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nChapter 89: Situation

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nThe palm slashed out like a blade, stabbing towards Su Qian’s neck with an ominous ringing.

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nSu Qian had clearly seen this attack, but he simply could not react to it to dodge in time.

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nBang!

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nSu Chen’s palm chopped down onto Su Qian’s neck.

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nEveryone saw that Su Chen had only struck out once and Su Qian had already been hit. Su Qian stared at Su Chen in disbelief, as if he was shocked to find that he had somehow been hit. Then, his eyes rolled into the back of his head and he fell over.

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nHe fell cleanly and gracefully to the ground.

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nThis time, Su Chen did not fiercely beat him again.

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n“NO!” Su Keji was unable to hold back and began to stand up and yell loudly, “Qian’er, get back up!”

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nHe could not accept that Su Qian had been defeated, and what more that his defeat had been so simple.

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nSu Qian had looked like a child being teased by adults, and after that child had been played with enough he had been tossed aside.

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nSu Chen had not fiercely beaten Su Qian, but he had given Su Qian’s soul a heavy blow. His blow had seemed like it was child’s play to him, completely crushing Su Qian’s self-confidence!

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nSu Keji definitely could not accept this. He let out crazy yells, “Qian’er, get up, keep fighting!”

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nSu Qian seemed to have heard this, and he strove to stand up unsteadily.

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nSu Chen sighed, then grabbed Su Qian’s shoulder and held him steady. He said in a low tone, “You asked for it.”

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nBoom!

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nAnother fist landed on Su Qian’s face.

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nSu Qian flew into the air, before crashing into the ground below the stage.

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nThis time, he would not get up no matter how Su Keji yelled.

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nIt was all over.

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nSu Keji’s heart froze. He sat on the ground, paralyzed.

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nNot only him, all of the other spectators were also speechless.

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nSu Qian’s loss here basically meant that he had lost Su Keji’s entire fortune.

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nThe defeat of the clan’s Second Elder here was equivalent to him giving up any inheritance that he would have passed on in the Su Clan. He had lost his entire future.

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nThe winner was king, while the loser was wrong. At that moment, even Su Changche found it difficult to keep watching. He said, “Feihu, your Second Senior Brother right now seems as if he is in great pain. I think……”

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nSu Feihu replied, “Your son understands. Just forget about the bet that we made earlier.”

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n“No, I’ll crawl!” At this point, Su Keji suddenly spoke up.

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nEveryone was stunned.

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nSu Keji walked step by step off of the spectator’s platform.

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nHe arrived near the stage, knelt down on all fours, then began to crawl.

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nEveryone was dazed when they saw this. Even Su Chen was slightly startled.

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nSu Keji began to say loudly, “I, Su Keji, made a bet and I lost! From today onwards, I give up all of my inheritance in the Su Clan, and I will crawl once around the stage. Everyone in the Su Clan can be my witness!”

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nAs he yelled, he began to crawl, and he continued to yell as he crawled.

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nEveryone continued to watch him crawl, dazed and speechless.

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nIf there were people who were off-put by Su Keji’s aggressiveness, then in this moment their attitudes had become closer to respect and sympathy.

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nIn that instant, even Su Feihu felt somewhat unsettled.

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nOnly Su Chen thought that this was somewhat amusing. He said to himself, “As someone who lost, it was best for him to adopt an utterly fearless attitude, using an attitude of pursuing death to rip open any wounds. That way, he could appear heroic and gain the sympathy of others, giving him a lifeline out of the predicament he was in. Is this his tactic?”

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nHis good Second Uncle truly had some of his own methods.

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nHowever, he naturally could not allow his uncle to continue with this farce.

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nHe suddenly said, “Jianxin, help me down.”

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nAlthough his voice was not loud, it was quite penetrating.

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nSu Keji’s figure stopped.

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nJianxin!?

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nSu Chen continued to yell, “Jianxin! Jianxin? Where did you go?”

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nEvery yell pierced Su Keji’s heart like a sharp needle.

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nSomeone replied, “I think that I saw him run away a while ago.”

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n“NOO!” Su Keji suddenly howled.

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nHe could not contain the rage in his heart, and he charged out.

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nSu Chen smiled faintly as he watched Su Keji’s disappearing back.

