"Silence! Do you truly think it is your place to speak such words?" thundered the chief elder.
Chu Qi-Tian fell silent instantly.
But the chief elder did not pursue the matter.
Chu Qi-Tian was the Young Master of the Chu family, after all, and the only son of the head of the Chu family. His was a position of high regard and privilege.
Despite his position as the chief elder of Chu Sect, he should not put the young man in too difficult a spot.
Having voiced his displeasure, the chief elder left.
"Since Old Madam Chu left, the Chu family's been getting worse with each new head. The previous head of the family clan, Chu Zheng-Hong, was an irresponsible young man who spent all his time with women and even messed around with a woman from the countryside. But he turned a new leaf and became the head of the family. He did a good job for many years and for some time, I thought he was going to be a good leader for the Chu family."
"But a leopard never changes his spots. I heard that he deployed vast resources of Chu Sect and made a charge into Japan for some woman. How ridiculous! Chu Zheng-Liang's become the new head of the Chu family and he appears to know the rules. However, he hasn't done anything great to prove himself."
"The Chu family used to be the most powerful of the three families in Chu Sect. They were spectacular. Numerous martial arts prodigies were born from the Chu family. The former great patriarch, Chu Yuan, had been a well-known figure throughout the martial arts circle. Chu Zheng-Hong might have been unruly and displayed improper conduct, but he's also earned himself the name of Demon King Chu. Look at the Chu family now. You can't call them anything else but mediocre. Their glory didn't manage to last."
Perhaps he was nostalgic for the past, because the chief elder began talking about the Chu family on the way back.
The recent upheaval in the Chu family had created quite a commotion.
The Chu family was an important part of Chu Sect, after all. Any changes in the Chu family would mean changes in Chu Sect too.
For example, Chu Zheng-Hong had been one of the deputy sect leaders of Chu Sect. His position had since been replaced by Chu Zheng-Liang.
However, they didn't really know the details of the upheaval that had occurred in the Chu family.
No one would air their family clan's dirty laundry in the open.
The chief elder had to piece together whatever he had heard from others. It was natural that he hadn't gotten the full picture.
With Tang Yun's orders, the incident with
Ye Fan finally came to a rest.
Chu Sect did not hold another funeral. Instead, they buried the elders who had died by Ye Fan's hand that very night.
After being reprimanded by the chief elder, Chu Qi-Tian returned to the Chu family dejectedly.
"What happened? Why do you look so down? Did you get reprimanded by your master again?"
Chu Qi-Tian approached his father so that he could report to him what had happened at Chu Sect today.
As the deputy sect leader of Chu Sect, Chu Qi-Tian's father, Chu Zheng-Liang, was one of the five most powerful men in Chu Sect.
He was too important a man to attend the funeral of a few mere elders. That had been why he had sent his son, Chu Qi-Tian, to attend the event in his stead.
He was currently in his study dealing with matters of the family clan.
He frowned when he saw Chu Qi-Tian.
Chu Qi-Tian shook his head. "It's not my master. It's the chief elder."
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