The Ouyang Family headquarters.
"Mother, did you really give him all those treasures?"
Ouyang Ye asked in a low voice.
"I would have liked not to, but I feared the entire family would be buried along with you."
Ouyang Xue glanced at her son.
"Surely it wasn't that serious?"
Ouyang Ye thought his mother was exaggerating.
He knew nothing of what had happened in the Star-Plucking Clan scenario and still thought Chen Lin had captured him by exploiting the Nightmare Realm Rules. Since he had returned safely, there was no need to hand over the promised treasures.
They should even demand the return of everything that had been taken from him.
So he analyzed the situation. "Chen Lin only narrowly defeated Wan Zhencang. He doesn't have the strength to oppose our family, and he expended numerous treasures to kill Wan Zhencang, making him even less of a threat. Besides, without the Star Toad Fragment, how are we supposed to..."
"Be quiet!"
Ouyang Xue glared at Ouyang Ye.
"I think your cultivation has advanced too quickly, and you've started thinking far too highly of yourself. Go back to the Ancestral Land and enter seclusion!"
"Mother!"
Ouyang Ye was aghast.
Then he realized something.
He asked in bewilderment, "Is Chen Lin really so powerful that I need to hide?"
Ouyang Xue sighed.
"Much as I hate to admit it, he truly is formidable, with an endless array of tricks at his disposal. Besides, we've lain low for so long. We cannot lose the greater prize over a small gain."
After that explanation,
she looked at her son.
She said earnestly, "The Taishi Lineage is probably finished. We'd best not invite trouble at a time like this, lest he become so bloodthirsty that he wipes us out in passing."
Ouyang Ye said nothing