Chapter 37 Duel
In the inn, countless worries surged in Jane Anning's heart.
It was obvious that she didn't let Lu Fei drink the wine in her gourd for a reason.
However, although Jian An Ning had been observing Lu Fei's condition with trepidation for the next few days, Lu Fei did not show any abnormality.
Perhaps because it was only a tiny amount, the impact was negligible? Jane Anning thought.
Soon, it was the day for Jiang Qing and Jiang Tan to duel.
Jian Anning and his group came to a large open space in the backyard of the Jiang Mansion, where there was an arena for the Jiang family disciples to use.
It was a quiet and deserted place. I don't know if Jiang Zan had ordered no one to come near, or if there were just few people coming here. Only Jiang Qing's father, Jiang Fuzhou, was here, standing on a completely different side from Jian An Ning and her group.
Jiang Qing had been waiting there for a long time, looking very confident.
Fan Qingyue was extremely puzzled by this. What on earth gave Jiang Qing, a cultivator in the Foundation Establishment stage, the confidence to fight against a cultivator in the Golden Core stage?
He looked up and saw Jiang Zan standing silently behind Jiang Qing, like a silent yet indestructible shield.
Fan Qingyue thought he probably understood.
But as both are heirs of the Jiang family, why does Jiang Zan favor Jiang Qing but not Jiang Tan?
Jiang Tan acted so quickly that he didn't give Fan Qingyue time to think too much.
She and Jiang Qing stood on opposite sides of the arena, and she held in her hand the longbow that only the Jiang family bloodline could use.
"I paid the price of leaving Yingzhou to obtain this longbow," she whispered, her voice filled with a turbulent tide of emotions. "You think you can obtain the inheritance so easily? It's absolutely impossible."
But Jiang Qing smiled contemptuously and said to her, "A loser should act like a loser. Don't covet things that don't belong to you."
The silent Jiang Zan walked silently to the center of the ring and announced the start of the duel as the referee.
Jian Anning touched his chin and said to Jiang Zan before Jiang Tan and Jiang Qing started fighting, "Will you be the referee?"
There was a complete lack of trust in those words. After all, anyone with a discerning eye could see that Jiang Zan was clearly favoring someone.
Jiang Zan glanced at her and said, "This is an internal matter of my Jiang family, so naturally someone from the Jiang family should be in charge. Do you have a better candidate?"
Jian An Ning looked around and saw that the only member of the Jiang family present was Jiang Fuzhou.
A biological father would probably be more partial to his own children, right?
Jian An Ning decided not to cause any more trouble, but leaned against the courtyard wall with a slightly depressed look, drinking from her gourd.
Jiang Tan took the lead in launching the attack. She bent her bow and drew the string. In an instant, countless spiritual powers turned into a rain of arrows in the sky. It seemed that there was nowhere to hide.
Jiang Qing secretly gritted his teeth, he knew Jiang Tan was very difficult to deal with.
Such a ferocious move right from the start was definitely meant to take his life. If he was just an ordinary foundation-building cultivator, he would probably have to admit defeat after just this one move.
However, unfortunately, Jiang Tan had a wrong idea. He was never an ordinary person.
Jiang Qing pinched his hands together and summoned a bone flute the size of a finger. As soon as this thing appeared, Jian An Ning felt a familiar breath.
"Isn't that the magic weapon of that demon cultivator?" Lu Fei asked doubtfully.
Jian An Ning took out the bone flute that she had snatched from Murong Jing from her storage bag.
At first glance, the two bone flutes look similar, but if you look closely, you will find that the patterns engraved on them are slightly different, which should mean they have different functions.
Jian Anning looked at Jiang Zan, who remained indifferent, and said, "Using human bones as magical instruments is what demonic cultivators do. Your Jiang family is at least considered a reputable and righteous family, so how can you allow your heir to use a demonic cultivator's magical instrument?"
Jiang Zan looked nonchalant and simply said, "You're not a demon cultivator, so how do you know that the magic weapon is for demon cultivators? And how do you know it's made of human bones?"
Jane Anning: ...
This is really biased to the extreme.
On the stage, Jiang Qing didn't care about the exposure of the magic weapon. He activated the bone flute according to the spell taught to him by Murong Jing.
All cultivators with cultivation felt the sudden shock of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. The next moment, all people carrying passes on the entire Yingzhou Island and even outside the island felt that their dantian seemed to be suddenly pierced by something.
The spiritual power that had been painstakingly refined began to leak out from the hole.
It gathered into a torrent of spiritual power invisible to the naked eye and was all infused into Jiang Qing's body.
In an instant, Jiang Tan noticed that Jiang Qing's aura was rising steadily, and soon it reached the level of the Golden Core Stage, and then continued to rise, and in an instant it reached the level of the Nascent Soul Stage.
"You're just going to watch him use this secret technique?" Jian An Ning looked at Jiang Zan suspiciously and said, "Even if this secret technique can improve your cultivation in the short term, once the effect wears off, it will damage the potential of the heir you're eyeing."
Moreover, this was a secret method that leaned towards the path of magic cultivation, so it was no exaggeration to say that it was a heavy blow.
But Jiang Zan remained unmoved. He stared at the ring match intently, as if he was only paying attention to the result.
Jian Anning glanced at Jiang Fuzhou again.
Jiang Fuzhou looked calm and unmoved.
