Gu Shang narrowed his eyes when he heard the young master of the Zhang Clan.
"What did you say?" He asked in a chilling voice, he began to unleash his aura frightening the young heirs.
"Zhang Feng swallowed hard when he felt Gu Shang gaze locked on him, he felt like he was being swallowed in a whirlpool but fortunately Qing Ying stepped in to meditate.
"Lord Gu, please calm your anger, young master Zhang didn't really mean to disrespect you , right?" She glanced coldly at Zhang Feng causing him to step out of his stuppor.
"That's right! This was the Qing Clan manor, no one could cause trouble here even if they were Sky Lords, what was there to worry about"
"Hmmm I mean what I said, you are just a useless bastard of the Gu Clan. So what if you are a Sky Lord, it doesn't change your identity as a bastard.
Liu Feifei deserve someone like me, who can take care of her and back the Liu family, not some worthless piece of shit like you.
"Hahaha, brother Zhang is never wrong" Gu Lin entered the garden with a beautiful woman with voluptuous body,
Among the women in the garden, you could only put Qing Ying and Liu Feifei above her, no one else came close.
She was Shen Bi Ru from the Shen family, the Shen family were a second class family. Gu Shang used to have a crash on her, at that time they were very good friends.
Their family was closely associated with the Gu Clan so she had often visited them, but the more they grew, the distant their relationship became.
After Shen Bi Ru got to know how the world worked, she began to despise Gu Shang, She had also had a crush on Gu Shang because the first time they met, Gu Shang was practicing in the garden behind Gu clan manor, and to a young maiden, she had seen him to be strongest person she knew.
She had genuinely admired him at a point of time and had always thought that Gu Lin was a sissy and couldn't be compared to Gu Shang.
But the adult world gave her a harsh slap, she began to despise Gu Shang and adore Gu Lin.
She had even joined Gu Lin to bully Gu Shang on many occasions whiles playing with his feelings.
Shen Bi Ru looked at Gu Shang with contempt in her heart, When they were young he had once promised to be the most powerful man in the world and make her, his queen.
How laughable was that.
"In this world, being without status, being strong and beautiful doesn't matter, only status matters. With status I can get a hundred Sky Lords at my command,
Yonung master Zhang doesn't really value your wife, he just needs her to warm his bed nothing more"
Gu Lin said arrogantly as he glanced at both Gu Shang and Liu Feifei.
Gu Shang had, had enough of those cocky bastards, he raised his hand to attack causing all the spiritual Qi in the manor to gather around his hand.
Whatever move he was about to make, it was certain that heads would row today.
Gu Lin and Zhang Feng were terrified, they knew Gu Shang wasn't joking and was ready to take their lives.
Before Gu Shang could bring his hands down on the two, Liu Feifei hugged him from behind.
"Please stop, your actions will hurt our family and yourself included, don't do anything just stay still, please!" Liu Feifei pleaded.
Gu Shang had never seen such a side of the strong independent Liu Feifei before, so he withdrew his hands causing the spiritual Qi to dissipate.
Gu Lin and Zhang Feng were drenched in cold sweat, they could have swore that they saw the grim reaper appear before their eyes.
"Enough you too, you are no longer invited to this banquet, leave!"
Qing Ying finally shouted, Gu Lin and Zhang Feng smiled, "Look bastard, this is what status mean" Gu Lin uttered smugly.
"Those with power would always get their way, whiles those without power can only lie down and be trampled on" Shen Bi Ru added.
The other heirs agreed with them, without status having strength was meaningless.
"You two must have misunderstood me, I mean you two should get out of here". Qing Ying said coldly whiles glancing at Gu Lin and Zhang Feng.
Those two were idiots and didn't know what they were saying, they've never left the walls of the capital and were used to getting things done with their clan influence.
If only they knew strong cultivators could bring empire's to their knees singlehandedly, they won't be saying such nonsense.
"But Miss Qing I.." they tried to explain but she cut them off coldly.
"So miss Qing had decided to offend us for that piece of trash" Gu Lin uttered coldly.
