Chapter 1703 — No Need to Wait
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"No need to wait — thirty years is far too long!" The conference room doors were kicked open with a single blow, and a voice cold as though it had drifted up from hell rang out beside everyone's ears. Low it was, yet laced with deep, heavy true qi, so that it set their eardrums humming and struck them with a deafening roar.
The door panels burst into a heap of splinters that flew up like petals scattered from heaven, not a single piece left whole.
Everyone in the conference room was startled. Never had they imagined that anyone would dare come and wreck the place at such a moment! After all, the Great Assembly of the Great Houses was a gathering convened by the very pinnacle of cultivators in the mundane world.
As the splinters slowly dispersed, five figures appeared in the doorway. Wei Zhao stood dead center — it was he who had kicked the doors to pieces, and he who had spoken those words. Behind him followed four others.
Two stood, two sat. Standing were Shen Yushu and Qiu Lingshan; seated were Chen Yuxuan and Wu Chengtian.
Chen Yuxuan and Wu Chengtian each sat in a wheelchair, pushed by Shen Yushu and Qiu Lingshan, and thus they followed Wei Zhao into the conference room...
"Wei Zhao!?" Yu Shuixing knew this man Wei Zhao all too well — he could not have been more familiar with him. The first time he had seen him, Wei Zhao had been with Guan Xuewen, and at the time Yu Shuixing had paid him no particular mind. But as one thing after another unfolded afterward, Wei Zhao had become the Yu family's sworn enemy, a foe of life and death.
"Weren't you waiting to see whether such a day would ever come to the Yu family? Then wait no longer — you can see it right now!" Wei Zhao swept his gaze around the conference room. His eyes came to rest on Sun Yikai and Sun Jingyan; he smiled faintly at them and gave a nod, then nodded to Liu Zhenhu as well.
In the conference room there were only these few acquaintances. With the others Wei Zhao had no personal ties, so naturally he did not greet them.
When Sun Jingyan had first arrived at the conference room, she had wondered why Wei Zhao had not come. Was he not supposed to accompany Wu Chengtian? Yet what she saw was Wu Gonggao arriving with Wu Chendi, and nowhere in sight were Wu Chengtian and Wei Zhao.
By then the Great Assembly had already begun, and she had no way to call Wei Zhao either. Later, the Yu family opened by launching an attack on the Chen family, which left her even less opportunity to say anything more to her grandfather. What she had never expected was that Wei Zhao would show up at the Great Assembly in such a manner.
He... had he come to attend the assembly? This was nothing short of crashing the place!
"Wei Zhao, I've been wanting to make trouble for you and never found the time, and now you've delivered yourself to my door? Do you truly believe the Yu family of the mundane world cannot do anything to you?" Yu Shuixing glared at Wei Zhao, eyes full of fury. "Ridiculous. And I thought you'd brought some helpers — a pair of cripples, an ordinary man, and a Qiu Lingshan of the early Profound rank. How childish!"
Yu Feng's strength was no match for Wei Zhao's, and since Yu Feng had caused trouble, Yu Shuixing had called him back. Busy as he was with matters of the Great Assembly, he had not gone looking for trouble with Wei Zhao. Yet this Wei Zhao had recklessly come knocking on his own accord. Did he really think that a fine hand at the peak of the middle Profound rank was invincible?