Chapter 1757: The Capital Seethes With Excitement (1/2)

Though Yan Qingsang was loath to leave, the two youngafter that, Yan Wanjun temporarily dismissed his subordinates and left a letter in his residence before disappearing as well

It wasn’t until several days later that the rest of House Yan discovered his withdrawal The letter was delivered to the local elder in charge, Elder Liang, as soon as it was found

The elder paled after perusing the letter’s contents Venerated elder Yan Wanjun had left Cloud Camel Mountain; fro froiven was quite nebulous, which Elder Liang couldn’t make heads or tails of

The letter was quickly sent back to House Yan’s headquarters The patriarch smashed his fist into the tea table as soon as he read thethe expensive furniture

“Yan Wanjun, Yan Wanjun! You belong to House Yan, whether dead or alive! Do you think your crimes will be washed aith the ink in this letter? You fled in shameful fear Do you kno disastrous this will be for the house?!”

The patriarch was incensed He had engineered the plot via the Blackjade Coralplu of the spirit herb’s properties fro Grass beforehand, and how the ases would create a lethal poison

If his machinations had succeeded, Yan Wanjun would’ve died under unknown circuht in the end The patriarch was astonished when the news he received was quite different from what he expected He didn’t understand how Yan Wanjun had found out about the Blackjade Coralplum’s characteristics

How can this be? Informants had told him that Yan Wanjun had been quite pleased when the Coralplum was first delivered Further Grass Who would’ve expected things to end in failure after such a successful beginning?

Even if the plot had failed, the patriarch had been hopeful that Yan Wanjun wouldn’t discover anything – especially not the identity of the perpetrator The rest of the letter however, utterly dashed his hopes

What others didn’t understand was crystal clear to the patriarch’s eyes Yan Wanjun ell aware about the lethality of the Blackjade Coralplum and the patriarch’s culpability in the affair

He hadn’t pointed it out in order to preserve internal peace

But the patriarch was hardly going to be grateful at this juncture In fact, he was filled with resentment for the venerated elder

“Yan Wanjun, Yan Wanjun Do you think you can just leave after causing so rave the price will be for your stubbornness and stupidity?”

The patriarch gritted his teeth, his eyes glittering with savage light

Xiahou Zhen had threatened that many from the patriach’s own branch would be killed in Yan Wanjun’s stead Theof the past When his closest relatives were threatened, did Yan Wanjun’s life matter nearly as much?

Man was a selfish animal, and the Yan patriarch was no exception Thus, Yan Wanjun’s vanishment made his heart sink like a stone He could alhter in front of hi to ruin the rest of the house by leaving, Yan Wanjun?”

The venerated elder in question was tens of thousands of miles out by now He couldn’t possibly hear the patriarch’s angry roars

His graceful exit made waves in the entire house

Many venerated elders announced their desire for the patriarch to publicly strip away Yan Wanjun’s position as venerated elder Moreover, they requested that the patriarch issue a joint bounty to hunt down Yan Wanjun in all of Myriad Abyss The House’s elite would be sent out at the saestions were reasonable enough in isolation, but it was very difficult to actually carry any of them out

Announcements were easy to make, but more would become curious about the reason behind the departure Why would Yan Wanjun choose this tiether in favor of outright retirement after the Skymender Festival

Why would he choose to leave at this point rather than back then? What did the letter contain, exactly?

All kinds of conjecture filled House Yan’s halls, filling the listeners’ hearts with uncertainty and dread Most felt that there was so fishy about all this

Ruh the capital about the real reason behind Yan Wanjun’s exile The Yan patriarch had wanted to kill the elder! The venerated elder had escaped out of despair and fear, leaving behind only a letter to express his thoughts