Azure Business Association headquarters, meeting room.
The guild elders of the Azure Business Association, who were ordinarily difficult to gather all in one place, had now rarely assembled together in the magnificent top-floor meeting room, and each one wore an expression of clear impatience.
"Xianglong, what's so urgent that you called us all here? Don't you know we're extremely busy right now? Every major superpower is frantically pushing forward with their Mana Body unlock progress. If we fall behind, we'll have serious problems down the line." A refined woman in a snow-white mage robe looked at Pang Xianglong with undisguised displeasure.
"Exactly. If there's no major issue, you'll have to compensate us for this loss." A burly, bull-like middle-aged man with crimson eyes and faint magical runes shimmering across his skin nodded from beside her, showing not a shred of courtesy toward Pang Xianglong, the Pang family's top expert.
To these two's disgruntled questioning, Pang Xianglong showed remarkably no anger or irritation.
Because these two were not only elders of the Azure Business Association, but also monsters whose strength was second only to Zui Yan—known to everyone as the Three Freaks of the Azure, with combat power even surpassing Pang Xianglong's own. They were the leading representatives among non-family members.
"Why didn't Xiao Ying come?" Pang Xianglong glanced at the empty seat beside the two and asked unhurriedly.
"You know how he is—unless it's a full-scale guild war or a life-and-death battle for the guild, that leveling maniac couldn't care less about anything else." The bull-like, crimson-eyed middle-aged man curled his lip. "Forget that. Why exactly did you rush to call us elders together?"
"Fine. With eighty percent of the elders present, that should be enough to make a decision." Pang Xianglong could only sigh. The Three Freaks of the Azure were each tremendously powerful, second only to Zui Yan, but they were free-spirited and undisciplined—even he, as the family representative who nominally led the Azure Business Association, couldn't make them listen if they didn't want to.
"Pang the Madman, what exactly happened? What made you issue an Elder Mobilization Order? Is it because of some problem between Miao Wuyin and Violet Sword?" Duan Hanshan looked at Pang Xianglong and asked with a smile.
They already knew that Shi Feng had taken Miao Wuyin directly to Violet Sword's headquarters to negotiate and resolve the issues between the Pang family and Violet Sword.
But in his view, this matter wouldn't be easy to handle. After all, it concerned the prestige of the Zeus Financial Group. If the Pang family took the lead in defying them, then the other forces under the Zeus conglomerate would care even less about Zeus's authority. That was precisely why the Zeus Financial Group had been clinging to this matter so stubbornly.
Given Zero Wing's influence on the Western Continent, Violet Sword might not give them any face at all. If things went badly, it wouldn't be impossible for Violet Sword to directly move against both the Pang family and Zero Wing.
"Ice Old Demon, I'm afraid you'll be disappointed. The matter with Wuyin has been resolved." Pang Xianglong glanced at Duan Hanshan and smiled faintly. "And what I want to discuss this time is an absolutely enormous piece of good news—one that could even shape the future development of our Azure Business Association."
"Shape the future development of our Azure Business Association? Pang Wushang went to Violet Sword before—does this mean we're collaborating with Violet Sword on some ancient secret realm?" the refined woman in the white robe couldn't help but ask.
If there was anything that could truly impact the Azure Business Association's future, it would have to be in the area of cultivating experts.
And according to their intelligence, Violet Sword had discovered an ancient training secret realm. If the younger generation could train inside it, they would absolutely receive tremendous improvement.
"You're half right," Pang Xianglong said with a smile.
"Half? So we're not collaborating with Violet Sword?" Duan Hanshan asked in surprise.
"That's right—I'm collaborating with Zero Wing." Pang Xianglong nodded. "Zero Wing is willing to give us forty training slots from that ancient secret realm, but in exchange, they want us to provide complete inheritance data from the Void Realm."
"That Black Flame has lost his mind. That's a guild's foundation—a mere forty training slots, and only an idiot would agree to that deal. Or have you really gone mad, Pang the Madman?" Duan Hanshan said coldly.