Zhang Clan's head name was Zhang Shitao.
He was a ruthless man who took the clan head's position by crook ways.
He was the youngest of the 3 childs and had the least talent among his brothers. He was weak and was never considered as a successor for the clan position. He was jealous of his elder brothers and hated them for being more talented than him. Even his own father started to ignore him. This only helped in increasing his hatred towards them. He was weak but was quite scheming. He was considered smartest among his brothers and used it to his advantages. He made a plan to kill his brothers for 30 years, waiting for the right opportunity to implement his plan and soon it came.
When he was 50 years old, he invited his brothers to explore a cave where it was rumoured that a treasure was hidden. He convinced them that he knew the way to obtain that treasure but was weak and needed trustworthy people to come with him. The 2 brothers blinded by greed agreed to his proposal and went along with him to the cave. Both elder brothers also had the plan to get the treasure and killed Zhang Shitao as to reduce one opponent for the clan head's position. They believed that even though Zhang Shitao didn't have any chance of competing for the clan head's position but still one less opponent, one less headache. But they didn't knew the true nature of the kind looking youngest brother. The trio went to the cave with Zhang Shitao walking at the back. When they entered a room, they suddenly saw that the gate of the room was closed automatically and couldn't be opened or broken, no matter what. Both brothers were flustered and looked around for a way but found a problem that there was one less person in the cave. It was Zhang Shitao, the youngest one who was outside the cave grinning madly. He laughed loudly with his voice resounding in the entire cave.
The 2 brothers started pleading for help but Zhang Shitao didn't care and released a mechanism by which poison started filling the whole room. The loud screams were heard in the cave but Zhang Shitao was smiling and enjoying the whole show. After killing his own brothers, he destroyed the cave and injured himself to make him look innocent.
After the news was spread, whole clan was shocked when they heard the story about the incident from mouth of Zhang Shitao. Several people also started doubting the story but disappeared without any waves. After that, all the resources of the clan were given solely to Zhang Shitao by which he became stronger. Many years later, the clan head died due to unknown illness and Zhang Shitao claimed the position of Clan head. Even though everyone knew the truth of the story but no one dared to come forward to stand against Zhang Shitao.
Zhang clan,
" I have a plan to obtain the spirit fruit without intervening with the 4th order monster beasts." Voice of Zhang Shitao sounded with shocked and at the same time bought excitement to the elders.
" What is the way patriarch?" One of the elders asked respectfully.
" If we obtain the spirit fruit, it can help patriarch breakthrough the 7th level or 8th level of Spirit Sea realm. With this, we can easily annex the Mu clan and become the Overlord of the Blackrock city."
" Ok, but first listen to what I have to say. The red mountain is still very dangerous and can't be easily intruded as apart from the 4th order monster beast leader there are about 1000 low level monster beasts within his command which can easily destroy Blackrock city if they wish, so we have to be low key in this situation. That's why we will not send elders or other powerful members of our clan to the red mountain but the members of early to mid-Qi Condensation realm to obtain the spirit fruit, so that there is a very low disturbance created to obtain the spirit fruit. "
"But even if we send the low strength members of our clan to the red mountain, they would still be noticed easily by the monster beasts residing there and we won't be able to find the spirit fruit that easily from there." An old man with cane in his right hand asked with some hesitation and fear.
Other elders also understood this point and started worrying about this. They felt that with 4th order monster beast living at the red mountain, no one would be able to take away the spirit fruit under his nose that easily until the person taking directly crushes the 4th order monster beast with his strength. When all elders were worried, the Zhang patriarch looked at them amusingly and said," You don't have to worry about this. I have a way to handle the 4th order monster beast. The 4th order monster beast still doesn't know the existence of the spirit fruit. If it weren't for the man who entered the red mountain and saw the spirit fruit luckily and sending the information to us, even we might've not been aware of the existence of the spirit fruit. So I believe that the 4th order monster beast also doesn't know this news.
So to obtain the spirit fruit, all we have to do is lure the leader of the monster beasts outside the red mountain by creating a diversion and at the same time our people will enter the red mountain through the route we got information about and quickly take the spirit fruit and leave there. This way, we can take the spirit fruit from them without creating any waves and no one will know that spirit fruit ever existed in the red mountain."
