Chapter 4574 — The Newcomer King Ma Dangfeng
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Once they made out the newcomer's features, the faces of everyone in the courtyard sank at once—especially Miserable Senior Brother and Xiao Che, whose expressions turned dark as deep water, their eyes fairly blazing.
Small wonder. The man was named Ma Dangfeng, and he had once been a new disciple of Qingyun Pavilion under their charge. Of course, that was no longer the case.
"Ma Dangfeng, what are you doing here!" Miserable Senior Brother said at once, his face cold. He might be a meek, deferential sort, but a year as the Third Pavilion Master of the Reception Pavilion had bred in him some measure of authority—and besides, facing this Ma Dangfeng, fury surged in his heart. It took a rare man indeed to stoke such wrath in this honest soul.
"What am I doing here? Hmph, I haven't even asked what you're doing here. From today on, this whole courtyard is mine!" Ma Dangfeng sneered.
As a Qingyun Pavilion new disciple who had only just "graduated," he had barged so brazenly into the inner-sect's vital grounds not because he had lost his wits, but because he truly had solid backing and nothing to fear.
Like Wei Zhao, this Ma Dangfeng was the Newcomer King of his cohort—in some respects even more impressive than Wei Zhao had been. His name had already spread throughout the Tri-Stack Pavilion, and the upper echelons of Qingyun Pavilion held him in high regard, treating him for all the world as the future hope of the pavilion.
Every last one of the miracles Wei Zhao had once accomplished, this fellow had done in turn—and not merely done, but done better. A few days earlier, just like Wei Zhao, he had signed straight up for the Tri-Stack Pavilion's inner-sect grand tournament, and there, a mere newcomer, he had swept all before him, crushing his way through the field to become the undisputed Newcomer King of the new cohort.
"What did you say? This courtyard is yours? The hell it is!" Qiao Hongcai flew into a rage and pointed straight at Ma Dangfeng's nose, cursing without the slightest courtesy.
Over the past year he and Li Zhengming had been cultivating out in Qingyun Pavilion's outer sect and had rarely wandered over to the Reception Pavilion, so he had had little dealings with this Ma Dangfeng. He had heard Miserable Senior Brother and Xiao Che and the others mention him, but had never truly taken him to heart.
In his mind, Wei Zhao was a unique existence. For some brash, ignorant clown to strut in and imagine he could surpass Leader Wei Zhao was simply madness. And now the wretch dared brazenly come to seize Wei Zhao's residence—and in front of all of them, no less. This was beyond all endurance.
"I hate it most when people point their fingers at me. Point at me one more time and I'll kill you!" Ma Dangfeng looked at Qiao Hongcai with a cold, sinister expression, killing intent bristling from his whole body as if he might truly erupt and kill at any moment. The rule forbidding Tri-Stack Pavilion disciples from killing one another seemed, in his eyes, not worth a fart.
"What? Kill me? Good—no time like the present. I'd heard this newcomer was arrogant and overbearing, and it seems the man lives up to the rumor and then some. Why not try killing me right now?" Qiao Hongcai's anger turned to laughter. He did not lower his finger; if anything, his provocation grew sharper. He was a man of truly explosive temper—who cared about some damned Newcomer King? Whoever dared provoke him got exactly one answer: screw you! (To be continued...)
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