Meeting Zhou Qingyuan

After the Xinghua Village Meng Family junior Meng Haoran and the Xinghua Village Meng Family's Clan Leader Meng Jingshan had finished discussing the matter at hand with Baili Shouxi, an elder of the Sixth-Rank Cultivation Family, the Baili Family, Baili Shouxi bade the two of them farewell.

At that moment, however, Clan Leader Meng Jingshan forcibly persuaded Baili Shouxi, the elder of the Sixth-Rank Cultivation Family Baili Family, to stay.

Baili Shouxi asked curiously, "Clan Leader Jingshan, now that this matter has been settled, why do you wish for me to remain here? Zhang Wenhai, head of the Ranked Family Zhang Family, Wang Renhua, head of the Ranked Family Wang Family, and Yang Shouming, head of the Ranked Family Yang Family, were the key figures obstructing your Xinghua Village Meng Family's advancement. Now that all three have died by your hand, even if the clansmen of their three Ranked Families refuse to submit to you in the future, they will have to weigh their own strength first."

"Elder Shouxi, you are right. At present, the greatest obstacle to our Xinghua Village Meng Family's promotion from a Ninth-Rank Cultivation Family to an Eighth-Rank Cultivation Family has already been personally dealt with by me. But I am the Clan Leader of the Xinghua Village Meng Family, as well as the head of a Ninth-Rank Cultivation Family in Qingyang County Territory. Zhang Wenhai, Wang Renhua, and Yang Shouming were likewise heads of Ninth-Rank Cultivation Families. I killed the three of them before the people of Qingyang County Territory. That will inevitably be exploited by those with ulterior motives!"

Clan Leader Meng Jingshan of the Xinghua Village Meng Family said with a smile, "Our Xinghua Village Meng Family is presently at the critical juncture of advancing from a Ninth-Rank Cultivation Family to an Eighth-Rank