Chapter 1714 — Joining Forces Once More
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So Wei Zhao had invented an alchemist's identity for himself, precisely so as not to draw his opponents' notice.
"An alchemist!" When Wei Zhao declared who he was, everyone in the hall broke into an uproar. At the level of the ancient sects, to be sure, nearly every sect had had dealings with alchemists at one time or another; but among the great houses and the hidden houses — the ordinary houses above all — many went through life without ever once laying eyes on one. They were beings out of legend, and here was one sitting before them now!
Wu Chengtian, Chen Yuxuan and Qiu Lingshan betrayed nothing out of the ordinary; they had known Wei Zhao's plan beforehand, so the revelation could not surprise them. The rest were another matter, Sun Jingyan most of all — it came to her that even now she had never truly understood Wei Zhao at all.
Wei Zhao, an alchemist? Nothing short of astonishing. Was there any trade in the world he had not tried his hand at?
The Liu family alone merely nodded in sudden enlightenment. Liu Tianyi said with feeling, "No wonder Divine Doctor Lin's medical skill is so extraordinary, and no wonder he could bring forth so world-shaking a pill as the Life-Extending Detox Pill — he is an alchemist!"
The Liu family knew that the Life-Extending Detox Pill had been refined by Wei Zhao, but the other houses did not. Hearing now that the medicine which had stirred such a storm at the auction had come from Wei Zhao's hands, their faces all lit at once with dawning understanding.
So Guan Xuewen had never had that level of skill after all. Otherwise, why had he never in all these years produced any remarkable spirit medicine? He had been held down all along by Divine Doctor Kang's reputation, and only of late had his name suddenly blazed abroad — and it was all because of Wei Zhao!
"Enough. If there is nothing else, let us disperse. In future I shall be in contact with each family's liaison." Wei Zhao took little pleasure in their astonishment; his chief purpose in coming here had been to destroy the Yu family, and his second to gather the strength of the other houses into his own hand.
With this, at the level of the great houses, Wei Zhao could be said to face no further obstacle at all; he could now settle his mind and turn to the matter of the hidden Yu family and the hidden Zhao family.
The Grand Assembly of Houses, which had opened on its first day, thus broke up in haste — a tiger's head and a snake's tail. Yet everyone who had come now carried a heart both heavy and glad: the order of the great houses was about to change utterly. The Xiao family, the An family and the Kang family had been driven out of the alliance by Wei Zhao, and they would certainly not swallow it quietly.
Whatever came of it, that was no longer their concern. Their concern was the profit of their own houses; and as matters now stood, with the Yu family displaced by Wei Zhao, they had lost nothing — rather, they had gained a greater advantage for nothing at all.
Above all, to stand on good terms with a man who was both an early Earth Stage expert and an alchemist — by any reckoning, that could only be a good thing.
In a hotel not far from the Yu family's auction hall sat four men: the two Xiao brothers, and Divine Doctor Kang with Kang Guifeng of the Kang family. The two houses had known their unpleasantness and their quarrels, but now they were fellow castaways, and they sat together to consider what was to be done hereafter.
They had meant to draw the An family in as well, but An Mingyue and An Liwen plainly had no interest in joining their affairs; it seemed the name of a great house counted for very little with the An family.