No!

The word was like a stone, without the slightest hesitation. Tian Guotao stood straight up. “I’m very sorry, Master Xu said he won’t be leaving seclusion within these five years. Everything was left to me to handle in his place.”

Silence. Li Mingfang kept on feeling that Tian Guotao had become somewhat different. Second brother Li looked at him as if he had seen a ghost. They hadn’t expected at all that Tian Guotao would dare refuse a state-magus’s invitation.

The masked man’s eyes narrowed, and a trace of ruthlessness flitted through them. He then calmed down and said coldly, “You probably don’t even know what this invitation card is requesting Master Xu to do, yes? 

“Whether or not I know is unrelated. An invitation has to be tastefully agreed to by both parties. His Excellency State-Magus could make the invitation and Master Xu still wouldn’t choose to go.”

“Huff…” Li Mingfang sucked in deeply, and he and second brother Li both happened to take a step back. He spoke no further.

Clap clap clap… The masked man softly applauded. Truly, I haven’t heard someone dare to say these words in so many years… Good, since you don’t know, then I’ll tell you.”

“Li Family has applied to fight for a 10,000-square-meter plot of land outside the capital with the Shui Family. Mount Laojun.”

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