No one knew who the ones behind qll those massacres had been, but one thing was certain, and that was, the Ao Clan's promise was maintained, and the other known thing was that in this world there was yet another misterious party besides the Ao Clan, the people who had taken Chen Xiao in.
Even Chen Xiao knew very little about them, and the things that he knew about were that they only accepted one disciple, or in very, very rare occasions two, at a time. He knew that the man he had accepted as his master had an incomparably profound cultivation, and that he had quite a few elder brothers, that at thr moment were inside the sealing formation, all besides one that would accompany him on his cultivation since his master was rarely there.
It seemed to something that both parties benefited, but in fact it was not.
The Wu Empire did not have really a choice in the matter. The Sect Leader had basically forced them in that choice, but in a show of good faith he had allowed his son to come down to gain a bit of experience.
But in return the Wu Empire would help him become the Sect Leader, and maintain gis bloodline as such in the future, or at least try to since they had the bloodline of the biggest familly in the Sect in their veins.
Of course this would only have a slim chance of happening if they could get influence in the familly, that is by either making huge accomplishments, which would be impossible with their current strenght, or by having an earth breaking genius, that with the protection of the current Sect Leader, would allow him to continue on his position so to speak.
This is where Wu Xiu, or in this case Ling Xiu, came into play. No one knew that hehl had this son, other than the ones he trusted the most, which were binded by either techniques, seals or oaths and curses to not be able to let the matter spread.
Wu Xiu had great talent and also a good temperament, or in this case, knew how to put a false front. That would allow him a great future.
Their plan was to say that this wad the son between the princess of their empire and the greatest expert in their world, which by their plans should have already died, but was still alive and kicking it hard.
So they had communicated with the followers of the Sect Leader to try and kill him, but when they noticed that Liang Chen was actualy so strong, they had to try and come up with some plans to try and either ambush him or to kill him upfront with mere brute force.
But of course Liang Chen nor anybody other than the ones qualified knew about it.
Wu Xiu tried his best to hide everything that he was feeling right now under his smile, and questioned again.
"Master would you come to visit mother with me? And talk with grandfather as well? They said they had treasures to give to you." Seeing that Liang Chen simply decided to ignore him, he utilized the tactic that they told him that would absolutely not fail no matter what.
They told him this was a man that loved to collect treasures, that he was like the dragons in the legends, he would collect treasures and then let them collect dust in a corner somewhere.
Hearing what Wu Xiu had just said, Liang Chen who had a completely indifferent expression, his eyes began to shine and he turned around with incomparable speed and arrived right next to wu Xiu, with Liang Meng under his right arm.
Then said seemingly inpatient.
"Why haven't you gotten ready to go and see your mother, you ungrateful son?! You know that your mother gets really worried when you don't visit her from time to time! Come, father is faster than you, while on the way we will go and get your mother something nice for her!"
These sentences immediately cause Wu Xiu's mind to go completely blank. He had heard about how shameless he was, but he never imagined it was to this extent.
Liang Chen's expression worsened, as a trace of anger could be seen on his eyes as ge shouted.
"Why haven't you started moving yet, you ungrateful little thing?! Your mother is worried sick about you! And I haven't seen her for so long that I no longer know what she even looks like now! What if she has gotten even older while you are simply staring into the abyss?!"
Wu Xiu's mind no longer seemed to function as it could not process how shameless Liang Chen was.
Seemingly even more impatient, Liang Chen put him under his left arm and sprinted of while saying under his breath.
"To get a beauty to trade pointers with again, aish I will commit another crime yet again. My handsomeness is simply incomparable."
At this point, Wu Xiu no longer seemed to hear anything, as his mind was still trying to process word by word everything that he had said beforehand.