Okay, Jian An Ning thought, maybe the Jiang family are the kind of people who will do anything to achieve their goals. It's really true that if they are not from the same family, they will not marry.
Within a stick of incense, the outcome of the duel was clear.
No matter how hard Jiang Tan tried, he could not compare to Jiang Zan's recognition of Jiang Qing. So when Jiang Qing was at a disadvantage, he did not declare the end. But there was a time when Jiang Qing got the upper hand, and Jiang Zan decided that Jiang Qing won.
Jiang Tan's unwillingness was almost overflowing from his eyes.
"Now it's time for you to voluntarily give up your inheritance."
Jiang Qing stood in front of Jiang Tan and looked down at his sister, whom he had been on guard against almost all his life, with an expression that showed an unconcealable smugness.
In this way, his inheritance rights will be clear, and no one can stop him from obtaining the inheritance.
Jiang Zan's thinking was more comprehensive than Jiang Qing's.
In front of everyone present, he announced Jiang Qing as the heir of the Jiang family, and then he clasped his hands together and a brown light took shape in his palms.
"Our ancestors had foresight and avoided the catastrophe of world destruction. They also gathered the scattered origins together. This is how our Jiang family was able to inherit the origin of earth as our bloodline and pass it down from generation to generation."
As Jiang Zan spoke, he directed the spiritual light directly towards Jiang Qing's forehead.
Jiang Tan sneered and said directly, "You've been looking for the right time to give Jiang Qing the Origin of Earth and the Nine Heavens Soil for quite some time, right?"
Jiang Zan said nothing, but simply passed on the power and treasure to Jiang Qing.
Anyone who is a member of the Jiang family and whose name is written on the hibiscus leaves is eligible to receive the inheritance.
In this generation, only Jiang Tan and Jiang Qing had their names written on the hibiscus leaves.
Jiang Tan has completely given up. She will never be able to snatch Jiang Qing away from her grandfather because he is the one he loves the most, and she is just a bonus at best.
However, the next moment, something unexpected happened.
It was seen that the ball of earth origin that Jiang Zan desperately wanted to give out could not be integrated into Jiang Qing's spiritual platform at all.
"What's going on?" Jiang Fuzhou, who had been silent all the time, couldn't help but ask.
Everyone present fell into an extremely strange silence. Only Jian Anning touched his chin and said, "Come to think of it, Jiang Qing doesn't look much like your Jiang family."
"What nonsense are you talking about? My name is written on the leaves of the hibiscus tree!" Jiang Qing was a little panicked and shouted.
Jian An Ning chuckled and explained to him, "The hibiscus leaves only have the power to record, and cannot distinguish true from false. However, the inheritance of your Jiang family can only be inherited by the bloodline of the Jiang family."
Jiang Zan stood there in a daze as if struck by lightning, the brown spiritual light on his hand flickering, just like his turbulent mood.
Could it be that Jiang Qing is not a descendant of the Jiang family?
He thought so in his heart, and seeing that Jiang Fuzhou seemed to be unaware of the situation, he made a hand gesture and called Jiang Fuzhou's wife, Jiang Chengyao.
When the woman with her hair full of jewels and jade came, she examined her beloved son with great concern.
Jian An Ning tilted her head and found that this woman was the one who seemed intimate with Chu Qinghe at that time.
"So, Jiang Qing is your child with another man?" Jian An Ning asked decisively and bluntly.
He didn't consider at all that the top of Jiang Fuzhou's head might turn green.
"Who are you? What nonsense are you talking about? Our Qing'er's name is written on the leaves of the hibiscus tree, so of course he is a member of the Jiang family!" Jiang Chengyao was very excited, as if someone had touched her sore spot.
"But he cannot accept the blood inheritance of the Jiang family, which means that he does not have the Jiang family blood." Lu Fei analyzed carefully.
"What?"
Jiang Chengyao looked a little incredulous. She muttered to herself, "Isn't it possible to get away with it just by writing my name on a hibiscus leaf? Is he lying to me?"
Suddenly, Jiang Zan kicked him. His expression was extremely ugly. He asked, "Whose bastard is he, yours?"
With a loud "boom", thunder exploded.
Chu Qinghe's figure appeared quietly.
He walked up to her and gently tucked the hair behind Jiang Chengyao's ears. He looked extremely gentle, but he said ruthlessly, "I was lying to you."
The next moment, a flash of lightning appeared, and Chu Qinghe's target was very clear, which was the inheritance in Jiang Zan's hand.
Jiang Zan naturally wouldn't let him succeed.
Jiang Fuzhou also rushed straight towards Chu Qinghe in an instant, looking like he wanted to clear out the enemies for the Jiang family.
But it was just an appearance. After all, under Jiang Fuzhou's mask was Ye Qingzhou, who had also been plotting the inheritance for a long time.
Now the old voice seemed to be muted, not giving him any guidance, so he could only decide the timing of his attack based on his own judgment.
Jiang Tan was a little overwhelmed by the sudden amount of information.
In fact, no one thinks that Jiang Qing and Jiang Tan have no relationship. After all, they look somewhat similar, so they must have some blood relationship.
At this moment, Jiang Tan finally realized that the blood relationship that made her similar to Jiang Qing did not come from the Jiang family, but from Chu Qinghe. They were half-siblings with the same father.
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