"You old Cang, so this was what you were scheming all along!"
Hearing Cang Wanli's words, Xuan Zhantian could not help but twitch at the corners of his mouth. Half angry and half amused, he pointed at Cang Wanli and said, "I was wondering why you suddenly fought so hard to go to the Northern Frontier. So you'd been waiting here for Brother Chen all along?!"
A flash of regret crossed Xuan Zhantian's face.
Had he known, he should have fought to go to the Northern Frontier just now.
That way, he could have tied Chen An, this newly ascended Martial Emperor, to the Great Luo Imperial Family.
No wonder he had thought that old Cang was being so generous just now, even willing to offer a treasure like Heavenly Star Meteoric Iron to Chen An.
If he could truly tie Chen An to the Great Luo Imperial Family, let alone a piece of Heavenly Star Meteoric Iron, even if Chen An were allowed to pick freely from the entire Great Luo Imperial Family treasury, Xuan Zhantian would not furrow his brow in the slightest.
After all, he knew that Chen An was a monstrous genius who had entered the Martial Emperor Realm at the age of seventeen.
Barring unforeseen circumstances, such a monster would likely become, at the very least, a supreme powerhouse at the peak of the Martial Emperor Realm. He might even shatter the martial arts shackles that had endured for tens of thousands of years and advance to an even higher realm.
Most importantly, Chen An was only seventeen!
Even if Chen An failed to break through in the future, he could still live for at least a thousand years, ensuring a faction's prosperity for a millennium.
To a faction or a sect, this was undoubtedly