Chapter 140: Xu family

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——(POV third person)——

"Are you going to tell me how you have failed, grandpa?" Li Huang asked as innocently as he could but he was smirking inside.

Li Long looked at his grandson and suddenly had an urge to make his training harsher, but then he remembered that he is already giving him the harshest training possible that doesn't result in his death.

Li Long took a deep breath and answered.

"No. We were able to recover the memories but that wasn't very helpful as most of the contacts that he had were masked and no one could detect their insignia." Li Long said, this was a variable that was out of his control and he didn't like this at all.

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"Even the Floating Mask didn't have info on it?" Li Huang said as he didn't want to say uncle Aram's name in public, no matter how secure their conversation was.

"We put a request there but it will take some time as they didn't have anything on them other than the fact that they are a rising power in the smaller continents and so far avoided their observations." Li Long said with a sigh.

'If that brat and his information-gathering organization don't know about something, they are either lying or the other party is really good.' Li Long thought. Of course, he knew his son's friend from the time that he came to the divine central continent so he was sure that he wasn't lying to him and that made the situation worse.

Li Huang was also thinking of the same thing with different wording. He couldn't help but frown when he thought that they don't know anything about the group that has targeted them.

"Did we have an enemy that we didn't terminate fully? Someone who could develop a grudge with our Li family? Preferably at least 500 years ago as they needed to develop their forces somewhere else that we were not paying attention, and now they are going to attack us as they are strong enough.." Li Huang was thinking out loud about the matter and tried to find out who could be the culprit.

Li Long kept looking at his grandson and now he understood why he was ready for the massacre to happen in the trial.

Li Huang who felt the stare on him stopped talking.

"..Sorry, I was trying to find out the one behind this new group." He said as he smiled sheepishly.

"I will give you the information that we have in the family archives." Li Long said as he could see that Li Huang could prove helpful here. Li Huang nodded to his words.

"That aside, we were able to detect someone else who had a hand in this." Li Long said and Li Huang's ears perked up.

"It was the Xu family." Li Long said and Li Huang's frown intensified. Xu family was one of the 9 big families in the divine central continent alongside the Li Family. The fact that they are involved in this makes the situation worse as it shows that their enemy is strong enough to work with the Xu family.

— Or so Li Huang thought but Li Long's next words shattered that thought.

"From what we have seen the Xu family is working for that group of masked individuals who call themselves the [Fire Cult]." Li Long said and Li Huang now could see that the situation was even worse than he thought.

"If the Xu family is answering to them they are either very powerful or they have a leverage that let the so-called [Fire Cult] control the Xu family." Li Huang said.

Li Long nodded.

"In the memories, the Xu family was trying to double-cross the [Fire Cult], so I guess that they too are not happy with how the things are progressing." Li Long said.

"Do we know anything else?" Li Huang asked.

"From what they talked about, they were getting ready to abduct heirs of the Li family." Li Long said and Li Huang was stunned by how gutsy the Xu family was to think they can get away with this.

"Does Wanrou know about this?" Li Huang asked as he remembered that Li Wanrou was here and she might be in danger.

"Don't worry about her, my brother is with her right now.." Li Long said as he calmed Li Huang.

"Good. But why would they do something like this?" Li Huang asked now that he was sure about Li Wanrou's safety. It didn't make sense to him that the Xu family wanted to double-cross the [Fire Cult] by confronting them and doing exactly what the [Fire Cult] has done so far.

"Exactly! What we came up with is that the [Fire Cult] is going for a slow burn conflict but the Xu family wants to draw them into the matters by creating this tension between our families." Li Long explained.

"If we start to fight, the Fire cult has to do something before their cover is blown and this way the Xu family can use this chance to fish in the muddy water." Li Long continued. This was really a genius plan and if they didn't have the information that they have, it might have been a big problem for the whole family.

Li Huang nodded and then raised a question.

"We are going to do so even though we know what they are planning, right?" Li Huang asked as he would have done so to give the opponent the illusion that they have the upper hand.

Li long grinned and nodded.

"That is right. We are going to get ready to fight them and remove them from the divine central continent." Li Long said. He wouldn't let such a threat fester and cause real harm.

Li Huang nodded and then remembered the information that he read on Jin Fen—or Xu Fen. There was a young master from the Xu family that liked to force whoever caught his eyes into a sexual relationship. In the past, he has done so with the branch family that Jin Fen was from and that made Jin Fen start his journey outside his hometown.

'Even after death, Jin Fen's problems are following me.' Li Huang thought. He was going to enjoy beating the shit out of that said young master though.

"Good, what is my part in this war?" Li Huang asked as he knew that his grandpa had a role for him to play.

"Of course, you would be fighting!" Li Long said with a smug face.

Li Huang rolled his eyes to his grandpa's answer.

"You know what I mean.." He said with a deadpan look on his face.

"You are probably the one who gets kidnapped, so I want you to be ready." Li Long said. This time his face was serious.

Li Huang nodded as it would make sense for him to be on top of the list for abduction as not only he was hailed as a genius of the Li Family, he was the weakest one of the geniuses as he was still at the beginnings of his cultivation path.

"You don't expect me to let myself be taken, do you?" Li Huang asked with narrowed eyes. He wasn't stupid enough to do something like this and think he can come out of the situation unscathed.

"No, we only need them to attack you. Once we have the confirmation we start attacking them." Li Long said. He would never play with a family member's life like this and much less when is Li Huang who has to be the one in danger.

"Alright. I think we can give them a good time and place to abduct me." Li Huang said with a grin as he suddenly remembered something.

"Oh? What do you have in mind?" Li Long asked as it would be better if they could guess when they are going to try and abduct Li Huang.

"I'm going to go to that auction, it is going to be held in less than a month. I think that is a good time and place for that attack to happen, what do you think grandpa?" Li Huang asked. He was going to go there anyway and now he could take care of the other problem too.

"If they take the bait, it would be fantastic." Li Long nodded with a smile.