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nHe said to Su Changche, “Patriarch, there is still half a lap remaining. Let’s just forget about it.”

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nSu Changche: “……”

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nSu Keji returned three days later.

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nWhen he returned, his body was drenched with fresh blood.

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nNo one asked him where this blood came from even though Iron Cliff was very curious as to what fate Jianxin had encountered. Unfortunately, it was likely that he would never know the answer.

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nThe night that Su Keji returned, a body was released from the Virtuous Gift Residence.

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nIt was Elder Tong.

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nFrom that night onwards, Su Keji lived a secluded life in the Su Clan, never appearing again.

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nHe relinquished control of all his businesses in the Su Clan, and gave up on any dreams of jockeying for power.

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nAs for Su Chen, he had taken the Verdant Wood Essence and a few other resources that Su Changche had given him and gave them all to Iron Cliff on that very same day.

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nIn front of everyone.

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nThis portion of cultivation resources, which two generations of the Su Clan had fought over, was given away so easily by Su Chen as if it were a negligible reward. Everyone who saw it was speechless.

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nSome felt that Su Chen was doing this in purpose to debase the honor of others, but would retrieve the cultivation resources behind their backs.

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nHowever, everyone discovered very quickly that the cultivation resources had in fact been given to Iron Cliff. The night of the end-of-year competition, Iron Cliff charged into the Qi Drawing Realm.

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nThose resources had truly been given to Iron Cliff to break into Qi Drawing.

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nBut one aspect of their guesses was absolutely correct – Su Chen was doing this to truly humiliate the Su Clan.

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nHe could have done so a little more low-key, but he still chose to give away everything that he had earned to a servant.

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nApparently, the clan’s elder was not very happy about it. He said repeatedly, “Youngsters are too impetuous.”

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nAnother fact that could prove that Su Chen was purposefully humiliating the Su Clan was that, until now, Su Chen had not gone to the Su Clan’s Inheritance Pavilion to obtain any Origin Skills yet.

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nThe person in charge of the Inheritance Pavilion was Second Elder Su Changqing. He had long harbored the thought of intentionally making things difficult for Su Chen when he went to pick out Origin Skills.

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nHowever, Su Chen simply had not come!

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nHe had become an Origin Qi Scholar, yet he did not learn any Origin Skills – what did that mean?

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nMany people didn’t understand, and some people began to guess that Su Changqing was making things difficult for Su Chen, preventing him from getting them.

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nWhen the news reached Su Changqing, he was so angry that he spit out a mouthful of blood.

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nHe truly had been intending on making things difficult, but the issue was that he didn’t even have the opportunity to do so!

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nIt was Su Chen himself who hadn’t come to obtain these Origin Skills; what did it have to do with him?

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nAlthough he had the intention of making things difficult, Su Changqing felt that he was wrongly accused because he hadn’t had the opportunity.

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nEven so, not everyone was wrongly accusing him.

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nAt the very least, Su Changche knew that it wasn’t Su Changqing’s fault. Rather, it was Su Chen’s own decision.

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nOn that day, Su Chang’che spent a long time sighing, and then he called Su Cheng’an, cursing his son out.

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nFrom this hearsay, he had also taken away a few of Su Cheng’an’s businesses and given them to Old Third, Su Feihu.

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nAs the eldest son of the Su Clan, Su Chang’an managed the most businesses, but from this moment, Su Feihu began to control more businesses than Su Cheng’an.

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nWithout question, this was a weather vane that indicated that Su Changche’s regard of his eldest son was slowly switching over to Old Third.

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nThis could very easily be understood as an important signal that there would be changes in the Su Clan. Some even believed that it might not be Su Cheng’an who would hold up the Su Clan, but rather Su Feihu.

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nAfter Su Keji, Su Cheng’an became someone who was the most frustrated.

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nWhen his own son won the end-of-year competition, it had not brought him any glory. Rather, it had put him in dire straits. The gazes that people used to look at him had changed, and now they were filled with scorn, sarcasm, and mockery.

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nTo Su Cheng’an, this was also a kind of torment.

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nSome people would feel regret because of their decisions, while some people would feel only anger because of it.

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nUnfortunately, Su Cheng’an belonged to the latter.

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