Early in the morning, the Ye Family gathered in Ye Tianming’s courtyard.

Ye Tianming looked around at his family and said calmly, "Ye Xiu has arrived in Yunluo City. At a little after three this morning, he called me and asked if the members of the Ye Family had washed their necks yet."

What? The faces of all the Ye Family members changed drastically.

"Dad, let’s run! Given Ye Xiu’s hatred for us, he’ll kill every last one of us," Ye Xiu’s father, Ye Zhong, said fearfully from his wheelchair.

"Grandfather, don’t hesitate! If we don’t run now, the Ye Family is finished," said Ye Xuan, trembling in his wheelchair. Ye Xiu had broken his legs.

The other members of the Ye Family also frantically urged Ye Tianming to lead them in an escape. Faced with Ye Xiu’s wrath, they didn’t even have the courage to resist.

Ye Xiaokang said nothing to persuade them. He was the only one in the family, aside from Ye Tianming, who knew that Ye Xiu was Huang Quan.

Run? Huang Quan’s power terrified the world; his eyes and ears were everywhere. Unless the Ye Family could escape Earth itself, there was no chance of survival.

"We don’t need to run." Ye Tianming smiled and said, "There’s some good news I haven’t shared with you yet. Last night, the Wang Family added the Ye Family to the Mist Chant Martial Meeting’s sponsorship team. Now, even if Ye Xiu were a hundred times bolder, he wouldn’t dare touch us. When he called me earlier, I told him as much, and he was so angry he hung up on the spot."

Oh? Upon hearing this good news, the worry and fear on every Ye Family member’s face vanished instantly.

Ye Xiaokang said, "That really is good news. However, the three Judicator Families will only protect sponsors until the Mist Chant Martial Meeting concludes. Once it’s over, the Judicator Families won’t intervene, even if Ye Xiu decides to grind us into minced meat."

"And what if Ye Xiu doesn’t live to see the end of the Mist Chant Martial Meeting?" Ye Tianming asked with a smile.

The members of the Ye Family were all startled for a moment.

Ye Xiaokang said excitedly, "That’s right! Before the Mist Chant Martial Meeting ends, we can use our status as sponsors to have the three Judicator Families kill Ye Xiu."

"Exactly. That’s precisely what I mean!" A sinister smile curled Ye Tianming’s lips as he instructed, "Xiaokang, immediately spread the news that the Marrow Cleansing Pill is in Ye Xiu’s hands. Hmph, once this gets out, Ye Xiu will become the target of every Martial Artist, Extraordinary Abilities Holder, and Totem Inheritor in the world. The Wang Family and all the other sponsors will also come after him for the Marrow Cleansing Pill. The moment he can’t hold back and kills a sponsor or a Totem Inheritor, he’s doomed."

"Okay, I’ll release the news right now." Ye Xiaokang immediately took out his phone, opened the Martial Artist forum, and meticulously crafted a post detailing the Marrow Cleansing Pill auction in Jin Ye City before publishing it.

「...」

By the time Ye Xiu arrived at the Imperial River Castle in Yunluo City, it was already broad daylight.

Qin Qing, Gong Jin, An Dongye, and Chloe hadn’t slept at all. They were sitting in the living room waiting for him. When he returned, his face was expressionless. He completely ignored them and went straight upstairs to sleep.

The four women looked at each other.

"Gong Jin, go ask him where he went and why he only just got back at dawn," Qin Qing said.

Gong Jin said to Chloe, "You go ask."

Chloe said to An Dongye, "You go ask."

An Dongye glanced at Qin Qing. "What am I, the senior wife?"

Qin Qing was speechless. "..."

Ye Xiu slept until noon before getting up.

Seeing him come downstairs, Qin Qing, Gong Jin, and Chloe all shot meaningful looks at An Dongye.

You could have asked him yourselves. Why force me to do it? Do you really think I’m the senior wife? An Dongye grumbled inwardly, but asked aloud, "Little brother, where did you go after we parted ways at the airport? Why did you only get back at dawn?"

