Jaw-Dropping Son-in-Law

Ye Fan merely waved off Huangniu's reminders and signaled that he knew what he ought to do.

At the sight of his nonchalant front, Huangniu rolled its eyes. “As if it'd kill him to not act cool for once.”

After rambling on for a bit, it, too, took its leave.

Before it made its exit, though, Huangniu took one last glance at Ye Fan and muttered under its breath, “You're on your own, man.”

King Folo and the others caught up with Ye Fan as soon as Huangniu was gone.

“Mr. Chu, Huangniu has uncanny skills, so why didn't you try to keep it here? Wouldn't it bolster our strength by doing that?” King Folo asked puzzledly.

Ye Fan shook his head and laughed. “This stupid calf is even less dependable than you guys. It's wishful thinking on your side to hope it would put its life on the line to help me. In fact, it's a miracle that it even agreed to help me protect Jiangdong.”

Knowing Huangniu's personality well and considering the nature of their relationship, Ye Fan was aware that Huangniu might not give him its all even when promised rewards in return.

He reckoned that it might only demonstrate a token amount of effort, so he might be better off relying on himself.

Notably, through his meeting with Huangniu, Ye Fan did learn some intel of value.

Owing to the attack that the Chu Sect had launched against China, he had no doubt that the bulk of Mount Chumen's forces would be away on deployment.

It meant that the Chu Sect itself would be doubtlessly vulnerable as of then.

Thus, he could seize the opportunity to strike at the heart of their stronghold.

Before doing so, however, Ye Fan still had some other preparations to make.

The thought of that made him turn to regard King Folo and the others. “Having ventured around the martial arts world for many years, the three of you must be considerably connected. I suppose you must know some people here.”

King Folo reacted in surprise as he did not understand what Ye Fan was hinting at.

Could it be that he wants us to go out and recruit others to lend him their strength in the upcoming battle?

“Though that may be true, the strongest among them are Grandmasters at most. As such, I doubt their addition would be very impactful,” he replied.

To his surprise, Ye Fan responded smilingly, “A Grandmaster would be more than enough. In any case, reach out to them first, the three of you. Look for those who are distinguished and influential, for there are some things I need to learn from them.”

was in a

hall, the head of elders, Tang Xian, was sharing a hearty drink with a couple of elders of the Chu Sect who had also

are able to subdue

drank merrily until their

Fan killed a significant number of elders when he stormed the Chu Sect, but by then, the vacancies had already

in China, the Chu Sect, at present, still

terms of esteem, ability, and experience, the head of elders, Tang Xian,

fires of the war raging for several months already and everything progressing steadily according to plan, a tremendous sense

talents who are below the age of thirty to Mount Chumen! Tell them that we'd be checking against a name list here as well, so they can expect their cities to get destroyed if any single one of them fails to show up! Also, send ten exploration teams to these new vassal countries

about him, Tang Xian gave out instructions in an orderly fashion, and the other elders variously went

after, there were only a few of the confidantes of the head of

The ones we have here at the Chu Sect itself aren't any worse off compared to those from all these small countries, surely? And what's

Sect assumed that the organization's ambitions to

would be the one making the final call

to be at the sect's beck and

of it, there might be much more beyond those motivations behind the Chu Sect's bid for world

as though there were other reasons for

be understandable if it were for the purpose of

the elders of the Chu Sect themselves, was in the know about

Tang Xian furrowed his brows immediately. “Don't ask so many unnecessary

from him did much to shut

comes of the investigations into the Fifth Elder? Have we found any

forces were actively engaged in their military conquests. With every single victory that they notched up, it appeared

incident that got the head of elders himself perturbed, and that was the death of the Fifth Elder and those mysterious last words

I'm afraid that it may ultimately prove inconclusive. According to whatever information that we have gathered so far, those who were influential in the Meng family are dead. Any survivors would likely be nobodies in the Meng family and thus would not be able to tell

of elders appeared to be even more

had been wiped clean. That couldn't have been the work of any average person,” Tang Xian analyzed

rouse suspicions,

spite of the deaths of the prominent members of the Meng family, they were unable to find out anything

immense power in Jiangbei for them to be able to act

seize the head of Jiangbei's greatest family. He must surely

Xian saw to