Chapter 466

If this Ding Xuan's aptitude were a bit higher, his future achievements would likely be considerable.

Thinking of this, the crowd couldn't help but speak up and began offering praise.

Listening to the voices around him, although Ding Xuan appeared calm on the surface, inwardly he was already overjoyed.

He was well aware that his performance just now had once again earned him a deeper measure of goodwill from these elders of the ancestral estate.

And while this goodwill showed no obvious effect at present,

in the future, it might well provide him with a stroke of opportunity and fortune!

This is called:

casting a long line to catch a big fish!

Not long after.

Ding Xuan, carrying Jiang Hongsong on his back, followed the group of ancestral estate elders and smoothly ascended to the top of the steps!

Here stood the Jiang family's Shanmen, renovated and rebuilt many times, now grand and imposing!

At the Shanmen, seven youths radiating the aura of the Innate Realm stood in place!

Before them stood a burly man with a cold expression, a saber at his waist.

Ding Xuan looked up.

The instant he saw this burly man, he suddenly froze.

"Commander.... Zhao Hu?"

He had never imagined that Zhao Hu, who had once been let go by the Jiang clan leader, would actually appear at the Shanmen.

And judging by his stance, the more he looked, the more it seemed like.... he was guarding the gate?

Thinking of this, Ding Xuan was struck with sudden alarm and cried out that it was impossible!

He knew very well just how absolute this Commander's loyalty to Prefecture Lord Sima Nan truly was!

Although he wasn't certain whether Zhao Hu would seek revenge against the Jiang family,

he was quite sure that even unto death, the man would never serve the Jiang family!

Just as Ding Xuan was sinking into a state of doubting his entire existence—

all the ancestral estate elders felt a wave of astonishment!

The name Zhao Hu carried no small weight throughout all of Tiandou Prefecture.

As the mouthpiece of Prefecture Lord Sima Nan, he was known to numerous factions.

In the past, a fearsome figure like him would only need to breathe once to reduce the Jiang family to ashes and dust of history!

But now, why had he suddenly appeared at the Shanmen of Cangwu?

Had he come to seek revenge?

The crowd was deeply puzzled, racking their brains without an answer.

And at this moment, Zhao Hu, who had been thoroughly bored, also noticed this group of people who had just ascended the mountain.

His gaze swept swiftly across the crowd.

Finally settling on Ding Xuan.

"Oh? City Lord Ding?"

At this moment, Zhao Hu's expression suddenly turned strange.

He couldn't help recalling how he had once asked that Sima dog thief how to deal with Ding Xuan.

But fate is always full of twists and turns.

How could he ever have imagined—

that one day, he would actually end up in the same camp as the man, both serving the Jiang family!

Fate is truly wondrous.....

Zhao Hu sighed.

Then shook his head, preparing to say something.

But just then, Ding Xuan stepped forward and asked in puzzlement: "Zhao True Person, why are you here?"

Zhao Hu was, after all, a powerhouse of the Star Wheel Realm.

And he had seemingly joined the Jiang family to boot.

By every rule of reason and propriety, he had to give the man face—calling him by name directly would not do; he needed to address him with an honorific.

With those words spoken—

recalling the reunion of old acquaintances, Zhao Hu did not continue to keep a stony face.

His expression eased slightly, and he said in a deep voice: "I have now decided to serve the Cangwu Jiang family....."

"The Clan Leader has specially bestowed upon me the post of Mountain-Guarding Elder, to hold the Shanmen for the Jiang family henceforth!"

At these words, the surrounding ancestral estate elders couldn't help but break into discussion.

They had never expected that Zhao Hu, once Sima Nan's right-hand man, would actually submit to their Jiang family.

And merely as a Mountain-Guarding Elder guarding the gate at that!

At this moment, the crowd gained a deeper understanding of just how much weight the four characters "Cangwu Jiang Family" carried!

And at this moment, upon hearing Zhao Hu's answer, Ding Xuan was even more shaken to the core.

Even though he had witnessed the Jiang clan leader slay Sima Nan in a single strike atop the Northern Dipper Mountain,

he had never imagined that the present-day Cangwu Jiang family had become so extravagant.

To actually station a powerhouse of the ninth level of the Star Wheel Realm like Zhao Hu to guard the gate!