Chapter 334: An Offer He Couldn’t Refuse?
Yan Guangli wanted to see action. A fight. Anything.
Losing his how many ever greats aunt Yan Mingxia was a big indignity for his family. She’d served the Jade Chameleon Sect loyally for centuries, and one defeat—her final one—against the murderous Chao Su and suddenly none of the Yan family was given face any longer.
That one event had caused them to fall so far that Yan Guangli was even excluded from participating in the tournament. The only reason he was even in Sixth Flawless Flowing City was to serve as guard, a situation that was clearly meant as an insult.
Someone would pay for him suffering such an embarrassment. He didn’t know who or when, but someone would definitely pay.
And his duty wasn’t even to protect anything important, like the sect’s compound. No, he defended the trash left behind by that nothing clan that had embarrassed the sect by not winning even a single match. And trash was too kind a description for the items left behind. Old clothes. Hard bread. Cheese. Travel rations. Nothing worth returning for even if any of the idiots could get back inside.
Expecting his boring night to continue, Yan Guangli continued to stew as he stood in front of the gate. That wasn’t what he got as two men popped into existence in front of him. Though taken by surprise, he immediately bared his blade.
One of the men he recognized as the leader of the clan. Even though the guy was like middle-aged, he was barely in the low Foundation Establishment realm. Total trash. The other, a young man with close cropped hair, wore the robes of the Rising Tide Sect.
Yan Guangli grinned. Things just got interesting. Finally.
He took into account the two appearing in front of him out of nowhere and the fact that he couldn’t sense the cultivation realm of one of them and came to the only sensible conclusion possible—they were trying to trick him. Appearing out of nowhere? Obviously an illusion, which Yang Guangli, a member of the Jade Chameleon Sect, absolutely would not fall for. And not sensing the guy’s cultivation? They were trying to make him think the guy was the infamous Chao Su.
As if.
“What are you doing here, old man?” Yan Guangli said.
“We came to retrieve the clan’s possessions,” the clan leader said.