Chapter 378
“The lord?”
Jiang Chen was surprised to learn the Gaos’ plan. Since his family name wasn’t Gao, he had never thought about being their lord, but on second thought, the Gaos had intended to appoint his mother, Gao Yue, as the lord in the first place. In that case, her child would naturally be the next successor.
His only concern was Gao Ke. He wasn’t sure whether his uncle would be happy with the new arrangement, and as a result, hold a grudge against them.
After all, he was the acting lord. Anyone would show their darkest side if their benefits were harmed.
However, Gao Ke intended to protect Gao Yue at the risk of losing his position as lord. Jiang Chen felt like he was overthinking at the thought of this fact.
So Jiang Chen accepted the Gaos’ arrangement and went to see Gao Jinghong the next day.
“My waiting finally paid off. Every cloud has a silver lining.”
“If I remember well, you’ll be expelled from the Hero Palace in ten days!” said Gao Huoling.
“Expelled?”
Jiang Chen was surprised. Then he recalled his punishment—he had to kill someone ranked on the Slay Demon List.
“The man ranked at the bottom of the Slay Demon List is ranked on List A, too.”
“Are you done?” Jiang Chen asked.
“Ha, you’ll live in my shadow forever!” Gao Huoling gave him a stare and turned around, leaving.
“Jiang Chen, don’t underestimate Huoling. She’s one of the best among the Gaos’ direct-line disciples. You’re not a match for her for right now,” said Gao Jinghong.
“I’m not a match for many people right now. But soon, they won’t be a match for me,” Jiang Chen said.
“Haha.”
His brave words made Gao Jinghong burst out in laughter.
“Jiang Chen, I’ll hold onto the three drops of essence blood for you. You shouldn’t use them until you’ve experienced how magical phoenix blood is,” Gao Yue suddenly said.
“Yeah, I agree,” Gao Jinghong nodded.
It seemed the Gaos had made his practicing schedule for him, but Jiang Chen had to leave it on hold for a while due to his urgent task.
The Gaos certainly wouldn’t agree. They didn’t think it was a big deal to be expelled from the Hero Palace, but they couldn’t talk Jiang Chen out of it. Anyway, Jiang Chen had information from them regarding ten people ranked on the Slay Demon List, so he left for the Fire Phoenix City.
However, he returned to the Black Dragon City first to look for the dragon ball the black dragon had mentioned.
Since the black dragon and the dragon ball could sense each other’s positions, it didn’t take him long to dig it out of the ruins of the mountain that he had destroyed.
It was interesting that he wasn’t the only one there. Many people wanted to find the Black Dragon City’s treasure.
Seeing Jiang Chen had found something, they surrounded him and said, “Stop. Let me have a look at it!”
“You mean this?”
Jiang Chen took the dragon ball out. Looking at the greedy people around him, he said with a smile, “You want it?”