Withered Bones City, the Jialan Family.
Inside the magnificent Council Hall, the patriarch of the Jialan Family smiled as he held the scroll Emily had submitted and examined it carefully.
Beside Emily stood Bolands and Old Monster Stassom. Naturally, the more impulsive members of the Han Family, such as Blood Spirit, Gilbert, and Phoebe, could not appear here, or a single disagreement might bring utter destruction upon the Han Family.
As agreed, Emily had brought out a Magic Array training method devised by Bolands, Blood Spirit, and Gilbert today and handed it to Shatuo.
After hearing the message Daxiaxi had delivered last time, Emily and the others knew that unless the Han Family gave Shatuo a little something to satisfy him, he and the ambitious people of Withered Bones City might well lose their patience, kill them, and extract the knowledge of Magic Array training directly from the souls of the dead.
This was clearly not something Emily and the others wanted to see. Hoping to stall for as long as possible, Emily had obtained one of the guard training methods from Bolands and formally handed it over to Shatuo.
Only after waiting so long and exerting all manner of pressure through various channels had Shatuo finally obtained a scroll. Naturally, he was in a good mood today.
But after reading through the entire scroll, Shatuo's smiling face gradually darkened...
He casually tossed the scroll into the air. Driven by a strange force, the scroll recording one of the Han Family guards' Magic Array formation methods took the shape of a palm and struck Bolands across the cheek with a slap.
"Is your Han Family deliberately making a fool of me? What use could this nonsense possibly have? Ha! Can a few special steps and positions really bring out a