Chapter 374
Lily was a Cloud-Five Reaching Heaven State whose phoenix blood was thick. In addition to that, her martial arts techniques level was also high.
Otherwise, Gao Li and Gao Yan wouldn’t have given her such an important task.
But Jiang Chen wasn’t nervous at all. He was even smiling.
It occurred to him that since he had defeated Shui Chun, he had never fought anyone else from the Dragon Field. That was why he was being underestimated.
In fact, he was over ten times better than them.
“Holy Fire Burns Sky: A Diagonal Slash to the Moon!”
Lily used a knife. Her attack carried fierce flames, the horrid power of the knife gushing in the sea of fire.
Gao Ke said, “Sister, Lily is showing all she has. She wants to kill Jiang Chen.”
“Doesn’t matter.” Gao Yue shook her head. She knew Jiang Chen’s strength pretty well. Lily was far less than a threat to him.
It was true. Seeing the fire phoenix dashing over, Jiang Chen simply turned his neck. He looked pretty calm.
“You think only my martial arts techniques are better than yours?”
A gale formed around him. After a few jumps of wispy arcs of electricity, he was armed with the dazzling armor of thunder.
“A Strike Without Permanence!”
Jiang Chen inserted the knife into its sheath. With his body tilted forward, he dashed over and the black knife left the sheath once again.
The bystanders only saw a shadow streak through the fire phoenix. It all happened in a flash.
Then they saw the phoenix transformed by Lily split into two from the middle.
In a few seconds, the fire was extinguished. Lily fell onto the ground. Her chest was bleeding heavily as she lied down in her own blood.
Jiang Chen had killed a descendant of the Gaos’ direct line with only one knife attack.
What Gao Yue had said was suddenly given importance.
“Brutal. That was too brutal. It was only a competition. How could you kill your rival?!” Gao Li’s harsh voice broke the silence again.
It looked he was going to find an excuse to break his promise again.
But Lily’s death had caused a great stir.
“Each of Lily’s knife strikes aimed to kill my son. Each of them was made with all-out effort. I believe everyone noticed,” Gao Yue said.
“Lily wasn’t strong enough. She had to do that,” said Gao Li.
“Ridiculous. Before the fight, everyone thought my son was weaker. So did Lily. Uncle, you’re really shameless.”
“You!”
Gao Li pointed at her angrily. He was about to lose his temper.
“But it’s a fact that Jiang Chen meant to kill her,” Gao Yan said.
Wiping blood off the blade, Jiang Chen said sarcastically, “Do you mean if she wanted to kill me, I would have had to take it? Was justice on her side since she was weaker?”
“I want to hear the verdict of the clan elders.” Gao Yan ignored him and looked towards Gao Ke.
Gao Ke didn’t speak, but everyone on the spot realized things weren’t so simple anymore.
The clan elders’ verdict was the most sacred ceremony of the Gaos.
Taking the lord’s sickness and Gao Yue’s situation into consideration, Gao Yan wasn’t asking for it at this moment just to target Jiang Chen.
“What an old fox. He has two strings to his bow. Whether Lily won or lost, he would ask for the clan elders’ verdict!” Gao Ke said in a low voice.
“Right. The verdict. We want the clan elders’ verdict!” Gao Li hoped they could make a bigger scene so that no one would remember the drop of his fire phoenix’s genuine blood.
“Brother, say yes,” Gao Yue said.
“Sister?”
Gao Ke was confused. Once the verdict started, the next lord of the Gaos would be decided. It would be time to show their hand.
But for the moment, they didn’t have enough bargaining chips.
“It’s all right,” Gao Yue said while glancing at Jiang Chen.
No matter what other bargaining chips they had, once they told the others that Jiang Chen was a man of genuine blood, they would gain a complete victory.