Chapter 1415 — Grandfather, I'm Sorry!

"All right. But if it doesn't work out, don't force it," Chen Yutian said. "Lingshan, I'd like to rest a while..."

"Very well... then I'll be going..." Qiu Lingshan nodded, and without disturbing Chen Yutian further, turned and took her leave.

Only after Qiu Lingshan had gone out did Chen Yutian take out his phone and dial his grandfather's number.

"Yutian, calling your grandfather again so soon? Have you made another breakthrough?" Old Master Chen had been overjoyed these past few days — truly, as the saying goes, smiling even in his dreams! Chen Yutian had broken through to the early Profound rank; the Chen family had hope again, and would no longer need that betrothal to the ancient sect to uphold its standing.

So when he picked up, Old Master Chen tossed a joke at Chen Yutian. He knew perfectly well that in so short a time Chen Yutian could not possibly have broken through again — but a little joke did no harm!

Hearing his grandfather's voice, Chen Yutian's heart clenched, and he nearly burst into tears.

He did not know how to begin. He could not bear to shatter his grandfather's good mood; at this moment, surely his grandfather's mind was filled with visions of a glorious future for the Chen family!

Old Master Chen finished laughing, and when for a long while he heard nothing from Chen Yutian, he was startled. "Yutian, what's the matter with you?"

"Grandfather... I..." The words stuck in Chen Yutian's throat like fishbones; he could not get them out.

"Yutian, what on earth is wrong? Don't frighten your grandfather!" Old Master Chen had caught the odd note in his voice and asked urgently.

"Grandfather... my strength is gone... I was beaten, my meridians are all severed!" Chen Yutian gritted his teeth and finally forced it out in one breath. "I'm lying in a hospital right now, and both my legs are broken..."

"What!" Old Master Chen leapt up from his chair in shock, nearly flinging the phone from his hand! But once he was on his feet, his head swam as though struck by thunder, his legs would not hold him, and he dropped back into the chair. "Yutian... what did you say? You were beaten? Who did this to you? So vicious?"

Old Master Chen was a man who had weathered great storms; shocked as he was, he did not lose his head. He had to get to the bottom of this.

"Grandfather... don't get worked up yet..." Chen Yutian sighed. "It happened like this..."

Chen Yutian told his grandfather the whole sequence of events, concealing nothing. His feelings for Qiu Lingshan were no secret to Old Master Chen, so what he had done was nothing surprising in his grandfather's eyes...

"You mean you did all this for the sake of Qiu Lingshan and Wei Zhao, is that it?" Old Master Chen sighed after hearing him out. "By reason, you did nothing wrong. A true man does some things and refrains from others. It was Wei Zhao who raised your strength, so it is only right that you should relieve his troubles. But you should know the saying: measure your strength before you act... You... were far too impulsive..."

Now that Old Master Chen knew the whole story, he did not much blame Chen Yutian — after all, there was nothing in his conduct one could fault. Only, the consequences were too vast. Chen Yutian had been the Chen family's hope, and now that hope was utterly dashed — and on top of it all, they had made an enemy of the Yu family!

With Old Master Chen's shrewdness, it was not hard to guess how Yu Shuixing would react. In this affair, Yu Shuixing would likely turn around and bite back! Old Master Chen also knew of Qiu Lingshan's betrothal to Yu Feng; he had called Chen Yutian about it at the time, but hearing that Chen Yutian had already given up, he had asked no more.

But who would have thought there were such hidden depths to it all! What Qiu Lingshan loved was Wei Zhao!

The name Wei Zhao was naturally no stranger to Old Master Chen.

When Wei Zhao first took up residence in the Gu family villa as the Eldest Miss Chu's bodyguard, Old Master Chen had already known of his existence. But at that time Wei Zhao was not yet worthy of his notice; he had paid little attention to such a bodyguard — until Wei Zhao grew more and more conspicuous, striking the Yu family and then the Zhao family, and afterward offending the Xiao family, the Jinzhong Sect, and the hidden Pi family!

One could say he had offended every powerful force there was to offend. Watching it, Old Master Chen felt his scalp prickle. Offending all of them together was one thing, but offending even one of them would be enough to bring ruin down on a man — yet Wei Zhao had not only escaped ruin, he was thriving, better than anyone, so well it was almost absurd!

Old Master Chen was baffled. How could a man offend so many powers and still come to no harm? It defied all reason. And what was stranger, the very powers Wei Zhao had offended all lowered their banners and vanished from sight — until recently, when the hidden Pi family lost two fine fighters in succession and the Jinzhong Sect's Earth-rank expert was beaten to death by Wei Zhao's underling. Only then did Old Master Chen realize, astonished: so Wei Zhao was this formidable!

A mere bodyguard, a hanger-on of a figure — Old Master Chen had never given him a thought. But now he found that his eyes had truly failed him. Who would have imagined Gu Pengzhan could engage so formidable a person? It was simply inconceivable!

Though Chen Yutian had not said how Wei Zhao had raised his strength, however it had been done, the ability itself was all the more astonishing. While Old Master Chen was shocked, he also began to speculate about Wei Zhao's origins. Could this Wei Zhao also have come down from an ancient sect?

But even among the ancient sects, he had never heard of anyone able to swiftly raise another's strength. Wei Zhao was only an expert at the peak of the mid Profound rank, yet he could turn others into early Profound rank — and not one but two of them. It was almost enough to shock the world!

Yet whatever Wei Zhao was, it had nothing to do with Old Master Chen. However formidable, Wei Zhao was not of the Chen family. What concerned him was Chen Yutian and the future of the Chen family!

"Grandfather, I'm sorry..." Chen Yutian knew the pain in his grandfather's heart — and was he himself any less pained? But what was done was done; it could not be changed.

"Yutian, it seems our Chen family will in the end be demoted at this Great Families' Gathering, driven out from the ranks of the great families." Old Master Chen had no choice but to accept the reality before him, and in an instant he seemed to have aged several years. Even before Chen Yutian's breakthrough, he had already braced for the worst — but Chen Yutian's advancement had given him hope! Though now it seemed there was in essence no difference between the outcome before and after, the feeling of having hope and then losing it was hard to bear — how could it be the same?

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