Corpse Retriever.

Chapter 354

Chen Xiyuan felt that this man was already courting death.

Although the little brother beside her seemed to dislike mentioning his family lineage when he was out in public, she understood that other lineage holders regarded the Dragon King's lineage as a personal status symbol, while the boy saw it as a responsibility.

Chen Xiyuan lowered her head again and looked at Li Zhuiyuan.

However, to her surprise, she had expected the boy to be angry and furious, or at least have a cold glint in his eyes, but the boy remained calm.

Her domain combined with the isolation array set up by the boy could conceal the five people to the greatest extent. The only thing that could easily penetrate it was the killing intent.

But he didn't.

Chen Xiyuan winked at Li Zhuiyuan.

Li Zhuiyuan did not respond.

Chen Xiyuan bent down slightly, brought her face closer, and continued to blink forcefully.

Li Zhuiyuan had no choice but to turn his head slightly and look at her.

Chen Xiyuan gestured forward, meaning that if he wanted, she would go and kill that man for him.

Kindness is essentially about responsibility and having a bottom line; it is not about being pedantic.

Chen Xiyuan is kind, but that night in front of the soup shop, when she killed the Yu family member who had been tracking her, she did so swiftly and decisively, as if afraid the soup would get cold.

The man's words had crossed the line of respect she had for the Qin and Liu families, and she felt that she now had a responsibility to protect the young man in front of her.

Although since we met, it seems like the younger brother has always been the one saving my life.

Li Zhuiyuan glanced at her and then looked away.

Chen Xiyuan didn't understand what this meant, so she rubbed her eyes, which were a little sore from blinking, straightened up, and glanced at Runsheng and the others out of the corner of her eye.

Runsheng had his eyes closed, Lin Shuyou had his head down, and Tan Wenbin had a forced smile on his face.

Chen Xiyuan could tell that they were pretending to be relaxed and indifferent, but in reality they were suppressing their anger and restraining their murderous intent.

You guys are chatting secretly again, and you still haven't included me!
For a girl who loves to talk and has been used to listening to the private matters among relatives since childhood, being isolated from the circle of communication, only able to watch but not listen and unable to join in, is truly agonizing.

But no matter how dissatisfied she was, Li Zhuiyuan still did not make any move.

On the contrary, the man on the other side finally walked slowly to the woman in the white dress.

The one-armed, fat woman raised her remaining fist, while the woman in the white dress behind her formed a sword intent with her fingertips, preparing for a desperate fight.

A wisp of black energy surged from the man's body, instantly raising his aura to its peak.

Chen Xiyuan sighed. This should be the best opportunity to launch a sneak attack.

Of course, she felt that if she were to make a move, she wouldn't need to resort to a sneak attack, but she felt it was a bit of a waste to have such an opportunity to save energy.

The next moment, Chen Xiyuan's expression froze.

The fat woman's fist did not strike the man, nor did the black aura emanating from the man sweep towards her. Instead, it gently wrapped around her wound, and the gruesome wound on the fat woman's severed arm was being adjusted and healed at a visible speed.

The white-clad woman's sword energy pierced the fat woman's back. Most of the fish scales on the fat woman's body had already fallen off, and now the remaining scales were scraped off by the white-clad woman. Under the white-clad woman's guidance, all these scales gathered at the fat woman's severed arm, like building blocks, giving the fat woman an extra arm made of fish scales.

It's certainly not as good as the original, but in the current environment, it's the best choice.

The woman in the white dress reached out her hand to the man, who took it, gently pulled her up, and then naturally embraced her. The woman in the white dress also habitually rested her head on his chest.

The black energy emanating from the man continuously seeped into the woman in the white dress, rapidly healing her injuries.

The blind woman who had fainted earlier raised her head again, sniffed to stop the nosebleed, then took out a candle from her pocket and ate it with her head tilted back.

In the area where the thin woman had previously exploded, a vertical shadow appeared. The next moment, the thin woman staggered out from inside, clutching her chest and kneeling on the ground.

The woman in the white dress said to the man beside her, "Let's treat Aqing first; her injuries are the most severe."

The thin woman called Aqing immediately shook her head and said, "Miss, I'm fine. It's important for the young master to treat you first."

Son-in-law.

They were actually in cahoots!

Chen Xiyuan blinked, and then she immediately recalled the scene of her blinking repeatedly in front of the boy, and her face immediately turned a little red and hot.

The man kept his presence hidden, and even when the woman in the white dress faced a life-or-death crisis, he still did not show up.

