Silence.
There was nothing but silence.
Not even the birds could be heard.
Everyone was rooted to the ground as tsunamis surged through their hearts.
Who would have thought that this young man could actually be this formidable?
He had even defeated the top martial artist of Japan.
"Yukiteru, where is he? Where is Chu Tian-Fan right now?" King Folo quickly snapped out of his daze and asked Yukiteru Tenshin.
Yukiteru shook her head. “After the battle last night, he left. I don't know where he is right now either. Perhaps he's at an airport or a seaport waiting to go back to China."
After hearing this, Folo took his phone out and called his subordinate based in Tokyo.
"Sana, send orders to everyone in Tokyo to head for every single possible point of entry to look for Chinese man named Chu Tian-Fan. If they see him, tell him that King Folo of India would like to invite him back to Folo Palace. As long as he's willing to join us, he can state any terms he wants!" resounded Folo's low voice.
Sword Saint's eyes immediately widened. "Folo, what do you mean by this? Are you trying to poach someone from War God Castle? What are you trying to do? Don't you know that this is against the rules?”
There was an implicit rule in the martial arts world that nobody was to poach a martial artist from a different country from your own.
If someone found out about this unethical behavior, the international community would frown upon it.
So even if one wanted to poach another, they would usually go through some private and underhanded means.
Nobody was going to announce it in front of everyone else so openly like that.
This was clearly disrespect towards War God Castle. Sword Saint was clearly upset now.
But Folo just laughed. "Sword Saint, that's not nice of you to put it this way. You were the ones who said that Chu Tian-Fan didn't belong to War God Castle and wasn't qualified to be part of it to begin with. Surely you can't deny the right for other countries to take him in since you don't want him, right? That would be considered unreasonable behavior, wouldn't it?"
"You..." Sword Saint didn't know how to respond.
Mo Gu-Cheng was red in the face as well.
"Prince Carlo, are you just going to stand there and watch him do this? Aren't you going to stand up for us?" Sword Saint was hoping to use peer pressure to force Folo into giving up trying to poach Chu Tian-Fan.
But the moment he turned around, he realized that all the leaders of other countries' martial arts circles were making similar phone calls.
"That's right, his name is Chu Tian-Fan. He's a Chinese man with fair skin and black eyes."
"You must find him before other countries do. Tell him that if he's willing to join the royals in England, I'll make him a Duke. Oh wait, I'll make him a prince. That's right.”
Various leaders were ordering their subordinates to quickly locate Chu Tian-Fan and get him to join their country's martial arts league.
After all, a supreme grandmaster in his twenties was already one in a million.
Every country wanted someone as talented as this.
Only idiots like Gu Mo-Cheng would have pushed aside this incredible genius.
Everyone initially thought that Chu Tian-Fan was from War God Castle. If that was the case, nobody would attempt to poach one of their members.
But unfortunately for them, Gu Mo-Cheng had just drawn the line between War God Castle and Ye Fan very clearly.
Since Ye Fan was not a member of any organization, then Xiao Chen and the rest really couldn't be upset at how the rest of them were desperately trying to get Ye Fan to join them.
"You!! I...I don't know what to say anymore!" Xiao Chen was so angry that he felt an urge to smack the King of Fighters on the head.
It had been so many years since China finally discovered a genius who could make it into the Sky Ranking, but the King of Fighters had just cast him aside like that.
"Why are you still standing there? Aren't you going to look for him too? If War God Castle ends up losing a genius like that because of you, I'll see how God of War teaches you a lesson later!” huffed Xiao Chen at Gu Mo-Cheng before both of them start getting their subordinates to look for Chu Tian-Fan as well.
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