Chapter 67: Burning the Red Heart Society to Ashes

[Facing the seizure of power by the scions of the prominent families, Lin Xue did not display any overreactive response.]

[She merely looked at Du Yuhan very calmly, and the message conveyed in her gaze was exceedingly simple.]

[Are you going to let them take power?]

[Even though the Jade Metropolis was developed together by the two of us, it remains, after all, your personal private property.]

[Therefore, if you no longer need me, I can leave at any time.]

[There is nothing to be nostalgic about regarding the power possessed by the second-in-command of the Jade Metropolis.]

[You trusted me, which is why I stayed here.]

[If you do not trust me, none of this holds any meaning.]

[At that moment, Du Yuhan understood the implication conveyed within Lin Xue's gaze.]

[She took a deep breath and asked Lin Xue to leave temporarily for the time being.]

[Following that, she delivered a severe reprimand to her cousins and second cousins.]

[As the young miss of the Du family who had built such a massive sphere of influence after being away for only two and a half years, Du Yuhan still held considerable deterrence in the hearts of these aristocratic scions.]

[However, they would not forget their original intention of abandoning top-tier academies to choose Yuncheng First University.]

[This power-struggle tempest seemed to conclude amidst Du Yuhan's stern reproaches.]

[Yet, if Lin Xue were to merely stand in the background and rely on Du Yuhan, they would never give up the food that had been delivered right to their mouths.]

[Only by contending!]

[Only by seizing!]

[Only the truly strong could survive within the prominent families.]

[Furthermore, they were not usurping the power in Du Yuhan's hands, but merely squeezing out an insignificant civilian girl from the Jade Metropolis.]

[Even if this matter were to be brought up to the family elders, they had their own justification!]

[February of the 128th Year of the Transcendence Era, the total number of members in the Chixin Vanguard surpassed 3,000.]

[At this very moment, whether in terms of quality or quantity, the Chixin Vanguard had reached the establishment standards for a Class-C battle corps.]

[It was simply that without the battle corps establishment qualification issued by the Battle Corps Administration, the Chixin Vanguard could currently only be considered a vanguard rather than a formal battle corps.]

[Yet anyone who was not blind could perceive the future developmental potential of the Chixin Vanguard.]

[Having been so frantically poached by the Jade Metropolis, it was still able to develop to the power tier of a Class-C battle corps within a short span of two and a half years; anyone with half a brain would know that there was definitely a major aristocratic family supporting this from behind.]

[Therefore, regarding the battle corps establishment qualification which was extremely difficult for other large vanguards to acquire, for the Chixin Vanguard, as long as the timing was ripe, it could immediately become the Chixin Battle Corps!]

[March of the 128th Year of the Transcendence Era, a few days after the Federal New Year, according to the forecast by the Yuncheng Financial Times, this massive supernova student organization known as the Chixin Vanguard harbored the intention of recruiting external investors.]

[In an instant, the entire Nanyun Province was shaken.]

[Even several other provinces outside Nanyun Province successively dispatched professional negotiation teams to discuss terms.]

[Regarding a unicorn battle corps like the Chixin Vanguard, anyone who wasn't a fool could see the hope of its thriving future development.]

[Consequently, batch after batch of investors, brandishing banknotes in their hands, converged upon Yuncheng First University.]

[Even the various prominent families stirred in response to the news.]

[In stark contrast to the vigorous development of the Chixin Vanguard, the Jade Metropolis had recently fallen entirely into an agonizing struggle for power.]

[The aristocratic scions united and continuously made things difficult for Lin Xue in public occasions.]

[Sometimes it was an internal meeting of the Jade Metropolis, and other times it was an internal meeting of the Jade Vanguard.]

[Initially, Du Yuhan would still issue sharp reprimands and even resort to physical action against her own blood relatives when her patience was exhausted.]

[However, after Du Yuhan attended a tripartite meeting held by the Du family, the Liu family, and the Yu family and returned, she seemed as though she completely failed to notice the aristocratic scions targeting Lin Xue.]

[Facing such targeting, power seizure, mockery, and suppression, Lin Xue did not resist throughout the entire process, resembling a pitiful wretch without any backing who could only be subjected to attacks by anyone.]

[And the more Lin Xue failed to resist, the more rabid these aristocratic scions became, acting like hyenas that had caught the scent of blood.]

[After all, they had coveted the positions of Vice President of the Jade Metropolis and Vice Captain of the Jade Vanguard for a long time.]

[Thus, using the abundant transcendent resources provided by their families as bait, they rapidly built up their own factions within the Jade Vanguard.]

[Members of the Jade Vanguard successively expressed that as Lin Xue was their direct superior, the other party's loss of power made them somewhat fearful.]

