Shen Gongbao Came to Pledge Allegiance? Chong Houhu Laughed: I Have No Need for Small Fry. Beware of Danger!

"Shen Gongbao?"

"Who are you? We've never heard of you. Why have you come here, and what are you plotting?"

"Protect the Marquis of the North! Watch out—he could be an assassin!"

"On guard!"

The soldiers hurriedly surrounded Chong Houhu. Several generals who practiced the Martial Path began forming a battle array, while the cultivators accompanying them fixed hostile stares on the man in Daoist robes.

He had appeared uninvited. He had to be plotting something!

Faced with this display, Shen Gongbao merely smiled at E Chongyu.

The hostility radiating from the soldiers around him did not change his expression.

"Shen Gongbao?"

Chong Houhu pushed aside a personal guard and laughed heartily. "Of all the people under heaven, you're the first to dare snatch my prey. Interesting."

"Where do you come from? What brings you here?"

"Don't tell me you've come looking for an official post at my side."

As his fortunes had risen over the years, quite a few capable and unusual people had gathered around him.

But with Disciples of the Sect of Interception at his side, he had little interest in those who came seeking his patronage halfway through the journey. At most, he showed them a little goodwill, took them into his service, and found them somewhere to settle.

Most of them received no worthwhile posts.

They were given whatever position happened to be available.

They were wandering cultivators who had come late, drawn by the Fortune Aura that accompanied an official post.

If profit had brought them here, why take them seriously?

In Chong Houhu's eyes, this man was probably no different.

"This humble Daoist has indeed come to seek an official post at your side, my lord."

Shen Gongbao smiled and cupped his hands. "This humble Daoist is a Qi Refining cultivator from the