“Insolence! Ye Fan, don’t go too far. Even if your grandfather were here, he wouldn’t dare to speak to my father like this. Who do you think you are…”
Ma Wei had just been insulted by Ye Fan at the door, calling him a dog, which was already suffocating enough for him.
Now that Ye Fan was even bullying his own father, if it weren’t for the fact that this was the Ma Family Estate, Ma Wei might have wanted to pull out his battle saber and make a move on Ye Fan.
“Young Master Ma, I’m giving you face, so you’d better speak less! Don’t forget, based on what your dad said, your life is in my hands now. If you anger me, I could chop you down with one blade, and Master Ma wouldn’t say a word, right? Elder Master Ma?”
As Ye Fan spoke, he deliberately turned to Ma Wencai to inquire.
Although Ma Wencai was so angry he was almost hurt internally, he had indeed said as much just now, and with Ye Fan questioning him like this, he had no grounds to object, “Young Master Ye is correct!”
Ma Wencai coldly glared at Ma Wei, “Shut your mouth!”
This fool, if he can’t speak properly, then he shouldn’t babble!
His own idiot son, despite being decades older than Ye Fan, why does he have the brain of a pig? He’s nowhere near Ye Fan’s level!
“There’s another matter, Elder Master Ma. The head of the Xia Family in the Provincial City, Xia Hao, is a very good friend of mine… I’ve heard recently that the Ma Family has been deliberately making things difficult for the Xia Family in many ways. I urge Elder Master Ma to order everyone to stop their actions now, I’m waiting!”
Ye Fan looked intently at Ma Wencai, leaving no room for negotiation.
Two things!
One is for the Ma Family to give way on the Qing Family’s crucial project, and the other is to stop suppressing the Xia Family.
But both of these tasks were key missions specifically assigned by the higher-ups; how could Ma Wencai dare to order a halt?
“Young Master Ye, this puts me in a difficult position… Regarding the Qing Family’s project, we’re all relying on our abilities, and in matters of business, it seems a bit inappropriate for Young Master Ye to coerce so forcefully, doesn’t it? As for the Xia Family’s plight, I have heard about it, but I was never aware that these matters had anything to do with the Ma Family.”
“However, since Young Master Ye has mentioned it, I will certainly send someone to investigate immediately, and I will definitely give Young Master Ye an explanation as soon as possible, how does that sound?”
Ma Wencai said this verbally, but inwardly, he was extremely shocked.
Ye Fan had only been in Flower Capital for a short two days, yet it seemed like he had understood all the situations in Flower Capital clearly.
Setting aside the Qing Family’s issue, how did the Ma Family’s carefully concealed arrangements get exposed?
“Ma Wencai, if you didn’t hear me clearly, let me repeat it. I’m not here to wait for your investigation, I’m not here to discuss, but to command, you must act immediately! My patience is very limited!”
Ye Fan shook his head, disagreeing outright with the proposal Ma Wencai had made.
Ye Fan’s aggressive stance caused Ma Wencai’s brows to furrow even more, “Young Master Ye, Mr. Ma has also made himself very clear. If Young Master Ye continues to press for the impossible, it would be unreasonable! Furthermore, it seems Young Master Ye might not be aware of the current situation. The Ye Family is no longer the Ye Family of the past, and the Ma Family is not the Ma Family of old either… Please leave, Young Master Ye…”
“Also, allow me to offer a piece of sincere advice to Young Master Ye! It would be best for Young Master Ye to leave Great Xia immediately and find a secluded place to live quietly. Perhaps then you might preserve some bloodline for the Ye Family… Otherwise, once you step out of the Ma Family Estate’s doors, what might happen, Mr. Ma cannot guarantee!”
Threat!
This was a blatant threat!
Slap!
Without any hesitation, Ye Fan raised his hand and slapped Ma Wencai across the face, making Ma Wencai see stars, “Ma Wencai, it seems you’ve forgotten your place? Once you were my grandfather’s adjunct, I respected you and called you Elder Master Ma. Without my respect, I could cut you down with my saber, would you dare to fart then?”
Hiss!
