No one had expected things to reach this point.
How had a perfectly ordinary first Contention War turned into a fight to the death?
And Zhong Ye had never had a grudge against Chen Changan, either in the past or recently. Why was he targeting him?
Was it just to cooperate with the Bai Family and obtain the generous terms they had offered?
No matter how you looked at it, that definitely wasn't the real reason.
Zhong Ye was Wu Wang Mountain's most outstanding rising star. What could he possibly want for that the Bai Family's leftovers would matter to him?
Or was the real person behind all this the Lord of Martial King Mountain?
The Family Head of the Long Family hurried over to him and demanded coldly, "Did you instruct Zhong Ye to do this?"
"Zhong Ye isn't a puppet. No one can interfere with what he wants to do."
"This should be his own decision." The Mountain Lord of Wu Wang Mountain smiled faintly.
"Both Zhong Ye and Chen Changan are rare geniuses. There's nothing to be gained by having them fight to the death. It would be an enormous loss for the Dragon Source Land, too."
"You're Zhong Ye's master. Stop him. Don't let him keep making one mistake after another," the Family Head of the Long Family said coldly.
"Why do you think Zhong Ye's actions are a mistake?"
"Perhaps he has his own reasons for doing this."
"Perhaps he believes that someone like Chen Changan shouldn't exist in the Dragon Source Land, because he would disrupt the stability it has enjoyed for so long."
"I once promised Zhong Ye that I would never interfere with any of his decisions."
"That was true in the past, it's true now, and it'll remain true in the