Chapter 3786 — Succeeding to the Third Pavilion Master's Seat
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No wonder! Wei Zhao pressed a hand to his forehead in exasperation. No wonder he had seen no sign of anything from the Suffering Senior Brother all this time—he had assumed the man's assault on the barrier had failed. So it was that, like Xiao Che, he had grown timid and cautious, not daring to take the plunge.
Honestly, given the depth of the Suffering Senior Brother's strength built up over the years, plus the top-grade Foundation Establishment Barrier-Breaking Pills Wei Zhao had given him, once he made his push to the early peak of Foundation Establishment, success was all but one hundred percent guaranteed. There was simply no need for such worry.
"Senior Brother Ku, now your junior brother really must scold you a little. You are the leader of our little band, and we're counting on you to shelter us from wind and rain! Besides, if I can refine Foundation Establishment Barrier-Breaking Pills at all, then there's no need for you to be so frugal, Senior Brother Ku—use them first and we'll talk later. If there aren't enough, I'll refine more!" Wei Zhao urged.
At these words the Suffering Senior Brother could not help but flush with embarrassment, nodding again and again. "You're right, Junior Brother Lin. I've been poor so long that I'm afraid of wasting good things, so I've been holding back and not daring to touch them. I clean forgot—you're the alchemist of our whole outfit! Then I won't stand on ceremony about asking for more!"
The man was truly scared stiff by poverty, hoarding good things and not daring to use them! Wei Zhao shook his head in exasperation, then said: "Of course, no problem! By the way, Senior Brother Ku, there's been talk lately that Xu Lingchong means to throw his weight behind Meng Jue Ming's bid to succeed to the Third Pavilion Master's seat. Have you heard?"
"That so?" The Suffering Senior Brother was startled at once.
In truth, Wei Zhao had seen this intelligence through Li Zhengming's information network; it was still in the stage of secret deliberation, and it was only natural that the Suffering Senior Brother had caught no wind of it.
"If this really becomes settled fact, that would be far from good!" the Suffering Senior Brother said, his face still pale with lingering dread.
What Wei Zhao had spoken of was still at the stage of rumor wafting on the wind, but on careful reflection, if Xu Lingchong truly had a mind to push Meng Jue Ming into that position, the odds of success were really not small at all!
By convention, the post of Third Pavilion Master of the Newcomers' Pavilion is always filled by someone from the Azure Cloud Pavilion; barring special circumstances, neither the Soaring Heaven Pavilion nor the Mysterious Mechanism Pavilion would interfere.
Still, although the Third Pavilion Master's seat carries little real power, it nonetheless falls within the upper echelons of an independent department. Which disciple of the Azure Cloud Pavilion is to fill it must in the end be submitted to the Council of Elders for review.
Generally speaking, for so insignificant a position, whichever disciple is submitted, the Council of Elders will simply give tacit approval rather than reject it. But if anyone should raise an objection, the Azure Cloud Pavilion will not go against the Elders' wishes on that account either.
So if Xu Lingchong took the high road and had his grandfather Xu Yuanzheng speak up on Meng Jue Ming's behalf, then Meng Jue Ming's claim to the Third Pavilion Master's seat would be all but secure, and no one else could possibly compete with him.
And once Meng Jue Ming sat in the Third Pavilion Master's seat, with greater power in his hands and a reach into every matter high and low, then the situation of the rest of them would become even more uncertain.