Chapter 2230 — The Mysterious Great Protector
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The Great Protector had remained in the Tagan family these many years for two important reasons. One was to guard and train Tagan Long in the martial arts as ordered, until the time was ripe for a task of tremendous magnitude that he must undertake...
The other task was to keep watch over the Wulonghaote Mountains, and over the two people in the photograph!
Those two had both escaped by sheer luck during the original extermination raid. Their chances of survival were slim, but without seeing the corpses, no one could declare them dead!
Moreover, the power standing behind the Great Protector had no wish to see those two dead either. Their motive for wiping out the sect had been to seize a great treasure from within that ancient order, but the treasure had been hidden away. They had swept through the entire sect and found nothing!
So the Great Protector had settled himself here, keeping watch over those two as well. If they still lived, they would surely return to search for that treasure, and when they did, the Great Protector could strike, seize the treasure, and do away with them both...
And now the Great Protector saw hope! Tagan Long's intelligence was exceedingly useful. If this man truly had ties to those two from back then, he had surely come to the Wulonghaote Mountains for that treasure, and then the Great Protector could strike once they had found it...
"Great Protector, those two... are we just going to let them go? They still carry two spirit-beast essence cores in their hands..." said Tagan Long.
"Of course we won't let them go, but you needn't concern yourself with this matter. I will handle it personally!" said the Great Protector. "For the time being, do not leave the house. Stay home and train. As for your foppish image, just go out and be seen now and then—so long as no one notices anything unusual about you."
"Yes!" Tagan Long said hastily, delighted at heart. If the Great Protector took action himself, then every problem would be solved with ease.
The family council ended quickly. In truth, the Tagan family's rapid rise in Ruileida Town owed nothing to the family itself, nor to the Tagan Patriarch being a Heaven-rank expert—the Lu family and the Shangguan family likewise had Heaven-rank masters holding their seats. The Tagan family had climbed to the head of the three great families because of the Great Protector!
And the entire family existed to serve the Great Protector and Tagan Long. Tagan Gao, the clan head, in fact had very little say. To outsiders he appeared glorious, but once he returned home and sat in the family council, his voice carried less weight than that of his own son, Tagan Long!
At the family council, it was the Great Protector who presided over everything. And the reason the Great Protector and the power behind him favored the Tagan family was entirely that they had stumbled upon Tagan Long's peculiar constitution!
That constitution was precisely suited to a great undertaking of theirs. What that undertaking was, Tagan Gao did not know—even Tagan Long himself did not know. But the one thing Tagan Gao did know was this: once it succeeded, Tagan Long's standing would surpass even the Great Protector's, his martial arts would reach the very summit, and the Tagan family would rise with him to become a first-rate family of the age...
Of course, all of this rested on that undertaking succeeding. If it failed, these promises were so much ink on worthless paper.
And that undertaking was of the utmost secrecy. Tagan Long's identity must never be exposed ahead of time, lest something go wrong. So, on the Great Protector's advice, Tagan Gao hit upon a fine scheme: let Tagan Long play the fop, a disguise for prying eyes.