Chapter 4064 — What Kind of Joke Is This?
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 3
Seeing the two women actually dare to raise a hand against him, Si Haitao was briefly taken aback. Instinct told him something was off, but with the liquor rising in him he could not put his finger on what. He promptly met them with a lewd grin: "Haha, plenty of spirit! Your proprietor likes little peppers like you! But since you're selling anyway, surely what that brat Wei Zhao can do, your proprietor can do too...?"
As he spoke, Si Haitao reached out to grope Ning Xuefei and Shangguan Lan'er—but before he could lay a hand on them, five figures suddenly flashed out behind the two women. Before Si Haitao could even make out what was happening, a foot slammed into his face and sent him flying a full ten-plus zhang into a wall!
The onlookers hurriedly scattered, and the four honored retainers, seeing things turn sour, immediately abandoned Wei Zhao and rushed over to shield Si Haitao, squaring off against these five who had appeared from nowhere.
As it turned out, the momentum of every single person on both sides was evenly matched—all five of these newcomers were Golden Core experts as well!
Even leaving Si Haitao out of the count, there were already a full nine Golden Core experts facing off in the field, which truly stunned the surrounding crowd. Golden Core experts were always a rare sight—how had so many suddenly cropped up? For a moment it felt as though Golden Cores were walking the streets everywhere.
"These people are core disciples of the Chongtian Pavilion!" someone among the crowd suddenly exclaimed in a low voice. The disciples of the Sandie Pavilion all dressed differently, so anyone paying the slightest attention could recognize them at a glance.
The four honored retainers of the Hong Clan Merchant Guild felt their hearts clench at these words. Four against five—they had been at a disadvantage to begin with and dared not act rashly; and if the other side really were core disciples of the Chongtian Pavilion, then they were dealing with local snakes through and through. Once this blew up, they simply could not afford to provoke them!
These five Chongtian Pavilion experts had of course been arranged by Shangguan Tianxia. Shangguan Lan'er had only recently been kidnapped; even with the broadest of minds, her grandfather could not possibly leave her without any precautions—and now that Ning Xuefei, a bona fide princess of West Island, was here as well, all the more reason to guard them thoroughly.
Otherwise, if anything at all happened to Ning Xuefei here, it would immediately become a crisis between the two islands—and with the slightest mishandling, even a full-scale war between the islands was not out of the question. It had to be guarded against.
As the two sides faced off, the leader of the five Chongtian Pavilion experts looked coldly at the four retainers opposite him: "Insolent fools! Of these two young ladies, one is the daughter of the West Island Lord and the other the granddaughter of my Chongtian Pavilion's Master. You dared publicly insult them as brothel women and even lay hands on them—I truly cannot fathom why the Hong Clan Merchant Guild would send such an idiot and scoundrel to be its proprietor! I must give an account to the great personages above me. If you dare stand in my way, then try me!"
With that, this Chongtian Pavilion expert's figure blurred, and the next instant he appeared directly above Si Haitao's head. Without a word, he seized him by the neck with one hand and hoisted him into the air.
As for the four honored retainers, the information revealed in his words left them so shaken that they did not dare move for the longest time, able only to watch helplessly as Si Haitao was manhandled.