Chapter 2222 - 2215: I Have Sufficient Reason to Suspect You’re Impostors

When Zhang Menglong pulled out a lump of dog poop, the entire courtroom hall became as quiet as a library; you could practically hear a pin drop. The first impression everyone got wasn’t one of insult and contempt but rather of vulgarity and poor taste.

Of course, Zhang Menglong never considered himself a refined person. He thought of himself as a downright vulgar man, and he wasn’t someone who cared about saving face. As long as he could disgust his opponent, sacrificing a thousand of his enemies while taking an eight hundred hit to himself was something he could accept.

"Mr. Zhang, we don’t need to communicate with emotion." Seeing their ancestor’s bones, the people of the Moyan family became much more agitated. Their earlier words were merely to probe Zhang Menglong.

After wearing them for so many years, if their ancestor had any other accessories, there would be some slight color differences in the worn area. However, the entire skeleton remained intact, with no visible discoloration, indicating that their ancestor’s belongings were fairly complete.

Moreover, when the Holy Soul Alliance member entered the underground space, Zhang Menglong secretly placed a detector on him, capturing many images, including a complete image of the skeleton. After comparing it with that image, there were no detailed discrepancies.

As for why they asked such a question and what their motive was, only the Moyan family knew.

But Zhang Menglong wouldn’t tolerate it. Whenever something displeased him, he would voice it.

Emotions? He initially felt nothing. Even when he was ’kidnapped’ to the Moyan family in such a manner, Zhang Menglong could internally rationalize their actions. So at first, he simply remained indifferent, not angry.

But now, after being interrogated and slandered, he indeed felt emotions rising. When he felt emotions, he would let himself go.

Silently, Zhang Menglong stowed the bones away. The Moyan family members never realized that by having their ancestor’s bones in his possession, Zhang Menglong held the upper hand to a certain degree!

"Mr. Zhang, what do you mean by this?" Seeing Zhang Menglong put away the bones, the expressions of the Moyan family changed slightly.

"Nothing much. I feel like you people from the Moyan family seem more interested in me than in this set of bones. Now, I’ve somewhat changed my mind. I’m not necessarily planning to return it to you."

"What did you say?" Bai Si’s face immediately turned grim, "Mr. Zhang, if you don’t hand over the ancestral bones, do you really think you can leave the Moyan family safely?"

These words were somewhat threatening.

It was well known that the thing Zhang Menglong hated most was being threatened.

"Whether I can leave the Moyan family or not, I don’t know," Zhang Menglong sneered, "but I can make sure you get nothing!"

Zhang Menglong extended a finger, and a tiny flame bloomed at his fingertip. Just this small flicker of flame made everyone present feel a wave of heat and dry mouth.

"What kind of flame is this?" Even Bai Si, a peak Realm Breaker, could clearly feel the heat contained within the flame.

Under such fire, not just the ancestral bones but even the space storage device on the bones couldn’t withstand the temperature.

If the space storage device gets damaged, the contents wouldn’t drop into the real world but get lost in numerous fragmented small worlds. A space storage device is, after all, an independent space with unstructured, undefined coordinates. Once damaged, it’s impossible to find those space coordinates again.

If Zhang Menglong really burned everything, they’d end up empty-handed.

"Could this be the treasure he acquired this time?" someone speculated.

Zhang Menglong was merely a First Grade Transcender and couldn’t possibly possess something far beyond his strength. To them, this must be some inherited power or treasure obtained from the place where Chien Xu and others met an accident.

Thinking it might have been a path paved by Chien Xu for Zhang Menglong to get such a treasure, the people of the Moyan family felt imbalanced, thinking it should belong to them!

"Clan Leader, this appears to be a special natural flame. If we can peel it off that young man and give it to me, my alchemy capability could increase two to three times at least!" At this moment, the chief Alchemist in the clan was the most tempted.

"Clan Leader, this flame could fuse with many incredibly powerful metals. If given to me, I could forge more divine weapons for the family; even weapons like the Qinggu Sword might be able to be mass-produced!" The Moyan family’s Artifact Refiner was equally tempted.

"Mass-produce Qinggu Sword?!" Hearing this, Bai Si’s eyes sparkled with excitement.

Listening to their whispers, Zhang Menglong realized that without securing their ancestor’s bones, they were already eyeing his strange fire.

He shook his head, "Ah, Chien Xu, Chien Xu, this is the Moyan family for which you were willing to pay with your life. I feel heartbroken for you."

Initially, Zhang Menglong even thought he could receive a hero’s treatment in the Moyan family. Putting aside anything else, it’s not unreasonable to expect to eat and drink well, right? Yet, the scene now was entirely different.

"Mr. Zhang, could you at least return our ancestor’s bones to us?" Bai Si said, "Just now, some of our family members might not have fully understood the situation. The ancestor’s bones and the images from the data we received are identical, so naturally, there’s no way anything was stolen. Here, I apologize on behalf of my clan and you."

"Hypocrite," Zhang Menglong rolled his eyes, and suddenly had an idea to deal with them, "I came here today to return the item to the Moyan family, which was something I was entrusted to do. But, I also don’t want the item to fall into the wrong hands. You understand what I mean, right?"

"What do you mean? What do you mean by ’wrong hands’?" The Moyan family members truly couldn’t comprehend Zhang Menglong’s words.

"I mean, since Mr. Chien Xu asked me to bring the item back to the Moyan family, it’s natural I want to make sure the bones indeed go into the hands of the Moyan family. How will you prove you’re from the Moyan family?" Zhang Menglong looked at them with a teasing expression.

"We’re definitely from the Moyan family." Bai Si pointed to the Clan Emblem on his chest, "This represents my identity with the Moyan family. Isn’t that enough?"

"Please, just a lousy badge. I could spend a few hundred bucks and have an advertising company make me thousands!" Zhang Menglong rolled his eyes once again.

"If these are the Moyan family’s ancestral remains, I should be receiving hero-like treatment on my arrival. But now, I’m not feeling that at all. Why is that? Do you not respect your own ancestors? Or is it that these bones are dispensable?"

Zhang Menglong’s series of questions were deafening.

"So now, I have every reason to suspect you’re imposters!" Zhang Menglong declared righteously, "So these bones absolutely cannot be returned to you!"