Chapter 1674 — Conflict at the Birthday Banquet, Part Two

So the envoy of the Mystic Elixir Sect flew into a rage. With a shift of his body, he reached out to seize Feng Xiaoxiao, intending to teach her a lesson!

"Xiaoxiao, look out!" The energy spheres Wei Zhao had prepared on his side were meant for Old Master Tang; who would have thought that fool from the Mystic Elixir Sect would strike first? With no other choice, Wei Zhao snatched up an energy sphere in his hand and made to hurl it at the Mystic Elixir Sect envoy!

But Wei Zhao was loath to reveal his trump card too early. At present, only the Heaven-rank girl knew the principle behind these energy bombs, so Wei Zhao could use them against Old Master Tang. Yet a trump card was called a trump card precisely because it was unknown to others; if everyone knew about it, what kind of trump card would it be?

"Blazing Fury!" The martial skill the Mystic Elixir Sect envoy used was one connected to elixir fire, and indeed the martial skill most alchemists of the Mystic Elixir Sect practiced: using elixir fire as both weapon and martial skill, so that no further effort need be spent practicing other martial skills!

Blazing Fury was a novice martial skill of alchemists, one that used true qi to rouse the elixir fire within the body and so wound the enemy. Yet the strength of such a move depended on the alchemist's rank and on the attributes of the elixir fire employed; Blazing Fury was nothing more than the most basic of fire-attribute elixir fire skills, its destructive power hardly formidable. Still, it was a Earth-rank martial skill after all, and wounding Feng Xiaoxiao, an expert of the early Yellow rank, was a trifling matter!

Yet before Wei Zhao could act, Bingtang moved first! As a Heaven-rank expert, how could she stand by and watch an Earth-rank expert strike at her own junior sister and not notice?

"Oh? You mean to fight, do you?" Bingtang gave a casual wave of her hand, and the flame, dragon-like, was frozen solid in an instant and fell to the ground, shattering to bits! Because the blaze had been frozen in a single instant, it remained sealed within the ice, leaving a lingering afterimage in everyone's sight like an ice lantern before the flame was finally extinguished.

"Hmph!" Seeing Bingtang take action, the Mystic Elixir Sect envoy knew he would gain nothing, and could only say resentfully, "I was merely warning her, that's all. Don't go sticking your nose into other people's business!"

With that, the Mystic Elixir Sect envoy, as though deliberately looking for a quarrel, leaped up onto the high platform and said to Tang Lingtou, "Today, my Mystic Elixir Sect shall stand here as witness to the marriage. Tang Lingtou's daughter is to be wed to You Panhu of the You Family! If anyone objects, they are making an enemy of my Mystic Elixir Sect!"

The purpose of the Mystic Elixir Sect's visit this time was to bolster the Hidden You Family. If they showed weakness now, it would not merely cost the Mystic Elixir Sect its face; how could the Hidden You Family go on following at the Mystic Elixir Sect's heels like a dog thereafter?

"May I ask," Wei Zhao suddenly cut in, "how many daughters does this Tang Lingtou have?"

"Only one, of course, the very Tang Yun just now recovered!" said the Mystic Elixir Sect envoy, gazing at Wei Zhao with utter provocation. Having repeatedly come off the worse against Bingtang, he meant to salvage his standing at Wei Zhao's expense. "Boy, you'd best know your place and think clearly about who you are. You are nothing but the boyfriend of the Ice Palace Master's junior sister. We of the Mystic Elixir Sect may not even think much of their Ice Palace, let alone a distant relation like you! I am an alchemist, so do not go looking for trouble for yourself!"

The Mystic Elixir Sect envoy's words were insufferably arrogant, yet the truth was indeed so. Given the Mystic Elixir Sect's standing, it had no need to fear the Ice Palace in the least, which was also why the young sect master of the Mystic Elixir Sect had dared to demand outright that Bingtang become his concubine!

It was precisely because the status of alchemists was so exalted that the Mystic Elixir Sect possessed such grounds for pride!

"Oh, are you finished?" Wei Zhao asked.

"Finished, but boy—" Before the Mystic Elixir Sect envoy could finish that "but," Wei Zhao cut him off!

"Since you're finished, then go where you belong and die!" Wei Zhao hurled a true-qi bomb straight at the Mystic Elixir Sect envoy, save that this true-qi bomb was wrapped in a layer of water-attribute elixir fire, making it look just like the alchemist-exclusive martial skill the Mystic Elixir Sect envoy had used moments before, Blazing Fury, except that Wei Zhao had swapped the fire-attribute elixir fire for the rarer water-attribute elixir fire!

The elixir fire was merely a disguise; what truly carried force was the energy bomb Wei Zhao had unleashed! It was only that time was short and the energy Wei Zhao had condensed was limited, so it could not inflict too great an injury on the Mystic Elixir Sect envoy!

But neither did Wei Zhao mean to slay the Mystic Elixir Sect envoy on the spot. Wei Zhao was no fool; even the Heaven-rank girl did not dare kill him outright then and there. With Wei Zhao's background, to kill this Mystic Elixir Sect envoy would be to court death, would it not?

Yet though he could not kill him, a lesson was absolutely necessary, and by employing a specious version of Blazing Fury, Wei Zhao was also building up the legend of his "origins"! Already, all sorts of rumors were circulating through the jianghu about the vast power standing behind Wei Zhao, saying he was a scion groomed for tempering by some great clan or great sect...

Only Wei Zhao himself knew best whether that was true. Wei Zhao was of thoroughly humble stock; what great power or grand background stood behind him? So the more varied his methods, the more these ancient sects and hidden clans would be wary of him, and this bought Wei Zhao time to breathe. By the time they truly came to their senses, Wei Zhao would already be prepared.

"Boom!" The Mystic Elixir Sect envoy was blasted flying backward by Wei Zhao, crashing to the ground and violently spewing a mouthful of blood, while the clothes on his upper body were entirely burned away by Wei Zhao's elixir fire, leaving his torso bare and scorched, a rather sorry sight!

Of course, it only looked sorry; in truth, he had not suffered too grave an injury! This was Wei Zhao's handling, measured to the precise degree!

The enmity with the Mystic Elixir Sect, the Hidden You Family, and the Hidden Tang Family was already sealed. Though the two sides stood implacably opposed, the Mystic Elixir Sect, because of the connection that the Ice Palace stood behind Wei Zhao, would not act rashly either!

Wei Zhao could also see that, with its present strength, the Mystic Elixir Sect was not enough to swallow the Ice Palace whole. So long as Wei Zhao did not kill this Mystic Elixir Sect envoy, he believed the Mystic Elixir Sect could not fly into a rage and come making trouble for him!

And now, since the enmity was sealed in any case, Wei Zhao naturally had to teach this Mystic Elixir Sect envoy a lesson!

"Alchemist this, alchemist that, as if anyone isn't one?" Wei Zhao curled his lip and said, "First you lay hands on my little wife, then you wag your finger in front of my chief wife—do you really think you're such a somebody? You're nothing but an envoy of the Mystic Elixir Sect, and you fancy yourself the young sect master?"

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