While Zhang Tie fed the birds in the garden, leaving the servants and guards of Prince of Guangnan's estate clicking their tongues in wonder and secretly marveling that even an Earth Knight could possess such refined leisure and compassion, a black luxury car bearing Xuanyuan Hill plates drove off the main road and onto the estate road early that morning.
Inside the luxury car, an elderly man and a shrewd-looking middle-aged man in his thirties or forties sat in the back seat.
"Elder, does Candle Dragon True Person live here?" Seeing the scale and grandeur of the estate before them, as well as the lush expanse of garden, the middle-aged man could not help asking in surprise, "Didn't the family investigate him? He came from Yong Province and has no real foundation. He's an Earth Knight—even if he earned some merit in the Earth Element Realm, how could he possibly have an estate like this in Xuanyuan Hill? It's even a little bigger than our Guan Family's estate in Xuanyuan Hill."
It would not be strange for a knight to own ten thousand estates like this outside Xuanyuan Hill, but within Xuanyuan Hill, such an estate was enough to astonish people.
Looking at the estate's towering snow-white walls and the special rune-etched warning bells discreetly arranged upon them, the old man smiled. "You have only been in Xuanyuan Hill for a few days, so you do not understand its balance of power. This estate is property of Prince of Guangnan's Mansion in Xuanyuan Hill; it does not belong to Candle Dragon True Person. For a newly advanced Earth Knight to gain a foothold in a place like Xuanyuan Hill—how could that be easy?"
The middle-aged man immediately understood. "Has Candle Dragon True Person pledged himself to Prince of Guangnan?"
"No.