Ye Zhen immediately turned to the people who had been hunting the Ice Crystal Horned Tiger. "Everyone, listen to me! Not a single word about finding the Ice Crystal Horned Tiger today is to reach an outsider!"
One of the Ye Family disciples asked, "Elder, should we hand the Ice Crystal Horned Tiger over to the main branch?"
"Hand it over to the main branch?"
Ye Zhen stared at the disciple who had asked, his gaze turning icy. "How much rust has grown in your head for you to ask that? Don't you know what kind of people those in the main branch are?"
"Exactly! Those bastards would eat a man and leave nothing but bones!"
"We'd be better off catching the Ice Crystal Horned Tiger and selling it in secret than handing it over to them!"
The Ye Family disciples all spoke up.
Fang Chen, the Myna bird, and the others heard every word.
The Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm could not help saying to Fang Chen, "Master, it looks as though the people at the bottom of the Ye Family aren't of one mind with Ye Mian's lot!"
Fang Chen nodded slightly. That did not surprise him.
Ye Zhen was a member of the Ye Family, but he belonged to a collateral branch, not the main branch.
The Ye Family was vast. Only those of the main branch, or powerful experts from the collateral branches, could enter its inner circle.
Ye Zhen's ancestors had belonged to the main bloodline tens of thousands of years ago. But one of them had committed an offense within the Ye Family and been cast out of its inner circle. His descendants could only put down roots on its fringes.
Now, the strongest person in Ye Zhen's branch was merely a Three Tribulation Saint.
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