87 I Donst Want to Figh (1/2)

Although Ye Xiao remained expressionless, he was still sneering inside.

When he talked about the thing that the Crown Prince had done at the beginning… he was actually talking about the dead “Ye Xiao” getting poisoned.

However, the Crown Prince seemed to be playing innocent or he had truly misunderstood Ye Xiao’s words…

Anyway, Ye Xiao wasn’t prepared to let it go.

Only when he had avenged the dead “Ye Xiao” could he finally satisfy the obsession in his mind.

It wasn’t just something which involved the dead “Ye Xiao”, but also something which he himself would have to take care of.

“Meaningless?” The Crown Prince murmured. He suddenly smiled and spoke blandly, “It shouldn’t be meaningless. So… This time, I invited you to dinner because I wanted to discuss a solution with you to conclude this business between you and me.”

Ye Xiao rolled his eyes and said, “You have invited me to dinner, which means that you must have planned to talk it through. However, there is no need for any discussion at all. I wonder what solution you have in mind now?”

“It is simple. A fight can settle everything once and for all.” The Crown Prince rubbed the sides of his head and showed an expression of helplessness, “Basically, I don’t want to use this vulgar way to deal with this event. But you know, sometimes, the proper way isn’t really enough to settle up some differences. A combat is not an elegant way, but it is the best way when it comes to the present situation.”

Ye Xiao nodded and showed understanding, “That’s true. The situation is obvious now. Unless you become king, considering my father’s great exploits and power, there is no proper way for you to take care of me.”

The Crown Prince’s eyes were filled with coldness.

The great general and his son were equivalent to a fish bone stuck in his throat. It troubled him so much that he had to destroy it.

Ye Xiao said blandly, “In fact… in spite of what you think about the truth, at the beginning, if your brother-in-law hadn’t come and messed with me, he wouldn’t have died. He could have been spending his days luxuriously in the capital right now.”

After that, he stopped talking.

The Crown Prince spoke blandly, “Lord Ye, there’s another way in my mind. It should benefit both your side and mine. Yet we have now blocked all the routes towards that direction. There is only one way left to take.”

He turned around, looked at Guan Zhengwen and said, “You have to fight against Old Master Guan. After the combat, no matter who wins, it will be the end of all troubles. In fact…”

The Crown Prince looked at Ye Xiao with sincerity and sighed, “Lord Ye, I don’t want to mess with our General Ye… As long as I show my attitude to my woman, I believe… she and her men will not cause any more trouble. The dead are gone, they don’t need to keep on making troubles, right?”

Ye Xiao frowned and his eyes had already locked onto Guan Zhengwen who was standing beside the Crown Prince.

Since the Crown Prince sent off everyone except Guan Zhengwen, he had started to pay attention to him. The old man seemed different. The possibility that he was a hidden superior cultivator was very high.

As long as he was here, the Crown Prince would feel safe and fear nothing.

According to Ye Xiao’s research, this old man, Guan Zhengwen, was well-known in the Kingdom of Chen. On the surface, he was an elegant old man who reads a lot.

Such an old man might be good at talking. His words might be sharp like a knife or a sword, but he seemed useless in combat.

However, to fight against Ye Xiao, the Crown Prince had actually chosen this old man… The Crown Prince naturally wouldn’t send his men to death, so this man must be a well-hidden superior cultivator, mustn’t he?

Right now, things were not following Ye Xiao’s predictions.

Suddenly, Ye Xiao felt the need to employ cautiousness.

Because he… he had failed to notice anything unusual till now.

With his great senses, he had actually failed to feel any sort of threat from this old man. There was only one explanation to that. The only possibility was that this old man’s cultivation was way above Ye Xiao’s.

And he must be at a higher level than the Earth Origin Stage.

He was at least at… the Sky Origin Stage.

In other words, Ye Xiao was now facing a superior cultivator of the Sky Origin Stage. Besides, a man who could stand so close to the Crown Prince all the time, a man whom the Crown Prince trusted to such an extent, must have some sort of special abilities.

It was very likely that… this man was a superior cultivator at the Grandmaster Levels of the Sky Origin Stage.

A cultivator at the Grandmaster Levels of the Sky Origin Stage would be among the most powerful men in the Land of Han-Yang.

Ye Xiao couldn’t help cursing in his mind.

[This is really coming across a ghost after a long way in the dark. How come such an old bastard suddenly showed up?]

Guan Zhengwen looked at Ye Xiao with a smile on his face, his expression tranquil. He spoke gently, “The Crown Prince is a generous man. He wants to settle our differences in a peaceful way by having a combat. I have to participate by having a fight against Lord Ye to lay the troubles to rest. Lord Ye, we should just go through the motions and finish the combat. You don’t need to be cautious. I am old indeed, yet I could still fight for two rounds.”

He coughed and continued, “I hope that Lord Ye wouldn’t say anything about having no capability in martial arts and words like that… Heh, heh. As I have no troubles with my sight, I think your cultivation has reached at least level 9 in the Mortal Origin Stage, right? You are only one step away from getting into the Earth Origin Stage… Regarding your young age, you are really a young man with an outstanding ability. A tiger wouldn’t truly have a dog son [1] …”

Ye Xiao spoke blandly, “You are flattering me.”