Chapter 317 - You Dare to Touch Me? (1/2)
When those from the major sects heard this, they realized that the Scarlet Flame Sect would marry their way into the House of Storms. That was why they had invited all the sects – to declare this to all of them! The previous Grand Martial Tournament was merely the prelude. This current fight was the actual show. Ye Pang would be unable to defeat Zong Yi who was the number one fighter among the younger generation. He was saying all this simply as a pretext to bring up this matter.
If the Scarlet Flame Sect and the House of Storms were to marry, the power structure within the Central Empire would shift. The representatives from sects who were not on good terms with the Scarlet Flame Sect turned rather gloomy. Ye Zong, that sly old fox – he had attached himself to the House of Storms. From now on, he could not be provoked. It was his luck for having such a good daughter!
“Brother Ye Pang is bantering now. Since you’ve said that, we’ll exchange a few blows.” Zong Yi glanced toward Ye Zong and Ye Rou who were above the platform, his expression delighted. Had Ye Rou agreed to this matter?
Ye Zong sat there calmly without a word but Ye Rou who sat beside him was pale in color, on the verge of fainting. She understood her father’s intentions. She had kept turning down Zong Yi, so her father was making the decision first on her behalf, forcing her to marry Zong Yi!
‘In the past, I’ve always been in the Xiwu Ye Clan. I’ve only been back for a year and Father’s already itching to marry me off?’
Upon returning to the Scarlet Flame Sect, her mother had treated her well. Ye Rou loved and respected her mother, but she was ultimately rather distant with her father, especially when he had repeatedly tried to make her marry Zong Yi. This made her feel even more confrontational toward her father.
Would a father disregard his daughter’s feelings for the sake of his sect?
Ye Rou looked at Ye Chen from afar, her tears pouring down. They might be ill-fated in this life. Ye Rou and Big Brother Ye Chen might have to meet again in another life. If her father kept forcing her, she would rather die!
Zong Yi leaped onto the tournament stage and saluted to Ye Pang.
“Brother Ye Pang, show me the way!” Zong Yi said modestly as a faint, easygoing smile showed on his face. He shot a glare at the distant Ye Chen.
Beside Ye Chen, Mo Bai smirked. “These two are great at acting indeed.” Then he looked toward Ye Zong and Ye Rou and mumbled, “That Ye Rou keeps looking over here. Perhaps I’m too handsome and charming? Maybe I’m the one she likes?”
Seeing that Ye Pang and Zong Yi’s match was about to start, Ye Chen suddenly sprang up onto the tournament stage.
What was going on? Who was this?
The audiences stared at Ye Chen in stunned silence.
After leaping onto the tournament stage, Ye Chen said with a humorless smile, “Both of you keep exchanging lines instead of exchanging blows. How happily you’re chatting! You’re Zong Yi right?” Ye Chen looked at Zong Yi and said with clear contempt, “Someone like you wants to marry Little Rou from my clan? Why don’t you take a good look in the mirror? Have you even asked me for my permission?”
“Who are you? Why would I need your agreement to marry Little Rou?” Zong Yi was enraged when he heard Ye Chen speaking so rudely.
“Like you have the right to know who I am? Like you have the right to call her Little Rou?” Ye Chen sneered.
Zong Yi’s face swelled red. Initially, he wanted to hash things out with Ye Chen, but Ye Chen refused to converse reasonably. Zong Yi was from a great family, doted on and nurtured since young. In terms of trading insults, how could he compare to Ye Chen? Momentarily, he did not know how to retaliate.
Ye Chen glared right at Ye Zong, harrumphing icily. “And you’re Ye Zong? I respect you as Little Rou’s father and am unwilling to insult you. However, you’re acting too indecently in this matter. You want to marry Little Rou off, but has my Xiwu Ye Clan agreed?”
Xiwu Ye Clan? What clan was that? The representatives of the Central Empire’s major sects exchanged blank stares.
“It seems like the Ye Clan of Ye Zong’s Scarlet Flame Sect has another branch in the remote Xiwu Empire. This must be someone from Ye Zong’s clan, right?”
“The Xiwu Empire? I think I’ve heard of it before, but it’s a remote, tiny nation? Can there be any important clans among the martial arts families in a place like that?”
“I want to marry off my daughter. Does anyone have the right to tell me what to do? Where do you come from, punk?” Ye Zong sat upright in his seat and yelled furiously. He had never imagined that Ye Chen would appear and disrupt things. As the sect leader of a major sect, since when was he ever directly reprimanded by someone else? If there were not so many people present, he would have lost it completely. Now, he was forced to suppress his fury so that people would not criticize him for bickering with a kid.
“Other people have no right to tell you what to do, but I’m from the Xiwu Ye Clan and have more right than you do! What a great man you are – when Little Rou was still an infant, you placed her under the care of my Xiwu Ye Clan. Thereafter, when she’s grown up, you forcibly seized her back. If you treat her well, then fine. But now, in less than a year, you’re marrying her off so that your Scarlet Flame Sect can benefit. Are there fathers like you in this world? Are you qualified to be Little Rou’s father?” Ye Chen pointed directly at Ye Zong, speaking without restraint or mercy.
Ye Zong was spouting smoke at this point as he grunted in rage. “Little Rou is my daughter. Who are you to speak? You people from the Xiwu Ye Clan are too brazen. You dare to raise hell in the Scarlet Flame Sect? If my Scarlet Flame Sect wants to wipe out your Xiwu Ye Clan, it’d be a child’s play. You’d better back off!”