Chapter 203 - Borrowing Power (2/2)

Grumbling, You Wanshan cupped his hands, “Marshal, knowing that you stand guard at Windgaze City, I shall not cross into it. However, Zhuo Fan killed many of our elders and even crippled my 5th elder’s arm. I ask that you hand him over for us to handle. This great favor will one day be repaid by our three houses.”

Since goin in Windgaze City was out, ripping Zhuo Fan apart wasn’t that bad of a trade off.

Frowning, Dugu Zhantian turned his incredulous eyes to Zhuo Fan, as if seeing him for the first time, “Is what he said, true?”

The Four Tigers of Tianyu, were also looking at him in amazement.

At first they were impressed such a youth could hold the position of steward in a clan. It was a rare occurrence indeed.

But who’d ever stop to think that this kid was so incredible, so outrageous, that he would kill so many of seven houses’ elders.

Perhaps telling them now that Zhuo Fan didn’t just stop at killing elders and went a step further in slaughtering Regent Estate’s second young master, might perhaps cause their brains to stop working.

“Well…”

Zhuo Fan was caught in the middle. So he chose another path, that of pulling Luo Yunhai forward and cursing at You Wanshan, “What are you droning on about? Do you know how close we are with Marshal Dugu, uh? How dare you have such gall as to ask Marshal Dugu to hand me over? That is outrageous!”

All were too dumbstruck to even reply.

[Dugu Zhantian had lived his life by the blade, fighting day in day out on the border. You have no relation to him, zero! So how damn close could you possibly be?!]

Then came Zhuo Fan’s laughter in response to their thought. He patted Luo Yunhai’s shoulder, “Humph, bunch of ignorant fools is what you are! Our young master is Luo Yunhai, Marshal Dugu’s fifth godson!”

Say what?!

The dull and shocked stares creaked towards Dugu Zhantian. The grand and mighty God of War, second of Four Pillars, Dugu Zhantian, just up and took a third rate clan’s young master? Could this relation get any more inappropriate than this?

Despite being done in a not so honorable way and barely a half a month old, Dugu Zhantian was forced to nod.

What a shocker!

For Luo clan to hug such a big tree was like a pheasant turning into a phoenix. Regarding fame, Luo Yunhai would be no less than at the level of the seven houses’ geniuses!

“Kid, don’t push it!” Knowing where Zhuo Fan was going, Dugu Zhantian gave the brat a warning.

Zhuo Fan chuckled in response, borrowing the man’s power to lay it down even thicker, “You Wanshan, you got any idea who I am? I’m the great Luo clan’s steward, the trusted aid of young miss and young master. Asking for Marshal to hand me over is the same as asking for my young master, the same to having Marshal hand over one of his four generals. Now you tell me, will Marshal ever agree to that? Will young master? Will our million strong Dugu Army?”

That had the expected effect of driving fear into their very bones.

[Just how did a simple matter got a million warriors in the mix? How? This guy would stoop to anything!]

“Furthermore, you even dare ask Marshal to hand me over? Humph, how then are your houses going to answer for the slaughtering you did in the Luo clan not a few days ago?” Zhuo Fan held his chest with pain in his voice, he cried, and he sniffed, “Oh, my poor hundred thousand unfortunate souls of my clan, how could you maniacs have robbed them from us…”

Pff!

You Wanshan was holding back the blood threatening to come out. The Sun and Cai clans acted as his eyes and ears in Windgaze City, so he at least knew the basic facts about Luo clan.

[What hundred thousand men?! Your third rate clan never had them! Stop talking rubbish! Not even the Seven Noble Houses has that many people!]

The cheeks of every one there started twitching and dark clouds loomed over their faces. Even Long Yifey, who was the most friendly with Zhuo Fan, scratched his head dazed.

[I get you’re framing them, but can’t you be a bit more realistic?]

Oh, but Zhuo Fan was just getting started, raining charges on the poor blokes, “Outside of the vile and inhuman slaughter you’ve lowered yourselves to, your greatest crime is disobeying Tianyu’s most brilliant, wises, amazing, and sacred holy Emperor. Our holy Emperor had explicitly stated this area banned for the seven houses, but you dare come throwing it in chaos. This is no longer disobedience, but plain insurrection!”

“Marshal Dugu, as the nation most esteemed patriot, how could you ever allow such conduct to take place before your very eyes? You must strike at once, take their heads and make them pay their crimes! The emperor would certainly not punish you for ridding the empire of this foul beasts!”

“Yeah, godfather, I shall go bring the soldiers here to crush Hell Valley and protect the sanctity of our holy Emperor, your patriotic heart, the people’s hope.” Striking while the iron was hot, Luo Yunhai cupped his hands and asked Dugu Zhantian for permission to go fetch the million head Dugu Army.

Dugu Zhantian felt like cursing right now, [How did these two brats’ topic ended with sicking the army on Hell Valley? This isn’t a joke, but the start of civil war!]

You Wanshan’s team was dumbfounded. Their demand was perfectly reasonable, to settle their grudge with Zhuo Fan. How did it degenerate to making Dugu Zhantian going after them and even sending the million strong army for their heads?

You Wanshan looked at the rest and saw that everyone was sweating buckets.

If these kids spurred Dugu Zhantian long enough, those brats would really get to make him send the army to uproot the millennia long foundation of Hell Valley…

Silavin: Damn. I had a good laugh.

Though, it made me wonder, why on NovelUpdate, this novel is rated so low? Like 3.7? Are we even reading the same novel?

Well, maybe they were reading the MTL version shared online, which means, they don’t even understand the humour.

Though, what do you guys think?