Chapter 362: Chapter 354: The Battle between Great Grandson and Ancestor_1
"Compared to your second uncle, you\'re more like the Fang family\'s offspring, with much more backbone," Fang Yun Zhong said with a smile.
"I thought that compared to this matter, you\'d be more concerned about how to avenge your grandson," Fang Ren replied.
Standing to the side, Fang Zheng, Fang Jing, and Fang Yuanhao all frowned, wanting to stop Fang Ren from speaking further, after all, Fang Yun Zhong was Fang Ren\'s great-grandfather no matter what.
The way Fang Ren spoke to him was far too disrespectful.
But in the end, the three of them still didn\'t speak up, after all, Fang Ren had not acknowledged any connection to their Fang Family to this day. Even if they did speak up, Fang Ren wouldn\'t listen to them in the end and might even become annoyed with them.
Fang Yun Zhong, however, was not angry. Looking at Fang Ren before him, he felt this great-grandson was more like his descendant than Fang Ye, his grandson.
"He is my grandson, and aren\'t you my great-grandson, Ren?"
Fang Yun Zhong was very fond of this great-grandson, who was so much like him in his youth.
Fang Ren didn\'t engage with his words but looked at Fang Yuanhao and the others, all shocked by Fang Yun Zhong\'s resurrection, while Fang Yun Zhong had only mentioned Fang Ye since he arrived here, which seemed a little strange.
Fang Ren continued, "It seems that besides Fang Ye, no one from the Fang Family here knows you\'re still alive, and only Fang Ye knew."
"You must not get too clever about this matter, for if you continue, I fear it might harm our blood relations," Fang Yun Zhong replied, seeming to know what he was about to say and gave a word of caution.
"When Fang Ye wanted to kill me, you couldn\'t possibly have been unaware, yet at the time, you didn\'t consider our blood relation at all. Now you bring it up, don\'t you think yourself hypocritical?" Fang Ren retorted sarcastically.
Fang Zheng\'s brow furrowed deeply. If Fang Yun Zhong truly knew about this, then did he also know when Fang Ye organized the breakaway of the Fang Family\'s leftist faction?
Why didn\'t Fang Yun Zhong stop Fang Ye then, instead allowing him to act recklessly?
"Hahaha, I think today, you must have come to seek revenge on me, right?" Fang Yun Zhong laughed loudly.
Fang Ren\'s gaze turned icy, "When Fang Ye initially attempted to kill me, I suspect it wasn\'t as simple as you standing idly by. It\'s very likely, it wasn\'t Fang Ye who wanted to kill me, but you."
"I did say you shouldn\'t get too clever on this matter," Fang Yun Zhong\'s smile gradually faded, "I actually wanted to take you as my successor and develop you. With such words from you, I\'m afraid that hope is gone now."
Hearing this, Fang Zheng\'s heart was in utter turmoil. His grandfather actually wanted to kill his own son, how could such a thing happen?
"Grandfather! How could you... do such things! How can there be such fratricide!" An aged-looking Fang Yuanhao simply couldn\'t comprehend what Fang Yun Zhong had done.
"Yuanhao, you too are a foolish child. If you had been a little smarter, I wouldn\'t have needed to invest so much effort in Ah Ye," Fang Yun Zhong said.
The main reason he originally chose Fang Ye to contact was because of Fang Zheng\'s nature. He was well aware that Fang Zheng would never help him kill off the collateral families of the Fang Family to obtain their essence blood to nourish his own body. Read exclusive content at mvl
He was also clear that Fang Zheng\'s personality would never agree with his ruling ideology or support him in appropriating the secrets of the Indra Sky organization.
So he had chosen Fang Ye, but after choosing Fang Ye, he faced two problems: one was Fang Ren\'s engagement to Bai Qi, and the other was Fang Zheng\'s status as the eldest son in the family.
If he wanted to obtain the secrets of Indra Sky, he had to deal with Fang Zheng, put Fang Ye in charge, and Fang Ren had to be removed as well, otherwise he couldn\'t let Fang Liqun marry Bai Qi and carry out further plans.
But to his surprise, plans couldn\'t keep up with changes.
One day, Bai Chaojin suddenly took Bai Qi away for experimentation, and the Void Beast Group suddenly descended. The Indra Sky laboratory in the Central Area began to collapse as well.
This was nothing short of a godsend for him. With this opportunity, all his plans could be scrapped, for he could obtain the secrets of Indra Sky directly while everyone was preoccupied with repelling the Void.
Now that he had achieved his goal, whether Fang Ren lived or died was inconsequential; he would rather cultivate this great-grandson, who was originally to be eliminated, as his successor.
"Father, what have you... done! How could you resort to such infighting!" An elderly Fang Yuanhao struggled to understand what Fang Yun Zhong had done.
"Yuanhao, you are also a naive child. If you had been a bit smarter, I wouldn\'t have had to spend so much effort on Ah Ye," Fang Yun Zhong spoke.
Fang Ren did not take immediate action because he had not yet ascertained the reason why Fang Yun Zhong was insistent on killing him. He didn\'t understand what Fang Yun Zhong could gain by killing him.