" What about the diversion? How can we create a diversion that will even make the 4th order monster beast to leave the red mountain? We should know that 4th order monster beast do not take leave their turf that easily. To make them leave red mountain, we should create a diversion that make the leader of the monster beasts interested in it. We all know that with the strength of 4th order monster beast, ordinary treasure do not make them interested that easily so it we want to lure them out, the diversion should also be of corresponding level."
" You are right, elder that's why we will release the rumours about spirit fruit but the location should be different and far away from the red mountain, so that later even if they knew that it was just a diversion from the real one, they will not come back fastly and we would have already obtained our prize. Hahahahaha."
" Wow! Patriarch, you are amazing. You easily found a way to obtain the spirit fruit under the nose of 4th order monster beast. I bet that the leader of the monster beasts would definitely be angry if he knew that he was played by you, patriarch."
" Long live, Patriarch."
" Long live,.Patriarch."
"Long live, Patriarch."
The sound of praising sounded in the hall.
If was worthy of Zhang Shitao as he was hailed as a smart person in the Zhang clan. He could scheme against even a foe stronger than him, no wonder he easily killed his brothers and father who were stronger than him without any problems.
If Zhang Shitao had the corresponding talent to his smart brain, he could've easily conquered not only Blackrock city but also the whole Qin Empire much easily. We could say that he had the brain of a true emperor but pity, his destiny was not written in his favour and was destined to be killed by Mu Tian in the future.
Zhang Shitao looked at them and tapped on the armrest of chair after which everyone stopped their praising. Zhang Shitao nodded seeing this and ordered,"Now release the rumour that spirit fruits were seen on a tree in an unknown cave in the northeast direction of the Blackrock city in the Blackrock mountain range. Also found 2 members with cultivation base of early to mid-Qi Condensation realm to get ready to enter the Red mountain 2 days later. We will also go to the rumoured place two days later so as to not make anyone suspicious of us as there will always be some people suspicious about this news and if we don't go then it will only make people more wary. To implement our plan, we need more people to come there so that the 4th order monster beast of red mountain also come there."
" Understood patriarch."
All elders said in unison.
" 2 days later we will the day for our Zhang clan to rise." Zhang Shitao said.
Blackrock mountain range, a figure was running among the woods. He had a heroic figure with black hairs and blue eyes. Sword eyebrows and charismatic face which was a definite lady killer. He was wearing a blue dress with sword in his hands. He looked here and there in vigilance. It was Mu Chen who was running towards the red mountain. Mu Chen was not randomly watching here and there but was scanning the surrounding with his system to see if there was anyone hidden in the dark to attack him. After entering the Blackrock mountain range, Mu Chen never dared to relax even for s second as he knew that if he dared to relax his vigilance here, he might be attacked the next moment and his life will be lost here.
" It's been a day and I have still not reach the red mountain. Furthermore, the deeper I go, the more unease I feel. The silence alone makes me feel fear. It if wasn't for the system that I can check if there is anyone hidden, I would've thought that someone was following me all this time.
From the life script, Mu Tian would enter red mountain one day later. I have to find it before him and take the spirit fruit away. Apart from this, there will also be 2 Zhang clan members who will be present there for the spirit fruit. But what I don't understand is how the two Zhang clan members knew about the spirit fruit. Did they also found it by coincidence or they already knew about it from the beginning. Whatever, I will just kill them and take the spirit fruit back with me. They were killed by Mu Tian so can't I also be able to kill them?" Mu Chen said.
He then stood up and left in the direction of red mountain.
With Mu Chen going in the direction of the red mountain, there was another figure moving in the same direction. It was Mu Tian. He had a beaten face and torn clothes with blood marks present on them. After half day of healing, not only did he recover from his injuries but also took this opportunity to enter to enter early 9th level of body training realm. If Mu Chen knew this, he would definitely curse at him.
I trained for so much time and stole so many opportunities only after which I achieved breakthrough and you achieved breakthrough just by getting beaten by me.
You are truly the son of heaven.
" It's been a day but I haven't found any herb or something. Looks like I have to go more deeper. I will definitely become stronger, wait for me Mu Chen."