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

drink with a couple of elders of the Chu

able to subdue those few nations from East Aploth, it would become difficult for the remaining martial arts worlds from Western Epea to keep up their

elders inside the hall drank merrily until their faces turned

elders when he stormed the Chu

at present, still had eight elders that worked together to oversee the day-to-day

in terms of esteem, ability, and experience, the head of elders, Tang Xian, held absolute authority

progressing steadily according to plan, a

others are campaigning out there, so we can't afford to slack off either! According to our plans, we must have the martial arts world from the vassal countries send all their 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

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

few of the confidantes of the head of elders left inside the

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

along, the members of the Chu Sect assumed that the organization's ambitions to unify the

world, the Chu Sect would be the one making the final call for

would have to be at the sect's

there might be much more beyond

seemed as though there were other

would be understandable if it were for the purpose of depriving the rest of

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

of his subordinates' puzzlement, Tang Xian furrowed his brows immediately. “Don't ask

did much to shut the rest

the investigations into the Fifth

in their military conquests. With every single victory that they notched up, it appeared as though

of elders himself perturbed, and that was the death of

it, Mr. Tang, but 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

of elders appeared to be even more perplexed when he

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

done too thoroughly, would conversely rouse suspicions, such as it was in that

of the deaths of the prominent members of the Meng family, they

the other party possessed immense power in Jiangbei for them to be able

head of Jiangbei's greatest family. He must surely know something about

Tang Xian saw to making