The System Arrives: Leading My Clan to Become the Strongest

151: Chapter 151 Master Xuan Yang leads the team to Qingyun Mountain”This is Jiang Chen’s bottom line and the key to settling our grievances. Back then, you slaughtered the entire Lin Family, including Jiang Chen’s eldest uncle. Such a blood feud... Jiang Chen not killing you outright is already an act of mercy. While guarding the gates of Qingyun Mountain is humiliating, it will preserve your life and the survival of the Sect. Consider it carefully.”

Su Ningshuang’s face was as white as paper, her lips trembling, as an internal struggle raged within her.

She hated Jiang Chen’s overbearing nature and the cruel twist of fate, but looking at Venerable Xuan Yang’s stern face and the suppressed agony of the Elders in the hall, she knew she had no choice.

If Jiang Chen wanted to kill her, it would be as easy as flipping his palm.

The Sect would also be destroyed because of her.

In the cold hall, Su Ningshuang stood frozen in place. Even the Golden Core pressure she was desperately maintaining could not stop her heart from trembling.

Her hands, hanging at her sides, were clenched tightly, her knuckles turning white, and even her fingertips were slightly twitching.

Others only saw her bowing her head for the sake of the Sect, but she alone knew that the emotions surging within her were bone-eroding regret and panic. It was the ultimate despair of watching an ant that was once within reach grow into an unreachable, towering tree overnight, while she had personally cut off her own path of retreat.

In a daze, her consciousness fell back to that day in Tianlin City.

At that time, she had just taken Zhongli Feiyan as her Disciple and always thought about clearing all Cultivation obstacles for her, believing that the entanglements of mundane forces were merely a burden.

Thus, she had personally visited Tianling City and, with a flick of her spiritual energy, uprooted the forces that were friendly with the Lin Family and dared to slight her Disciple. Families were annihilated, Clan Members exiled, and the entire layout of Tianling City was completely overturned by her arrival.

As for the Jiang Family—a Qi Refining Family without even a single person in the Foundation Establishment Realm—she hadn’t cared about them at all. Even knowing they had received a land reclamation token, she let the matter drop. In her mind, even if they had the token, they would at most live for a few more days.

But now, she regretted it.

She truly, truly regretted it.

If she had been ruthless back then, ignored that damn land reclamation token, and directly uprooted the Jiang Family to strangle the then-weak Jiang Chen in his cradle, how could today’s disaster have happened?

A mere small Family in the Qi Refining Stage would have been a simple matter. Why did she have to care about those empty rules and leave behind such a future trouble?

Looking back now, Jiang Chen was no longer the speck of dust she could crush at will.

With a Soul Transformation Stage cultivation, he could command the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi and suppress the entire Tianxuan Sect with a mere gesture.

He was at a height she couldn’t even look up to, an existence she could have once erased with a wave of her hand. Yet, because of her momentary hesitation, he had grown into a colossus that could force the Sect to bow and compel her to endure such humiliation.

”If I had only known...”

A metallic taste rose in Su Ningshuang’s throat, but she forced herself to swallow it down.

If she had known the Jiang Family would rise, if she had known Jiang Chen would have today, she should have pulled them up by the roots even if it meant violating the land reclamation token and being criticized by the Sect!

But in this world, there is no ”if I had only known.”

The atmosphere in the hall became increasingly oppressive. She slowly opened her eyes, the pride in her gaze long since consumed by regret and resentment.

Today’s humiliation and the Sect’s crisis of destruction were the bitter fruits she had planted with a single wrong thought.

This regret was a thousand, ten thousand times more painful than being killed.

”Revered Master, it’s all my fault...”

On the other side, Zhongli Feiyan was also sobbing uncontrollably. Ultimately, all of this was caused by her. If the engagement hadn’t been broken, if—

”Shut up!”

Su Ningshuang abruptly interrupted her, took a deep breath, and a flash of decisive ruthlessness crossed her eyes.

She looked up, staring directly at Venerable Xuan Yang, her voice hoarse yet firm.