One instant! Two men!
They had fallen without the slightest power to resist!
Though Elder Shang knew full well that a true Heaven-Tier Powerhouse stood far beyond the reach of an Earth Rank Expert, the outcome still vastly exceeded his expectations.
With Ye Tianming watching him now, he felt a terrifying sensation like needles prickling his back. He could only stop and spread his hands, scattering the talismanic scripts he had intended to unleash like scraps of wastepaper. The ring on his left little finger, already on the verge of activation, cooled once more.
"Please do not misunderstand, sir. I merely intended to fetch the ledgers."
Ye Tianming said, "Whatever you may be thinking, consider this a warning. But you will receive only one warning. Do you understand?"
"I understand." Elder Shang smiled bitterly. "From now on, I will treat you as I once treated Venerable Wu. Whatever I did before, I will continue to do."
"A wise man recognizes the tides of the times. I hope you will not disappoint me, Elder Shang."
Ye Tianming lightly tapped the armrest, signaling that Elder Shang could leave.
After going out, Elder Shang could not help wiping the cold sweat from his forehead. Before long, he duly returned with the ledgers from another secret chamber upstairs and reported the current distribution of the holdings to Ye Tianming.
At this point, he had no choice but to tell Ye Tianming the truth. Apart from certain holdings he had planned to pocket himself, more than half the treasure mines, estates, and blessed lands originally belonging to Wu Lianyi and the Warrior Hall had already been reclaimed by the Azure Cloud Sect.
"With my influence and strength, preserving even these took everything I had. After all, in this world, the strong still reign supreme."
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