Chapter 4953 — I Will Remember This
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"Well, well—so the honored Town Master Chang really is a man of such blunt candor. You dare fasten a chamber pot like that onto my head in front of everyone. Tell me, when did my reputation become so sterling? Has even the Town Master begun to think me some soft-natured fool?"
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"No, no, no—the Guild Master misunderstands. This is no chamber pot. My wife and son were beaten to this state. I merely wish to demand a reasonable and just explanation. I do not wish to be taken for a muddled fool or a spineless wretch. I trust that is not excessive?"
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"Whether it is excessive is not for you to decide, Town Master Chang," Zhuang Yifan said with a shake of his head.
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"Quite right—this is the League branch's territory, so naturally the Guild Master has the final word. Then what does the Guild Master wish to say?" Chang Minghui fixed Zhuang Yifan with a cold stare.
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Though he was inferior to the other man in both strength and authority, he was, after all, the Town Master of Dingcheng and the foremost figure of the Yellow-Rank Sea Region's alchemical holy land. Just as Zhuang Yifan had earlier sought Zang Zili's help, even the Yellow-Rank Academy League had to accord him a measure of deference—more than half the pills the League used were supplied by Dingcheng. That was why Chang Minghui could speak with such confidence.
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"What I say hardly matters. What matters is what Master Lin says," Zhuang Yifan replied, nodding toward Wei Zhao with a smile.
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"Master Lin? The Guild Master calls this fellow surnamed Lin 'Master'?" Chang Minghui was taken aback. Anyone whom Zhuang Yifan addressed with such a term of respect was no ordinary figure—even an ordinary seventh-rank alchemist would not qualify. As he recalled it, Zhuang Yifan had first used that honorific only after his wife, Zang Zili, had advanced to become a Mystic-rank, first-grade alchemist.
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Which meant this fellow surnamed Lin was also a Mystic-rank, first-grade alchemist? How could that be!
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Zhuang Yifan paid Chang Minghui no mind and merely turned his smiling gaze back to Wei Zhao, every inch a man ready to follow Wei Zhao's lead in whatever he chose.
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In truth, had he not just learned that Wei Zhao stood a chance at breaking through to Mystic-rank, second-grade alchemist, Zhuang Yifan would not have gone so far as to humiliate Chang Minghui, however willing he was to shield Wei Zhao. The man was, after all, master of an alchemical holy land, and his wife Zang Zili was a Mystic-rank, first-grade alchemist. To offend him for the sake of a mere Mystic-rank, first-grade alchemist would clearly not be worth it. But a Mystic-rank, second-grade alchemist was an altogether different matter.
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Even if Wei Zhao were only a prospective Mystic-rank, second-grade alchemist, that was enough for Zhuang Yifan to stake his fortune on him without hesitation. As for Chang Minghui and Zang Zili, they held little personal value to him—he could deal with them as he pleased or kick them aside as he pleased.
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At that moment every eye in the hall was fixed on Wei Zhao. No one knew how this young man, whom Zhuang Yifan treated as an honored guest, would respond. Zhuang Yifan and Chang Minghui were both among the few great powers of the Yellow-Rank Sea Region, and Wei Zhao had just become a legendary prodigy. Today's affair was a rare piece of theater.
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"Town Master Chang, is it?" Wei Zhao glanced at Chang Minghui and said mildly, "You say you wish to weigh my worth?"
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"That's right. Do you have the nerve to move against my wife and son, yet lack the courage to answer now?" Chang Minghui looked at Wei Zhao with contempt. He did not believe for an instant that Wei Zhao could have killed Zang Zili. The more Zhuang Yifan shielded him, the more it proved the fellow had a guilty conscience!