[As the saying goes, wise birds choose the tree to nest in; they were merely doing this for a better future!]

[As for whether these aristocratic scions believed this?]

[Anyway, once the transcendent resources were in place, who wouldn't play along with whatever act was required?]

[May of the 128th Year of the Transcendence Era, under the full-force supply of the three major families, all members of the Jade Vanguard completed their second class advancements.]

[However, accompanied by the entry of the three major families, the Jade Vanguard was now a mixed bag of personnel, and the atmosphere was quite chaotic.]

[Every few days, these aristocratic scions would even drag the members of the Jade Vanguard out to sign a form of indentured service agreement.]

[Naturally, every time they finished signing, they would obtain a batch of valuable transcendent resources.]

[With benefits of this magnitude, the Jade Vanguard actually exhibited two states completely contrary to objective reality.]

[Under normal circumstances, with such internal chaos and so many rival factions within a vanguard, combat effectiveness would definitely plummet, and scenes of mutual sabotage and armed skirmishes between various factions would even occur incessantly.]

[Yet the members of the Jade Vanguard still cooperated with the same tacit understanding as before, and even in external battles, they dared to entrust their backs to brothers from other factions.]

[This spectacle was recorded by the observer dispatched by the Du family, who concluded that the Jade Vanguard was truly worthy of being built by the young miss; even when such circumstances arose, it could still maintain a high degree of order without descending into chaos.]

[June of the 128th Year of the Transcendence Era, Du Yuhan publicly called out Lin Xue to demand an explanation as to why she had not poached any other members of the Chixin Vanguard recently.]

[Lin Xue stood on the spot, looking up at Du Yuhan as if she were meeting the other person for the very first time today.]

[August of the 128th Year of the Transcendence Era, the Chixin Vanguard launched its second major sweeping operation, completely clearing out all abyss creatures within a fifty-kilometer radius around Yuncheng.]

[This move won massive prestige for the Chixin Vanguard throughout the entire Nanyun Province.]

[In the same month, the official authorities of Nanyun Province declared that if the Battle Corps Administration issued battle corps establishment quotas next time, they would definitely prioritize recommending the Chixin Vanguard.]

[While the Chixin Vanguard was striding forward, the struggles among the three major families within the Jade Vanguard reached an extremely severe stage.]

[Although the Du family, the Liu family, and the Yu family were blood relatives, in the face of such family interests, no one was willing to voluntarily make concessions.]

[To ensure that their own affiliated family emerged victorious, the three major families continued to pour in resources to sustain the Jade Vanguard.]

[In order to add fuel to the chaos within the Jade Vanguard and simultaneously further squeeze out the support from the three major families, during the phase of the Jade Vanguard's first major external cleanup, the Assassin Department of the Chixin Vanguard set up an ambush outside.]

[In this battle, nearly four hundred members of the Jade Vanguard were injured.]

[Fortunately, an assassin within the Jade Vanguard experienced a sudden flash of intuition in the dark, otherwise the Jade Vanguard would have definitely suffered massive casualties this time.]

[Having suffered such a heavy loss, the scions of the three major prominent families naturally sought to retaliate.]

[October of the 128th Year of the Transcendence Era, the three major prominent families transported ten sets of Epic-tier equipment sets through secret channels.]

[Equipment buffs on a professional's combat power were undeniably of the utmost importance.]

[And according to their plan, ten professionals clad in Epic equipment sets could completely form two tacitly cooperative assassination squads.]

[You, consequently, made it onto their assassination hit list!]

[Without any exceptions, even though the two assassination squads carried Spirit Flame Scrolls and destroyed the Chixin Society headquarters building to restrict your range of movement, the endeavor ultimately ended in failure nonetheless.]

[Accompanied by the burning of the Chixin Society building, all members of the Chixin Society were enraged!]

[This was their spiritual symbol after all!]

[This was the sole source of their spiritual lineage!]

[Before the members of the Chixin Society could recover their wits, news spread once more that you had suffered two consecutive rounds of assassination attempts by the Jade Metropolis, leaving you gravely injured and unconscious in the hospital.]

[As soon as this news spread, the Chixin Society instantly exploded, boiling over entirely.]

[Every single member of the Chixin Society donned their Chixin badges, wore their Chixin uniforms, stepped out of their residences, and spontaneously converged toward the Chixin Society headquarters at Yuncheng First University.]

[Members of the Chixin Society in other cities also arrived in Yuncheng via teleportation arrays at the very first moment upon receiving this news.]

[The Chixin Vanguard gathered together at the absolute earliest moment, forming a battle formation to launch an attack upon the Jade Metropolis headquarters.]

[A massive melee!]

[About to erupt!]