Yang Kai’s look clearly indicated that the reason he was summoned to the Yang Family wasn’t a good one. Several thoughts turned over in Qiu Yi Meng’s mind, but she didn’t dare to immediately ask, instead just silently ushering him into the mansion.
Inside the main hall, the young leaders of many forces gathered together.
They had all heard about Yang Kai being recalled to the Central Capital and naturally wanted to know why.
A dozen pairs of eyes looked straight at Yang Kai, waiting for him to speak. The hall was so quiet one could hear a pin drop.
“I have good news and bad news.” Yang Kai let out a long breath and looked around, “Which would you like to hear first?”
“Since there’s both good and bad,” Huo Xing Chen grinned and shook his head, “Then let’s hear the bad new first. It can’t be worse than the news we received this morning.”
Yang Kai’s expression changed, although he did not know what Huo Xing Chen was talking about; he temporarily didn’t go into it. If anything of paramount importance had happened in War City, Qiu Yi Meng would definitely have already informed him.
“The bad news is that only two of the Blood Warriors who have pledged their support to me will be allowed to participate in the Inheritance War. The rest will not be able to contribute anything and must immediately stand down.”
“What?” Everyone called out in shock; Qiu Yi Meng frowned deeply and solemnly asked, “What do you mean?”
Letting out a sigh, Yang Kai simply explained the family’s decision.
After comprehending the deeper meaning of his words, everyone became filled with indignation and anger.
“What the hell!” Huo Xing Chen yelled, “Does your Yang Family think this is some kind of child’s play? Can they just alter the rules of Inheritance War so haphazardly?”
“That’s right, how could they do this?”
“If this is put in place, the gap in strength between us and the others has been shortened greatly.”
Everyone was shouting and accusing the Yang Family Elder Hall, even the cold beauty Han Xiao Qi wore a look of anger on her face.
Originally, their position was all but invincible. With seven Blood Warriors on his side, Yang Kai had more than enough strength to sweep away all the remaining Yang Family Young Lords, but now, it would undoubtedly be significantly harder.
“Yang Kai, didn’t you resist your Yang Family Elder Hall’s decision? These Blood Warriors all willingly came to support you. Are you really going to let them be recalled for some bullshit reason?” Huo Xing Chen shouted angrily.
“Enough!” Qiu Yi Meng took a deep breath and shouted, when she heard this news just now she also felt a suffocating anger in her chest, but after calming down, she soon noticed that even as Yang Kai explained this detrimental situation, he didn’t have an unpleasant look on his face.
From this she could tell that he didn’t actually care about this result.
“What’s the good news?” Qiu Yi Meng turned to Yang Kai and asked, “Let’s hear it.”
The crowd suddenly quieted down and looked at Yang Kai.
The corners of Yang Kai’s mouth slowly rose until a wide smile appeared on his face, “The good news has nothing to do with you, it doesn’t even have anything to do with the Inheritance War, it’s solely about me.”
“From now on, all the Blood Warriors here, and those that pledge their support to me in the future, will become loyal only to me!”
When everyone heard this, they all froze up and didn’t know what to say, but after thinking about it for a moment they quickly realized the incredible benefits of this.
“Seriously?” Dong Qing Han stuttered, his expression filled with disbelief, “Did the Yang Family really agree to that?”
“Yes!”
“What the hell!” Huo Xing Chen also gawked.
Qiu Yi Meng wore a wry smile and shook her head slowly, “Yang Kai, you’ve really made a big profit this time.”
So many Blood Warriors, from now on pledging loyalty only to Yang Kai, which was to say that no matter whether he could win the final victory in the Inheritance War or not, his position in the Yang Family will not be low!
With so many Blood Warriors as followers, how could his status be anything but great? He would at least become one of the top Elders!
Yang Family Elder, such a character was at least comparable to the patriarch of a first-class force!
“The family probably agreed to my condition because they felt pressured to give me some kind of appropriate answer.” Yang Kai chuckled, “If it weren’t for them meddling in things like this, I wouldn’t have been able to fish up such a big advantage.”
Qiu Yi Meng gently nodded, “In the short term, this is indeed bad news for the Inheritance War, but in the long-term it is quite beneficial for you. In any case, first and foremost, congratulations.”
This sentiment was loudly echoed by everyone in the hall.
Yang Kai smiled lightly, but as was about to speak, he noticed that everyone seemed to be hiding a faint sense of worry, causing him to knit his brow and ask, “Did something happen last night?”
He had only been gone for one night, yet his allies had such a dramatic change of look, something big must have transpired after he had left.
Hearing his question, everyone awkwardly coughed and looked away.
Qiu Yi Meng also smiled bitterly, “Nothing gets past you, and I was just going to tell you about it.”
Letting out a deep sigh, she continued, “Like you, I also have good news and bad news, which one do you want to listen to first?”
“The bad news!” Yang Kai immediately said.
“Yang Ying… forfeited!”
“What?” Yang Kai was dumbstruck.
“You heard right, your Seventh Brother, Yang Ying, forfeited last night!”
“What happened?” Yang Kai’s brow wrinkled, this was a development he had not anticipated.
At this point, there were only four Young Lords remaining in the Inheritance War.
Yang Wei, Yang Zhao, Yang Kai, and Yang Ying! Among the four, Yang Kai had the largest number of masters; with just the seven Blood Warriors he had the strength to overwhelm everyone else, not to mention Old Demon and Meng Wu Ya.
On the other hand, Yang Ying had the most supporting forces and the largest number of people, none of the other three came anywhere close.
After Yang Kai’s sneak attack on Yang Shen’s compound where he successfully obtained his flag, all of Yang Shen’s allies, with the exception of the two Blood Warriors, were gathered by Yang Ying.
In other words, Yang Ying currently possessed the combined forces of two Young Lords!
No matter how one looked at it, Yang Ying wasn’t the weakest of the four.