Preparing to Enter the Fray

Hearing this, Meng Haoran of the Xinghua Village Meng Family smiled faintly and said coldly, "Heh, so this is the so-called Fifth-Rank Cultivation Family, the Tianhai Family? They truly have no magnanimity at all! In the vast Qinghe Commandery City, they cannot even tolerate a tiny Eighth-Rank Cultivation Family like our Xinghua Village Meng Family. I, Meng Haoran, truly do not know—within this Qinghe Commandery City, is it your Fifth-Rank Cultivation Family, the Tianhai Family, that calls the shots, or is it Lord Lü Qingxuan, the Commandery Governor of Qinghe Commandery Territory?"

As he spoke, Meng Haoran of the Xinghua Village Meng Family placed an inescapable tall hat upon Tianhai Shanzhong of the Fifth-Rank Cultivation Family, the Tianhai Family, instantly setting their Tianhai Family against every newly risen Ranked Family.

Tianhai Shanzhong of the Fifth-Rank Cultivation Family, the Tianhai Family, retorted, "Meng Haoran, do you take me for a fool? I can understand what you are saying. Trying to use our Fifth-Rank Cultivation Family, the Tianhai Family, as a handle against us is impossible."

"Then what have you come to our Xinghua Village Meng Family Trading Hall for? You neither buy the cultivation items of our Xinghua Village Meng Family Trading Hall nor discuss cooperation with us, yet you strut about here, throwing around the former prestige of your Fifth-Rank Cultivation Family, the Tianhai Family, inside our Xinghua Village Meng Family Trading Hall."

Meng Haoran of the Xinghua Village Meng Family said icily, "Tianhai Shanzhong, the one who invited us newly risen Ranked Families to your Qinghe Commandery City was the honored Lord Lü Qingxuan, the Commandery Governor of Qinghe Commandery Territory. On a larger scale, this was an invitation under the national policy of our Great Yu Immortal Dynasty. That was why our Xinghua Village Meng Family came to