Family Rise: Beginning with Grandfather.

Chapter 925 Purge the Land of Spiritual Source
Yang Mingzhao looked at the document in his hand, then at the list behind it, and his face immediately darkened.

"Are all of these people to be arrested?"

"That's right!"

"What's the crime?"

"Disregarding discipline and law, abusing power for personal gain!"

"No room for negotiation?"

"I am only responsible for carrying out orders!" Yang Qinhu said.

Yang Mingzhao's lips twitched, but he still waved his hand and said, "Go ahead and grab them!"

It bears the official seal of Ziwei Tower and Yang Chengmao's autograph, so as his fourth uncle, he really couldn't disobey it.

"Arrest them!" Yang Qinhu waved his hand behind him, and without saying a word, the soldiers rushed upstairs to arrest people according to the list.

"Wait, Yang Jilin must be arrested too!" Yang Mingzhao said, looking at a young man who had been captured by the soldiers.

"Ancestor, save me! Ancestor, save me!" the young man cried out when he saw Yang Mingzhao.

"Arrest everyone on the list!" Yang Qinhu said.

Yang Mingzhao frowned and looked at the list in his hand again, his frown deepening with each glance.

There are quite a few people on the list. Kaiyanglou alone has seven, and the list also includes names from the neighboring Tianfulou.

"What are you doing?"

He was a little confused.

No one had mentioned this to him, and as the owner of Kaiyang Tower, he had always had a relatively easy life with not much to do.

"Alright, alright, stop making a fuss, you go with them first!" He was getting annoyed by Yang Jilin's cries for help.

This Yang Jilin is Yang Chengmao's grandnephew, that is, Yang Chengxian's grandson. He is not yet forty years old this year and has only been working at Kaiyanglou for a few years.

After thinking for a moment, Yang Mingzhao decided to go to Ziwei Tower to ask first.

It's really going too far not to tell him about such a big thing beforehand.

However, as soon as Yang Mingzhao stepped out of Kaiyang Tower, he realized that today's events were even bigger than he had imagined!

The streets were filled with soldiers in armor, and the sounds of arrests and shouts filled the air; everyone seemed terrified.

Yang Mingzhao shook his head, and then went to Ziwei Tower, which was even more lively at this time, with many people rushing over.

"Big brother!"

Yang Mingzhao happened to see Yang Mingcheng and called out.

"Fourth brother, you've come too!"

"Hmm! What's going on?"

"I do not know either!"

"You don't know either!" Yang Mingzhao looked at Yang Mingcheng in surprise.

"Hmm, I don't know!" Yang Mingcheng shook his head and said, "Several of my subordinates have been arrested!"

The two brothers entered the Ziwei Tower, but before they could even see Yang Chengmao, they were invited to the top floor.

As soon as they entered the study, the two saw a familiar figure.

"father!"

Yang Zhengshan was sitting at his desk reviewing the list of those to be arrested.

Do not check, I don’t know, I’m scared.

More than sixty years have passed since he began large-scale migration of people to the Land of Spiritual Origin. During these sixty years, the Land of Spiritual Origin has been developing steadily, and everything seems to be progressing smoothly and thriving.

However, over time, corruption inevitably took hold, and Yang Zhengshan never imagined that the corruption in the Spirit Source Land had become so severe.

Corruption is rampant, with people abusing their power for personal gain, engaging in opaque operations in resource allocation, and embezzling spiritual materials.

"Go kneel over there!" Yang Zhengshan pointed to the side and said.

"Ah!" Yang Mingcheng exclaimed in astonishment.

"What? You don't want to?" Yang Zhengshan looked up and glared at the two of them.

"No, no~"

The two quickly knelt down.

Yang Zhengshan ignored them and continued to examine the problems found in Tian Shu Lou.

There are many problems, most of which are related to corruption, but there are also some more serious ones.

"Which branch does Yang Jilin belong to?"

Yang Mingzhao said, "Jilin is Chengxian's grandson, and he is the thirty-seventh in the Ji generation!"

"Heh, forcibly taking women and oppressing the innocent, hmm, what a fine son and grandson of the Yang family! How could such a person be allowed into Kaiyang Tower? Mingzhao, are all your people like this?" Yang Zhengshan looked up at Yang Mingzhao.

When people live in peace and tranquility for too long, they inevitably become lax.

Yang Mingzhao is a typical example.

As the owner of Kaiyang Tower, he spent his days doing nothing but fishing and hunting, living a carefree and happy life.

Yang Mingzhao lowered his head, "Father, it's my fault. I didn't manage my men well!"

Just then, two more people walked in. They were none other than Yang Mingzhi and Yang Minghao!

"You've come at the perfect time, let's all kneel down together!"

Yang Zhengshan gestured with his chin, indicating that the two should kneel down.

Upon seeing their elder brother and younger brother kneeling there, the two brothers knelt down without saying a word.

After they knelt down, Yang Zhengshan closed his eyes to rest.

Actually, the problems in Lingyuan Land are not that big. The main problem is corruption, with only a few particularly egregious incidents.

