Chen Hou

The Pai Sect was a major force in the martial world, but not a sect in the strict sense. It was more like an alliance of rogue cultivators. The Pai Sect had nine branches, none subordinate to another, and each branch was further divided into several halls. Relations between halls were much closer than those between branches, and whenever large-scale operations arose, they would contact and support one another.

Only at the hall level did it truly begin to resemble a gang, where the hall master's word genuinely carried weight. As for the rudders beneath the halls, those were even tighter-knit cliques. The affairs within a sub-rudder were not something even a hall master could easily interfere with.

Chen Hou's Apricot Yellow Hall was an important hall within the Pai Sect's Fifth Branch. According to the Pai Sect's internal division of influence, it managed martial-world affairs throughout a five-hundred-li radius, naturally including Xinghua Mountain.

When Zhou Jun spoke of "driving several of their people to death," two of them had belonged to Apricot Yellow Hall. That was why Liu Xiaolou had not let Zhou Jun come out when they met. Otherwise, things would have looked ugly for both sides, and the results likely would not have been good either.

Chen Hou followed Tan Sanzhang to the Flower Hall, where he saw a man standing atop the steps with his hands behind his back, his eyes bright as torches as he sized Chen Hou up.

Tan Sanzhang stepped forward and reported, "Sect Leader, Hall Master Chen has arrived."

As Chen Hou looked, he saw that this man bore himself with imposing grandeur, handsome and dashing. Amid his suave elegance were three parts of aggressive heroic spirit; beneath his awe-inspiring majesty lay several traces of modesty and warmth. He truly resembled the