Chapter 258 · Attacking a City Is Inferior, Attacking the Heart Is Superior

Chen Ming was not the kind of person who would watch someone die without helping. Nor was he so overly rational that he had no emotional side.

In truth, if it had been someone else here, some other old person holding their grandson or granddaughter and begging him to help, then as long as it did not go against his principles and did not make him pay too great a price, Chen Ming would not mind helping. He could even do it without asking for anything in return.

But no matter what, the Speed Clan had once been one of the Clear Sky Sect's subordinate clans.

In the original story, Bai He and Bai Chenxiang were both deeply tied to Tang San. Bai Chenxiang was even called the eighth monster of the Shrek Seven Monsters. In a sense, aside from not becoming a god, she received the same treatment as the five members of the Shrek Seven Monsters other than Tang San and Xiao Wu.

Chen Ming seriously suspected that Asura God was behind this matter.

It was just that he now had enough things and enough confidence. As long as Asura God did not act directly, send his true body down to the lower world, or throw down a clone to deal with him, Chen Ming basically did not need to be too afraid or worried.

After all, at this time, Sea God was still paying attention to every move across the Douluo world, searching for his successor.

Now that Chen Ming had this unclear relationship with Sea God, once something happened to him, or if he lost his life, Sea God would definitely sense it.

Under these circumstances, Asura God most likely would not dare to directly do anything to him.

After all, a law-enforcement god had to understand the law.

If he was not discovered, then it did not count as breaking the law.

But if he was discovered, then the punishment would be doubled.

"I… my Speed Clan has nothing else."

Bai He wanted to promise something, but after hesitating for a long time, he finally lowered his head timidly.

To put it this way, all the cash of the Speed Clan, plus their fixed assets, plus all the resources and personal wealth in the hands of their clansmen, might not even add up to two thousand gold spirit coins.

Other clans stopped receiving money from Spirit Hall because they had their own way to survive. They did not necessarily need to rely on Spirit Hall's subsidies.

But the Speed Clan was different.

Once they lost the support of the Clear Sky Sect and Spirit Hall, they could not earn a single coin by themselves. A Spirit Master clan had somehow ended up living like beggars.

Their only treasure had already been handed over.

Now, with the Speed Clan's total family wealth of less than two thousand gold spirit coins, what could they possibly offer?

"Your identity is valuable."

"I know who you are. Bai He, clan chief of the Speed Clan. Brother-in-law of Tang Zhen, the former clan chief of the Clear Sky Sect. Uncle of the current Clear Sky Sect master Tang Xiao, and uncle of the traitor Tang Hao."

"I don't need you to pay anything."

"I can even give you a promise. The Spirit Masters of your clan, those at the Spirit Elder level, can go to Spirit Hall and receive gold spirit coins according to the normal Spirit Master standard."

"The price is that your clan must settle in a certain city under Spirit Hall's monitoring. And you must publicly announce that you are receiving gold spirit coins from Spirit Hall."

"Even if some people did not know you had stopped receiving gold spirit coins from Spirit Hall before, you still need to say it clearly. Say that you did not receive them before, but now you are receiving them."

Killing or not killing people had never been important.

After all, even if Bai Chenxiang grew to the peak she reached in the original story, her combat power would only be average. To put it bluntly, with his Spiritual Light, Chen Ming might even be able to kill peak Bai Chenxiang in a sneak attack.

As for Bai He's cultivation, there was even less need to mention it.

The most important thing had always been attacking the heart.

He had to make the Speed Clan appear completely opposed to the Clear Sky Sect. He also had to show the Speed Clan's previous relationship with the Clear Sky Sect, as well as their stubbornness toward Spirit Hall. Then he would make the Speed Clan show closeness and obedience toward Spirit Hall.

Perhaps this move would play some special role in the future.

Or perhaps even until the very end, this move would have no effect at all, and the Speed Clan would only be wasting Spirit Hall's gold coins for nothing.

But it did not matter.

It truly did not matter.

This little bit of investment was nothing worth mentioning to the current Chen Ming and Spirit Hall.

Chen Ming could casually refine one pill and sell it, and the money would be enough for the entire Speed Clan to receive subsidies for who knew how many years.

If there was a return, that would be best.

If there was no return, it did not matter either.

"I can't do that."

Bai He was not stupid. Just from hearing Chen Ming say this, he understood what Chen Ming meant.

Chen Ming wanted to use the Speed Clan, especially the relationship between Bai He and the Clear Sky Sect, to humiliate the Clear Sky Sect and the late former sect master Tang Zhen.

He wanted to provoke the current generation of the Clear Sky Sect, Tang Xiao, Tang Yuehua, and Tang Hao, who all had half of the Speed Clan's bloodline.

"That doesn't matter. The payment for saving you earlier has already been settled. If you're not willing to save your own granddaughter, that's your business."

"I can tell you that with your granddaughter's current injuries, aside from me, there are indeed others who can save her. For example, Ye Renxin of the Nine Heart Begonia in Heaven Dou City, the capital of the Heaven Dou Empire. Or Chrysanthemum Douluo of Spirit Hall. Or Grand Worship Qian Daoliu."

"These three people can save her either because their Martial Soul is strong enough, their medicinal power is strong enough, or their cultivation is strong enough."

"Other than them, no one can save her."

"Her meridians are already broken, her blood essence are reversing and attacking her heart, and she only has one last breath left. Even if a healing-type Spirit Douluo came here, they wouldn't be able to save her life."

After saying this, Chen Ming turned around and left without the slightest hesitation.

After a moment of silence, Bai He immediately hugged Bai Chenxiang and slammed his head to the ground.

"My lord, please. As long as you're willing to save my granddaughter, I'll do anything you ask. My Speed Clan will do anything you ask."

Bai He was a very stubborn and proud man.

He would rather let his whole clan become so poor they had to eat dirt, have no cultivation resources, and even lack a fixed place to develop, than have any financial dealings with Spirit Hall. That alone showed this clearly.

Perhaps he felt that his relationship with the Clear Sky Sect had already been cut off.

But he had never believed that his past relationship with Tang Zhen, or even with Clear Sky Douluo Tang Zhen, had been cut off because of that.

He had always carried this pride, still feeling that he was someone with a background.

But at this moment, once he thought of the people Chen Ming mentioned and how far their locations were from here, Bai He's heart completely died.

He understood.

If he was not willing to give up the last bit of his pride, then he could only watch helplessly as his granddaughter died in his arms.

No matter how fast he was, he could never be faster than the speed at which his granddaughter's life was slipping away.

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