The villainous simp ignores the plot and mercilessly torments the female lead to tears.

Qin Yan took the phone and then made a video call to Qin Qi.

The call was quickly answered, and Qin Qi's face appeared on the screen: "My dear grandson, are you done cultivating?"

"Yes, Grandpa, it just ended," Qin Yan said with a smile. "Grandpa, is there something you need from me?"

Qin Qi laughed and said, "Of course there is something, but before I tell you, I have to praise you. Jiang Mingqing did a great job with this."

"I've disliked that thing for a long time, but I haven't had time to deal with it. Even if I had mentioned it, that old man Jiang Zhe would have stopped me. I never expected that you would actually manage to do it."

Thinking back to the video conference with the elders of the Great Xia Dynasty today, and how Jiang Zhe's face was as black as the bottom of a pot, Qin Qi felt a surge of satisfaction.

Jiang Zhe is the martial god of the Jiang family. He is at odds with Qin Qi. In the story, he also intervened when Qin Qi died, so the Jiang family must be destroyed.

Qin Yan curled his lip and said, "Normally, I can't find a reason to take action against Jiang Mingqing, but this time this bastard dared to target the Qin family. I have to make him get lost."

Qin Qi looked at Qin Yan with satisfaction: "Not bad, my eldest grandson has grown up, but the aftermath of this incident is only just beginning."

Qin Yan frowned slightly: "Oh? Did those guys from the Elders' Council say something?"

Qin Qi nodded: "Yes, we held an internal video conference of the Elders' Council today and finalized two things. First, within the Great Xia Kingdom, apart from the Martial Saints guarding the border, no Martial Saints or half-step Martial Saints are allowed to exist. They must all go to the battlefield."

Hearing this result, Qin Yan was a little surprised, but he was very supportive of the matter.

As top-tier combatants, Martial Saints and Half-Step Martial Saints should be contributing on the battlefield. What's the point of staying in a safe place in the country all day?

Then he asked, "And the second thing?"

Qin Qi's smile faded, and he said, "The second thing is that the Elders' Council has decided to launch an investigation into Jiang Mingqing, mainly to investigate the situation within the academy."

"So what exactly is going on at the Beijing Martial Arts Academy?"

Without the slightest hesitation, Qin Yan truthfully recounted the situation, emphasizing the conflict between commoner students and scions of aristocratic families.

Upon hearing this, Qin Qi snorted coldly: "I knew long ago that old man from the Jiang family didn't like my Qin family, but I didn't expect him to do this. He wants to separate our Qin family from the commoner students and then make these students join his camp after graduation."

Qin Yan also learned about this from the plot. The Jiang family had been preparing to destroy the Qin family, so they had planted or bribed many people in academies across the country.

Their goal is to recruit these students after graduation to strengthen their ranks.

In the story, they did succeed in doing so. Through this method, they amassed an army capable of rivaling the Qin family within a little over a decade.

Strictly speaking, the Qin family's situation in the Great Xia Dynasty is already terrible. Apart from their main base in the capital, almost all other places have been infiltrated by the Jiang and Ji families.

Thanks to the propaganda of the Ji and Jiang families, the Qin family was portrayed as arrogant, headstrong, and indifferent to the lives of ordinary people.

It can be said that once they leave the capital, martial arts academies in any city will hold the Qin family in high regard.

Qin Yan wasn't too concerned about these crises, because he had a way to break through them: his grandfather had broken through to the Martial Emperor realm.

Under the crushing power of absolute strength, all schemes are utterly futile.

But it will be soon. In just ten days or so, after the national elite selection competition ends, he will be able to rightfully hand over the Nine Revolutions Heavenly Demon Art to Qin Qi.