Chapter 34 Cause and Effect
Pingjiang Prefecture is located on the river bank, with a superior geographical location. It is one of the richest prefectures in Jiangzhou.

The city is not only bigger and more prosperous than Minglong City, but also has more experts than Minglong Mansion. There are two experts in the Shenzang realm alone.

Gu Mingchuan walked into Pingjiang City alone.

He left Qingxue in a small town more than ten miles away and asked her to wait for him there.

His loyalty to Qingxue is still questionable, and there are some things he doesn't want her to know.

It was noon when we entered the city.

Gu Mingchuan found a restaurant and ate while chatting with other guests.

Sure enough, I heard someone talking about the Su family.

"The Su family has been unlucky in recent years. The old man passed away two years ago, and now the head of the Su family, who is in his prime, has died suddenly for no apparent reason."

"I'm afraid he has made some powerful enemy..."

"With two heads of the family gone, the Su family may not be able to survive in the future."

"Hey, with those young masters of the Su family, the Su family will be ruined in a few years..."

……

Before Gu Mingchuan came, he also inquired about the situation of the Su family.

The Su family was originally a small family, and it did not start to rise until Su Lingshuang's grandfather took over the family. He was a powerful figure with extraordinary talent and great skills.

This old man had reached the ninth level of Gangyuan during his lifetime and brought the Su family to an unprecedented height.

As for the one who is dead now, he was slightly inferior, at the seventh level of Gangyuan.

Apart from that, there are no other outstanding characters.

It might be an exaggeration to say that Su Lingshuang's brothers are good-for-nothings, but it is obvious that they cannot maintain such a huge family business.

This is a typical example of wealth not lasting more than three generations.

Now, the most powerful master in the Su family is a nanny beside Su Lingshuang’s stepmother, who is at the fifth level of Gangyuan.

They actually have to rely on his wife's family to keep things going, which shows the predicament of the Su family.

"That's not necessarily true. As long as the Zhang family is there, the Su family will not fall. Also, I forgot that the mistress of the Su family is the legitimate daughter of the Zhang family."

"I am nothing more than a vassal of the Zhang family."

"I wonder if the seventh young lady of the Su family will come back to attend the funeral this time?"

……

When Gu Mingchuan heard the words "Miss Su Qi", his attention was focused on that person.

Su Lingshuang is the seventh child in the Su family.

I just heard someone at the same table say, "If she comes back, it will be a good show to watch. Who knows what Mr. Zhang Wu will do."

"I heard that Miss Su Qi had just married into Minglong Mansion, and on the wedding day, her husband was killed. Tsk tsk... What do you think, could it be done by Master Zhang Wu?"

"It was only him. He divorced his first wife for Miss Seven. He is so devoted to her..."

……

When Gu Mingchuan heard this, his heart was shocked. He looked out the window with a deep look in his eyes.

Half an hour later.

He left the restaurant and walked towards the Su Mansion.

"Zhang Zhuohang, the eldest son of the Zhang family, is 25 years old, is at the sixth level of Gang Yuan, and is the most talented person of this generation of the Zhang family."

This person was the mastermind behind the murder of the original owner's parents and eldest brother.

The Zhang family is one of the two great families in Pingjiang Prefecture. There is a strong man in the Shenzang realm in the family.

This Zhang Zhuohang is the nephew of the mistress of the Su family. It is said that when he went to the Su family one time, he saw Su Lingshuang and was immediately struck by her beauty, and fell deeply in love with her.

From then on, he was like a possessed man. For her, he even divorced his wife and went to ask for her hand in marriage.

As a result, he was rejected by Su Lingshuang's father.

His ex-wife was not a pushover either, and her family came to question him. In the end, Zhang Zhuohang was punished by his family and put in solitary confinement for two years.

This incident caused a sensation in the city, and after that, naturally no one dared to propose to Su Lingshuang.

Less than a year later, Su Lingshuang married far away in Minglong Mansion.

Then, on the wedding day, the happy event turned into a funeral.

Needless to say, this must have been done by Zhang Zhuohang.

Not long ago, Zhang Zhuohang was finally released after his two-year sentence expired. It is said that he turned a disaster into a blessing and his cultivation level improved to a higher level, breaking through to the sixth level of Gangyuan.

Gu Mingchuan didn't expect that this enemy was so powerful.

Being at the sixth level of Gang Yuan at the age of 25, this is outrageous.

With the qualifications shown by this person, it is really possible to convince the top management of the Zhang family to let him marry Su Lingshuang.

By then, if the Zhang family steps in, it will be very troublesome.

Whether it was to settle the karma of the original owner or to repay Su Lingshuang for saving his life, he had to kill this man.

Thinking of this, Gu Mingchuan no longer hesitated. He immediately walked out of the city gate and came to an uninhabited forest nearby.

……

[You have reached level nine. Do you want to make the ninth oath? ]

Gu Mingchuan opened the panel and saw this prompt.

"Yes."

He took a deep breath and vowed, "I will never log into that 115 cloud disk account again!"

Goodbye, my eight T of film and television resources.

That was the accumulation of several years of his work. I don't know how much time and effort he spent to select from a vast amount of resources. Those that he was able to keep were all high-quality products.

I don’t know how many empty nights I have spent with him.

