Chapter 4120 — Seeing You Out
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By this point, Wei Zhao was so furious he almost laughed. He was peddling pills for the Famous Medicine Sect for free, not earning so much as a copper in price margin or hard-earned commission—and now the man actually wanted a cut of his own pills' profits. To be that brazenly shameless, one truly had to be a rarity in this world.
"Oh, I have heard you out quite clearly. As for the sort of cooperation Steward Diao proposes, forgive me, but I find it hard to accept. Steward Diao, please see yourself out." Wei Zhao spoke flatly on the spot and made a gesture that said, *take your leave, no escort needed.*
Though the man was using the Pill Alliance's inspection as a threat, Wei Zhao did not take it to heart at all. His pills were flawless; no matter how many inspections they ran, they could hardly conjure faults out of thin air. And should matters truly blow up, Cai Zhongxuan and his people would certainly not stand by with folded arms.
Cai Zhongxuan was the vice steward of the Five Elements Merchant Guild. In terms of status and in terms of say, he could never possibly rank below a mere vice steward of the Famous Medicine Sect. And besides, Wei Zhao himself had the legendary great one, Di Xingdao, standing at his back.
"What?" Diao Huanshan had been fully convinced that Wei Zhao, having seen the reality of his position, could only swallow his humiliation and survive, incapable of any further resistance. That the man should suddenly turn so unyielding caught him utterly off guard, and he was both shocked and enraged.
"I will not cooperate with your Famous Medicine Sect. Steward Diao, you may leave now. Is that clear enough?" Wei Zhao repeated, his expression calm and unruffled.
"Fine! Fine! You had best think this through. Refuse to cooperate with the Famous Medicine Sect, and you can forget about doing business in peace. I will see to it that you never find a foothold anywhere in Central Island Market!" Diao Huanshan, stung into fury, hurled out his threat.
He made no attempt whatsoever to hide it, and in an instant every customer in the shop was struck dumb, glancing at one another, and the looks they cast at Wei Zhao now held a measure of pity.
Wei Zhao's eyes went cold. But before he could speak, a frigid voice suddenly rang out from the doorway: "I have not set foot outside these past few years, and never did I know that Central Island had become a place where bullies run the market? Does doing business in Central Island Market mean one must bow and scrape to others' moods?"
With those words, Di Xingdao strode in, head high. Diao Huanshan was taken aback at the sight; instinctively he felt the man looked familiar, yet for the moment could not place him. Still, he had long since decided that a tiny shop like the Heaven Pill Pavilion could not possibly have any deep backing—and even if it did, it could never match the Famous Medicine Sect.
Some hick from who knew where had popped up and dared speak to him, the vice steward of the Famous Medicine Sect, in such a manner. Diao Huanshan was hardly about to let that slide, and with a cold snort he said, "Hmph. This is not bullying; this is mutual cooperation. But if you insist on calling it bullying and on confounding black and white, then there is nothing I can do. After all, your mouth is your own—I have no obligation to go running after you to wipe your backside."
Diao Huanshan, self-assured and still gloating over his own cutting eloquence, suddenly heard someone in the crowd exclaim in astonishment: "Eh? Isn't that Vice Island Master Tian?"
"That's right—years ago I had the good fortune to see him once. I do believe it really is Vice Island Master Tian!"
"No, surely not. Was it not rumored that Vice Island Master Tian suffered a deviation in his cultivation, that his meridians were all severed and he could no longer move? How could he be standing here hale and whole?"