Chapter 3827 — No Fighting Allowed
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
Though the final clash had not yet come, both sides' killing moves were already fully revealed: on one side, the Twenty-Four Forms of the Soul-Reaving Chain Sword; on the other, the Twenty-Two Forms of the Frenzied Fire Eight Trigrams Palm. The mighty momentum the two raised in an instant set the surrounding display racks trembling—a sinister posture, as though a storm were about to break.
The customers around them could not help but start in alarm. Yu Jiang and Wei Zhao—one at the mid Foundation Establishment stage, the other at the peak of the early Foundation Establishment stage—were, by the standards of a place like the inner street, hardly deserving of the word "powerful." Yet none of them showed any inclination to interfere.
Those able to enter the inner street were invariably rich or noble. Who knew whether these two might be grandsons of some great figure? To meddle rashly might bring disaster down on one's own head; better to stand by and watch the show.
But the next moment, the display cabinets that had been trembling so violently suddenly fell still, and the strongest killing moves that Yu Jiang and Wei Zhao had been holding ready both dissolved into nothing, as though none of it had ever happened.
This was no voluntary withdrawal—they had been forced to stop. For a momentum unfathomably deep, far above their own, had enveloped them both in that instant. Faced with such an insurmountable gulf in rank, neither Wei Zhao nor Yu Jiang could ignore the warning.
Had they paid it no heed and pressed on, they might well have become two corpses before their killing moves ever left their hands, never to step out of the Hong Merchant Guild again.
"Settle private grudges outside. The Hong Merchant Guild forbids fighting—otherwise do not blame this old man for being ungracious. I ask you both to conduct yourselves with restraint." A guest-retainer's cold voice reached everyone's ears. Though the man himself did not appear, that single unfathomable momentum alone was enough to overawe all present.
Wei Zhao was secretly startled. In the two months and more since coming to Cloud Terrace Island, he had seen no small number of skilled hands, yet judging by momentum alone, this guest-retainer of the Hong Merchant Guild could certainly rank among the top ten.
Reckoning it over, the only others who could steadily stand above him were likely those few elders who had shown themselves at the Three-Tiered Pavilion, and Gongyang Jun, the once-in-a-century hall master of the Law Enforcement Hall. Apart from them, this guest-retainer of the Hong Merchant Guild had the highest strength.
If a mere guest-retainer possessed such terrifying power, then the Hong Merchant Guild, a top-tier guild among the five great island tiers of the heaven rank, truly had unfathomable depths.
Wei Zhao was merely startled—but Yu Jiang was now genuinely trembling with fear.
His master Nan Tianyong had suffered a real and heavy loss not long ago. Ever since being thrown down from a second-floor window, even with his一贯 arrogant and domineering temper and a background in no way inferior to those second-generation young masters of the Soaring Sky Pavilion, Nan Tianyong had not dared to set foot in the Hong Merchant Guild again.
Of late, even when bringing Yu Jiang into the inner street, he was somewhat apprehensive, keeping as far away as possible for fear of drawing the displeasure of these guest-retainers of the Hong Merchant Guild.
Faced with such unfathomable guest-retainers, even Nan Tianyong could only swallow his pride. Yu Jiang naturally dared not make a scene. He did not know whether that Lin Er across from him had felt the same just now, but in that instant he himself had sensed a killing intent that was utterly real!RS