At this point, the Duan family was in complete chaos.
When Duan Hentian, the head of the Duan family, heard the news, he fell silent. Those so-called evil spirits posed no threat to him, but they were a great threat to his ordinary disciples! If the Poison King's evil spirits were allowed to kill their Duan family disciples at will, the Duan family would be missing a large vacancy in the future, and the Duan family's reputation would be the lowest among the four great families!
He has to find a solution!
Now, the Poison King's strength has reached the Saint Realm, and he cannot possibly deal with it on his own. Even if the old man who has been in seclusion is brought out, he can probably only manage to deal with it. If they want to rescue the disciples under the Duan family, they must ask for help.
Duan Hentian made his decision and instructed the elder who came to report, "Go quickly and find the other three great families. Tell them that the Poison King has broken his oath and ask them for help! Also, make it clear that the Poison King has now reached the Saint Realm, and if he is not eliminated now, even more people will die in the future!"
The elder of the Duan family clasped his hands and said, "Yes!"
After saying that, the elder disappeared into the ground.
After giving his instructions, Duan Hentian walked to the front of the tower, looking at the dark clouds filling the sky and the low growls of evil spirits coming from all directions.
He had to take action.
Please ask the Duan family patriarch to come out of retirement!
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The capital city, and the other three great families.
They had actually known the news for a while, but they still chose to wait and see.
To put it nicely, the four great families of the capital are all pillars of the city, and on the surface, they seem to have a very good relationship. But in reality, none of them are willing to submit to the others. Now that the Duan family has been targeted, they are all waiting to reap the benefits, or perhaps they are waiting for the Duan family to come for help so they can extort a hefty sum from them.
In the capital, interests always come first; so-called friendships are nothing more than partnerships built on mutual benefit.
When there is no benefit for their partners, they will squeeze every last drop of profit out of them.
Friends are meant to be betrayed.
The leaders of the three major families were all sitting on the Huang family's territory, which was closest to the Duan family, watching the good show on the Duan family's side with a leisurely and carefree appearance.
"How has Patriarch Huang been lately? I didn't expect you to be paying attention to your opponents so early on."
"Hehe, we're all sensible people, so there's no need for formalities. Do you think I don't know what your intentions are in coming here?"
"Hahaha! Patriarch Huang is indeed a man of few words. Then the three of us will just sit and wait for news from the Duan family."
That's exactly what I was thinking.
The leaders of the three companies were all sitting here casually.
Sure enough, the elders of the Duan family came to find them a short while later. They stood up in unison and greeted the elders with smiles on their faces.
Upon seeing this, the elder of the Duan family began to have doubts.
Why are the leaders of the three great families all here?
However, he didn't have time to think about anything else and hurriedly said, "My lords, it's great that you're all here! The Poison King has now broken through to the Saint Realm and is now beginning a brutal massacre of my Duan family! Please lend us your help, my Duan family will repay you handsomely!"
The three family heads smiled, watching as the Duan family elders made no move.
Immediately afterwards, the Huang family head said, "Elder Duan, there is no need to panic. Since you have said that the Poison King has now reached the Saint Realm, it is not a big deal for our three families to take action. However, once we take action, we will all have to send out experts of equal strength. If we do, we are afraid that someone will launch a sneak attack on our territory, which would be very troublesome."
The head of the Huang family said this.
In reality, everyone knows that in the entire capital, apart from the four great families, the Poison King and the Emperor are the most powerful! The Emperor would never suppress the four great families, and the Poison King is with the Duan family, so how could there be any trouble?
The elder of the Duan family immediately understood.
They're trying to extort money from me!
The elder of the Duan family looked extremely grim and questioned, "What do you three mean by this? In the entire capital, who would dare to offend your family's business? Besides, if you three lend a helping hand to our Duan family, we will naturally reward you handsomely. Why discuss these things now?"
The Huang family head said unhurriedly, "There's always a chance of something going wrong. Besides, if we don't discuss this now, who knows if your Duan family will go back on their word later?"
The Duan family elder's face darkened.
The heads of the other two major families remained unmoved, even adopting a "let's watch the show" attitude.
He finally found out.
What four great families of the capital, what united front against a common enemy in times of crisis? It's all bullshit!
The elder of the Duan family clenched his fists tightly and said with icy eyes, "What conditions do you want?"
The Huang family head smiled faintly: "Elder Duan's attitude doesn't seem like he's here to negotiate."
Elder Duan's lips twitched, and he leaned down to say, "Whatever your requests are, I can temporarily grant them on behalf of the family head!"
The Huang family head laughed: "That's right. We don't need much. One set of Heaven-level martial arts techniques, ten sets of Earth-level martial arts techniques, elixirs, talismans, and formations for each family, and just give us 100,000 spirit stones."
A murderous intent flashed in Elder Duan's eyes.
Every single one?
That means all these verbal requests must be submitted in three copies! Especially Heaven-level martial arts techniques, which are priceless even in the capital. This is blatant profiteering!
At this moment, the heads of the other two great families said, "Elder Duan, you'd better think this through. If you linger here any longer, I wonder how many of your Duan family's young disciples will survive?"
Elder Duan gritted his teeth.
They are right. Right now, they are the only people he can turn to. If the younger generation of the Duan family were to die out, it would be a huge blow to the future of the Duan family. Even if these three families make exorbitant demands, they would have no choice but to grit their teeth and accept it!
Elder Duan was trembling all over, and he squeezed out three words through gritted teeth: "I agree!"
The three men sneered, "Elder Duan, rest assured, we three have long been fed up with the Poison King's actions. This time, we will definitely wipe him out in one fell swoop!"
After saying that, the three figures disappeared in the blink of an eye in front of Elder Duan.
Elder Duan was in agony. Did he really need to say such things in front of him at a time like this? His wolfish ambitions were now laid bare.
He wished someone could actually kill their hometown. Since the Duan family was severely weakened, he would rather these three families perish with the Duan family!
Just as Elder Duan was smiling wryly, he suddenly noticed that there was someone else beside him.
Elder Duan looked up and saw the young man's face appear before him, but he couldn't sense anything. He couldn't help but feel a little worried. Just what kind of strength did this young man possess?
At this moment, the boy calmly asked, "Are you unwilling to accept this?"
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