Chapter 1591 - 1568: Openly Obey, Secretly Defy

For a moment, all the Ling Family’s Dark Guards who had previously demanded Ye Huan to kneel and commit suicide were rendered speechless, engulfed in deep shame!

By now, they realized they were nothing but utter clowns!

Complete clown figures!

Even more clownish than a clown!

Truly the biggest joke of the Endless Deep Mountains!

Many Ling Family Dark Guards, led by Ling Ming, were displeased with the Patriarch sending them to protect someone like Ye Huan, who was an outsider, not a Ling by blood, feeling the Patriarch had misused a dragon-slaying treasure knife reinforced to nine hundred ninety-nine levels for no reason!

Through the series of events just now, they finally understood that they had no right to feel dissatisfied!

"Ye Huan’s power is so strong, he can skillfully use the seventh form of the Cyan Lotus Sword Technique, Sword Opening Heaven’s Gate. His overall strength has reached the level of an Extreme Divine King, even comparable to the Patriarchs of some weaker Ancient Martial Clans, capable of holding his own in battle!"

"Even if we don’t come to rescue Ye Huan, don’t come to protect him, those ordinary Evil Martial Artists still can’t inflict the slightest harm on Ye Huan. On the contrary, our presence has become a burden, preventing Ye Huan from unleashing a massive slaughter, fearing that the Evil Martial Sacred Land, in their fury, would massacre us completely!"

"And what just happened was that the four Hall Masters of the Evil Martial Sacred Land feared someone would come to rescue Ye Huan, so they only watched the battle and didn’t directly attack. What does this signify? It indicates that whether or not we made significant sacrifices to kill off the vocal forces of the Sacred Land’s four halls, Ye Huan could still display terrifying strength and comfortably fend off the assaults of ordinary elite Evil Martial Artists!"

"And then, the six Ultimate Guardians will descend with divine weapons and directly kill the four Hall Masters!"

"We essentially had no role to play in this, instead becoming a burden, a liability to Ye Huan! In such a scenario, what right do we have to feel dissatisfied about coming to protect Ye Huan?!"

"Demanding Ye Huan’s suicide is even more laughable. This completely highlights our incompetence and lack of intelligence; our intelligence is completely rubbed into the ground by both the four Hall Masters of the Evil Martial Sacred Land and Ye Huan!"

"Waah, why is this happening?!"

"Why is Ye Huan so formidable, why is our vision so poor, and why is our discernment so pathetic?!"

Ling Family’s Dark Guards each expressed their sentiments one by one, with almost all of them lowering their heads in red-faced shame, feeling utterly wretched!

They even had thoughts of dying!

"There’s nothing we can do, alas!" Ling Dongfang looked up to the sky with a deep sigh, "I was completely foolish, persistently advising Ye Huan to commit suicide, not realizing Ye Huan had already arranged everything!"

The Ling Family Dark Guards had a very complicated range of emotions. They were dissatisfied when setting out to support Ye Huan, extremely angry when confronting the four halls of the Evil Martial Sacred Land, hopeless and terrified after suffering defeat, briefly hopeful at the possibility of Ye Huan’s suicide, and overwhelmingly furious when Ye Huan refused suicide.

This series of emotional journeys left them incredibly embarrassed.

They felt they had become the biggest joke of the year, unable to face anyone anymore.

Even more unable to claim themselves as elites among elite Ancient Martial Artists.

For they profoundly realized, they lack intelligence, they were utter---idiots!

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"Jack, you are a beast, I’m going to kill you today!!"

In the west, on an unnamed island!

Inside a dimly lit ancient castle, a burly, pot-bellied man in a suit with blonde hair roared angrily, striking the crystalline round table in front of him, leaving a dozen uneven cracks!

This man, brimming with rage, was naturally the Patriarch of the Hermes Clan, the current God of Wealth—Hermes!

The person subjected to Hermes’s angry rebuke was Jack, the Duke in charge of handling the affairs of Huaxia’s Endless Deep Mountains within the ancient castle!

Jack’s face flushed between green and purple under the scolding. From birth until now, no one had dared speak to him like that, yet he couldn’t dare respond to Hermes’s fury!

In ancient Western times, the name Hermes represented the God of Wealth!

In today’s "castle," the name Hermes still stands for immeasurable money and wealth!

Among the eight Iron Hat Duke families, the remaining seven, excluding the Hermes Clan, needed the financial support of the Hermes Clan; otherwise, their families couldn’t function smoothly!

Moreover, Jack knew he was at fault this time, thus not daring to argue with Hermes!

"Jack! What you’ve done is incredibly unjust!" The Duke of Kronos, with a pale, angry face, reproached, "The previous roundtable meeting vote expressly prohibited the Jack family from making moves against Ye Huan! Your disobedience is a direct affront to the collective decision of the eight Duke families, showing absolute disregard for the other seven families! How audacious of you!"

The Duke of Kronos had always held a relatively low position among the eight Dukes, yet he consistently supported the Philip and Hermes families, putting him at odds with Jack, who didn’t get along with the Philip family.

Now seizing the opportunity, he launched a tirade against Jack!

Even those dukes normally on good terms with Jack were all casting angry glances his way!

They felt what Jack had done was absolutely unacceptable and baffling!

The roundtable meeting was the "castle’s" highest decision-making assembly, and all families were required to uphold and support the decisions made following the vote of the family representatives.

Jack’s disobedience and secret maneuver to have the Evil Martial Sacred Land attack Ye Huan was a severe violation!

To put it broadly, this was an act of treason!

An act of rebellion!

This showed utter disregard for the other seven Duke families!

Everyone stared at Jack with utmost anger!

Jack’s face was extremely unpleasant, and his fists were quietly clenched under the table!

"Jack, you are a big fool! A great-0-fool-0-moron!"

"I ask you, if you’re going to assassinate Ye Huan, then do it, but failing and instead shooting yourself in the foot, do you know how much effort and energy, how much money we spent cultivating the Evil Martial Sacred Land?!"

"But your disobedience has rendered our investment in the Evil Martial Sacred Land completely wasted, the four halls utterly destroyed, those Ancient Martial Clans we infiltrated now all risk exposure, and our plans spanning hundreds or even thousands of years could all collapse because of your foolish actions!"

"I’m going to kill you! Today, I must kill you!!!"

Hermes completely lost control, roaring with anger while actually drawing a blood-red long sword from his waist, ready to slash at Jack’s head!