"I called Ye Tianming and found out the Wang Family pulled the Ye Family into the sponsorship team. So, I went and performed a kidney removal surgery on Wang Chaoyang. After that, I found Ming Yue. Through her, I located Second Dog and killed him."

Ye Xiu didn’t hide anything, telling them the truth.

Hearing this, the expressions of Qin Qing and the other women immediately turned grave. While the death of Second Dog was good news, the Ye Family becoming sponsors was terrible news for them.

"What are your plans now?" Qin Qing asked. She could tell that Ye Xiu must be in a terrible mood.

"I haven’t decided yet. I’m waiting for the Ye and Long families to make their move," Ye Xiu said, pouring a glass of water and taking a sip.

"The Ye Family has already made their move," Gong Jin said.

"Hmm?" Ye Xiu responded.

Gong Jin quickly explained, "Ye Xiaokang posted on the Martial Artist forum, claiming the Marrow Cleansing Pill from the auction in Jin Ye City is in your possession. The general managers of our Ming Feng Tower branches worldwide have been sending us messages about it. On top of that, all our branches in major cities have received orders from clients, asking us to confirm the truth of Ye Xiaokang’s post and to find your location."

"That’s a good move. Vicious and ruthless," Ye Xiu said coldly, his eyes narrowing. "Sell both pieces of intel. The confirmation of Ye Xiaokang’s post goes for 10 million. My whereabouts go for 100 million. Just reveal that I’m in Yunluo City."

Qin Qing, Gong Jin, and Chloe were startled. Ye Xiu was trying to draw everyone in the world who coveted the Marrow Cleansing Pill to Yunluo City.

An Dongye’s eyes lit up. That one sentence from her little brother could rake in tens of billions, at the very least! Selling information is so lucrative!

Gong Jin continued, "The head of the Wang Family, Wang Yue, called the director of the Ming Feng Tower branch in Yunluo City to ask for your address here."

"So the Wang Family is determined to make an enemy of me." A cold light flashed in Ye Xiu’s eyes as he said, "Tell the Wang Family. While you’re at it, release a public notice that tomorrow night, at eleven o’clock, you will personally preside over an auction at the Ming Feng Tower branch in Yunluo City. The item for sale will be my address."

Qin Qing, Gong Jin, An Dongye, and Chloe were momentarily stunned. They didn’t understand what Ye Xiu was planning, but they had a vague feeling it was a crafty move.

"Alright!" Gong Jin said, accepting her orders.

"Let’s go. We’ll find something to eat," Ye Xiu said with a smile.

His smile reassured the four women, indicating that he already had a plan.

「...」

Simultaneously, in major cities all over the world, everyone who had placed an order with Ming Feng Tower for "confirmation of Ye Xiaokang’s post" and "Ye Xiu’s whereabouts" received a text message from Ming Feng Pavilion.

After making their payments, they acquired the information they wanted.

Ye Xiaokang’s post was true.

Ye Xiu was in Xuanse Yunluo City.

In an instant, everyone who bought the information immediately assembled their people and rushed to the airport, intending to head to Xuanse Yunluo City to seize the Marrow Cleansing Pill.

However, they didn’t make it to the airport.

On the Martial Artist forum, they saw a new post from Gong Jin, the owner of Ming Feng Tower.

The post’s title was: "Ye Xiu’s Address"!

When everyone who saw the post excitedly opened it, they were frustrated to find it was pay-to-view.

The price to view the content: 10,000 gold!

When the many people who paid opened the post, they were even more frustrated!

The content was:

"Tomorrow night at eleven o’clock, Ye Xiu’s address in Yunluo City will be publicly auctioned at the Ming Feng Tower branch."

What about the promised address? We spent 10,000 gold just for news about an auction?

And those who had spent 100 million for the intel that ’Ye Xiu is in Xuanse Yunluo City’ were so furious they could spit blood when they paid to see the post’s content.

This post blatantly told everyone that Ye Xiu was, in fact, in Yunluo City.

If we had known we could find out Ye Xiu was in Yunluo City for just 10,000 gold, we wouldn’t have spent 100 million on that intel! Ming Feng Pavilion is such a damn rip-off! This is shameless fleecing!