Chapter 251: Chapter 251: Zhang Yuan’s Provocation

After three days of traveling, the convoy finally entered Nanyang County City.

Nanyang County City is one of the six largest commandery cities in the Black Luo Kingdom and can at least rank in the top three. Its scale, prosperity, and the flourishing of martial arts are comparable to the Royal City of the Fire Cloud Kingdom, if not surpassing it.

The Su Family is one of three thousand-year-old families in Nanyang County City, with two Half-Step Essence Pill experts, one of whom is the Su Family’s Ancestor, a monster who has lived for hundreds of years.

It’s said that this Su Family Ancestor is one of the top three strongest experts in the entire Nanyang County, with extremely formidable strength.

However, he has always been in seclusion, attempting to breakthrough to the Essence Pill Realm, rarely coming out.

As for the other Half-Step Essence Pill expert, it is Su Qingxue’s uncle or Su Qiuling’s father, the Su Family Patriarch Su Zetao.

The Su Mansion is located in the most bustling central area of Nanyang County City, occupying at least a hundred acres, with numerous pavilions, towers, and palace buildings.

On one of the plazas within the Su Mansion, thousands of young members of the Su Family are practicing martial arts.

Almost all of these are talented strong youths among the younger generation of the Su Family, some being collateral relatives and others the direct sons and daughters.

In such a millennial family as the Su Family, the hierarchy is extremely strict, and it is not an exaggeration to say that people are divided into ranks.

The identity and status of collateral relatives are far from comparable to the direct sons and daughters, unless they are exceptionally talented, they might attract the family’s attention and receive full support and cultivation.

At this moment, Su Qingxue, Su Qiuling, and others, including Zhang Yuan, arrived at the plaza.

Wang Ruoxie naturally was among them. Since he had promised Su Qingxue and Su Qiuling to be their escort, he would naturally keep his word.

“Hello, Miss Qiuling, hello, Miss Qingxue.”

“Greetings, Miss Qiuling.”

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Seeing Su Qiuling and Su Qingxue approaching, the Su Family youths gathered around, all showing respectful expressions and cupped their fists in salute.

Although Su Qiuling and Su Qingxue are merely women, they are both direct descendants of the Su Family, with identity and status far above those collateral children.

Especially Su Qiuling, whose father is not only the current Patriarch of the Su Family but also a Half-Step Essence Pill expert, making these Su Family youths extremely awed.

Moreover, many collateral children looked at Su Qiuling with a few more fiery glances.

It can be said that Su Qiuling is the dream goddess of these collateral children, almost all of whom harbour admiration for her.

If they could marry Su Qiuling, their status in the Su Family would be greatly elevated, and they might even gain the Patriarch’s favour because of it.

Furthermore, Su Qiuling’s appearance is exquisitely beautiful, and she is considered the most beautiful woman in Nanyang County, without any exaggeration.

Su Qiuling and Su Qingxue both smiled and nodded slightly at the Su Family youths to respond to their greetings.

“Wang Ruoxie, what do you think of the people from my Su Family?”

Su Qingxue smiled at Wang Ruoxie who was by her side and spoke.

“They’re alright.”

Wang Ruoxie chuckled lightly and responded.

These Su Family youths are mostly between sixteen and twenty-five years old, with cultivation levels ranging from Late Stage Innate Realm to Middle Stage Meridian Passage Realm.

If compared with those from his Celestial Sword Sect, or even people from the East Victory Kingdom, these Su Family youths could be regarded as peerless talents.

However, to him now, at most they could only be considered alright.

If it were his past life, these people wouldn’t even have the qualification to catch his eye.

“How ridiculous, a worthless loser without any cultivation, what qualification do you have to comment on the geniuses of the Su Family.”

At this time, Zhang Yuan snorted in disdain with a sarcastic tone.

Although he is not from the Su Family, he grew up in the Su Family. His father and grandfather both worked for the Su Family and held high positions.

His grandfather is the chief steward of the Su Family, his father is the external affairs elder of the Su Family, and even though he is merely a captain of the escort, even those collateral children of the Su Family are polite to him, not daring to offend him easily.

Although strictly speaking, his grandfather, father, and he can only be considered as servants of the Su Family, their status is by no means lower than those collateral relatives. Moreover, due to the Patriarch’s favour, his treatment within the Su Family is far superior to those ordinary collateral children.

For this reason, he harbours some ambition in his heart, which is to marry Su Qiuling and become a well-connected son-in-law of the Su Family.

In his opinion, only he is worthy of Su Qiuling, and he even regards her as his woman.

However, although Su Qiuling has always been quite courteous to him, it gives him a feeling of neither close nor distant, neither cold nor warm, which makes him very depressed.

The most frustrating to him was that Su Qiuling actually allowed a strange man to share a carriage with them and even brought him back to the Su Family.

He simply couldn’t understand what was so special about this worthless man without any cultivation, which made Su Qingxue and Su Qiuling treat him in such a way.

The more Zhang Yuan thought about it, the more he couldn’t understand, the more he couldn’t contain his anger, and now, finally burst out.

“Brother Zhang Yuan, how can you say that about him.”

Hearing Zhang Yuan’s words, Su Qingxue frowned slightly and spoke.

“Miss Qingxue, you are inexperienced in the world and do not know the dangers of the human heart. This person’s background is unknown, who knows if he is good or bad. I even suspect this guy is deliberately getting close to us to enter the Su Family and carry out illicit deeds.”

Zhang Yuan said to Su Qingxue.

After speaking, he turned his gaze and said to Su Qiuling: “Miss Qiuling, you are kind-hearted for saving his life, but you shouldn’t have brought him back to the Su Family. If this person harbours malicious intent, the consequences would be unimaginable.”

“That’s right, Brother Zhang Yuan is absolutely correct, this guy clearly isn’t anything good.”

“I think he’s just a fraud, we must not let him stay in the Su Family.”

“A worthless man without any cultivation has no right standing next to Miss Qiuling.”

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Those Su Family youths also looked at Wang Ruoxie with cold eyes, each speaking indignantly.

Although they weren’t sure whether Wang Ruoxie truly harboured malice, or even knew why Zhang Yuan was targeting Wang Ruoxie, they honestly didn’t care. The mere fact that this person dared to stand beside Su Qiuling and Su Qingxue was enough to unite them all against Wang Ruoxie.

“What do you have to say?”

Hearing the words of these Su Family youths, Zhang Yuan looked at Wang Ruoxie with a provocative gaze and asked.

“Are you a member of the Su Family?”

Wang Ruoxie looked indifferently at Zhang Yuan and spoke.

“No, I, Zhang Yuan, am just a servant of the Su Family.”

Zhang Yuan replied.

Though he is indeed considered a servant of the Su Family, with his talent and strength, plus the Patriarch’s favour, who dares treat him as a mere servant.

“Since you are just a servant, and neither lady has spoken, what right do you have to intervene?”

Wang Ruoxie looked at Zhang Yuan with a mocking glance and sneered.

“Humph, even if I am just a servant, I am far better than you, a worthless man.”

Hearing this, Zhang Yuan’s face darkened as he coldly retorted.

“You keep calling me worthless. I would love to know, if I, a worthless man, could defeat you in one move, then what would that make you, someone inferior to worthless?”

Wang Ruoxie smiled indifferently and said.

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