Chapter 1671 — A Great Joyous Occasion
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
He was no fool. No one else had seen the Ice Palace Master slap him; the methods of a Heaven-rank expert were too deft, and he could only swallow the mute loss. But if he stood up now to make trouble for the Ice Palace Master, then in full view of everyone he would be the one who started it—and if he were beaten then, even crippled, there would be nowhere to seek justice.
So he could only secretly circulate his true qi to dissolve the pain in his face, and casually fish a bottle of pills from his robes, swallowing one to reduce swelling and stop the pain. Otherwise, a dignified envoy of the Profound Elixir Sect getting his face slapped—were anyone to see it, he would be laughed to death.
"Whoo—" The Profound Elixir Sect's envoy drew a cold breath in secret, thinking: Bingtang, very well, very well indeed. Just you wait—I will not let you off easily.
And the birthday feast began at this moment. After Tang Lingtou had delivered a long, flowing speech of gratitude, he announced the start of the feast and the presentation of gifts by the guests—much resembling the Kang family's birthday feast.
Representatives of all the Tang family's various relatives came forward in turn to present their gifts, which ranged from antiques to calligraphy and paintings—everything under the sun. The most welcome, of course, were spirit medicines and pills. In the blink of an eye it was the hidden You family's turn to present their gift.
The You family's representative was You Panhu. Someone of You Zhentian's standing would naturally not take the stage to present gifts in person, so You Panhu acted in his stead.
"Uncle-in-law, I offer birthday congratulations on behalf of the hidden You family. This is our gift list: fifteen Spirit-Gathering Pills, three Foundation-Establishing Pills, five Meridian-Unblocking Pills, five Minor Qi-Gathering Pills…" You Panhu recited a whole string of pill names—some of which, of course, had been refined with the Profound Elixir Sect's assistance. For pills like the Minor Qi-Gathering Pill, a Yellow-rank second-grade elixir, the hidden You family's failure rate in refining was very high.
The so-called Minor Qi-Gathering Pill was a lower-tier version of the Qi-Gathering Pill. Yet according to Zhang Lifeng, the Qi-Gathering Pill proper was already his simplified version—in truth, it was the Minor Qi-Gathering Pill. But the Minor Qi-Gathering Pill now referred to was of an even lower grade: it could only increase true qi, with no effect on advancing through bottlenecks. So such a thing merely added somewhat more true qi than the Spirit-Gathering Pill.
Even so, at the level of the hidden families, it was still a precious existence of the spirit-pill, wondrous-medicine tier.
"Good, good, excellent!" Tang Lingtou was overjoyed when he heard the names of these pills. "Good nephew, stand here and wait a moment. Today, in this happy hour, I have another great matter to announce!"
"Yes, Uncle-in-law!" You Panhu seemed to sense something; a flicker of delight crossed his eyes as he looked toward Tang Zhi's table not far away… Clearly, his aunt's words from yesterday had taken effect, and his uncle-in-law had reached a decision on his side, preparing to betroth Tang Zhi to him.
"Today is the great day of my father's eightieth birthday, and I too have a great joyous occasion—my daughter, lost to me for many years, has finally been found. The daughter of my third wife, Xiaoming, was lost back then at the hands of a wicked servant. All these years, not a moment has passed when I did not think of her…" Tang Lingtou lied without a blush; Wei Zhao truly wanted to hurl a wine bottle at him. Tang Lingtou went on: "Xiaoming, Tang Zhi, both of you come up here…"