Chapter 4990 — Tearing Off the Seal
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"What is going on here?" Wei Zhao found Tian Chan and the other two, their faces full of indignation, and asked.
"The Island Lord's Pavilion people said our seventh-grade pills are all smuggled goods from the Eastern Continent, so they brought men to seal the place—they even took away those five seventh-grade Great Restoration Pills," Tian Chan said, she and Xue Li both wearing looks of grievance.
"The one who just came was Wu Che, the Standing Vice Island Lord. But the Famous Medicine Sect must be pulling strings behind the scenes—otherwise he would never have come all this way to target our Heavenly Pill Pavilion for no reason," Wei Shenjin added from the side.
Wei Zhao nodded, said nothing further, and strode straight to the main gate. Before the gathered crowd, he tore the seal off without the slightest hesitation, turned, and announced in a ringing voice: "The Heavenly Pill Pavilion will conduct business as usual. Any of you who have need of us, think nothing of it—come and shop as normal. Whatever consequences arise, the Heavenly Pill Pavilion will bear them all."
With that, Wei Zhao turned and called to Tian Chan and the others, an indifferent smile on his face: "What are you standing there for? I even brought reinforcements—hurry up and get the doors open for business."
"Huh?" Tian Chan and Xue Li were stunned. They had assumed Wei Zhao's solution would surely be to seek help—even with the Heavenly Dao Walker gone, people like Cai Zhongxuan and Hou Guanqi still had considerable connections on the Central Island, and a little effort to have a few personages speak on their behalf would not be difficult. Yet they had never expected Wei Zhao to have no such intention at all; he had simply chosen to ignore the seal.
"Uh, Leader, this is a seal from the Island Lord's Pavilion. If we reopen regardless, that is compounding offense upon offense—Wu Che will never let us off..." Wei Shenjin hurriedly warned.
Though matters had already reached a sorry pass, the Heavenly Pill Pavilion had merely been sealed—they themselves were in no real danger. But to openly defy an order of the Island Lord's Pavilion was truly to invite death.
After all, from the Famous Medicine Sect's standpoint, sealing the Heavenly Pill Pavilion alone might not satisfy them. This time Wei Zhao had publicly defied the Island Lord's Pavilion's order before a crowd—precisely the excuse they needed to root them out completely. On that ground alone, Wu Che could slaughter them all without a qualm.
Wei Zhao clapped him on the shoulder and said mildly: "You have it backwards. This is not a question of whether they will let us off, but whether I will let them off. Wait and see."
"Ha?" Wei Shenjin was utterly dumbfounded. Wu Che was the Standing Vice Island Lord—by official reckoning, the number two figure on the Central Island. Could Wei Zhao truly handle even a man like that?
Though the strength Wei Zhao had displayed before was indeed absurdly formidable—he had sent a mid-stage Mystic Ascension expert flying with a casual kick—Wu Che was different. The man was not only far stronger than Zhao Youque, but what made him more troublesome still was his position.
Beating up someone like Zhao Youque was one thing; no grave consequences would follow. But the moment Wei Zhao laid a hand on Wu Che, it would be tantamount to challenging the entire Central Island Lord's Pavilion, and the consequences were truly unthinkable.
Wei Shenjin wanted to offer a few more warnings, but Wei Zhao gave him no chance at all, already bustling off with Tian Chan, Xue Li, and the two borrowed assistants.
The Heavenly Pill Pavilion soon grew clamorous again, the scene even livelier than before. They all knew the pavilion was defying the wind, and that before long Wu Che would surely return with his men—but what did that have to do with them? (To be continued...)