The matter of Qin Shaofeng being suspected of being an outsider did not spread.
As for what Qin Shaofeng had done at the source stones afterward, not a single scrap of news leaked out either.
For one thing, there had not been many witnesses, and none of them were ordinary people. They likely had no habit of wagging their tongues.
For another, the strength Qin Shaofeng had displayed left no one daring to act recklessly.
Thus, an incident that could have stirred up all of Lihuo City passed by without a sound.
Yet though it seemed to have passed, beneath that calm surface, restless undercurrents were brewing.
The moment the Ge Family Patriarch returned to the Ge family, he summoned the family's experts and held a meeting.
Outsiders had no way of knowing what was discussed at that meeting.
However, after the meeting, the Ge Family Patriarch announced that he was entering seclusion. Ge Baodong was directly confined by his father, and even when Ge Baodong begged his mother, the confinement order was not rescinded.
But in most people's eyes, this was because Qin Shaofeng had become Grandmaster Qin. The Ge Family Patriarch was merely preventing his youngest son from clashing with Grandmaster Qin again.
Yet only the Ge Family Patriarch himself knew that he was doing this to preserve his youngest son's life.
After all, offending an expert often led to an utterly miserable end.
That did not mean, however, that the Ge Family Patriarch had swallowed this insult.
He was waiting for an opportunity. If he ever had the chance to strike at Qin Shaofeng, he would absolutely not let it slip by.
Even the Ge Family Patriarch was like this, so there was even less need to mention Fang Zai Shan.
The instant he returned to his