Chapter 189 - One Stronger than the Last (1/2)
Translator: StarReader
Editor: Silavin
Cai clan’s father and son followed Sun Yufei into the Sun manor’s parlor.
Sun Yufei motioned for them to stop as she made a respectful bow, “Elder, the Cai clan father and son are here!”
“Let them in!”
The cold voice sent shivers down the father and son’s spines, shuffling behind Sun Yufei with the courage of a mouse.
They were about to meet a man of great power in the seven houses, a grand Profound Heaven expert. One word from him would send their heads tumbling.
They only just stepped through the door and their knees hit the floor, soon followed by their heads, “Salutations, elder. I am Cai Rong, head of the Cai clan and he is my son!”
Sun Yufei couldn’t help but frown.
She used to think Cai Xiaoting was a distinguished man of valor and pride. Only to find he had not one single bone in his back.
She was the one leading them, yet, instead of letting her make her own gesture of respect first, they cut in front of her! Then again, hardly anyone in Tianyu didn’t go on his knees when meeting an elder from the seven houses.
But this cowardice brought them to a whole new level of shameless she never saw before, earning her contempt, [I must’ve been blind to have fancied you!]
The feelings were mutual for the middle-aged men sitting in the chairs across, holding them in even worse regard.
“Ha-ha-ha, this pair knows how to choose sides!”
The voice on their left made the Cai clan father and son look. [It isn’t just one Hell Valley elder that came this time?]
What they saw was an old man with blue hair nodding at them. He was mocking, being satisfied, and flashing in his eyes gave the father-son duo a weird feeling.
“Yan Zhenglan, if you find them so capable, why not take them under Pill King Hall’s wing?” The man in the center teased.
Yan Zhenglan shook his hand and laughed, “You Laoliu, isn’t it a bit rude to push these men who came to Hell Valley? Even to an inferior clan such as theirs, credit must be given where it’s due and take them in your care. When a dog wags its tail, a master ought to throw it a pound of flesh, no?”
“What are you guys doing wasting time on these fools? Ask what we came here for and let’s get on with it! House lords’ messages could arrive any day now!”
The rude voice came from the two’s right this time. They turned cautiously and saw a stout man with a beard in a blue robe and of imposing presence.
Another Profound Heaven expert.
“Ha-ha-ha, what crawled up your ass and died?” You Laoliu dismissed him with a smile, “Lin Yuelun, among us three houses, Merry Woods’ grudge with Zhuo Fan is the smallest. So just sit tight! Maybe Zhuo Fan has already been dealt with and we won’t be doing any attacking. We’re not allowed to be here anyway!”
The other two caught his meaning and shivered a nod.
The two from the Cai clan had long been sweating buckets.
[What the hell is wrong with this world? Why are three of the Seven Noble Houses here? I only recall swearing fealty to Hell Valley, not to three of them!]
[Are we such a hot commodity that they’re fighting over us? Ha-ha-ha, as if! Zhuo Fan! They must’ve come here for revenge!]
Cai Rong gnashed his teeth, the hatred for Zhuo Fan burning even hotter!
In this backwater place, Lei Yuting handled the intelligence of the Luo clan, while the father and son remained in the dark regarding Zhuo Fan’s exploits in the outside world.
He was smart enough to guess Zhuo Fan poked his nose where he shouldn’t to end up with two more houses on his tail.
Wasn’t that clear enough he wanted to make it hard for these two?
[Couldn’t you have offended anyone else instead of the seven houses?]
The original plan was to work from the darkness with the Sun clan for the Hell Valley and wipe out the Luo clan, presenting Windgaze City as a welcome gift. But the plan went up in smoke as Hell Valley suffered a crushing defeat instead.
[The imperial family’s Secret Pearl Order can go to hell for all I care. The eighth house is going to be the Luo clan, not my Cai clan. Why the hell should I give my life for them?]
But the arrival of Pill King Hall and Merry Woods told him their hatred for the Luo clan was no less than Hell Valley’s.
Why else would two great houses travel thousands of miles to Windgaze City, even when the imperial family had put a ban on this area?
In short, one house’s ire became three houses’ wrath.
Selling the Luo clan out might have been able to appease one house’s anger, but when there were three, even if the Luo clan was burned to the ground the remaining rage of the other two houses would be shifted onto the father and son!
After all, they were once part of the Luo clan, no?
Cai Rong was on the verge of crying! [Zhuo Fan is a genius to stir three hornet nests! What the hell did you do to offend three houses in just two years?]