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Translator: StarReader
Editor: Silavin
“Holy cow, he wasn’t faking! The brat did have a card up his sleeve!”
On the terrace, Xie Tianyang stumbled. Then it hit him, “Right, he used the sa azure fla against You Guiqi too. I took it as so martial art at the ti but now I see that it’s actually a heaven and earth treasure...”
It all made sense now, how he faced Hell Valley’s profound ranked martial art and easily overca it.
The azure fla could easily handle a heaven and earth spirit fla so it was only natural to be able to deal with You Guiqi’s wicked skill...
Xie Tianyang found himself looking at Long Jiu, “This brat has so much stuff on him that makes him a walking treasury. Are you sure he’s only a third rate clan kid?”
“Why are you looking at for? I’m as clueless as you are!” Long Jiu snorted then kept watching Zhuo Fan.
Veiled Dragon Pavilion had looked again and again into Zhuo Fan’s history but they always ca with the sa answer. A servant that never left the Luo clan.
Yet the night of the Luo clan’s demise marked his complete change.
A re servant took the four-mbered Luo clan and pulled it through the crisis. Along the path of remarkable wisdom and deep sches, he changed the fate of the Luo clan; turning it into a future opponent for the Seven Noble Houses.
Veiled Dragon Pavilion weren’t fools, of course, especially Long Jiu. Their new hatred for Hell Valley was all because Zhuo Fan instigated it.
Yet, even so, they were willing to take this burden for him.
First, just as Zhuo Fan predicted, Veiled Dragon Pavilion was not about to show weakness before their archenemy, Hell Valley. With how deep their hatred was, adding one more debt was of little concern.
Not to ntion, in the great battle of Windgaze City, making them carry the killing of those two elders was in fact a favor. Even when he was summoned by the Emperor, the Pavilion Lord was grinning from ear to ear.
It had been years since Pavilion Lord was this excited.
And secondly, Zhuo Fan’s power shocked every one of them to the marrow. Even Veiled Dragon Pavilion’s highly ranked n started discussing with Zhuo Fan when he was but a Qi Condensation cultivator.
None of them could’ve co with a more perfect plan than his.
Sowing dissension, escaping, bidding his ti to land the final blow—it all may have seed simple tactics but their execution would’ve been far from his.
This was sothing easily understood by reading the two houses’ millennia-long feud.
Moreover, Zhuo Fan was very skilled. Not only he could set up a 5th-grade array, but he also had many long lost ancient arrays.
After so many miracles, Pavilion Lord’s quick decision to cooperate with Zhuo Fan was t with no objection. And that was only because this kid’s actions left everyone unable to unravel his true purpose!
From the looks of it, Zhuo Fan’s change seed to have started from that fateful night.
Before it, he was just an honest-to-god and shy servant. After it, he changed into the sinister and cunning steward that none in the seven houses could compare with.
That night was the crux. But what did happen that night?
Taking a deep breath, Long Jiu was filled with confusion trying to pick so hints by looking at the smug figure, only to sigh in the end.
[He may very well be the only one who knows the answer to this riddle...]
Totally oblivious of Long Jiu group’s comnts, the overseers had long been skipping in joy at seeing Vicious Pill King taken down a peg, again.
Just like so 16-year-old girls, blushing to the ears.
This was the finals after all. Pushing the old man back would help in increasing his chance of winning it.
Xiao Dandan had never seen her senior aunt and master so happy in her life. She knew they were happy and so was she, raising her pretty face in pride.
As if to tell the world, [Here cos my man!]
As Chu Qingcheng saw that figure growing in authority, her heart grew with love, though still reserved enough not to be so frank about it as Xiao Dandan. But her eyes couldn’t hide the warmth and feelings she had for him.
On the eastern stand, Huangpu Qingyun’s elegant visage was now twisted in rage.
Even the most oblivious of his n could see he was best left alone, if they valued their life.
But did that an he wouldn’t co to you by himself?
“Elder Lin!” Huangpu Qingyun squinted and snapped.
Lin Zitian shivered and stood at attention, though his heart was on the verge of crying, “Second young master, orders?”
“Didn’t you promise that the old fool will win? Well, where is his win? He quoted fairness and offered to let the punk refine first, only to be shad further. What fairness? He wouldn’t have brought more sha on himself if soone else did that to him...”
“Second young master, Elder Yan isn’t the only one at fault.” Lin Zitian spoke over Huangpu Qingyun to curb his anger, or he would’ve been sent into the fray sooner than needed. At that ti, that bastard Vicious Pill King would’ve been long gone and he unable to deal with the kid alone. To safeguard his life, he had to speak up.
He continued anxiously, “Second young master, you saw it too. It’s not Elder Yan who is powerless but that punk is just too... too freakish!”
