Facing Bai Yi, who "read people so accurately" and had a "flexible bottom line," Lin Heng merely gave a playful smile.
The three ancient clans that had currently come to Dingyang happened to correspond to Sun Hao, Bai Yi, and Chen Changqin.
As long as the three of them won every match, the other ancient clans would absolutely not dare come running over to make fools of themselves again.
Dingyang City, northern main street.
Inside a rented courtyard compound.
Several elderly-faced men in differing attire had gathered beneath the same roof.
The one at their head was the member of the Shangtang Clan who had arrived in Dingyang first, Shangtang Yunyi's uncle.
At that moment, the last man to arrive spoke. "Fellow Daoist Shangtang, since everyone is now here, should the three of our families not discuss properly how to blunt that brat from the Heavenly Mystery Imperial Office's sharp spirit?"
"That is right. Fellow Daoist Shangtang, you arrived half a month earlier than us. You must have gathered no small amount of information. Should you not share some with us?"
Hearing this, Shangtang Hui nodded slightly and said in a low voice, "Fellow Daoist Ying, Fellow Daoist Jing... although I arrived early with the younger generation, that brat has remained lodged at Prince Qi's Mansion the entire time, and the whole of Dingyang City is filled with informants arranged by them."
"If things went badly, we may have long been under their surveillance, so there is no especially useful information."
"We need only know that he is not someone easy to deal with!"
As his words fell, the other two men's brows furrowed slightly, clearly somewhat dissatisfied with this explanation.
Your Shangtang Clan has been here this long, and you just sat around doing nothing?
Only waiting for