The Wulong branch family, the Long Quan branch family, and several other branch families had united to stand up to the main family. The youths from the various branch families were the ones currently attempting to lure Lu Yin away from Hidden Dragon Lake.

Given that Long Qi’s ceremony to accept Humility’s Gate’s Commander as his master was imminent and that he would also perform the ritual to worship the clan’s ancestors at the same time, the youths all expected it to be very difficult to lure Long Qi away from Hidden Dragon Lake. For this reason, they had prepared several back-up plans. For example, they had intended to gradually reveal how a young man from the Wulong branch family might have had a relationship that had exceeded mere friendship with Long Xi. If Long Qi was able to endure even that, them they had even more prepared.

They had even taken Xiao Qing into account when creating their plans—one of their plans was to bully Xiao Qing in order to anger Lu Yin.

They had spent several days developing their plans before finally taking action.

However, they had never expected that the moment the Wulong branch family’s young master uttered his first provocation—no, he did not even make it that far! A single word of challenge had triggered Long Qi into responding with the aura of someone who was absolutely unrivaled by any peer.

At the edge of Hidden Dragon Lake, the young master of the Wulong branch family blankly...