Lin Zitian stamred for a long ti before coming with an apt description, “The heaven and earth spirit fla is the lord of the flas. But who saw it coming that the brat would pull an even more freakish fla rendering the lord of the flas inferior. None of us did!”
Huangpu Qingyun rose his hand at first but soon put it down. He had cald down sowhat after those words, though his calmness was one that inspired fear. He looked at Zhuo Fan, “Indeed, this is not on Elder Yan, but all because that brat is... too strong!”
This was the first ti Huangpu Qingyun admitted Zhuo Fan’s strength.
His n trembled. Their second young master was a man of imnse pride who never acknowledged anyone.
Yet here he was praising soone for their strength and was also quite sincere at it.
Perhaps, Huangpu Qingyun’s anger wasn’t because of Yan Song’s setback, but his unwillingness to admit soone could have the sa authority as him.
This was sothing a proud and domineering man like himself would never allow to happen.
Therefore, they all looked at Zhuo Fan as if he was already dead.
And sure enough, Huangpu Qingyun followed with, “Elder Lin, there’s no need to act anymore. I will kill that brat myself.”
“Uh, then what of Edifice Lord Chu...”
Huangpu Qingyun’s eyes flashed with naked killing intent, “I want to avoid fighting with Qingcheng, but I can never find peace until I kill the kid myself!”
His n’s hearts shivered as they nodded.
Whoosh~
Vicious Pill King let out his white fla again and Xiao Ya rushed to stop him, “Forgive , Elder Yan, but because of your fla and the beast flas, the other alchemists can’t refine. So, to give a fair judgnt I can only ask all of you to refine one at a ti, from weak to strong.”
“Humph, you want to give way to them?”
Vicious Pill King snored, “Why should I? It won’t matter even if my fla doesn’t affect them! They don’t rise to even one hair of mine! Giving way to them ans wasting my ti.”
Tao Danniang grew angry and glared at him. Yan Fu snickered at the side, finding it only natural.
His master was the best in the empire, except the unknown kid that sprung up from who knew where. Who else could match his master?
The alchemists, Liu Yizhen included, were livid, but facts were facts. They had no ways to refute Vicious Pill King and could only sigh.
Xiao Ya found herself in a tight spot.
What was planned to be the finals between ten people, now beca a clash of two. Were the other eight alchemists re decorations to make them look good? What was the point of getting this far then?
Too bad Vicious Pill King was the best alchemist in the empire and was dead set on his decision. The judge could do nothing.
In Xiao Ya’s mont of anxiety and stomping, a lazy voice echoed.
“Old man, since it’s a competition, give them a chance. Why do you have to be so hard?”
This startled everyone and turned to see Zhuo Fan still with his arms crossed and eyes closed, but smiling nonetheless.
Frowning, Vicious Pill King muttered then withdrew his fla.
Those alchemists who had it rough with just their Yuan Qi flas were overjoyed. While the others looked at Vicious Pill King dumbfounded.
Even Yan Fu looked at Vicious Pill King as if he wasn’t his master.
Since when did his prideful master secede just like that because soone said so? [This is mortifying!]
But the fact was, one word from Zhuo Fan was enough to make the grand and arrogant Vicious Pill King renounce his pride.
“What’s going on? Did the old man get a personality change?” Up in the eastern stand, Hell Valley’s fifth elder was filled with puzzlent like everyone else.
What they didn’t notice, however, was Huangpu Qingyun’s even thicker killing intent!
Perhaps he was the sole person here who understood authority.
It was what made others submit completely!
He wielded the sa authority, an obvious fact from the people around him that listened to his orders without question. But this authority was bestowed by Regent Estate. As these n submitted to Regent Estate’s power, he could only thus order them.
More clearly stated, they spoke yes while their hearts were against it.
Only Huangpu Qingyun understood that Zhuo Fan had beco the man with the most authority here. And his authority was based on the true submission of everyone present. Vicious Pill King was the perfect example, seceding with just so words.
It was all because from the very beginning he grasped everyone’s hearts, letting them take one step at a ti in growing their faith in him.
This was the true way of the ruling class in seizing authority.
At first Huangpu Qingyun’s killing intent at Zhuo Fan was rather hazy. He guessed it was because of a conflict of interest. But now he clearly wanted Zhuo Fan dead. After Lin Zitian spoke and Zhuo Fan showed a monarchic fla, he understood perfectly why Zhuo Fan had to die.
He wasn’t as narrow-minded as others thought him to be, that he couldn’t stand soone more powerful them him. His decision to kill Zhuo Fan was because of the feeling he got from the latter. Every ti Zhuo Fan did sothing, it was like an open challenge to his authority.
How could a regent’s authority be so easily challenged?
A mountain wasn’t big enough for two tigers. With two people knowing the way to grasp the hearts of the people, they would fight over authority and only one would co out victorious.
Zhuo Fan had long noticed the killing intent coming from the eastern stand, but he was unfazed as ever, even sporting a scornful grin...
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