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Everyone present seemed to have been struck by a immobilization spell. No matter what they had been doing, they now stared wide-eyed, mouths slightly agape, their gazes fixed in utter shock on Jiang Xuan and the Shadowfolk.

Because the matter was too bizarre and far too unexpected, the nearly frozen silence in the courtyard lasted a full six or seven breaths.

When everyone finally came back to their senses, a roaring tide of discussion exploded through the courtyard like boiling water.

"Did I hear that right? The Shadowfolk chose the Chu Household?"

"Not the Chu Household. The ones they seem to be pledging loyalty to are only that Jiang Xuan... but that's even more absurd! Have the Shadowfolk gone mad?"

"A Primordial Remnant Clan actually chose to pledge loyalty to one person, and a Cultivator at only the Spirit Pivot Stage, at that... I must be dreaming. How could something so outrageous exist in this world..."

The vast majority of people in the courtyard found the Shadowfolk's choice utterly incomprehensible.

They could hardly be blamed. The matter truly ran too far against common sense.

The Shadowfolk were no weaklings. Adept in the path of shadows, they were born assassins and the finest guards. Because they excelled at concealment, the Shadowfolk had suffered relatively few losses over the past several thousand years. Among the Divine Remnant Clans, they could be considered a rather sizable branch—so sizable that before coming to the banquet, the Chu Household had never even dreamed of recruiting them.

For that very reason, the Shadowfolk's defection left Chu Mu completely dazed for a moment. He had been stunned senseless by a pie falling from the sky.

After the bewilderment passed, excitement and wild joy surged into his heart.

"We failed to invite the Wood Remnant Clan, yet through