Chapter 302: I accept

The Faith Family Head stared up from the cold, cracked marble floor, his lips trembling as the absolute reality of his total ruin crashed down upon his mind. The cold tip of Tony’s iron arrow pressed lightly against his chin, a reminder that his life hung by a microscopic thread.

Behind him, his own daughter, Julie, maintained her unbreakable grip on his spine, her face completely expressionless.

"I... I will give them to you!" the family head choked out, his voice cracking with intense, pathetic terror as a fresh layer of cold sweat drenched his fine silk robes. "Just command my daughter to release her seal! The tokens are hidden within the absolute core of my personal spatial-storage ring! I will hand them over immediately, just spare the remaining disciples of our bloodline!"

Tony let out a low, amused chuckle and gave a casual, lazy nod to Julie. The dark-purple binding force instantly dissolved into harmless light particles, allowing the old man to slump forward onto his hands, coughing violently.

With trembling, bloody fingers, the Faith Family Head reached into his spatial ring and pulled out three ancient, black jade tablets wrapped in heavy, complex runic carvings. The tablets radiated a deep, freezing spiritual energy that hummed with the defensive arrays of the family’s secret mountain vaults.

"These are the three Ancient Inheritance Tokens," the old man whispered in absolute despair, holding them up with both hands in a gesture of total, permanent submission. "They hold the spatial coordinates to our absolute highest-grade resource caches hidden deep within the ancestral ranges. The seals inside are incredibly volatile, and if you attempt to force your way in without the proper ancestral bloodline triggers, the vaults will spontaneously combust into absolute dust."

Tony didn’t say a single word. A slow, ruthlessly brilliant grin curled the corners of his lips as he casually snatched the cold black jade tablets from the old man’s hands. He didn’t rush to celebrate his victory, nor did he blindly trust the words of a desperate enemy. Instead, with a brief mental command, he accessed his fully synchronized interface, utilizing his newly reawakened system spirit to scan the artifacts for any hidden, lethal traps.

’System! Scan these three ancient tokens immediately,’ Tony commanded internally, his mental voice sharp and analytical. ’Check the internal runic pathways and tell me if this old thief has planted a hidden self-destruction script inside the jade.’

The space inside his consciousness instantly rippled with a cold, glowing silver notification light as the assistant protocols ran an absolute, microscopic diagnosis of the tablets.

[Ding! Scanning designated targets: Ancient Inheritance Tokens ×3... Scanning completed.]

[System Analysis: The tokens contain an advanced, hidden Soul-Burning Counter-Array planted deep within the secondary runic layer. If the host attempts to inject standard Elder Disciple energy into the jade without neutralizing the counter-script, the array will violently detonate within a fraction of a millisecond, releasing a high-tier poison mist designed to dissolve the caster’s spiritual sea instantly.]

[System Solution: Host can utilize the newly acquired Advanced Runic Ink Formula and 100 Fate Points to permanently rewrite the internal core laws of the tokens, completely converting the self-destruction array into an absolute spatial anchor for the companion beast.]

Tony’s dark eyes flashed with an unnatural, terrifyingly sharp brilliance as the system’s scan laid bare the old man’s final, desperate gamble. He casually flipped one of the black jade tablets between his fingers, his signature lazy posture perfectly intact, though his tone dropped into a chilling baritone that made the entire courtyard turn dead silent.

"You family of clowns truly possess an extraordinary, unyielding passion for trying to play dirty tricks on my board even when you are staring straight into your own graves," Tony sneered coldly, his voice dripping with absolute, unyielding defiance as his Truth Eye flared violently, projecting a visible crimson light that cut directly into the hidden secondary layer of the jade.

Before the Faith Family Head could even attempt to find his voice or deny the accusation, Tony violently channeled a dense strand of his shadow-and-wind attribute energy directly through his master-grade carving pen, which he pulled from his sleeve with fluid precision. In less than three seconds, his hand moved with a terrifyingly rapid motion, tracing three perfect, golden runic lines over the black surfaces of all three tokens.

BANG! BANG! BANG!

A series of sharp, muffled popping sounds echoed from the interior of the tablets as the hidden Soul-Burning Counter-Arrays were completely, systematically crushed into absolute dust by the system’s override protocols.

The dark-purple toxic aura trapped inside the jade was instantly vaporized into harmless gray smoke before it could even leak into the air, and the three tokens violently flashed with a brilliant, dark-gold light as they permanently synchronized with Tony’s own soul signature.

The Faith Family Head’s eyes violently widened to the size of saucers, his jaw dropping to his absolute chest as a wave of complete, unadulterated horror washed over his mind. He had spent months secretly crafting that hidden soul trap as an absolute, worst-case insurance card for his lineage, yet this young master had completely exposed and rewritten the ancient arrays with a literal wave of his pen.

"Y-You... how can a mere outer disciple possess the absolute vision to decipher our family’s highest-tier counter-scripts?!" the old man shrieked in frantic, breathless panic, his body trembling violently against the hard stone floor.

"Because on my grand chessboard, your ancestral secrets are nothing more than simple child’s play," Tony countered ruthlessly, his face twisted into a mask of pure, triumphant arrogance as he casually swept all three pristine, neutralized tokens directly into his private system storage space.

Right at that exact millisecond, the spiritual synchronization array inside his sea of consciousness beautifully hummed, and the cold, mechanical voice of the system spirit violently vibrated to confirm the total completion of his hidden objectives.

[Ding! Host has successfully plundered and rewritten the Faith Family’s secret Ancient Inheritance Tokens. Remaining Fate Points: 640.]

[Ding! The spatial void bond with the Crimson Shadow Griffin has been permanently reinforced. Host’s standard cultivation absorption speed has officially reached a steady 2.5× baseline multiplier.]

Tony let out a loud, confident laugh that echoed merrily across the ruined avenue, completely enjoying the absolute, broken silence of his defeated enemies. He casually slung the magnificent Void Dragon bow back over his shoulder and turned his back on the kneeling family head, his dark hunting cloak billowing softly in the wind as he stepped back onto the massive, fur-lined back of his companion beast.

"Julie, stay here and oversee the guild’s total asset liquidation with Selena," Tony commanded smoothly, his tone full of shameless nonchalance as the griffin’s massive, thirty-foot blood-red wings violently expanded into the morning air.

"Make sure our new properties are perfectly sealed before the sun sets today. I am returning to the Cloud-Mist Pavilion to prepare the next grand Chapter of our empire."

With a sudden, powerful mental command, the Crimson Shadow Griffin’s galaxy-purple eyes violently flashed, unleashing a colossal vortex of pure spatial void energy that completely wrapped around their physical frames.

In less than a fraction of a single millisecond, the space inside the ruined courtyard violently distorted, and Tony Clark and his legendary companion beast completely vanished into thin air, leaving the bankrupt, hollowed-out remnants of the proud Faith lineage to weep in the dust.