He wanted to clear up this matter, and he also wanted to know why Fang Yun Zhong had injured Bai Qi.
The soldiers spread across the sky looked down at these private matters of the Fang Family and thus sheathed their weapons.
Xia Mo approached, looking at Fang Yun Zhong\'s dragon scale arm and frowned, "Uncle Fang, could you tell me how you were resurrected?"
Fang Yun Zhong looked at Xia Mo and reminisced for a moment before speaking, "I remember now, are you the child left behind by Old Xia?"
"Junior Xia Mo, I hope you can answer me truthfully and explain what happened to your arm," Xia Mo said.
Just as Xia Mo finished speaking, Bai Chaojin, who was holding Bai Qi on the ground, became agitated, "Old Xia, don\'t be so polite to him! It\'s best to stay away from him! He\'s no longer human!"
Fang Yun Zhong smiled, "Chaojin, it\'s saddening that when I was young, I used to play with you, and yet you are so rude to me now."
"Have you forgotten what you did back then!" Bai Chaojin roared fiercely, "You were practically trying to exterminate the entire human race!"
Fang Yun Zhong sneered, "Back then? I only remember your father, Bai Weiguo, killing me with his own hands. On the battlefield, I was willing to lay down my life and sever my arm to save him, yet he was so heartless to me!"
"My father should never have been merciful to you back then! After killing you, he even left your body intact! Had he torn you to pieces, you wouldn\'t have the chance to endanger our people today!"
Listening to Bai Chaojin\'s words, the minds of the crowd were shrouded in fog.
This elder of the Fang Family, was he not supposed to have died fighting a ninth-order Void Beast on the battlefield?
How did it suddenly become that Bai Weiguo, the commander who had died many years ago, killed him?
And Bai Chaojin was saying that the elder of the Fang Family wanted to exterminate the entire human race back then?
The sheer volume of information made it difficult for the crowd to sort through, each revelation was shocking in its own right.
"Bullshit!"
Fang Yun Zhong\'s voice thundered forth, causing many practitioners with lower cultivation levels to cover their ears and immediately retreat.
"If it hadn\'t been for that son of a bitch getting in my way! If he hadn\'t snatched the Void Fusion research data from my hands, I would have already led humanity towards peace!" Fang Yun Zhong bellowed angrily.
Bai Qi struggled to stand up from the ground and shouted towards Fang Yun Zhong, "You killed without blinking an eye! And still talk about leading humanity to peace? Have you forgotten how you killed the researchers on the submarine that day?"
"To change the world, one must always deal with some obstructing insects. I did nothing wrong," Fang Yun Zhong responded.
Bai Qi argued back, "The theory you advocate is wrong! You want to merge humans with Void beasts, but would humans still be humans then? You are essentially trying to turn the entire human race into another species! And that species, within the Void races, might even be a very lowly existence!
Perhaps this indeed would allow humans to coexist with the Void, but then, what\'s the difference between that and surrendering to become slaves?"
These words stirred up a commotion across the entire sky.
Turning humans into a race of the Void, in exchange for peaceful coexistence with the Void species?
This was sheer madness!
Euphemistically speaking it was becoming another species, but strictly speaking, it was akin to eradication.
Listening to the discussions around him, Fang Yun Zhong\'s expression turned even colder.
These humans couldn\'t understand him, and they even thought he was actually exterminating the race?
Boom—
Suddenly, Fang Yun Zhong\'s Dragon Scale Arm shook, and the sky surged with lightning. A brutal aura swept across the sky over the crowd, rushing toward the horizons.
The soldiers in the sky were startled by this aura.
Although they were uninjured, the aura made every single one of them feel that their lives were under threat.
"The Void is a blessing given to the human race by the heavens. If there were no Void, how could humanity have entered the Cultivation Era?"
Fang Yun Zhong\'s voice roared through the sky, entering everyone\'s ears.
He continued to express his thoughts, "Since ancient times, we humans have known a truth, we must not revolt against nature, or we will bring about our own destruction. Is not the Void allowed to exist by nature as well? We have been evolving all along, from stone to steel, from faith to science, and this Void is also a process that humanity must accept in our evolution.
Survival of the fittest, we need to go through a..."
As Fang Yun Zhong went on with what he considered to be sound reasoning, some of the soldiers in the sky started to think that there seemed to be some sense in his words.
However, Fang Ren looked on with a headache, speechless. If it hadn\'t been for Bamboo Garden telling him that the arrival of the Void species was due to spatial misalignment, he might have actually believed Fang Yun Zhong\'s narrative.
"In my eyes, as long as it can make the human race better, make our living environment more peaceful, that is the best choice."
Fang Yun Zhong threw out his final words, "Today, I did not come here with the intention of peaceful coexistence with you all, because this evolution will invariably involve bloodshed. Those who resist me, I will kill them all today. Those who comply, enjoy the harmony of the world. Now, make your choice."
As the multitudes of soldiers engaged in heated discussions, Fang Ren silently formed the Empty Ming Sword in his hand, slowly pointing it towards Fang Yun Zhong.
Between him and Fang Yun Zhong, there had to be a battle.