This kind of problem is impossible to completely eliminate; it can happen within any faction. The Spirit Source Land is actually considered relatively good.

Yang Zhengshan didn't have a good solution to this problem either.

Of course, those who should be punished must be punished.

Especially these four brothers in front of us, it is because of their indulgence that such a situation has occurred in the Spirit Source Land.

A moment later, Yang Chengye and Yang Chengmao arrived together.

“Grandfather!” The two men glanced at their uncles and fathers kneeling beside them and bowed.

"Have they all been arrested?"

“They have all been arrested and imprisoned!” Yang Chengmao said.

"No one resisted?"

"no!"

"Hmph, they're smart to know what's good for them!"

Yang Zhengshan snorted coldly and said, "You can handle the rest. Just punish them according to the law!"

"This!" Yang Chengmao hesitated.

"what happened?"

"Should Ji Lin also be punished according to the law?"

Yang Zhengshan said calmly, "To forcibly abduct women and oppress the innocent, what is the legal punishment?"

“Send it to the mine and serve for a hundred years!” Yang Chengmao said.

“As a descendant of the Yang family, his crime is even more serious. Let him stay in the mine until he dies of old age!” Yang Zhengshan said coldly.

There is no death penalty in the Spirit Source Land. The most severe punishment is to go to the mine to mine. In fact, even if the punishment is for a hundred years, Yang Jilin will basically spend his whole life in the mine. Yang Jilin is a Xiantian martial artist with a lifespan of around 150 years, and he is now nearly 40.

However, Yang Zhengshan's words effectively eliminated any possibility of Yang Jilin leaving the mine.

Such a punishment is undeniably severe.

"And those four, drag them away and give them a hundred lashes as a warning to others!"

Yang Zhengshan pointed to the four Yang brothers beside him.

"Ah, Dad, we didn't do anything wrong!" Yang Mingcheng said innocently. Yang Zhengshan glared at him. "Two hundred lashes!"

"Brother, don't speak!" Yang Mingzhao quickly tugged at Yang Mingcheng's sleeve.

Yang Chengye glanced at it and couldn't help but whisper, "Grandfather, are you really going to fight?"

His father is among them.

"Nonsense, we have to beat them until their skin is torn and blood is drawn!"

Yang Zhengshan said.

Upon hearing this, Yang Chengye gave his father a helpless look.

Yang Chengmao was also quite helpless.

Go ahead and hit me, it's only two hundred blows, it won't kill me.

The four Yang brothers dared not say another word and could only obediently walk downstairs to receive their beatings in front of the Ziwei Building.

Yang Zhengshan was very thoughtful; he even arranged for people to hit him with sticks.

"Gentlemen, please forgive me!" Wang Lei said with a grin, holding a black iron rod.

"Use this to fight!" Yang Mingzhao was startled when he saw the black iron rod in his hand.

Wang Lei chuckled, "Fourth Master's cultivation hasn't reached the Golden Body Realm yet, so an ordinary iron rod will suffice."

"That's good, that's good!" Yang Mingzhao breathed a sigh of relief.

He recovered, but the other three brothers were furious.

"There's no need to be so ruthless!" Yang Minghao muttered.

"Sigh, here we go!" Yang Mingzhi said helplessly, obediently lying on the tiger bench.

Wang Lei and Li Chang exchanged a glance, then raised their sticks and struck hard.

Others might hesitate to attack these four brothers.

They would never hold back when they fought.

The black iron rod struck harder and harder, and even with the body of a Golden Body Realm martial artist as tough as iron, he was still beaten until his skin was torn and bleeding.

Yang Zhengshan stood upstairs, watching this scene unfold.

Should the four Yang brothers, Yang Mingcheng and Yang Mingcheng, be beaten?
Of course they should be hit!

As the second generation of the Yang family, they are the most powerful people in the Spirit Source Land besides Yang Zhengshan and Yu Qingyi.

Yang Zhengshan and Yu Qingyi did not concern themselves with worldly affairs, but they were always in charge of the affairs of the Spirit Source Land.

Yang Zhengshan's beating of them was both a punishment for them and a warning to everyone.

With this kind of action, the land of spiritual origin should be able to remain virtuous for several decades.

……

The turmoil in the Land of Spiritual Origin subsided after only three days.

Although many people were punished this time, the overall impact on Lingyuan Land was not significant.

After all, it was obvious that Yang Zhengshan was in charge of this matter, so who would dare to object to Yang Zhengshan?
After the matter was over, Yang Zhengshan immediately ordered Yang Chengmao to arrange for people to take over Wuxiang Sect and Wuxiang City.

The Wuxiang Sect and Wuxiang City are not like Yangjia Town, which can be taken over by just a few hundred people.

Leaving aside the situation of the Wuxiang Sect, let's just talk about Wuxiang City. As the largest city under the rule of the Wuxiang Sect, and the only city directly governed by the Wuxiang Sect, Wuxiang City is no smaller than Qingyu City of the Xuanqing Sect.

Wuxiang City has a population of 300,000, making it one of the largest cities in the Lingxiu Sea.

