Pushing the Candidate into the Spotlight, Sending the Old Crown Prince on His Way

They had barged straight into the Huang Clan's heartland and delivered a coffin. Deathly aura coiled around it, making it obvious that someone's corpse lay inside.

Qin Yang and the others might not have recognized it, but Second Sword Lord and Tian LuanYu of the Tian Family certainly did. Tian LuanYu had now been confirmed as the Tian Family's future successor. How could anyone in the Huang Clan fail to recognize him? Even those who had never met him could still identify him on sight.

Coupled with the declaration that they would only wait half an incense stick's time, the guards did not dare ask further. They hurried off to report it.

A short while later, a Dao Palace cultivator emerged, took away the coffin, and courteously invited Qin Yang and Tian LuanYu inside for tea.

Someone stayed with them, chatting idly while offering impeccable, excessively courteous hospitality.

Qin Yang had long known that this was the Huang Clan's style—more precisely, Huang Clan Head's way of doing things. He was every inch a smiling tiger.

On the surface, he offended no one. But when it came time to actually act, it was another matter entirely.

From Huang Ying's incident at the beginning to Qin Yang later seeking an audience with Huang Clan Head and being refused, Qin Yang had already seen clearly what the Huang Clan was plotting.

They would only stand with the winners. Whoever held greater power, they would draw closer to. Put bluntly, they were fence-sitters. What they wanted was merely lasting prosperity, never to decline. Thus, they would certainly never do something as risky as raising the banner in rebellion.

They would only dispatch members of their own Lineage after someone had ascended the throne, taking control of numerous positions from top to bottom.

Qin Yang