Chen Xiyuan knew that if she had made a move earlier, she would have been met with a new ambush.

The woman in the white dress and her group were indeed seriously injured; the "old man" outside the stone gate had not held back at all.

The blind woman was pretending to be unconscious, the thin woman remained silent after her "body exploded," and the woman in the white dress should still be hiding a sword.

They were in poor condition, but while dealing with the "old man," they also laid a trap for their potential next opponent.

When Chen Xiyuan fights with the man, she will inevitably assume that the woman in the white dress and her group are on her side. Even if they can't provide help right now, there's no reason for her to be wary of them.

It is precisely at times like these that one is most likely to harm oneself, especially since they have already been sharpening their swords.

Chen Xiyuan murmured, "Little brother, how exactly did you find out?"

Li Zhuiyuan: "As I just said, not many people in this world like to talk to themselves."

When the man first appeared, he told the woman in the white dress that he was going to kill her. Although this was a bit redundant, it was to give an explanation to the Heavenly Dao, so it was understandable.

But then the man brought up what happened to Uncle Qin back then, and even pointed out that his father was one of the people involved.

That's incredibly thoughtful.

They're so thoughtful they could be in a stage play.

Thoughts that could have been kept in one's heart are instead read aloud like narration; isn't that just a way to fish for attention?

Some secrets are truly best left unsaid. If things completely fall apart, there will be no way for anyone to back down. This is forcing the old lady to draw her sword and come to their door to fight to the death.

If you insist on talking, fine, but you'll have to kill all of the woman in the white dress and her gang before you start talking to yourself.

The person hasn't been killed yet. Who knows what might happen next? What if someone escapes and leaks the news?

These two groups of people, no, they are most likely the same group.

Previously, when they were outside, they kept a great distance from each other and were wary of one another, which they performed very well.

Once inside, the men's decisiveness, calmness, and even cold-bloodedness, and the woman in the white dress's desperate drive away of the "old man" followed by an immediate shift into the next encirclement and attack, all demonstrate that this is a powerful team with impeccable discipline, teamwork, and mental fortitude.

Ding Luoxiang: "Brother Yun, it seems you really made a mistake. When that tall guy released his aura outside, he did it in a very crude way."

I think he must have obtained a cultivation method that was somewhat similar in form to the "Qin Family Observing Dragon Method" through some kind of opportunity.

Although the Qin family rarely appears in the martial arts world anymore, my family still has records of their former glory. A wave of their hand could stir up wind and thunder, and a step could summon a dragon – that was a kind of artistic expression.

The tall man was so crude it was as if he had punched several holes in himself to breathe.

Zhou Yunfan gently stroked the hair of the woman in the white dress in his arms and nodded: "Yes, I had this doubt when I was outside. Now it seems that I was wrong. Luo Xiang, I'm sorry to have made you suffer."

If Zhou Yunfan hadn't been hiding his intentions and had also made a move, the woman in the white dress and the other three women wouldn't have suffered such severe injuries.

Ding Luoxiang: "Brother Yun, this is not your fault. If anyone suspected of being a member of the Qin family who has traveled across the river appears, not to mention you, even I would do my best to eliminate him. Even if my father were here, he would make the same decision as you."

Moreover, the Qin family has a blood feud with you for the murder of your father.

"If it weren't for the ruthlessness of the Qin family back then, Uncle Zhou wouldn't have been bedridden for so many years, leaving you without support since childhood."

Zhou Yunfan: "Luo Xiang, thank you. Really, I'm so glad I met you, so glad I met your father, so glad I met the Ding family."

Ding Luoxiang: "Brother Yun, there's no need for these words between us. You are the future son-in-law that my father values. In the future, not only am I yours, but the entire Ding family of the valley will also be yours."

Zhou Yunfan: "Luo Xiang, don't bring up such things again. I promised Uncle Ding that even after I marry you, the Ding family will always be the Ding family. The Ding family has been very kind to me, and I can't be an ingrate."

Chen Xiyuan: "Hmm, this is a real live-in son-in-law!"

Li Zhuiyuan noticed that this topic always immediately piqued the interest of the young girl beside him.

The boy had just learned another piece of information from their conversation: Zhou Yunfan's father was indeed one of the people who participated in blocking Uncle Qin back then. Although Uncle Qin escaped with many wounds and was on the verge of death, and surrendered twice, he did not make those who targeted him suffer.

Zhou Yunfan's father has been paralyzed since that battle. Even for an ordinary person, such an experience would be a moment of despair, let alone for a man who once traveled the river with a lamp lit in his hand.