After the incident at Wuxiang Sect, Wuxiang City fell into chaos. Although disciples of Xuanqing Sect later maintained order in Wuxiang City, the city remained in turmoil, and the people within the city were filled with fear and anxiety.

Outside the City of No Form.

A vast and imposing army marched in.

The army of three thousand, all cavalry, galloped from the direction of the Wuxiang Sect.

In the blink of an eye, the three thousand-strong army had already arrived at the gates of Wuxiang City.

The Xuanqing Sect disciples on duty on the city wall all became tense.

"Elder, that's him!"

A disciple approached Chu Lingxiao and asked nervously.

Chu Lingxiao stared sharply at the army outside the city and said in a solemn voice, "Don't be nervous, it's the Yang family's army!"

"The Yang family? Which Yang family?" The disciple next to him looked confused.

“Which other Yang family is it? It’s naturally the Yang family, a family of immortal cultivators!” someone said.

"The Yang family actually has such an army!"

"Look, all their mounts are exotic beasts! Swift Wind Wolf, Cloud Tiger Steed, and those horses are all Crimson Cloud Horses! That's right, Crimson Cloud Horses are the exotic beasts that the Yang family sells!"

"What are strange beasts? Look at their armor and weapons, they're all spirit weapons!"

A group of Xuanqing Sect disciples were discussing the three thousand Yujing Guards outside the city.

Today, the Yujing Three Guards can be described as being armed to the teeth.

The soldiers of Yujing Guard can be roughly divided into three types: spearmen, swordsmen and shieldmen, and archers. The equipment of the three types of soldiers is not the same.

The spearman possesses a set of superior-grade spirit armor, a superior-grade spirit weapon spear, and eight mid-grade spirit weapon short spears.

Sword and shield soldier, one set of superior spirit armor, one superior spirit weapon shield and one longsword.

Archers are the most unique type of soldier in the Jade Capital Guard. They also possess high-grade spirit armor, but instead of iron armor, they wear leather armor, which offers slightly weaker protection. Their most important weapon is their longbow, but their most valuable possession is not the longbow, but the arrows in their storage pouches.

There were a full three hundred arrows, all of them spirit-grade, and many of them were of superior quality.

It can be said that every archer has three hundred spirit weapons in their storage bag.

However, this is something that ordinary forces cannot achieve.

Three thousand Jade Capital Guards halted beneath the walls of Wuxiang City, their chilling aura instantly filling the air. The Xuanqing Sect disciples, who had been discussing amongst themselves, involuntarily fell silent.

Chu Lingxiao looked at the soldiers below the city and couldn't help but gasp.

Three thousand soldiers is not a lot. In the past, the Lingxiu Three Sects also had a city defense army in Anhu City. However, the military attributes of the Lingxiu Three Sects' army were lower than their martial arts attributes. Simply put, the soldiers in the army were more like martial artists than disciplined soldiers.

In comparison, the Three Guards of Yujing are a proper army, built entirely according to military standards. No matter how high the soldiers' cultivation level is, they are still an army.

"Elder Song Dashan, a guest elder of the Yang family, has come to take over Wuxiang City. Please, elders of the Xuanqing Sect, open the city gates!" Song Dashan shouted from below the city, riding a cloud tiger steed.

The walls of Wuxiang City are over six zhang high. For ordinary city walls, even the tallest walls wouldn't mean much to a Xiantian martial artist, since Xiantian martial artists can fly.

However, the walls of Wuxiang City are not ordinary walls, but walls with array formations.

Although it is only a second-tier low-grade formation, its defensive power is still very strong.

This is one of the reasons why the Netherworld Sect never attacked Wuxiang City.

Chu Lingxiao stepped out of the city wall and slowly landed in front of Song Dashan.

"Chu Lingxiao of the Xuanqing Sect!"

"Song Dashan of the Yang family greets senior!" Song Dashan clasped his hands in a salute.

Chu Lingxiao looked at Song Dashan and thought to himself, "Another unfamiliar Golden Body Realm martial artist! Just how many Golden Body Realm martial artists does the Yang family have?"

"Do you have the Yang family seal?"

She is related to the Yang family by marriage, and her granddaughter, Li Qianqian, is also a member of the Yang family.

It's a pity that Li Qianqian never returned to Xuanqing Sect after marrying into the Yang family.

Therefore, she didn't know much about the Yang family.

However, she has gained a lot of benefits from the Yang family. Yu Qingyi kept her promise to her back then, and the Yang family has sent her a lot of cultivation resources over the years, and her cultivation has reached the late stage of the Golden Body Realm.

“Yes!” Song Dashan took out a jade token and handed it to Chu Lingxiao.

Chu Lingxiao inspected the area, nodded slightly, and then shouted to the disciples on the city wall, "Open the city gates!"

The Yang family's seal is the Jade Token, which has already been registered in the Hidden Sword Mountain, Xuanqing Sect, and Huanyue Sect.

The main basis for confirming the authenticity of a token is still the restrictions on the token.

However, the jade token in Chu Lingxiao's hand was not the kind that could enter the Spirit Source Land. This jade token did not contain Yang Zhengshan's spirit seed; it was just an ordinary token.

(End of this chapter)