Branches from Every Direction

It seemed the news had already spread. The guards at every checkpoint knew of the Dragon Gate Army guards' predicament. They also knew the Bai Family was not someone they could stop. Trying to stop them any further would merely be asking for humiliation.

All along the way, the Bai Family's massive convoy crossed from the Dragon Gate Army into Haohai Commandery, then passed through layer upon layer of heavily guarded checkpoints from Haohai Commandery, until it arrived at the final checkpoint—the border leading into the Western Forty-Two Commanderies.

Here, they encountered a slight bit of trouble. After all, this was the final checkpoint out of the Eastern Thirty-Six Commanderies. Several Heavenly Martial Realm experts stopped the Bai Family, intending to persuade Bai Yishan to allow an inspection of the Bai Family's martial artists.

However, Bai Yishan's attitude was firm, and he refused to yield an inch.

Most importantly, Bai Yishan was a clever man. Though Yang Chen was clearly hidden among them, Bai Yishan spoke with righteous conviction, claiming he was protecting the Bai Family's reputation, and absolutely refused to let the various sects and factions inspect whether the Bai Family's martial artists were genuine.

If they insisted on a forcible inspection, they had better be prepared to anger the Bai Family.

In the end, the Heavenly Martial Realm experts from the great forces could only give up helplessly. In their eyes, if there was over an eighty percent chance that Yang Chen was in the Bai Family, they would have stopped this Bai Family branch even at the risk of falling out with the Bai Family's main family.

Yet in their eyes, the Bai Family had only a little over a hundred people. The odds of Yang Chen being among them were simply too small. The Bai Family