Chapter 4099 — Why Aren't You Scramming?
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If what Cai Zhongxuan said was true, and he could shelter the two of them with ease, then half the trouble of being hunted throughout the city by the Snow Sword Sect could be considered resolved.
They had barely sat down in the room when a clamor of noise rose from below. Even with Xueli's cultivation at the great consummation of the Heaven Tier, she could clearly sense what was happening downstairs—the Snow Sword Sect disciples had indeed come looking for them!
Holding the wanted portraits, the leading Snow Sword Sect disciple addressed the many guests and attendants of the Five Elements Merchant Guild in a loud voice: "Whoever knows the whereabouts of these two need only report it and shall be rewarded with a thousand spirit jades. Has anyone here seen them?"
The whole hall gradually fell silent. Though the Five Elements Merchant Guild was the leading guild ranked first among the merchant alliances, those who came here to buy pills were not necessarily all wealthy magnates. To earn a thousand spirit jades simply by reporting a sighting—for the vast majority, the temptation was considerable.
Yet temptation was temptation. Without solid, firsthand eyewitness information, no one was willing to speak up rashly for the moment. After all, the Snow Sword Sect was no small, obscure faction; ordinary folk had not the nerve to play them false.
"No one has seen them? A full thousand spirit jades, you know. With so many people here, can it be that not a single one has laid eyes on them?" the leading Snow Sword Sect disciple called out again.
Just then, Cai Zhongxuan's voice came suddenly from the top of the stairs: "The Snow Sword Sect certainly cuts a fine figure! You have come to arrest people right here in my Five Elements Merchant Guild. I should like to ask—just who gave you the audacity to openly disrupt the business of my Five Elements Merchant Guild?"
With such a heavy accusation clapped upon their heads, the Snow Sword Sect disciples all shrank back, and their leader was badly startled, stammering, "N-no... that is not... Deputy Manager Cai, please do not be angry. We were only asking casually..."
"Are you done asking? Then why aren't you scramming? Or do you need me to see you out personally?" Cai Zhongxuan rebuked them with a cold face. Ordinarily he would never concern himself with such matters, but now that Wei Zhao and Xueli were involved, it was naturally a different story.
"Yes, yes, we will scram right now, right now." The Snow Sword Sect disciples bowed and scraped, not daring to so much as squeak, and slunk away in disgrace.
They had never been willing to take on this errand in the first place. These top-tier merchant guilds were all formidable in their own right—especially a colossus like the Five Elements Merchant Guild, backed by the Middle Island Pill Hall, which would never take their Snow Sword Sect seriously. This time their leader had merely gritted his teeth and gone through the motions to give his sect an accounting; otherwise he would never have come asking for trouble.
Moreover, they had never imagined they could actually find the two in a place like the Five Elements Merchant Guild, and so naturally they dared not—and would not—lock horns with Cai Zhongxuan over it.
What happened downstairs was imprinted clearly in Wei Zhao's perception. Only then did he finally set his mind at ease. Cai Zhongxuan, this friend of Hong Zhong's, was indeed a trustworthy man of his word. For the time being, at least, they could stay here in peace without having to hide this way and that.
"Xueli, adjust your condition now. I will help you break through to the Foundation Establishment stage," Wei Zhao said to Xueli. R1152