"When one whale falls, all things are born!" Upon hearing those words, such a thought suddenly surfaced in Zhang Chen's mind.
The Shen family had a vast estate. If it fell, who knew how many forces would seize its assets and rise with the tide into regional titans?
"Aren't you afraid I'll go inform the Shen family? After all, the Shen family members are still my relatives," Zhang Chen asked Liu Ji.
"Do you think the Shen family hasn't noticed something amiss? If the Shen family were that slow to react, they wouldn't deserve to control seventy percent of the waterways under heaven. But even if they have sensed danger and begun making secret preparations, what can they do? To defeat the Shen family and swallow up its fortune, simple schemes aren't enough. What matters is hard power." Liu Ji replied with a smile. "Even among the court officials, who knows how many are secretly eyeing the Shen family's holdings?"
"In the past, the Shen family controlling seventy percent of the waterways under heaven would have been one thing. But now, Incense Qi can be used to confer godhood. Seventy percent of the waterways under heaven is enough to nurture an Eleventh Order God. What right does the Shen family have to enjoy such fortune? Even the various princes of the Great Victory Dynasty Court covet those seventy percent of waterways. They are among the hidden hands seeking the Shen family's destruction. Otherwise, do you really think Yellow Heaven Dao would dare move against the Shen family so openly?" Liu Ji spoke lightly, but Zhang Chen's pupils contracted. The waters here ran far too deep; the Shen family could not hold on.
"Think about it. One hundred percent of the waterways under heaven can create a Twelfth Order God, while