After all!
Sha Minghong was not the Black Spirit Tiger Shark Clan's legitimate First Young Master and did not possess the highest-priority right of succession.
The forces within the clan that supported the original First Young Master were surely deeply entrenched and intricately intertwined.
Therefore...
For Sha Minghong to rise against the tide and successfully ascend to the position of clan chief, the process could never have been as simple as it appeared on the surface.
"At the very least, in terms of bloodline rank and potential, he must have surpassed the Black Spirit Tiger Shark Clan's original First Young Master and won the recognition of the clan elders.
"And he himself must surely possess the absolute strength needed to suppress the original First Young Master and his followers...
"Otherwise, it would have been extraordinarily difficult for him to shatter the established order of succession and successfully take his place."
"Of course, the support of the clan elders likely played a crucial role as well."
However, the truth was worlds apart from Cheng Buzheng's reasonable speculation at this moment.
Clearly.
Cheng Buzheng could never have imagined that Sha Minghong's path to power
had relied entirely on his own overwhelmingly powerful, absolute strength. With thunderous force, he had suppressed every voice of dissent within the clan.
Even those clan elders whose cultivation had reached the Half-Venerable Realm, ordinarily lofty and untouchable, had been suppressed on the spot by his indisputable power, and in the end had no choice but to submit.
Unfortunately, Cheng Buzheng had searched the souls of and interrogated several Black Spirit Tiger Shark Clan Mortal Cultivators, yet had no way of learning these specific inner details.
The Black Spirit Tiger Shark Clan's upper- and middle-ranking Mortal Cultivators who had personally witnessed Sha Minghong display his might that day...