The facts proved that there really were people looking to get themselves killed.
After Lu Xingshi refused to let the surrounding nobles have a slice of the cake, he naturally began taking action.
They did indeed cause Lu Xingshi quite a bit of trouble, but he resolved every last one of them.
His solution was simple and brutal: he directly sent them flying.
Once enough people died, anyone claiming not to be afraid would be lying.
And if they were not afraid, that was fine too. Once they were dead, whatever remained was no longer a problem.
Such large-scale deaths naturally drew attention.
Yet Lu Xingshi had acted with great secrecy, and there was no direct evidence. Instead, with the nobles who had served as the backbone now dead, Lu Xingshi seized the opportunity to nibble away at vast amounts of profit, further strengthening Black Earth Territory.
After that, Lu Xingshi sat steady as a fisherman on his platform.
As for the new nobles who rose to power after their fathers and mothers died, they believed Lu Xingshi was the murderer.
Lu Xingshi merely replied with disdain, "Produce the evidence. Otherwise, not only will I sue you for slander, I will also fight an Honor Duel to defend my noble honor—the kind where whoever loses is stripped of their noble status."
The moment those words came out, every one of them fell silent.
Lu Xingshi was now not only an earl, but also a Kingdom Grand Knight. He possessed a Life Seed and had stepped into the Transcendent realm. They were simply not comparable to him.
So, they endured it on the surface, while secretly beginning to seek connections higher up. This matter was definitely not over.
Yet even now, after all that searching, there had been no movement. It