While the envoy was left looking completely confused, the old man's voice quickly changed to a gentle tone as he said, "Young friend, while he is a disgrace to our Alchemy King Hall, I still have to ask you to spare him. I can promise you that we will do our best to compensate you."
Lin Fan was just as shocked as the envoy when he heard this.
He could naturally tell from the aura of this old man that he wasn't a normal person, he was definitely a true expert from the upper realm. But why was this old man being this respectful to him?
Angela of course could see through this old man. She could tell that he was someone of the Nascent Soul Realm, which meant that the envoy hadn't been lying about this old man being an elder of the Alchemy King Hall.
The envoy was the first to react as he shouted, "Elder Fu, how can you allow this lower realm trash insult our Alchemy King Hall like this? We must eliminate him immedi…"
But once again, the envoy's voice trickled off. This time the elder didn't say a single word to silence him, rather he just looked down at him with a cold glare.
The old man's gaze didn't remain on the envoy for long before he turned back to Lin Fan, "Young friend, I truly apologize for this piece of trash from our Alchemy King Hall. I hope that this doesn't ruin your opinion of our Alchemy King Hall."
Lin Fan still hadn't reacted yet, but once he heard this, he finally came back to his senses.
He was completely confused why this elder acted this way, but since he didn't know what was going on, the best way to find out was to play along for now.
Lin Fan just calmly said, "He's already tried to kill me. If I let him go now, what will stop him from trying again?"
The old man's expression became awkward at this, but he still said, "I understand your concerns, but I can guarantee that with my power as an elder, I will ensure that he will be locked up and punished once he is brought back. However, if you were to kill him now, it wouldn't end well."
Lin Fan revealed a confused look as he asked, "What do you mean?"
The old man explained, "Even if he is trash, he is still the illegitimate son of one of the five elders of the Alchemy King Hall, a man who holds equal power to me. As long as he is alive, I can still use my status as an elder to punish him, but once he is dead, that would be a slap to the face for that elder. When that time comes, the consequences would be hard to imagine."
Hearing these words, the envoy was completely shocked. He couldn't believe what he had just heard. The elder was actually proposing sacrificing him just to appease this lower realm trash.
At this, the envoy turned with difficulty to look at Lin Fan again. He couldn't help wondering, just which scion was this man? There was no way the elder would lower himself for a piece of lower realm trash, which meant that the force behind him must be at least equal to the Alchemy King Hall. At this, the envoy couldn't help feeling a sense of dread since he knew this wouldn't turn out well for him.
Lin Fan just fell into thought at this before revealing a smile. He turned to the elder and said, "Alright, I understand your point of view and I'll respect it."
The elder also revealed a smile at this, but then that smile quickly faded when he saw what Lin Fan did.
The elder had let his guard down since there was an unconscious trust for this young man who the princess had told him to take care of, but that was a mistake that he truly did regret.
Before the elder could react, Lin Fan had suddenly kicked out to shatter the envoy's head. The envoy had used all his energy in battling Lin Fan earlier, so he couldn't guard at all against Lin Fan's kick.
The elder's brows slightly knit when he saw the pieces of Chen Ba Wang's head scatter on the ground. There was a slight irritation that arose inside his heart when he saw. He didn't feel irritated because of Chen Ba Wang's death, rather he felt annoyed since this was clearly a slap to the face of the Alchemy King Hall he represented and himself now that he had revealed himself.
But thinking of the instructions the princess had given him, the elder quickly calmed himself.
He shook his head with a sigh as he said, "You really shouldn't have done that, this makes my job much harder."
Lin Fan was confused by these words, but he still said in a resolute voice, "With how many witnesses there were, do you really think this matter could be hidden? No matter what, they would have come for me again, so it's better to leave myself with one less enemy."
The elder still said, "But if you had at least left him alive, I could have suppressed them with my power. But now that they are dead, this situation has become much more complicated."
Lin Fan didn't falter as he said, "But you've forgotten one important thing. Why should I trust someone who I just met today?"
The elder knit his brows when he heard this and he began to say, "Young friend Lin, I am here on the orders of the prin…"
But before the elder could finish, he felt a powerful sense of fear overcome him, causing him to completely break out in a cold sweat. This was a sense of fear that he had only ever felt when facing the envoys from that place…
The elder looked into the crowd and he saw a cloaked figure standing there with one finger at his lips telling him to be quiet. This was the same cloaked figure that the elder hadn't noticed was in the same room as him and the princess back in the restaurant.
Lin Fan turned to look in the direction the elder was looking, but he couldn't find anything strange.
As for Angela, she could tell that there was someone powerful hiding in the crowd and based on the energy fluctuations, she could tell that this person was highly skilled at shadow laws. As long as that person didn't want to reveal themself, she would never find her.
Of course, for an expert of her level, she could find them if she were to release her true powers which went beyond that of the person hiding. Though if she were to do so, she would be revealing her true identity.
She chose not to do so since she could tell that this person's aura was locked onto the elder in front of Lin Fan, so there was no hostility aimed at Lin Fan.
Lin Fan then turned back to the elder and asked, "Prin? What do you mean by that?"
The elder was pulled back from his fear and he quickly turned back to Lin Fan, "Never mind that, never mind any of that."
It was clear what that aura locking onto him had just meant, it was a message for him not to tell Lin Fan anything, but that just confused the elder. The princess had specially made a trip here to have the elder protect and take care of things for Lin Fan, so the elder had assumed that they were close, but now they were keeping things from Lin Fan?
What did all of this mean?
Still it wasn't his place to question the ideas of people like the princess, so he wouldn't do it.
While Lin Fan was still confused on why this elder was helping him and what the words of the elder had meant earlier, he knew that he wouldn't be able to get an answer for those questions.
Lin Fan just turned to the Alchemy Master and the five elders with him, "What do we do about them?"
The elder turned to them and said in a confused voice, "What is there to do about them?"
The Alchemy Master also reacted at this since he saw that the topic had finally turned to them. He had already expected this since he knew that Lin Fan definitely wouldn't drop the grudge between them and his biggest backer had already been killed. It didn't seem like the elder fully supported Lin Fan, so the Alchemy Master had only one thing he could count on to save himself.
The Alchemy Master immediately came forward and kowtowed in front of the elder, "Elder, this one is the Alchemy Master of the current generation who has faithfully served the Alchemy King Hall."
The elder looked at him and nodded before asking Lin Fan, "So what's wrong here?"
Lin Fan just had a calm smile as he said, "How about the murder of a previous Alchemy Master?"