Several days later, the two men of the Wen Family returned to Changhe County. Following their agreed-upon story, they recounted the details and requested punishment.
The Wen Family Patriarch did not truly punish them severely. Instead, he offered much consolation and bestowed favors to win their hearts, never imagining—
That the two men he regarded as the Wen Family's swift blades had not only failed their mission, but had even become someone else's men, harboring ill intentions toward the Wen Family.
Wen Hua and Wen Rong thus concealed themselves within the Wen Family, becoming two nails Meng Zhao had driven into the family, continuously passing its secret intelligence back to him.
At almost the same time, Meng Zhao vanished from Little Cold Village with a group of subordinates. Only some elderly, weak, and untrained people remained behind to watch over the increasingly prosperous and splendid village, while he himself completely disappeared from the martial world's public eye.
As for the White Dragon Venerable Society, having gained Yan Congke, a top-tier expert, it began making full preparations for the assassination.
However, after hearing from the Sixth Dragon Head of Meng Zhao's many details, the other Dragon Heads also developed a sense of wariness toward him.
Meng Zhao's performance had simply been too astonishing. His martial arts were peerless, and paired with foundations unfathomably deep, he inspired fear.
Moreover, Meng Zhao was wildly ambitious and had absolutely no intention of joining the White Dragon Venerable Society or merging the two sides, which made them hate him all the more.
Some even considered secretly informing the Wen Family Patriarch that the two Wen Family men had defected from the Wen Family and pledged themselves to Meng Zhao, thereby ruining Meng Zhao's plans.
However, the Great Dragon Head vetoed this idea.
His reasoning was