Chapter 1122: Chapter 1120: Who Are You?
For this question, fortunately, Ge Yongshou was quick to react. After exchanging glances with Zhangsun Zhize, he immediately thought of an answer and coldly rejected, "Ignorant youth! What is this Heavenly Guardian Pavilion! It is a crucial place of our Immortal Palace! Allowing outsiders like you to enter the realm and ascend the mountain was a special exception instructed by the Spirit Lord, an unavoidable measure. Yet, you want to stay here long-term!"
At this point, Ge Yongshou seemed to anticipate what Pei Yan was about to say next and directly blocked him by saying, "Even if we decode and translate on the mountain and you come to retrieve it, it won’t work. The elders of the Heavenly Guardian Pavilion are usually busy maintaining this great formation and safeguarding the pavilion from external intrusion, which is already quite exhausting. There’s no time to handle such trivial matters. To decode the texts, you must use an order to dispatch someone to substitute!"
"Oh, so there’s absolutely no other way, then?" Pei Yan completely closed the topic, showing no anger, but rather a glint of brilliance flashed in his eyes. He shrugged, stepped out of the crowd, and asked back.
"No other way!" Seeing such a youngster with only a seventh-stage awakening level being reckless in front of him, Ge Yongshou suppressed his anger and squeezed out these four words from between his teeth.
"Then today, I must take a few elders away from this Heavenly Guardian Pavilion?" Pei Yan confronted Ge Yongshou, whose eyes looked as if they could devour him alive, and asked further with an innocent and ignorant gaze.
"Presumptuous!" Ge Yongshou shouted angrily, ready to make a move, but was stopped by Zhangsun Zhize beside him. With a curious look, he sized up the young man in front of him, judging from his aura that he indeed possessed only a seventh-stage awakening level, although being a new cornerstone plane origin, he was not the Child of Origin. Looking at the reaction from the investigation group’s crowd towards this matter, whether it was the leader Mei Simiao or the other two more powerful Child of Origin in the team, all adopted a default attitude of indifference.
Such a result aroused a strong curiosity in Zhangsun Zhize. He wanted to see what this person could say, and thus he spoke, "What if we just refuse to leave with you?"
"Ah, then there is no other way but for this junior to offend, and have a bout with the seniors until you are convinced, capturing you to the investigation team and forcing you to decode the texts for us!" Pei Yan cupped his hands and, in a very polite tone, spoke extremely provocative words.
"Ah! Hahaha!" Zhangsun Zhize was first stunned by these words, then surprisingly amused, laughing out sarcastically along with his two junior brothers beside him. After the laughter faded, Zhangsun Zhize’s smile gradually disappeared, and he stared at Pei Yan with eyes like lightning, countering, "What if you can’t beat us?"
"We will just walk away, and whether our investigation team can decode the texts will be none of your Heavenly Guardian Pavilion’s business. If we can’t decode it, we’ll find someone else, and if nobody can, we’ll admit defeat; it’s the investigation team’s incapability. Whether they beat or scold us, we will accept, and it will have nothing to do with you!" As he slowly loosened his stiff muscles after sitting for a long time, Pei Yan said leisurely.
This firm response, however, made Zhangsun Zhize suspicious, and he turned to his junior brother, communicating using Divine Sense, "Junior brother, do you know this person? Could he be Pei Yan in disguise?"
Having watched one of Pei Yan’s matches before, Ge Yongshou scrutinized Pei Yan, whose aura and appearance had changed. Then he shook his head and said through a message, "Senior brother, this person should not be Pei Yan. I heard that Pei Yan’s sister uses transformation arts, yet it merely alters appearance, not the aura. I might not know this junior’s name, but this isn’t the first time I’ve seen him. The previous few times when the investigation team sent someone to collect documents, he accompanied them as a guard, with the same aura as now, it can’t be wrong. As for who he is? Sorry senior brother, I really don’t know. From the information sent internally, he’s definitely not one of the Six Sons of Origin from the investigation team."
Saying this, Ge Yongshou swept a scornful glance over Pei Yan, falling on Xia Yu and Zheng Jia Ru behind him, continuing to transmit, "The two of them in the crowd have participated in the team matches. After that, three of them from the investigation team became Child of Origin, except for the Pei Family siblings. This person didn’t even qualify to compete, certainly won’t have very deep skills."
Ge Yongshou’s response aligned with his judgment. Zhangsun Zhize also believed that even if the investigation team caused trouble, if it wasn’t Pei Yan himself, it surely would be one of those two unpredictable Child of Origin in the crowd taking action. Who knew they would send such an inconspicuous junior to provoke, which was being driven mad, humiliation, or was there some trap in this?
Thinking of this, Zhangsun Zhize turned to the leader of the investigation team, Mei Simiao, probing, "Cultivator Mei, are this young friend’s words just a moment’s rashness? Can it be taken seriously?"
"Ah, the team is hard to lead when hearts are scattered! Since Pei Yan became famous, the younger generations in the hall have been like tigers out of the cage, and we can’t hold them down!" Mei Simiao spoke while portraying a heartbroken state, glaring at Pei Yan, then looked at Zhangsun Zhize with regret, "The words of the investigation team are spoken like spilled water, they stand by their word, no going back! This junior is arrogant and ignorant, daring to provoke the seniors. If you don’t mind, give him a lesson, let him suffer a bit to understand the wisdom that there are always higher peaks, so I can continue educating them when I return."
Hearing this, Zhangsun Zhize’s brows furrowed even more tightly. Mei Simiao actually went along with the flow and solidified this matter. Then there are two possibilities, one is that he is confident about this child’s victory, second, the investigation team is also being overwhelmed by the investigation events, hoping to use this chance to find an excuse to extricate themselves. But regardless of the possibility, Heavenly Guardian Pavilion being challenged by an unknown junior, he must stand up and give a lesson.
Solving the matter in this way might not be a bad thing. Once defeated today, the investigation team likely wouldn’t have the face to disturb again, achieving peace once and for all. Determined with this plan, Zhangsun Zhize smiled blandly and lamented, "Rumor has it that the investigation team hides dragons and crouching tigers, and upon today’s meeting, it truly lives up to its name. The appearance of Pei Yan alone turned the six major planes upside down, garnering worldwide attention. Now, here comes another young talent daring to challenge within the Heavenly Guardian Pavilion. Pity that this old man has been reclusive for too long, unfamiliar with the world, not even knowing your esteemed name?"
"Oh? You’re asking for my name? I humbly go by Wang Wenze!" Pei Yan curled his lips and introduced himself.
"Wang Wenze?" Zhangsun Zhize repeated the name back and forth, then laughed, "So, what’s your relationship with Pei Yan?"
"Pei Yan, Pei Yan! Are you done yet!" Upon hearing the name, "Wang Wenze" seemed pierced in a sore spot, glaring widely at Zhangsun Zhize with great dissatisfaction.
"This...." Merely worried about whether the two were closely connected, contemplating over how hard to strike, Zhangsun Zhize was utterly puzzled by the response, unsure how to answer.
