235: Chapter 235 Zhao Family Ancestor

Li Daozong announced straightforwardly.

"However, they cannot all remain in your class."

"Ancient Martial Arts Academy, Elemental Academy, and God of War Academy shall each take one."

Li Daozong's tone was unquestionable.

He knew Lin Fan's style of operation very well.

If these three geniuses followed Lin Fan, sooner or later they would be turned into profit-seeking Shrewd Merchants.

The smile on Lin Fan's face faded slightly.

"Principal, I'm afraid that won't do."

"They are people I recruited, so naturally, they should remain in my Special Strategic Department."

"Moreover, the resources I can give them, the school cannot."

Lin Fan's words were filled with absolute confidence.

Li Daozong frowned slightly, and the pressure belonging to a Martial King level expert emanated from his body.

Qin Feng and Chu Yaoyao were forced to retreat repeatedly by this pressure.

Su Qingxue snorted coldly, and her Domain of Extreme Cold instantly expanded, blocking the pressure from the outside.

Zhang Hao had purple light flickering on his body as he withstood the pressure, not retreating a single step.

Lin Fan stood at the very front, his S-rank Indestructible Golden Body automatically activating; after all, he had the strength to go head-to-head with a Martial King.

The pressure of a mere Martial King level had no effect on him; he didn't even blink, forcefully withstanding Li Daozong's probing.

Li Daozong looked at Lin Fan's mercenary face and felt a wave of helplessness in his heart.

He, a dignified Martial King level expert, was actually being held firmly in the palm of a young man's hand.

But he had no other choice.

The blind box technology in Lin Fan's hands was too important for the entire human race; it was said that ever since the military had his blind box supply, casualties had been reduced by thirty percent.

General Ye Canglan had personally instructed that as long as Lin Fan did not do anything harmful to the country, the school should give him the greatest degree of tolerance.

Furthermore, these three geniuses were indeed recruited by Lin Fan.

If they were forced to be assigned to other academies, Lin Fan would definitely raise hell.

If Lin Fan were to take these three geniuses and transfer to another school, the loss to Jingda would be immense.

Weighing the pros and cons, Li Daozong ultimately chose to compromise.

"What conditions do you want?"

Li Daozong retracted his pressure and asked in a deep voice.

He knew that Lin Fan was the type who wouldn't release the hawk until he saw the rabbit.

Since Lin Fan dared to refuse in public, he must have prepared his chips.

"Very simple."

Lin Fan held up three fingers.

"First, the three of them will enjoy the highest level of special treatment at Jingda, with all points waived and the resource library open to them unconditionally."

"Second, the independence of the Special Strategic Department shall not be interfered with by any academy, and I shall have absolute command."

"Third, the school must allocate a plot of land in the central area for the Myriad Treasures Pavilion to serve as a permanent flagship store."

Lin Fan's conditions were more demanding than the last.

The surrounding professors gasped.

This wasn't negotiating conditions; this was clearly cutting flesh from the school.

Li Daozong looked at Lin Fan deeply.

"I agree to the first two conditions."

Li Daozong was silent for a moment before speaking slowly.

"But for the third condition, the land in the central area belongs to the school's core assets and cannot be given to you."

"I can grant you that abandoned laboratory building in the East District, rent-free for ten years."

Lin Fan quickly calculated in his mind.

Although the East District was remote, it had a large enough area and was right next to the student dormitory area, so foot traffic was not an issue at all.

"Deal."

Lin Fan agreed without hesitation.

He knew the principle of knowing when to stop while ahead.

Being able to squeeze so many benefits from this old fox had already met his expectations.

Li Daozong didn't waste any more words and turned to fly away through the air.

He now had to go back and convene an emergency school administration meeting to discuss how to allocate the resource tilt brought about by these three geniuses.

Watching Li Daozong's disappearing back, a smug curve formed at the corner of Lin Fan's mouth.

With these three living signboards, the status of the Myriad Treasures Pavilion at Jingda would be completely solidified.

Next, it was time for a full-scale harvest.

Just as Lin Fan was enjoying boundless glory at Jingda and making a fortune.

Deep within the capital, in a gloomy basement.

The surrounding walls were embedded with night-luminescent pearls emitting a ghostly green light.

The air was filled with a pungent smell of blood and decay.

In the center of the basement, a huge bronze coffin was placed.

The surface of the coffin was covered with eerie runes, and black mist faintly seeped out from the crevices.

Creak.

That bronze coffin, sealed for ten years, was being slowly pushed open by an invisible force.

The air in the underground secret chamber was filled with a pungent smell of blood.

Zhao Haokun knelt on the cold stone floor, trembling violently.

His face was as pale as paper, and blood was still continuously spilling from the corner of his mouth.

Just a moment ago, he had received top-secret intelligence from Jianghai City.

Every word on the intelligence had turned into a sharp knife, stabbing fiercely into his heart.

The Zhao Family's external industries in Jianghai City had completely collapsed across the board.

Su Qingxue and Qian Duoduo had joined forces to launch a bottomless commercial war.

Qian Duoduo used the Myriad Treasures Pavilion's cheap blind boxes to carry out a devastating dimensionality-reduction strike on the low-end pill market monopolized by the Zhao Family.

Those healing medicines and recovery medicines that were originally expensive were packaged by Qian Duoduo into civilian blind boxes.

Not only were they cheap, but their effects were surprisingly good.

The civilian martial artists in Jianghai City went completely crazy, and no one visited the Zhao Family's pill shops anymore.

And Su Qingxue used the Su Family's massive capital chain to frantically sweep up goods in the market.

