After waiting at this hastily constructed camp for another half month or so, the two groups finally arrived one after the other.
The first to arrive were the two grandmaster-level experts Lei Wanche had invited through special channels: the Ox-Head God and Horse-Face Ghost of the Yin Mountain Lineage.
However, unlike how they had dressed at the Jinling Shen Family, they did not stand out so much on this trip to Ji Prefecture in the Northern Lands.
The two removed their ox-head and horse-face masks and put on two utterly unremarkable Human Skin Masks, concealing their appearances without exposing their identities.
After arriving at the Lei Family, they received a warm welcome from Lei Wanche and his son Lei Chongmao. Their intention to recruit them could not have been clearer.
The Ox-Head God and Horse-Face Ghost, meanwhile, remained rather reserved. Once they learned that it was not yet time to open the Grotto-Heaven Secret Realm, they stayed single-mindedly inside their tents, never stepping beyond the gate, as though they had vanished from sight.
Yet their attitude was already plain enough: they had no intention of joining the Lei Family.
Though Lei Wanche was disappointed, he did not grow resentful toward them. Instead, he treated them with even greater courtesy, for once they entered the Grotto-Heaven Secret Realm, he would need the two of them to watch out for one another with him and reduce the losses suffered by the Lei Family.
A week after the Ox-Head God and Horse-Face Ghost arrived, Liu An and his group, who had been much closer to Linhua Commandery of Ji Prefecture, finally arrived late.
Naturally, it was not because the four of them were putting on airs, but because an unexpected incident had arisen.
This incident had nothing to do with the Meng Family.