Chapter 4461 — A Truly Bold Move
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"Old Song, even you..." Qi Mingyuan frowned, then heaved a sigh. "It's not that I don't understand the reasoning, but these things have to be done step by step. You can't just throw him into such peril all at once, can you? The Xuanying Escort Agency is no easy foe!"
"Chief, the way I see it, dangerous as this match may be, Wenhan will come to no harm. After all, Young Hero Ling is with him, and you've seen the young man's talent for command on the spot. Nothing will go wrong." Steward Song was utterly confident.
"That... that is true..." Qi Mingyuan hesitated. Wei Zhao's presence did set his heart at ease—even without stepping into the arena himself, mere command from the sidelines ought to be enough to guarantee Qi Wenmo's safety. At last he nodded. "This world belongs to the young in the end. Old Song, you and I have grown old..."
"Just so. Our Qingtian Escort Agency will soon turn a new page—a future beyond measure." Steward Song nodded.
"Well said—a future beyond measure!" A flash of keen light came into Qi Mingyuan's eyes, and only then did he at last make up his mind and publish the roster of Qingtian Escort Agency's competing escorts.
The moment the crowd saw that the very first name on the roster was Qi Wenmo, the young master of the Qingtian Escort Agency, an uproar broke out and everyone fell to discussing it.
Given all the wondrous displays before—especially their having just crushed the onrushing Wuma Escort Agency without losing a single man—few in the crowd truly looked down on the Qingtian Escort Agency now. They were not fools, after all. Even if the Qingtian Escort Agency had not yet shown overwhelming strength, the plain record of victories lay before their eyes, and one could not help but concede.
And now, at the sudden sight of Qi Wenmo leading the team into the field in person, the crowd was not as contemptuous as Wei Zhao had anticipated. Instead, every one of them was roused to high spirits—facing so weighty and powerful an opponent as the Xuanying Escort Agency, the Qingtian Escort Agency was finally going to play for real!
"Qi Wenmo?" In the Xuanying Escort Agency's camp at that moment, a middle-aged man in a black greatcoat, a striking saber scar across his face, could not help but pause slightly at the sight. This man was none other than Zhao Shanying, chief of the Xuanying Escort Agency.
Five years ago, the Yuantong Escort Agency had crumbled to pieces overnight; then, within a single year, Zhao Shanying—who had been but an ordinary escort under Yuantong—rose on the tide of chaos. Not only did he swallow up the various factions left in Yuantong's wake and reorganize them into the Xuanying Escort Agency, but after three further years of expansion he was now stronger than ever before. This was a formidable figure of the ruthless-hero mold.
"They've been forced to bring out even their young master—plainly the Qingtian Escort Agency is nothing more than this. Last time they were lucky enough to win one of the five great escort seats, but alas, an upstart is an upstart, and will never amount to anything." An escort beside him curled his lip.
"The Qingtian Escort Agency has at least held a place among the five great agencies for five years. If even they are mere upstarts in your eyes, then what does that make our own Xuanying Escort Agency?" Zhao Shanying glanced at him.
"Uh..." The escort was struck speechless at once. Though their own agency had been reorganized from the Yuantong Escort Agency, strictly speaking it was still an agency newly founded only a few years ago. To insist on feeling superior before the Qingtian Escort Agency would be somewhat self-deluding...