As long as it was an industry dumped by the Zhao Family, she forcibly acquired it all at rock-bottom prices.

The Zhao Family's capital chain completely broke within a short three days.

What made Zhao Haokun feel even more desperate was that the Zhao Family's pride and joy, the pill factory, was also paralyzed.

The black market doctor under Lin Fan used bionic drones to drop powerful laxatives into the water source of the pill factory.

The guards and alchemists of the entire factory were suffering from diarrhea so badly they couldn't even stand, and the defense system collapsed without being attacked.

Hou San and Tie Niu took the opportunity to lead men to rush into the warehouse and looted all the raw materials and finished pills inside.

They even dismantled the warehouse's alloy doors and sold them as scrap metal.

After this combination of punches, the Zhao Family's century-old foundation in Jianghai City was completely reduced to nothing.

"Ancestor, your descendant is incompetent, causing the family to suffer such a great humiliation."

Zhao Haokun kept kowtowing, his forehead hitting the stone floor and making a dull thud.

Blood flowed down his forehead, staining the ground red.

But he didn't dare to stop at all.

Because he knew that the news he was about to report next was the truly fatal one.

"Not only that, The Wind and Thunder Duo we sent to assassinate Lin Fan have also fallen."

Zhao Haokun's voice carried unconcealable fear.

"Their soul tablets shattered simultaneously half an hour ago."

"Those were two Grandmaster Level Experts, the foundation our Zhao Family spent countless resources to cultivate."

"Now, it's all destroyed in the hands of that young man named Lin Fan."

After Zhao Haokun finished speaking, he collapsed on the ground as if drained of all strength, waiting for the judgment of fate.

The lid of the bronze coffin was completely pushed open.

A bone-chilling cold air instantly filled the entire secret chamber.

A withered, stick-like palm reached out from the coffin, gripping the edge of the coffin tightly.

Immediately after, an emaciated old man slowly sat up.

The old man's eye sockets were deeply sunken, and his eyes flickered with a ghostly green light.

He was wearing a tattered black robe, exuding a strong aura of decay.

The Zhao Family Ancestor, a Half-step Martial King level expert, Zhao Tianjue.

Zhao Tianjue looked coldly at Zhao Haokun kneeling on the ground.

His eyes had no temperature at all; looking at Zhao Haokun was like looking at a corpse.

"Trash."

Zhao Tianjue's voice was hoarse and unpleasant; the sound of two pieces of sandpaper rubbing violently against each other was no worse than this.

"I went into seclusion for ten years and entrusted the family's foundation to you to manage."

"Is this how you repay me?"

Zhao Tianjue suddenly raised his hand.

A terrifying Half-step Martial King pressure erupted with a boom.

The stone walls of the secret chamber were instantly covered with spiderweb-like cracks.

Gravel fell down with a rustle, hitting Zhao Haokun's body.

Zhao Haokun was pressed directly onto the ground by this pressure, and even breathing became extremely difficult.

He felt like he had become an ant crushed by a giant rock, and the bones all over his body were cracking.

"Ancestor, please calm your anger!"

"That Lin Fan has a military background, and General Ye Canglan personally came forward to protect him."

"Previously, this brat Lin Fan, relying on General Ye Canglan's backing, stormed the Qin Family's base. I heard that even the Qin Family's ancestor suffered a big loss!"

"I didn't dare to use the family's core strength to deal with him for fear of attracting retaliation from the military. Please, Ancestor, see clearly; it's not that I wasn't diligent. Even the Qin Family's ancestor was suppressed by General Ye Canglan to the point where he dared not utter a sound."

Zhao Haokun explained desperately, trying to find excuses for his incompetence.

Hearing the name General Ye Canglan, the green light in Zhao Tianjue's eyes flickered violently.

General Ye Canglan.

That man who was hailed as the God of War of the human race.

Ten years ago, Zhao Tianjue had the fortune of seeing General Ye Canglan from afar once.

That god-level terrifying aura was something he still couldn't forget to this day.

If General Ye Canglan was truly on Lin Fan's side, the Zhao Family indeed had no chance of winning.

However, the Zhao Family's foundation absolutely could not be lost in vain just like this.

Lin Fan must die.

Zhao Tianjue retracted his pressure and slowly stood up from the coffin.

From his withered body, a heart-palpitating power fluctuation erupted.

"Although General Ye Canglan is powerful, he cannot protect a junior by his side at all times."

"Since we cannot make a move openly, then we will use methods from the shadows."

A cruel sneer formed at the corner of Zhao Tianjue's mouth.

"Conventional assassinations are no longer useful."

"Lin Fan's strength growth speed is too fast, and he has also gathered a group of subordinates around him."

"If you want to kill him, you must go all in."

Zhao Haokun raised his head with difficulty, looking at the ancestor's terrifying face.

"Ancestor, what do you intend to do?"

Zhao Tianjue did not answer him.

He waved his hand, signaling Zhao Haokun to get out.

"Get back to the surface and stabilize the family's morale."

"Leave the rest of the matters to me to handle."

"Remember, do not provoke Lin Fan during this period; let him think that we have already given up resistance."

Zhao Tianjue's tone carried an unquestionable command.

Zhao Haokun didn't dare ask more, and scrambled out of the underground secret chamber.

The heavy iron door of the secret chamber closed again.

Zhao Tianjue turned and walked to the deepest part of the secret chamber.

He groped along the wall for a while and pressed one of the inconspicuous stone bricks.

The wall slowly split to the sides, revealing a hidden compartment.