"I've seen your daughter before. She's so pretty and delicate, and she's still so attractive. She's a good girl. As for this Long Chen …"
Gu Batian glanced at Long Chen, then he smiled and said, "En, he's not bad. I've heard that you've defeated an Earth Core inner disciple. I'm looking forward to seeing your performance in the inner disciple selection …"
Long Chen knew, and Gu Batian could sense that Long Chen had already broken through to the Earth Core realm.
Gu Batian seemed to have a lot of confidence in Long Chen, and this confused Liu Yuan and Liu Lan.
But they just thought that Gu Batian was just being polite, so they didn't think too much about it.
"Since you're here, let's go in."
Gu Batian waved his hand, and Liu Yuan quickly followed. Although he wasn't young anymore, he was at least twenty years younger than Gu Batian, so he didn't dare to put on airs in front of Gu Batian.
Following Gu Batian, they walked into the Nine Devil Villa's meeting hall.
"Now, everyone is waiting for the inner disciples to show up. I'm curious, why is there only one disciple from the Green Clan? I just came out for a breath of fresh air, and I heard you shouting outside. Tell me, what's going on?" Gu Batian said lightly.
Liu Yuan had a bitter expression on his face, "This is all my fault. I was going to bring Long Chen to the Grand Elder's place, but we were delayed. The Grand Elder left first, so the three of us had to come here on our own. That's why we're a bit late."
Gu Batian laughed when he heard this.
"What bullshit are you talking about? With that old man Chu Tianxiong's narrow-minded mind, he must have seen that his grandson's little genius is having a conflict with Long Chen, so he set a trap for you. When I arrived in the afternoon, that old man was already here. I think he left before the sun came up. Using this trick at his age, this old man is really disgusting!"
Gu Batian scolded Chu Tianxiong from the beginning to the end. Long Chen was secretly pleased when he heard this, and Liu Yuan and Liu Lan were also looking at each other.
Gu Batian wasn't an idiot. When he saw that the Green family was missing a man, and then he remembered the rumor about the Mortal Core young genius from the Green family, he could roughly guess what had happened.
The meeting hall was the largest building in the Nine Devils Villa. It was also the place where the inner clans gathered for the selection. Now, the nine clans were already seated according to their seats. They were just waiting for the inner clans to appear. Then, they could start discussing the relevant matters.
The tables in front of each seat were filled with delicacies.
While the group was chatting happily, unexpectedly, Gu Batian, who had just gone out, actually brought back three people at this time.
Most of the people present did not recognize these three people.
In this group of people, the older ones were considered the elites of the older generation, while the younger ones were considered the elites of the younger generation. This lineup was still very large. Long Chen suddenly stood in such a position where everyone was looking at him, but he didn't have any fear.
Sweeping his gaze over the crowd, he recognized the young geniuses at a glance.
Just as he had expected, all of them were at the Early Earth Core Realm, and none of them were older than twenty years old.
A few of them were not any weaker than Chu Yunxi, and Jin Shengen was also here.
The seats were arranged according to gold, silver, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple. That was why Long Chen easily found the Green family's seat. In the Green family's seat, there were four people who were looking at him in astonishment. Their faces were cold.
Of these four people, there was naturally Chu Fengqing, his son and daughter, Chu Yunxi and Chu Yunyao. As for the one at the front, he was thin and small, but his eyes were filled with a piercing light. He wore a green robe, and his entire body was as sharp as a sword, causing Long Chen to not dare to look him in the eye.
"This person is the Great Elder of the Green family, Chu Tianxiong?
He is indeed terrifying! "
Long Chen was a little scared, but it didn't mean that he was afraid of him. Although they had never met before, Chu Tianxiong had already humiliated him once.
Beside Chu Tianxiong, Chu Yunxi saw Long Chen and Liu Lan appear. His eyes were filled with resentment, and his sister Chu Yunyao was the same.
Just as Long Chen and the other two were brought in, Gu Batian said with a smile, "Old Chu, I only went out to pee, and I brought back another genius from your family. Come, Long Chen, return to your seat in the family and let your Great Elder take good care of you!"
Gu Batian said and directly brought Long Chen and the other two to the Green family. There were enough seats prepared here, so they could barely sit down.
However, seeing that Long Chen's Liu Lan was beside them, Chu Yunxi and Chu Yunyao's faces turned ashen. They quickly moved to the side.
"Why are you moving?
Do you think I'm smelly?
Old Chu, your grandson is too outrageous. Come, sit properly for me. Don't move. "
Gu Batian pretended to be very angry. Chu Yunxi and Chu Yunyao were so scared that they didn't dare to move. They looked to Chu Tianxiong for help. Chu Tianxiong looked at Gu Batian indifferently and said, "Sit down. Why are you moving around?"
