Zhang Bao'er said, "The patriarch agreed to your three-year wager, and that's all there is to it. Why make things difficult for me? I'm still so young. How could I be the patriarch? You're asking the impossible. You're obviously trying to throw me off and stop me from focusing on chess and cultivation. That's why you came up with this wicked scheme."
Xu Yi said coldly, "Your provocation doesn't work every time. If you refuse, then consider all my earlier promises void. Taking Huaiyu Mountain would hardly be difficult for me."
"Brother Kongxu, wait! I'll do it, I'll do it. Here's the Protective Formation Jade Plate, and here's the Patriarch's Seal."
Zhang Kuangxing cried out urgently.
"Patriarch, you mustn't!"
"Absolutely not! The Patriarch's Seal symbolizes our Lineage. How can we entrust it to a young girl?"
"..."
The Zhang family finally couldn't hold back any longer, and they all tried to dissuade him.
Zhang Kuangxing raised his voice. "I've made up my mind. There's no need for you all to try to talk me out of it." As he spoke, he tossed the Mountain Protecting Jade Plate and a bright red seal carved with a lion's head toward Zhang Bao'er.
He had calculated everything clearly. Zhang Bao'er had neither power nor influence, no roots and no foundation. Even if he really named her patriarch, he would still be the one in charge of the family. That much was certain.
Rather than maintain these empty pretenses, what he wanted most was to send this Old Demon Kongxu on his way as quickly as possible. This arrogant, hypocritical devil was so unpleasant that even looking at him made Zhang Kuangxing miserable.
Just as the Protective Formation Jade Plate and the Patriarch's Seal were about to fall into Zhang Bao'er's hands, a stream