Moreover, because of Zhou Yunfan's father's accident, the Zhou family... at least Zhou Yunfan's branch, faced a serious crisis, forcing Zhou Yunfan to seek refuge with the Ding family early on in order to obtain resources for cultivation.

Chen Xiyuan: "Little brother, they're in cahoots, right?"

Li Zhuiyuan nodded.

Chen Xiyuan: "Who lit the lamp? I don't think it's Ding Luoxiang."

Li Zhuiyuan: "The person who lights the lamp usually doesn't face danger directly. If she dies, then everyone who worships her will lose their chance."

Chen Xiyuan: "So the one who lit the lamp was Zhou Yunfan? Is Miss Ding's status in the team actually the same as her maid's?"

Li Zhuiyuan: "Mm."

Chen Xiyuan: "This son-in-law is really cunning and shameless. He not only wants the young lady and her inheritance, but also wants her to worship him as the Dragon King and accompany him on his journey across the river."

Li Zhuiyuan glanced at Chen Xiyuan.

Chen Xiyuan: "Little brother, you think so too, right?"

Li Zhuiyuan did not respond.

Zhou Yunfan began to treat the thin woman, Aqing.

Chen Xiyuan: "Little brother, so you really don't plan to make a move?"

Li Zhuiyuan: "Zhou Yunfan is no ordinary person. His understanding in certain aspects surprised me."

Chen Xiyuan: "So you mean you're just going to let them go like this?"

Li Zhuiyuan's gaze fell on the blind girl.

After she finished eating the candle, as if she had recovered a little, she reached out and wiped the blood from under her nose.

Li Zhuiyuan: "How could I let him go? I will treat him the same way his father treated my uncle."

Giving him a fair and square duel would be too lenient of him.

I will strip away everything he currently possesses, step by step.

Not only the Zhou family, but also the Ding family of Hegu, knew about the incident that Zhou Yunfan's father was involved in, yet they still dared to take Zhou Yunfan into their home as their son-in-law.

Therefore, the Ding family has no further reason to exist.

Whether ignorance warrants conviction is debatable, but the Ding family clearly knew. The reason they dared to do this, on the surface, was that they believed Zhou Yunfan's father hadn't been exposed back then, but in reality, the Ding family was certain that the Qin and Liu families' powerful clans would never rise again.

If the Qin and Liu families were still in their former glory, even if the Ding family of Hegu had a hundred times the courage, they wouldn't dare to have any involvement with Zhou Yunfan.

Unlike other martial arts forces, the Ding family of Hegu is known in the martial arts world for their business acumen. The family owns numerous industries and can connect with top-tier forces as well as lower-level sects. Through their skill in investment and choosing sides, although they have never produced a Dragon King in history, they have gradually developed into a force that cannot be ignored.

It now seems that the Ding family of Hegu intends to shed their "merchant" image and, with the help of their son-in-law, try to seize the throne of the Dragon King.

Chen Xiyuan: "Little brother, don't worry, I will help you avenge the death of Uncle Qin."

Li Zhuiyuan: "My uncle is not dead."

Chen Xiyuan: "Not dead? Then he is now..."

Li Zhuiyuan: "He's quite healthy."

It can farm and deliver goods, and is occasionally used by old ladies as a punching bag. Recently, it has had a new breakthrough.

Chen Xiyuan: "No wonder you were able to remain calm."

Li Zhuiyuan: "The importance of some things has long transcended life and death."

Back then, Uncle Qin truly had the potential to challenge the Dragon King; otherwise, those guys wouldn't have secretly joined forces to target and kill him on the river.

Zhou Yunfan was right. His father and that group of people had indeed broken the Qin family's backbone, plunging the Qin family, which had a chance to rise from the ashes, back into a dark and hopeless situation.

On the other side, after treating his injuries, Zhou Yunfan headed towards the stone gate.

He placed his hands on the stone door, and black mist covered the entire stone door.

The creaking sound continued, and it loosened again.

The fat woman picked up the blind girl and carried her to the stone gate.

"It's because I'm too fat that my son-in-law has to put in so much effort."

Zhou Yunfan: "Ah Hong, you're not fat at all."

Ding Luoxiang: "I agree to let Ah Hong come into the house and become our concubine, shall we?"

Zhou Yunfan: "I don't mind, but you have to see if Ah Hong is willing."

Ding Luoxiang: "Ah Hong, what do you think?"

