Chapter 1674 — Conflict at the Birthday Banquet, Part Two
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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 Zhi 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!"