Chapter 767: Chapter 766: Winners and Losers
"Pfft!"
No sooner had Ning Feiyang spoken than his expression drastically changed, revealing a look of terror, and soon afterwards, a mouthful of fresh blood spurted out.
He felt an incredibly strong force suddenly transmit from Chu Shiguang’s hand around his throat, sweeping through his body in an instant and damaging his internal organs.
The moment Chu Shiguang let go of his hand, the surging blood and Qi within Ning Feiyang became uncontrollable, and a large mouthful of fresh blood spewed out.
The internal organs in his body were in severe pain, as if they were being torn apart.
However, compared to this pain, Ning Feiyang was more terrified of whether he would die; he did not know how much damage Chu Shiguang’s strike had inflicted on his body.
At that moment, Ning Feiyang felt true fear of death.
"How could this happen?"
"Why would the Ning family do something to betray us?"
"Where are they sending us?"
"Is it really impossible to change the course?"
The Chu family members were panic-stricken, everyone plunged into endless terror.
Although they all held high positions in normal times, some even being masters of Martial Arts Mastery, facing such a sudden situation and enveloped by the fear of death, the mindset of these high-ranking Chu family members was no different from that of ordinary people.
"Tell me, where are you sending us?" Chu Shiguang, fighting back the urge to kill Ning Feiyang, glared fiercely and shouted loudly.
The blood and Qi surged within Ning Feiyang’s body, and the pain in his internal organs was unbearable. Listening to Chu Shiguang’s questioning, the fear in his heart gradually turned into anger, and he started laughing madly, "Hahaha... Even if you kill me, what of it? My Ning family still has many people; the Ning family will not be destroyed. But if you kill me, your Chu family will have no chance of surviving. Even if many of the Chu family will not be punished, my Ning family will surely seek revenge, and the survivors of the Chu family will never be able to live out their days in peace. The Chu family will be completely exterminated, losing everything at your hands."
Upon hearing these words, the hearts of the Chu family members filled with even greater fear.
Some people can face death head-on, but they care more about their family and relatives and cannot let go.
For instance, Chu Shiguang, as the leader of this generation of the Chu family, might not attach so much importance to his own death, but he cared immensely about the life and death of the entire Chu family because it was the responsibility entrusted to him by his father when he passed away.
The Chu family’s legacy must not end in his hands, otherwise, how could he face his deceased father underground?
"Uncle asked me to bring you a few words, I don’t know if you want to hear them." Ning Feiyang saw that Chu Shiguang had calmed down and began to speak.
Chu Shiguang looked at him and said lightly, "Speak."
Ning Feiyang said, "Uncle told me to tell you, he said that you could not possibly achieve the final victory.
He also said that the Ning family does not regret doing this big thing with you, but regrets letting Divine Continent fall into its current state of division.
Uncle said it’s fate. If we were to succeed, Qin Huai’an and Qin Yanyang wouldn’t have been able to escape during the initial operation. If heaven were favoring our side, nothing could have gone wrong with the Hidden Sect."
Chu Shiguang’s eyes suddenly dimmed.
Indeed, wasn’t this what he had been thinking about lately?
These days, wasn’t his heart undergoing enormous condemnation and torment?
The Chu family was patriotic too.
It was just that they saw an opportunity to climb higher and wanted to seize it.
It could be said that the Chu family, the Ning family, the Sun family, and the Duanmu Family all originally only wanted to progress further and climb up one more step in the world after the three major Cultivation centers came into being, sticking with the right people, and continuing the family’s glory.
They never thought about betraying their nation and people.
Thus, when the division of Divine Continent occurred, they all felt remorse and guilt.
That’s why the Sun family became the fence-sitters, placing bets on both sides.
And the Ning family, with Ning Shucheng making a decisive move, made this choice.
While it seemed like the Ning family’s decision was influenced by Japan’s activation of nuclear weapons, which exacerbated the global tense situation, in the hearts of Ning family members like Ning Shucheng, the idea of ending the division of Divine Continent had always been present.
"It’s a case of the winner being the king and the loser the outlaw!"
