1888 Large Hands Behind the Scenes! Lin Yuan had already been disgusted by Lu Kun from the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce before. Now, more people from the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce were trying to cause trouble. There was no way that Lin Yuan would let off the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce. What Yin Lin said informed Lin Yuan that trouble was brewing in the Startling Lines Continent. However, it had not been started by him but the Great Lush Federation. For the past few centuries, the Divine Wood Federation, Iron Hammer Federation, and Great Lush Federation had maintained a stable balance. All of the federations had silently agreed to the truce. The Great Lush Federation had to have a reason for breaking the balance. For this reason, they had come to cause trouble for the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce. Lin Yuan intended to investigate the Great Lush Federation to learn what their reason for breaking the balance was. As such, Lin Yuan asked Su Yiren, “You said that the Great Lush Federation’s chambers of commerce destroyed hundreds of thousands of bandit groups. Can it be that there are experts hidden within all of the Great Lush Federation’s chambers of commerce?” Su Yiren immediately realized that Lin Yuan saw through the truth. It was said that leaders liked smart subordinates. But the vice versa was true as well. Once Su Yiren realized that the situation was off, she intentionally carried out an investigation. All of the 14 Love Music Centers were deployed and provided Su Yiren with a wave of information. However, most of the information came from the elites of the Divine Wood Federation, and most of them were unverified rumors that could not be seen as reliable. Hence, Su Yiren sought out Li Wan to ask her to use the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce as well as the resources available to the Li family to investigate the matter. The Prosperous Chamber of Commerce dominated Oak City solely because of Lin Yuan’s resources. Due to Lin Yuan’s black hair and eyes, Li Wan had assumed that Lin Yuan was a member of one of the secret elite families in the Great Lush Federation. Later, she realized that something was wrong. Nonetheless, she was a practical person, and there were people from the Li family who had been scheming to target her. Su Yiren had stepped in to settle this issue. At first, Li Wan’s impression of Su Yiren came only from Su Yiren’s looks. She was beautiful and decked out lavishly. Almost every accessory she had on her was embedded with expensive gems, such as amethysts that cost millions of Great Lush dollars. But she did not expect Su Yiren to also possess such a powerful martial force. When the pink flower in her hands bloomed, the experts Li Wan’s uncle had sent to kill her became entranced as though they had just lost their souls and were now utterly infatuated with Su Yiren and willing to listen to her every command. Now, those experts had become part of the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce’s martial power that was hidden in Oak City. Su Yiren was respectful to Lin Yuan and addressed him as Young Master. If just one of his female attendants was already so powerful, Li Wan could not imagine how terrifyingly mighty the faction supporting Lin Yuan was. Nonetheless, this did not stop her from deciding to cling tightly to him. Hence, when she received Su Yiren’s request, Li Wan immediately activated all of the resources at her disposal to aid Su Yiren’s investigation. After she garnered the information, she candidly laid it all out in a report that she sent to Su Yiren. She had personally written the report. Li Wan was not even this detailed when she handled the financial accounts. The Li family was considered one of the smaller secret elite families. Thus, they did not have access to the secrets between top families. However, they did have ties with medium-sized secret families. After receiving Li Wan’s report, many of Su Yiren’s speculations were confirmed. At first, Su Yiren intended to wait until the matter was settled before she updated Lin Yuan on the situation. But since Lin Yuan had already asked, Su Yiren hastily replied with seriousness, “Lin Yuan, the merchant groups sent out by the chambers of commerce from the Great Lush Federation are still being robbed. However, all of the chambers of commerce from mid-sized and above families have experts stationed within them.” Lin Yuan’s eyes narrowed. Su Yiren had emphasized the word ‘all’. It was almost impossible for all the factions in a federation to agree to carry out the same action together because every faction had different profit directions. If they did carry out the same action, the profits of many factions would be impacted. Lin Yuan had burnt up the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce’s tree castle because they were a bundle of illegal activities and were taking advantage of the Sincere Merchant Group, which Lin Yuan had taken control of. The existence of bandit groups was a scapegoat for chambers of commerce such as the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce because they could blame all problems on the bandit groups. Thus, although on the surface it seemed like getting rid of all the bandit groups would be beneficial for the Great Lush Federation’s chambers of commerce, that was not the actual case. If the secret elite families of the Great Lush Federation could work in unison now, something bigger was definitely in the works. Lin Yuan felt that there was a pair of large unseen hands behind the Great Lush Federation who were moving the pieces that were the secret elite families. Lin Yuan did not know what motive the hands had, but the simultaneous action of the secret elite families of the Great Lush Federation meant that the hands regarded the entire Startling Lines Continent as its chessboard. This pair of hands had also already infringed on Lin Yuan’s profits. This was enough for Lin Yuan to see it as his enemy. Lin Yuan preferred his enemies to be out in the open rather than hiding in the shadows. He did not have much time to waste in the Startling Lines Continent. He had to see the fruits of his labor within a year and a half at the most. Thus, he decided to make use of this incident of the chambers of commerce from the Great Lush Federation, causing trouble to fan the flames even further. This would allow the pair of hands to know that it had an opponent at the border between the Divine Wood Federation and Iron Hammer Federation. Lin Yuan did not have the time to uncover the pair of hands. He intended to force it to show itself instead. Lin Yuan issued an order to Red Thorn in his head, “Red Thorn, station Di Wanmi at the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce. Don’t let any clashes stop before I arrive.” Recently, Red Thorn liked to sleep nestled in the middle of the three Mouths of Relinquish. 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺 Usually, Red Thorn was filled with energy. Lin Yuan attributed its sleepiness to its fairy bloodline having abruptly evolved. After the Goddess of Mercy lost the bet to the Moon Empress, she had given up 200 types of fairy source-type lifeform bloodlines.