536: Chapter 536 They're here!

Ye Chen couldn't help but laugh upon hearing this. "Oh? You're not saying I'm causing trouble anymore?"

Xuanyuan Huo coughed dryly.

"Forget I said that. If you can catch all those guys in one fell swoop, never mind causing trouble—even if you poked a hole in the sky, I would cover for you!"

Ye Chen raised an eyebrow. "Old Master, your attitude changed a bit too quickly, didn't it?"

"What's quick about it?"

Xuanyuan Huo huffed irritably. "If you want to be the Dragon Group Captain, I can step down and let you take over right now!"

When Ye Chen heard this, he immediately grew anxious. "No, no, no, I don't want that thing."

"What? You look down on it?" Xuanyuan Huo said, displeased. "Do you know how many people are eyeing this position, wanting it but unable to get it?"

"It's not that I look down on it."

Ye Chen gave a cheeky grin. "If I become the Captain, who's going to clean up my messes?"

Xuanyuan Huo: "..."

Good grief!

So he was just a role for cleaning up messes?

He took a deep breath, trying hard to suppress the urge to curse.

"Fine, fine, let's not talk about such useless things."

"I'll handle the matters regarding the Gates Family; you just focus on dealing with the Holy Sect."

Ye Chen nodded. "Understood."

"Remember," Xuanyuan Huo added as something came to mind, "leave a survivor."

"Don't worry." Ye Chen smiled. "I am a very reasonable person."

Xuanyuan Huo snorted coldly. "You, reasonable? By the time you're being 'reasonable', the other party is basically already a dead man."

Ye Chen: "..."

What kind of talk was that from this old man?

Just as he was about to retort, a busy signal came from the other end of the line.

Xuanyuan Huo had hung up.

Ye Chen looked at the phone screen, shook his head helplessly, and tucked the phone back into his pocket.

Looking up, he found everyone at the dining table staring at him.

Li Qin was the first who couldn't hold back, leaning in to ask in a low voice.

"Younger Male Cousin, who were you on the phone with?"

Ye Chen glanced at her and said indifferently, "The Dragon Group Captain, Xuanyuan Huo."

Li Qin's mouth formed an 'O' shape.

"Is it that..."

"The legendary Old Master Xuanyuan, who can make the entire Dragon Country's Martial Arts World tremble just by stomping his foot?"

She knew Ye Chen had joined the Dragon Group.

But she hadn't expected...

That Ye Chen's attitude toward that man would be so "casual"?

"Something like that," Ye Chen nodded.

Li Qin grew curious. "Then when you said you didn't want to be the Dragon Group Captain just now, were you serious or just pretending?"

Ye Chen rolled his eyes.

"Of course I was serious. Do I look like I'm that bored?"

"But..."

Li Qin counted on her fingers.

"The Dragon Group Captain!"

"My brother wanted to join the Dragon Group but couldn't find a way in, yet you..."

"Directly refused to be the Captain!"

Ye Chen shrugged. "If Brother Li wants to join, I can put in a word for him."

"Then thank you so much, Younger Male Cousin~"

Upon hearing this, Li Qin's eyes lit up.

If the setting hadn't been inappropriate, she would have pounced on him and given him a big kiss.

Bing Lan had remained silent throughout.

But she understood Ye Chen; this man never cared for empty fame.

All he cared about were the people and things that mattered to him.

No matter how good the position of Dragon Group Captain was, it wasn't as comfortable as being free and easy.

Ye Chen was about to speak when his brow suddenly furrowed.

Bing Lan noticed and asked softly, "What's wrong?"

Ye Chen took a deep breath and smiled.

"You guys finish breakfast first. I'm going out to check on a few big fish."

Bing Lan understood instantly, so she didn't ask further and simply nodded. "Be careful."

Zhuang Yufen and Ye Huasheng also looked at him with worried expressions.

Ye Chen gave a small smile to reassure everyone before turning to stride toward the door.

Seeing this, Euphemia hurriedly put down her chopsticks.

"I'm going too!"

She had been looking for a chance to be alone with Ye Chen!

However...

Bing Lan picked up her porridge bowl, took a leisurely sip, and then calmly uttered two words: "Sit down."

Her voice wasn't loud, and her tone was indifferent.

But Euphemia's feet seemed as if they were nailed down by something, coming to a dead stop right where she was.

She turned her head to look at Bing Lan.

Bing Lan didn't look at her, merely lowering her head to drink her porridge.

Euphemia sat back in her chair, dejected.

Then,

She picked up her chopsticks and poked at the white porridge in her bowl, muttering, "Fine, I won't go then..."

Li Qin watched this scene, her eyes wide as she chewed on a bun.

She leaned toward Liu Qingluo's ear and lowered her voice.

"Sister Qingluo, did you see that?"

"That is the authority of the main wife!"

