A One-Month Deadline

At Tianhai Guizang's words, Tianhai Shanzhong, a member of the Fifth-Rank Cultivation Family, the Tianhai Family, froze slightly. As a member of this Fifth-Rank Cultivation Family, the Tianhai Family, he naturally understood the methods of Tianhai Guizang, the Tianhai Family's patriarch, all too well.

The reason the Fifth-Rank Cultivation Family, the Tianhai Family, had become the sole Fifth-Rank Cultivation Family in Qinghe Commandery City was not entirely due to the Lineage's foundation. It was also because of the execution capabilities of its members.

Tianhai Guizang, the patriarch of the Fifth-Rank Cultivation Family, the Tianhai Family, was renowned throughout Qinghe Commandery City for his "iron-blooded methods." Under his management, the Tianhai Family had indeed risen at breakneck speed, its development far surpassing that of the other four high-ranked families.

Within the Fifth-Rank Cultivation Family, the Tianhai Family, any member who failed to carry out Tianhai Guizang's plans and demands would, at best, be exiled to some remote family property. At worst, Tianhai Guizang would exercise his authority under the family rules before everyone and execute that member on the spot.

That was why Tianhai Shanzhong had been so shocked upon hearing Tianhai Guizang's words.

"Shanzhong, you know that I have always thought highly of you. Yet your actions today have disappointed me greatly. You must understand: the Xinghua Village Meng Family is merely an Eighth-Rank Cultivation Family, while our Tianhai Family stands high above as a Fifth-Rank Cultivation Family. Our Fifth-Rank Cultivation Family, the Tianhai Family, possesses countless foundations, yet we cannot even break down a cultivation item, Spiritflow Liquid, developed by the Eighth-Rank Cultivation Family, the Xinghua Village Meng Family, much less develop a corresponding cultivation item ourselves!"

Tianhai Guizang asked again, "If word of this reaches the ears of the other high-ranked families, our Fifth-Rank Cultivation Family, the Tianhai