and even the four surrounding cities' peerless genius; at the age of twenty (in nominal years), he has reached the ninth layer of Qi Condensation,

If he breaks through the Qi Sea in these two years and enters a great sect as a true disciple, that would be a trivial matter,

How dare you say he is inferior to your little Donglan City's tiny Heng Xian? I think you've lost your mind!"

Heng Yueruo looked at him calmly: "If you insist on having Qing and Heng Xian compete, there is only one possible outcome."

"What?" Not only Wang Shengchun, Wang Qing and their group, but even Wang Shengwen, who had gotten up from the ground, felt astonished.

Heng Yueruo said: "The outcome will be extremely cruel; Wang Qing will never recover from this!"

The Wang family crowd stood there like wooden chickens.

"What if we count us too?" From among the Wang family stepped out four youths, about seventeen or eighteen years old, both male and female.

Each one exuded a fierce aura!

All of them were at the ninth layer of Qi Condensation!

Now it was Heng Yueruo and Xie Lingyu's turn to be stunned.

Wang Shengchun smiled lightly: "These four, plus Wang Qing, represent the five most outstanding youths of the Southern Twenty-One Cities, among the five great families!

I've heard that in the North a fifteen-year-old—no, a sixteen-year-old after the New Year—has appeared, a Qi Condensation Ninth Layer genius!

This time, these five have come as the younger generation representing the eighty-nine families of the Southern Twenty-One Cities to challenge Heng Xian!

Heng Yueruo sighed: "Although I don't know how talented the five of you are… I have a feeling you're too immature; even together you couldn't play against my nephew Heng Xian!"

Wang Qing and the five let out a cold laugh.

"Hahaha, you wretch, you're overconfident!" Wang Shengchun burst out laughing.

At that moment, a series of "ka-ka" sounds came from the tops of the surrounding walls.

The crowd looked up and couldn't help but be startled.

Only to see that on all four walls at least five hundred crossbows had been set up, their dark, menacing appearance extremely frightening.

Wang Qing frowned: "The spiritual energy fluctuations are strong; they seem capable of hurting us!"

Wang Shengchun cursed: "Damn it! Does the Heng family really dare to act so recklessly?"

"Ready!"

A young man walked in from outside, his composure calm, neither humble nor arrogant.

"Ka-ka-ka..." the sound of crossbows being cocked filled the surroundings.

Even those in the courtyard with high cultivation felt a tingling numbness on their scalps.

Everyone turned their gaze to the young man who had entered, especially Wang Qing and the others, full of fighting spirit: "Could you be Heng Xian? You don't look sixteen at all!"

The young man shook his head: "Sorry! I'm Heng Ruze, nineteen years old, and I've brought these crossbows to take on all of you!"

Wang Shengchun waved his sleeve: "Ignorant junior, with these crossbows you think you can kill us?"

Heng Ruze nodded: "My intention isn't to shoot you all, but if anyone bullies my aunt, these five hundred crossbows firing in all directions will surely kill some people!"

"Nonsense!" Wang Shengchun sat sprawled in a chair to the side, "Come on, shoot, aim at my face, shoot!"

Heng Ruze raised his hand.

The five hundred veteran crossbowmen's eyes grew sharp.

The crowd, the Wang family members, and Wang Qing and the five gradually built up their aura.

Wang Shengwen and Heng Yueruo both grew a bit anxious.

"Wait!"

At that moment, another youth walked in from outside, about fifteen or sixteen years old, dressed in fine robes, tall and slender, very handsome.

Wang Shengchun asked: "Who are you again?"

Heng Xian clasped his hands, a simple honest smile on his face: "I am Heng Xian; I have greeted Uncle Wang, Uncle-in-law, and all you elder brothers and misses!"

"Oh?" The crowd startled, then immediately sized him up from head to toe.

The more they looked, the more disappointed they felt—what kind of genius is this? He's clearly just a very good-looking kid.

And his smile is completely sincere, totally at odds with the rumors of him being a murderous, cold-blooded killer!

Wang Qing said in a deep voice: "Are you Heng Xian? One person wiping out nine great families and tens of thousands? A single glance instantly killing three Qi Condensation Ninth Layer cultivators?"

Heng Xian blinked: "Who said that? It's nonsense, a rumor passed on—can't be believed!"

Wang Shengchun and Wang Qing's group exchanged glances, both furrowing their brows—what does this mean?

The Heng family did indeed destroy the nine families, but this Heng Xian looks utterly ordinary—how could the rumors be so false?

