Divine Emperor of Heavenly Destiny

Looking at the impatient crowd around him...

Lu Chao shook his head, ignoring Elder Lady Su’s scolding. He continued with his previous point, ”Your Saint Bone Su Family wouldn’t dare kidnap someone from Jilong Marquis’s Mansion, but another family would... The Saint Bone Zheng Family.”

He cut straight to the chase, ignoring the chorus of doubts and accusations around him.

All Lu Chao wanted was to lay out the full story and force the Saint Bone Su Family to take the matter seriously.

However, Lu Chao had miscalculated...

The members of the Saint Bone Su Family stared with wide eyes. Then, the old maidservant let out a snort of laughter. ”The more you talk, the more ridiculous you sound. Why would the Saint Bone Zheng Family kidnap a piece of trash like your father-in-law?”

Just then, a noble-looking young woman stepped forward, a wide grin on her face as she spoke.

”Granny Yun, what he means is that the Saint Bone Zheng Family saw his father-in-law’s ’exceptional talent’ and figured he could definitely awaken the Su Family’s Saint Bone.”

”So they kidnapped his father-in-law to stop the Su Family’s resurgence.”

Granny Yun was the old maidservant...

Another young person stepped out and asked, ”Granny Yun, is his father-in-law really so incredible that the Saint Bone Zheng Family would take such notice?”

In response, Granny Yun sneered, ”Bullshit. He’s an old man and still at the Postnatal level. The Zheng Family would kidnap anyone before they’d take him.”

Hearing this, the entire crowd was left dumbfounded...

”And to think Su Shangmo said this kid was a promising prospect. I think there’s something wrong with his head.”

”To actually use the Zheng Family as an excuse...”

”This guy is trying to freeload with an attitude. He’ll stop at nothing, but unfortunately, he’s not smart enough, and his lies are completely transparent.”

With his attitude and his flimsy excuse, Lu Chao was clearly a freeloader trying to act tough.

He was obviously here to beg the Saint Bone Su Family for a chance, yet he insisted on acting like he was hot stuff. It was utterly ridiculous.

Amid the waves of contemptuous murmurs...

Lu Chao was speechless. He truly hadn’t expected the people of the Saint Bone Su Family to be so imaginative with their assumptions.

He recalled Yin Ye’s assessment of the Saint Bone Families: ’They’re all a bunch of arrogant megalomaniacs.’

At this, Cheng Yunsu couldn’t help but speak up. ”Can you please let Lu Chao finish? The Saint Bone Zheng Family didn’t capture my father because of you all. They did it to force Lu Chao into a deathmatch.”

The crowd quieted for a brief moment...

Then, Granny Yun shrieked, ”Elder Lady, I can’t take it anymore! These two are cut from the same cloth! The Saint Bone Zheng Family forcing *him* into a deathmatch? For fuck’s sake! I think we should break both their legs and throw them out!”

Of course, no one believed it. It was completely unbelievable.

The great Saint Bone Zheng Family, forcing some nobody into a deathmatch? And they’d risk storming Marquis Jilong’s mansion and kidnapping his father-in-law just to do it? He couldn’t even come up with a decent excuse.

Elder Lady Su had also completely lost her patience. She looked at Lu Chao.

”Boy, I was originally considering keeping you, as you seemed like a promising prospect. Now, there’s no need.”

”Guards! Break this boy’s legs and throw him out of the Su Mansion.”

At these words, the color drained from Cheng Yunsu’s face.

Yu Fei’s True Qi was on the verge of erupting. He was already livid. If Lu Chao hadn’t told him not to make a rash move, and if Sun Shijin hadn’t repeatedly instructed him to prioritize Lu Chao’s protection before they left, he would have already exploded.

He’d been wanting to curse them out for a while now.

But now that they were threatening to break Lu Chao’s legs, he had to intervene.

However, this was the Saint Bone Su Family. His strength as a Transformation Realm Peak expert was nothing here. Elder Lady Su declared on the spot, ”You must be one of the old disciples from the Azure Flame Sect. Break his legs too... and throw him out with the other one.”

She mistook Yu Fei for one of the other old disciples from the Azure Flame Sect and had no intention of sparing him.

And just like that, Granny Yun lunged forward, intending to do the deed herself...

Then, Elder Lady Su pointed at Cheng Yunsu. ”As for this illegitimate granddaughter, leave her here. She will participate in the Saint Bone Ceremony.”

The chances were slim, but every extra person was another opportunity.

She had no intention of harming Cheng Yunsu, of course. As for whether this would tear the young couple apart, that thought had never even crossed Elder Lady Su’s mind.

As Granny Yun charged, a chill entered Lu Chao’s eyes. ’It seems I’ll have to confront them with Marquis Jilong’s soldiers,’ he thought.

However, just as Lu Chao prepared to speak again...

”Report!”

The cry of a messenger echoed through the hall as a guard in black robes hurried in.

”Elder Lady!” he shouted as he ran. ”People from the Saint Bone Zheng Family are here! They say they want to observe our Saint Bone Ceremony!”

At these words, everyone’s eyes went wide. Elder Lady Su shot to her feet.

Granny Yun froze in her tracks, staring at the messenger...

Just then, Su Shangmo flashed forward. ”How many have come? What are their ranks?”

The messenger replied swiftly...

”It’s a group of young people led by the Zheng Family’s top prodigy, Zheng Zhugong. Several Elders are with them.”

Hearing this, Elder Lady Su’s expression darkened, though she also breathed a sigh of relief.

She said coldly, ”Drive them out of Saint Su City. Tell them our Saint Bone Ceremony is not open to public viewing.”

They were sworn enemies; how could she possibly allow the Saint Bone Zheng Family to observe their Saint Bone Ceremony?

However, the messenger quickly added, ”Zheng Zhugong says that if the Elder Lady refuses to let them observe, then you must hand over the man on their kill list. Otherwise, they will retaliate against us with everything they have...”

As his words faded, the entire hall fell into a stunned silence.

Granny Yun’s voice was frigid as she asked, ”What kill list? How dare they claim our Su Family is hiding someone they want to kill? Hmph, what nonsense. Even if we were, we would never hand them over.”

All eyes turned to the messenger, eager to know who the Saint Bone Zheng Family wanted to kill.

The messenger said quickly, ”Zheng Zhugong said the man on their kill list... is named Lu Chao.”

Elder Lady Su was stunned...

Granny Yun blinked, and the others looked completely bewildered. ’Who is Lu Chao?’

’It seems someone just mentioned that name... I feel like I’ve heard it somewhere, but I can’t quite place it. Is he one of the illegitimate descendants?’

Suddenly, a calm voice cut through the silence. ”I am Lu Chao.”

SWISH!

Countless heads swiveled toward the source of the voice, and then eyes widened in unison.

’That’s right,’ they thought. ’His wife just mentioned his name. And wasn’t he the Fake Lu Chao who led the Azure Flame Sect in the Chaotic Hundred Countries?’

Lu Chao’s gaze swept across the hall once more.

He spoke, pausing on each word. ”Now, are you willing to let me finish? Are you willing to hear about the deathmatch? Are you willing to hear why they kidnapped my father-in-law?”

His voice echoed throughout the entire hall!

Jaws dropped one after another. ’Damn it, could everything he said... actually be true?’

”Let me say this one more time...”

”I did not bring my wife here to participate in your Su Family’s Saint Bone Ceremony. Rather, the Saint Bone Zheng Family is forcing me to fight a deathmatch against their Zheng Zhuhai, right here, in your Saint Bone Su Family’s home.”