Chapter 3872 — Cutting Through the Knot
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This reason was unassailable, and Nantian Guan had no choice but to nod. "Very well. After their challenge tournament is over, find another chance to test him. You can set other things aside for now, but whether Kang Jingming can use the cinnabar-fire bomb must be settled today. Do you understand what I mean?"
Yu Jiang hastily nodded. "This disciple understands."
Nantian Guan's meaning could not have been clearer. If Kang Jingming could use the cinnabar-fire bomb, then judging from his earlier behavior of offering unsolicited attentions to divert the two men's attention, the odds that he was Lin Er were surely not small.
And as far as Nantian Guan was concerned, Lin Er could be anyone in the Welcome Pavilion. With Nantian Guan's power, he could easily crush anyone in the Welcome Pavilion. But if it was Kang Jingming, a subordinate personally acknowledged by Xu Lingchong, then once the young master behind him was truly dragged into it, the matter would become complicated.
Against the backdrop of Xu Lingchong eyeing the position of managing senior disciple of Chongtian Pavilion covetously, anything that might involve this Young Master Xu was no small matter in Nantian Guan's eyes. A single misstep might become the fuse for all-out war between him and the young master.
It was not that Nantian Guan felt guilty about this; it was simply that, up to now, he was still far from ready to deal with it.
From Yu Jiang's point of view, however, although he breathed a sigh of relief after hearing Nantian Guan's instructions, he was still somewhat worried. The newcomers' challenge tournament was only an excuse to buy him a little time. Once the tournament ended, no matter how unwilling he was to jump into this pit, Nantian Guan would certainly force him to jump.
There was no help for it. Such was the sorrow of being a lackey - there were always times when one had to serve as cannon fodder.
"Come, let's go take a look at that brat Kang Jingming." Nantian Guan strode toward the Chongtian Pavilion newcomers' arena. Even if he could not yet have Yu Jiang make a direct move to test him, it would still be good to take advantage of the newcomers' challenge tournament to observe him closely. There might even be some unexpected gain.
"Yes." Yu Jiang followed behind Nantian Guan with a tangled mind, pondering one question: once the newcomers' challenge tournament ended, what excuse could he use to keep putting it off?
He knew full well that this was a pit of enormous risk. A clever man like him, even under Nantian Guan's coercion, would never willingly jump in. Yet Yu Jiang never imagined that this problem, which he had racked his brains over and still could not solve, would be solved for him by Kang Jingming himself.
The reason was simple: during the newcomers' challenge tournament that followed, Kang Jingming was actually forced to use the cinnabar-fire bomb!
Of the many newcomers in Chongtian Pavilion, although they had all received Young Master Xu's instructions and one after another expressed their willingness to look after Kang Jingming, every one of these newcomers who could enter Chongtian Pavilion had an impressive background. Even if they were not as high and mighty as Xu Lingchong, they were at least bona fide second-generation scions, and not one of them was truly docile stock.
Even among the newcomers of Qingyun Pavilion, a freak like Wei Zhao could appear. The newcomers of Chongtian Pavilion had even more confidence, so there was naturally no shortage of stubborn newcomers dissatisfied with Young Master Xu's arrangements.
Of course, not just any newcomer with any background would dare to disregard Young Master Xu's tyrannical power. So, whatever they thought in their hearts, over the past two months or more, most of the Chongtian Pavilion newcomers had on the surface been quite cooperative with Young Master Xu's instructions.