Xiao Ran spread his hands, looking rather helpless. "That clue isn't in my hands."
Xiao Cheng raised his brows as he looked at Xiao Ran. "It's not with you, Dad? Then who has it?"
"The Zhang Family." Xiao Ran's tone was as calm as if he were discussing lunch. "More precisely, it's in the hands of Netherflame Douluo Zhang Hongwen."
Xiao Cheng froze for a moment, then slowly leaned back into the sofa, resting the back of his head against it as he stared at the ceiling and let out a long sigh. "...Ah. That's a bit troublesome."
Within the Spirit Pagoda, Zhang Hongwen was quite a delicate figure. As one of its two Vice Pagoda Masters, a Rank 98 peak Super Douluo with the title Netherflame, he was only unremarkably powerful among those of the same rank. Yet the Zhang Family behind him possessed deep foundations.
Among the Spirit Pagoda's major Soul Master families, the Zhang Family ranked among the top three. In terms of overall foundations, it was second only to the Heavenly Phoenix Leng Family and the Coiling Dragon Qiangu Family.
That was why, although there were several others in the Spirit Pagoda whose strength did not fall short of Zhang Hongwen's, his seat as Vice Pagoda Master remained as secure as if it had been cast into the ground.
The problem was that, recently, rumors had somehow surfaced within the Spirit Pagoda claiming that Qiangu Dieting intended to replace Zhang Hongwen with Xiao Ran as Vice Pagoda Master.
The rumor was like a stone cast into a tranquil lake. The ripples were small, but enough to unsettle those beneath the surface.
Xiao Ran was a Rank 98 Super Douluo. That level alone already made him stand out among the Spirit Pagoda's upper echelon. On top of