Volume 1 Chapter 109 Cause and Effect

  Mr. Yang was still lying on the rattan chair, with his eyes closed as if he had fallen asleep. But Yi Shu, who was standing beside him, did not leave and remained respectfully by his side, knowing that Mr. Yang was thinking about making a decision, and he could not leave until it was made.

  After about seven or eight hours, Old Man Yang finally spoke up again to Yi Shu and said: "Go, pass on my orders, officially list Yang Feng as the candidate for inheritance. Go tell that kid a message, let him have time to come back once, after so many years, I should also see my grandson!"

  Yi Shu heard Yang Lao Ye's decision and suddenly showed a happy smile on his face. He didn't expect that Yang Lao Ye would finally make such a decision, which made Yi Shu feel unexpected and deeply happy for Yang Feng. Although the identity of this successor is not yet the final heir, it was enough because with this identity, those people in the Yang family at least wouldn't dare to bully Yang Feng openly again!

  Yi Shu took a look at Yang Lao Ye Zi, who seemed to have fallen asleep again, and then left to inform the entire Yang family of Yang Lao Ye Zi's decision. However, after walking out of the small courtyard, Yi Shu let out a soft sigh, his previous joy had disappeared, replaced by deep helplessness.

  As Yang Lao Ye Zi's personal guard, Yi Shu has been following Yang Lao Ye Zi since childhood, so he is very clear about any thoughts and decisions of Yang Lao Ye Zi. As for this decision, to a large extent, it was just to use Yang Feng, not really wanting to give Yang Feng the successor identity of the Yang family, which was just another attempt to win over Yang Feng.

  At first, Yang Feng's biological father, Yang Ming, always liked to boast in front of people about how he had gotten his hands on some kind of girl, and one time, it just so happened that Old Man Yang overheard Yang Ming talking about how he had gone to play at the Xijiang Miao Village, how he had met Yang Feng's mother, and how he had used sweet words to deceive Yang Feng's mother into falling for him. He even went so far as to say that by the time he left the Xijiang Miao Village, Yang Feng's mother was already pregnant with his own child.

  Old Master Yang heard about this and immediately had an idea, so he let Yi Shu and others go to the Xijiang Miao village to investigate. Although Yi Shu and others couldn't enter the inner village, they could still find out some things in the outer village. In the end, they really found out that the girl Yang Ming cheated was actually the daughter of the chief of the Xijiang Miao village!

  This news would have delighted Old Man Yang, he didn't think that Yang Ming, who was usually useless and only knew how to indulge in luxuries, could actually do something good for once. This made Old Man Yang's attitude towards Yang Ming noticeably more favorable during that period of time, leaving Yang Ming somewhat perplexed at the time.

  The reason why Old Man Yang is so happy is that he finally has the opportunity to make contact with Xijiang Miao Village this time! Old Man Yang's ambition has always been very big, although the Yang family's power controls the north of Huaxia, but he is not satisfied at all and wants to continue expanding the Yang family's power.

  The southern and southeastern regions of Huaxia are the domain of the Guo family, which is impossible to penetrate. Most of the power in the northwest of Huaxia is controlled by the Ming Cult, whose power is not much weaker than that of the Yang family. It's not easy to take territory from the Ming Cult either. Only in the southwest region of Huaxia does the Yang family have an opportunity to expand its own power! Moreover, although the southwest region of Huaxia is located inland, it has extremely rich resources and a huge profit margin!

  However, what Yang didn't expect was that he had sent people to the southwestern region of Huaxia several times to expand his power, but they all failed. The people he sent either lost contact as soon as they left or returned with their lives, but were poisoned and died soon after. This made Yang extremely angry, so he sent Yi Shu and others to investigate what forces were in the southwest region.

  Yi Shu and the others quickly figured out that in the southwestern region of Huaxia, there was not only a part of the Mingjiao's power, but also the power belonging to the Xijiang Miao Village. Among them, the Tangmen of Shuzhong, which occupied a place among the ancient martial arts families of Huaxia, was also a force of the Xijiang Miao Village. This news shocked Yang Lao Yezi extremely, he did not expect that the water in the southwest region would be so deep!

  And he also understood why the people he sent would be poisoned to death, Tangmen was good at using poison, which was a well-known fact in the entire Huaxia ancient martial arts world. The Western River Miao Village, on the other hand, was skilled in an even more terrifying art of Gu, and their poisonous techniques and Gu techniques were mysterious and unpredictable, making them impossible to defend against!

  Such news came, and Yang Lao Yezi once wanted to give up the idea of developing his power in the southwestern region. However, his extremely inflated ambition made him unable to stop, so he sent someone to contact the people of Xijiang Miao Village, wanting to cooperate with them, jointly control the power of the southwestern region, and join forces to drive out the Mingjiao's power from the southwestern region. However, all failed! Xijiang Miao Village never responded to Yang's family from start to finish, not even seeing the person sent by Yang's family, directly rejecting all requests from Yang's family.

