Everyone saw the gap between the main family and the branches laid bare before them. Many felt despair in their hearts, utterly losing even the desire to continue competing.
The gap was simply too vast.
"Could the main family have sent out martial artists who have cultivated for over a hundred and twenty years? After all, they're the main family. There'd be no way to investigate something like that," someone whispered.
The moment those words fell, they immediately drew much agreement.
Yang Chen found this rather interesting as well.
"Brother Yunfei, do you think that's possible?" Bai Haochen asked curiously. "Could the main family be faking things just to preserve their dignity?"
"Impossible." Yang Chen gently shook his head. "The main family wouldn't go so far as to do something like that for some illusory face."
If that were truly the case, the main family would have long since been devoured and destroyed by the various branches. Since they had been able to sit firmly in Nine Dragon Commandery for so many years, making all the branches fight until their heads bled over favor and status, it was because they had real ability. If they lacked the ability to suppress the branches, they would have been wiped out long ago. There was no need to even entertain such a thought.
What Yang Chen found interesting, however, was that most of those agreeing—and even the person who had raised the matter—were connected to the Demon Slaying Branch.
*It seems Great Emperor Bai Wei was right. The Demon Slaying Branch's ambitions are probably far from small. But that has nothing to do with me. No matter what happens between the Demon Slaying Branch and the Bai family, I only know that if I encounter anyone from the Demon Slaying Branch later, I