Chapter 288 (2/2)

“Did you not hear the seventeenth elder asking you a question?” one of the ht hihtly fearful towards Xue Wei before, but now that all the elders were here, he was fearless

Xue Wei looked at hi

The ansas already in front of them, and they still asked How pointless The man who had spoken up was filled with ehtly red and his cheeks paling

The aforementioned seventeenth elder was also very unco heavy

“Atrocious little brat, you killed our ht back, you show no manners within our mansion, you are so preposterous!” the seventeenth elder lashed out, filled with anger, his words harsh and inore

This hat Xue Wei had hoped for Someone who could not hold back their temper and erupted in front of all of them would cause the cooperation between theo

The other elders felt annoyed when they heard the seventeenth elder's outburst He was not aest in the family, and he had already caused the diplo h the seventeenth elder has taken it a bit too far, he does have a point,” another elder spoke up This elder was higher ranked, and his words represented thehim speak, all the others quietened down, and Xue Wei noticed that the people who had brought hihtened their backs as he spoke, their behavior indicating that he was a significant figure within the Baili family

Xue Wei had not wanted to answer the seventeenth elder, but this an in a provocative voice, “The Baili fa to force me to cooperate so er and stronger experts to capture me What happened to free ithin Yan Dalu?

“It is clear toyou want is to benefit yourself Even when I killed yourme in retaliation Instead, you continued to schee I have inbond between family? Well sorry, but the Baili family has tried to forceI cannot accept, it is so

“Not to reed to come here, but that does not ly I a your worst Let me kno you will keep your name as the first noble family of Yan Dalu at the same tirinning as he spoke, his words were direct and honest, but also rude and undoubtedly killed off all chances that were there for peaceful cooperation between thehtly annoyed They had all thought that there would be soe to cooperate now that Xue Wei had followed their men here, but it now seemed that the only reason he was here was that he had been threatened

They could not change the way they had interacted with Xue Wei in the past, and this elder had beco hi with thee his mind

Since the peaceful approach was out of the question, there was only one other way to get knowledge out of his eons,” the elder sighed He had hoped to get an easy coher nut to crack than he had expected

The group who had brought hihtened their surveillance of hieons

Xue Wei alking with a carefree attitude in his steps; he acted casual and did not seeeons at all He did not atte on his lips, and his eyes were radiating with the splendor of the Baili fa on the way

The dungeons were located underground, and on the surface, the only way in or out was a guard house This was the place where the fauards relaxed when their shi+ft was over but also had plenty of guards on duty too

When Xue Wei arrived here, he saw guards everywhere Many of these guards in the family were either from the branch families or were hired experts that the Baili family had taken in and were provided with resources in return for an unbreakable oath of loyalty

These experts all showed great respect towards the leader of the tea their honest reverence as he walked by, while ed curiosity

The bulk of the first group that Xue Wei had killed—the ones following behind the Baili young ht not have been too prominent in the fa the culprit behind their death, uards had no other wish than to kill this foreigner to avenge them