Lu Hou'er was another who had guessed Meng Zhao's identity. Like Xu Tingyun, he too was from Yanzhou.
Of course, there was one difference. As a subordinate of Yanzhou's Old General Tan and the Heavenly Wolf Alliance Leader, he knew very well that the Tan Family seemed intent on marrying their treasured daughter, Tan Cai'er, to Meng Zhao, forging an alliance between the two families.
Though this news had never been officially made public, Lu Hou'er had indeed learned of it through secret channels, so it carried a certain degree of credibility.
For that reason, he had paid close attention to the Lord of the Northern Meng Dragon King and gathered information on him.
He knew clearly that if this matter ultimately succeeded, Meng Zhao would wield the combined influence of the Meng Family of Ji Prefecture, Lingwu City, and the Tan Family of Yanzhou, becoming the representative of one of the foremost powers of the age, no less than the Nine Surnames and Thirteen Families.
What was more, Meng Zhao himself possessed the bearing of a Peerless Prodigy. Southern Shen, Northern Meng—there was no one in the world who had not heard of them.
The two stood side by side as the twin martial peaks of the younger generation, heights others could only gaze upon from afar. Their achievements and fame were already immense.
With both power and strength, his future was boundless.
The moment Lu Hou'er realized that this young man might be Meng Zhao, even the thoughts tainted by his Demonic Nature cleared for an instant. He felt that with this man present, his little schemes, little plans, and little calculations had no chance of succeeding.
Such was Meng Zhao's immense influence now. The south was hard to say, but in the north, he was truly at