Wang Chong returned to Leizhou Prefecture with everyone in high spirits. Among the party was a disgruntled man in yellow robes, who discovered that no one had asked who he was the entire time.
Far from being a nobody, he enjoyed considerable renown in the martial world. He was the master of Marvelous Hand Ban Manor, one of the Four Supreme Wonder Mansions, as famous as the Ten-Thousand-Year Fox Manor backing the Su Family.
The other three of the Four Supreme Wonder Mansions had long-established legacies and deep foundations, but he had founded Marvelous Hand Ban Manor single-handedly. It excelled at construction and mechanical devices alike. Whenever aristocratic nobles anywhere in the world built residences or installed mechanisms, they had to hire people from Marvelous Hand Ban Manor. There was absolutely no second choice.
Marvelous Hand Ban Manor even divided its work into the Life and Death Gates. When certain noble houses and powerful clans built secret places that outsiders could not be allowed to know about, Death Gate disciples would be sent. These disciples were all orphans and were fed poison beforehand, with their employers controlling the antidote. At prescribed intervals, the antidote would be provided. Once the residence was complete, no more antidote would be issued, leaving the Death Gate disciples to die as the poison took effect.
Through this method, Marvelous Hand Ban Manor had amassed untold wealth. Although its power fell short of Lei Dongtian's Qing River Gang, its wealth and reputation in the martial world were not inferior in the slightest.
Wang Chong was not actually deliberately giving him the cold shoulder. After reaching the Innate Realm, he had developed certain subtle perceptions. Now that he was a Great Grandmaster, this resonance between heaven and man had become even more mysterious, and for no apparent