Changsheng: Peak at the Beginning

Wen Chao and Wen Zhuliu led their men downstream in a mighty force. All the small families along the way were exterminated. For a time, Jiang received many letters for help, and many orphans of small families came to ask for Jiang's protection.

Jiang Fengmian and Yu Ziyuan accepted all these people, but no one could enter the Lotus Pier. Instead, they found several small islands in Dongting Lake that were difficult for outsiders to find to accommodate them. Jiang Xinxin was very satisfied with the couple's attitude, so when they were going out to rescue the small families that were being persecuted, she only prepared more talismans and other self-defense and life-saving items, and did not stop the couple from doing so.

Everyone knew that there would be a war between the Jiang and Wen families, so Jiang Yanli and Jiang Erya tried their best to relocate the mortals living near the Lotus Pier. As for the protective restrictions in the Lotus Pier, they had already been activated when Jiang Fengmian and Yu Ziyuan left home.

Jiang Xinxin, along with Wei Ying and a large number of Jiang clan disciples, set up thunder and fire ambushes on both sides of the river. When the time came, as long as the Wen clan's ships entered the ambush circle, at least most of them would be destroyed by the triggered thunder and fire. After all, Qishan was a water-scarce area, and most of the disciples and guests of Buyetian were not good at swimming. Once they fell into the water from the ships, they would lose almost all their protection and be at the mercy of others.

The Jiang disciples taken away by Jiang Fengmian and Yu Ziyuan continued to escort some orphans of small families to Yunmeng. Jiang Xinxin continued Jiang Fengmian's practice and did not allow anyone else to enter the Lotus Pier. Instead, she found an uninhabited island in Dongting Lake to properly settle them.

Not everyone is willing to follow such an arrangement, some of them want to hide in Lotus Pier, a safer place, purely because of their poor character, while others have been bribed by the Wen family and want to obtain information about Lotus Pier, so they try every means to enter Lotus Pier.

Jiang Xinxin didn't have that much time to identify these people, so anyone who caused serious trouble was directly kicked out.

"Since you have the time to make such a fuss, it shows that you all feel that you can guarantee safety. We at Jiang's are not willing to take this credit for nothing. Please do as you please."

Are you kidding? The entire Yunmeng is the traditional territory of the Jiang family. Even though the Dongting Lake is vast, as long as the Jiang family finds them here, it is actually the Jiang family's inherent territory. Although the restrictions above are not as good as those of the Lotus Pier, they are not much different. Even the accumulation of several lifetimes of many small families cannot reach such a level. Jiang Xinxin is not willing to be a sucker for nothing.

Some people were directly driven out, and even if the remaining people still had some ideas, they did not dare to continue to cause trouble in a short period of time. What's more, their food rations were in the hands of the Jiang family. If the Jiang family fell into trouble, they would not get any benefits, and the situation would even become worse because of the loss of protection.

Jiang Xinxin had no time to care about these people's little thoughts. She turned around and just happened to see Wen Chao and Wen Zhuliu coming with a large number of troops.

Jiang Fengmian and Yu Ziyuan failed to stop the Wen army from approaching Yunmeng, but they saved a lot of people and supplies. Jiang Yanli and Jiang Erya were already skilled in logistics work, so they got the job done without much effort.

Most of these rescued people were determined to resist the Wen family, so they did not live in the rear, but directly asked Jiang Xinxin to give them a chance, a chance to take revenge as soon as possible.

Jiang Xinxin naturally would not be polite to them. In the territory of Yunmeng, especially after the establishment of the Supervisory Office, not only did the children of the Jiang family receive training, but even many children from small families also gained a lot of experience.

It is true that Wen Chao is a fool, but the guards and deputy envoys assigned to him by Wen Ruohan are all smart people, so even if Jiang Xinxin and his men set up an ambush in advance, it only caught the Wen group off guard. There were not many casualties, but the morale was affected.

This time, Wen Chao went out with a woman named Wang Lingjiao who called herself Wang. The woman was indeed quite charming, but her temperament was hard to describe. However, Wen Chao was able to do nothing even when he was ambushed and his morale was affected. He even took his anger out on the guards on both sides. All this was thanks to this woman's brainless behavior.

The two sides met on the open river. Wen Chao stood behind layers of guards. If it weren't for Wen Zhuliu beside him who was really conspicuous, he would have almost lost track of him.

Yu Ziyuan had already seen Wang Lingjiao being held in Wen Chao's arms. When rescuing a small family before, Yu Ziyuan had some quarrels with Wang Lingjiao. However, Wang Lingjiao had no cultivation and no status. Even her looks and temperament were not as good as Yu Ziyuan, a person of the previous generation who had already given birth to two children. Yu Ziyuan also had a scar on her face. If Wen Chao had not been concerned about her face and used Wen's elixir on her, she would have been rejected by now.

Wang Lingjiao couldn't bear to see Yu Ziyuan get any advantage. Seeing Yu Ziyuan standing in the middle of the Jiang Sect with many Jiang disciples behind her, Wang Lingjiao secretly gritted her teeth but smiled and provoked Wen Chaojiao: "Master Wen, look at the wife of the Jiang Sect's leader. Master Wen, you spared her life earlier, but she didn't even show any gratitude!"

After hearing this, even Jiang Fengmian almost laughed out of anger. But Wen Chao still thought he was wise and powerful, and thought that Jiang Fengmian and Yu Ziyuan were able to rescue so many people only because of his leniency.

Wei Ying could not stand such grievance, and was about to curse a few words, but was stopped by Yu Ziyuan. She did not want to argue with a junior, so she raised her voice to question Wen Zhuliu: "Wen Zhuliu, you have followed the Wen family to help the tyrants in these years, have you really forgotten your last name?!"

Wen Zhuliu did not remain silent either. Instead, he stood up and bowed to Jiang Fengmian and Yu Ziyuan, apologizing: "The Wen family saved my life, and I will repay this favor."

There was really nothing to say. Jiang Xinxin had already seen the signal that the encirclement was complete. Even though her and Wei Ying's swords had been confiscated by Wen Chao and had not been taken back yet, she wanted to kill Wen Chao, which was always a matter of physical effort. So she took out a dragon-head bow that she had smuggled out of the space, used her magic power to turn it into an arrow, and shot it directly at Wen Chao's forehead and heart.

Five arrows were fired at once, and Wen Zhuliu tried his best to block only two of them. One of the remaining three arrows was blocked by the guards, and the last two hit Wen Chao right between his eyebrows and heart, killing him on the spot.

Wei Ying saw the opportunity and immediately shouted: "Wen Chao is dead, those who surrender will not be killed!"

The others immediately followed suit and shouted in unison: "Wen Chao is dead, those who surrender will not be killed!"

The shouting gradually spread outwards, and the people of the Wen family gradually discovered that there were shouting around them and even behind them. They began to hesitate. Jiang Xinxin and Wei Ying led their men to burn and kill the Wen family's fleet. Wen Zhuliu saw that the situation was hopeless and had no choice but to surrender.

The Wen family's original plan to burn down the Lotus Pier was completely turned to ashes, and the captives who remained were arranged by Jiang Xinxin to build bridges and roads. Not to mention, the monks are more durable than ordinary strong men.