Chapter 4985 — Vice Island Master Soejima Enters the Fray
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"That's not all. The boy also said..." Zhao Youque grimaced awkwardly.
"Said what?" Tong Yangxi pressed at once.
"He also said he had some ties to our Morning Star Academy..." Zhao Youque said, his expression strange.
"Ties? What ties? Surely he isn't a disciple who came out of our Morning Star Academy?" Zheng Dongyang's eyelid twitched as well. Many people in Middle Island had at some point studied at an Eastern Continent academy; such a coincidence was not impossible.
"That's not it either—his tone was far loftier than that. He said he was a friend of Headmaster Ling Yuanqing, and the master of the great Qing Xuanzi!" Zhao Youque said, bracing himself.
"What?!" Zheng Dongyang was struck dumb. He quickly recovered himself, though, and said with a frown, "That's utterly impossible. As far as I know, Qing Xuanzi's master died long ago—how could he possibly turn up here?"
In the world of cultivation one could not judge by appearances, for the young-looking might well be old monsters who had lived centuries or a millennium, merely preserving a youthful face—Zhuang Yifan was a case in point. But for this fellow to style himself Qing Xuanzi's master was nothing but absurd nonsense!
"Exactly. With boasting like that, the man must be a fraud!" Tong Yangxi declared from the side. Never mind that the thing was utterly impossible—even if there were a shred of possibility to it, he had to snuff out Zheng Dongyang's misgivings at once. Otherwise, if Wei Zhao really were Ling Yuanqing's friend and Qing Xuanzi's master, what was the Famous Medicine Sect even fighting for?
If that were truly the case, he might as well do nothing at all—he would have no choice but to hurry to the Heavenly Elixir Pavilion in person and beg forgiveness at their door. There was no second path.
Zhao Youque said nothing. Of course he did not believe Wei Zhao's wild claims either, but given the formidable strength Wei Zhao had displayed, the man could hardly be an ordinary Morning Star disciple. Perhaps he really did know grand figures like Ling Yuanqing and Qing Xuanzi, and that was why he dared so recklessly to borrow the tiger's pelt and hoist its banner.
"There's no doubt about it. Hmph—for this boy to play his tricks right in the Morning Star Academy's face, he truly is a piece of work!" Zheng Dongyang snorted with contempt. To puff himself up before the academy's number-two alchemist—what difference was there between that and going down to the underworld to play at being a ghost?
"This is simply going too far. Master Zheng, what do you say we do next? We can't just let the boy slander the Morning Star Academy's good name as he pleases," Tong Yangxi said, full of expectation.
"I don't much care about the Morning Star Academy's reputation, one way or the other, but the boy certainly can't be left alone. Otherwise people will think we're afraid of him—they might even take him for some great personage," Zheng Dongyang said with a slight frown.
"Exactly so. We've already had two men fall to him in a row; we absolutely must not keep feeding his arrogance. It's only a pity that the Famous Medicine Sect's guest experts here on Middle Island aren't strong enough—we'll still have to trouble you to think of something, Master Zheng," Tong Yangxi said hurriedly.
The best of his guest experts were at most at the Nascent Soul stage, and their strength might not even match Diao Huanshan's, let alone suffice against Wei Zhao. This matter could only be settled by Zheng Dongyang stepping forward.
Of course, Zheng Dongyang was himself an alchemist and no fighter. But with his transcendent status, handling a matter like this required no personal effort at all—he need only send word, and a host of experts would come flocking. A mere Wei Zhao was nothing worth mentioning.