"Yes I have, and what are you going to do about it"
"Very well, we'll leave,I hope you don't regret it", Gu Lin said before walking towards the entrance along with Zhang Feng and Shen Bi Ru".
But before they left Gu Shang suddenly said, "I'll definitely remember what you said today, Gu Lin, the next time we meet I hope you both remember your words" Gu Shang said nonchalantly before turning his back on them.
"What kind of bullshit status is this?" Fatty Su mocked them with disdain written all over his face.
Gu Lin almost tripped when he heard fatty Su.
A few minutes ago, he was talking about status, but now he was the one being sacked from the banquet.
"I'll remember this Qing Ying" he gritted his teeth and left.
"Lord Gu apologies" Qing Ying said with a bow.
Let the banquet continue she clapped her hands and just like that, the small episode was over.
Above the sky's in the Qing clan manor, two old men were having a conversation. They were at the sky Lord realm.
They had serious expressions on their faces, "Did you feel his aura?" One of the old men asked.
"No, I couldn't determine his level of Cultivation too"
Usually when cultivators made a move, they used their aura to gather spiritual Qi around them to strengthen their move.
So whenever a cultivator made a move, his cultivation would show, and the higher the Cultivation level, the more stronger, purer and vast spiritual Qi they could gather.
So it didn't make sense to gather spiritual Qi without revealing one's aura.
"What a strange kid" one of the old men said.
"We have to recruit him to join our clan, Qing Ying made a wise decision to choose him over those annoying brats.
The other elder shook his head in agreement. This two old men were the sixth and ninth elders of the Qing Clan respectively.
They had rushed out when they felt the spiritual Qi in the manor rushing towards this garden and had immediately followed it.
"That young man is truly a genius, I'm afraid not even I can stop an attack midway like he did" the sixth elder said.
"Not to talk about how he dispelled the spiritual Qi without causing any damages, incredible" the ninth elder added.
"If this boy doesn't join us, he must die tonight. We can't risk the imperial family discovering and recruiting him" The seventh elder appeared out of nowhere and added.
They all nodded in agreement.
Back to the banquet, Liu Feifei face was as red as a tomato. She couldn't believe what she did.
Fatty Su sighed, "When will I also be embrace and feel the warmth and care of a woman like brother Su" he looked very down, almost as if a widow whose husband had died without leaving her a fortune to survive on.
The three of them sat at a separate table alone, nobody bothered to even spare them a glance almost as if they were invisible.
On the table across from them, a conversation was going on which had gained a lot of attention.
"In the end, it's going to be a tragic story of a brave general returning to the capital to fall into the hands of the emperor and die a tragic death" a young man on the table said.
People gathered around him, " Brother Xu, what do you mean by that. We all know how powerful the Grand General is,
We've heard that apart from the capital, he controls all the eighth Prefecture and fifty lower regions.
It is said that, the governors and city lord's of the Eighth Prefecture and Fifty Regions hold the Grand General orders higher than the emperor himself.
The emperor and officials only have control in the capital, aside that they aren't really regarded outside. Only the Grand General words mattered.
Outside the capital, the Grand General is referred to us the Emperor beyond the walls.
Even his Majesty the emperor bestowed him the title, Prince Of The North.
Besides the Old emperor who appointed him as Grand General made him eight ranks above every other official and one rank below the emperor.
He's the most powerful man in the capital aside the emperor, how can such a man be killed.
He's someone favoured by the gods Mr Xu, don't say that"
Some of the younger heirs said to dispell his argument. Mr Xu didn't belong to an affluent family, he was a scholar who was regarded as the smartest young schooler in the empire.
He was bound to become a high ranking official someday.
"There's a saying that those the gods love grow older, but I disagree.
Those the gods love will always incurre the jealousy of others, the others will gang up on him and make sure they strip him of whatever luck the gods have given him.Those
They won't stop until they've archived their goal. The Prince of the north is too powerful, the emperor and officials won't let him be and would eventually rip him into pieces.
The Grand General is powerful outside the walls, but Imperial Domain belong to the emperor and officials.
"The Grand General will be a lamb walking into a wolf den if he steps foot in the capital.
My only prayer is that, he doesn't"