The fierce aura around Chu Shiguang suddenly dissipated; he stepped back, sat down on the nearby seat, and appeared utterly dejected.
But he did not regret making such a choice.
The only thing that made him feel suffocated and disheartened was the absurdity and incompetence of the Hidden Sect’s power.
If it weren’t for those in the Hidden Sect being so ineffective, their last Thunder operation wouldn’t have had any flaws and would have ended perfectly.
The Divine Continent would not have split.
The Chu Family would also have become one of the most powerful aristocratic families in the entire Divine Continent.
However, now, everything was like a fleeting cloud.
The Hidden Sect’s power handled matters too childishly, they were too lacking.
True teammates from hell!
Chu Shiguang blamed all the failures on those people from the Hidden Sect.
He believed that were it not for those people from the Hidden Sect mishandling things, Qin Huai’an and Qin Yanyang could not have escaped, and the Divine Continent would not have split.
Even if Qin Huai’an and Qin Yanyang had escaped, forming a standoff in the Divine Continent, as long as those powerful figures from the Hidden Sect had acted again, they could still have ended everything quickly.
But just at that critical moment, all those guys from the Hidden Sect left the Divine Continent and returned to the Hidden Sect World.
Perhaps for those from the Hidden Sect, they felt that controlling the power of the Divine Continent was easy, and they could easily do it again next time.
But Chu Shiguang knew, once a good opportunity was missed, there would not be a next time.
Ning Feiyang saw that Chu Shiguang looked disheartened and felt a trace of sorrow in his heart as he continued, "Uncle also said, this matter isn’t our fault, but the fault of the Hidden Sect, or to put it more mysteriously, it’s due to fate.
But since it was a mistake, we have to admit it.
We families were once the meritorious aristocratic families of the Divine Continent, the heroes of the Yanhuang Nation, how can we now become the sinners of the Divine Continent?
The Divine Continent must restore its unified situation soon, the foreign tribes are our common enemy.
Uncle said, the people of the Chu Family will pay the price for this event, but it will only be limited to the higher-ups, the middle and lower ranks of the Chu Family can remain uninvolved, the Chu Family as a whole will still continue, just without its former glory and brilliance."
"Uncle Chu, bowing your head in the face of national and ethnic righteousness isn’t shameful. To protect the vast majority of the innocent in the Chu Family, admitting guilt is taking responsibility, it’s accountability."
"Ning Shucheng is ruthless—I, Chu Shiguang, do not feel wrongly defeated. Heh, but why is it specifically my Chu Family?" Chu Shiguang grimly chuckled, his face full of mockery as he looked at Ning Feiyang.
Ning Feiyang felt somewhat embarrassed.
He didn’t know how to answer this question.
Indeed, why, in a joint action by four families, was it specifically the Chu Family that had to admit guilt?
After thinking for a while, Ning Feiyang slowly said, "Because from the very beginning, the Chu Family was in the leading position in all that was done; the Chu Family actively cooperated with the Hidden Sect, while our Ning Family and the Sun Family were more or less threatened by the powerful of the Hidden Sect into participating."
Chu Shiguang fell silent, then after a moment, he smirked self-deprecatingly, "Indeed, it’s because the Chu Family’s ambitions were too great. But I won’t accept it if the Duanmu Family does not pay the price!"
Ning Feiyang said, "Uncle Chu, don’t worry, my uncle said that the Duanmu Family can’t shirk their responsibility either."
Chu Shiguang laughed heartily, seeming to feel less alone and less lonely if the Duanmu Family was with him in this.
He gave up resisting.
On this airplane, it was entirely possible for the Chu Family to resist.
But firstly, they were worried that what Ning Feiyang said was true, that the airplane had a set flight path which couldn’t be changed, otherwise it would explode; secondly, the Chu Family had many more people on another airplane, they were unable to resist.
Since the overall situation was determined, why should the people of the Chu Family make an unnecessary sacrifice?
A winner is a king; a loser, a mere subject.
As long as the lineage of the Chu Family could truly be preserved, in this failed struggle, the Chu Family wouldn’t be completely defeated.
A turbulence passed, and the airplane began to glide and land.
They had arrived at Jiangnan County.