Chapter 249: Life 73, Age 47, Martial Grandmaster Peak
Allowing Grandmasters from the Su Clan to join us on Mount Jiang held countless hidden dangers, but these dangers were what I hoped would allow my clan to improve and develop further. However, letting them in unchecked would simply be reckless.
Would the Su Clan’s Grand Elder be able to convince people to betray me? For most people, I felt that this was unlikely, but in any large group of people, there would always be those looking to gain benefits by switching sides.
I needed to keep an eye on these newcomers, and I needed to keep an eye on the members of my clan to see how they reacted to their presence. Thankfully, as a wood cultivator, I had the tools needed to do that.
Under my house, I created a small, secret chamber. Then, I started the process of spreading roots from this chamber and connecting them to various important locations throughout the mountain. Using these roots, I would be able to actively observe everything that happened and ensure that these Grandmasters didn’t do anything too inappropriate.
One week later, I met Su TaiZu and his entourage outside the gates of my Rosehill compound. This time, he didn’t try to sneak around or hide his presence. His disappearance from the Su Clan would be obvious soon enough, so instead, he chose to openly display his change of allegiance for all to see.
Of those who came with him, the ones I paid the most attention to were the four Grandmasters. Su Heng, who was following behind his father, displayed his standard nervous expression, but the other three were far more stoic and gave me an impression reminiscent of Ning ChenKun’s deathsworn. I doubted the former Grand Elder of the Su Clan possessed the means of creating true deathsworn, but through the use of carefully tailored cultivation techniques, he might have been able to craft a close facsimile.
When I led this group inside the formation, the Grandmasters sent out their qi to probe their surroundings, but no one seemed overly surprised when they discovered that the complex was entirely empty.
I looked at TaiZu with a raised eyebrow. “You already knew the Disciples wouldn’t be here?”
He chuckled slightly. “Prince Fang, you have recruited hundreds of children over the years. Housing them all in this one estate would be… challenging. We knew that you were taking most of them elsewhere. We just didn’t know if you took them all away or if you left the newest ones here for basic training.”