The fat woman said, "Miss, Ah Hong is a heavy sleeper. You keep calling her all night long, and Ah Hong can't sleep."

Ding Luoxiang raised her foot and kicked Ah Hong's shin, then forcefully punched Zhou Yunfan's arm repeatedly.

"It's all your fault, it's all your fault!"

"Hahaha!" Zhou Yunfan laughed and then said, "Come on, all of you, come and help me out. Those five dragonflies are dead, and without the token, this door is really hard to open. It's all your young lady's fault. Every time it takes her all night, she's completely drained me. I'm so weak now."

Everyone laughed.

Immediately, everyone began to exert force on the stone door, including the blind girl who was being carried on the back of the fat woman Ah Hong, who also symbolically stretched out a hand towards the stone door in front of her.

Their backs were completely exposed. Chen Xiyuan pursed her lips; she felt this was another perfect opportunity to strike.

At the same time, Chen Xiyuan also noticed that the boy's gaze was fixed on the blind girl being carried on his back.

The blind girl was about thirteen or fourteen years old.

Chen Xiyuan asked curiously, "Little brother, do you like younger people?"

Li Zhuiyuan: "Am I that old?"

Chen Xiyuan: "Oh, that makes sense."

The stone gate was finally pushed open to a width that allowed a fat woman to pass sideways.

They went outside, their footsteps fading into the distance.

Li Zhuiyuan still didn't move.

Chen Xiyuan looked at the boy, then at the stone door that had widened, and asked:
"Are they still outside?"

Li Zhuiyuan: "I don't know, but we're not in a rush, so we can wait a little longer."

Outside the stone gate, the blind woman hung upside down, her clothes drooping down, revealing the purple talismans embedded in the joints of her body.

Her eye sockets were no longer simply dark, but faintly flickered with firelight.

Zhao Yi also had the habit of hiding a purple talisman in his tongue. Each talisman was quite precious, but the blind girl had many. Moreover, her aura was completely sealed off, like a half-dead object stuck there, waiting for someone to come out from inside the stone door so that she could immediately ignite herself and detonate all the purple talismans on her body.

In the distance, Zhou Yunfan and Ding Luoxiang stood there.

Ding Luoxiang: "Brother Yun, we've been waiting here for so long, haven't we made a complete decision yet?"

The main reason was that a sound wave was coming from a distance, as if a monster was being chased, and the sound was getting closer and closer.

The Yu family is currently facing crises everywhere, and it would be unwise for them to remain in one place for an extended period of time.

Zhou Yunfan bit his lower lip: "Luo Xiang, I really wish they had been burned to ashes."

Ding Luoxiang: "If they were still alive and hiding in the tunnel, they would have already attacked us, wouldn't they?"

Zhou Yunfan: "That's the only way to put it. I've been doing all this for nothing. If they're still inside and have been patient until now, it means that all my plans have been seen through by them."

Ding Luoxiang: "In my eyes, no one in this world is smarter than you, Brother Yun."

Zhou Yunfan suddenly breathed a sigh of relief: "Ah, how could I have forgotten that?"

Ding Luoxiang: "What?"

Zhou Yunfan:
"The Qin family tradition is that when traveling along the river, they do not like to take detours; they only have faith in their own physical strength."

Moreover, the Qin family has always had a tradition of traveling the river alone. Even when the Qin family was in decline, that person was still traveling the river alone.

But the previous team was clearly a group.

Haha, they must have known that many successors of the Dragon King's clan had arrived in this wave, making me overreact.

"Let's go, Luo Xiang, let's bring A Hui back."

Ding Luoxiang waved towards the stone gate.

Ahui landed, the flame in her eyes went out, and she returned to being that little blind girl, taking steps towards this side.

A sudden impulse surged within Zhou Yunfan; he wanted Ah Hui to turn back now and self-destruct in the tunnel alone.

But he never voiced this crazy idea.

Of his fiancée's three maids, the most important and the most expensive was Ah Hui.

She was designed and created with great effort and support from the Ding family.

If it really is a member of the Qin family who has traveled across the river, then he would not hesitate to use Ah Hui to perish together with the other party. But if it is just for this extremely low probability test, he really can't bear to do it.

Ding Luoxiang: "Brother Yun, that commotion is still coming towards us. Let's move quickly. I suspect that the roaring monster was deliberately driven away as an excuse to attack."

"Well, let's go."

This time, Zhou Yunfan and his four companions truly left.

In the corridor.

Li Zhuiyuan removed his own formation and signaled Chen Xiyuan to dispel the domain.

