While words clashed and tension hung heavy at Lu Qianjin's villa, the very same scene was playing out at Lord Hu's riverside villa.
After the Scorpion King arrived with his men, he discovered they numbered only eighteen in total—with just a single early-stage Huajin practitioner among them, while the rest were all at the hidden force level.
The Scorpion King felt neither qualified to control them nor capable of doing so. With over a hundred subordinates looking solely to him for leadership, they naturally refused to submit to discipline. What began as mere bickering had escalated into mutual shoving and open defiance.
Chapter 703