Hearing this, Li Tianming could already guess some of the underlying logic. He asked, "He's the deputy, while Zen Grandfather is the chief. As long as the chief doesn't step down, he can't become camp commander, can't become the chief residence's inheritance officer, and can't rise in rank. So he must be anxious and pretty unhappy, right?"
"More or less!" Aurora paused, then said, "But it isn't that obvious. After all, he's also Zen Grandfather's closed-door student, making him your teacher's senior brother. They got along quite well when they were young. But now, it probably isn't so great anymore. After all, his target is clearly Yue Li'ai."
As long as he sought to curry favor with Yue Li'ai, he could no longer treat Yue Lian, his junior sister, well. And that glance just now had already made his stance clear. He clearly also believed that Yue Lian taking a disciple like Li Tianming was sheer nonsense.
"They're both surnamed Yang. Could he be related to Yang Xu?" Li Tianming asked.
"There should be a primary-and-secondary relationship between them. Yang Cheng belongs to the main branch of some force or system, while Yang Xu should be from a side branch. Yang Cheng's status is certainly higher than Yang Xu's, but whether Yang Xu will listen to him, I don't know." Aurora spoke, then added, "Have Old Man Chen investigate this person more later."
The reason she wanted to investigate further was obvious: she understood that Li Tianming's current foundation of identity was as a disciple of the Divine Mystic Camp, while Yang Cheng was the future master of that camp. His attitude toward Li Tianming would directly determine how much room Li Tianming had to develop in the Divine Mystic Camp... and for now, he definitely could not possibly like