"Fang Kou! You should give all of us an explanation for what happened to our children!"

Similar angry shouts could be heard outside the manor of Fang family. Fang Kou temporarily stoppped cultivating when he noticed a familiar voice among them.

"What's the problem?"

He asked them in a calm voice from inside the manor but was shocked when he saw the children with bandages that covered almost every part of their head.

'They were heavily injured even when they're inside the village? Could it be?...' Fang Kou's eyes widened when he thought of this.

"Are there spirit beasts attacking the village?!" Fang Kou hurriedly asked to confirm his theory.

"What do you mean spirit beasts?! Your son beat them all up until they're all in this state!" A middle aged woman that's in front of the group angrily shouted at him.

"You're the one who lead the group here Tao Yating?" Fang Kou said after seeing the person who he's familiar with, "I should have guessed it." He muttured in a soft voice.

Veins kept showing up on Tao Yating's forehead when she heard his whisper, "I could hear you." She said while gritting her teeth.

"Putting that aside, it's your children's fault that they lost. Based on what your children explained, my son already fought alone yet they still lost" Fang Kou pretended not to hear what she said and changed the subject.

"But even if your son is stronger than them, there's no need to go so far!" Tao Yating responded despite feeling humiliated how their children lost so easily.

"Just look at the injuries he caused to our children! It's inhumane!"

"She's right! You need to atleast give us compensation!"

Fang Kou massaged his forehead seeing them continue shouting, 'That kid caused me a lot of trouble this time'

He sighed before replying to them, "What compensation do you want then?" They all went silent hearing this and everyone looked towards Tao Yating.

"It's only a small request, we want you to not compete for the position of chieftain" Tao Yating's mouth slightly rised up.

'So that's their intention from the very beginning.' He furrowed his brows. Although he knew that they will make their move after knowing that Fang Tanxing will be a big obstacle to them on getting to chieftain position, he didn't expect it to be this early.

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"That's not possible, only the chieftain have the right to do that. I don't have the choice to refuse if he chooses me to succeed his position." He responded after contemplating.

"You can go out the village by the time the chieftain is about to be chosen." Tao Yating relented not wanting to lose the argument. If Fang Kou is absent at that time, then their chieftain won't have any reason to still pick him.

"What's going on here?"

Just as Fang Kou was about to say something, a commanding voice interupted them. A burly old man wearing a necklace made of bones approached them.

"Greetings Chieftain"

Fang Kou and the others hurriedly greeted respectfully as soon as they saw him.

The chieftain waved his hands and said, "Tao Yating, I heard that you wanted Fang Kou to have his succeeding rights to be removed. The only way for you to do that is to let both of your children fight each other. Whoever's child lose will have their succeeding rights removed."

"Chieftain, I-" Tao Yating was cut off by the chieftain before she even have the chance to refuse because she knew that her child would surely lose.

"But seeing that you're so determined to do it that you even came all the way here, I'll give you a chance." He sighed as if he's giving her a big favor.

Fang Kou quickly yelled towards their manor when he heard this, not giving Tao Yating any chance to refuse again.

"Fang Tanxing! Come here!" A chubby kid eating meat buns came running towards Fang Kou as soon as he called heard the call.

"How come you have that? I told you to train awhile ago... Nevermind that, go fight him!" He looked at him speechlessly before pointing towards the child of Tao Yating.

The chieftain turned towards the children wearing bandages in confusion. 'Is this a new clothing trend that appeared while I was away from the village?' He shook his head before leading the child of Tao Yating to face Fang Tanxing.

"Chieftain, I didn't say-!"

"Fight!"

Tao Yating was cut off again as she was about to continue.

Fang Tanxing charged towards his opponent by the time he heard the old man said the word.

Although Fang Tanxing doesn't have any idea what's happening, since his father told him to fight, he decided to finish it fast and continue eating.

A trickle of tear slowly appeared from the only visible eye of his bandaged opponent when he saw Fang Tanxing coming towards him.

"Not again-!"

*Bam

Without even having the chance to raise his arms, he got knocked out. After doing so, Fang Tanxing snatched the meat buns from his father's grasp and escaped.

The Chieftain's eyes showed shock seeing Tao Yating's child being easily beaten. He looked at Tao Yating only to see her having an expression not knowing whether to laugh or to cry.

"Both of them should be at the same age, how come your child was easily beaten?"

"Chieftain, Fang Tanxing is already on the 1st level while my child's dantian is still not open..."

"Why didn't you say so earlier?"

"But I tried too..."

"Let's just cancel this then, I still have duties to do." With a displeased expression, the chieftain waved his hands and headed back to his place since he only passed by and had something to do. He nodded in satisfaction towards Fang Tanxing.

Tao Yating and her group also went back to their own residence in a depressed state when they saw their chieftain displeased.

"Now that all the fuss is finished, I should triple the training of that naughty kid." Feeling pleased, Fang Kou went back inside the manor.

After they all went away, a seemingly ordinary shop owner who watched everything that happened took out a talisman from his sleeve.

"Family Head Zhou Zhi, Tao Yating failed, chieftain unexpectedly came back to the village." He whispered into the talisman then inserted a bit of his chi turning it into ashes.