"How are you all so incapable of handling pressure? It's just a merchant association—can it really cover the sky with one hand?" At that moment, Qin Guan suddenly spoke.
"What did you say? Just a merchant association?"
Upon hearing Qin Guan's words, everyone in the hall darkened at once, glaring at him in fury.
Qin Guan looked at the crowd. "If a family wants to stand firm without falling, it must have its own backbone. Instead of fearing the strong and cowering before power, when the Heaven's Will Merchant Association has you by the throat, why don't you break its fingers?"
An elder shook his head with a scoff. "You really are ignorant of heaven and earth. Do you know how powerful the Heaven's Will Merchant Association is? Break its fingers? Do you have the strength to do that?"
"Anyone can spout big words. Fine, fine, fine—you're just a servant. Hurry up and shut your mouth!"
"Shut up? Why should he shut up? Drag this menace out and beat him to death already! He's driving me mad!"
"Stop shouting!"
The noise gave Qin Guan a splitting headache. With a thunderous shout, he suppressed the curses filling the hall.
"This is outrageous, utterly outrageous—"
An elder had just begun to speak when his voice abruptly cut off, his eyes widening in an instant.
Not only that elder—nearly everyone in the hall stood up at the same time, their eyes wide as they stared at Qin Guan.
More precisely, they were not looking at Qin Guan, but at the basin-sized essence of fire in his hand.
Its origin was pure, its color crystalline, its energy dense and solid. One glance was enough to tell that it was a top grade Supreme Treasure!
The hall's uproar and angry curses instantly fell into dead