He could not be bothered to meddle in such matters. In any case, Enzo knew with absolute certainty that whenever Lin Qi got his hands on any benefits, their band of old brothers would always be the first to enjoy them! Enzo began calculating that he ought to ask Lin Qi for a whole bathtub of Dragon King-grade dragon blood. He truly wanted to know whether his body could be strengthened another step further.
In the study behind the grand court hall, Yan Chimei sat behind the desk with a cold expression and slowly spread out a map made of Magic Beast hide. She said nothing, but the nearly devouring look in her eyes told Lin Qi that this iceberg of a woman was genuinely furious this time.
"All right, all right. Tonight—tonight, we'll make our move." Lin Qi walked to the desk with a smile and looked at the map. It was a map of the mountainous region of Iron Halberd Province in the northeast of the Great Flame Dynasty. Deep within the Griffin Mountain Range, the most topographically complicated region in Iron Halberd Province, Yan Chimei had marked a secret little valley with a red dot no bigger than a mung bean.
Iron Halberd Province was both the most inhospitable province in the Great Flame Dynasty and one with an extraordinarily fierce local character. Vast in area, nearly the entire province was covered in mountains. The mountain folk here were hot-tempered and combative, skilled at raiding towns and plundering merchant caravans. It was a miraculous province where nine out of every ten men were bandits.
This province held an exceptionally unique place in the historical records of the former Caesar Empire. Essentially, every three to five years, some mountain bandit chieftain whose brains had been fried would raise