Legend of the Heavenly Fruit
Eps. 17 — Xiao Clan Problems
Indeed in recent years the Xiao clan has been experiencing internal problems in its clan, it is related to the throne.
Their clan head was about to resign from his post and would be replaced with one of his sons.
The Xiao clan head had two sons named Xiao Sha and Xiao Yu, the clan head then chose Xiao Yu's candidate, the younger brother, to be the leader instead of his older brother.
Xiao Sha certainly did not agree with the decision, he began to oppose his father's decision which was considered unfair, because according to him, he should be the one who deserves to be the future Head of the clan instead of his sister.
As a result, the Xiao clan government was split in two now, one side on his brother's side while the other side on his sister's side.
Xiao Fan himself preferred Xiao Yu to be the next generation Clan Leader rather than Xiao Sha.
"Xiao Sha was too ambitious to replace his father as the clan leader, so I did not take his side and chose his younger brother..." Xiao Fan explained frankly the situation of his clan to Zhou Bing as well as the person in the room.
Xiao Fan said that Xiao Sha was less intelligent to be made a leader, as the Supreme Elder obviously Xiao Fan wanted the best for his clan.
Now that the situation of the Xiao clan was indeed complicated and heated up, there were invisible sparks and were ready to explode at any time. Both camps do look normal on the outside but there is actually a cold war.
What Xiao Fan was most afraid of now was the breakup of the Xiao clan, if only there was no whereabouts of him it might have been a long time since the Xiao clan fought between its own clans, arguably, it was, the existence of Xiao Fan was a pillar of warfare that did not happen.
Xiao Fan served as the Supreme Elder in the Xiao clan's government, his whereabouts were highly calculated.
Xiao Fan had been offered the leadership of the Xiao clan by the clan leader but he refused the offer because he did not want to be too busy and wanted to be with his grandson longer.
"Grandfather..."
Xiao Rou who heard that all of a sudden clasped his grandfather's hand tightly with a feeling of worry. The girl clearly understood what kind of situation her clan was in.
"No need to fear, Rou'er, as long as there is a grandfather there, the Xiao clan will be fine..." Xiao Fan's expression instantly turned gentle upon noticing his grandson's attitude. He stroked the girl's head slowly.
"So what can I help you with, Brother Fan, do you need the Zhou family's help to help your clan?" Zhou Bing who had already heard the outline of the Xiao clan's matter now asked back.
Xiao Fan shook his head, "No, let this be the business of my Bing clan, I only ask that my grandson can stay here longer."
Zhao Bing nodded slowly, if that was his request then it would not be difficult for Zhou Bing to do that.
Xiao Fan did not have time to be in the Zhou family's residence that day, he had to hurry to return to the Xiao clan.
"Rou'er, sorry that after three years of not seeing you, Grandpa was so proud to see you grow up to be a stronger and more beautiful woman..."
For the last time Xiao Fan hugged his grandson, he felt hard parting with Xiao Rou since a long time ago and they had to separate again for the second time.
Xiao Rou also did not hide her sadness. He wiped his tears that came out. "Grandfather, I'll wait here..."
Xiao Fan smiled softly and nodded slowly, he then climbed on his horse, saying goodbye before finally spurring his horse to leave the Zhou residence.
Xiao Rou looked at the place where his grandfather had left even though his figure had disappeared, Zhou Yuan who had been silent since then and saw it all could only sigh, he also did not expect the situation to be like this.
"Okay mom, I get it..."
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Without Xiao Fan knowing when he left the clan, there was a group of warriors who had kneeled him from afar.
The warriors were all wearing masks, all in black robes with a number of about dozens of people. On the waist of their clothes were swords.
The masked group was named after the Night Bats Group, a group of assassins in the Moon Empire famous for its murders that move at night.
When he saw Xiao Fan visiting Riva city from his trip, the groups had no other choice but to continue following him from afar.
"Chairman, it turns out that Xiao Fan's grandson is somewhere. He was at the Zhou Family residence..." One of them reported the results he had found to his leader.
"Hm, Chairman Sha's suspicions turned out to be true... Then what about Xiao Fan now?" Ask the Bat leader that night.
"Xiao Fan had already left the Zhou Family a few minutes ago. Chief, what do we do now, go straight there and kill his grandson?"
The masked group was a group of assassins, they were ordered by Xiao Sha, the son of the current Xiao clan head, to kill the grandson of Xiao Fan.
Xiao Sha felt angry at Xiao Fan because of his decision to choose his sister, he might not be able to attack Xiao Fan because of his high martial arts but not with his granddaughter.
From the beginning Xiao Sha allied with a group of assassins such as the Night Bats as it planned to stage a coup on the Xiao clan government.
Xiao Sha realized that his support in the Xiao clan was very weak compared to his younger brother's support, if the struggle for the throne continued, then it was likely that Xiao Sha would lose and his younger brother would become the Clan Chief.
Xiao Sha could not carry out all his plans if there was Xiao Fan.
For Xiao Sha, he was sure that if Xiao Fan lost his beloved grandson he would lose interest or the spirit to fight if the Xiao clan were to be taken, he said, therefore now Xiao Sha ordered the Night Bats group to kill Xiao Rou.
"We're going to attack the Zhou Family's residence tonight, gather all our group members together and call them here. We will move at full force!" Order of the Night Bat Group Leader.
"Chairman, I'm sorry to interrupt but isn't this a little excessive, we just need to kill Xiao Fan's grandson..."
The Night Bat Chief laughed. "Who say we just killed Xiao Fan's grandson alone, tonight we will finish off the Zhou Family as a whole. I have a great deal of business with that noble Chief and today's coincidence is his chance."
The members had no idea that their chairman had any conflicts with the Zhou Family especially Zhou Bing in the past.
The leader of the Night Bats group was named Ling Yun, he was a swordsman who was at the realm of the intermediate Crystal Realm.
Ling Yun was an old swordsman who was 100 years old first because of an incident he dealt with Zhou Bing and fought with him, Ling Yun came out as the losing side and left him with a serious injury.
As a result of his injuries Ling Yun could not reach a strength that exceeded that of the Crystal Realm warrior, ever since despite not talking about it, Ling Yun hated Zhou Bing so much.