Putting aside the conspiracy of the eight elders, at that very moment, inside the Lai Restaurant nearby:
Yang Fan listened as Tan Fang spoke about the internal affairs of the Shenwu Sect, his fingers curled slightly, tapping rhythmically against the tabletop. Although Tan Fang claimed that the leader of the Shenwu Sect did not approve of the nine elders collecting the Twelve Bronze Beasts and only wanted to stabilize the sect's standing in the Long Kingdom, the problem remained: the reason Huo Chuan held this view was that he did not know the true purpose of the Twelve Bronze Beasts!
If the nine elders had not kept him in the dark and had laid their cards on the table sooner, Huo Chuan likely wouldn't have developed such thoughts.
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