Chapter 426: Player of the Fourth Scourge (6)

After Xiao Hongyuan left, Su Chen waited for the cooldown period to end and logged into the game to continue killing monsters and leveling up.

Such peaceful days did not last long.

Not long after Su Chen had ground his game level to King-rank, he once again met his father in this life, Xiao Hongyuan.

"Son... that... your father wants to ask you for one more favor."

Su Chen felt helpless.

"Speak."

Xiao Hongyuan hurriedly said, "Thanks to that prescription, the Xiao family has already agreed to restore your grandfather to the family genealogy. Our branch can now be considered to have returned to the Xiao family."

Joy was visible on Xiao Hongyuan's face.

Su Chen showed no change in expression.

Whether or not they returned to the Xiao family made no difference to him.

"That is good news. What else could bring Father to seek me out?"

At those words, Xiao Hongyuan looked awkward. "That... in order to return to the genealogy, we also need to make a trip to the main clan..."

Su Chen understood. "So you want me to go with you?"

Xiao Hongyuan nodded. "As expected, nothing can be hidden from my clever, intelligent, and dashing son."

"That... the main clan only displays the rank shown in the 'Mandate of Heaven.' Although they have agreed to restore your grandfather's branch to the genealogy, the descendants still need to demonstrate sufficient talent... your father knows his own talent is lacking, merely an ordinary King-rank. It counts as decent in this small place, but within the Xiao family it is rock bottom."

As a colossal force within the Alliance, the Xiao family was a clan with Quasi-Emperor experts in residence. A King-rank talent might not even measure up to the gatekeepers.

Xiao Hongyuan wore a bitter expression. "This is your grandfather's lifelong wish. Your father does not want any complications to arise. Just help your father this once..."

Only one step remained. Xiao Hongyuan naturally refused to give up so easily.

His son was such a genius that the talent he had awakened could not be poor. Perhaps it would even shock the entire Xiao family and earn him heavy cultivation support.

Xiao Hongyuan did not know.

The reason Su Chen was so formidable had little to do with his talent. His initial talent had been nothing more than an ordinary King-rank, and only thanks to a certain treasure-delivery boy had it risen from King-rank to Venerable-rank.

Nevertheless, Su Chen still chose to agree.

Before the next day arrived, an excited Xiao Hongyuan hurriedly pulled Su Chen to a spatial wormhole and began leaping toward the Xiao family.

...

A vast continent formed from the cores of countless stars.

This continent was the ancestral land of the Xiao family, where countless members of the clan lived.

Xiao Hongyuan brought Su Chen to the core region of the Xiao family.

Xiao City!

"Entering Xiao City requires a talent assessment... only Xiao family descendants with outstanding talent may enter the city."

Nearby, another portly, well-fed middle-aged man explained to Xiao Hongyuan and Su Chen.

The middle-aged man was named Xiao Song.

He was an important figure of the Xiao family with whom Xiao Hongyuan had said he was cooperating, a steward of the clan. Su Chen sensed that his strength was at Rank Eight Nirvana, slightly weaker than the Long Family's old ancestors he had casually crushed.

Upon hearing this, Xiao Hongyuan stepped forward first.

"King-rank talent, unqualified."

Xiao Hongyuan gave a bitter smile at the announcement.

He had known it would be so!

Yet it was fine.

After his desperate pleas, he still had a backup plan!

Seeing this, Xiao Song sighed. "Brother Xiao... I forgot to mention. The rules of our Xiao family require at least Emperor-rank talent to qualify for entry into Xiao City. Although this elder brother of yours helped you open connections, the requirement remains."

Xiao Hongyuan was not flustered. He smiled and said, "Steward, do not be anxious yet. This is my descendant Xiao Chen. His talent surpasses King-rank and will certainly allow him to enter."

A trace of surprise flashed through Xiao Song's eyes, followed by a cold glint.

Su Chen glanced at Xiao Song.

He stepped forward. The city wall displayed:

"Venerable-rank talent, qualified."

Joy flashed across Xiao Hongyuan's face.

Qualified meant they could enter Xiao City.

Yet Xiao Song's face remained expressionless. He lightly sighed. "Brother Xiao truly hides his abilities well, to actually possess a son of such outstanding talent."

"Why did a piece of trash not come instead and simply stay obediently on Tiancheng Star? Does a trash branch also wish to return to the family?"

Xiao Song tore off all pretense at once.

The prompt on the city wall rapidly turned red as waves of bell tones rang out.

Facing Xiao Hongyuan's astonished expression, Xiao Song stated directly, "With nothing more than a Venerable-rank prescription, you wish to return to the genealogy... heh, the genealogy of our Xiao family is not so easily rejoined!"

Xiao Tianyun was the young clan leader of the Xiao family. At a young age, he possessed an Emperor-rank talent.

He slowly opened his eyes.

Within them lay a depth of vicissitude that clashed starkly with his youthful appearance, though he was no longer truly young.

"I have been reborn?"

Xiao Tianyun found the scenes before him so familiar.

Yes, he had returned to the time before the Xiao family was destroyed!

The realization filled him with wild joy.

Living a second life... he, Xiao Tianyun, would definitely... exact revenge?

Wrong!

He, Xiao Tianyun, would definitely cling tightly to the thickest and strongest thigh!

What a joke.

A mere Emperor-rank talent like him wanting to oppose that man?

Was he an idiot?

Xiao Tianyun was no idiot.

"I remember that existence originally belonged to our Xiao family... and nearly returned to the family genealogy."

Xiao Tianyun rapidly recalled past events in his mind, searching for a way to seize that thigh.

They had come so close to grasping it and soaring... yet at the thought Xiao Tianyun's heart convulsed, and he nearly spat blood.

Because of one insignificant person's greed, not only had the Xiao family failed to grasp the thigh, the entire clan had been destroyed instead.

Xiao Tianyun did not hate the man who had destroyed the Xiao family. He hated far more the short-sighted sinner who had caused the destruction... Xiao Song.

"The Xiao family has not yet been destroyed, nor has it provoked that man. There is still a chance for everything."

Xiao Tianyun decided to first eliminate that sinner of the Xiao family, Xiao Song. No... simply letting him die would be too lenient.

Afterward, he would carefully make amends and begin his career of thigh-clinging.

Just as Xiao Tianyun was about to send people to summon Xiao Song, a long and murderous toll of bells reached his ears.

His entire body stiffened. The sound of those bells seemed somewhat familiar.

"Fuck! That goddamn idiot Xiao Song!"

Xiao Tianyun cursed furiously and at that moment erupted with the greatest speed of his entire life, a speed he would never display again.

...

"The bloodline of the criminal Xiao Wen still has the face to return to the family!"

At that moment, the law-enforcement guards had already surrounded Xiao Hongyuan and Su Chen.

Their gazes were cold and greedy.

The bloodline of Xiao Wen had offended a powerful elder within the family. That elder had recently broken through to the Saint realm and now reigned supreme over the Saint clan.

If they captured the bloodline of Xiao Wen and delivered them to that elder, would it not be an immediate merit?

Just as they prepared to act,

"The young clan leader! It is the young clan leader! To think this matter has actually startled the young clan leader from his seclusion!"

"The young clan leader must also wish to curry favor with that elder!"