None Dared Block Them

One word: if you dared block us, I would turn around and leave. If you delayed our return to reunite with the main family, we would settle this score later.

From this, one could judge just how important it was to return and reunite with the Bai Family's main family, as well as the power of the Bai Family's main family. Yang Chen had to admit that he had likely underestimated the Bai Family's main family's capabilities. Even an ordinary great family, no matter how strong, should not have been strong enough to make martial artists from every faction fear them.

They even feared retaliation.

Yang Chen grew increasingly curious.

Bai Yishan's backbone had become much harder now. Their Bai Family branch truly was not powerful; they could not even claim supremacy within the Eastern Thirty-Six Commanderies. But the Bai Family's main family was another matter entirely.

With the Bai Family's main family backing him up, Bai Yishan glared furiously and said, "Gentlemen, my meaning is simple. My Bai Family is a force of the Eastern Thirty-Six Commanderies. It has always been our Bai Family lording it over the Eastern Thirty-Six Commanderies. Since when did it become the turn of you outsiders to strut and shout in the Eastern Thirty-Six Commanderies? Whatever you do to other martial artists, I can pretend not to see it. But you still dare treat our Bai Family this way. Don't you think you've gone a little too far?"

"B-but, Bai Family Head, this is what was arranged from above. You must think it over carefully. Yang Chen is as cunning as a fox. He may very well disguise himself as another martial artist, or even as one of your Bai Family members, and hide within your Bai Family. If we inspect you like this,