Chapter 4359 — Requesting an Audience with the Director
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"Oh? Let's hear it. But as I said a moment ago, someone's been sniffing around me lately, so there are certain favors I can't do." Qin Deli glanced at him. Back in the day, he had skimmed no small profit thanks to Wei Zhaotong; if this was nothing too troublesome, he did not mind doing him a small favor on the side. If it was a thorny matter, though, that was another story.
"Rest easy, cousin. It's just carrying a word or two—it won't put you in any awkward spot," Wei Zhaotong said hurriedly.
"Carrying a word? What word?" Qin Deli asked, puzzled.
"Cousin, Morning Star Academy is making a grand show of this recruitment. If you came across a genius of a kind rarely seen in a hundred years, surely you could recommend him to the academy's higher-ups?" Wei Zhaotong said, a meaning hidden in his tone.
"Naturally. If he's truly a genius, then never mind me—any disciple of the academy has the right to recommend someone." Qin Deli nodded, then eyed Wei Zhaotong with sudden suspicion. "I say, Brother Wei, you haven't taken some bribe to get me to recommend that Cheng Qitian fellow outside, have you? Anyone can see at a glance that he's trash. Even if I recommended him, it would do no good—the higher-ups would spot the trick in an instant..."
"No, no, no, not him. The one I want you to recommend is someone else—a bodyguard from the local Qingtian Escort Agency by the name of Ling Yi," Wei Zhaotong said, shaking his head again and again.
"What could a mere bodyguard amount to, that you'd need me to recommend him?" Qin Deli grew more puzzled still.
"He's only in the early Golden Core stage, yet he can kill experts in the Nascent Soul stage in a single blow, across the gap in cultivation. Cousin, would you call that formidable or not?" Wei Zhaotong said with a look of deep profundity.
"How is that possible? Brother Wei, you must be joking—how could such an expert exist under heaven?" Even Qin Deli was badly startled. Then his eyes lit up. "Don't you lie to me. If this Ling Yi of yours really is a genius of that top-tier, heaven-defying caliber, then recommending him at once would be a great merit for me!"
"Cousin, not a word of it is false. One of that Young Master Cheng's servants outside is an expert at the very peak of the early Nascent Soul stage. And this man crippled him in a single exchange. Many people witnessed it—ask anyone down at the docks and you'll soon know," Wei Zhaotong said, sipping his tea.
The first time he heard of the matter, he too had been badly shaken. An expert merely in the early Golden Core stage, able to cripple a peak early Nascent Soul opponent in one exchange—anyone with an ounce of common sense would find it hard to believe.
Yet for that very reason, Wei Zhaotong had chosen to go along with Cheng Qitian's wishes and deal with this Ling Yi before Qi Wenmo and the Qingtian Escort Agency—the growth potential of such a genius was boundless. If he could not be killed before he grew stronger still, it would be too late to deal with him afterward, and the trouble would be endless.
"Is it really true? Then this man is remarkable indeed. So long as his spiritual root attributes aren't too poor, his entry into the academy is all but settled. Brother Wei, fetch this man quickly and let me have a look at him!" Qin Deli said, suddenly unable to wait.
A genius of this sort—just a few words to the academy's higher-ups, and he could effortlessly reap a great merit. For a man in as precarious a position as his own, it was a timely rain; even for the sake of that merit alone, ordinary people would not dare scheme against him at a time like this.
"Cousin wants to see him—that's a bit difficult," Wei Zhaotong said, shaking his head.
"What? You ask me to recommend him, yet you won't let me meet him. Do you mean to hoard him as rare goods all for yourself?" Qin Deli's face fell at once.