Chapter 1703 — No Need to Wait

"No need to wait — thirty years is far too long!" The conference room doors were kicked open with a single blow, and a voice cold as though it had drifted up from hell rang out beside everyone's ears. Low it was, yet laced with deep, heavy true qi, so that it set their eardrums humming and struck them with a deafening roar.

The door panels burst into a heap of splinters that flew up like petals scattered from heaven, not a single piece left whole.

Everyone in the conference room was startled. Never had they imagined that anyone would dare come and wreck the place at such a moment! After all, the Great Assembly of the Great Houses was a gathering convened by the very pinnacle of cultivators in the mundane world.

As the splinters slowly dispersed, five figures appeared in the doorway. Wei Zhao stood dead center — it was he who had kicked the doors to pieces, and he who had spoken those words. Behind him followed four others.

Two stood, two sat. Standing were Shen Yushu and Qiu Lingshan; seated were Chen Yutian and Wu Chengtian.

Chen Yutian and Wu Chengtian each sat in a wheelchair, pushed by Shen Yushu and Qiu Lingshan, and thus they followed Wei Zhao into the conference room...

"Wei Zhao!?" Yu Shuixing knew this man Wei Zhao all too well — he could not have been more familiar with him. The first time he had seen him, Wei Zhao had been with Guan Xuemin, and at the time Yu Shuixing had paid him no particular mind. But as one thing after another unfolded afterward, Wei Zhao had become the Yu family's sworn enemy, a foe of life and death.

"Weren't you waiting to see whether such a day would ever come to the Yu family? Then wait no longer — you can see it right now!" Wei Zhao swept his gaze around the conference room. His eyes came to rest on Sun Yikai and Sun Jingyan; he smiled faintly at them and gave a nod, then nodded to Liu Zhenhu as well.

In the conference room there were only these few acquaintances. With the others Wei Zhao had no personal ties, so naturally he did not greet them.

When Sun Jingyan had first arrived at the conference room, she had wondered why Wei Zhao had not come. Was he not supposed to accompany Wu Chengtian? Yet what she saw was Wu Gonggao arriving with Wu Chendi, and nowhere in sight were Wu Chengtian and Wei Zhao.

By then the Great Assembly had already begun, and she had no way to call Wei Zhao either. Later, the Yu family opened by launching an attack on the Chen family, which left her even less opportunity to say anything more to her grandfather. What she had never expected was that Wei Zhao would show up at the Great Assembly in such a manner.

He... had he come to attend the assembly? This was nothing short of crashing the place!

"Wei Zhao, I've been wanting to make trouble for you and never found the time, and now you've delivered yourself to my door? Do you truly believe the Yu family of the mundane world cannot do anything to you?" Yu Shuixing glared at Wei Zhao, eyes full of fury. "Ridiculous. And I thought you'd brought some helpers — a pair of cripples, an ordinary man, and a Qiu Lingshan of the early Profound rank. How childish!"

Yu Feng's strength was no match for Wei Zhao's, and since Yu Feng had caused trouble, Yu Shuixing had called him back. Busy as he was with matters of the Great Assembly, he had not gone looking for trouble with Wei Zhao. Yet this Wei Zhao had recklessly come knocking on his own accord. Did he really think that a fine hand at the peak of the middle Profound rank was invincible?

"Brother Arrowhead, how did this man ever become the Yu family's patriarch? He's about the same as a **. We've come to crash their assembly, and he's still swaggering as if he has nothing to fear. So what if my brother's crippled? A cripple can still take his revenge!" The moment Shen Yushu finished saying the word "**," she clamped her mouth shut out of habit. Only after confirming that Gu Mengyao was not at her side did she breathe a sigh of relief — otherwise she would have been told again that Little Shu must not use foul language, or her mouth would be torn to shreds.

"I don't know. But there are only two normal people left in that family now, and that Xie Yufeng is even more of a ** — the tallest dwarf in the bunch, which is why he stands out!" Wei Zhao said.

"Oh, so that's how it is!" Shen Yushu nodded. "The prophecy of Shu, the prophecy of Shu — your Yu family is doomed!"

The sudden appearance of Wei Zhao and his group left everyone present in the conference room somewhat dumbfounded, unable to make sense of what was happening. Elder Chen Kuanglan of the Chen family in particular could not understand why his granddaughter would push his grandson in here — was that not the same as walking to their deaths?

Elder Song Xiangwen of the Song family was likewise rather vexed. Qiu Lingshan, if you would not marry Yu Feng, so be it, but to throw in your lot with the Yu family's enemies and come crashing the assembly — how is the Song family to manage from now on?

Elder Wu Gonggao of the Wu family, however, found the situation hard to read. Wu Chengtian had said that he had taken Wei Zhao as his leader, and now Wei Zhao had actually brought two cripples along to crash the assembly. What on earth was this performance supposed to be?

"Grandfather, hurry and announce that we've cut all ties with Wu Chengtian — isn't he ruining our Wu family?" Wu Chendi whispered to Wu Gonggao.

Wu Gonggao gave Wu Chendi a cold glance and said nothing. Though he too was somewhat baffled, he could not bring himself to cut ties with Wu Chengtian — the boy was his own grandson!

"Grandfather! Your grandson has caused you worry! But your grandson once said that he would make you proud!" Wu Chengtian could see Wu Gonggao's bewilderment as well, and so he spoke up to comfort him.

And over on the Sun family's side, Sun Yikai also lowered his head and said to the Sun patriarch, "Grandfather... he is my sister's boyfriend. My brother-in-law..."

"Huh?" The Sun patriarch thought his ears had failed him and he had misheard. He asked hurriedly, "Yikai, what did you say?"

"Grandfather... the boyfriend I spoke of... it's actually him... he's here..." Sun Jingyan said, somewhat helplessly, thinking to herself that Wei Zhao really was too much — if he did not come, then he did not come at all, but the moment he did, he had to stir up such a commotion...

The Sun patriarch nearly suffered a heart attack on hearing this! How was it that Sun Jingyan's boyfriend was here to crash the assembly? How could such a thing be tolerated? If the Yu family ever learned of this, would the Sun family ever know a peaceful day again?

The Sun patriarch coughed twice and was just about to instruct Sun Jingyan not to speak carelessly and not to acknowledge him so rashly, but over on the other side, someone had already stepped forward to claim Wei Zhao first!

Liu Jinghan, the talented daughter of the Liu family, had come as well. Her face was veiled, for she did not wish her true features to be known. She had always remained hidden behind the scenes of the Liu family, and even among the other great houses few knew what Liu Jinghan looked like. Yet her mystery was of no concern to the other houses.

Even a beauty like a fairy from heaven was no cultivator, and the lure of a lovely woman was far weaker for them than the strength of a cultivator.

"Jingjing, what do we do?" Liu Tianyi, standing behind Liu Zhenhu, lowered his voice and asked Liu Jinghan.

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