The boy opened his palm, and a stack of metal cards fluttered down, coalescing into a human figure. Then, General Sun descended.

Li Zhuiyuan: "Go outside the stone gate and take a look. Don't hold back your momentum."

General Sun: "Yes, sir."

The official deliberately let his aura leak out, and General Sun swaggered through the crack in the door, then came back.

"Reporting to my lord, all is well outside."

Li Zhuiyuan nodded, opened his hand again, and General Sun left, the metal card returning to the boy's palm.

Chen Xiyuan: "Shall I go and test the waters again?"

Li Zhuiyuan: "Okay."

Chen Xiyuan unleashed her domain and rushed out of the stone gate. Then, standing outside, she said, "You can come out now."

Li Zhuiyuan and the others walked out of the stone gate one by one.

What appeared before them was a layout resembling a back garden, and looking up, a huge red sphere was illuminating the space.

The sphere exhibits a highly precise, mechanical quality, implying that it should adjust its brightness according to the changes of day and night outside, giving this vast underground world its own sun.

Actually, there should have been two more: one was the moon, and the other was something dynamic and changeable that could help regulate the four seasons here.

The other two, however, were no longer lit or turned on due to years of disrepair, leaving only this one, which simply provides illumination.

After all, expecting those beasts to repair such an ingenious mechanism is simply asking too much of them.

Lin Shuyou: "This place is so big."

Chen Xiyuan: "Yes, it's huge."

Lin Shuyou looked at Chen Xiyuan with a puzzled expression: "You also think it's big?"

Chen Xiyuan: "It is indeed very big."

Lin Shuyou: "Is your family also the Dragon King's family? Isn't it this big?"

Chen Xiyuan: "In terms of the scale of the ancestral home alone, it is far inferior. If this place is compared to the imperial palace, then my Chen family's ancestral home is the county government office."

Lin Shuyou: "Huh?"

Chen Xiyuan: "There's nothing we can do. My ancestors weren't the Dragon King. The Dragon King came later, so when we first built our ancestral home, the standards were set very low."

Then the ancestral graves were next to the ancestral home, and the stone tablets of Su Shi and others were also close to the courtyard wall.

Now, even if I wanted to expand, it would be too much trouble, so I'm too lazy to do it.

Most importantly, apart from the direct descendants, the rest of my Chen family live outside. Hainan Island is vast, with a small population, and there's plenty of space outside. I usually prefer to stay outside as well.

Lin Shuyou: "Was it because the initial planning wasn't done well?"

Chen Xiyuan: "Well, I guess so."

Tan Wenbin reached out and patted Lin Shuyou on the shoulder: "Have you forgotten what Dragon King Chen is good at? It's called a county government office, but who knows if it's a temple in a snail shell, and who knows if the real space inside is the kind of terrifyingly vast space."

Lin Shuyou looked at Chen Xiyuan.

Chen Xiyuan: "It's alright. Some of the rooms are quite large, but no one usually goes there. It's easy to get lost inside, and it's also easy to lose track of day and night and temperature."

Seeing their curiosity about their ancestral home, Chen Xiyuan couldn't help but ask:
"You haven't been to the Qin and Liu family's ancestral home yet, have you?"

Tan Wenbin: "If we go inside, we can only look at all those treasures, but we can't take them...wouldn't that be even more frustrating?"

Chen Xiyuan: "Yes, indeed. That's a real pity. According to my ancestors' records, the Qin family once bound a mountain range, broke it, and built the Qin family ancestral home to continue it. Just thinking about it makes you realize how magnificent the Qin family ancestral home must have been."

The Liu family ancestral home was even more extravagant. My grandmother said that the Liu family ancestral home was like a fairyland on earth.

"Um, does Old Madam Liu usually not live there?"

Li Zhuiyuan: "No matter how good or big a place is, if there are few people in the family, living there will feel like building a cage for yourself."

Upon hearing this, Chen Xiyuan sighed silently.

If Liu Yumei initially stayed at her great-grandfather's house to gain good fortune for A-Li's medical treatment, then now, Grandma Liu must genuinely enjoy living there.

The small east room, a tiled bungalow, certainly couldn't compare to "Yaochi," but there she had old sisters who would come to her door every day to play cards.

Chen Xiyuan: "By the way, where are we going next?"

Lin Shuyou: "Go there."

Chen Xiyuan: "Where is that?"

Lin Shuyou scratched his head: "Where is that again? It seems to be under the sun, or..."

