Chapter 97: Grandmother’s Deeper Meaning (4)

"Liu Mei, what’s going on?" Wang Yue asked with a stern face. He respected Liu Mei, but facing a matter this big he had to put up the main house’s frame.

Liu Mei’s face was full of anger too. She said darkly, "This Wang Jingyuan is going further and further!"

"What’s going on?" Wang Yue asked again. He knew Wang Jingyuan. One of the first batch of orphans his great-grandfather had taken in, and the one with the highest cultivation talent among that batch. He should be Nascent Soul now. Which layer exactly Wang Yue did not know.

In his previous life he had not managed affairs on the secret base side. He only knew that in the beast tide three years later this man’s figure had not been seen.

Liu Mei had led several dozen martial artists and stayed tight at the Wang Family’s side, and in the end charged the beast tide with Liu Ruoshi and the others.

Liu Mei had her people step aside, then said a stretch of words to Wang Yue.

Only then did Wang Yue know that after the matter three years ago this Wang Jingyuan had started being dishonest. He kept drawing martial artists in the base to become his confidants, obeyed Liu Mei the one in charge on the surface and went against her in secret, and used his seniority and high cultivation to hog training resources.

Lately it had gotten even worse. He actually demanded that his grandson join the Wang Family openly and become a direct line of the Wang Family.

The Wang Family now had only Wang Yue as a male. Wang Jingyuan actually wanted his grandson to become a Wang Family direct line. His ambition was simply laid bare.

"Does my grandmother know about this?" Wang Yue asked.

"Miss of course knows, but for the moment she has no way to deal with Wang Jingyuan." Liu Mei sighed. "Wang Jingyuan is already Nascent Soul fourth layer. Though he’s one layer weaker than Miss, they’re both mid Nascent Soul and the strength gap isn’t much. And he’s put out word that if the Wang Family moves against him he’ll smash the pot and report the secret base to the Martial Artists Alliance."

That move was absolutely vicious enough. The Martial Artists Alliance had always looked the other way on the great forces training martial artists in secret, but this kind of thing could not be put on the table. It belonged to "if the people don’t raise it, the officials don’t pursue it."

Once someone exposed it and held real proof, even if the Martial Artists Alliance did not want to manage it they would have to.

And that Wang Jingyuan’s cultivation was as high as Nascent Soul fourth layer. If he set his mind on running, even Liu Ruoshi and Liu Mei together might not keep him. Afraid of hurting the rat and breaking the vase, they could only play along for now.

As for linking the other two great families and taking Wang Jingyuan down with everyone’s strength, that would not be hard, but the noise would be too big and it would easily stir trouble.

That was exactly why Wang Jingyuan had no fear.

Wang Yue finally understood why in his previous life he had not seen Wang Jingyuan in the beast tide. Most likely by then this man had either been removed by Grandmother or left the Wang Family to set up his own house.

Wang Yue only did not understand why Grandmother, knowing it was like this, had not given him even one reminder when she knew he was coming.

Wang Yue was not stupid either. He soon roughly worked out Grandmother’s intent. Clearly she wanted to use this chance to test him.

The aim of the test should be his ability to handle a situation like this.

As the Wang Family’s only male he naturally could not be too soft. If at this time he did not even dare say a word, still less dare go see that Wang Jingyuan, that would definitely not do.

But if he was too aggressive and enraged Wang Jingyuan, he would still be the one to lose. The other man was a family elder after all, and a Nascent Soul expert. Teaching a junior a lesson would make sense anywhere, even if that junior was a family direct line.

Wang Jingyuan’s wolf ambition was almost known to all who walked the road, but in name he was still a Wang Family person. Everyone still kept the surface agreement.

So how to hold that measure, showing the young family head’s majesty without enraging Wang Jingyuan, was the content of Liu Ruoshi’s test of Wang Yue.

Seeing through it all in an instant, Wang Yue said mildly, "Let’s go. We’ll see what this Senior Wang Jingyuan is so busy with."

Liu Mei nodded and said nothing.

In her heart she actually did not agree with her Miss using this to test Wang Yue. He was only fifteen after all, too young. If he mishandled it and lost a lot of face in front of Wang Jingyuan and these hidden Wang Family martial artists, the situation later would probably be even harder to control.

But she was not like Wang Jingyuan. To her, Miss’s word was an imperial decree. Even if she did not agree she would carry it out to the letter.

As for that Wang Jingyuan, if the Wang Family’s old master had not picked him out of a trash heap back then, he would probably have become wild dogs’ food long ago. After something happened to the Wang Family he not only did not think of helping the family through the hard stretch, he wanted to use the chance to take over the Wang Family.

A person like that not only had no loyalty, he also feared the strong and bullied the weak. Before something happened to the Wang Family you did not see him being loyal either. He just had no power to make trouble. Now almost all the Wang Family men were missing and the main house’s overall strength had dropped at least seventy percent, and this Wang Jingyuan jumped out.

This was the standard bullying of orphans and widows. If Miss’s cultivation could not still press Wang Jingyuan down by a head, the main house’s days would definitely not have been easy.

A person like that Liu Mei despised from the bottom of her heart.

Led by Liu Mei, Wang Yue walked toward the deeper underground space.

The hidden martial artists Liu Mei had summoned all followed behind. They were Liu Mei’s line, the part truly loyal to the Wang Family. Now the Wang Family young master was going to find that Wang Jingyuan. If because of youthful heat the conflict fully blew up and the other side rushed them as one, even with Liu Mei there they might not be able to keep him. Many hands make light work. Under ordinary conditions that truth did not change, unless the gap in strength was too large.

Worth mentioning, Li Gang also followed Wang Yue close, not a step away.

He was only honest and thick, not stupid at all. Of course he understood the danger of going there, and he was not a martial artist. Going would not help much.

He still followed without looking back. That alone was enough to make Liu Mei look at him with new eyes and feel Young Master’s eye was truly not bad.

They walked all the way to underground level six, the bottom level, before Wang Yue and the others saw Wang Jingyuan in that level’s huge training field.

Like the great majority of martial artists, Wang Jingyuan also kept a look of about thirty. His build was not tall, but he looked very solid. His face was not the arrogant, untamed kind Wang Yue had imagined. Instead he looked very mild, and often wore a faint smile. People who did not know him would never think this was a wolf pup ready to bite the main house the moment it weakened, and the kind of white-eyed wolf you could never tame.

Right then Wang Jingyuan was not the only one in the underground sixth-level training field. There were more than forty other martial artists. Clearly, in the whole secret base, besides those martial artists who had answered Liu Mei’s summons and gone to pay respects to Wang Yue, the rest were all here.

This was more than a provocation. It was open opposition.

Liu Mei was secretly furious. She shouted, "Wang Jingyuan, what do you mean? The young lord is here. Why didn’t you go pay respects?"

"So it is Young Master honoring us. Young Master, truly sorry. Just now this old man was here training techniques with them, too absorbed, and didn’t hear Steward Liu’s transmission. Truly deserving of death." Wang Jingyuan walked up to Wang Yue, gave a martial artist’s salute, his courtesy quite complete and his words quite pretty, but that tone, anyone could hear the disdain in it.