Chapter 145
Chapter 145: Counterattack (4)
Within the Wei Clan’s Residence, Clear River City .
As soon as Wei Songlin walked out, a bunch of people swarmed around him . “Elder, what’s the situation like? How is Clan Patriarch?”
Wei Songlin said, his expression dark, “His Lotus Platform shattered and his cultivation base has dropped back to the peak of the Yang Opening Realm . ”
“What?” Everyone who heard this was stunned .
Wei Songlin added on, “However, the foundation is still there . Father said that as long as he carefully nurses his wounds, he should be able to reach the Light Shaking Realm again . ”
“That’s good,” everyone sighed with relief .
As long as he could reach the Light Shaking Realm again, then the situation wasn’t too dire .
“However, it’s going to take at least ten years or so . ”
This single sentence brought everyone abruptly back to reality .
Ten years!
Ten years wasn’t really a long time, but it wasn’t short either . Most importantly, how much strength you had determined how much benefit you had . Without the support of a Light Shaking Realm cultivator, the Wei Clan was going to have a difficult time of things for these next ten years .
Someone sighed, “If it’s ten years, then it’s ten years . At least it’s better than the Shen Clan . ”
The Shen Clan!
Upon hearing these words, everyone felt their hearts tremble .
As soon as news of Shen Yuanhong’s death had spread, the Shen Clan lost a lot of prestige . Many people were already beginning to eye the Shen Clan’s businesses, and were reaching their hands in .
Actually, even without Shen Yuanhong, the Shen Clan still had quite a few experts . The Lai Clan had no Light Shaking Realm cultivators, but even so in terms of pure strength they might not even be able to measure up to a Shen Clan without Shen Yuanhong .
However, there was an issue with this: the influence a Bloodline Nobility Clan had was directly correlated to the power they possessed . According to the territory outlines of the ten Bloodline Nobility Clans, the Wang Clan had the most shops, Origin Qi Scholars, and territory, followed by the Shen and Wei Clan . With Shen Yuanhong’s death, the number of businesses the Shen Clan owned didn’t quite match up to their actual strength .
Of course, this was only a mismatch . Things might not have been such a big deal since people would have been a bit more considerate . Shen Yuanhong had just died, and nobody would be so impatient as to swallow up his clan’s businesses (at least that quickly) . They were still comrades and allies, so some camaraderie was present . Some clans even had in-law relations with others .
As such, unless the Shen Clan had totally collapsed, people wouldn’t usually be this obvious about it . Even if they were going to take some, they would do it by slowly boiling the frog to death, one step at a time .
However, the Clear River Gang had forced their way in .
The Long Clear Gang had massacred the Red Eagle Gang on Red Dust Street just shortly after Shen Yuanhong had died and forcefully seized those businesses .
Normally, this situation would have been brought to the alliance, and the Long Clear Gang would have been punished .
However, no punishment actually occurred .
First of all, Lai Wuyi steadfastly defended the Long Clear Gang – for his clan’s face, for the profits that were about to come his way, for the hearts of the gang members, and for his own well-hidden wild ambition, Lai Wuyi unhesitatingly stepped right into the pit Su Chen had dug for him .
The Wang Clan remained silent – An Siyuan had seriously warned Wang Zhanyu not to make any more careless moves and was watching him all the time . Wang Zhanyu had only attacked Su Chen once, but to mitigate any commotion he had been forced to use a connection in the imperial palace that had been very hard to come by . Things only calmed down then and only then, and he was not willing to start something again in the slightest .
The Long Clan and Lian Clan followed suit . They also made quiet moves themselves, each seizing the territory of two of the smaller gangs belonging to the Shen Clan . Of course, they did it in a way that was not nearly as bloody as the Long Clear Gang .
For a multitude of reasons, the Long Clear Gang’s massacre of the Red Eagle Gang went unpunished, giving everyone else a bad idea .
To countless people, the Shen Clan was like a piece of fat meat . Someone had already savagely bit off the first bite; talking things over civilly was longer possible . If they didn’t want to be squeezed out of contention, they would need to quickly start fighting for it .
Under these kinds of circumstances, the fate of the Shen Clan was quite obvious .
In just a few days, the gangs under the Shen Clan’s control had been attacked multiple times and were at this point almost completely wiped out .
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