Ye Luo had been waiting for the Yingchen Family’s response. Even though Yingchen Wen was already detained in the Sky Prison, there had been merely occasional interrogations, without any formal investigation.

Finally, Ye Luo got what he was waiting for.

"Your Highness, there is someone outside claiming to be an emissary from the Yingchen Family requesting an audience."

On this day, as Ye Luo was still waiting for news, a guard from the Yun Family came in to report to Ye Luo.

"They’ve finally arrived!"

Ye Luo slightly raised the corners of his mouth. He had been waiting for three whole days!

In these three days, Ye Luo had not even stepped out of the Cloud Manor, waiting for the Yingchen Family to contact him!

One could say everything that happened was within Ye Luo’s expectations, exactly as he had anticipated!

"Let’s go, let’s meet the people from the Yingchen Family!"

Ye Luo said to Yun Liancheng, and upon saying this, he directly walked towards the door, with no intention of letting the people from the Yingchen Family come inside!

Yun Liancheng did not know why Ye Luo was acting this way. In Yun Liancheng’s eyes, Ye Luo’s actions seemed inexplicable, yet neither Yun Liancheng nor anyone else around Ye Luo questioned him. They believed that Ye Luo must have his reasons for arranging things this way.

Soon, Ye Luo arrived outside the main gate, where a group of people was waiting for him.

Seeing Ye Luo emerge, those people respectfully knelt to the ground.

"Wei Chen Yingchen Lianjue greets the Ninth Prince!"

Their attitude was very good. According to propriety, one does not strike the smiling face. At this time, Ye Luo ought to absolve them and allow them to rise.

But Ye Luo did not do so at all, and indeed he never intended to.

Ye Luo stood there, looking at Yingchen Lianjue with disdain.

Yingchen Lianjue, after waiting for a while without hearing Ye Luo speak, raised his head instinctively, and only saw Ye Luo looking at him with contempt.

"People of the Yingchen Family? Speak, what business do you have with this Prince?"

An uneasy feeling arose in Yingchen Lianjue’s heart. Just from Ye Luo’s attitude, he already knew that this mission would not be easy to accomplish!

But Yingchen Lianjue still steeled himself to state his mission!

"Your Highness, I have come on behalf of the Yingchen Family. Our family wishes to resolve the matter concerning Yingchen Wen peacefully. Although we do not know how Yingchen Wen offended Your Highness, the Yingchen Family is willing to compensate for all losses. We ask Your Highness to be merciful and forgive Yingchen Wen!"

Ye Luo looked at Yingchen Lianjue. Forgive Yingchen Wen, how could that be possible?

Not only would Ye Luo not forgive Yingchen Wen, but he also intended to deal with this opportunity-laden Yingchen Lianjue altogether. Simply put, Ye Luo’s goal this time was to annihilate the Yingchen Family because he was determined to obtain the small world of the Dragon Clan in their possession!

Does it seem unreasonable? Yes, precisely unreasonable. However, that is the true Martial Realm!

Survival of the fittest — it’s either you die or I die!

If one doesn’t act for oneself, heaven and earth will destroy them; in the Martial Realm, there is no reason to be discussed!

Do you truly think Ye Luo’s current approach lacks reason, and do you believe it defies common sense?

Wrong, in fact, whether it’s the Yingchen Family or any other noble family, which one hasn’t done similar things?

Only Ye Luo is doing it a bit more directly!

"Forgive him? Or forgive you all? Your Yingchen Family’s collusion with the Demon Clan — such matters are not something I can forgive by merely saying so. You should first ask the people of the Great Tang Empire if they are willing to agree. Well, I’m in a good mood today and don’t feel like killing you. Go back and tell your Family Head to wash his neck and wait for the word from the Ministry of Punishment!"

With a wave of his hand, Ye Luo left behind a stunned Yingchen Lianjue and directly turned to leave.

As for Yingchen Lianjue, he knelt there bewildered. Before coming, he had envisioned numerous scenarios of meeting Ye Luo, but never had he thought the actual meeting would turn out like this!

Ye Luo didn’t even give him a chance to speak!

Returning to the Yun Family, Ye Luo asked Yun Liancheng, "So, how goes the investigation I tasked you with? Does the Yingchen Family have any substantial charges?"

As Ye Luo intended to deal with the Yingchen Family, he naturally dispatched people to investigate them. During these three days, Ye Luo had already sent many personnel to the Yingchen Family’s fiefdom.

Yun Liancheng stepped forward and said to Ye Luo, "Your Highness, aren’t you asking the obvious? Anyone’s rise among our Great Tang’s noble families is built on countless corpses. Some families step on the corpses of their enemies, while others do so on the corpses of their own!"

"When the Yingchen Family helped the first Emperor establish the foundation of the Great Tang Empire, they had slain countless enemies. However, after establishing the Great Tang, almost every noble family, Yingchen included, continuously annexed other families to build the present Yingchen Family."

"Your Highness, such methods are part of the hallmark of noble families in the Great Tang, hardly considered a criminal act, right?"

Yun Liancheng said to Ye Luo, with a tone that suggested he did not take the annexation among families seriously.

After all, in the Great Tang Empire, annexation by noble families had long become a norm—not just noble families. Even the small families and forces beyond the Imperial Capital were engaged in mutual annexation every day.

Swallow others, grow oneself; otherwise, be swallowed by others.

Such annexation had been ongoing in the Great Tang Empire for countless years and was not even considered a matter anymore!

Of course, this is hardly anything significant; however, if Ye Luo wanted to deal with the Yingchen Family, then it was already enough!

Yun Liancheng handed Ye Luo a dossier, intelligence gathered by the spies sent out, which, in fact, contained information many were already aware of!

This dossier documented the Yingchen Family’s annexation of other families over the past hundred years. Since it was so easily obtained, it simply meant the Yingchen Family had little to conceal.

Ye Luo opened it casually, but what it recorded made him slightly stunned.

It was true that he intended to deal with the Yingchen Family, but initially, Ye Luo even considered framing charges because, in his eyes, the Yingchen Family didn’t seem to have committed offenses significant enough for him to justify eliminating them.

However, after seeing this dossier, Ye Luo realized the real brutality of the Martial Realm and what truly meant rolling a snowball!

According to the records, a hundred years ago, the territory controlled by the Yingchen Family was only fifty cities!