Chapter 1777 - 318:

"Brother Run Sheng, go and see if you can smell it. Ah You, use your Shuping to investigate. Don't let that thing leave even a trace of mushroom."

"Understood."

"Understood."

Tan Wenbin took on the role of a battlefield medic, first approaching Liang Yan.

With great difficulty, Liang Yan said, "Go... save my sister first."

These words were hard to say, not because of her injuries, but because they were difficult to voice.

"Okay."

Tan Wenbin ran down the slope and found the seriously injured Liang Li.

"Here, open your mouth, I'll give you 'the last one' first."

After giving her the medicine, Tan Wenbin began sprinkling her with hemostatic powder. That's all he could do, and he knew he was just at the level of a footloose healer in the Jianghu.

Li Zhiyuan climbed up the hill to stand beside Zhao Yi.

Zhao Yi: "Li, these two women, they really do whatever I ask them to."

Li Zhiyuan took out a can of Jianlibao and opened it.

Zhao Yi: "Li, tell me, what exactly is love?"

Li Zhiyuan pulled out a straw and inserted it into the can.

"Never mind, you're too young. I shouldn't ask you questions inappropriate for your age."

As he spoke, Zhao Yi bent down, wanting to reach for the straw with his mouth.

The young man took the straw into his own mouth and started drinking the beverage.

Zhao Yi: "..."

Before long,

Zhao Yi spoke again, "Ah, now it feels like if I don't marry into the family and take both sisters as my wives, I'd be embarrassed."

Li Zhiyuan: "Good idea."

Zhao Yi: "Hmm?"

Historically, the Liang Family frequently changed their family name due to their unique circumstances.

Li Zhiyuan: "After you marry in, let them all change their last name to Zhao in the next round."

Zhao Yi: "You make a lot of sense."

Li Zhiyuan: "The Zhao Family is gone."

Zhao Yi: "I saw it. Knowing your style, the dirty things inside must have been cleaned up."

Li Zhiyuan: "Yes, but there's one not-dirty thing."

"What?"

"A lingering Spiritual Thought of Zhao Wuyang."

"Thank you, Brother Xiao Yuan, for preserving it for me."

"I absorbed it."

"Li, you're really not human."

"Couldn't preserve it; Zhao Wuyang himself chose me."

"I understand."

"I'll have them move everything I need from the list."

"As you should, but don't be too polite, take more. If it's not enough, I'll get you a truck."

"Can't take more; the rest have mostly been burned to scrap."

"Heh, hehehe, hahahaha..."

Zhao Yi laughed for a while, then said:

"It's actually nice. They were just burdens, and without them, it's better.

Our ancestors started in the wilderness without support or help and still reached the Dragon King's Position.

Once those bottles and jars are smashed, there's less concern, and we're more determined to keep moving forward.

Li, you see, my family's fully hollowed out now.

If one day you choke to death while drinking.

And I became the Dragon King.

Then, in a way, rounding up, my previous generation was Zhao Wuyang, and I'm the next, two generations of Dragon Kings, could it ever count as a legitimate Dragon King's Court?"

"That's quite an exaggeration."

"But, I truly feel now that a Dragon King's Court is no simple affair.

It takes generations to produce talents and establish family rules.

See how my Zhao family deviated for a generation, and the rest all went astray.

And this is just my Zhao family. If something like this happened to a legitimate Dragon King's Court, the impact would be even greater."

"Isn't there one right before us?"

"I really want to go to the Yu Family to find some psychological balance, see other families' jokes, and soothe my own wounded heart."

"Let's see how things unfold. Also, it depends on when you and your people can recover; your injuries are severe this time."

"I don't have your talent of creating resting potential stimulation methods for my people."

Li Zhiyuan lowered his head and continued drinking his beverage.

"So, can you help me improve as well, Brother Xiao Yuan?"

"Your family's gone, what can you offer in exchange?"

"That one over there..." Zhao Yi glanced at the pit, "She's a huge threat, you'd agree, right?"

"Yes."

"Fighting to kill her at such a massive cost, first to fulfill my vow, setting my Mind State; second, to eliminate a rival worth eliminating for you."

"For me?"

"Heh, do you really think you'd choke to death on a drink one day?

Killing her this time succeeded by utilizing time, location, and human factors. Removing someone like that elsewhere, or at another time, would be hard.

Anyway, if you encounter someone wandering Jianghu alone, it's good to finish them off. You can't go wrong."

Li Zhiyuan remained noncommittal.

Run Sheng and Lin Shuyou thoroughly cleared out the remnants left by Zheng Ming.

Tan Wenbin also moved the two sisters to a dry, neat open space.

Not as severely wounded, Liang Yan fainted due to the aftereffects of potential stimulation.

Tan Wenbin: "Brother Xiao Yuan, should we head to the treasure vault next?"

Li Zhiyuan: "Yes."

Tan Wenbin looked at Zhao Yi: "Outer Team, do you need anything?"

Zhao Yi: "After moving everything out, you can help me set the family estate on fire."

Tan Wenbin nodded.

Subsequently, he, Lin Shuyou, and Run Sheng entered through the previous breach to the treasure vault and began moving items.

The three of them were strong, and Tan Wenbin even utilized the Blood Ape Power, greatly enhancing efficiency.

Once everything was moved out, the already half-ruined ancestral house gradually caught fire.

Broken, twisted Arrays occasionally blasted into the sky under the stimulation of the flames.

Zhao Yi and Li Zhiyuan sat on the slope, watching the distant "fireworks."

"Li, isn't it beautiful?"

"It is beautiful."

"Right? My family's ancestral grave provided it."

"What a splurge."

"Li, if all traces were erased, could things seem like they never happened?"

"It depends on your decision."

"I will take this disgrace and actively announce it to Jianghu."

"Hmm."

"And shamelessly steal your thunder once, saying it's me who wiped out my lineage."

"Hmm."

"As for the Zhao family's outer estate, I will close it, dispersing all servants and side branches.

I will still reside in Jiujiang. I have a new house, over on that hillside, a spacious place I built myself, every morning when I open the door, I can see a waterfall.

Since you're here, don't rush off. Feel free to tour my new home. I'll find some wild game for you to feast on, and when you've eaten your fill and need to digest, you can conveniently help tweak the Arrays at my place.

The previous Arrays were imperfect; last time, a ghost from Fengdu nearly slipped in halfway."

"Okay."

"Hei, you agreed so readily this time?"

"I saw how villagers build houses; friends and neighbors all lend a hand."

Zhao Yi laughed.

At that moment, Tan Wenbin approached, placing a cloth-wrapped item before Zhao Yi.

Unwrapping it, inside was the memorial tablet of Zhao Wuyang.

Zhao Yi: "Thoughtful gesture, Vice Leader."

Tan Wenbin: "It wasn't me. Ah You specifically entered the ancestral hall to get it for you, for which he was injured by the residual Arrays there. He didn't dare face you, fearing Brother Xiao Yuan might scold him.

Ah You said you might need it, as a keepsake."

"Li, spare him the reproach this time, on my behalf."

After a pause,

Zhao Yi continued:

"From now on, anything regarding your Ah You family, count it as my responsibility."

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