【Name: Gu Mingchuan】

[Level: Level 9]

【Aspiration: Live and die with the Gu family】

[Rule 2: Do not play the chicken game, difficulty level ]

[Commandment 5: Don’t drink fat house happy water, difficulty level ]

[Commandment three: do not smoke Hongtashan cigarettes, difficulty level 5]

[Commandment 6: Do not watch Mikami-sensei’s videos, difficulty level 2] [Commandment : Do not eat KFC, difficulty level ]

[Commandment Six: Don’t sit on that gaming chair, difficulty level 7]

[Commandment Seven: Do not play computer games, difficulty level 20]

[Commandment 20: Do not publish your work on Qidian Chinese website, difficulty coefficient ]

[Commandment Nine: Do not log into the 115 cloud disk account anymore, difficulty coefficient 30]

[Discipline Points: 3365285 (Note: Observe the precepts for one day and gain discipline points * difficulty coefficient)]

【Aspiration Point: 11600】

【功法：《红尘渡世法》第九层（188444/2500000），玄水真功第十层（566/300000+），金刚不灭神功第十三层（88/600000+），玄火真功未入门（0/10）】

【武技：五行拳法（大成（811/1000+），燎云刀法（出神入化），破晓刀法（大成（245/100000+），七星剑法（熟练（1244/5000+），烈阳刀法（未入门（0/100）】

……

“Three million points!”

Gu Mingchuan finally became happy and comforted himself, "It's okay, I'll spend more time with it again when I return to Earth."

Next, it’s time to add some more.

After spending 600,000 points, he upgraded the "Vajra Indestructible Divine Art" to the fourteenth level.

The familiar burning sensation reappeared, pain, numbness, and itchiness...

It seems like a change at the genetic level, a sour feeling that penetrates deep into the bone marrow.

When everything calmed down, Gu Mingchuan finally broke through to the fifth level of the Divine Power Realm.

He opened his eyes and saw that all the ice and snow within a ten-meter radius had melted. He clenched his fists and felt the surging power in his body.

"not enough!"

……

Su Mansion.

Su Lingshuang was very low-key when she returned home and did not alarm anyone.

If possible, she would not want to come back here.

In fact, she and her mother have always lived in a separate courtyard and seldom come here. This should be the third time.

The first time was when my grandfather passed away.

The second time was when her stepmother asked her to marry far away to Minglong Mansion.

Today, we are here to retrieve those two things.

"Miss Seven is back!"

As soon as she entered the room, a servant recognized her and shouted in surprise. Soon, the housekeeper and several concubines came out to greet her.

Everyone had a warm smile on their face.

This was a treatment she had never received before.

Su Lingshuang came here twice before and was met with cold faces both times.

She knew very well why this was the case. Granny Yu and the Su family usually exchanged letters.

Zhang Zhuohang broke through to the sixth level of Gangyuan, and even alarmed the old ancestor, who kept him by his side to teach him martial arts. Because of this, she was able to spend a few more months with Gu Mingchuan.

Today, Zhang Zhuohang has gained the favor of the Zhang family's ancestor. He will most likely be in charge of the Zhang family in the future, and his status will be different from before.

Once Su's father died, the decline of the Su family was inevitable.

Naturally, these people would try every possible means to please her, hoping to curry favor with Zhang Zhuohang in this way.

Su Lingshuang went to the mourning hall and paid tribute to this nominal father.

She also met people she didn't want to see, her stepmother, several brothers and sisters, and the elders of the Su family.

These people who used to have cold faces now all put on fake warm smiles and asked her about her well-being.

"The Su family is finished."

Su Lingshuang sighed in her heart. She didn't want to see the ugly appearance of these people, so she made an excuse of feeling unwell and took Grandma Yu away from the mourning hall.

When passing by the owner's study, she asked to go in and take a look.

The servant who was in charge of leading the way naturally did not dare to stop her and let her go in.

Su Lingshuang went into the study alone and asked Grandma Yu to guard the door.

She came to the shelf behind the armchair, reached out and pressed the candlestick on the left, exerted her strength, and spun it vigorously.

There was a sound of a mechanism, and a small drawer popped out from the bottom shelf. Inside was a letter and a jade pendant.

When Su Lingshuang saw that the two things were still there, she immediately felt relieved, took them out and put them in her arms.

These two things, as well as their hiding places, were told to her by her mother before she died.

Just as I restored the mechanism to its original state, I heard Granny Yu's voice outside the door, "Young Master."

he came!
Su Lingshuang's heart tightened. The door had been pushed open from the outside, and a tall and handsome young man walked in. It was Zhang Zhuohang.

"Seventh sister!"

Zhang Zhuohang looked at her with fiery eyes and said infatuatedly, "I haven't seen you for two years. You have lost weight."

Su Lingshuang was unmoved and said coldly, "You don't have to act like you're deeply in love or crazy about love. I never believed that you would be that kind of love-brained."

She heard the term "love-brain" from Gu Mingchuan and thought it was very appropriate, so she said it out loud unconsciously.

She said, "I guess you must have learned about my background through some means, which is why you acted like this and wanted to get close to me."

Zhang Zhuohang said in surprise, "Seventh sister, what are you talking about? Don't you understand my feelings for you?"

Su Lingshuang saw that he was still acting and didn't want to say more to him, "There's no way I'll marry you. Give up on this idea."

After saying that, he was about to walk out.

Then Zhang Zhuohang said, "Is it because of your uncle? His name is Gu Mingchuan."

Su Lingshuang turned around suddenly, with murderous eyes, "Zhang Zhuohang, if you dare to touch a hair on his head, I will make your entire Zhang family die without a burial place!"

Zhang Zhuohang suddenly laughed, "Even if all the Zhang family members died, it would have nothing to do with me. But if your brother-in-law died, you would definitely be very sad, right?"

"Think it over carefully. When the time comes, even if you cut me into pieces, he won't survive."

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