Chen Changsheng stroked his beard, smiled, and said, "Invited by Fang Zaitian, waiting here for Young Master Ye."

So it was indeed Fang Zaitian!

Ye Tianfan's pupils suddenly contracted sharply, he looked at Chen Changsheng, and asked, "Elder Chen, what virtue and ability does Fang Zaitian have to be able to invite you to come out of retirement to assist?"

"Assistance by coming out of retirement? You overestimate Fang Zaitian!" Chen Changsheng's face suddenly changed, and he then said, "I only promised him one thing, which is to keep you here for half an hour, everything else I don't care about."

Half an hour?

Keep him here for half an hour?

Ye Tianfan's heart suddenly sank. If Fang Zaitian invited someone like Chen Changsheng just to hold him here for half an hour, then Ji Liancheng and Qin Ruomeng must be in danger! What will Fang Zaitian do with this half hour?

Ye Tianfan looked up at Chen Changsheng and said, "Elder Chen, exactly what benefits did Fang Zaitian give you to help him like this?"

This statement caused Chen Changsheng's face to change dramatically.

Over fifty years old, Chen Changsheng had long desired nothing. Even a mountain of gold sitting before him would not move him.

But this time, it was different. Chen Changsheng's arm trembled slightly as he pulled a silver cup from his breast pocket, tossed it to Ye Tianfan, and said solemnly, "Do you recognize this item?"

A flash of silver darted by, and Ye Tianfan quickly raised his hand to catch it.

The moment he grasped the silver cup, Ye Tianfan couldn't help but frown, a look of astonishment flashing across his face.

"This... this is the Jiulong Cup!"

The surface of the silver cup was vividly carved with nine dragons, their heads all facing upward, mouths pointing towards the cup's opening, an exquisite design.

If others saw this cup, they would surely be enamored, but those in the Ancient Martial Realm who saw it would be scared and pale.

A decade ago, the Huaxia Ancient Martial Realm was caught in a bloodstorm; that was when the Jiulong Cup first appeared before everyone. The first person to receive the Jiulong Cup was Chen Changsheng's only son, Chen Taiji!

Chen Taiji received this Jiulong Cup and tragically died at home on the ninth day, with the Jiulong Cup next to his corpse, filled with Chen Taiji's blood, yet his body had no wounds.

No one knew how Chen Taiji died, nor how his blood ended up in the Jiulong Cup.

Next, the Ancient Martial Realm saw other top-notch martial artists receive the Jiulong Cup and die in exactly the same manner as Chen Taiji.

The Ye Family's Ancient Mansion also received the Jiulong Cup; their leading servant died in the mansion with the Jiulong Cup beside him.

If it were just anyone receiving this Jiulong Cup, it might be nothing, but for the Ye Family's Ancient Mansion to receive it, the meaning was different. Someone managed to infiltrate the tightly guarded Ye Family's Ancient Mansion, kill, and disappear without a trace.

This was nothing less than a powerful bomb thrown into the Huaxia Ancient Martial Realm! Suddenly, everyone in the realm was in danger, and all forces began to exhaust every means to trace the owner of this Jiulong Cup.

People speculated that there were supposedly nine Jiulong Cups, but after seven appeared they vanished without a trace, and over ten years the Jiulong Cup never appeared again.

Yet Ye Tianfan looked at the Jiulong Cup in his hand, his heart apprehensive to the extreme.

"Is this... the reason Elder Chen came out of retirement? Fang Zaitian gave you the Jiulong Cup?"

"Exactly! If not for the Jiulong Cup appearing again, how would I concern myself with these trivial matters!" Chen Changsheng nodded slightly and said solemnly, "My son died because of it; I've tracked it for over a decade without a single clue. Now that the past is revisited, by all means, I must get to the bottom of this!"

Ye Tianfan secretly felt alarmed.

The Jiulong Cup is so mysterious, Fang Zaitian, despite being the ruler of Hong Kong, is not someone from the Ancient Martial Realm, yet why does he possess the Jiulong Cup?

What exactly is Fang Zaitian's identity?

Ye Tianfan carefully played with the Jiulong Cup in his hand, suddenly frowning deeply, looked up at Chen Changsheng and said, "Elder Chen, I'm afraid you've been deceived! This Jiulong Cup is counterfeit!"

"Counterfeit?" Chen Changsheng hurriedly retrieved the Jiulong Cup from Ye Tianfan, inspected it closely, and said solemnly, "This is indeed the Jiulong Cup! I can assure you!"

Chen Changsheng's son died because of this Jiulong Cup, and Chen Changsheng detested it deeply. Plus, with its unique design, Chen Changsheng would never mistake it.

Ye Tianfan shook his head and said, "The appearance indeed matches the Jiulong Cup, but its material is off by a mile!"

This statement caused Chen Changsheng's body to tremble, his thumb exerting force, pressing on the Jiulong Cup.

Suddenly, Chen Changsheng managed to press a dent into the Jiulong Cup!

"It's indeed counterfeit!"

Chen Changsheng had seen, touched, and studied the original Jiulong Cup before; even though it was silver, it was exceptionally hard. A regular silver cup would deform upon applying pressure, but the authentic Jiulong Cup wouldn't. Whatever was added to the silver when making the original Jiulong Cup rendered it incredibly hard.

Not only does it possess a silver exterior, but also a dense interior. You couldn't deform it by pressing, even if you used a hammer, the real Jiulong Cup wouldn't sustain any damage.

And the Jiulong Cup before him, with a light press, had a dent made in it; how could it be real!

Chen Changsheng's body quivered abruptly, anger flared fiercely within his eyes.

Fang Zaitian, though the overlord of Hong Kong, was just a clown in Chen Changsheng's eyes. The Chen Family's status in the Ancient Martial Realm was so elevated that someone like Fang Zaitian wasn't even worth considering.

Chen Changsheng had only intervened to assist Fang Zaitian because Fang Zaitian had given him this Jiulong Cup, claiming to know its secrets.

But Chen Changsheng never imagined that Fang Zaitian would produce a counterfeit Jiulong Cup! Nor did he expect Fang Zaitian would dare to fool the Chen Family!

Does Fang Zaitian think his life is too long?

"Fang Zaitian!" Chen Changsheng's face darkened, his right hand exerted force with his knuckles cracking, crushing the Jiulong Cup and twisting it into a mass.

Ye Tianfan's expression also became grim.

Fang Zaitian is not from the Ancient Martial Realm; how does he know about the Jiulong Cup? Although the Jiulong Cup incident caused a stir back then, it was ultimately an Ancient Martial Realm affair. Many elders, out of pride, sealed off the information, saying nothing to outsiders!

Yet Fang Zaitian evidently knows about it, and not only knows, he is so aware of the Jiulong Cup's appearance that he could create a convincingly counterfeit Jiulong Cup, deceiving even Chen Changsheng, an old hand in Jianghu.

"Mock us, the Chen Family! I'll surely kill him!" Chen Changsheng's face showed a shade of anger as he turned and walked quickly towards the other side of the pier.

Ye Tianfan was suddenly alarmed and immediately followed quickly, asking, "Elder Chen, where are you going?"

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