I stormed down the mountain, took down all the big shots in the city, and the female CEO dragged me

As everyone took their seats in the banquet hall, Pu Yifan, looking embarrassed, somehow ended up sitting next to Xu Yuan, his small eyes glancing at him from time to time.

"Stop looking at me, or I'll have to eat one less bowl of rice."

Xu Yuan glared at him, annoyed.

If a pretty girl is looking at him, he'll eat two more bowls of rice. What's the point of a grown man staring at him all the time?

There's nothing wrong with my sexual orientation.

"It's not like I said your pills are fake."

But you too, you spent so much money, you got ripped off, didn't you?"

"In my opinion, that Master Wuji you mentioned is also a fake."

He's not even as good as that master from the Song family, what's his name?

"Cough cough cough..."

Song Wenxuan, who was drinking tea, heard Xu Yuan mention that he had choked and coughed several times.

What does this have to do with me?

Xu Yuan's gaze fell on Song Wenxuan: "How's the one you keep at home doing lately?"

Has anyone come out to lie?

Song Wenxuan grabbed a tissue to wipe his mouth and looked at Xu Yuan awkwardly: "Master has been in seclusion in the Medicine Pavilion and hasn't gone out recently."

"Yeah?"

Xu Yi stared at Song Wenxuan meaningfully, making his scalp tingle: "The people from Chrysanthemum Country didn't go looking for him."

No, no.

Song Wenxuan was so frightened that he waved his hands repeatedly, accidentally knocking over the glass in front of him.

"The people from Chrysanthemum Kingdom did visit the herb garden, but Master kept the gates tightly shut and did not see them."

"So, they really did come."

Xu Yuan only wanted to trick Song Wenxuan, but he didn't expect to gain something unexpected.

He knew that if the people from Chrysanthemum Kingdom went to the back mountain, they would definitely go to the Song family's medicinal herb garden.

That area is no worse than the back mountain where the dragon vein is located.

There are dragon veins in the back mountain, but they are all hidden underground, and it is generally difficult to stimulate their spiritual energy.

The Song family's medicinal garden is different. After years of nourishment from medicinal herbs, that place can be described as the place with the purest and richest spiritual energy in the entire Mingdai area.

"How many of them are there?" Xu Yuan continued to ask.

Song Wenxuan didn't dare to hide anything: "The one who came was named Sen Yi, who seems to be Sen Er's older brother."

The person with him was Chinese, wearing a fisherman's hat, which kept his face hidden, so his features were not clearly visible.

They visited my master, but he did not see them and then left.

I don't know where they went after that.

Xu Yuan listened silently without saying a word.

Mori, operating from the shadows, certainly knows far more about himself than he knows about the other.

Now at least we know his name: Moriichi.

At the table next to them, Wu Daotan and the old man with half-brows kept glancing at Xu Yuan and whispering something to each other.

When the food was served, Xu Yuan didn't care about anything else and picked up his chopsticks to eat heartily.

"How rude of them."

Seeing Xu Yuan wolfing down his food, Pu Yifan curled his lip in disdain: "This is a banquet, not some rural feast."

"Can't you shut up even with food?" Xu Nuo rebuked in a low voice.

"My brother can eat however he wants?"

He's willing to eat at the table, so what's it to you?

"What a family with no manners." Pu Yifan rolled his eyes at Xu Nuo and moved his stool away from them in disgust.

Kim Kyung-seok, on the other side, didn't tolerate him and deliberately moved closer to him.

"Don't squeeze in, there's plenty of space outside, why don't you go eat outside?"

Pu Yifan looked grim, feeling like everyone was targeting him.

He suddenly aimed his gaze at Xu Yuan, the culprit: "Xu Yuan, I know you. You scared Commander Guan so much in the capital that he dared not go out."

"I'm just kindly reminding you that my Pu family is not the Guan family. Besides, General Guan is just a collateral branch of the Guan family, not worthy of being mentioned in the main hall. He can't be compared with my Pu family."

"Whether you treated Old Master Ye or cured Ruonan, I'm not afraid of them."

Xu Yuan swallowed the food in her mouth and looked at him with a puzzled expression: "Dude, are you a baby who's still breastfeeding?"

Are you bragging to me about how powerful your ancestors were?

"Your cow is yours, what does it have to do with you?"

Only a child who hasn't been weaned will go back to their mother after being beaten.

Judging from your appearance, you should probably be weaned by now, right?

"Besides, I didn't hit you. Who are you trying to impress with that incredibly wronged look on your face?"

Xu Yuan didn't give Pu Yifan a chance to speak at all, making him blush with embarrassment.

"You're really strange. Why do you have to provoke me when you have a perfectly good life?"

Is your skin tight?

"you…"

Pu Yifan was about to retort, his nose flaring with anger, when he saw Zhang Ruonan, who had changed her clothes, walking over. He immediately put on a smiling face.

"Mr. Xu, you've misunderstood. I didn't mean that."

"What are you saying?"

Zhang Ruonan leaned close to Xu Yuan with a smile on her face: "Are you full? Let's go for a walk."

Before Xu Yuan could agree, Zhang Ruonan took Xu Yuan's hand and left the banquet.

Watching them leave hand in hand, Pu Yifan was so angry that he twisted his chopsticks into pieces.

Kim Kyung-seok found his expression amusing.

Zhang Ruonan took Xu Yuan to see her bedroom. Before the banquet ended, Xu Yuan left the Zhang family home.

As the car arrived at the foot of Yunding Mountain, a figure suddenly appeared in front of the car and stopped the vehicle carrying the wisher.

The car window rolled down, and the elderly man with half-brows who was standing next to Wu Daotan walked closer.

"Mr. Xu, my boss, Mr. Wu, would like to have a talk with you."

Xu Yuan looked in the direction he pointed and saw Wu Daotan standing with his hands behind his back under a willow tree on the riverbank not far away, calmly looking in their direction.

After a moment's hesitation, Xu Yuan let his sister drive home first, and he slowly walked to the willow tree.

"Did you need something from me?"

Upon seeing Xu Yuan, Wu Daotan bowed slightly to him and said, "Mr. Xu, I have long heard of your great reputation."

"Just say what you want to say directly, there's no need to beat around the bush."

"Mr. Xu is straightforward, so I won't beat around the bush either."

Wu Daotan asked seriously, "Mr. Xu, have you ever heard of the Swan Sacrifice?"

"The triennial Honghu Festival will be held at Honghu Mountain."

At that time, besides the sacrificial ceremony, all factions will gather at Honghu Mountain, mainly to settle some grudges from the martial arts world.

"For example, in normal business dealings, if one party sabotages the other's business, the two parties may have a falling out."

Whether it's who stole whose business or territory, it will all be settled here.

Of course, the territory will eventually be redivided.

It's basically a battle of who can fight the best; the better you are, the more territory you can seize.

"For many years, there have been three forces in Dongshan, which I believe Mr. Xu has heard of."

This time, however, I received information that someone is secretly colluding with powerful forces to eliminate me and Li Zekai of Zicheng, and to seize control of Dongshan for themselves.

"If he really has that ability, and I can't beat him, I'll accept it."

He's colluding with people from the Chrysanthemum Kingdom.

At this point, Wu Daotan clenched his fists, his eyes filled with hatred.

"I, Wu Daotan, don't consider myself a good person. I've done things like murder and arson when I was young."

But I despise those traitors and lackeys the most.

"If they unite and take over Dongshan, it's unimaginable what will happen next."

Xu Yuan listened calmly to his story, then asked indifferently, "So, what do you want me to do?"