"That's right. Alright, this old man won't disturb you anymore."
After settling the matters here and settling Long Chen and the others, Gu Batian smiled at Chu Tianxiong and returned to the Purple family.
From the looks of it, Gu Batian and Chu Tianxiong should be the kind of lifelong enemy.
Even the inner race selection this time was likely to be a confrontation.
On the Purple family's side, besides people like Chu Fengqing, there were two other young men. One of them didn't feel much different from Chu Yunxi. These two men were probably the genius martial artists of the Purple family who would be participating in the inner race selection. At this time, they were looking at the newcomer, Long Chen, with great interest.
When Gu Batian returned to the Purple family's side, the Assembly Hall returned to silence. Everyone's gazes uniformly fell on Long Chen. They began to discuss in low voices. What they were discussing was the triangle relationship between Long Chen, Liu Lan, and Chu Yunxi. Among them, there were also evaluations of Long Chen's previous battles.
Long Chen's arrival had caused quite a bit of discussion.
Long Chen hid in the dark and was also secretly sizing up the people present.
Especially the nine outer race Elders, as well as the twenty or so genius martial artists who would be participating in the inner race selection.
There were too many people, so he couldn't remember all of them at once. However, there was one person from the Jin family that attracted Long Chen's attention.
This person was sitting at the very front. He should be a Grand Elder. However, compared to the other Grand Elders, this person was much younger. He should be around the same age as Chu Fengqing.
This person looked very similar to Jin Shengen. However, compared to Jin Shengen's exaggeration, this person was more mature and stern. His gaze was like a sharp sword. Compared to Chu Tianxiong, he was even more frightening. One look and one could tell that he was a super overlord.
"This person should be the legendary Grand Elder of the Jin family."
Long Chen was secretly on guard. This was because he discovered that although this person was drinking tea with his head lowered, his gaze was on him.
To tell the truth, Long Chen was originally a genius martial artist of the Green family, but he had just arrived at this time. There was definitely something fishy going on. Soon, someone asked, "Brother Chu, why did this little fellow arrive so late?
Could it be that he fell off the Peng bird? "
Looking at this person's identity, he was also a Grand Elder.
In the Yuan Ling County, the Peng family's demonic beasts had great endurance and were huge in size. They were very suitable for long-distance travel. Therefore, most major forces would raise or domesticate many Peng family's demonic beasts. For example, the Azure Sun Hall's Wind Splitting Divine Peng was one of them.
This person was just joking to liven up the atmosphere. However, at this time, Chu Tianxiong's face was gloomy. He turned to look at Liu Yuan and said, "I told you to arrive at seven in the morning, but you insisted on delaying for an hour. It seems that you don't put this Grand Elder in your eyes?"
Chu Tianxiong was completely making this up. However, now that he had pinned the reason for Long Chen's late arrival on Liu Yuan's head, Liu Yuan could only swallow his anger and said, "I wouldn't dare, of course I wouldn't dare!
Grand Elder, this is my fault. When we return to the Green family, you must punish me properly! "
"Forget about the punishment."
Chu Tianxiong said faintly, "However, after so many years, you haven't made any contributions. If you make such a low-level mistake again, you don't need to be a Grand Elder anymore."
Although Chu Tianxiong's voice wasn't loud, everyone heard it. When they heard it, they all had different expressions.
Gu Batian, who knew the truth of the matter, smiled mockingly at Chu Tianxiong and mouthed a few words, which meant, "Chu Tianxiong, you're really regressing with age. You even bully your own juniors."
Of course, the only one who understood what Gu Batian meant was Chu Tianxiong.
Chu Tianxiong clenched his fists, then quietly released them.
"Grand Elder, I won't do anything wrong in the future. Thank you for not punishing me!"
Finally, after getting through this, Liu Yuan breathed a sigh of relief and said submissively.
"It's good that you know your mistakes and can change. Alright, you don't have the right to speak here. Don't let the other experts see you as a joke."
Chu Tianxiong lowered his head and drank his tea.
Long Chen saw all of this.
The corners of his mouth curled up into a faint smile. At Ling Xi's reminder, he suddenly saw a few shadows flashing in the depths of the hall from the corner of his eyes. It seemed that someone was about to come in. His mind raced as he suddenly stood up with a bang!
Whoosh!
Long Chen's inexplicable action immediately attracted a lot of suspicion. Liu Yuan and Liu Lan were even more shocked. They pulled Long Chen, wanting him to sit down. However, Long Chen didn't move at all. He looked coldly at Chu Tianxiong and said, "Long Chen, I've heard that the Grand Elder of the Green family is a gentleman who can distinguish right from wrong. Today, I see that you're just a person who favors your juniors. Regardless of right or wrong, you're a villain who bullies the weak. This is really an eye-opener for me!"