Chapter 427, Integrating the Three Ancient Noble Families

Translator: Silavin

 

“Whether we kill you or not will depend on your performance.” Lu Fan smiled, and this smile made Huang Yingheng secretly gulp.

 

What Lu Fan asked Huang Yingheng to do was quite simple – integrate the Huang Family, and have them all pledge allegiance to the Ye Family.

 

If Huang Yingheng could accomplish this task, he would still maintain a respectable position within the Ye Family in the future. Though not as high as his original third-in-command position, he would at least retain some status.

 

Most importantly, he would not be killed like the others.

 

With Huang Yingheng’s help, Ye Wuxian would be able to consolidate the Huang Family’s resources much more efficiently.

 

According to Ye Wuxian, the personnel within these Ancient Noble Families consisted of two groups.

 

The first group included the Players living in the Ancient Noble Families’ Residence.

 

These Players were either relatives or experts cultivated by the Ancient Noble Family, forming the backbone of the Ancient Noble Family.

 

The second group consisted of Profession Players stationed at various Map Resources.

 

These Profession Players were slightly lower in strength, mostly Second Profession Players, with a small number of Third Profession Players.

 

Their job was to guard the Family’s resources from others and ensure the normal operation of resource extraction.

 

These people were considered peripheral members of the Ancient Noble Family.

 

Taking the Ye Family as an example, the current Ye Family core members numbered only about a hundred, with peripheral members numbering only five to six hundred, guarding the remaining thirty-plus Map Resources.

 

Once the resources of the Ye, Huang, and Loong Families were integrated, the number of Map Resources would likely exceed two hundred.

 

For over two hundred Map Resources, with the Ye Family’s only five to six hundred people to guard and develop them, they would certainly be severely understaffed.

 

Although the Huang and Loong Families had lost almost all their core members in this battle, each Family should still have three to four thousand peripheral members.

 

This manpower was urgently needed by the Ye Family. Therefore, what the Ye Family needed to do was not just integrate the resources of the three Ancient Noble Families, but more importantly, bring these personnel under the Ye Family’s command, ensuring they worked for the Ye Family.

 

This task, if done by the Ye Family alone, would definitely be an enormous project.

 

But if Huang Yingheng of the Huang Family were to do it, with his status and qualifications as the third-in-command of the Huang Family, recruiting the peripheral members of the Huang Family should not be a problem.

 

As for those from the Loong Family, many would naturally switch their allegiance to the Ye Family like opportunists.

 

After all, with the Loong Family gone, what better choice did these peripheral members have other than to serve the Ye Family?

 

Huang Yingheng was not stupid. When Lu Fan extended the olive branch, he immediately accepted it, promptly swearing that he would be loyal to the Ye Family from now on.

 

Lu Fan did not believe in his loyalty though.

 

Still, Lu Fan was confident that as long as he himself was alive, people like Huang Yingheng would not dare to rebel.

 

To preserve more manpower to help Ye Wuxian consolidate all the Ancient Noble Families’ resources, Lu Fan did not send out Fallen Corpse Puppets to destroy the Huang Family.

 

He had Huang Yingheng accompany Ye Wuxian to the Huang Family Residence.

 

From now on, there would be no more ‘Huang Family’, and the Huang Family Residence would also be renamed to Ye.

 

As Lu Fan had anticipated, with the death of the Huang Family Elder and Huang Yingheng’s betrayal, most of the remaining guards of the Huang Family had no objections and all declared their loyalty to the Ye Family.

 

Although Ye Wuxian was a woman, she was certainly capable. She easily handled the task of taking over the resources of the three Ancient Noble Families with ease.

 

As this battle came to a complete end, Ye Wuxian also brought the remaining forces of the Huang Family under her command. She immediately began the busy work of integrating all the resources of the three Ancient Noble Families, while planning how to truly control all the resources and maintain normal operation of each Map Resource.

 

Lu Fan was not skilled in such matters, so he simply handed everything over to Ye Wuxian to handle.

 

As for himself, he returned to the Ye Family, enchanted Ye Sha with the Pet Enchantment Scroll, and then carefully studied the Attributes and Skills of the several new Fallen Corpse Puppets under his command, contemplating how to use them more effectively.

 

…

 

The night passed uneventfully.

 

Early the next morning, Lu Fan’s door was knocked upon.

 

Lu Fan opened the door to find it was Ye Wuxian.

 

Ye Wuxian had dark circles under her eyes, but her mood seemed good. Upon entering Lu Fan’s room, she handed a thick stack of papers to Lu Fan, while stretching her impressive figure and saying, “I’ve been busy all night, I’m nearly exhausted. But for now, take a look at these.”

 

“There’s no rush to consolidate the resources of the three Ancient Noble Families. You could do it slowly. Why exhaust yourself like this? Looking at you, you most likely did not sleep at all last night, did you?” Lu Fan said as he led Ye Wuxian in, found a place for her to sit, and then opened the stack of papers she had given him to have a look.

 

“By the way, what is this?”

 

Ye Wuxian poured herself a cup of tea and said with a smile, “These are all the resources of the three Ancient Noble Families. I spent the whole night organising all the information about these resources. To take over all these resources and find enough manpower to ensure normal operation will take a considerable amount of time. Even so, I needed to first organize all the resources. It was only after organising that we have a clearer understanding of what resources we have.”

 

Saying this, Ye Wuxian took a sip of tea and continued smiling, “I have already reclaimed all the resources that were seized from the Ye Family. All the resources of the Huang and Loong Families have been listed there.”

 

“I must say, the Huang and Loong Families truly deserved their status as Ancient Noble Families. I spent a whole night digging out many Map Resources they had never made public, and gained quite a few pleasant surprises.”

 

Lu Fan casually glanced through a couple of pages and found that the Map Resources on the list were indeed very rich, no weaker than those that countries had put up as stakes in the National Trial.

 

There were nearly three hundred of them on the list, even more than Lu Fan had expected.

 

Among them were all kinds of mineral resources, Dungeon Instances, Levelling Maps, and other resources.

 

In addition, Lu Fan also saw the current liquid assets available to the three Ancient Noble Families listed on the inventory.

 

This number had so many digits that Lu Fan could hardly count them at a glance, [No wonder Ye Wuxian had been so lavish with her spending before.]

 

Lu Fan casually flipped through a few pages, intending to put it away, but just as he was about to, his gaze suddenly became sharp as he saw four words that greatly excited him, ‘Flying Immortal Ancient Shrine’.

 

The information indicated that this Flying Immortal Ancient Shrine was originally a Secret Realm owned by the Ye Family, which was later seized by the Huang Family.

 

And now, with the Huang Family no longer existing, the Flying Immortal Ancient Shrine had returned to Ye Wuxian’s hands.