Martial Peak

One month later, under Yang Kai’s repeated assaults, the Ash-Grey Cloud Evil Land suffered several dozen casualties and at the command of Demon Lord Yang Bai had pulled back their forces and no longer took the initiative to attack.

With Yang Kai’s mansion suppressing the Ash-Grey Cloud Evil Land forces this past month, the Eight Great Families gained a short respite, but although they occasionally cooperated with Yang Kai to harass the Ash-Grey Cloud Evil Land, they never made any large scale deployments because they still couldn’t determine what Yang Kai’s true intentions were.

The situation in the Central Capital had essentially become a three way struggle between Yang Kai’s mansion, the Eight Great Families, and the Ash-Grey Cloud Evil Land.

The relationships between these three factions were ambiguous and complicated.

The Eight Great Families and the Ash-Grey Cloud Evil Land were naturally bitter enemies while Yang Kai’s mansion, which was sandwiched between them, would often attack the Ash-Grey Cloud Evil Land but would also not give any face to the Eight Great Families. When people from the Eight Great Families offended Yang Kai’s forces, the latter would often hit back with an extremely heavy hand.

Fortunately, the Patriarchs of the Eight Great Families had issued orders to all the elites from their and their allies’ families not to provoke Yang Kai’s forces. Even if some kind of conflict of interest on the battlefield, they were to grit their teeth and endure.

At this critical time, the Eight Great Families didn’t want to cause any friction with Yang Kai.

As a result, all the spoils of war left on the battlefield were swept away by Yang Kai’s forces. All the pills and artifacts of the dead Ash-Grey Cloud Evil Land cultivators were collected by Yang Kai’s allies, leaving not even crumbs for the Eight Great Families or their allies.

The prestige of Yang Kai’s mansion exploded and quickly spread out.

After one month, a large number of cultivators had assembled outside Yang Kai’s house, and after Qiu Yi Meng noticed and made some preliminary investigations, she immediately found Yang Kai.

“What is it?”

“A lot of people have set up camp outside the mansion.”

“Who?” Yang Kai’s brow wrinkled, his expression slightly disgruntled, wondering who was looking for trouble with him now.

“People who want to hire themselves to you.”

“Hire themselves to me?” Yang Kai was stunned, quickly letting out a chuckle, “This isn’t the Inheritance War.”

Qiu Yi Meng rolled her eyes and continued, “The ones outside are all first-class forces who received the Eight Great Families’ Conscription Command and came to the Central Capital.”

“Since the Eight Great Families were the ones that summoned them, why come looking for me?” Yang Kai said with a confused look.

“Don’t play dumb!” Qiu Yi Meng snorted, “It’s because this place is safer. Before we came, there were already some first-class forces that came to the Central Capital to render aid, but those forces have all suffered serious casualties and have all but been wiped out. With multiple examples of the core members of their Sects and Families dying or receiving serious injuries, how could the recent arrivals dare to count on the Eight Great Families to shelter them?”

“So they’ve come to me instead?” Yang Kai expression became strange once more.

nodded lightly, “And there’s even a successful example in the

the Lu Family?” Yang

Capital a while ago, but actually joined up with you instead of the Eight Great Families. During this time, the Lu Family has not suffered any fatalities and have instead killed

Kai’s

had allowed the Lu Family to join him because he had some slight friendship with Lu Si and Lu Family’s elites also knew how to show proper decorum. If other forces who came to the Central Capital wanted to attach themselves to his mansion, forget about there simply not being enough space to fit them all, even if he could house all of them, with so many people suddenly

for a while though, Yang Kai suddenly grinned, “Since they’ve come to hire themselves to me, let them

to what she knew of Yang Kai’s character, he

brow and thinking it over though, Qiu Yi Meng quickly

Yang Kai sneered, “The Central Capital Eight Great Families should bring in new

an outcome and quickly leaving the house to make

side, looking from far away at the crowd gathered in front of Yang Kai’s house, everyone’s expression was quite ugly. These forces had all come to the Central Capital in response to the Eight Great Families’ Conscription Command, but now they were not willing to join forces with the Eight Great Families

the Eight Great Families couldn’t help feeling like the

slightly, seemingly

distrust of the Eight Great Families by the rest of the Great Han Dynasty’s forces in

Great Families would thoroughly be destroyed and

hands would the Central

Yang Family has produced a terrifying character.” The other seven Patriarchs stared at Yang Ying Hao

left out a sigh, “I can only hope he still gives

Palace. Once inside this barrier, no matter who it was, they couldn’t help breathing a sigh of relief, seemingly feeling like they have finally found something to rely on

forces, all of these forces became honest and law abiding. In the face of Qiu Yi Meng’s commands and

spilled in, Yang Kai’s originally not spacious mansion became

each. These residences had only enough room for people to find a spot to sit and meditate; there wasn’t even enough space for

Simply being able to take shelter in Yang Kai’s house made them very

join Yang Kai’s mansion every day and Yang

here to fight against the Ash-Grey Cloud Evil Land, so even though the Eight Great Families were annoyed in their hearts, they made no attempt to interfere with

with more than 2,000 masters now residing inside. Besides the original seventeen Transcendents Yang Kai

Eight Great Families and the Ash-Grey Cloud Evil Land to no longer be

of people arrived

bump into one another outside the

two women, one of them a peerless enchanting beauty, the other a fresh young spirit, the Beguiling Demon Queen,

eight men, the current Patriarchs of

meeting each other here, Ye Kuang Ren roared angrily, “Beguiling Demon

start something here. The other seven Patriarchs also

heart quite anxious. She had not expect that these eight would, like her, quietly conceal their auras

are you doing here?” Kang

word, only staring back