"Saint Lord, I am not impersonating anyone!" The man said anxiously.
"I am Noah, the Saint Lord of the Mourning Candle Dynasty branch family. How could the Saint Lord not recognize me?"
"Noah?" Alex froze slightly and could not help but reveal a look of interest.
"You are Noah?"
He carefully recalled his memories. In the original novel, there really was such a person.
The Mourning Candle Dynasty was located at the border between the Heavenly Flame Dynasty and the Crimson Soaring Dynasty, sitting atop a vast ocean territory.
At its peak, its power had flourished considerably, daring to openly challenge the monarch of the Crimson Soaring Dynasty.
To expand his forces, the original Alex had sent Noah to the Mourning Candle Dynasty to establish a branch family and cultivate a network of connections.
But later, the Heavenly Flame Dynasty and the Crimson Soaring Dynasty reached a peace agreement and formed an alliance.
No longer held back, the Crimson Soaring Dynasty immediately turned to deal with the Mourning Candle Dynasty.
They were beaten to the point of having absolutely no power to fight back.
Their elite cultivators were slaughtered to the last, even their capital and imperial palace captured by the enemy.
They were forcibly driven to a small island just to barely drag out an ignoble existence, right up until the final ending of the story, they never managed to catch their breath.
Ever since being attacked, the Mourning Candle Dynasty had been reduced to a minor faction and never recovered.
And Noah, who had been sent there to expand their influence, was also quickly forgotten by Alex.
In the original novel, Noah’s presence was extremely scarce.
He was purely a minor extra character, after Knox wiped out the Hale family, he went to the Crimson Soaring Dynasty as a guest.
When passing through the Mourning Candle Dynasty, Noah, upon learning that the Hale family had been destroyed, intended to poison and kill Knox to avenge them.
At that time, Knox was already a mighty expert at the peak of the Supreme Realm, while Noah was merely at the early stage of the Mahayana Realm.
That he dared to attack Knox for the already annihilated Hale family bore witness to his loyalty. Even though his scheme was seen through and he was slapped to death with a single palm strike, he could still be considered a loyal minister and a good general.
Thinking of this, Alex looked at the skinny, withered, rat-eyed, and ape-chinned man before him, and instantly found him much more pleasing to the eye.
He smiled slightly and said flatly. "Lucas, you are all too presumptuous."
"It is rare for Branch Head Noah to return to the main family. How could you treat him like this?"
Hearing Alex’s words, Lucas and the others were instantly shocked. "What?!"
"Saint Lord, this guy... is really a branch family Saint Lord of our Hale family?"
"How come I have never heard of him?"
Looking at Lucas’s puzzled appearance, Alex laughed. "You kid, of course you would not know."
"This is someone of your uncle’s generation. Back when he followed me to conquer the world, you were not even born yet."
"Go, hurry up and untie your uncle, and apologize."
Lucas and the others looked at each other in dismay, they hurriedly scrambled to untie the ropes on Noah’s body and knelt on the ground in unison.
"We young juniors had eyes but failed to recognize Mount Tai. We have offended the Branch Head, please forgive us!"
Noah rubbed his wrists, sore from being bound, and said grumpily. "You bunch of stinky brats, is there really a need to be this vigilant?"
"I declared my identity the moment I arrived, and I was almost on my knees begging you, but you just would not believe it!"
"You just had to see the Saint Lord before you would feel at ease, right?"
Alex smiled faintly. "Noah, you cannot entirely blame them for this."
"Recently, the Holy Land is going to face a major battle. It was me who ordered them to patrol the east, west, south, and north gates and strictly interrogate all suspicious individuals."
"Oh?" Hearing this, Noah instantly threw the matter of being offended to the back of his mind, asking with concern.
"Saint Lord, what happened to the family? Do you need me to come back and assist in the battle?"
"Rest assured, whether that major battle will come is still unknown." Alex waved his hand and smiled faintly.
"Even if the day of war truly arrives, I will definitely be the first to stand out and fight the enemy with my life."
"Come, come, it is rare for you to return. Come drink a cup of tea with me first."
Alex waved his hand signaling Lucas and the others to step down, then brought Noah back to the Saint Lord’s Hall and ordered Elara to serve two cups of tea.
While drinking tea, Alex asked. "Noah, what happened over at the Mourning Candle Dynasty that made you rush back in such a frantic hurry?"
Noah was an impatient man, he directly chugged the full cup of tea in one gulp, seeing this made Alex’s heart ache slightly.
Only then did Noah pant heavily, steady his mind, and say sternly. "Saint Lord, a major incident has indeed happened in the Mourning Candle Dynasty."
"Half a month ago, the Monarch of Mourning Candle Dynasty, Ebon Candle, was hunting in the forest, he accidentally shot and killed a demon fox."
"Ever since then, his mind was bewitched by the demon fox’s soul. He spends all day engaging in debauchery in the imperial harem, ignoring state affairs."
"That demon fox has a bloodthirsty and cruel temperament. It controls Ebon to commit all kinds of outrages, arbitrarily slaughtering loyal subjects, and the commoners are being massacred on a massive scale."
"Mourning Candle Dynasty was already small in territory and sparse in population. After Ebon Candle stirred up such a mess, the people are in a state of panic, everyone fearing for their own safety."
"To prevent the Mourning Candle Dynasty from being destroyed at her father’s hands, the Mourning Candle Dynasty Princess, Lilith Candle, specifically sought me out, begging me to come back and invite the Saint Lord to make a trip, eradicate the fox demon bewitching Ebon Candle’s mind, and rescue the people of Mourning Candle Dynasty from their misery!"