There was a special communication method between the seven great clans. Such a huge incident happened to the Zhao Clan. The Old Ancestor was killed silently, the Patriarch and Elders were killed, yet no one sensed it. It was still unclear when the patriarch died.
There were servants from the Zhao clan who were proficient in autopsy. After a careful examination, they were informed that the Zhao clan’s Old Ancestor had been dead for a full six hours. The time of the Patriarch and the Elders’s death was about the same as the Old Ancestor’s.
The servant who brought the tea to the patriarch was called over for questioning. The servant was so frightened that his whole body was trembling. He was completely stunned and couldn’t even speak properly, but at least he explained what he knew clearly.
“Six hours ago, I delivered tea to the Patriarch according to my old habits. The door to the Patriarch’s room was tightly shut. I followed my old habits and placed the tea on the table outside. The Patriarch used to be like this too. He didn’t like to be disturbed. I really didn’t hear or know anything!”
The servant was crying so hard that his snot and tears were flowing out. He really didn’t hear anything. When he was delivering tea to the patriarch, he never imagined that the patriarch would be killed in the room without a sound. Moreover, according to the time, the murderer might not have gone far at that time. He might have even seen him. As soon as he thought of this, the servant trembled with fear! How terrifying was this?
The Old Ancestor and patriarch of the Zhao clan were all killed in such a straightforward manner. Most importantly, the entire Zhao clan was filled with people at that time. Servants like him who served tea, as well as servants and guards, were all waiting outside.
The Old Ancestor was a Martial Saint and the patriarch had the strength of a ninth grade Martial Artist. Such a person would cause a huge commotion even if they were to make a move, let alone be killed, so how could no one have heard it?
At this moment, the Zhao clan seemed to have lost their souls. They felt that there was a man-eating beast inside as they looked at the huge old mansion of the Zhao clan. Otherwise, why didn’t anyone hear any noise?
Who in the world was this person? Who had the ability to make the Old Ancestor die silently like this?
It was simply unimaginable.
“Seal the news, immediately inform the remaining six Old Ancestors that the Zhao clan wants revenge!”
The Zhao clan had a senior who had been chosen at the last minute to oversee the overall situation. At this moment, his face was as black as iron, and he wholeheartedly wanted to take revenge. So, he used the fastest speed to spread the news of the Zhao clan to the remaining six clans, waiting for their support.
At this moment, the entire Han clan’s meeting hall was filled with corpses. There were more than ten members of the Han clan, but none of them survived.
It was precisely because no outsiders were allowed to approach every time the Han clan entered the meeting hall, including the servants and guards, as well as some women and children of the Han clan. When Li Yuanqing left the Han clan, none of the members of the Han clan knew that their Old Ancestor and core disciples of the Han clan were all dead this time!
When the news of the Zhao clan reached the Han clan, the descendants of the Han clan who received the news saw that they had used the highest level of communication to send the news. They knew that the news that was sent was definitely no small matter. Therefore, they didn’t dare to delay and immediately went to deliver the letter.
It was just that when he delivered the letter, he was told that the Han clan’s Old Ancestor and family head were in the meeting hall, so that Han clan disciple didn’t dare rashly barge into the meeting hall, because there were similar situations before.
When the Han clan encountered trouble, there was a precedent of someone breaking into the meeting hall and being punished.
This time around, it was the Zhao clan who was in trouble. It wasn’t the Han clan that was in trouble. Therefore, the Han clan disciple could only wait outside for two to three hours. At this moment, Li Yuanqing arrived at the Wang clan.
The Wang clan had always kept a low profile, but it had been around for a thousand years. The descendants of the Wang clan had been through three dynasties without falling, and they had imperial teachers, prime ministers, and generals. Even Li Yuanqing’s previous teacher was from the Wang clan.
If it wasn’t because Li Yuanqing didn’t want to be the Crown Prince back then, the Wang clan would have another imperial teacher when he took that position.
The Wang clan’s foundation was very deep. The Wang Clan’s women were all connected by marriage with the seven great clans, and even when the princes chose their concubines, the Wang Clan disdained to send out their women as candidates.
Furthermore, unlike other aristocratic families, the Wang Clan had their own Martial Academy.
It was used to nurture martial artists with surnames related to the Wang clan or the Wang clan members. These martial artists were only loyal to the Wang clan and did not care who became the Emperor. This was also one of the reasons why the Wang clan had not been destroyed after several dynasties. That was also the reason the founding ancestor of the Northern Kingdom had only comforted the Wang Clan back then and did not kill them.
According to the heritage of the seven great families, the Wang clan was slightly more powerful than the Zhao clan. However, the Wang clan kept a low profile, so the leader became the Zhao clan.
Li Yuanqing had a hunch. He suspected that the Wang clan already had a Martial Saint when they established the Northern Kingdom. There might have been more than one in the past hundred years. However, the Wang clan had always been respectful to the Imperial Court.
In addition, there were many members of the Wang clan who were officials in the Imperial Court, and there were no obvious revolts or extremely vile crimes. Therefore, the Northern Kingdom did not attack the Wang clan.
It was just that this time, the Wang Clan and the remaining six great clans all opposed His Majesty’s insistence and even objected to Princess Zhaoyang being made the Crown Princess.
Li Yuanqing felt that the Wang clan decided to make a move.
His Majesty had no other ways to deal with such a huge clan, even if Zhaoyang were to take up that position in the future, she would still not be able to do anything. This was because these clans’ foundations were too strong. It was even more powerful than the royal family of the Northern Kingdom.
This was also the reason why Zhaoyang wanted to use a stalling tactic to slowly drive a wedge between these aristocratic families. It was because of the Wang clan.
Li Yuanqing had to put in a bit more effort for the Wang clan. After all, there were simply too many people in the Wang clan. Other than the Wang clan’s Old Ancestor, there was also the patriarch, elders, and some powerful beings.
Li Yuanqing did not want to let any of them off.
Especially when he got close to the Wang Clan’s mansion, he discovered that the Wang Clan actually had two Martial Saints. Moreover, these two Martial Saints had very high cultivation realms. They were actually Grotto-Heaven Grade Two.
This was not something that a Grade One Grotto-heaven realm Martial Saint could compare with.
The Wang Clan was indeed the strongest among the seven great clans. Li Yuanqing started to think about how he could achieve the effect he wanted this time.
Seeing that the sky was about to turn dark, the Han clan’s matriarch went to the meeting hall. In the entire Han clan, she was the only one who dared to go near the meeting hall. This was because when the Han clan was having a meeting, they had once sentenced the little girl who delivered tea to death.
The meeting hall was unusually quiet. This made the matriarch of the Han clan feel more at ease. It was good that they didn’t quarrel. It must be because the Old Ancestor was here, so no one dared to speak.
Therefore, she deliberately stood outside the door and waited for the Old Ancestor to summon her.