The crisp sound of the slap echoed in the hall, and both the guards in the hall and those at the door were stunned by what they saw.
This Young Master Ye is really too fierce!
As a grandson of Ma Wencai’s generation, he should have been courteous when meeting Ma Wencai, right?
Not only did Ye Fan dare to challenge Ma Wencai, but he even dared to slap Ma Wencai. This was literally shitting on the Ma Family’s head!
A tolerance for the intolerable!
“Ah! Insolence… Ye Fan, do you really think I wouldn’t dare to do anything to you? Come, teach him a lesson for me, as if I were educating you on behalf of your grandfather!” Ma Wencai’s face turned an iron blue as he clutched his bleeding mouth, berating the bodyguards in the hall.
A group of a dozen or so people, upon receiving the order, immediately rushed towards Ye Fan like mad.
The bodyguards in the inner hall, unlike those outside, were dead soldiers trained by Ma Wencai, all absolutely obedient to his commands.
“Hmph! Do you think this trash could kill me?” Ye Fan smirked lightly, waved his hand, and a stream of Qi force surged out, forming a barrier of Gang Qi around him that kept the martial arts experts at bay within three meters.
The strongest among those martial arts masters was merely at the Grandmaster Realm; Ye Fan simply needed to employ the Gang Qi of the Martial Venerable Realm to easily stop them in their tracks.
Experience tales at empire
Preventing them from advancing even an inch further!
And under the oppression of Ye Fan’s powerful aura, those martial arts experts actually knelt uncontrollably before Ye Fan.
“This…” Ma Wencai, witnessing the terrifying strength of Ye Fan, had his pupils shaking with shock, “Strength beyond the Martial Venerable Realm? Ye Fan, you…”
Ma Wencai was shocked, but even more so, he felt a sense of wonder.
Is this the innate talent of a monstrous genius?
Dazed for five years, and now he has broken through the Martial Venerable Realm?
No wonder Ye Fan was so arrogant. At just over twenty years old, he had already reached the Martial Venerable Realm, so it was completely possible for him to have hope of breaking through to the Martial Emperor Level before sixty!
Only, Ma Wencai had no idea that Ye Fan had already attained the power of the Martial Emperor Level.
“Ma Wencai, today you have no choice, you must do as I say! Do I really need to expose everything?” Ye Fan had already received the news that the entity in direct contact with the Ma Family was none other than Matsumoto Bilian from the Japanese Black Clothes Society!
“You’re not still waiting for news from Master Matsumoto, are you? You still hope that their operation to ambush Yu Linglong in Penglai Canyon will succeed?” Ye Fan stared coldly at Ma Wencai, shaking his last support with a single sentence, “I’ll tell you, Matsumoto Bilian has already died by my hand… Heh, the Black Clothes Society’s forces in Great Xia have almost been completely wiped out. You can no longer rely on them!”
What?
Ye Fan’s words made Ma Wencai’s body tremble. The look in his eyes when he saw Ye Fan was filled with fear!
How could Ye Fan possibly know everything?
He even knew about his contact with Matsumoto… and that Matsumoto had been killed? How was it that he was not aware of this news?
In fact, by normal reasoning, since the Ma Family was an important piece arranged in Flower Capital by those in power, they should have been notified of such a major operational failure and the complete annihilation of Matsumoto and the Black Clothes Society!
But the big shots had already realized that something was amiss and had started to disassociate themselves from Tang Zheng and Zhang Heng; naturally, they had no intention of sharing this news with the Ma Family!
On the one hand, it was to cut ties and avoid leaving any incriminating evidence. On the other hand, they wanted to exploit the Ma Family’s remaining value by having the Ma Family confront the Ye Family like the Zhang family did, depleting the Ye Family’s resources.
“You might not believe it, but you should recognize this bracelet from Matsumoto, right? Heh… Now that Matsumoto has perished, do you think your Ma Family can still make waves in front of my Ye Family?”
Ye Fan stared coldly at Ma Wencai, the previous smile disappeared from his eyes, replaced by a hint of chill and murderous intent…
If Ma Wencai really did not comply, then Ye Fan would indeed personally take action to slaughter them all…