Chapter 3878 — The Return of Nan Tianxiong
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Watching helplessly as Murong Zhen rose to become a third pole of power whom everyone looked up to, they could do nothing—for the slightest stir, and if Murong Zhen simply threw her weight to the other side, would they not be courting disaster?
They had seen it clearly enough: this was an open stratagem of Murong Zhen's, one no one could stop. And because of the newcomer challenge system, none of them had the power to stop it either; they could only sit by and watch this woman sink her roots step by step, her wings gradually spreading.
For Wei Zhao, however, there was one piece of good news: under his command were only two men, Xiao Che and Qiao Hongcai. With Wei Zhao's orders given beforehand, even if Murong Zhen wished to seduce them, she would find it hard to succeed.
Meng Jueming's side was a different matter entirely. The newcomers under him were hardly loyal, and every one of them, Meng Zhou included, drooled over the fair Murong. As Murong Zhen established her position step by step, the odds were great that these men would turn into reeds that bend with the wind.
After all, having been suppressed by Wei Zhao's faction all this time, Meng Jueming's control over his newcomers had sunk to freezing point. Even if these men dared not betray him openly, if Murong Zhen threw them a flirtatious glance—or even tossed them a little sweetness—few of them, one could believe, would refuse to exchange amorous looks with this fair Murong.
Murong Zhen's brilliance lay precisely in this: even knowing full well that she was poaching his people, Meng Jueming, to keep the situation from worsening and to keep from driving Murong Zhen into Wei Zhao's camp, could for the time being only endure in silence.
And while Murong Zhen was stirring up wind and rain in the Welcome Newcomer Pavilion, far away in the Soaring Heaven Pavilion, Nan Tianguan and Yu Jiang had finally received the leader of the Three Heroes of the Nan Clan—Nan Tianxiong.
Nan Tianxiong had just returned from a mission and had not yet changed out of his ferocious black armor. Seated in the master's chair, he looked with an awe-inspiring expression at Yu Jiang, who lay prostrate on the ground trembling and not daring to move, and then at Nan Tianguan beside him, whose face was taut with tension.
Only when the sheer pressure had left the two of them gasping for breath did Nan Tianxiong suppress his anger and speak: "I was away from the island on a mission for a mere two months, and such a great calamity befalls us? Not only did Old Three lose his life, but you failed to bring the true culprit back. Second Brother, you have disappointed me greatly!"
As he spoke, Nan Tianxiong—fresh from ruthless slaughter—let his killing intent and mighty aura bear down, pressing Yu Jiang, a fine hand of the mid-Foundation Establishment stage, flat against the ground, not daring to stir in the slightest.
After all, the man before them was a being who stood above even Nan Tianguan, who was at the great perfection of the Foundation Establishment stage—a true expert of the Golden Core stage, a formidable figure regarded throughout the Triple Stack Pavilion as a pillar of strength!
Not only Yu Jiang—even Nan Tianguan, the august senior disciple and steward of the Soaring Heaven Pavilion, now had fine beads of cold sweat all over his forehead.
"Eldest Brother, it is not that I do not wish to avenge Old Three. But I have already laid the whole matter out for you in detail. Behind this Kang Jingming stands not only Xu Lingchong but even the eldest young miss of the Shangguan family. This is no trifling matter—I truly dared not act rashly," Nan Tianguan said with a grim face, pouring out his grievances.