Chapter 151: Yoshiko's Defection!
"You are Ye Tian!"
Cold sweat trickled down the back of Ito Taku.
At this exact moment, he felt an unprecedented wave of pressure.
Even when facing Ito Junren, the head of the family who was known as one of the top ten shadow-level powerhouses, Ito Taku had never felt this nervous, let alone terrified.
After all, although Ito Junren was called a shadow-level powerhouse, he was actually the weakest among the top ten, having not even reached the Martial King realm!
Speaking of it, it was somewhat embarrassing...
No matter where someone is at the very bottom, it always gives people the illusion that they are weak.
But Ye Tian was different.
The man he had killed earlier this morning in front of a million Yamato citizens was three genuine martial arts kings!
Slaughtering them had been as easy as chopping melons and vegetables, slaughtering chickens and dogs without the slightest effort.
If so, wasn't a grandmaster like himself even worse than an animal in front of this person?
Fear, panic, regret, a tangled mess of emotions...
He regretted it deeply.
Why on earth had he gone around boasting that he would chop off the man's head and present it to his senior sister, especially when he had said it where everyone could hear, leaving him not even the right to flatly deny it?
"Hey, what are you freezing for? Say something."
At that moment, Ye Tian tilted his head and asked.
This punk was completely inexplicable.
The second before, he had claimed he wanted to chop off his head, and the next second he was standing frozen in place like a wooden stake. Was his brain short-circuiting?
However, Ye Tian didn't take the other person's threat of killing him to heart at all.
How many people in the Dragon Kingdom had once wanted him dead, yet wasn't he still living perfectly well?
The Peninsula Republic had even been willing to sacrifice the lives of ordinary citizens, bringing high-powered C4 explosives, and still failed to achieve any results.
What could a mere grandmaster like this possibly do to him?
Therefore, Ye Tian simply regarded the guy as someone who was just bragging, and even found him somewhat cute.
"You, are you really Ye Tian?"
"I've already said it at least three times. I am Ye Tian."
Ye Tian was speechless. In order to make the other person believe his identity, he had no choice but to release his control over his own aura, letting his Beidou-realm and Dao-integration-stage genuine qi project outward.
A terrifying pressure swept across the surroundings like a tidal wave.
Ito Taku raised his head, and the sky before him suddenly darkened as if foreshadowing a violent storm.
The young man standing on the wooden stake at that moment looked just like an Asura from the depths of hell.
Wrapped in this powerful aura, Ito Taku's legs went weak, and his entire body collapsed onto the ground.
He couldn't even manage to stand up.
"Please, don't kill me! I was wrong!" he cried, crawling on the ground as tears and mucus streamed down continuously, looking utterly sincere.
"Everything I said before was just bragging, Great God Ye Tian! I'm apologizing to you right now. You can do anything you want with me, just please don't kill me!"
"With your infinite power, Great God Ye Tian, please just treat me like a fart and let me go!"
Damn it, with that speed of surrendering, did you inherit the true teachings of the French?
Ye Tian couldn't help but chuckle, and immediately reined in his imposing aura.
"Enough, keep babbling and I really will kill you." He waved his hand impatiently, and instructed from his high vantage point: "Go right now and call the person in charge of the Ito family over here. You have half an hour."
"When the time is up, if the job isn't done, I'll kill you."
"Yes, yes, yes, I'll go right away!"
Ito Taku bowed and scraped profusely, running into the courtyard like a stray dog.
Immediately after, a series of loud shouts rang out.
In less than a quarter of an hour, he came trotting back eagerly, leading a procession of people out.
At the head of the group was an elderly man with white hair, wearing simple plain clothes. The old man's cultivation was currently stuck at the Mount Tai realm, looking imposing; though aged, he showed no signs of weakness.
"You are Ye Tian?"
The old man frowned and introduced himself, "I am Ito Hizan, currently in charge of the Ito family. What is your instruction?"
"I have no instructions. I'm here for only one thing: to take you all to the Dragon Kingdom."
Ye Tian said expressionlessly and bluntly.
Aside from figuring out a way to return this time, his second objective was to liquidate the remaining assets of Ito Junren, which included the ninjas who were members of the Ito clan.
These people would all be of use to him in the future.
He wanted to take the money, and he wanted to take the people too!
"Take us to the Dragon Kingdom? What do you mean by that?" Ito Hizan was completely baffled upon hearing this, having no idea what kind of nonsense Ye Tian was spouting.
"You are from the Dragon Kingdom, and we are from Yamato. Furthermore, prior to this, our Ito family had no interaction with you whatsoever. You suddenly show up and say you're taking us away from our homeland to the Dragon Kingdom."
"On what grounds?"
"What do you mean, on what grounds?"
Ye Tian was momentarily stunned. Could it be that Ito Xiaomei hadn't mentioned to these people that she had already surrendered to him?
However, he quickly figured it out.
The head of the Ito family had been killed, and his adopted daughter, the acting head of the Ito family, had actually defected to her enemy. If news like this spread back to the clan, it was likely that things here would have fallen into chaos long ago.
By not saying anything, she naturally wanted to steady the morale of the army, allowing them to remain safely in place until Ye Tian arrived in person.
"Since that's the case, I'll let Ito Mei explain it to you herself."
Ye Tian said, pointing at Ito Taku, who was shivering in a corner: "You, you have your senior sister's contact information, right? Call her."
"Oh, oh, okay."
Ito Taku behaved like an obedient child and dialed Ito Xiaomei's phone number without a second word.
The lazy voice of Ito Xiaomei came through from the other end.
"Taku, what do you want?"
"Senior Sister, Ye Tian is looking for you."
"What? Master is looking for me?!" Immediate rustling sounds came from the other end of the line. Ito Xiaomei put on her clothes and sat up straight. After hanging up the phone, she initiated a video call instead.
And the moment she saw Ye Tian's face, she was so excited she was almost moved to tears.
"Master, you have no idea how much I've missed you all these days!"
This blatant act of coquetry and her sweet voice instantly drew the gaze of a crowd of young Ito clan members.
What did Senior Sister just call Ye Tian?
Master!
Also, why was she so enthusiastic about this Dragon Kingdom native? What unspeakable secret was there between them!
"Master, it seems my clansmen have already made contact with you." Ito Xiaomei said with a joyful expression. "You should bring the family's assets and all the clansmen back together."
"What assets, what clansmen!"
The white-haired Ito Hizan wore an expression of extreme anger. "You never discussed a matter like this with any of the clansmen, so how can you expect us to pack up and move the entire family based on a single word!"
"I didn't say anything?"
Ito Xiaomei was also taken aback. "I clearly already notified Miko, and she even reported back to me saying that everyone in the family agreed to go to the Dragon Kingdom."
"You said Miko? Heh, just last night, she cleared out nearly a third of the family's assets and vanished into thin air!"
Ito Hizan was furious, his rage directed at the video screen.
"I tried calling to notify you at the time, but you wouldn't answer!"
Hearing this, Ito Mei felt a burst of awkwardness. She had been dead drunk last night and didn't sober up until this morning, after which she immediately saw the livestream and completely forgot all about Hizan's call.