Just then Heng Xian shouted: "What are you doing? Wang family relatives who have come from afar, all you elders and brothers, so benevolent, accomplished in cultivation, righteous for a thousand ages,

How could you oppose us with crossbows? Put them down at once and apologize!

All the crossbows were withdrawn.

Heng Ruze took the lead, and the five hundred plus people all bowed with faces of "shame": "Sorry! We were wrong, sorry to our relatives, we deserve to die!"

Uh...

As the saying goes, don't strike a smiling face; this scene left the Wang family crowd and the five geniuses somewhat embarrassed.

Wang Shengchun, whose temper is the most straightforward, laughed: "Haha, it's just a misunderstanding!"

Heng Xian wore a solemn expression: "Exactly! It's absolutely a misunderstanding; relatives who have come from afar, no matter what you wish to do, there's no need to rush this moment,

The Heng family has prepared Donglan City's specialty delicacies to show our hospitality as hosts; please do us the honor of coming to taste them!"

The Wang family people and the five geniuses exchanged a glance: "Well then… we'd rather obey than show respect?"

"Please!"

"Please!"

The Heng family's "Banquet Hall" indeed had four tables of delicious dishes.

A group of people took their seats.

Heng De, Heng Yue Ruo, Heng Xian, Heng Ru Ze, and a group of Heng family elders accompanied them.

At the banquet, the Heng family members lowered their attitudes to the extreme, not daring to talk back or curse back.

This greatly satisfied the vanity of the Wang family group and the five geniuses.

After three rounds of wine and five flavors of dishes.

Wang Sheng Chun, who was a bit drunk, looked at the Heng family and said: "Don't even say you Heng family wiped out nine clans; even if you wiped out ten, you are definitely not a match for my Wang family!"

"Yes, yes, yes, it's necessary." The Heng family members nodded repeatedly.

Wang Qing looked at Heng Xian, also utterly disappointed: "I thought this trip would surely bring great gains, but who would have thought this Heng Xian is just a fraud, disappointing!"

Heng Xian suddenly changed his low-key attitude: "What the hell are you disappointed about? With you like that, I could beat you a hundred times over; you really think of yourself as a dish!"

"You..." The Wang family people and the five geniuses were all stunned.

Wang Qing's face darkened: "You've got guts!"

Heng Xian chuckled lightly: "Your guts are big, but you're a bit stupid."

"Stupid? You mean... you tampered with the food and drink?" A southern girl genius laughed, "I, the young lady, early on noticed something was off about you,"

"We have already taken the Bai Ling Detox Pill in advance; you're probably wasting your effort!"

The Wang family group and several geniuses also smiled, as if holding a pearl of wisdom.

However, the Heng family members looked at them like they were idiots.

Heng Xian stood up: "Who said I put poison in the food and drink? That would be a terrible waste of food!"

I clearly put the poison on the chair; as long as one sits for half an incense stick's time,

The powder will then penetrate the clothes and seep into the body through some opening; even a Qi Hai Realm cultivator would find it hard to resist! The Bai Ling Detox Pill is useless!

"You..." The faces of the Wang family group and the five geniuses all changed; who could have thought of this?!

"Time's about up!" Heng Xian snapped his fingers, "Fall!"

"Thud thud..."

Dozens of people swayed and collapsed in a heap.

All the Heng family members stood up, and outside, a hundred more Heng family direct descendants surged in.

Heng Xian solemnly looked at the crowd and said: "Today I'm giving you a lesson; in life, one must never pretend too much!"

From now on, the Heng family will pass on this excellent tradition of keeping a low profile, striking with a blunt stick, and scheming against people!

"Yes!" Everyone replied in unison.

Heng Yue Ruo said embarrassedly: "But... how should we deal with them?"

Heng Xian waved his hand: "Of course we strip them naked, hang them up, and whip them!"

At dawn on Shu Ri.

The thirty-seven Wang family members and the five geniuses, wearing only thin clothes, were hung up in two rows beneath the trees.

Each one was covered in wounds.

Not far away, Heng Xian, Wang Sheng Wen, and Heng Yue Ruo watched silently.

"What kind of conduct is this!" Wang Sheng Wen sighed.

Heng Yue Ruo also said: "Xian'er, the medicine's effect will wear off soon; what should we do?"

Heng Xian chuckled: "Beating them would be pointless; later, when they wake up, they'll willingly let Aunt beat them, believe it?"

Wang Sheng Wen and Heng Yue Ruo looked bewildered: "No way!"

Heng Xian took out a large bottle of pills, poured out one, and said: "Aunt, first get up and walk two steps."

"What?!" Heng Yue Ruo and her spouse were stunned like wooden chickens.

(End of chapter)