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Previously, he hadn't been able to recruit a single one, and now, he suddenly came over and said that he had recruited 300,000. It would be strange if he didn't think that he had heard wrongly.
Seeing that everyone didn't seem to believe him, Xu Tangran hurriedly said, "This subordinate doesn't dare to lie in front of my lord …" As he spoke, he looked left and right. He wanted to say something but hesitated. It seemed that he didn't know if he should say something or not.
Miao Yi said, "There are no outsiders here."
"Yes!" Xu Tangran nodded and said, "These 300,000 weren't recruited one by one, but an organization formed by a group of rogue cultivators. When I accepted your mission, I thought that it would be too inefficient to recruit them one by one. Therefore, I set my eyes on an organization of unaffiliated Cultivators named 'Alliance of Stars'. I've been considering how to subdue them. In the end, I came up with a solution to capture the leader first. After a lot of effort, I finally subdued Chu Antian, the leader of the Alliance of Stars, and made him surrender the roster of the Alliance of Stars obediently. "
How could the leader of a gang with hundreds of thousands of members be easily controlled by you? Miao Yi muttered to himself, "What is this Chu Antian's cultivation?"
Xu Tangran coughed dryly, "First Grade Prominent Divine."
Hearing this, Yun Zhiqiu and the others all had suspicious looks in their eyes. Miao Yi raised his eyebrows slightly, "How could a gang leader who can control hundreds of thousands of people be so easily controlled by you with a cultivation at the first grade of the Vision Divine Realm?"
"This …" Speaking of this, Xu Tangran seemed to be a little bashful. It was obvious that he had a bit of a guilty conscience as he said, "It's naturally not easy to control them directly. However, there's no such thing as too much deception in war. This Chu Antian had some difficulties. He didn't dare to openly marry and have children. Instead, he secretly hid the wife and children he raised in a certain place. Under an extremely coincidental situation, this subordinate found out about it. After layers of investigation, this subordinate found out why this Chu Antian hid the wife and children he raised. As it turned out, the Alliance of Stars was a force under the Xiahou family's control in secret. Chu Antian was also under the Xiahou family's control. The wife and child that he raised behind the Xiahou family's back was a backup plan that he left for himself. The Xiahou family did not know anything about it. This subordinate tried his best to control Chu Antian's wife and children. He had personally met with Chu Antian and threatened him with what he had done behind House Xiahou's back. Finally, he had forced him to submit. To put it bluntly, he wasn't afraid of his subordinates, but House Xiahou. Before I get the roster. I thought that the Alliance of Stars only had one or two thousand people, but I was greatly shocked after I saw the roster. I didn't know that the Alliance of Stars had more than three hundred thousand people in every place. Even some of the soldiers of the Heavenly Courts were members of the Alliance of Stars. "
The few people in the room looked at him speechlessly. It seemed that this was not a fair recruitment, but a despicable method to control the leader of such a large gang. The few of them guessed that the process was not as simple as he made it out to be. Who knew how many outrageous methods he had used during this period of time.
However, the fact that the Xiahou Clan was involved was still a shock to them. Miao Yi frowned and asked, "Are you sure it's a force directly controlled by the Xiahou Clan?"
Xu Tangran said, "That was Chu Antian's conclusion. However, it wasn't a direct control. According to Chu Antian, most people in the Alliance of Stars didn't know that they were under the Xiahou Clan's control, and he, Chu Antian, was directly under the command of someone whose identity he still couldn't figure out. At first, he didn't know that he was under the Xiahou Clan's control, until one day, he went to Sky Street and accidentally passed by that mysterious person. He hid in the crowd and followed him. He noticed that the mysterious person entered House Xiahou's shop and stayed there for a few days before coming out. There was no way that he was going to the shop to buy something. It was from that moment on that he began to suspect that the person controlling him was related to House Xiahou. "
Yun Zhiqiu suddenly said with a slight frown, "He passed by that mysterious person on Sky Street. He noticed the mysterious person, but the mysterious person didn't notice him?"
Xu Tangran cupped his fists and said, "Madam, you don't know. Both of them had changed their appearances at that time. Logically speaking, with so many people on the street, it would be hard to tell them apart if they didn't deliberately check. However, Chu Antian had a special ability that no one knew about. He could recognize people by their smell. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to discover them. "
So that was the case. Yun Zhiqiu nodded slightly, indicating that he should continue.
Xu Tangran continued, "Chu Antian also wanted to figure out whether or not he was controlled by the Xiahou Clan. It happened that he took some people with him on a personal matter. Those people were from the Alliance of Stars, but they weren't on the roster of the Alliance of Stars. They were people he secretly recruited. With his strength, it wasn't difficult for him to subdue some people to work for him. The people of the Alliance of Stars didn't know about the existence of those people at all. In fact, I was able to keep an eye on Chu Antian because one of those people inadvertently exposed himself. After Chu Antian discovered the mysterious person, he happened to have these people with him … "
"What do you mean?" Yun Zhiqiu's eyes flashed and she suddenly interrupted the questioning. She was very sensitive when it came to House Xiahou.
