"Greetings, Family Head." At that moment, the guards standing watch behind him and Tong Qiang, who stood beside him, turned and bowed at the same time. Only then did Wan Hong snap awake and realize that Ren Jie had already come within four or five meters of him, yet he had not noticed at all.
"Wan Hong greets the Family Head." Wan Hong hurriedly turned and bowed as well. So many things had happened before, along with the conversation between Ren Jie and Sixth Master, making him one of the few who knew about some of Ren Jie's changes. How could he dare slight him?
Although he was among the few who knew of Ren Jie's changes, the more he learned, the more startled and shaken he became. He kept discovering that this young Family Head possessed even more mysterious things unknown to others, and anything he casually revealed was enough to shock the entire Jade Capital City.
Thus, when he looked at Ren Jie now, Wan Hong was even more puzzled, wondering just what else this Family Head had hidden from the world.
"We're our own people. No need to be so polite. Even if you don't bow, I won't use that as an excuse to pick a fight and punish you." Ren Jie had just finished cultivating and adapting to the fifth layer of the Jade Emperor Art Body Refining Chapter. Although he had been constantly taking medicine and his condition was fairly good, the exhaustion on him was still hard to conceal. He truly looked like an ordinary person who had gotten dead drunk and slept for a full day and night.
Yet Ren Jie's words calmed much of Wan Hong's initial excitement, tension, and exhilaration.
"Sixth Master gave orders long ago: even if the Family Head