Qian Ye slammed his glass onto the table, a fierce light in his eyes. "It's just bad luck! Maybe the young master just got tricked. After all, everyone else in the entire Zhu family died, and Zhu San failed his mission. Why would he be called over by the young master?"

"But he also knows Combat Doctrine, and he’s also supposedly turned in a very powerful battle technique," Ming Tai hesitantly commented.

All three young men fell silent.

Zi Shu suddenly spoke up. "We’ve always known that he failed his mission, but do either of you know what that mission actually was?"

Qian Ye and Ming Tai glanced at each other, as neither of them had any idea. After all, how could people with their status know anything about the missions given out by the Ce family?

"While I don't know what his mission was, it was in the Outerverse, so it shouldn’t have been anything too important or difficult," Ming Tai guessed.

Zi Shu's eyes flashed. "It’s natural to assume that a mission in the Outerverse is greatly inferior to any mission here in the Neoverse. However, the Zhu family was actually given Combat Doctrine to accomplish their mission, which is something that you and I, brothers, could never dream of. So, why did Zhu San get it? There’s only one possibility, which is that the mission given to the Zhu family was much more important than the tasks that we received."

Ming Tai felt quite puzzled. "I remembered that there was a time thousands of years...