Before coming here, Zhang Xingde had already thoroughly understood the current state of the Ji Family.
No one understood better than he did what it meant to break the Han Family's Mountain Protection Array and single-handedly kill several Foundation Establishment cultivators.
It meant that Ji Haoyuan before him had most likely reached the same cultivation as himself—the Foundation Establishment Late Stage.
Though this result shocked him.
He had no choice but to admit that such strength was enough to make their Zhang Family bow its head.
Indeed.
After this long period of seclusion, his own cultivation had also reached the Foundation Establishment Late Stage.
But he knew even more clearly that his Foundation Establishment Late Stage was simply incomparable to Ji Haoyuan's Foundation Establishment Late Stage.
Most importantly, he did not have much lifespan left.
He had no confidence at all that he could take the other man down.
If their Zhang Family truly offended the Ji Family to the death today, even forging an irreconcilable blood feud, then their Zhang Family would very likely follow in the Han Family's footsteps.
As for Zhang Zhilong, who had already entered the Crimson Cloud Sect.
Though he also bore the Zhang surname, and Zhang Family blood flowed through his veins.
At the end of the day, he had yet to fully grow into his own.
And in a sense, he could no longer be considered a cultivator of their Zhang Family.
Under such circumstances, he had no way to guarantee whether the Crimson Cloud Sect—or rather, Zhilong's master—would act against the current Ji Family for the sake of their Zhang Family.
Especially at such a sensitive time, when a powerful cultivator like Ji Haoyuan was urgently needed.
If their Zhang Family gambled wrong, then the consequences they would have to bear afterward