Chapter 271: A Good Opportunity to Extort Someone
Jiang Chen completely ignored whatever deal Zhou Yi and Iron Dazhi were striking beneath him. His only thought now was to send both of them on their way.
His arrows were about to be loosed with that thought.
A soft call sounded in the air at this moment, “Jiang Chen, hold!”
This voice rumbled and spread through the air like an enormous drum or great bell.
Hmm?
Jiang Chen’s ears twitched as the God’s Eye looked into the distance, he saw a green light shoot out of the empty air and the Lesser Dragon appeared, carrying Ye Chonglou.
If it’d been anyone else, even the king of the Skylaurel Kingdom, Jiang Chen wouldn’t have even creased his brow when landing a killing blow.
Ye Chonglou was the only exception.
Jiang Chen could deny face to anyone within the kingdom, but he had to show the old tutor some face.
He clasped his fingers on the bowstring and he didn’t fire the arrows, but he didn’t put the arrows away either.
The Swordbird army beneath him also held their positions and didn’t relax their guard.
“Lordmaster, what are you doing here?” Jiang Chen hadn’t known that the old tutor had hurried from the sect. He thought that the old man had come from his manor.
The old tutor smiled wryly, “I heard from sources within the sect that the Iron family secretly sent people to the capital to cause some trouble when I wasn’t here. I guessed that they might be coming for you and so I hastened back. I hadn’t thought… ”
The old tutor was also greatly shocked. He’d hurried back because he’d been afraid that something would happen to Jiang Chen.
What hadn’t occurred to him was that nothing would be wrong with Jiang Chen, he wasn’t even in any danger.
The ones that were actually in danger was the so-called genius of the sect, Iron Dazhi!
The old tutor almost didn’t believe his eyes when he saw the scene playing out in front of him.
He knew that Jiang Chen was strong and possessed great potential. But once he truly saw Jiang Chen’s methods, he realized that he’d still underestimated this young man.
Even though he’d given this young man high praise before, it was still an underestimation in the end.
An earth spirit realm genius at the fifth level, a fourth level spirit realm, and a bunch of spirit realm disciples had been forced into desperate circumstances in front of the Jiang manor doors and they could be annihilated at any time!
If he hadn’t seen this with his own eyes, the old tutor would’ve never believed it.
However, seeing was believing.
He suppressed the great waves of shock in his heart and he arrived at the top of the formation. His gaze was remote as he looked at Iron Dazhi and Zhou Yi, trapped like animals within the formation.
Zhou Yi’s face was bitter as he called out weakly, “Lordmaster Ye… ”
“Tsk tsk. And here I thought you sect disciples all had your eyes on the top of your heads and thought nothing of an old man like me. You know of me?”
Zhou Yi knew that the old tutor was being contrary and he said with an even uglier expression, “The honored tutor’s great reputation is known within and outside the sect like thunder piercing our ears.”
“Is that so?” The old tutor snorted slightly. “Thunder piercing your ears? I think not! This old man has once said that I view Jiang Chen as a nephew. Whoever moves against him is acting against me. I’ll bet you didn’t pay any heed to those words at all and treated them like breeze past your ears?”
“We wouldn’t dare… wouldn’t dare at all!” Zhou Yi laughed dryly. “We’ve come to investigate the death of the head of the Northern Palace. We didn’t think that a conflict would arise to this point.”
“So that means I’m faulting you unnecessarily?” The old tutor’s tone grew cold.
“No no, when it comes down to it, we were in the wrong as well. We were too impulsive and we didn’t communicate properly with Jiang Chen.” One had to lower their heads when they were beneath someone else’s roof.
“Coward!” Ye Chonglou’s eyes suddenly widened as he hectored, “How could the vaunted Precious Tree Sect have produced such a coward as you? Do you think I’m senile?! Speaking lies with your eyes wide open? Investigating the death of the Northern Palace head? What a righteous excuse. Don’t think that I don’t know that you made use of the gap in which I visited the sect to come to the capital. You just hadn’t thought that your training was inferior to Jiang Chen’s and you smashed your foot with your own rock.”
Zhou Yi was speechless.
He knew that if he argued any further now, he would only be irritating Ye Chonglou.
He’d been afraid of Ye Chonglou’s appearing before, but now, he faintly felt that perhaps the tutor’s appearance wasn’t a bad thing.
They’d been afraid before because they felt that they were sure to win and so, they wanted to make it a quick battle, avoiding Ye Chonglou’s attentions.
Now that Ye Chonglou had appeared, he felt that ther