Chapter 3608 — All Are Welcome to Watch
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 3
Before a minor steward of the Welcome Pavilion like Meng Jueming, this Senior Brother Tong of the Mystic Mechanism Pavilion could still put on airs. But before a great young master of the Skyward Pavilion like Xu Lingchong, that would not do at all. The Mystic Mechanism Pavilion and the Skyward Pavilion had never gotten along, true enough, but a mere underling like him could not afford to provoke a young master Xu.
At those words Senior Brother Tong hastily assented. He packed the spirit jade Wei Zhao had dug back into the basket, then trotted out carrying it himself, and before everyone's eyes began re-inspecting it piece by piece.
One piece, two pieces, three pieces... When Senior Brother Tong finally set the ten fine jade out before them, everyone was dumbstruck once again. Xu Lingchong, refusing to believe it, picked them up one by one and felt them for himself, and his already overcast face now collapsed completely.
The heaven-and-earth spiritual qi was pure and full, so rich that it surpassed even the spirit jade he ordinarily used for cultivation. Even the most exacting of men would never call this spirit jade waste. On the contrary, even among fine jade, these were of a rare and superior quality!
"So how is it, Senior Brother Xu? These garbage spirit jade I picked from the trash—surely they don't merit the notice of a personage like yourself?" Wei Zhao stood to one side with his arms folded, composed and unhurried, and smiled blandly.
Xu Lingchong's face was the color of iron, yet he was choked speechless for a good long while. In front of all these eyes he could hardly spout nonsense. If he truly steeled himself and declared this spirit jade all waste, where would that leave the Spirit Jade Hall? However solid this young master's backing, before a matter so plainly evident, the men of the Spirit Jade Hall would not dare play blind and babble along with him!
Young Master Xu had been in rather good spirits today. In particular, having earlier scared off Lu Bianren, who had sought to change mining zones for Wei Zhao, he had felt a certain thrill of having everything in the palm of his hand. Though he could not yet deal with Wei Zhao personally for the moment, pinning the man down to rot in dead Mining Zone Ten was a pleasure to behold. And then, in the blink of an eye, this had to happen!
The man had clearly been pinned in dead Mining Zone Ten—anyone else would long since have been unable to stir—yet this Wei Zhao had actually dug out so many fine jade from a dead zone. And it was not the first day; this was the second day running!
Xu Lingchong's mood now was as though he had joyfully prepared himself for a grand imperial banquet, only for the dishes to be carried in and the lids lifted to reveal half-month-rancid pig slop, buzzing with swarms of green-headed flies. And that was not even the worst of it—the real problem was that he had to hold his nose and drink that basin of slop down!
Xu Lingchong's face went green, and Kang Jingming's went green as well. Compared with Xu Lingchong, after all, he was the one with a true and bitter feud with Wei Zhao, and if anyone present wished most fervently for Wei Zhao's downfall, he ranked first beyond all doubt. Yet the more desperate that wish, the more slop he had to drink now, and the feeling could be described only in four words: weeping without tears.
Among Xu Lingchong's whole party, the only one still in decent spirits was Zhong Yongliang. Had he not been mindful of his undercover identity, the fellow might have been unable to keep from cheering aloud! As expected of Leader Wei Zhao—Wei Zhao was Wei Zhao. When it looked as though he had been pinned down and could not move, he had quietly handed everyone a grand gift, and the slap across their faces had landed crisp and loud. It was simply too satisfying for words!