A Dish Best Served Cold (The Man In Rage)
Chapter 1232 Real Agenda

Ye Fan said all these things calmly while drinking his tea. Ye Qing-Tian didn't know how to respond to him at all. He opened his mouth to speak, but nothing came out of it.

Ye Qing-Tian eventually just laughed sadly. "Alright, alright. I was supposed to come here to teach you a thing or two, but you ended up educating me instead. Forget it, let's not talk about this matter anymore. I've already done my investigations and I know that you weren't the one who picked a fight in the first place. The only problem was that you retaliated a little too fiercely."

"But you're right, in this world, only the strongest survive. It's their fault for overestimating themselves. If I were in your position, I highly doubt many of them would have survived either."

Ye Qing-Tian then picked up the tea that Ye Fan had made for him and drank it down in one gulp.

The living room was suddenly silent.

Only the sound of the tea being poured into the cup could be heard.

After a moment of silence, Ye Fan broke the silence first. "God of War, I'm sure you didn't come all the way here just to talk to me about what happened in Jiangbei, right? If my guess is correct, there's something else you want to talk to me about."

Even though the incident in Jiangbei was huge news within the military, this was a small matter to someone like Ye Qing-Tian, a man who stood at the pinnacle of martial arts.

Even if War God Castle was angry with Ye Fan, they wouldn't have sent Ye Qing-Tian to deal with it personally.

Ye Fan was sure that Ye Qing-Tian had other things to talk to him about.

Ye Qing-Tian laughed. "It's impossible to hide this from you after all. You're right, I'm here because I need you for something else as well." "Oh? What is it?" asked Ye Fan curiously. Ye Qing-Tian peered around and only started speaking after he was sure that there was nobody else around. "Ye Fan, have you ever heard of spirit energy fruits?"

"Spirit energy fruits?" Ye Fan frowned slightly. "Are you referring to the fruit that will be of tremendous benefit to those practicing martial arts?"

Ye Qing-Tian was surprised that Ye Fan actually knew what this was. His heart skipped a beat in shock and he started to feel that Ye Fan was really no simple man. Any matter concerning spirit energy fruits was highly classified within the martial arts world.

No more than a dozen countries or so in the world knew about this.

And only the top martial artists of those countries knew about this fruit.

Yet someone ordinary like Ye Fan actually knew about this fruit. This made Ye Qing-Tian look at him in a new light.

But Ye Qing-Tian had no idea that Ye Fan had the Book of Celestial Cloud, which had details on a million and one things in the world, including this spirit energy fruit.

It wasn't surprising that Ye Fan knew what this fruit was.

"Yes, it's that spirit energy fruit. It takes ten years to sprout, ten years for its flower to bloom, and another ten years for its fruit to form. In short, it only bears fruit every 30 years and it is an extremely rare treasure. Also, it has no side effects. It is especially effective on martial artists who have not reached grandmaster level. A spirit energy fruit can be the catalyst to creating a grandmaster. But of course, it is a great booster even to those who are already grandmasters. It is really an extremely valuable item!" said Ye Qing-Tian.

Ye Fan looked back at Ye Qing-Tian. "So you're saying that you have news about this spirit energy fruit?"

Ye Qing-Tian nodded. "As I said, this plant only bears fruit every 30 years. It's been exactly 30 years since the last time this happened. I've come looking for you because I hope that you can represent China and fight for the spirit energy fruit in South America."

"You want me to go? Wouldn't we have a higher chance of getting such a treasure if you went instead?" asked Ye Fan curiously.

Ye Qing-Tian shook his head. "You don't understand. When spirit energy fruit trees were discovered back then, all the top martial arts fighters from all over the world came to fight for the fruits. Several supreme grandmasters ended up fighting each other fiercely in South America. This huge fight caused the deaths of several innocent residents in the area, and also destroyed a number of spirit energy fruit trees."

"From then on, all the countries who knew about this fruit agreed that they would forbid any martial artist at grandmaster level and above from being eligible to fight for the fruits. Otherwise, the other fighters from the other nations are allowed to team up and fight this grandmaster! So none of the members of War God Castle are allowed to go, and nobody on the grandmaster ranking can go either," said Ye Qing- Tian quietly.

Ye Fan didn't know anything about such national level secrets. He was just a small fry and wasn't privy to such things.

That was the difference between the different circles in society. An ordinary person only came into contact with the mundane things around him. But those who stood high above everyone else saw very different things.

But now that Ye Fan had proven himself to be worthy of becoming a member of War God Castle, Ye Qing-Tian was good with telling Ye Fan all these things.

"So you want me to fight for the fruit as an imminent grandmaster fighter?"

The stage before reaching grandmaster was imminent grandmaster.

Since grandmaster level fighters were all prohibited from entering the fight, then the bulk of the fighters were at imminent

grandmaster level.

Ye Qing-Tian nodded gravely. "That's right. Your identity is still kept a secret from everyone else at the moment. Your name is not listed in War God Castle, and you've not appeared on the grandmaster ranking either. Nobody overseas knows that you're already a grandmaster. Even if you end up showing your true prowess when you fight, it doesn't matter. We'll just say that you managed to make a breakthrough while fighting."

"There are some things that everybody knows about, but as long as there's no proof, the other countries won't be able to do anything about us. Besides, these are all unwritten rules between the various countries, and we're not the only sneaky ones."

It was true that such a method was excellent for hiding the presence of a grandmaster and thereby circumventing the agreement that all the countries had signed.

But there was one major difficulty in doing this.

This grandmaster had to be a grandmaster that nobody knew about.

Otherwise, there would be no way this person would be able to slip in unnoticed.

There were only so many martial artists at grandmaster level and higher in one country after all.

China had 1.4 billion people, but they only had ten grandmasters and six supreme grandmasters. That was just 16 people.

The martial arts circles all over the world already had a full list of the grandmasters in the world, and even had a list of their strengths and weaknesses.

When the King of Fighters, Gu Mo-Cheng, had an extramarital affair, it was the American martial arts circle who found out first.

The ones who understood you better than yourself were your enemies.

This loophole in the agreement wasn't that easy to exploit.

Someone like Ye Qing-Tian would be recognized instantly.

Photos of every single grandmaster in China were already in the hands of martial artists worldwide. It was impossible to pretend to be merely an imminent grandmaster. Only someone like Ye Fan, a powerful martial artist whom nobody knew about, could take advantage of this loophole.

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