Chen Xiyuan realized what was happening and immediately stood in front of Li Zhuiyuan:
"Little brother, I want to too!"

Li Zhuiyuan: "Only those who worship me as the Dragon King can use this secret technique with me."

Chen Xiyuan: "Why do I feel like you're lying to me?"

Li Zhuiyuan: "The blind woman's heart rate remained unchanged throughout the entire ordeal, no matter what happened. She was not a living person; she was a machine."

A mechanism that can talk, and even... set up formations.

The black aura emanating from Zhou Yunfan is a secret technique for manipulating mechanisms, which is his specialty.

The most ingenious mechanism here is the 'sun' overhead.

Under the sun's rays, there must be a building where mechanisms are in operation, bringing about the cycle of day and night and the changing of the seasons in this underground place.

His first stop will definitely be there, to look for opportunities related to his major.

Li Zhuiyuan once obtained a copy of "Qi Shi Chun Qiu" (The Spring and Autumn Annals of Qi), which recorded various ingenious mechanical techniques. The ancestors of the Qi family were responsible for building tombs for emperors and generals of all dynasties.

There are countless high-status tombs at the foot of Beiman Mountain. The Yu family built their ancestral home here and specially constructed an open road to connect the various underground tombs.

Even if the Yu family was not initially skilled in mechanical arts, through generations of adaptation and exposure, they were able to develop their mechanical arts to a very high level.

Moreover, judging from the three wheels on the roof, they must have been set up when the ancestral home was built. This shows that the Yu family originally had a deep understanding of mechanical arts. However, compared to that, their greatest skill, and the one most known in the martial arts world, is breeding demonic beasts.

Li Zhuiyuan took out the Purple Gold Compass, placed it in his palm, and the compass began to spin, the pointer pointing to a position.

“That’s it. Let’s go there now. On the way, let’s bring a few more ‘old guys’ along so that he can experience being ganged up on in place of his father.”

The game of cat and mouse has evolved into one where the mouse leads the cat.

Li Zhuiyuan even suspected that perhaps one of the cats might accidentally shoot itself to death.

Chen Xiyuan: "Did you just change the subject?"

Li Zhuiyuan: "Remember to stay close to me on the way. I will deliberately walk through the most dangerous parts of this formation, which will be relatively safer."

Chen Xiyuan: "You're still arguing."

Li Zhuiyuan: "Let's go, let's set off."

The young man knew in his heart that others might not have a chance, but given Chen Xiyuan's personality and heart, it seemed that she could really try to make a connection through the red thread.

But Li Zhuiyuan didn't even want to try.

Even before the red thread was connected, she was already chattering away incessantly. If the red thread were connected, no one else would have a chance to do anything else; everyone's mind would probably be filled with her voice.

……

"Come on, A-Jing, inhale, inhale hard!"

Upon entering the Yu family's gate, everyone else followed closely behind Ming Yuwan, while Zhao Yi directly broke away from the others' teams.

Soon, he found a dismembered wild boar under a courtyard wall. The boar had high-pointed tusks, black and gold hair, and human accessories on its body.

This indicates that it was able to transform into human form while alive, but reverted to a wild boar after death.

Chen Jing knelt before the wild boar carcass. The carcass was very fresh, and the blood and qi inside were still warm and highly preserved. Chen Jing kept sniffing, and wisps of red mist were drawn from the wild boar's body and inhaled by him.

"Brother Zhao, what a far-sighted plan! I admire you greatly!"

Tao Zhuming walked over, followed by two men and two women. Although they were all masked, their auras were sharp and fierce.

Xu Ming and the Liang sisters immediately stepped forward and assumed a defensive stance.

Zhao Yi gestured for Chen Jing to continue inhaling, not to stop, then stood up and said to Tao Zhuming:

"Brother Tao is of noble status and comes from a distinguished family. He is a well-fed man who does not know the hunger of a starving man. As for me, I have fallen into the life of a commoner and I do not have the means to eat my fill on ordinary days. Now that I have the opportunity to attend a high-class banquet, I must empty my stomach beforehand and eat until I am round and full."

By the way, I wonder why Brother Tao left the group?

Tao Zhuming: "To be honest, Brother Zhao, I'd also like to give you a heads-up. This time, many elders and patriarchal figures from various families have entered the Yu family. Perhaps they will become the most dangerous presence in the Yu family's territory from now on."

Zhao Yi waved his hand dismissively, then put his hands on his hips and said:

"It's alright, my ancestors will protect me."

(End of this chapter)