Xu Tangran cursed himself inwardly. Of all things to say, why did he have to say this? But since he was asked, it was inappropriate to not have a reasonable explanation, so he could only say it awkwardly. Chu Antian's subordinate entered the casino he opened in the black market. When Huang Xiaotian set up a trap and extorted Chu Antian's secret from him, Huang Xiaotian couldn't afford to provoke Chu Antian. Chu Antian's cultivation was too high. Even if Xu Tangran could get some heavenly soldiers and heavenly generals, he probably wouldn't be able to deal with him. Huang Xiaotian was afraid that if Chu Antian found out that he knew his secret, he would cause trouble, so he directly killed that person. But Huang Xiaotian didn't expect that Xu Tangran would come to recruit people for the Juxian Hall later. Xu Tangran took a fancy to the secret he accidentally learned. Following the clues left by the person who was killed, Xu Tangran found his superior, who was the confidant who arranged for Chu Antian's family. Xu Tangran pried open that person's mouth and learned a lot of secrets. Only then did he control Chu Antian's family.
Of course, he omitted some of the dirty tricks he used.
After hearing this, Yun Zhiqiu nodded and said, "Continue."
Xu Tangran coughed dryly and said, "After Chu Antian found the mysterious person, he happened to have those subordinates with him. Because the mysterious person stayed in the Xiahou Family's shop for a few days, he had enough time to arrange. He sent people to stand guard outside several Star Gates in the Star Field. But the starry sky is vast, and Chu Antian didn't dare let the mysterious person know that he was investigating him. In the end, he lost track of the mysterious person. However, Chu Antian believed that the mysterious person wouldn't go to the same place only once. So, he adopted a stupid method. He sent people to stand guard in the direction the mysterious person disappeared in. Then, according to the pattern of the mysterious person's contact with him, he estimated the time when the mysterious person would appear. As long as the mysterious person appeared in that shop, no matter where he went, he wouldn't let go of the position he was guarding. The result was as he expected. Later on, the mysterious person appeared again. Just like that, every time he discovered something, he would follow up for a period of time. Under extreme caution, Chu Antian spent a full ten thousand years before he discovered that the mysterious man had gone to this direction to meet a person who was actually an unknown land owner. Furthermore, he discovered that the mysterious man was very respectful when he came into contact with the land owner. Chu Antian realized that the local was not simple, but after thousands of years of observation, he found that he couldn't find anything unusual about the local at all. Apart from the fact that the local's cultivation was a little higher, he was no different from an ordinary local. It was just that occasionally, some different people would come to visit him. Chu Antian tried to investigate the people who came in contact with the local, but just like the mysterious person, it was very difficult to find anything. He didn't have the manpower to use such a stupid method on everyone who came to visit him. Not long after Chu Antian suppressed this matter, when he was in contact with the other gangs, he unintentionally discovered another mysterious person whom he had approached after paying a visit to the Land Magistrate. Even though that person had changed his appearance, he could not hide his scent from Chu Antian. It was only then that Chu Antian realized that the Alliance of Stars wasn't the only gang controlled by the mysterious person. Such power made him even more certain that it was the Xiahou Clan. What made Chu Antian even more afraid was that he actually encountered another mysterious person in the house of an Elder of the Alliance of Stars. Although the mysterious person had changed his appearance again, it was only then that he understood that the mysterious person wasn't just controlling him, the Alliance Master of the Alliance of Stars, but also the Elders and other people under him. Once the mysterious person was dissatisfied with him, someone under him could replace him at any time. This was the reason why Chu Antian secretly raised his wife and children so that he could have an heir. And according to Chu Antian's conjecture based on the various signs over the years, he suspected that the Land Lord who could make those mysterious people respect was similar to Cao Man of the Xiahou family's Trust and Loyalty Pavilion. However, Cao Man controlled the black market, while the Land Lord controlled the major gangs. "
Miao Yi and Yun Zhiqiu exchanged glances. They didn't expect that Xu Tangran would uncover such a huge piece of information when he went out to recruit people for the Juxian Hall.
However, Miao Yi was a little troubled. Regardless of how big the information was, he frowned and said, "Xu Tangran, are you joking with me? An Alliance of Stars under the control of the Xiahou Clan, and now you've turned them into my Juxian Hall's people. How do you expect me to use them? "
How could Xu Tangran let his contribution go unnoticed? He quickly said with a straight face, "My lord, since we already know that they're from the Xiahou Clan, there's nothing to worry about. They can support themselves anyway, and we don't need to spend money on them. They can even help us earn money. As long as we don't fall into their hands, it'd be a waste to not use them! Also, my lord, apart from Cao Man, the other members of the Xiahou Clan don't know anything about them. Now that we know about the local, it'll be a good deal even if we trade it with other forces in the future. There are actually quite a few benefits to controlling the local's identity. "He was beating around the bush to remind Miao Yi that his contribution wasn't small.
Miao Yi thought about it and agreed. However, at this point, the local's identity was so important that it was impossible not to know. He asked, "Have you figured out the local's identity?"
Xu Tangran nodded repeatedly. "Of course. Chu Antian has been watching him for so many years. There's no way he wouldn't know this. That local is on the Vast Ocean Planet, and his name is Master Yuan. His cultivation is not simple …"
Unexpectedly, before he could finish, the others in the room widened their eyes. Miao Yi even interrupted him, "What are you calling him? What did you say he was called? "
Xu Tangran was a little confused. He said blankly, "Master Yuan. He's called Master Yuan. Does my lord know him?"
Miao Yi and Yun Zhiqiu turned to look at each other, speechless.
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