Gu Family's Innate Expert

After hesitating for a long time, this member of the Gu Family finally explained how he had entered the Marvelous Hands Pavilion.

It turned out that he had followed the Gu Family descendant who had left with the Half-Step Innate Expert.

When the aspiring Innate Expert left the Gu Family, he took two descendants and two servants with him. He had been one of them.

Later, while wandering the martial world, they encountered the hall master of the Marvelous Hands Pavilion's Intelligence Hall and were recruited to serve the pavilion.

When the aspiring Innate Expert joined the Marvelous Hands Pavilion, he had merely been a guest consultant, equivalent to a senior manager. If things worked out, he stayed; if not, he left. Neither side bore too many responsibilities or obligations.

But soon afterward, with the Marvelous Hands Pavilion's help, the Half-Step Innate Expert advanced into the Innate Realm. That was not treatment a guest consultant should have received.

The newly advanced Innate Expert said, "I can serve as a patron of the Marvelous Hands Pavilion. That should be fine, right?"

A patron was no mere hired hand. He was more like a partner, or a shareholder. Normally, he did not need to exert himself and could simply enjoy the dividends. But if the company ran into trouble, he had to provide the necessary assistance—contributing money if he had money, strength if he had strength.

But the Marvelous Hands Pavilion refused. Protector or elder—you choose.

An elder was equivalent to a member of the company's upper management and board of directors. Once the company got into trouble, there was no running away.

A protector was even worse. It would not involve merely the Gu Family's Innate Expert himself; he would effectively become a strategic partner. If the company got into trouble,