  This made Old Man Yang extremely furious, but he also had no way to deal with it. Although the Yang family had many masters of ancient martial arts, they were not very skilled in the art of poison, and the other party's poison was so powerful that even a master could be poisoned to death. So in the end, they could only give up. However, what Old Man Yang did not expect was that Yang Ming would bring him such a surprise!

  Mr. Yang then sent Yi Shu and others to Xijiang Miao Village again to monitor and gather information, and finally learned that the daughter of the Xijiang Miao Village chief who was deceived by Yang Ming had given birth to a son, but was driven out of Xijiang Miao Village. So Mr. Yang let Yi Shu secretly protect Yang Feng's mother and son, it can be said that Yi Shu saw Yang Feng grow up step by step, so he would especially love Yang Feng.

  But Mr. Yang made a decision that would determine the next generation of the Yang family, which led to Yang Ming not being able to bring back Yang Feng from Xijiang Miao Village. However, since Yang Feng was an illegitimate child, he did not have the qualifications to be an heir, so Yang Ming simply hid him in an abandoned house on the Yang estate, instructing the servants to provide for his food and clothing before ignoring him completely, waiting until there was no other choice but to bring out Yang Feng as a last resort.

  However, Yang Ming's acceptance of Yang Feng into the Yang household was exactly what Old Man Yang had hoped for. He didn't bring him in to give him a chance to inherit the Yang family estate, but rather as a hostage, to be used as leverage in future negotiations with the Xijiang Miao village. Although the chief of the Xijiang Miao village had driven Yang Feng and his mother out of the village, Old Man Yang believed that one day they would take him back, because after all, Yang Feng was now the only living relative of the chief. When the chief grew old and had no successor to inherit his position, he would naturally think of Yang Feng. And at that time, with Yang Feng in the Yang family's hands, they would have a bargaining chip, and wouldn't have to worry about the Xijiang Miao village not cooperating!

  As a hostage and pawn, Yang Feng naturally wouldn't get the attention of Old Master Yang. Yang Wen, Yang Wu, and Yang Xiaocao's bullying of Yang Feng was all known to him, but he didn't bother to intervene because it wasn't important; as long as Yang Feng hadn't died yet, that was enough. What he needed was just Yang Feng as a pawn - whether this pawn was good or bad was no longer something he cared about!

  However, Old Man Yang did not expect that four years ago when he was in seclusion to cultivate his skills, such a thing would happen, almost causing his own pawn to lose its life. Fortunately, Yang Feng's life was big and he didn't die, and he even learned a set of martial arts skills. Although it is unclear how Yang Feng learned the Nine Yin True Classics of the Yang family and the Nine Suns Divine Skill, the ultimate technique of the Ming sect, these are not important, as long as this pawn is still alive.

  Mr. Yang was still very angry about the fact that Yang Feng had crippled Yang Wen, because Yang Wen was one of his more favored grandsons and the most suitable candidate to inherit the position of family head in his mind. Yang Wen was also clever and resourceful, although his physical talent was not very good, but he was much better than himself. At the age of 20, he had already broken through to the Xiantian realm, far surpassing himself. However, he did not expect that his most favored successor would be crippled by Yang Feng.

  Although Old Man Yang was indeed very angry, he also understood why Yang Feng did what he did. If he had suffered so much humiliation when he was young, after gaining power, he would definitely take revenge and it would be even more intense. He wouldn't have spared Yang Wen's life like Yang Feng did, but would have killed him on the spot.

  So be angry, Yang Lao Ye Zi still won't do anything to Yang Feng for now, at least not yet, because Yang Feng is still very useful to him. And from Yi Shu's report, Yang Lao Ye Zi can also infer that Yang Feng has already gained recognition from the Xijiang Miao Village, so he decided to give Yang Feng a successor candidate status, allowing Yang Feng to have the qualification to inherit the position of head of the Yang family!

  In Old Man Yang's view, this was already a great favor to Yang Fengtian. After learning about this matter, Yang Feng would definitely be grateful and cooperate well before the true selection of the Yang family head, giving him the opportunity to arrange the Yang family's forces in the southwestern region of Huaxia!

  As for Yang Wen, who had been crippled, Old Man Yang was not worried at all. Although his dantian being crippled meant that he would have no chance of practicing martial arts again in the eyes of ordinary ancient warriors, Old Man Yang was not worried because behind the Yang Manor was the Living Dead Tomb where many old monsters of the Yang family were buried. It was said that even the ancestors who created the Yang family a thousand years ago were still inside, and their martial power could allegedly move mountains and fill seas, penetrate the sky and earth. Repairing his dantian would be a simple matter, and in the future, Yang Wen would still have the qualifications to become the master of the Yang family!

  Yi Shu sighed and walked out, although he knew Mr. Yang's thoughts, but this was not something he could change, he just had to pass on the decision as soon as possible, so that he could protect Yang Feng to some extent, as for how long he could protect Yang Feng, Yi Shu was also uncertain, and could only take it one step at a time.