Liu Qingluo: "..."

Bing Lan put down her porridge bowl and said calmly, "He's going to do serious business. You'll only cause trouble if you follow."

Euphemia looked up, wanting to retort, but upon meeting Bing Lan's eyes—which were as calm as still water—the words at the tip of her tongue were swallowed back down.

She suddenly began to understand why Ye Chen was so devoted to this woman.

It wasn't because she was beautiful, or gentle, or even because of some grand, passionate romance.

It was because...

She understood him.

She understood when he needed company and when he needed to be alone.

She understood when he should act and when he should let go.

This kind of tacit understanding wasn't something that could be cultivated overnight.

Euphemia lowered her head and obediently finished the porridge in her bowl without saying another word.

...

Meanwhile.

Ye Chen walked out of the building with his hands in his pockets, heading toward the residential area's garden.

His perception had been released the moment he stepped out of the elevator, spreading out like an invisible net covering a thousand-meter radius.

Soon,

He found his target.

Elder Wei A-Guer was squatting under a large banyan tree in a corner of the residential garden.

He hadn't slept all night.

It wasn't that he didn't want to sleep, but that he didn't dare to.

Ye Chen's warning from last night had his heart thumping wildly...

When Ye Chen walked over,

Elder Wei A-Guer gave a start and sprang up from the ground.

"Mr... Mr. Ye!"

He hurried forward in three steps to meet him, standing before Ye Chen with an attitude as respectful as an old eunuch meeting his master.

Ye Chen glanced at him and asked indifferently, "Are they here?"

Elder Wei A-Guer paused, then shook his head.

"They haven't come..."

"If they did, they should have called me."

After he made that call last night, he hadn't received any more calls.

He was currently feeling very apprehensive.

What if those old fogies had agreed readily to his face but turned around and sold him out?

The more Elder Wei A-Guer thought about it, the more uneasy he became.

However,

Ye Chen didn't say a word, merely looking toward the southeast.

Elder Wei A-Guer didn't know what he was looking at and didn't dare to ask, so he just stood obediently to the side, not even daring to breathe loudly.

But what he didn't know was...

Ye Chen's [Earth Vein Tracking] had already been fully released, his perception spreading out in all directions from him like a giant invisible net.

Consequently,

Even when he was upstairs, he had sensed eight or nine powerful forces rushing toward this location.

Sure enough,

The phone in Elder Wei A-Guer's pocket vibrated violently.

He scrambled to pull out his phone,

Only to find it was a call from Cherki.

Elder Wei A-Guer looked up and instinctively glanced at Ye Chen.

Ye Chen tilted his chin slightly, signaling him to answer.

Only then did Elder Wei A-Guer dare to take the call.

"Hello?"

From the other end, Cherki's voice came through: "Wei A-Guer, where are you?"

Elder Wei A-Guer gritted his teeth. "I'm in Xiamen City, near the Dijing Garden residential area."

"Exact location," Cherki pressed.

"The garden outside the East Gate."

Elder Wei A-Guer gave an approximate location. "You've arrived?"

"We're almost there."

Cherki's voice carried a hint of coldness. "Wei A-Guer, be ready to lead us to that Ye Chen. Today, nine of us have come, including the Sect Leader!"

"Ah?"

Elder Wei A-Guer was stunned. "Nine people? All the elders, the Sect Leader, and the Vice Sect Leader are all here?"

"Exactly!"

Cherki said in a heavy voice, "Karl is dead, and the news has already spread. There are several versions of what happened, so to avoid trouble coming to our door, Ye Chen must be killed!"

"I understand!"

Elder Wei A-Guer responded with a strange expression.

The next second,

Both sides hung up the phone.

...

A fleet of taxis stopped outside the East Gate of the residential area.

The car doors opened.

Nine people filed out.

They were all foreign elderly men, every one of them white-haired and appearing to be at least sixty or seventy years old.

Anyone who didn't know better would think they were a group of seniors here to do square dancing.

The leading elder wore a black robe, and his entire being exuded an indescribably eerie aura.

And he was none other than the Holy Sect Leader, Andre.

Behind him followed an elder also dressed in a black robe—the Vice Sect Leader, Igor.

Further back were seven elders in grey robes, varying in height and build, both male and female, but each had a cold glint in their eyes.

The nine people stood still at the entrance of the residential area.

Andre looked up, his lips curling into a cold sneer.

"Ye Chen..."

"Today, I shall see just how much ability you truly have."

He set off, taking the lead to enter the residential area's gates.

The eight people behind him followed without a word.

However...

Not long after the group entered, they suddenly saw two people ahead.

One person was sitting on a stone bench, while the other stood to the side with a humble, subservient look.

Everyone was stunned.

Because,

The one standing was... Elder Wei A-Guer!

And the one sitting was... Ye Chen!