"No need, let him come. I'd like to see what skills he has to adjust our Zhou family, and also let the outside world see the strength of our Zhou family."
Zhou Mengchuan snorted, looking dismissive.
"Yes, Patriarch."
The subordinate retreated.
Soon, three days passed in a flash, and many onlookers arrived at the Zhou family's headquarters.
Like the other two great families, the Zhou family occupied a city in the central continent, which also showed the status of the three great families in the central continent.
Everyone was waiting for Ning Beichen's appearance. Some even set up odds to bet on whether Ning Beichen would dare to show up, and some bet on the outcome between Ning Beichen and the Zhou family. However, there wasn't a single person who favored Ning Beichen.
"Ning Beichen, do you really not need our Wang family's help?"
For some reason, Wang Le'er personally came to see Ning Beichen.
"No need. If you can let me see the ancestor of the Wang family, or provide me with information about the ancestral court, I will be very grateful."
Ning Beichen said to her.
"You're not challenging the Zhou family just to lure out the Zhou family's ancestor, and then get information about the ancestral court?"
Wang Le'er was stunned.
"Is there any problem with that?"
Ning Beichen said earnestly.
"Do you know that the ancestor's strength has long surpassed the cultivators of this world?"
Wang Le'er wanted to remind him, letting him know that his idea was completely unreliable.
"So what if I know? So what if I don't? If you can give me information about the ancestral court, I can also not challenge the Zhou family."
Ning Beichen said.
"You are simply unreasonable. The ancestor is not someone anyone can see. I haven't even seen the ancestor yet."
Wang Le'er said angrily.
"Since you cannot provide me with the help I need, then don't bother me."
Ning Beichen gave her no face at all.
"You... forget it. No one can stop you if you want to die."
Wang Le'er left huffily.
After she left, Yang Qianrou walked to Ning Beichen's side. Looking at Wang Le'er leaving, her expression was a little worried.
In fact, it wasn't just Wang Le'er who didn't believe Ning Beichen could win; even Yang Qianrou had no confidence in Ning Beichen.
After all, this was challenging the Zhou family, one of the three great families. Yang Qianrou wouldn't even dare to think of such a crazy thing in her dreams.
"Boss, why didn't you accept Wang Le'er's kindness? I saw that she came with sincerity."
"She's not bringing kindness; she's adding insult to injury."
Ning Beichen knew very well what Wang Le'er was up to. Unfortunately, he, Ning Beichen, didn't care for or need these things.
Whether he could defeat the ancestor or not, Ning Beichen didn't know because he hadn't seen the ancestor. However, he felt that defeating the cultivators of the Zhou family would be no difficulty at all.
Besides the Wang family, even the Chen family had arrived. However, compared to Wang Le'er, the Chen family completely looked down on Ning Beichen and acted arrogantly throughout.
Rather than coming to help Ning Beichen, they were more like ordering him around.
Ning Beichen didn't even bother with Wang Le'er, so how could he bother with the Chen family? He directly kicked the people from the Chen family out.
There were also some overt and covert forces or sects that came to find Ning Beichen, and their purpose was only one: to add insult to injury to the Zhou family.
And the help they offered was nothing more than secretly providing Ning Beichen with something that could temporarily boost his strength, so that he could perish together with the Zhou family.
Ning Beichen, with a cold face, directly sent away this kind of help that was clearly asking for his life.
As for whether he would offend them, Ning Beichen didn't worry about it at all. After he defeated all the people from the Zhou family, it was estimated that no one in the entire central continent would dare to treat him as a nobody.
However, there were also people who worried about Ning Beichen, and these were the people Ning Beichen brought from Biancheng.
Cao Shuo had successfully joined the Heavenly Sword Sect and was doing quite well.
When he heard that Ning Beichen was going to challenge the Zhou family, he was shocked. His first reaction was to find Ning Beichen and persuade him not to be impulsive.
He was even trying every means to get Ning Beichen into the Heavenly Sword Sect.
Although he didn't stay like Yang Qianrou, he was still loyal to Ning Beichen. However, after joining the Heavenly Sword Sect, his mindset seemed to have changed, and he no longer regarded Ning Beichen as an invincible idol.
But his persuasion was useless. Cao Shuo was unwilling to give up. He rushed back to the Heavenly Sword Sect and found his master who had accepted him as a disciple, wanting his master to come forward and save Ning Beichen.
However, he was reprimanded by his master, who told him not to meddle in other people's affairs and not to contact Ning Beichen again.
The reason and logic were very simple: because Ning Beichen had no chance of winning.
Besides Cao Shuo, the other people Ning Beichen brought out also tried to help in various ways, but unfortunately, their words were insignificant and had no effect.
Today was the day Ning Beichen challenged the Zhou family. Those whom Ning Beichen had brought out had all arrived in the Zhou family's city in advance. Although they couldn't help Ning Beichen, if Ning Beichen failed, they still hoped to have a chance to rescue him.
It couldn't be blamed that they had no confidence in Ning Beichen, after all, the three great families were famous throughout the central continent, and even the Heavenly Sword Sect did not want to provoke them.
But it wasn't that the Heavenly Sword Sect was inferior to the three great families. It was that both sides were behemoths. Once a war broke out, even if the Heavenly Sword Sect could win, it would be a pyrrhic victory.
Therefore, neither the Heavenly Sword Sect nor the three great families had any intention of confrontation, unless there were truly irreconcilable conflicts.
Ning Beichen rode the Golden Lion, and Yang Qianrou rode the Rhino King. The two of them had already arrived in the Zhou family's territory.
"Boss..."
Yang Qianrou looked at Ning Beichen, called out his name, and then fell silent for a while, not knowing what to say.
Because her strength was too weak, she couldn't help Ning Beichen at all, so she could only remind Ning Beichen to be careful.
Ning Beichen made a gesture of reassurance to her, then rode the Golden Lion forward.
The Patriarch of the Zhou family also appeared with the cultivators of the Zhou family. The two sides stopped in an open space, but it was evident that the Zhou family was dismissive of Ning Beichen, even treating him as a clown.
"Are you that clown who wants to challenge our Zhou family?"
The Patriarch of the Zhou family looked down from his high position at Ning Beichen, who was riding on the Golden Lion, and said arrogantly.
"Whether I'm a clown or not, we can discuss that later. I'm here today to challenge your Zhou family."
"But it's not a one-on-one challenge. It's me challenging all the cultivators of your Zhou family, including you, the Patriarch."
"You heard correctly, and I didn't say it wrong. I said I will challenge all of you in the Zhou family by myself!"
Ning Beichen said slowly from the back of the Golden Lion.