"Second Young Miss, these people... aren't they looking down on our Li Family a little too much?"
Footsteps sounded as two female guards in fitted combat clothes entered the room. One said irritably, "They actually refused the Li Family's offer. How shortsighted. Mere second-level Transcendents..."
Li Enyi had ordered the two women to stay away, so they had no idea what Zhou Kai and the others had discussed. But a little thought told them it had probably been the usual business.
The families of Five-Family Fort now differed in strength and fought incessantly, while conflicts also arose within the Li Family from time to time. The second young miss, who had spent years away from home, had suddenly returned with the [Great Conquest Temple Patron] identity and a Heart-Eating Demon's corpse. Only an idiot would believe she had no ambitions in the struggle between the legitimate and secondary branches of the Li Family.
And anyone scheming in such power struggles naturally needed Transcendents under their command.
The Li Family's second young miss had little support. When she encountered people like Zhou Kai and Ying Chen, who could subdue a Heart-Eating Demon, she would certainly try to recruit them.
"Shut up!"
Zhou Kai's retreating figure still lingered deep in Li Enyi's eyes. Hearing the two guards speak, her expression immediately darkened.
She snapped, "Who are you bitches to pass judgment on Senior Zhou?"
Li Enyi had never liked these two much. Her dear younger brother claimed he had sent them to protect her, but in plain terms, they were there to watch her.
The two guards' expressions changed. They had not expected Li Enyi to value Zhou Kai so highly, nor had they expected the Li Family's second young miss to have become so ill-tempered.
But they were household servants. Even