Chapter 2801: Taking Turns
"I sent out invitations, but the local factions, including Captain Huang, all found excuses to decline. Even my martial uncle has no intention of coming."
After learning from Xu Yue that there might be traces of a Nurturing Evil God, Qi Zhengyan immediately sent invitations to gather the various factions within the city.
However, what Xu Yue had done to the Ye Family had already spread.
Xu Yue had indeed been in the right, but his merciless methods had left families large and small feeling a chill of shared vulnerability.
What family these days did not have a few unsavory secrets?
No matter what the Ye Family had done, their fate had made the wealthy clans and local gentry keenly aware of the threat.
This uncooperative attitude could be considered a silent protest.
They could not afford to provoke him, but surely they could avoid him!
Moreover, judging by how he had dealt with the Ye Family, although his final move had been somewhat ruthless, he had acted within the rules. Even his remark about being a "lay disciple" had spread everywhere.
Yet there was no doubt that he truly was a Shaolin lay disciple and had not committed much slaughter.
Having already pulled the rug out from under the Ye Family, he could not possibly risk universal condemnation by targeting other families. Nor would those families give him any reason or excuse to do so.
Therefore, whether they came to pay their respects or not did not matter.
Well, the main reason was that they were scared.
What if this young hero, who never played by the rules yet could always justify himself, successfully pinned some crime on their family as well?
The more they said, the more mistakes they could make. The more they