Ten Great Elders, Seventh Elder!

The next day.

Inside a dark room.

A young man was tightly bound to a chair.

Tap, tap, tap. Footsteps approached from afar. With a snap, the lights in the room came on. The young man's face was illuminated, and more than a dozen fully armed people entered the room.

It was Ye Lei.

Seeing that Ye Lei showed no reaction, the leader gave a signal to someone beside him. The man understood and turned to fill a bucket with water from the faucet in the corner.

After a while, the man returned to the leader with a bucket of water. At the leader's nod, he carried it over to Ye Lei and dumped it over his head...

"Cough, cough." Ye Lei shook his head and opened his phoenix eyes. Once he saw the scene before him clearly, he demanded loudly, "Who are you people? Where is this? Why did you capture me?"

Facing Ye Lei's deadly triple question, the leader merely said expressionlessly, "Our Elder wants to see you!"

When Ye Lei heard the word "Elder," a trace of confusion flashed through his eyes. He wanted to break out, but after looking at the dozen fully armed soldiers, he smiled helplessly. I want to run, but I don't want to get riddled with bullets...

System: "Host, have you forgotten that I exist?"

Ye Lei: "Fuck, you didn't show up earlier but had to appear now. Can you tell me what exactly happened, and who these people are?"

System: "Uh... it's a little complicated."

Then Ye Lei began listening to the System's explanation.

At the same time.

Mingyuan Garden.

Han Nuan woke up in her room. After leaving it, she saw her parents already up and cultivating. She smiled, walked over to Han's Mother, and sweetly called out, "Mom~ I'm hungry~"

Pulled back to reality, Han's Mother looked at her daughter and smiled helplessly. "All right, all right. I'll go make you something now."

"Thanks, Mom." With that, Han Nuan affectionately rubbed against Han's Mother's shoulder.

"All right, all right. Stop acting cute with me. If you want to act cute, go find Ye Lei."

"Mom~ How can you be like this? You're already trying to send your own daughter away. Besides, Ye Lei is like a block of wood..."

Somewhere in Banyan City, in some room, someone.

"Achoo! Who the hell is cursing me!"

The military.

Ye Lei looked at the dozens of people in the room, feeling utterly helpless.

After an unknown amount of time, someone came in from outside and said something to the leader. Then a loud shout came from outside: "Elder Xiao Xiong has arrived!"

Ye Lei was stunned. Xiao Xiong, an Elder... Could he be the Seventh Elder among the nation's Ten Great Elders? But why does he want to see me?

At that moment, a white-haired old man entered from outside.

Looking at the tightly bound Ye Lei, the Seventh Elder helplessly said to his subordinates, "I told you to invite him here. Why did you tie him up?"

"Tell me, why did you want to see me?" Ye Lei asked.

"This is you, isn't it?" As the Seventh Elder spoke, he took a tablet from one of his subordinates and held it before Ye Lei.

The person on the tablet was clearly Ye Lei, in the middle of hunting a Scaled Beast.

"You were monitoring me!" Ye Lei snapped.

"All right, business first. Someone, untie the young man! Honestly, I told you to invite him, not tie him up."