Chapter 3765 — See You Out
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"My thanks for the warning," Hong Zhong nodded, stroking his long beard with a light laugh. "If they dare come, then let them come with all they have. Though the Hong Clan Merchant Association is in the business of trade, sometimes we too must find occasion to flex our muscles, if only to leave some deterrent in the minds of those with ulterior motives. Otherwise, if every Tom, Dick, and Harry dares to bare its teeth at us, then these troubles will never end."
Behind him stood the illustrious Hong Clan Merchant Association, a top-tier merchant power across all five islands of the Heavenly Tier. And this so-called Three Heroes of the Nan Clan were, at the very most, local tyrants of the North Island. To say nothing of contending with the Hong Clan Merchant Association—even a single newly risen expert like Gongyang Jun of the Law Enforcement Hall could crush them to death with one hand. There was no need to take them seriously at all.
If this Nan Tianyong truly did not know his place and went back to fetch his two elder brothers to stand up for him, then Hong Zhong would not mind taking action to put down the Three Heroes of the Nan Clan himself. After all, it could not happen a second time. Having already tolerated this once, if they came again to stir up trouble, then even if he killed them on the spot, Chongtian Pavilion could say nothing against it.
Still, though Hong Zhong had no worries for the Hong Clan Merchant Association, at this moment he found himself unconsciously fretting a little over Lin Er, the man he had met only once before.
Nan Tianhai had been humiliated today, and clearly would not be coming back to the Hong Clan Merchant Association to make trouble anytime soon. That left Lin Er as the greatest remaining outlet for his anger. Once they dug out Lin Er's identity and background, the consequences were easy to imagine.
In the eyes of the Three Heroes of the Nan Clan, their merchant association could be crushed like ants at a whim—but to an expert at the peak of early-stage Foundation Establishment like Lin Er, they were nothing less than personages of consequence. If they truly cornered him at his door, he would have no recourse at all.
Hopefully this Lin Er was hidden deep enough not to be found so easily. Otherwise, that spirit jade card they had just handed out would be money down the drain.
This commotion at the Hong Clan Merchant Association was, to others, nothing but amusing after-dinner gossip. But to this so-called Lin Er, it was nothing less than **trouble**—trouble that could mean life or death.
Yet as the person in question, Wei Zhao knew nothing of it. As things stood, he was simply an ordinary newcomer of the Qingyun Pavilion, a man who neither knew this so-called Lin Er nor had any connection with him whatsoever.
Still, if Wei Zhao were to claim he was merely an ordinary newcomer, that would truly leave every other newcomer of the Sandie Pavilion too ashamed to show their faces.
The first newcomer of the Sandie Pavilion to successfully establish a foundation, the only newcomer to score a divine-grade perfect mark in both of the first two assessments, and a newcomer who could recover swiftly even after taking a full-power blow from an expert at the peak of early-stage Foundation Establishment. If that could still be called ordinary, then no one else had any business living at all.
Of course, if the other newcomers—those who were already worked to death every day just cultivating three or four spirit herb seeds—were to learn that Wei Zhao could effortlessly cultivate eighty-five at once, they would probably all go throw themselves off a building in unison.
Three days passed in the blink of an eye. The newcomers had more or less figured out some method for cultivating spirit herb seeds, no longer fumbling about helplessly as they had on the first two days. As for how many seeds would ultimately survive, that could only be left to human effort and the will of heaven.RS