A manor somewhere in the outskirts.
This had originally been one of the Zhou family's properties. It had to be said, the Zhou family was very wealthy.
Such a huge manor had sat empty for a long time.
An entire team had moved in ahead of time to clean and prepare the place.
Chefs, attendants, security guards, dancers, and professional staff from every department... all moved in batches.
By the day before the Martial Arts Tournament began, the place was already bustling.
Many sects and families had arrived early, been assigned rooms, and begun socializing.
Lu Chengwen and the Three Brothers arrived with Hua Xuening and Zhuge Xiaohua. They were given two rooms, then led by the organizers to a banquet where they met many fellow people of the martial world.
To be fair, each sect was only allowed to bring three people. But because Lu Chengwen was rich and had temporarily sponsored five million, four coach buses, ingredients, drinking water, and various alcoholic beverages... he was allowed to bring two assistants.
Those assistants were naturally Zhuge Xiaohua and Hua Xuening.
That night, Lu Chengwen shared a room with Hua Xuening and Xiao Hua. Long Aotian and Zhao Ritian shared the other.
Meanwhile, in a corner outside the manor.
Li Mo was conspiring with three people.
"Second Senior Brother, Fifth Senior Brother, Sixth Senior Brother, you have to help me this time!"
Second Senior Brother said, "You're a disciple of the Ba Dao Sect. Fine, you entered public office and made a living following merchants, but you actually got beaten by a merchant? Not only did you disgrace the Ba Dao Sect, you even dragged Senior Disciple Brother into this."
"No, Senior Disciple Brother had his reasons too. He was..."
Fifth Senior Brother cut him off. "No matter the reason,