Still No Good

Meng Haoran of the Xinghua Village Meng Family sat upright in his study, waiting quietly for who knew how long. The tea in the exquisite porcelain cup had been changed again and again, its color going from faint yellow to transparent, like plain boiled water.

As for whether Baili Shouxi, an elder of the Baili Family, a Sixth-Rank Cultivation Family, could persuade the other elders of the Baili Family one by one, Meng Haoran of the Xinghua Village Meng Family had no confidence at all. The reason he had dared to make such a grand promise to Baili Shouxi was the rising momentum the Xinghua Village Meng Family had built over the past dozen-odd years.

Moreover, Meng Haoran and the Xinghua Village Meng Family behind him had usually worked frequently and deeply with the family faction behind Baili Shouxi. As for the other elders of the Baili Family, they of the Xinghua Village Meng Family had never had the slightest contact with them.

Naturally, they had no way of guessing what those elders were thinking.

After all, the Xinghua Village Meng Family had never directly displayed its true strength before those other elders of the Baili Family. Presumably, those elders would not pour too much of their Lineage's accumulated resources into the Xinghua Village Meng Family at this time.

If they placed all their eggs in one basket, only for the Xinghua Village Meng Family's achievements to fail to bring the Baili Family the returns they expected, then those elders of the Baili Family naturally could not easily accept it.

Just as Meng Haoran of the Xinghua Village Meng Family was preparing to rise and relieve himself, he heard a faint set of footsteps slowly approaching from outside the study.

Meng Haoran hurriedly turned around and saw that the visitor