While Crow and Old Mo knew who he was talking about, I didn't. All I saw was a head, covered in blood, and I had no idea what it looked like.

The crow and Old Mo wouldn't stand up for me at this time; they'd just stand by and watch with smirks.

However, Young Master Zhang immediately recognized them, but since the occasion was inappropriate, he couldn't say anything.

He quickly exchanged a few more polite words and then hurriedly took his leave, so as to give the crows a chance to speak and not let him delay their business.

The Zhang family quickly left the private room, and at that moment, Crow also came forward.

I gently tapped the box containing the severed head a few times, glanced up at the crow, and asked uncertainly, "Are you sure it's him?"

Crow and Old Mo nodded at the same time. I was very surprised. Wasn't he just revealing that he was the mastermind behind my scheme? Are all people from Kyushu this arrogant?

This is a problem with common sense; I myself didn't realize how strong the Fourth Realm could be.

Although I wouldn't casually sacrifice my fourth-realm experts, I really don't think fourth-realm grandmasters are that powerful.

They also failed to realize the importance of a Grandmaster of the Fourth Realm to a particular power or individual.

The most typical example is the Zuo family. Just because they gained a Grandmaster of the Fourth Realm, the entire family was pulled back from the brink of collapse.

Han Shi's current calculations are more about securing her lineage's position within the Zuo family, rather than any problems within the Zuo family itself.

The Zuo family currently has three Grandmasters and nearly twenty other Grandmasters, but there is a gap in the lower-level power structure.

Now, with the Brilliant Star City platform, they've almost filled their quota for Innate Realm cultivators.

After all, there are plenty of independent cultivators and young masters from small families willing to rely on them. It was just that the Zuo family had their own people in the past and looked down on outsiders like them.

Because so many people died this time, they've opened up recruitment to the public, but they're not accepting just anyone.

At the very least, they must have won a daily championship in Brilliant Star City, or survived ten life-or-death battles.

Only those qualified to participate in the Zuo family's recruitment assessment could ultimately remain, with only one or two out of ten making it a significant advantage for a local power like theirs.

Generally, second-realm innate martial artists are the main force in daily combat, third-realm grandmasters rarely take action, and fourth-realm martial artists are more of a deterrent force, rarely seen in normal times.

A place like our Biyou Palace, where we usually only have Grandmasters of the Fourth Realm ready to take action,

The Grandmasters of the Fourth Realm who participated in the battle were merely cannon fodder; they had never even heard of them.

Just like the recent Dongyi Gao Tianyuan incident, the minimum requirement for participation was a Grandmaster of the Third Realm.

In the end, only the Imperial Dynasty, the Shu Mountain Sword Sect, the Taoist Longhu Mountain, and the Taoist Quanzhen Sect each sent a Martial Saint of the Fifth Realm, and all of them were at the highest level.

Other factions had only heard rumors, but they didn't know the specific details. The four parties involved in the incident kept their mouths shut and no one spread the word.

After all, this is a world where reputation can be a source of power, and nobody wants to bring honor to their enemy.

I have no idea how devastating it would be for someone aspiring to become the head of the family to lose a Grandmaster of the Fourth Realm.

Regardless of why this Grandmaster of the Fourth Realm was killed, the fact that he was sent out on a mission because of Zhang Zeyu's decision is what cost Zhang Zeyu his life.