Aiming Too High

The commotion over in Hengchuan Main City had long since spread throughout the entire Central Domain.

Hengshui Base City was naturally no exception.

Countless searchlights crisscrossed above the city, dazzlingly bright.

The Chen Family residential district in East City had every light blazing even more so.

Chen Yan was barely over a hundred years old, yet she had already reached the peak of the Eighth Order.

In the eyes of nearly everyone, she was the person most likely to be the next to ascend to the realm of Martial God.

The Hengshui Chen Family behind Chen Yan was precisely the clan that had relocated in its entirety from Xifeng Base City fifty years ago.

For that very reason, when it came to investigating clues about Chen Tingyu, most people's first thought was to seek out the Hengshui Chen Family.

At first, upon hearing that someone wanted to inquire about Chen Tingyu, quite a few of the clan's elders were taken aback.

But soon, after learning that this Chen Tingyu had been a figure from five hundred years ago,

the astonishment on the elders' faces instantly turned into relieved sighs.

Yet what they had not expected was—

not long afterward, an order came down from the Martial Arts General Bureau.

The Chen Family was ordered that every single member of the clan must remain at home and was forbidden from going out without permission.

The moment that order arrived, the entire Chen Family panicked.

What frightened them was not the confinement order itself, but what it implied.

With Chen Yan presiding over the Chen Family, the Martial Arts General Bureau had always hesitated to provoke them lightly.

Yet now, it dared to issue such a forceful order directly confining the entire clan. It was clearly not acting on a whim.

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