Chapter 1415 — Grandfather, I'm Sorry!
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When Wei Zhao first took up residence in the Gu family villa as the Eldest Miss Chu's bodyguard, Old Master Chen had already known of his existence. But at that time Wei Zhao was not yet worthy of his notice; he had paid little attention to such a bodyguard — until Wei Zhao grew more and more conspicuous, striking the Yu family and then the Zhao family, and afterward offending the Xiao family, the Jinzhong Sect, and the hidden Pi family!
One could say he had offended every powerful force there was to offend. Watching it, Old Master Chen felt his scalp prickle. Offending all of them together was one thing, but offending even one of them would be enough to bring ruin down on a man — yet Wei Zhao had not only escaped ruin, he was thriving, better than anyone, so well it was almost absurd!
Old Master Chen was baffled. How could a man offend so many powers and still come to no harm? It defied all reason. And what was stranger, the very powers Wei Zhao had offended all lowered their banners and vanished from sight — until recently, when the hidden Pi family lost two fine fighters in succession and the Jinzhong Sect's Earth-rank expert was beaten to death by Wei Zhao's underling. Only then did Old Master Chen realize, astonished: so Wei Zhao was this formidable!
A mere bodyguard, a hanger-on of a figure — Old Master Chen had never given him a thought. But now he found that his eyes had truly failed him. Who would have imagined Gu Pengzhan could engage so formidable a person? It was simply inconceivable!
Though Chen Yuxuan had not said how Wei Zhao had raised his strength, however it had been done, the ability itself was all the more astonishing. While Old Master Chen was shocked, he also began to speculate about Wei Zhao's origins. Could this Wei Zhao also have come down from an ancient sect?
But even among the ancient sects, he had never heard of anyone able to swiftly raise another's strength. Wei Zhao was only an expert at the peak of the mid Profound rank, yet he could turn others into early Profound rank — and not one but two of them. It was almost enough to shock the world!
Yet whatever Wei Zhao was, it had nothing to do with Old Master Chen. However formidable, Wei Zhao was not of the Chen family. What concerned him was Chen Yuxuan and the future of the Chen family!
"Grandfather, I'm sorry..." Chen Yuxuan knew the pain in his grandfather's heart — and was he himself any less pained? But what was done was done; it could not be changed.
"Yutian, it seems our Chen family will in the end be demoted at this Great Families' Gathering, driven out from the ranks of the great families." Old Master Chen had no choice but to accept the reality before him, and in an instant he seemed to have aged several years. Even before Chen Yuxuan's breakthrough, he had already braced for the worst — but Chen Yuxuan's advancement had given him hope! Though now it seemed there was in essence no difference between the outcome before and after, the feeling of having hope and then losing it was hard to bear — how could it be the same?