Cai Adept thought for quite a while before he finally realized. "So... we're doing this to show Feng Jun respect?"
"What did you think?" Xu Adept rolled his eyes at him and replied irritably. "The people who came were basically not here for the production equipment. Understand?"
"I understand." Cai Adept nodded, but after thinking it over, he spoke softly again. "But Feng Jun's pride is pride—doesn't ours count too? There are plenty of ways to befriend him."
"Are you stupid?" Xu Adept pointed at him speechlessly. "Let me ask you one thing: if you want to befriend him, what other way is there?"
Cai Adept's lips moved a few times before he let out a dejected sigh. "Now that you mention it, there really is nothing he needs help with. But can this really make him our friend?"
"Who knows?" Xu Adept spread his hands and spoke helplessly. "But if you don't try, you'll never befriend him... You need to understand, his Divination is truly formidable. Kill One, Save One."
Cai Adept blinked twice, beginning to understand what his ancestor meant. "So you weren't actually here to buy equipment. You just wanted to make yourself familiar to him, right?"
"Even making ourselves familiar to him won't be easy." Xu Adept gave a helpless, bitter smile. "Before this, no one thought he was anybody important, right?"
"That's true. We received the news too late." Cai Adept nodded. His family's slow reaction was a fact, and he answered seriously, "My family has always stayed out of worldly affairs... Who could have expected someone like him to suddenly appear?"
The unspoken meaning of staying out of worldly affairs was actually, "We don't care about what happens outside." The Cai Clan was one of the Secret Realm Families, so it truly had no