When Ye Fan arrived at Lingxu Grotto-Heaven, he received an exceptionally high-standard welcome.
Lingxu Grotto-Heaven was, after all, a subordinate sect of Shaking Light. Their First Saint Son had previously wiped out a Jiang Family stronghold for Ye Fan!
How could Lingxu Grotto-Heaven not worship him?
In the original story, Elder Wu had been the only one in Lingxu Grotto-Heaven who treated Ye Fan well. To reclaim those defective Buddhist Treasures from before, he had even confronted the other Elder Han head-on.
Well, that elder—Han Feiyu's great-uncle—had already been schemed to death by Ye Fan. The current one was his grandfather.
Later in the original story, this Elder Han had even launched a pursuit to kill Ye Fan.
But after what Xu Yue had done, Elder Han's smile when he saw Ye Fan was so benevolent that he seemed kinder to him than to his own grandson.
The entire sect practically worshipped Ye Fan.
Of course, Xu Yue's greatest influence at present only extended to small subordinate sects like Shaking Light's. Given Xu Yue's terrible relationship with the Jiang Family and Ji Family, the predicament Ye Fan faced was, theoretically, somewhat worse than it had been at this point in the original story...
There was no helping it. Xu Yue figured that he had influenced Ye Fan to some extent. To reduce that "dependency" and ensure Heavenly Emperor Ye's proper path of growth, he could only help set up a few enemies and hardships for him.
If even that went wrong, he might have to put on a disguise himself and temper him a little...
"If the Saint Son knew you were still alive, he would certainly be delighted. How about this? Shall we arrange an escort to Yanyun City for you?"
"No, no need. I can go by myself."