Keeping Silent

While Tianhai Guizang, the head of the Fifth-Rank Cultivation Family Tianhai Family, was speaking with Tianhai Shanzhong of the same family, in another part of Qinghe Commandery City, Gray Robe Jiang Lao Jiang Haifei and Granny Yu of the Black Market from the Xinghua Village Meng Family fixed curious gazes on Meng Haoran, who was staying at an inn.

Seeing this, Meng Haoran smiled and said, "Elder Jiang, Granny Yu, why are you looking at me like that? You're making me rather embarrassed."

At that moment, when Meng Haoran saw the strange expressions on Gray Robe Jiang Lao Jiang Haifei and Granny Yu of the Black Market after they entered his room, he knew that the plan he had laid out today had succeeded.

With a faintly mischievous smile, Gray Robe Jiang Lao Jiang Haifei retorted, "Hao Ran, let me ask you instead. You knew this would happen today, yet you deliberately sent Granny Yu and me to Five Elements Pavilion. If this old man had not been so experienced, I would have exposed the whole truth before those citizens and cultivators of Qinghe Commandery City. When that happened, it would not have been just my, Gray Robe Jiang Lao Jiang Haifei's, face that was lost, but the face of our entire Xinghua Village Meng Family, an Eighth-Rank Cultivation Family. Isn't that right?"

Meng Haoran laughed. "Elder Jiang, if I had not done so, could you have become immersed in my scheme? Even you were drawn into my design, much less those ignorant citizens and cultivators in Qinghe Commandery City. This was exactly the result I wanted—to drag the citizens and cultivators of Qinghe Commandery City into my plan, and make every faction in the city pay for the cultivation resources of our Xinghua Village Meng Family!"

At this point,