He remembered that man too. The man had kept a low profile; in all his years of cultivation, he had only met him twice—once in Wutan City and once outside Shengdan City.
The man had saved him from certain death twice. He had saved him outside Jia Ma Sacred City, and again outside Shengdan City.
"Ahem, ancestor, won't revealing our strength draw the attention of those Emperor Clans...?" Xiao Qian asked. There were pitifully few members of the Xiao Clan, even counting those at Jia Nan Academy, and most of them were weak.
Xiao Wen rolled his eyes. "With this troublemaker around, do you think trouble will leave us alone? Are we supposed to stand by while those people bully him?
"Besides, everyone already knows the Xiao Clan is the Xiao Clan. Why else do you think the Soul Hall captured Xiao Zhan?
"At least Gu Yuan hasn't gone too far. He's protected the Xiao Clan openly and secretly over the years instead of making life difficult for us.
"Otherwise, my father and I would've gone straight to the Gu Clan and beaten that bastard together.
"He hasn't made trouble for the Xiao Clan. In fact, the clan has survived partly because he protected it in secret.
"So let's call the Heavenly Tomb places we've received over the past thousand years, along with the wealth he took after the Xiao Clan fell, our thanks to him.
"But when you get down to it, Gu Yuan's the one who lost out." Xiao Wen chuckled. "He coveted the Xiao Clan's jade, but he was too timid to act. He didn't have a shred of that bastard Hun Tiandi's decisiveness.
"He sent his precious daughter to the Xiao Clan, and look what happened! She fell for this brat. Hahaha! He got quite the